CCeMMP Outreach

Happy fairy bread day! 🥳Enjoy some molecular and real sprinkles today :) #Blender render using top view of POPC bilayer as atom spheres in #MolecularNodes, and photo of home-made fairy bread by Cam @camnowell.bsky.social 😊
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Structural basis of modified ligand selectivity from N-terminal PAC1R alternative splicing pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/41264251/ #cryoEM

A graduate student holding an award document.

Congratulations to my PhD student Jhonnatan Reales-Gonzalez who received the 'Best Poster by a Student' award at the CryOZ 2025 (Australian National Cryo-EM Special Interest Group Symposium). 👏🏼 🎉

Thank you @ccemmp-outreach.bsky.social for an opportunity to share my work and wonderful symposium. Thank you @debnathghosal.bsky.social for a kind post and for being a supportive and amazing mentor. Congratulations to Matthew Johnson and Luca troman.

Last week we had the CCeMMP Symposium 2025. Fantastic event with an outstanding line-up of speakers. There were 2 poster prizes and 1 oral presentation prize; thrilled that we did a clean sweep! Huge congratulations @tiltedscientist.bsky.social @somavallyd.bsky.social and @lucatroman.bsky.social

CCeMMP Seminar alert! ⏰ We welcome Assistant Prof. Rie Nygaard, Weill Cornell Medicine,
New York City, USA. “Structural insight into glycosyltransferase function”
More info and register: ccemmp.org/events/ccemm...

Seminar reminder! ⏲️We welcome Dr Alexey Rak, Head of the Centre of Excellence in
Structural Biology and Biophysics, Sanofi, Paris, France.
“Rational Evolution: How cutting-edge biophysics and structural
biology are accelerating modern drug discovery”
More info: ccemmp.org/events/ccemm...

Thank you for organizing such a creative competition, and a big thanks to everyone who voted for me.

We also wholeheartedly thank our expert judges for their expertise and time that they spent on judging all entries for the 2nd ARC CCeMMP Bench to art Exhibition🤩

Prof Wai-Hong Tham @thamlab.bsky.social
Tamara Tegethoff
Rachel Ung

👏We thank the community for their enthusiasm & votes during the 2nd ARC CCeMMP Bench to Art Exhibition! People's choice winners are 🥇 'Mercurio' , 🥈 'Yarnborne Virus' and 🥉'Too Hot To Chandle'!👏
More info on our website: ccemmp.org/events/arc-c...

@somavallyd.bsky.social

And congratulations to Muyuan Chen - "Cat jumping from respiratory complex", awarded the third prize at the 2nd ARC CCeMMP Bench to Art Exhibition👏More info on our website: ccemmp.org/events/arc-c...

Congratulations also to Kenta Ishii and the entry 'One and four GLP-1Rs', which was awarded the second prize at the 2nd ARC CCeMMP Bench to Art Exhibition👏More info on our website: ccemmp.org/events/arc-c...

Congratulations 👏We have a winner for the 2nd ARC CCeMMP Bench to Art Exhibition🥇Our judges awarded the first prize to Laura Humphrys - 'Too Hot To Chandle'! 👏More info on our website: ccemmp.org/events/arc-c...

Big announcement 🏅We had awesome entries for our 2nd ARC CCeMMP Bench to Art Exhibition & will announce all winners shortly on our social media channels. 🎉Huge thanks to our judges, voters and artists!🎨If you can't wait, check our website link:
ccemmp.org/events/arc-c...

T-Shirt Competition Entry Form

🎨 Design the Next Lorne Proteins T-Shirt!
Got an eye for design? We’re calling on creative scientists to design the official 2026 conference T-shirt!
📅 Entries close 10 November 2025
👉 Submit your design here:
#LorneProteins #TshirtCompetition #CreativeScience

Seminar alert! ⏰We welcome Dr Sarah Piper,
Monash Institute of Pharmaceutical Sciences, Monash University, Parkville.
“Structures, dynamics and function of PAC1 receptor variants: staying 'in the loop”. More info and register here: ccemmp.org/events/ccemm...

@sarahjpiper.bsky.social

Wrapped up an amazing tomography workshop today! Huge thanks to our incredible instructors for sharing their knowledge and guidance. #bio21-institute #university-of-melbourne #CCeMMP #cryoET #cryoEM

Seminar alert! ⏰We welcome Dr Bronte Johnstone, Research Fellow, Ghosal Laboratory, Bio21 Institute, University of Melbourne. “Utilising cryo-EM and cryo-ET to investigate host-pathogen interactions mediated by membrane molecular machines” . More info: ccemmp.org/events/ccemm...

