iiinova — where your digital self keeps evolving

Prof Francine Marques @fzmarques.bsky.social · 05/01/2026

😎 Nelson Mandela Epic Fail Award - Inspired by Mandela’s quote ‘I never lose. I either win or learn’, this award recognizes failing but learning from it: winners Liz Vecchio, Phoebe Cheong, and Evany Dinakis

000 0

Prof Francine Marques @fzmarques.bsky.social · 05/01/2026

🏆 Research Rockstar Award - For achieving the highest number of peer-reviewed recognition as a PhD student: Chaoran Yang 🏆 Research Rockstar Award - For achieving the highest number of peer-reviewed recognition as a postdoctoral researcher: @rikeish.bsky.social

100 0

Prof Francine Marques @fzmarques.bsky.social · 05/01/2026

📈 The Master Organiser Award - For being the most organised person in the team and helping others improve their organisational skills: winner Chudan Xu, runner up Simona Antonacci

100 0

Prof Francine Marques @fzmarques.bsky.social · 05/01/2026

📰 Trend Tracker Award - For being the go-to person for communication trends and finding the latest papers in the field: (several times) winner @rikeish.bsky.social, runner up Chaoran Yang

100 0

Prof Francine Marques @fzmarques.bsky.social · 05/01/2026

🫂 Awesomeness Award - For being an overall great colleague: winner Phoebe Cheong, runner up Wendy Qin

100 0

Prof Francine Marques @fzmarques.bsky.social · 05/01/2026

😄 Funniest Person Ever Award (our most competitive award) - For bringing joy and laughter to the team: winner Wendy Qin, runner up Evany Dinakis

100 0

Prof Francine Marques @fzmarques.bsky.social · 05/01/2026

✨ Values Vanguard Award - For supporting the lab values and living by their own values: winner Evany Dinakis, runner up Liz Vecchio

100 0

Prof Francine Marques @fzmarques.bsky.social · 05/01/2026

💚 Resilience Pro Award - For being the most resilient person in the team and helping others improve their resilience: (several times) winner Chudan Xu, runner ups Joanne O'Donnell & Jenny Li

100 0

Prof Francine Marques @fzmarques.bsky.social · 05/01/2026

💡 Resourcefulness Award - For their problem-solving attitude that has helped our team thrive: Winner Simona Antonacci, runner up Joanne O'Donnell

100 0

Prof Francine Marques @fzmarques.bsky.social · 05/01/2026

Announcing our lab annual award winners 🏆 Every year, our team votes on team members who contributed towards helping behaviours, something we fail to capture in promotion and fellowship applications Here are the 2025 award winners:

140 0

Prof Francine Marques @fzmarques.bsky.social · 09/12/2025

Lab presentations at the joint @ascept.bsky.social and Hypertension Australia meeting this week 🤩 #hypertension #microbiome #immunesystem

020 0

Prof Francine Marques @fzmarques.bsky.social · 01/12/2025

Congratulations to Rikeish R Muralitharan His major PhD paper published in Circulation Research in February 2025 is already a WoS Highly Cited paper 🤩 lnkd.in/gMbx5HyA

040 0

Prof Francine Marques @fzmarques.bsky.social · 30/10/2025

A great honour to receive the Australian Academy of Health and Medical Sciences Jian Zhou Medal last night from the Minister Mark Butler and AAHMS President Prof Louise Baur, alongside the other amazing medalist Prof Britta Regli-von Ungern-Sternberg

1160 0

Prof Francine Marques @fzmarques.bsky.social · 02/10/2025

Congratulations to our PhD student Evany Dinakis who completed her final milestone today, delivering a fantastic presentation 👏👏👏 an example of great science communication skills + great science #microbiome #bloodpressure @monashuniversity.bsky.social

150 0

Prof Francine Marques @fzmarques.bsky.social · 20/09/2025

Big thank you to @events.embl.org, @cibiocm.bsky.social, @borklab.bsky.social, Mani Arumugam & @amibhatt.bsky.social for a wonderful microbiome conference #EESMicrobiome My team and I had a great time, learned lots, met lots of inspiring researchers & made friends ✅ @monashuniversity.bsky.social

292 0

Prof Francine Marques @fzmarques.bsky.social · 17/09/2025

Proud of our team members Dr Chudan Xu and Phoebe Cheong for being brave and asking (great) questions at @embl.org #EESMicrobiome 👏👏👏

092 0

Prof Francine Marques @fzmarques.bsky.social · 15/08/2025

Congratulations to @rikeish.bsky.social for winning the ISHR Postdoctoral publication prize for his paper “Gut Microbiota Metabolites Sensed by Host GPR41/43 Protect Against Hypertension” published in Circulation Research 👇 www.ahajournals.org/doi/10.1161/... (I received it on his behalf 🙂)

181 0

Prof Francine Marques @fzmarques.bsky.social · 10/06/2025

Today I went to my daughter’s childcare to talk to the toddlers about heart health and gut microbes ❤️ They were very excited to tell me about their fav fruits and veggies Big thanks to @cibiocm.bsky.social for the toy microbes 🦠🙏 @monashuniversity.bsky.social

