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Lorne Proteins @lorneproteins.bsky.social · 18h

📣 Lorne Proteins 2027 Abstract submissions close 23rd October!! www.lorneproteins.org The Awards portal is also live - Early Career, Indigenous Researcher, Carers Bursary, and ECR Travel Support - submit your abstract to apply. Join the conversation 7th-11th February, 2027, Lorne, Victoria. ☀️ 🏄 🏖️

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Lorne Proteins @lorneproteins.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

Every year, one T-shirt design becomes part of the conference story-worn, remembered & woven into the fabric of the conference. The chosen Tee comes to life on delegates from across the globe as they gather in Lorne. New deadline 2nd Oct! www.lorneproteins.org/t-shirt-desi... #LorneProteins2027

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Lorne Proteins @lorneproteins.bsky.social · 04/09/2026

Abstract submissions are now open for Lorne Proteins 2027! Applications for eligible awards 🏆 and bursaries 💸 are via the same portal: ➡️ www.lorneproteins.org/submissions Register today to join researchers from all over the world, converging on a small seaside town in Victoria, Australia!

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Lorne Proteins @lorneproteins.bsky.social · 02/09/2026

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Lorne Proteins @lorneproteins.bsky.social · 25/08/2026

Every year, one T-shirt design becomes part of the conference story-worn, remembered & woven into the fabric of the conference. If yours is chosen, you'll see it come to life on delegates from across the globe as they gather in Lorne. www.lorneproteins.org/t-shirt-desi... #LorneProteins2027

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Lorne Proteins @lorneproteins.bsky.social · 20/08/2026

It's official, bona fide and now with a professional socials tile! 🤓 Please go to lnkd.in/gpxjEjgy to check out the list of confirmed speakers, and of course, don't forget to save the date 🗓️ 📣 52nd Lorne Conference on Protein Structure and Function, 7th-11th Feb, 2027, Lorne, Victoria. 🫰

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Lorne Proteins @lorneproteins.bsky.social · 11/08/2026

#LorneProteins2027 Indigenous Researcher Award applications are opening soon! Supporting travel, registration, accommodation and subsistence. To apply, download the application form here: www.lorneproteins.org/researcher and prepare a short cv. We will update you when the portal opens! 📬

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Lorne Proteins @lorneproteins.bsky.social · 03/08/2026

Hello molecular enthusiasts! 🤓 Please head over to lnkd.in/gpxjEjgy to check out the list of already confirmed speakers, and of course, don't forget to save the date 🗓️ - you heard it here first! 📣 52nd Lorne Conference on Protein Structure and Function, 7th-11th Feb, 2027, Lorne, Victoria. 🫰

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Lorne Proteins @lorneproteins.bsky.social · 10/03/2026

Late thanks to the Lorne Proteins OC! You did it again-inspiring speakers, excellent ECR talks, impressive student posters, nice vibes and icecream mixers 🍦 Thanks to our generous sponsors and awesome attendees for making this an unmissable event! See you next year 🏖️ 🏄 🤓 #LorneProteins2026

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Caroline Puente-Lelievre @cpuentelelievre.bsky.social · 17/02/2026

Hope to you see all you next year! @lorneproteins.bsky.social

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Lorne Proteins @lorneproteins.bsky.social · 17/02/2026

What an amazing group of people at the 2026 Lorne Protein Meeting. Hope we see many of you there again in 2027!

Group photo of Lorne Protein Meeting attendees 2026

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MACSYS @macsys.bsky.social · 12/02/2026

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

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Frances Separovic @francesbiophys.bsky.social · 11/02/2026

Stories from #WomenInScience who changed how we visualize #proteins: Ahead of her 85th birthday, Jane Richardson (Duke Univ, @biophysicalsoc.bsky.social president 2012-13) discussed her life from making a telescope to developing ribbon diagrams for 3D protein structure www.nature.com/articles/s41...

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Stories from the scientist who changed how we visualize proteins - Nature Reviews Chemistry

Ahead of her 85th birthday, Jane Richardson, Professor of Biochemistry at Duke University, discussed her life in science from making her own telescope to developing the ribbon diagrams for the 3D stru...

