Hearing from Dr Yue Qu about biofilms and hospital infections. Problem for AMR. Consist of metabolically inactive bacteria (issue for antibiotic uptake), can over come with nano wires that pierce bacterial cells to kill them, similar to dragonfly wings or skin of geckos natureiscool #scienceyeah
Conference dinner for @events.embl.org #EESImaging at Heidelburg castle last night. Amazing venue, onto the last couple of sessions today, what a great conference, amazing science, amazing community, very much worth the trip #scienceyeah #imagingiscool #superresolution #seeingisbelieving
Wow! @gaiapigino.bsky.social using cryo-EM tomography to reveal the dynamic choreography of molecular machines in cilia assembly. Same components, different conformation depending on cargo delivery vs removal, working like a biological transformer. @events.embl.org #EESImaging #scienceyeah
Day 3 @events.embl.org symposia #EESImaging another exciting day as we are about to go on a deep dive into imaging molecules in cells #scienceyeah #superresolutioniscool #imagingiscool #seeingisbelieving
Day 2 of the @embo.org @events.embl.org #EESImaging symposia. Exciting day of science ahead focussing on dynamic single molecule imaging, can’t wait to apply some of this to our own work #scienceyeah #Tcellsarecool #smlmisverycool
Excited to be at the @events.embl.org #EEEImaging conference in Heidelberg, Germany, hearing the latest in cutting edge imaging of biological systems. The ATC (G) building is modelled on the double DNA helix, the bridges represent the H bonds b/n nucleotides #scienceyeah #microscopyiscool
Who remembers these note books? Once a common sight in labs for recording keeping. Was cleaning out my office for a move into a new role and found a set of books from a past grad student, love the fact there is raw data, protocols, even mouse cards all in one place #scienceyeah
TFW the new protocol your grad student set up to test a harebrained idea looks like it worked! #superstargradstudent #Tcellsarecool #epigeneticsiscool #scienceyeah @pacbio.bsky.social #pacbioapplications
Up next, talking with 2nd yr microbiology students @monashuniversity.bsky.social about how the innate immune system engages with different pathogens, RNA viruses 🦠 Gram +ves, DNA viruses, Gram -ves #scienceyeah #microbiologyiscool #campuslife
Currently sitting in a seminar from Chris Stubenrauch, learning how efflux pumps found in Gram -ve bugs are also found in Gram +ve bugs, instead of outer membrane interactions, they interact with outer protein layers instead @monashuniversity.bsky.social #scienceyeah #microbesarecool
Just finished up an amazing visit to Harry Perkins Medical Institute in Perth. It was a reminder of why I love research. Getting to present our most recent findings, getting great questions, learning about the cool science others are doing, and coming away with new collaborations #scienceyeah
This is a wonderful paper. Addressing the age old question: how do chromatin remodellers know where to go? I am sharing this with my grad students and postdocs, and what the hell, anyone else that is interested #epigeneticsiscool #transcriptioniscool #scienceyeah
A smorgasbord of immunity seminars this week. Today, we are excited to hear from Prof Kate Schroder, and her uncomfortable truth that the adaptive immune system is important, how inflammasomes can promote effective adaptive immune responses #immunityiscool #inflammasomesarereallycool #scienceyeah
Prof David Tarlinton telling us about the dynamics of long lived plasma cells. Turns out B cells are also cool, #plasmacellsareforever #immunologyiscool #scienceyeah @monashuniversity.bsky.social
Networking with biomedical research stars of the future, introducing immunology to the 1st and 2nd yr Biomedical scholars #immunologyiscool #scienceyeah
A quiet day meeting wise, allowing me to do some reading and prep to write a new review about Killer T cells, now gotta stop procrastinating and get back to it #academicsky #labheadlife #Tcellsarecool #immunityiscool #scienceyeah
Amazing and inspiring talk from @jake1.bsky.social @flindersuniversity.bsky.social on how the nature we can’t see is key for the nature we can see! We are literally swimming in microbes and they are (mostly) our friends. #microbesarecool #scienceyeah
Today is about running the first of 3 workshops for BMS3031 students on infection and immunity, journal club on Katsuri et al, Nature 2011 and the rationale design of vaccines @monashuniversity.bsky.social #immunologyiscool #vaccinessavelives #scienceyeah #higherEd #lovemyjob
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Highlight 4: visited lake Mannewanka over lunch break, saw some wildlife, took in the scenery while it snowed @keystonesymposia.bsky.social #chromatinmeeting #scienceyeah
Well what a start to @keystonesymposia.bsky.social Chromatin and transcription meeting Patrick Kramer @mpimmg.bsky.social, remarkable complexity to get RNA transcription going, lots of factors involved, all started by solving RNA Pol II structure #scienceyeah #chromatiniscool
Excited to be in Banff CA for @keystonesymposia.bsky.social meeting on chromatin architecture and transcriptional regulation. 32 hours of travel, but promises to be great week of science ahead, as long as I can drag myself away from the world curling championships on TV 🥌 #curlingrocks #scienceyeah
Email this morning from @immunolcellbiol.bsky.social with paper accepted, fantastic start to the day. A study that was a long time coming, a whole of lab effort over several years, can't wait to share it with you all once published #scienceyeah #Tcellsarecool @monashuniversity.bsky.social
Semaglutide
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#glp #semaglutide #wegovy #ozempic #scienceyeah #hashtagguessinggame
@trevor-lithgow.bsky.social representing @monashuniversity.bsky.social at #AVS12 @ausvirologysoc.bsky.social telling us about building relationships with indigenous custodians of country, and forming partnerships to identify novel environmental phages #viralsky #scienceyeah #indigenousvoice
Fascinating talk from @marypetrone.bsky.social examining virosphere in aquatic animals like corals, sea sponges, and tunicates, the latter which have flu like viruses! @ausvirologysoc.bsky.social #AVS12 #viralsky #socool #scienceyeah
Chantel Abergel: prospected the Russian permafrost and found a giant virus from 30K yrs ago, the Pithovirus, it has a cork in the top of the tegument wall that pops open to initiate viral entry @ausvirologysoc.bsky.social #virussky #giantvirusesarecool #scienceyeah
Now hearing from Kat Edenborough @monashuniversity.bsky.social World Mosquito Program, on the effectiveness of using Wolbachia infection of mosquitos as a way of restricting Dengue transmission, amazing application @ausvirologysoc.bsky.social #AVS12 #viralsky #scienceyeah
What an interesting talk from Jody Hobson-Peters, from UQ. Using the insect-restricted flavivirus, Binjari virus, as a scaffold for effective animal vaccines against JEV in pigs, and WNV in crocodiles, so cool. @ausvirologysoc.bsky.social #AVS12 #viralsky #scienceyeah
Okay, I may have slipped out from @ausvirologysoc.bsky.social for a quick 18. Made it back in time for afternoon tea, looking forward to the next session on Arboviruses, then Chantel Abergel talking about some of my favourite viruses, Giant Viruses 🦠 #Porteguesetartsrule #viralsky #scienceyeah
Fantastic talk by Michael Beard on using CRISPR activation to identify novel host restriction factors that limit Flavivirus replication @ausvirologysoc.bsky.social #viralsky #scienceyeah