0202 0

Prof Francine Marques @fzmarques.bsky.social · 27/05/2025

It was graduation day today 🤩 Congratulations to Dr Chudan Xu & 2 of honours students who graduated today 🤩 and a big thanks to our amazing team for helping to celebrate it (wait until she sees her desk tomorrow 🥹) @monashuniversity.bsky.social @monashbiol.bsky.social

131 0

Prof Francine Marques @fzmarques.bsky.social · 22/03/2025

Last week we had our lab planning day 🤩 2025 motto - let's work together (w each other within & outside the lab & our communities) inspired by Adam Grant's quote “Focus attention and energy on making a difference in the lives of others, and success might follow as a by product"

2112 0

Prof Francine Marques @fzmarques.bsky.social · 15/12/2024

Lab Xmas cards are ready 🤩 Every year I try to find a word for each person to inspire their new year All watercolour painted and hand written 😅 These are the 2025 words My favourite: Ganbatte It means ‘do your best’ and ‘don’t give up’ = we have a power perspective

171 0

Prof Francine Marques @fzmarques.bsky.social · 15/12/2024

Finally, the Nelson Mandela Epic Fail Award 🏆 Inspired by Mandela’s quote ‘I never lose. I either win or learn’, this award recognizes failing but learning from it Entry-based award, nominees say what went wrong and what they learned Winners : Evany Dinakis and @mattsnelson.bsky.social

100 0

Prof Francine Marques @fzmarques.bsky.social · 15/12/2024

The Master Organiser Award 🏆 For being the most organised people in the team and helping others improve their organisational skills Nominees: Leticia, Evany, Chudan, Phoebe, Wendy Runner up: Wendy Qin Winner: Dr Chudan Xu

100 0

Prof Francine Marques @fzmarques.bsky.social · 15/12/2024

Values Vanguard Award 🏆 For supporting the lab values and living by their own values Nominees: Simona, Rikeish, Phoebe, Hamdi, Evany, Leticia, Jo, Matt Runner up: Dr Joanne O'Donnell, Evany Dinakis and Dr Leticia Camargo Tavares Winner: @mattsnelson.bsky.social

100 0

Prof Francine Marques @fzmarques.bsky.social · 15/12/2024

Trend Tracker Award 🏆 For being the go-to person for communication trends and finding the latest papers in the field Nominees: Leticia, Fran, Phoebe, Rikeish, Matt, Chaoran Runner up: Dr Leticia Camargo Tavares Winner: @rikeish.bsky.social (5 times champion!)

120 0

Prof Francine Marques @fzmarques.bsky.social · 15/12/2024

Resilience Pro Award🏆 For being the most resilient person in the team and helping others improve their resilience Nominees: Rikeish, Fran, Chudan, Simona, Evany, Jo Runner up: Dr Chudan Xu and Dr @rikeish.bsky.social Winner: Dr Joanne O'Donnell

100 0

Prof Francine Marques @fzmarques.bsky.social · 15/12/2024

Awesomeness Award 🏆 For being an overall great colleague Nominees: Wendy, Chudan, Simona, Leticia, Phoebe, Evany, Fran Runner up: Wendy Qin and Dr Chudan Xu Winner: Phoebe Cheong

100 0

Prof Francine Marques @fzmarques.bsky.social · 15/12/2024

Funniest Person Ever Award 🏆 (our most competitive award 😂) For bringing joy and laughter to the team Nominees: Jo, Matt, Evany, Wendy, Chudan, Phoebe Runner up: Dr Joanne O'Donnell Winner: Evany Dinakis

100 0

Prof Francine Marques @fzmarques.bsky.social · 15/12/2024

Resourcefulness Award 🏆 For their problem-solving attitude that has helped our team thrive Nominees: Leticia, Jo, Matt, Evany, Chudan, Wendy, Chaoran, Simona, Cass Runner up: Dr Chudan Xu Winner: Dr Simona Antonacci

100 0

Prof Francine Marques @fzmarques.bsky.social · 15/12/2024

Every year, we have lab awards 🏆 to celebrate helping behaviours across our team, which are essential in creating a positive workplace culture 🥳 The team then votes, and all nominees are mentioned in our Xmas party (photo below, missing some people) Here are the 2024 nominees and winners

2182 0

Prof Francine Marques @fzmarques.bsky.social · 29/11/2024

Chaoran Yang - finalist for the Student Poster Award (presenting work accepted this week for publication in Gut Microbes) Also fantastic invited talk by Dr Joanne O’Donnell and excellent talks selected from abstract from Dr Rikeish Muralitharan and Dr Matthew Snelson #hypertensionASM2024

060 0

Prof Francine Marques @fzmarques.bsky.social · 29/11/2024

Congratulations to our team members at ☺️#Hypertension Australia 🤩 Dr Joanne O’Donnell - winner of the Judith Withworth Award for highest ranked abstract by a female first author Evany Dinakis - winner of the Student Oral Award (project funded by Heart Foundation) #hypertensionASM2024

2243 0