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James Lingford @jameslingford.bsky.social · 11/02/2026

Goodbye Lorne Proteins 2026. An inspiring few days seeing the best of protein science. @lorneproteins.bsky.social

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Trevor Lithgow @trevor-lithgow.bsky.social · 11/02/2026

what a brilliant talk! classic Lorne Proteins stuff, getting into how things (in this case Alphafold) works

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Lorne Proteins @lorneproteins.bsky.social · 11/02/2026

Closing #lorneproteins2016 😔 🤩 Thanks to our generous sponsors! And for sponsoring our prizes! Speaking of...

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Kate Michie @kmichie.bsky.social · 11/02/2026

Dr Tom Litfin (Australian Biocommons) presented the Structural Biology Platform project and the Australian Computational Structural biology community. If you are interested and missed him you can join up here: australian-structural-biology-computing.github.io/index 🧬🧶 #lorneprotein2026

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Lorne Proteins @lorneproteins.bsky.social · 11/02/2026

Last speaker of what’s been a fantastic 2026 Meeting. Hagan Bayley.

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Lorne Proteins @lorneproteins.bsky.social · 11/02/2026

Penultimate talk of the meeting by Lauren Porter. Looking at how AlphaFold works under the hood with fold switching proteins.

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Frances Separovic @francesbiophys.bsky.social · 08/02/2026

Wonderful to hear the 2026 #LorneProteins Leach Lecture by Dame Professor Carol Robinson, "Decoding life with mass spectrometry: A lens for biology". Pictured with previous Leach lecturers, @leanntilley.bsky.social (2022) and Frances Separovic (2024).

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Kelly Nguyen @kellythd-nguyen.bsky.social · 10/02/2026

Honored to be a finalist for the 2026 Blavanik Awards in the UK in Life Sciences. I’m grateful to past and present lab members, collaborators, colleagues and mentors, who made it possible. It’s even better to share this from Vietnam while celebrating the Tet holidays with family.

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Lorne Proteins @lorneproteins.bsky.social · 11/02/2026

First speaker. Last session at Lorne Proteins. Michael Hecht on designing proteins for novel functions @lorneproteins.bsky.social

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Lorne Proteins @lorneproteins.bsky.social · 11/02/2026

Closing Session 10: Jeanine Amacher | Amino acid variants at the P94 position in S. aureus class A sortase modulate substrate access and activity Position specific regulation of activity. Cat cys recognises short LPXTG Sortase-catalysed ligation Any acyl support! #sortase #lorneproteins2026

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MACSYS @macsys.bsky.social · 11/02/2026

Their expertise spans biology, mathematics, statistics, machine learning, AI, computer science and computational modelling. Their collaborative work is bridging disciplines & pushing the boundaries of what we can understand about life at the molecular level! #InternationalDayOfWomenAndGirlsInScience

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MACSYS @macsys.bsky.social · 11/02/2026

On the International Day of Women and Girls in Science, MACSYS proudly celebrates the exceptional women who are advancing our mission to model a whole cell - one of the most ambitious challenges in modern science. Pictured here are our Chief Investigators, Research Fellows, and PhD candidates.

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Brett Collins @brettcollins.bsky.social · 11/02/2026

Liyu Chen from QBI at UQ talking on her work to probe and cross the blood brain barrier. @lorneproteins.bsky.social

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Lorne Proteins @lorneproteins.bsky.social · 11/02/2026

Session 10 - Liyu Chen | JAM-1 nanobody induces barrier weakening and enhanced drug permeability in an in vitro blood-brain barrier-like model Strategies for cerebral drug delivery. #lorneproteins2026

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Lorne Proteins @lorneproteins.bsky.social · 11/02/2026

Session 10: Rina Rosenzweig on molecular chaperones, J-domain proteins Most diverse family - 50 different members #lorneproteins2026

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Lorne Proteins @lorneproteins.bsky.social · 10/02/2026

Closing Session 9: Tzviya Zeev-Ben-Mordehai on cryoET of the cellular structural biology of mammalian sperm #lorneproteins2026

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Lorne Proteins @lorneproteins.bsky.social · 10/02/2026

Session 9: Yu Shang Low - RHS proteins possess YD repeat cages that underlies their functional diversity #lorneproteins2026

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Lorne Proteins @lorneproteins.bsky.social · 10/02/2026

Session 9: Kai-En Chen: Structural basis of the membrane-assembled Retromer – Rab7 complex: A molecular timer for vacuolar cargo retrieval #lorneproteins2026

