Thanks to The Random Sample podcast for featuring our Centre & our ambitious research mission to model a whole cell in a special 2-part series. To listen, just search for The Random Sample wherever you get your podcasts or head to the website: www.therandomsample.com.au
@therandomsample.bsky.social
Thanks to Marvin Whiteley and the @asm.org @mbio.bsky.social for a good time on their podcast talking about a bacteriophage that flexes and contracts in impossible ways.
Also detailed in an mBio paper here DOI: 10.1128/mbio.03829-25 @macsys.bsky.social
youtu.be/eDGta8xc4_0?...
You can catch the entire podcast episode by searching your podcast app for The Random Sample. The episode also features Deputy Director Jennifer Flegg and is hosted by Research Fellow Haripriya Sridharan. You can also watch the conversation on 📹MACSYS YouTube: youtu.be/plXmRoi5ydY
🎙️Why MACSYS & why now? In this clip from The Random Sample podcast, Centre Director Trevor Lithgow explains that as biology increasingly moves into a quantitative space, the ability to work across maths & biology isn’t optional - it’s essential:
🎧 www.therandomsample.com.au/podcast/macs...
📢New episode alert! Bringing together the mathematical and computational sciences with biology🔬 to tackle one of science’s grand challenges - MACSYS leaders Trevor Lithgow & Jen Flegg explain why modelling a whole, living cell 🧬 matters.
👉 www.therandomsample.com.au/podcast/macs...
To listen to the podcast, just search for The Random Sample wherever you get your podcasts, or head to: www.therandomsample.com.au/podcast/macs...
The first 2026 episode of The Random Sample podcast features Centre Chief Investigators Adelle Coster (UNSW) & Mat Simpson (QUT). They share how maths, combined with biological expertise, come together in MACSYS as our researchers work toward a predictive, computational model of a living cell.
🎙️We're launching a brand‑new season of our podcast this week & you’re invited to be part of the action! We're bringing a StudioPod recording booth straight to the Univ of Melbourne campus and will be recording new podcast episodes throughout our in-person launch event. Come watch the magic happen!
We’re proud to see MACSYS Associate Investigator, Dr Francesca Short, featured in this insightful ABC News story on hand hygiene and antibacterial soap. Dr Short is a Senior Lecturer in Microbiology at Monash University’s Centre to Impact Antimicrobial Resistance.
www.abc.net.au/news/2026-03...
🎙️Come See a Podcast Come to Life! MACSYS is launching a brand‑new season of The Random Sample podcast by bringing a StudioPod recording booth straight to the University of Melbourne campus - and will be recording new podcast episodes throughout the launch event. Come watch the magic happen!
The M in MACSYS stands for Mathematical - so we'd like to wish everyone a Happy International Day of Mathematics (aka Pi Day)! This year's IDM theme is "Mathematics and Hope".
Happy International Women's Day!
Five ARC Centres of Excellence with headquarters or nodes in Brisbane, including MACSYS, came together for a Women in Leadership breakfast event hosted at UQ. The event featured an inspiring panel discussion with representatives from each Centre, including our own Chief Investigator Prof Richi Nayak
📢We're hiring! Come join us in sunny☀️Brisbane. We are recruiting a postdoctoral Research Fellow to join us at QUT. This position is intended for applied mathematicians.
🔷Level A/B, Fixed-term, 2 years
📍Gardens Point (hybrid option available)
👉More info/apply: lnkd.in/gA_tJqHV
@mjsimpson.bsky.social
Well it turns out if you know something about the distributions of x and y, you *can* (sometimes) separately estimate their population means.
We explored some biological applications of this idea here:
doi.org/10.1007/s115...
Suppose you know that x+y=100 and want to know what x and y are. You’re stuck right – there’s a whole range of possibilities for two numbers that sum to 100 (in maths we call this non-identifiability).
Come and work with us! I'm looking for a PDRA in data-driven modelling of collective cell behaviour to join the group. More information at www.maths.ox.ac.uk/node/80472
Do cutting-edge research at the frontiers of AI-driven Whole Cell Modelling! We invite applications for two fully funded, 3.5-year PhD positions based with MACSYS at The Australian National University (ANU). 2026 PhD applications are now open for two exciting projects.👇
macsys.org/phd-scholars...
@lornegenome.bsky.social @traudebeilharz.bsky.social
Honoured to have a member of our Intl Scientific Advisory Board in Australia this week. Prof Brenda Andrews from the Univ of Toronto (pictured right) delivered an invited talk at the Lorne Genome Conference and caught up with our Chief Investigator Traude Beilharz, president of the Conference Board.
Congratulations to MACSYS PhD student Yong See (Elijah) Foo from The University of Melbourne - awarded the prize for best student talk at the recent ANZIAM Conference. The Australia & New Zealand Industrial & Applied Mathematics (ANZIAM) conference was held in Canberra.
👉 macsys.org/macsys-phd-s...
That's a wrap for Lorne Genome 2026! Thanks to all the speakers for fascinating talks, poster presenters for hot of the press science, trade for making the experiments possible and of course all the attendees for great discussion. See you next year!
Meet Dr Joshua Hamey, one of our outstanding MACSYS Research Fellows. Based at our UNSW node, Josh is a molecular biologist studying how proteins are made inside cells.
In this video, Josh shares insights into his research and what inspired him to join MACSYS.
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2026 Winner of the Lorne Genome Julian Wells Medal: Christine Wells (no relation!) @stemcellsystems.bsky.social congratulations, well deserved!!
We are so privileged to have Professor Brenda Andrews on our Centre's International Scientific Advisory Board - and pleased to see her sharing her expertise at the Lorne Genome Conference this week. @lornegenome.bsky.social
Do cutting-edge research at the frontiers of AI-driven Whole Cell Modelling! We invite applications for two fully funded, 3.5-year PhD positions based with MACSYS at The Australian National University (ANU).
👉Info on the 2 PhD projects & how to apply: macsys.org/phd-scholars...
MACSYS at ANZIAM!
This past week, members from three of our nodes represented the Centre at the Conference of the Australia & New Zealand Industrial and Applied Mathematics (ANZIAM) held this year in Canberra. Among the highlights, PhD Student Yong See Foo winning the prize for best student paper.
What a week it's been at the 2026 Lorne Proteins Conference! Centre Director Trevor Lithgow & members of his lab from Monash University attended - showing off their work and taking in the latest research that this important conference showcases. @lorneproteins.bsky.social #lorneproteins2026
Do cutting-edge research at the frontiers of AI-driven Whole Cell Modelling! We invite applications for two fully funded, 3.5-year PhD positions based with MACSYS at The Australian National University (ANU).
👉Info on the 2 PhD projects & how to apply: macsys.org/phd-scholars...
It was a hybrid event, with our Melbourne & Monash node members gathering at The University of Melbourne. We had another in-person gathering at UNSW, while others from QUT and ANU nodes joined online. The event was organised by our Centre's Equity, People, and Culture Committee.
