School of Biotechnology & Biomolecular Sciences (UNSW)

Thanks @unswbabs.bsky.social for the great visit! An inspiring group of scientists!

Adrian Liston presenting acknowledgement slide, thanking lab and funding sources

Such a therapy could also reduce the pathology not only of trauma brain injury, but also stroke and multiple sclerosis - rather remarkable.

Data is available online in purple QR code in the picture if you want to have a 👀

Amazing talk!

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Second talk today by @labliston.bsky.social, now telling us about how to harness tissue #TRegs in the 🧠

Being a total trooper as he only landed yesterday - jetlag when coming from the antipodes tends to hit hard

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Overall a great talk on topics that are unfortunately, often neglected. If you want to know more, please check out the link below 👇🏽

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Prof Adrian Liston presenting his definition of a positive research environment

Listening to @labliston.bsky.social on creating a positive research culture. He defines it as one where team members are empowered, recognised, have a clear career 🛣️ & can contribute to impactful & reproducible research

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From humble beginnings @unswbabs.bsky.social this research has passed along multiple hands to bring together two of my greatest loves…archaea and stromatolites. Fantastic team spearheaded with fellow PIs of the ‘Asgard Dream Team' @iduggin.bsky.social @kmichie.bsky.social @debnathghosal.bsky.social

Proud of #RegRNALab 's student Xingyu Yan, who presented preliminary results on her PhD project. Well done Xingyu! 🌱

Also, she's been an incredible host, helping me an others sort out paying issues and providing Beijing recommendations 谢谢

#SMBE2025 @unswbabs.bsky.social

One of my favourite parts of the #IES2025 Congresses are the Roundtable Discussions, where we collectively debate major issues in the field, with audience members tagging in to provide their ideas. Later we also have the pro/con debates (also great fun)! (+ some trip photos) @unswbabs.bsky.social

I am very grateful to have had the opportunity to present some of our work at the International Eosinphil Society Congress #IES2025 today & to get some great feedback on this project. I have also really been enjoying the excuse to visit the beautiful city of Montpellier! @unswbabs.bsky.social

Bacteria were swimming from the start New analysis shows that the last common ancestor of bacteria had a flagellar motor which enabled it to swim, indicating how important learning to swim was for life.

Nice @unswbabs.bsky.social UNSW write up of our paper.

✈️ Melbourne now w/ team to present this and other work at #HFSP @hfspo.bsky.social 24th awardee meeting.

Looking forward to getting inspired with new biology from interdisciplinary teams across the world.

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I’m here in Montpellier for the International Eosinophil Society Congress #IES2025! As a member of the Scientific Program Committee, it’s exciting to see it all come together. Fittingly, earlier today I visited the Faculty of Medicine, which has been operating for >800 years. @unswbabs.bsky.social

YouTube video by UNSW eLearning Modern Day Oracles or Bullshit Machines? Seminar with Prof. Carl Bergstrom, University of Washington

Yesterday, @carlbergstrom.com presented his course "Modern-day Oracles or BS Machines? How to thrive in a ChatGPT world". Neat way to make students aware of the capacities and limitations of LLMs👇🎰

Recording: www.youtube.com/watch?v=TZC0...

Course: thebullshitmachines.com

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#MeetTheTeamMonday ~ Get to know Steven, our fabulous Research Assistant who works in the amplicon, Sanger, and ONT sequencing teams!

@unswbabs.bsky.social #unsw #ramaciotticentreforgenomics

What makes a small RNA work? Abstract. Bacterial small RNAs (sRNAs) are key regulators of gene expression, interacting with target messenger RNAs (mRNAs) through imperfect base pairing

New review out in @narjournal.bsky.social!
🔎 What makes a small RNA work?
We discuss:
🧬 Sequence features
🤝 Hfq, ProQ & RNA chaperones
✂️ RNase E & degradosome interactions
🧪 Lessons for RNA design
📖 Read: academic.oup.com/nar/article-...
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I enjoyed Carl Bergstrom's @carlbergstrom.com talk today @unswbabs.bsky.social on the current 'Peer review meltdown' phenomenon. Misery loves company, so I was glad to find out I'm not the only editor struggling to find reviewers. Carl et al. have narrow it down to a few factors including ->

PhD students @valasafari.bsky.social & Michael O’Dea represented the lab & @unswbabs.bsky.social at the UNSW Science Postgraduate Showcase this week. They did a great job of communicating their PhD research projects creatively & in just 1 minute! And Michael won the Best in School prize for BABS!

