Matt Baker

Well done @laurenceluu.bsky.social on ASMR Award tonight! Nice talk on pelvic inflammatory disease and great to celebrate @unswbabs.bsky.social colleagues' success at NSW Parliament. #asmr

21.10.2025 10:01 — 👍 0    🔁 1    💬 0    📌 0

Congrats and cool graphic! Almost deified with the soft glow!

07.10.2025 03:30 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

That's looks awesome where'd you grab that?

04.10.2025 00:18 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0

Well done to Jamiema for your ECR Plenary #AES2025 yesterday @unswbabs.bsky.social

A clear talk sharing our enthusiasm for flagellar diversity

Uncle Billy welcome to country also awesome.

AU has so much biodiversity but also raw human talent in ecology and evolution!

01.10.2025 21:20 — 👍 4    🔁 1    💬 0    📌 0

Some absolutely belter talks #AES2025 in the first macroevolution session. So impressed with the clarity of the talks and beautiful phylogenies and evolutionary narratives.

Looking forward to second session after lunch.

01.10.2025 02:24 — 👍 4    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

And there's another error my 5yo loves in astrophysics.

Which has given us an opportunity to talk about protons.

Thanks a lot for your gift many years ago when I had the challenging neighbour. We read the statistical physics one nearly every night.

29.09.2025 10:46 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0

@csferrie.com I thought I was going nuts but you have an error in statistical physics for babies, two of these combinations are the same...
There are two combos with a blue and a purple ball on right.

29.09.2025 10:46 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0

Insertion of Fluorescent Proteins Near the Plug Domain of MotB Generates Functional Stator Complexes We inserted small light-interacting domains at various locations in the stator complex to see what sites were amenable for labeling and how these affected flagellar rotation and switching. We observe...

We hoped to control bacteria with light, using LOV domains. Our stators were functional but light didn't impact motility.

We then checked if our periplasmic tags could be useful as fluorophores.

👐 Jyoti Gurung for tenacity to get it done 🕒✈️🇦🇺➡️🇬🇧!

doi.org/10.1002/mbo3...

@unswbabs.bsky.social

16.09.2025 05:54 — 👍 2    🔁 1    💬 0    📌 1

Evolution and structural diversity of the MotAB stator: insights into the origins of bacterial flagellar motility | mBio Flagellar motility allows bacteria to propel themselves and direct movement according to environmental conditions. It plays a key role in bacterial pathogenicity and survival. We investigated the molecular and structural diversity of the stator motor proteins that provide the ion motive force to power flagellar rotation. This study uses a comparative approach that integrates phylogenetics, 3D protein structure, motility assays, and ancestral state reconstruction (ASR) to provide insights into the structural mechanisms that first powered the flagellar motor. We provide the first phylogenetic and structural characterization and classification of MotAB and relatives.

Our motAB work out now in mBio! We examined the origins of the bacterial flagellar stator ⚙️ by combining phylogenetics, ancestral reconstructions, structural predictions and motility assays.

Thanks to all authors 🇳🇿🇦🇺🇺🇸 @hfspo.bsky.social
@unswbabs.bsky.social

journals.asm.org/doi/10.1128/...

10.09.2025 20:49 — 👍 4    🔁 2    💬 0    📌 1

📑 Programs? Printed.
🏛️ Venue? Looking amazing.
🧪 Energy? Building fast.

We're almost ready to welcome the HFSP community to Melbourne for an unforgettable week of science and connection!
Who's coming to the 24th HFSP Awardees Meeting?

#HFSP #HFSPmtg2025

08.07.2025 00:49 — 👍 12    🔁 4    💬 1    📌 0

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.

www.unsw.edu.au/news/2025/06...

08.07.2025 07:43 — 👍 4    🔁 3    💬 0    📌 0

Mapping the loss of flagellar motility across the tree of life Abstract. Bacterial swimming is mostly powered by the bacterial flagellar motor and the number of proteins involved in the flagellar motor can vary. Quanti

Seems to be online now in the final format:

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02.07.2025 11:05 — 👍 2    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

I am not sure I know what a planetary gear is but it looks like this:

(from: pdb101.rcsb.org/motm/300)

16.06.2025 21:58 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0

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

academic.oup.com/ismej/advanc...

15.06.2025 01:14 — 👍 40    🔁 13    💬 3    📌 1

1st NSW #fencing comp of the year – won.

Did it with UNSW club and for UNSW. Great to share my experience with current students and see the club in such good health. Impressive student-led self organisation!

Otherwise trying to wrap head around #DECRA mentoring and imoendinf #arc system changes.

25.02.2025 10:38 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

Haven't posted here but here's set of recent wechat posts - last time I logged in at conference zero users here but now more traction.

Visit to China and talks at Peking Uni, Westlake Uni and CAS microbiology.

Postdoc poster prize for Jacob Scadden in BLAST in Cancun - well done.

25.01.2025 00:41 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0