Rachelle Balez

You know the summer break is wrapping up when the meetings and emails start to amp up.

I’m loving the new campus tree walk signage, more noticeable and clear. I’m going to challenge myself to refresh my tree species knowledge from my undergrad bio ecology days 🌿

Boss is back so it’s time for coffee as the lab powers back up for the new year. Here’s to the generation of some epic mass spec imaging data and insights into disease mechanisms @molecularhorizons.bsky.social

Painting of Persian clerics in debate.

A brilliant approach to peer reviewing. Upon my return to reviewing, I am sure to use this method.

What a day! We had the best time chatting all things surf safety at the Multicultural Communities Illawrra end of year celebration.

Paper writing is looking a little different these days…

Thanks to everyone who came to my talk at the UOW ECR Conference. It was fun to share some of the collaborative work I’ve been involved with at @molecularhorizons.bsky.social

Rubi, Lady and I had a wonderful morning chatting all things science and career at the Women in STEMM Stroll. You can read about this great initiative here 👉 www.theillawarraflame.com.au/networking-o...

Attending the UOW ECR Conference? I’ll be sharing how we are navigating the metabolic maze of Parkinson’s disease, one cell at a time. Come join me at 12:30 pm in 19.2003! @molecularhorizons.bsky.social

I’ve always been intimidated by baking as following the recipe rarely works for me. Then it finally clicked - recipes = protocols, and thus likely require optimisation. I feel like I’ve just unlocked a dormant (and delicious) skill set 💪😋

Thoroughly enjoyed this mornings Women in STEMM Stroll from @iaccelerate.bsky.social. A wonderful opportunity to connect with the beautifully diverse network of women working in this space. Thank you @ecologee.bsky.social and @tamstutch.bsky.social for organising. 👶🏻 & 🐩 loved it too!

Thanks Mon! It was such a great event, so much beautiful ceramic art

Traded the lab coat for hi-vis this weekend to help set up my dad’s stall for the Sydney Ceramics Market at Carriageworks. It’s been so inspiring seeing all the beautiful creations. Drop by and say hi if you’re in the neighbourhood.

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