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Jacqui spins it up!
Jacqui has been training at The Movement Academy in Alexandria, and demonstrated her latest act in their December 2022 showcase. Check it out if you want to see what she's been spending her spare time doing! Autograph requests accepted...
Joel and Taylor go *big* at Strathfield North Public School
Joel has been doing outreach at Strathfield North Public School for about a dozen years now - working the whole time with teacher Filomena Catanzariti. For all of those years, I've desparately wanted to run over a swimming pool filled with oobleck, to demonstrate the properties of a non-Newtownian fluid (and, after all, who *wouldn't* want to do it...). Oobleck is a slurry of cornflour and water (about 1:0.7). It pours like relatively runny pancake batter, but if you apply force to it, it becomes solid for as long as the force is applied. After a decade of the school knocking back my suggestion (largely on the grounds of messiness), a new principal gave it the green light - yee haa!!...
Jessica, Karishma and Charlotte band together to win Seed Funding Grant
Dr Jessica Zhong has recruited two other ECR colleagues - Dr Karishma Patel and Dr Charlotte Franck - to win a $50,000 reserach grant to support work aimed at developing peptide nucleic acids (PNAs) as possible solutions to the antibiotic resistance crisis. Totally awesome - and I'm pretty sure the first time *three* people who've come through the lab have been successful in a joint grant appplication! Congratulations Jessica, Karishma and Charlotte!
Have been off X for months but had to log in to see response to AF3. I am much less smart than the authors - but am I (and Erin) the only ones to think that the helical afros that it makes out of IDRs is totally weird? Am I missing something?
Amazing story from the lab down the corridor - @RezwanSidd working with Sandro Ataide and Ruth Hall in @SydneySOLES at @Sydney_Science - now they will be thrown into the gladiators' pit I suspect with the other protagonists that prowl this landscape! 🙂 Great piece of work!
Michael Webster wins EMBO Fellowship
Michael, who has just recently finished his PhD at the LMB in Cambridge with Lori Passmore, has been successful in winning an EMBO postdoctoral fellowship to fund his work in Albert Weixlbaumer's lab in Strasbourg. Here, he will investigate how translation is...
Mehdi gets the big tick!
Congratulations to Mehdi, who has just received the official letter saying he has fulfilled all the requirements for a PhD! Hooray! Now, just the graduation ceremony to come!
Update from Antonia
Antonia Zech - who worked with Ana for 5 months in 2013-4 as part of her Masters degree in Hamburg - has sent us an update on her activities. She has been doing a PhD at the Institute of Experimental Pharmacology and Toxicology at the University Medical Center...
Showing off the coast to collaborators
We had a visit this week from David Doak - video game designer and architect of our new virtual reality app focused on allowing students to investigate the properties of polypeptides. Jane Allison - molecular dynamics aficionado from Auckland Uni who is involved in...
New lab paper hits the streets
Well, this paper took quite some time to come to fruition. Biswa from Melbourne worked hard to extract a structure from some less than friendly NMR data on a protein that was gifted to us by Wayne Patrick (formerly in Otago, now in Victoria University Wellington)....
Xavier gets to put the gown on
Xavier Reid graduated today with his BSc with first class Honours - and you can see him here accompanied by his co-supervisor, Dr Jason Low. No one will mention that Jason isn't wearing his UNSW gown... Xavier has taken the plunge to come back and start a PhD -...
Taylor’s PhD has been formally approved!
...so feel free to congratulate her if you see her around. I'm sure there will be a celebration to follow! Well done Taylor - it's a mighty achievement.
Mehdi and Jason’s paper accepted at FEBS J
In exciting news, we have had our paper "The stoichiometry and interactome of the Nucleosome Remodelling and Deacetylase (NuRD) complex are conserved across multiple cell lines" accepted in FEBS J [epub here]. It's particularly exciting both because it's Mehdi's...
Ingrid’s life changes dramatically…
Congratulations to Ingrid and Percy on the successful and drama-free (as much as it can be) birth of their son Toby Macindoe. He was born on Feb 18 at Prince of Wales and both he and his mother are doing just fine!
A nice piece of work from Nina
Nina Ripin, who spent some months in the lab as a Masters' student in 2011, is the lead author on a nice study focused on the RNA-binding properties of HuR in the latest PNAS. She has combined NMR and X-ray crystallography while working in Fred Allain's lab at ETH...
Lab Xmas bbq, 2018
This year, we had a return to the green lawn of Marrickville Croquet Club for our lab Xmas excursion. As always, a fine time was had by all - it really is a great venue for a day...