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We love #ubiquitin. Lab researching ubiquitination in health and disease @WEHI-research. Posts are by Komander lab members.

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PINK1 Parkinson's Disease Research Team – Finalist, 2025 Eureka Prize for Scientific Research
YouTube video by Australian Museum PINK1 Parkinson's Disease Research Team – Finalist, 2025 Eureka Prize for Scientific Research

🎉 What an honour to be a finalist in the 2025 Australian Museum Eureka Prizes for Scientific Discovery!! With David Komander, @zhongyangan.bsky.social, Alisa Glukhova and @nskirk.bsky.social.

Excited for the awards ceremony on Sept 3rd!

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30.07.2025 23:59 — 👍 17    🔁 4    💬 0    📌 0
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📣📣 Abstract deadline extension to Friday 1st August 📣📣
If you missed the last deadline, then don't miss out again!! Join us for sun, surf and ubiquitin in November at Lorne, Australia.

28.07.2025 10:39 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

Grateful for the support from the Parkinson's Research Foundation!

17.07.2025 03:24 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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📣 Calling all ubiquitin aficionados - one week to go before abstract deadline (July 18th)!! Join us on the coast in Lorne, Australia. www.lorneubiquitin.org
#ubiquitin

11.07.2025 07:08 — 👍 13    🔁 7    💬 0    📌 0

Two weeks to go before the abstract deadline (July 18th)! Looking forward to seeing you all there!

04.07.2025 13:42 — 👍 6    🔁 1    💬 0    📌 0

Excited to share our latest work, now out in @lsajournal.org. we show that the E3 ligase HOIL-1 can ubiquitinate many different saccharides and describe a chemoenzymatic platform to generate ubiquitinated sugars as tools for studying non-proteinaceous ubiquitination.

10.04.2025 07:49 — 👍 28    🔁 11    💬 1    📌 0
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Could this breakthrough research lead to the first treatment for #longCOVID? A world-first milestone made possible through the advanced technologies of the National Drug Discovery Centre.

Find out more: www.wehi.edu.au/news/tacklin...

08.04.2025 23:52 — 👍 64    🔁 29    💬 5    📌 8
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A novel PLpro inhibitor improves outcomes in a pre-clinical model of long COVID - Nature Communications A novel antiviral targeting the SARS-CoV-2 PLpro protease shows strong efficacy in a mouse model, preventing lung pathology and reducing brain dysfunction. The study provides proof-of-principle that P...

Excited to share news from the lab out in Nature Communications – A novel PLpro inhibitor improves outcomes in a pre-clinical model of long COVID
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
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08.04.2025 22:30 — 👍 24    🔁 7    💬 1    📌 0

Early and mid-career researcher travel grants are available!

07.04.2025 10:47 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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Join us at the beach for the first Australian Ubiquitin summit from 20-23 Nov! 🏄‍♀️ Check out the amazing speakers here: www.lorneubiquitin.org

And, why not stay a little longer and join the International Symposium on Autophagy from 16-20 Nov, also in beautiful Lorne ☀️. www.isa11.org

See you there!

07.04.2025 10:10 — 👍 12    🔁 7    💬 2    📌 0

Exciting news from the lab out today in Science - the structure of human PINK1 on a TOM-VDAC complex!
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13.03.2025 19:32 — 👍 65    🔁 13    💬 0    📌 1

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