Rachelle Balez

PCArt

The Jane Goodall Institute of Canada has learned this morning, Wednesday, October 1st, 2025, that Dr. Jane Goodall DBE, UN Messenger of Peace and Founder of the Jane Goodall Institute, has passed away due to natural causes.

She was in California as part of her speaking tour in the United States.

Grateful to have the opportunity to share some of our lipidomics work at the @molecularhorizons.bsky.social Symposium. This project has truly been an collaborative effort across the institution 💚💜🩷🩵

This would be an absolute game changer. Australian medical replace been hanging on for dear life due to lack of funding, and the collapse of the American research sector only makes it worse. We need funding so we can deliver medical advancements for our communities

And we’re off! The first @molecularhorizons.bsky.social ECR Symposium is underway. This mornings session covered everything from nanobody applications to a signature for metastatic cancer and ALS biomarkers.

Wild!!!! This is some true science witchcraft

When the theme is ‘art party’, so you make it a family affair.

Been playing around with good old faithful SH SY5Y cells as we optimise some mass spec imaging sample prep methods. Keen to get these under the mass spec to see if we are moving in the right direction!

A blue (social) butterfly

After quitting Twitter and going into social media eXile (see what I did there?) I'm keen to get back into Academic socials. If you know people in the #vascular, #atherosclerosis, #SCAD, #ECM, #sex_difference, #proteomics, or #iPSC space I would love some recommendations please!!

Disasters like the algal bloom in SA are becoming more and more frequent due to climate change.

Australia Institute research shows a climate disaster fund, paid for by big polluters, would save taxpayers tens of billions of dollars a year. #auspol

Come and work with us!

Do you believe that research matters? Do you want to use your research skills to drive important public policy debates in Australia?

Apply for our Postdoctoral Research Fellowship!

Applications close Sunday 24 August 2025

Apply here 👉 australiainstitute.org.au/about/jobs/

2025: Molecular Horizons Early Career Researcher Symposium - University of Wollongong – UOW Connecting Early Career Researchers to Advance Innovation in Molecular Science

📣Calling all NSW & ACT ECRs in chemistry, biomedical, life sciences and biophysics!

Looking for an opportunity to share your research and foster collaborations? Submit an abstract to @molecularhorizons.bsky.social ECR symposium 👉

www.uow.edu.au/events/2025/...

CoREST3 exhibits isoform specific expression in Alzheimer’s disease and regulation of HDAC2 - BMC Biology Background The epigenetic regulator, histone deacetylase 2 (HDAC2), is dysregulated in Alzheimer’s disease (AD), resulting in disruption to neuronal dynamics, memory and cognition. The transcriptional...

Led by Simon Maksour, we show transcriptional repressor CoREST3 plays an isoform specific/direct role in repressing epigenetic regulator HDAC2, with CoREST3 dysregulated in AD & may contribute to altered HDAC2 levels in involved in AD
@molecularhorizons.bsky.social
link.springer.com/article/10.1...

Next Dutch house added to the window neighbourhood

Starting an evening tradition… drawing a new Dutch house on our front window 🧡

Went to continue reading some papers on NIH website and can no longer access them as the server can’t be found. Went back to X to see if there was anything circulating only to be met with what now seems to be a propaganda account 😳 I just want to finish reading my lipid papers!

🎤#ASSCR2025 featuring Maria di Biase, Ed Stanley and Josephone Bowles!
Get ready to hear from leading voices in stem cell science at this year’s ASSCR Annual Scientific Meeting (10–12 Nov, QT Gold Coast)! 🌊🧬
🚨 Abstracts close THIS FRIDAY, at 11:59pm!
www.asscrmeeting.com.au

ARC CCeMMP 2nd Annual Bench to Art Exhibition 2025 | CCeMMP The Australian Research Council Centre for Cryo-Electron Microscopy of Membrane Proteins (CCeMMP) is holding their 2nd Annual ‘Bench to Art’ Exhibition to showcase the artistic flair of structural bio...

Less than 2 weeks to go! 🤯Mare sure you prepare your entries for our 2nd @arc_gov_au CCeMMP 'Bench to Art' Exhibition during National Science Week & win cash prizes 💰! Please like & share 👍 More info: ccemmp.org/events/arc-c...
#CryoEM
#CryoET
#MembraneProtein
#GPCR

First talk done and dusted since returning to work! It was a pleasure to share with 3rd year students how social media can by a useful tool as researchers

🚨 1 week to go!
Abstracts & award applications for #ASSCR2025 close Fri 15 Aug 🧬
Don’t miss your chance to present your science & be recognised 🌊🌴
👉 www.asscrmeeting.com.au
#StemCells #CallForAbstracts #Awards

My favourite pic from the opening of 50 Artists: 50 Years, Rubi checking out her Pépé’s artwork 😍

If you're interested, you can watch many thousands and thousands of fellow Australians right now marching across the iconic Sydney Harbour Bridge for peace in Palestine

It's bucketing down rain, and still they keep coming, and still they keep marching

#MarchForHumanity #FreeGaza

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If you’re on UOW main campus check out the 50 Artists: 50 Years exhibition in BLD 29 celebrating the 50th anniversary of the uni. A eclectic mix of some very fine artworks.

Scientific bedlam at the world’s weirdest and wildest research conference Woodstock Bio2 + Night Science aimed to encourage collaborations through creativity. The walk-on music for presentations was fun, too.

🥂This was the highlight of my year. The "instigators", led by local master of the ceremony @svobodalab.bsky.social will never forget the privilege of organizing it and i think every participant will treasure the experience forever ❤️ @nature.com @josiegz.bsky.social www.nature.com/articles/d41...

She’s alive! Our first single cell mass spec imaging run on the new instrument! She wizzed through a co-culture of astrocytes and microglia at 5 um 😍

Thank you to @kylielewis.bsky.social, we now have a Homeward Bound starter pack - looking forward to connecting with the nine cohorts of #WomenInSTEMM leaders go.bsky.app/EXogj2a

Happy Birthday, Rosalind Franklin. She captured an X-ray diffraction image of DNA and stated that a helical structure was probable. Watson and Crick then created a detailed model based on her results. They initially received credit for the discovery and were awarded the Nobel Prize after her death.🧪

A harmful algal bloom, fueled by a marine heat wave, has been choking South Australia's coastline, turning once-colorful ecosystems filled with thriving marine life into underwater graveyards.

Read more: cnn.it/3H9z0wu