Steve Turner

Excited to announce our latest preprint, exploring the stereochemistry & antiviral properties of natural product MM46115 (pellemicin) against influenza. 🦠 💊 Big thanks to all co authors, including @afifahtasnim.bsky.social @craigpthomp.bsky.social and others. www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

Bit of colour @monashuniversity.bsky.social today #springshower #melbourneweather #capturemonash

In the #BDI infection program retreat, listening to Fran Short, Dept of Micro @monashuniversity.bsky.social Sampling of fresh creek water identified pathogenic E. coli in microbial communities, highly active AMR gene and virulence determinants #dontswiminthedandenongcreek

Who remembers these note books? Once a common sight in labs for recording keeping. Was cleaning out my office for a move into a new role and found a set of books from a past grad student, love the fact there is raw data, protocols, even mouse cards all in one place #scienceyeah

Quince tree update: we have blooming 💐 now just need bees to pollinate

@leonsmyth.bsky.social just gave a fascinating talk on how brain substructures enable brain waste management, interface with immune cells @monashuniversity.bsky.social

Quince tree update: We have flower buds, I repeat, we have flower buds

TFW the new protocol your grad student set up to test a harebrained idea looks like it worked! #superstargradstudent #Tcellsarecool #epigeneticsiscool #scienceyeah @pacbio.bsky.social #pacbioapplications

Spring is coming #blossoms #springhassprung #quincetreeflowerimg

Just read the draft of Australia’s National Health & Medical Research Strategy. Great to see full funding of research being addressed as a need — but an emphasis on discovery research is missing. You can’t drive impact without fueling the pipeline with fundamental/discovery science.

Up next, talking with 2nd yr microbiology students @monashuniversity.bsky.social about how the innate immune system engages with different pathogens, RNA viruses 🦠 Gram +ves, DNA viruses, Gram -ves #scienceyeah #microbiologyiscool #campuslife

Currently sitting in a seminar from Chris Stubenrauch, learning how efflux pumps found in Gram -ve bugs are also found in Gram +ve bugs, instead of outer membrane interactions, they interact with outer protein layers instead @monashuniversity.bsky.social #scienceyeah #microbesarecool

So worth it!

Melbourne is a pretty city at night

Just finished up an amazing visit to Harry Perkins Medical Institute in Perth. It was a reminder of why I love research. Getting to present our most recent findings, getting great questions, learning about the cool science others are doing, and coming away with new collaborations #scienceyeah

SATB1 maintains naive-like identity in antiviral CD8⁺ T cells by limiting chromatin remodelling at effector gene loci. Optimal CD8+ T cell differentiation requires the engagement of transcriptional programs that drive effector phenotypes and function, whilst also shutting down transcriptional programs that maintain th...

New preprint: Ever wonder why memory T cells can look like naive T cells but act like effectors? Part the reason is that a chromatin binding protein called SATB1 restrains acquisition of effector phenotypes. Shout out to my grad student Jason Kah for this work. www.biorxiv.org/cgi/content/...

This is a wonderful study, it is amazing to watch how immune cells can get into tight spaces…

This is a wonderful paper. Addressing the age old question: how do chromatin remodellers know where to go? I am sharing this with my grad students and postdocs, and what the hell, anyone else that is interested #epigeneticsiscool #transcriptioniscool #scienceyeah

A smorgasbord of immunity seminars this week. Today, we are excited to hear from Prof Kate Schroder, and her uncomfortable truth that the adaptive immune system is important, how inflammasomes can promote effective adaptive immune responses #immunityiscool #inflammasomesarereallycool #scienceyeah

Prof David Tarlinton telling us about the dynamics of long lived plasma cells. Turns out B cells are also cool, #plasmacellsareforever #immunologyiscool #scienceyeah @monashuniversity.bsky.social

Networking with biomedical research stars of the future, introducing immunology to the 1st and 2nd yr Biomedical scholars #immunologyiscool #scienceyeah

A quiet day meeting wise, allowing me to do some reading and prep to write a new review about Killer T cells, now gotta stop procrastinating and get back to it #academicsky #labheadlife #Tcellsarecool #immunityiscool #scienceyeah

I often think this when making quince paste, quince jelly and poached quince #lovequinceseason

Got out to play a quick 18 at one of my favourite courses down here in the Mornington Peninsula, @standrewsbeachgc, had a crowd watching me on several holes, #golflife #golfround #morningtongolf #firstout #hardlyraining #passingshower

A couple days of R&R down at St Andrew’s Beach, winter down at the beach is awesome, #morningtonpeninsula #winterbreak #backnextweek

Went up to Bendigo this past weekend to visit the folks. Managed a visit to the Bendigo Art Gallery and caught the Frida Khalo exhibition. Can highly recommend visiting, amazing life and legacy.

Last afternoon of last day of the #leadingatmonash course, learning some great insights, looking forward to putting them in practice @monashuniversity.bsky.social #leadership

Is that your Seestar50? Good luck!

Learning some wonderful new facts at the Monash Micro dept students trivia night, #whoknew @monashuniversity.bsky.social great night, great group of students

Amazing paper