🔉 Only a few days left to vote! 🔉
Our 2nd CCeMMP Annual Bench to Art Competition gallery is LIVE! 🤩
ccemmp.org/events/arc-c...

Vote, like and repost :)

#membraneproteins
#scicomm
#nationalscienceweek
#cryoEM
#cryoET

Go check out the 2025 Bench to Art gallery. The theme is cryo-EM and/or membrane protein structures. They're all awesome!

Seminar time⏲️ We welcome Professor Dimitrios Fotiadis, IBMM, Medical Faculty, University of Bern: “Structural and mechanistic insights into transmembrane glucose transport and light-driven proton pumping” 🥳More info: ccemmp.org/events/ccemm...

🥳Our 2nd CCeMMP Bench to Art gallery is now LIVE! Each submission offers a unique + creative take on research!
🖼️ Explore the gallery here: ccemmp.org/events/arc-c...
And help us crown the People's Choice winner by casting your vote🗳️
#nationalscienceweek

ARC CCeMMP 2nd Annual Bench to Art Exhibition 2025 | CCeMMP The Australian Research Council Centre for Cryo-Electron Microscopy of Membrane Proteins (CCeMMP) is holding their 2nd Annual ‘Bench to Art’ Exhibition to showcase the artistic flair of structural bio...

Only 48 hours left to submit your image for our ARC CCeMMP 2nd Annual Bench to Art Exhibition 2025!🤯 ⏲️
Share your stories of exploration and discovery in structural biology with the broader community and win cash prizes 💰

Submit your entry/more info here: ccemmp.org/events/arc-c...

ARC CCeMMP 2nd Annual Bench to Art Exhibition 2025 | CCeMMP The Australian Research Council Centre for Cryo-Electron Microscopy of Membrane Proteins (CCeMMP) is holding their 2nd Annual ‘Bench to Art’ Exhibition to showcase the artistic flair of structural bio...

Only 48 hours left to submit your image for our ARC CCeMMP 2nd Annual Bench to Art Exhibition 2025!🤯 ⏲️
Share your stories of exploration and discovery in structural biology with the broader community and win cash prizes 💰

Submit your entry/more info here: ccemmp.org/events/arc-c...

ARC CCeMMP 2nd Annual Bench to Art Exhibition 2025 | CCeMMP The Australian Research Council Centre for Cryo-Electron Microscopy of Membrane Proteins (CCeMMP) is holding their 2nd Annual ‘Bench to Art’ Exhibition to showcase the artistic flair of structural bio...

...and don't forget! There's only a few days left to submit your image for our ARC CCeMMP 2nd Annual Bench to Art Exhibition 2025! ⏲️
More info: ccemmp.org/events/arc-c...

Today is #StructureSunday, where we highlight awesome structures by our CCeMMP members 🎉 Today we feature the "Inward-facing conformation of the ABC transporter BmrA C436S/A582C cross-linked mutant" PDB 8CHB. Rendered using #Blender
@sepidehv.bsky.social (1/2)

📣 New paper alert! Just out in Cell Reports! pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/40644298/
Thrilled to share that we have discovered a brand-new anti-phage defense system! Bacteria have evolved various defense strategies (CRISPR etc) to counter phage attacks. We found a new one - fascinating and dramatic
⚔️🦠❄️🔬

ARC CCeMMP 2nd Annual Bench to Art Exhibition 2025 | CCeMMP The Australian Research Council Centre for Cryo-Electron Microscopy of Membrane Proteins (CCeMMP) is holding their 2nd Annual ‘Bench to Art’ Exhibition to showcase the artistic flair of structural bio...

...and don't forget! There's only a few days left to submit your image for our ARC CCeMMP 2nd Annual Bench to Art Exhibition 2025! ⏲️
More info: ccemmp.org/events/arc-c...

Today is #StructureSunday, where we highlight awesome structures by our CCeMMP members 🎉 Today we feature the "Inward-facing conformation of the ABC transporter BmrA C436S/A582C cross-linked mutant" PDB 8CHB. Rendered using #Blender
@sepidehv.bsky.social (1/2)

Wonderful collaboration with Sigal Ben-Yehuda lab! Our PhD student Somavally Dalvi, who just had her superb thesis oration drove the high-resolution imaging part of the project.
@unimelb, @FMDHS, @ccemmp-outreach.bsky.social