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Lorne Proteins @lorneproteins.bsky.social · 10/02/2026

Be part of Lorne Proteins history! Photo session today from 1-1:10 pm. See you there 🎉📷🤩 #lorneproteins2026

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Brett Collins @brettcollins.bsky.social · 10/02/2026

First speaker of last day of Lorne Proteins. Arun Shukla on the mechanism of arrestin coupling to GPCRs. @arshukla.bsky.social @lorneproteins.bsky.social

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Frances Separovic @francesbiophys.bsky.social · 10/02/2026

To celebrate #WomenInScience day, @febspress.bsky.social invite you to look at the Women in Science Collection, a selection of articles in FEBS Press, which analyse statistics & challenges together with inspiring role models on gender diversity in #STEM febs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/toc/10.1...

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Lorne Proteins @lorneproteins.bsky.social · 10/02/2026

☕️🫰 Following Session 9 we have a morning tea to celebrate the UNESCO International Day of Women and Girls in Science 🎉, sponsored by Bio21 Platforms! EVERYONE is welcome to celebrate our fabulous Lorne Proteins women in protein science. 🧁🍪💜

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Lorne Proteins @lorneproteins.bsky.social · 10/02/2026

Session 9: Arun Shukla on the structure, function and regulation of GPCRs.

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EMBL-EBI @ebi.embl.org · 10/02/2026

We’re hiring: Research Group Leader in computational biology. Are you generating more research ideas than you can explore? Lead cutting-edge AI & biology research at EMBL-EBI. Apply by 11 April 2026: embl.wd103.myworkdayjobs.com/en-US/EMBL/j... #ScienceCareers @ewaldlab.org @embl.org

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Brett Collins @brettcollins.bsky.social · 09/02/2026

Emily Furlong (UQ alumnus 😄) talking about her new work on ABC transporters. @emfurlong.bsky.social @lorneproteins.bsky.social

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Lorne Proteins @lorneproteins.bsky.social · 10/02/2026

Session 8: The Protein Society Special Lecture - John Kuriyan - Adaptive Capacity of a DNA Polymerase Clamp Loader. Measuring mutagenesis at scale in T4 bacteriophage. T4 del replication machinery. Infects cells, but nothing happens + plasmids with library of replication gene variants...

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Lorne Proteins @lorneproteins.bsky.social · 10/02/2026

The IUPAC Global Womens Breakfast 2026 ❤️💛💚💙💜 dawned in Lorne with our first gathering on 10th Feb, concluding with a morning tea on the 11th Feb, meaning we've celebrated across international date lines clear into the UNESCO International Day of Women and Girls in Science! That's commitment!! 💜💚🤍

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Lorne Proteins @lorneproteins.bsky.social · 10/02/2026

#lorneproteins2026 resident troublemakers taking a break with a burger on a banksia. Or AI Haiku Galah steals a bite, Banksia perch in Lorne bay, Fast food, feathered friend.

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Lorne Proteins @lorneproteins.bsky.social · 10/02/2026

Session 8: David Drew - PfHT1 outside gate is more polar. Shuts more easily. Sugar coordination similar. Allosteric coupling between cargo binding and gating. Many different sugars. ML to take 1000s of AF models and determine conformation state.

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Lorne Proteins @lorneproteins.bsky.social · 10/02/2026

The EMBO sponsored member speaker. David Drew on small molecule transporters.

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Lorne Proteins @lorneproteins.bsky.social · 10/02/2026

@ansto.bsky.social MX beamline workshop. Bottom lines - match your crystal size to your beamline! Dont shoot a moving target. Wait for the loop position to stabilise. Rasterize to find your xtals. You need training to use MX3! All pins in puck must be the same!!

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Lorne Proteins @lorneproteins.bsky.social · 10/02/2026

@ansto.bsky.social thanks for supporting the lightning talks session 7 at #lorneproteins2026 An invigorating pace and excellent variety of subjects! Great session 🤩

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Lorne Proteins @lorneproteins.bsky.social · 10/02/2026

S7 ⚡️🌤 Demetra Chatzileontiadou HLAs hold peptides in their pockets APC : T-cell receptor critical HLA - protective or increased pathological outcomes HLA-A*03:01 genetics and covid side effects. How? +Spike epitope xtal structure. Nothing unique...

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