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Gökhan Tolun

@gokhan-tolun.bsky.social
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Assoc. Prof. at the School of Science, University of Wollongong, Australia. #CryoEM Research Group Leader at Molecular Horizons Research Institute. Biology BS, Biotechnology MS, PhD in Biochem. & Mol. Biol., Post-doc in Molecular Imaging (#UNC, #NIH).

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CCeMMP Outreach @ccemmp-outreach.bsky.social · 15/08/2026
🥳 Our ARC CCeMMP 3rd Annual #BenchToArt Exhibition has now opened 🥳 View the amazing images & animations in the virtual gallery via: ccemmp.org/events/arc-c... 🗳️Cast your votes for the People's Choice awards and 👏 support your favourite entries! 👏 #scienceweek #CryoEM #membraneprotein #SciArt
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ARC CCeMMP 3rd Annual Bench to Art Exhibition 2026 | CCeMMP
The Australian Research Council Centre for Cryo-Electron Microscopy of Membrane Proteins (CCeMMP) is holding their 3rd Annual ‘Bench to Art’ Exhibition to showcase the artistic flair of structural bio...
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Kate Michie @kmichie.bsky.social · 10/08/2026
This is a great opportunity to present your work! Please send your abstracts to secure a spot. 🤩 Anything in computational structural biology fits the remit.
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Gökhan Tolun @gokhan-tolun.bsky.social · 01/07/2026
Our Faculty of Science, Medicine and Health is hiring an #ExecutiveDean! You can find the posting and details here: tinyurl.com/smahed Come and join us, leading a faculty full of dedicated academics who are awesome people to work with. Living in beautiful Wollongong is just the icing on the cake...
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Executive Dean, Faculty of Science, Medicine & Health
Executive Dean, Faculty of Science, Medicine and Health The University of Wollongong (UOW) is a research-intensive university ranked among the world's top 200, with more than 38,000 students from over...
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Gökhan Tolun @gokhan-tolun.bsky.social · 24/04/2026
We academics live for days like these! Yesterday was the graduation of my PhD student Jordan Nicholls. A truly proud moment for me as his primary supervisor. I wish him the best in his future career. Others in the picture are to follow, some of them quite soon (already writing their theses!).
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Gökhan Tolun @gokhan-tolun.bsky.social · 25/11/2025
One of my favorite days of the year is the group photo day. Here's this year's photo, with two of my students perfectly (!) blended in from the last year's picture. As I always say, I feel extremely fortunate and privileged to be working with such dedicated and nice scientists. 😀
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Gökhan Tolun @gokhan-tolun.bsky.social · 18/11/2025
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). 👏🏼 🎉
A graduate student holding an award document.
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Gökhan Tolun @gokhan-tolun.bsky.social · 07/11/2025
We are one of the teams who secured an ARC Discovery Project grant funding (equivalent of NSF in the US)! 😃🎉🎆 Thanks so much to my team members Haibo Yu, Nikolas Johnston and Martina Sanderson-Smith for their hard work. I feel for the 9/10 applications not funded. 🙁 We need more science funding!
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Gökhan Tolun @gokhan-tolun.bsky.social · 27/10/2025
I attended the Australian Cell Cycle, DNA Repair and Telomere Meeting for the first time, and now I wish I could have attended it earlier. Thanks much to the organisers and especially to @genomestability.bsky.social for putting such a nice meeting together. I am looking forward to the future ones!
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Gökhan Tolun @gokhan-tolun.bsky.social · 01/10/2025
Keyword processing: "With reference to your article 'Molecular basis for RNA polymerase-dependent transcription complex recycling by the helicase-like motor protein HelD', We would like to know your interest to present a talk at our 6th International Conference on Recycling and Waste Management" 😄
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Gökhan Tolun @gokhan-tolun.bsky.social · 25/09/2025
We need to be careful! Being descendants of the British Empire, and most already fans of the Royal Family, Aussies may be closer to going back to an authoritarian regime than other countries. 🙁 www.theguardian.com/world/2025/s...
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A US fascism expert’s warning to Australia: ‘You guys are probably next’
The US’s slide towards authoritarianism is part of a global trend, says professor and fascism expert Jason Stanley. And distant Australia, far from being immune, is uniquely vulnerable
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Gökhan Tolun @gokhan-tolun.bsky.social · 23/09/2025
Our school is hiring! Permanent/Continuing, full-time academic appointment (Level B: $119,491 - $137,996 + 17% Superannuation [retirement plan]). www.uow.edu.au/about/jobs/j...
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Gökhan Tolun @gokhan-tolun.bsky.social · 04/07/2025
@molecularhorizons.bsky.social tour on Open Day at UOW. (Due to BlueSky limitations on videos, please see it on LinkedIn) www.linkedin.com/posts/activi...
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We welcomed prospective students and their parents to University of Wollongong during the Open Day last weekend. | Gökhan Tolun
We welcomed prospective students and their parents to University of Wollongong during the Open Day last weekend. One of the activities we ran was the Molecular Horizons Research Institute tour, which...
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Sjors Scheres @sjorsscheres.bsky.social · 25/06/2025
We have a 3-year funded postdoc position to work on structures of #amyloid filaments. If you are an expert in protein biochemistry, structural biology or #cryoEM / #cryoET, this could be for you! Feel free to email me with any questions. Come join us! 🤩 www.nature.com/naturecareer...
