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Out of curiosity, Paul started writing the languages that people in the lab could speak reasonably fluently on the whiteboard the other day. The list kept getting longer and longer - and ended up with 20! They are: English, Mandarin, Cantonese, Vietnamese, Japanese, Indonesian, Bahasa, Malay, German, French, Swedish, Finnish, Spanish, Catalan, Italian, Sardinian, Serbian, Russian, Afikaans and Hindi. So, if you need anything translated...

Joel wins Sydney Trailwalker

Perhaps even more improbably, Joel recently got together with three blokes from his running club (Jaap Bakker, Richard Green and Jonathan Worswick) and took out the Oxfam Sydney Trailwalker, a 100-km ultramarathon through the bushland of Sydney. The run attracted over 500 teams this year, who run or walk together along some of Sydney's most spectacular bushland to raise money for Oxfam's relief work. Joel's team (The Sydney Striders Foreign Legion) covered the 100 km in a shade under 13 h, finishing more than an hour ahead of the second placed team - the Cosmo Boys from Hong Kong. You can read more at the event web site here.

Joel wins Australian Rogaining Championships

Improbably, Joel and his rogaining partner Phil Whitten sneaked in by only 20 points (out of 2690) to win the 24-h Australian Rogaining Championships held last weekend in the Eastern MacDonnell Ranges near Alice Springs. For those of you who have never heard of the sport, rogaining is a long-distance version of orienteering. You are given a topographic map with ~50-60 specific points marked on it (each worth different amounts of points) and you have to plan a course to visit as many of them as possible in the allotted time - anywhere from 6-24 h depending on the event. Joel and Phil covered ~90-100 km over the 24 h, across fairly uncompromising central Australian terrain filled with...

Wanted: postdoc biochemist/structural biologist to work with Richard Payne, Sydney/US startup INSAMO (and me). Goal: use cyclic peptide mRNA display to design cell-permeable peptide-based protein degraders: https://usyd.wd105.myworkdayjobs.com/USYD_EXTERNAL_CAREER_SITE/job/Darlington-Campus/Postdoctoral-Researcher-in--Peptide-Based-Drug-Discovery_0131612-1
Email for more info: joel.mackay@sydney.edu.au

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