Trevor Lithgow

In the @newscientist.com article, Colossal CEO Ben Lamm said "...our goal is to inspire scientists, not tear scientists down". Yet this is what Colossal is doing when Ben tweets the following. Not very inspiring at all! Hint: the headline was tongue in cheek 😜 (theconversation.com/first-the-di...).

It's #InternationalOwlDay. Be sure and protect old-growth trees so we can have more Powerful Owlets like this one.
#brisbane #birds #wildoz

Meet the minds👩‍🔬in MACSYS shaping the future! @hilaryhunt.bsky.social is a Postdoc with MACSYS at QUT. Hilary's research integrates mathematical methods, systems biology, & experimental data to understand the mechanisms underlying cellular regulation and behaviour. 👇
www.linkedin.com/pulse/dr-hil...

💥 We have 3 positions open in my lab in Basel, Switzerland🇨🇭:
#nanopores #smFRET #biomolecular #dynamics #singleMolecules

We’re looking for talented & ambitious new colleagues enthusiastic about biomolecular dynamics & single-molecule tech.

Please share broadly, thank you!🤝

schmid.chemie.unibas.ch

Group Leader – Molecular Systems Biology Unit Are you ready to lead groundbreaking research in Molecular Systems Biology? Join us at EMBL! We are seeking a motivated scientist to lead an independent research group, addressing original biological ...

Ready to lead pioneering research that bridges systems-level investigations of biological systems to molecular mechanism? The EMBL Molecular Systems Biology Unit in Heidelberg is hiring a Group Leader!

The program will focus on future-ready research skills, including interdisciplinary collaboration, Artificial Intelligence (#AI), and #MachineLearning (#ML)—with MACSYS leading key modules on integrating biological and computational sciences.
📆Course: 1-12 Dec
www.emblaustralia.org/training-opp...

📢Attention PhD Students! We invite you to apply for the @emblaustralia.org PhD Course 2025, a prestigious two-week residential program designed to accelerate your research career. This year, MACSYS is proud to co-host the course in Adelaide. Apply by this Monday
www.emblaustralia.org/training-opp...

ZiemertLab The Ziemert lab is interested in the evolution and distribution of bacterial secondary metabolites. These bioactive compounds are especially important in human medicine as the chemical scaffolds are t...

Check out the Ziemert Lab’s new YouTube channel
m.youtube.com/@ZiemertLab
We’ve uploaded short tutorial videos on how to use our tools for genome mining and natural product discovery.
Thanks Semih, @martinaadamek.bsky.social @turgutmesut.bsky.social ! #GenomeMining #SecMet #naturalproducts

I would say highly stable is still an understatement 👀👀 very cool!

📢We're Hiring: Project Lead – RNA & Computational Biology Innovation Initiatives
We're seeking a Project Lead to coordinate & deliver high-impact initiatives across MACSYS, the Shine-Dalgarno Centre for RNA Innovation & the Centre for Computational Biomedical Sciences
jobs.anu.edu.au/jobs/project...

Highly stable bacteriophages PIN1 and PIN2 have hallmarks of flagellotropic phages but infect immotile bacteria npj Viruses - Bacteriophages (phages) are viruses that kill bacteria, with potential as antibacterial agents in industrial settings, agriculture, and human health. Here, we identified two phages,...

We have been working on ways to find #phage with long shelf-life and this one is a winner. 12 months freeze-thawing as much as you like, no loss of viability
#phageSky #microSky

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Very grateful for the opportunity and excited about the findings. We got the phages with unique armour: long Shelf-life even after multiple freeze-thawing for 12 months.

Highly stable bacteriophages PIN1 and PIN2 have hallmarks of flagellotropic phages but infect immotile bacteria npj Viruses - Bacteriophages (phages) are viruses that kill bacteria, with potential as antibacterial agents in industrial settings, agriculture, and human health. Here, we identified two phages,...

We have been working on ways to find #phage with long shelf-life and this one is a winner. 12 months freeze-thawing as much as you like, no loss of viability
#phageSky #microSky

rdcu.be/ewnzT

Are you a scientist with an interest in molecular cell #biology & quantitative systems biology? Join four leading molecular biologists as they conduct a residential scientific meeting in Cambridge on the topic of protein homeostasis: royalsociety.org/science-even... @geneticscam.bsky.social

Excellent work by #Monash PhD student Afif Jati before he heads back home to Indonesia for the next stage of his career

PhD Scholarships at Monash University - MACSYS Do cutting-edge research at the frontiers of Whole Cell Modelling! The MACSYS Node at Monash University has multiple PhD Scholarships available to work on some exciting projects! $41,753 p.a. stipend ...