Today we celebrated @henrybell.bsky.social’s next adventure! Henry joined us 8 years ago as an intern, then for honours, a PhD & a postdoc. While I’m sad to see him go, I know he’s going to thrive in the next stage of his research career in Melbourne! All the best, Henry! @unswbabs.bsky.social

Promotional tile for A-RNA 2025 meeting in Sydney, Australia. List of international speakers and registration link

Registration for A-RNA 2025 is now open!!!

Join us in September for 3 days of #RNA Science. We have an excellent lineup of invited speakers (www.a-rnameeting.org.au/invited-spea...) & networking events

Register: www.a-rnameeting.org.au/registration

Early bird rate ends July 30th, 2025

#RNASky

Out this weekend in @ismepublications.bsky.social

We looked at 10,000 species to map the diversity and history of the bacterial #flagellar motor across the tree of life.

Lots of (re)analysis , especially from Jamiema Sara Philip @unswbabs.bsky.social

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#MeetTheTeamMonday ~ Get to know Lydia (Research Officer), our resident expert in Oxford Nanopore Technologies (ONT) long-read sequencing!

@unswbabs.bsky.social #unsw #unswscience #genomics #plasmidsequencing #wholegenomesequencing #ont #ontsequencing #longreadsequencing #gridion #minion

Molecular epidemiology and evolution of norovirus in Australia and New Zealand, 2018 to 2020 Norovirus causes an estimated 699 million cases of gastroenteritis and 219,000 deaths each year. Historically, novel strains with a genogroup II genotype 4 (GII.4) capsid have emerged every 3–5 yea...

What can wastewater tell us about viruses? 💩🚽🧬📈

During the COVID-19 pandemic many labs turned to wastewater monitoring to detect viruses. However, Prof White's group @unswbabs.bsky.social has been using wastewater for over 10 years to monitor circulating norovirus 🤮. 🧵

doi.org/10.1080/2374...

Four female scientists smiling and looking at the camera while sitting in a cafe. A building, cafe tables and trees are visible in the background.

Celebrating the first #RegRNALab confirmed PhD candidate in 🇭🇲, Xingyu Yan!!! 🎉

Xingyu showed her progress on the characterisation of plant RBPs🥬, part of our #Two2Tango project, supported by ARC

Thanks to the panel for all their input. Go Xingyu!

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@unswrna.bsky.social
#RNASky

#MeetTheTeamMonday ~ Get to know Scott (Research Officer), RNA and robotics expert here at The Ramaciotti Centre for Genomics!

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Just found out @carlbergstrom.com is talking in my school in a few weeks about “Peer review meltdown”! Very excited!!! @unswbabs.bsky.social

✨Next Monday, we are thrilled to have Prof Marc Wilkins from @unswbabs.bsky.social as our Judith and David Coffey speaker!

🧬 Systems or sub-systems biology? Which can best help us understand the cell?

⏱️26 May, 1pm (AEST)
🔗http://bit.ly/4hZLxiR

Student demonstrating in a bioinformatics course.

Student demonstrating in a bioinformatics course.

Week 2, session 4, of this year's Honours & 1st year PhD #Bioinformatics course UNSW BABS (@unswbabs.bsky.social)!

Thanks to Julia Meltzer and Michael O'Dea for demonstrating some examples of how they use #Bioinformatics in their Asgard archaea and epigenetic regulation projects, respectively 🦠🧬💻

Lunch & Learn! Register to join an interactive seminar about the new NGS-based proteomics workflow: Olink Reveal. Brenton Short from Olink Proteomics will discuss how this technology (now available at Ramaciotti!) is revolutionizing multiomics & transforming clinical research. @unswbabs.bsky.social

Congratulations to our April BABS Paper of the Month Winner Dr Joshua Hamey & Prof Marc Wilkins
For ‘SMYD5 is a ribosomal methyltransferase that trimethylates RPL40 lysine 22 through recognition of a KXY motif’, published in Cell Reports. pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/40184250/

Congratulations to our March BABS Paper of the Month Winner Dr Frances Byrne (& Ellen Olzomer, Dr Martina Beretta & Prof Kyle Hoehn)
For ‘Design, synthesis and biological evaluation of naphthalene-1,4-dione analogues as anticancer agents’, published in RSC Medicinal Chemistry doi.org/10.1039/d4md...

MEETING: Genomics community — Australian BioCommons Join researchers, scientists and bioinformaticians to discuss genomics research in Australia More information

We regularly bring researchers together to discuss what's happening across Australia in genomics.

Join us online 14 May to hear Dr Selene L. Fernandez-Valverde @unswbabs.bsky.social @selfdz.bsky.social: Finding conservation signals in long non-coding RNAs.

www.biocommons.org.au/events/genom...