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Postdoctoral Scientist - Structural Studies - Dr Sjors Scheres - LMB 2640 - Cambridgeshire job with MRC Laboratory of Molecular Biology (LMB) | 12840844
Postdoctoral Scientist Starting Salary: £41,344 Fixed term: 3 years MRC Laboratory of Molecular Biology, Cambridge, UK We are looking for a postdoc...
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Max Kozlov @maxkozlov.bsky.social · 17/06/2025
After ruling the NIH grant cuts were illegal yesterday, Judge Young, a Reagan appointee on the bench since 1985, ended the hearing with a blistering 15-minute speech. I've cleaned up my notes — here are his remarks in full. 🧵
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Judge rules against NIH grant cuts — and calls them discriminatory
The decision means that the US biomedical agency has to restore funding to hundreds of research projects, but the government will likely appeal.
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Stand Up for Science! @standupforscience.net · 17/06/2025
11 of 12 Fulbright board members resign in protest over Trump-era meddling. Hundreds of awardees canceled; 1,200 foreign scholars face extra review. A pillar of U.S. academic diplomacy is under threat. zurl.co/o2mgg #StandUpForScience #Fulbright
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Members of the Fulbright scholarship board resign, accusing Trump of meddling
Nearly all the members of a board overseeing the prestigious Fulbright scholarships on Wednesday resigned in protest of what they call the Trump administration’s meddling with the selection of award recipients, according to a statement they issued.
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Gökhan Tolun @gokhan-tolun.bsky.social · 04/05/2025
I donated to Stand Up for Science. Let's support these scientists fighting for all science and scientists. Although they're in the US, the resulting public outreach of their actions has a global footprint!
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Gökhan Tolun @gokhan-tolun.bsky.social · 30/03/2025
The current US administration is the perfect example of what happens when you put incompetent people with no expertise, experience, or empathy, in charge. I hope this will be a lesson to all other nations, and public and private institutions for avoiding making the same mistake.
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Gökhan Tolun @gokhan-tolun.bsky.social · 14/03/2025
Tomorrow is the last day to apply!
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Gökhan Tolun @gokhan-tolun.bsky.social · 19/02/2025
We have extended the application deadline for the CCeMMP #PostDoc #position. www.seek.com.au/job/82195402... www.uow.edu.au/about/jobs/j... Join us in beautiful Wollongong and use our world-class #CryoEM facility. @molecularhorizons.bsky.social #job
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Gökhan Tolun @gokhan-tolun.bsky.social · 17/02/2025
www.standupforscience2025.org
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Gökhan Tolun @gokhan-tolun.bsky.social · 13/02/2025
We were just discussing things like this at the @lorneproteins.bsky.social conference. "Founded by DeepMind alumnus, Latent Labs launches with $50M to make biology programmable" techcrunch.com/2025/02/12/f...
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Founded by DeepMind alumnus, Latent Labs launches with $50M to make biology programmable | TechCrunch
A new startup from one of the key scientists at Google DeepMind exits stealth today with $50 million in funding.
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Gökhan Tolun @gokhan-tolun.bsky.social · 12/02/2025
Until next time, @lorneproteins.bsky.social ...
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Gökhan Tolun @gokhan-tolun.bsky.social · 11/02/2025
Getting ready for my @lorneproteins.bsky.social talk. #Insta360
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Gökhan Tolun @gokhan-tolun.bsky.social · 11/02/2025
It's always great to hear that other scientists also find our protein structures beautiful and our science exciting (so, it's not just me 😄). It's such a boost! 🤩
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Gökhan Tolun @gokhan-tolun.bsky.social · 11/02/2025
One more conference talk done... Now I'm enjoying the rest of the talks in a much more relaxed state. 🙂
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Kate Michie @kmichie.bsky.social · 08/02/2025
Lorne Protein 2025 here I come! 50 year anniversary - here are some colleagues from the 2020 meeting, just prior to the COVID outbreak. The world is such a different place now. @lorneproteins.bsky.social
Four structural biologists (Jenny Martin, Paul Curmi, Mitchel Guss and Gokhan Tolun)  at the Lorne Protein meeting in 2020 when the world was very different
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Gökhan Tolun @gokhan-tolun.bsky.social · 09/12/2024
We're hiring a #CCeMMP #Postdoc! Join us at the cutting-edge Molecular Horizons research institute with world-class equipment including our #cryoEM facility featuring a Titan Krios. Great science, great weather, and stunning beaches await! Please share (thanks). www.uow.edu.au/about/jobs/j...
Molecular HorizonsTitan KriosWollongong aerial photo
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Gökhan Tolun @gokhan-tolun.bsky.social · 28/11/2024
One of my favorite times of the year: our annual research group photo! It is Thanksgiving in the US and it's customery to say what one is thankful for: I am thankful for my #PhD (HDR) students, a group of dedicated young scientists who carry out fantastic research, working in harmony. 🧿😊
Gökhan Tolun's research group students posing in front of the Molecular Horizons Research Institute (Building 42) at the University of Wollongong
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Gökhan Tolun @gokhan-tolun.bsky.social · 25/11/2024
My PhD student Lucy Fitschen won this year's Thompson Prize awarded by the Sydney Protein Group, a Special Interest Group under the Australian Society for Biochemistry and Molecular Biology. 🤩🎉 @kmichie.bsky.social presenting her award certificate.
Lucy Fitschen receiving the 2024 Thompson Prize from Kate Michie
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