Mathematical Analysis of Cellular SYStems (MACSYS) is a Centre of Excellence and is recruiting for PhD students. Interested in a challenging, cross-disciplinary project?

Take a look and if it takes your fancy, get in touch via the website contacts
macsys.org/monash-phd-s...

Our Centre is well-represented at this year's Society of Mathematical Biology Annual Meeting in Edmonton, Canada. As part of #SMB2025, we organised a two-session minisymposia: 2025.smb.org/MS03/MS-MFBM...
Well done, team MACSYS!
@smbmathbiology.bsky.social @mjsimpson.bsky.social

Highly stable bacteriophages PIN1 and PIN2 have hallmarks of flagellotropic phages but infect immotile bacteria npj Viruses - Bacteriophages (phages) are viruses that kill bacteria, with potential as antibacterial agents in industrial settings, agriculture, and human health. Here, we identified two phages,...

Because of the forces they have to withstand being whizzed around on #flagellae, flagellotropic #phages are super stable. It turns out that the same super-stability remains long after you adapt to a host bacterium without a #flagellum

rdcu.be/ewnzT

Maths permeates our lives, from using timetables to following recipes. For some people, using numerical skills can be effortless, but others may struggle. Dr Kinga Morysani shares her research on dyscalculia and share tools to make maths less daunting: www.youtube.com/watch?v=eVN9...

Day 2 at #HFSPmtg2025: packed with bold science and big ideas! 🧪

🧬 19 oral presentations
📌 8 poster teaser talks
🎤 Keynote by Shigekazu Nagata on apoptosis & immune balance

From mouse lemur brains to viral proteins and stem cells—this is frontier science at its finest.😁
#HFSP #sts

New theme issue of #PhilTransB out today ‘Shifting seas: understanding deep-time human impacts on #marine #ecosystems’. Read here: royalsocietypublishing.org/toc/rstb/202...

Australia’s university system is ‘battered’ and ‘broken’ – a new book surveys the wreckage and offers some solutions Our universities require a major overhaul. Reform is possible, but only if a government is prepared to take up the challenge.

theconversation.com/australias-u...

Universities aren’t pizza joints; stop treating them that way Policymakers must set aside the fiction that universities are just another industry that can generate its own funding and that academics can be turned into entrepreneurs.

Very well argued piece in the Financial Review www.afr.com/policy/healt...

Lab drowning in paperwork? Hire an in-house writer Hiring a postdoc to take over writing tasks makes good sense, argues Béla Z. Schmidt.

How did we get here? Senior scientists should now apply for grant funding to second scientists into admin positions because these scientists could then apply for grant funding …

www.nature.com/articles/d41...

Smart as …

Universities aren’t pizza joints; stop treating them that way Policymakers must set aside the fiction that universities are just another industry that can generate its own funding and that academics can be turned into entrepreneurs.

Very well argued piece in the Financial Review www.afr.com/policy/healt...

Inhibiting heme piracy by pathogenic Escherichia coli using de novo-designed proteins - Nature Communications Many pathogens encode transporters that extract heme directly from host proteins. In this study, the authors demonstrate the utility of de novo-designed proteins in understanding the mechanism behind ...

Excited to share our latest work using AI-designed proteins to block heme-piracy by E. coli. Published in @natcomms.nature.com. A team effort between my lab and the ‪‪@knottrna.bsky.social‬ ‬lab, with experimental work led by the talented @danielrfox.bsky.social
www.nature.com/articles/s41...

What a start! ✨

Day 1 of #HFSPmtg2025 brought bold science, new connections, and an amazing global community together in Melbourne.

From opening talks to hallway conversations—we’re just getting started. 🧪
📸 Some moments from today ⬇️
#ScienceWithoutBorders #sts

🎉 Full house in Melbourne for the kickoff of the 24th HFSP Awardees Meeting!

Congrats to @jacob-hanna.bsky.social, 2025 HFSP Nakasone Awardee, who was honored at today’s ceremony.
Let the science begin! 🧪
#HFSPmtg2025 #NakasoneAward #sts

‘It’s a nightmare.’ U.S. funding cuts threaten academic science jobs at all levels “There is a lot of pressure to essentially leave the country or not pursue research,” one Ph.D. student says

“There is a lot of pressure to essentially leave the country or not pursue research.” scim.ag/3Gz4VWW