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GrasLab @graslab.bsky.social · 30/09/2025

Congrats to Dr Demetra Chatzileontiadou on receiving the 2025 @eppendorf.bsky.social Edman ECR Award from the @asbmbaus.bsky.social at the ASBMB conference 👍🎉🥂 Well deserved recognition for all your fantastic work in the space of anti-viral T cell recognition 😉 @limsltu.bsky.social

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GrasLab @graslab.bsky.social · 12/08/2025

Starting the day @latrobeuni.bsky.social city campus checking the equipment and venue for our #LongCovid conference on Friday 12th of September Register for online attendance - it’s free ! longcovid2025.com @limsltu.bsky.social

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GrasLab @graslab.bsky.social · 14/05/2025

Starting in a few minute is the opening ceremony of #EFI2025!!!! Come and say Hi if you are lucky enough to be in Prague

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Carolien van de Sandt @cvandesandt.bsky.social · 24/04/2025

Your immune system gradually loses it top team players when we get older 👱➡️👵 Our study in @ebiomedicine.bsky.social investigates how long good immune cells stay around – a 🧵⬇️ go.unimelb.edu.au/4sep @katherinekedz.bsky.social @thedohertyinst.bsky.social #Influenza #AgingResearch #Immunity #TCR

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GrasLab @graslab.bsky.social · 02/04/2025

Thank you so much for all the volunteers that came to help with our research project 👍🙏😀 we greatly appreciate everyone support ❤️ and big thanks for the Annesley lab, @graslab.bsky.social @danielmissailidis.bsky.social @limsltu.bsky.social @latrobeuni.bsky.social for all the help ❤️❤️❤️

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Ebony Monson @ebony-monson.bsky.social · 31/03/2025

🚨Our lab is recruiting!!! 🎓 Fully Funded PhD Scholarship Available! Are you passionate about lipid droplets, protein-protein interactions, and cutting-edge biomedical research? Please get in touch with @helbiglab.bsky.social if you are interested!! 🔬

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GrasLab @graslab.bsky.social · 01/04/2025

If you are on campus in Bundoora @latrobeuni.bsky.social on Wednesday 2nd of April come and help research 😉👍

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GrasLab @graslab.bsky.social · 27/03/2025

🚨Roll up your sleeves for ME/CFS, COVID, Long COVID Research Blood sample – NO fasting please and/or Stool sample (on site or at home, $20 reimbursement) Wednesday 2nd April, 8am-6pm @latrobeuni.bsky.social Bundoora, HS1-101 register graslab.com.au/covid-19-stu... for Blood draw day

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GrasLab @graslab.bsky.social · 27/03/2025

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GrasLab @graslab.bsky.social · 08/03/2025

😍 Happy International Women's Day 2023 to everyone #IWD2025 More than 100 people of all genders joined us both in person and online, and it was fantastic to see everyone come along to support and listen @limsltu.bsky.social @latrobeuni.bsky.social

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Centre d'Immunologie de Marseille Luminy @ciml.bsky.social · 06/03/2025

Today, we had the honor of welcoming Dr. Kim Good Jacobson from Monash University, Melbourne, to kick off the 2025 CIML seminar series. Kim gave a brilliant talk on "Molecular Regulation of Antibody and Immune Memory Responses to Viral Infections". Thanks @kimljacobson.bsky.social for your visit!

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GrasLab @graslab.bsky.social · 03/03/2025

Saturday 8th of march will be International Women’s Day #IWD@work @limsltu.bsky.social #MarchForward Lucky to have some Superstar #WomenInSTEM in my group Meet Dr Emma Grant

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GrasLab @graslab.bsky.social · 03/03/2025

🥂🥂🥂AMAZING !!!! Super proud of this two fantastic emerging leaders in #Science so happy to have you both @limsltu.bsky.social and with a very well deserved support from @nhmrc.bsky.social to further develop your research program 🥳🥳🥳 @latrobeuni.bsky.social

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GrasLab @graslab.bsky.social · 20/02/2025

Super excited to participate to Victoria Australia Research Forum in Tokyo today at the Australian Embassy ;-) and very honoured to present our work with Japanese colleagues in medical health research @limsltu.bsky.social @latrobeuni.bsky.social @vicgovau.bsky.social #Science #Australia-Japan

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GrasLab @graslab.bsky.social · 20/02/2025

It does feels like home 🇦🇺 ❤️ this afternoon we stopped at the Australian Embassy with Brian for a meeting #MedTech #Science #space #biology Australia-Japan collaboration @limsltu.bsky.social

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GrasLab @graslab.bsky.social · 20/02/2025

Great to visit Tokyo University this morning and thanks to the Hoshino’s lab for welcoming us !!! Amazing science in a great environment with a perfect view ❤️ thanks for the lunch boxes as well 😉 @limsltu.bsky.social

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GrasLab @graslab.bsky.social · 19/02/2025

We have landed in Japan 🇯🇵 @limsltu.bsky.social the LIMS Deputy Directors are in Tokyo !!!! More update soon

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Science News @scinews.bsky.social · 13/02/2025

Early detection of pancreatic cancer by a high-throughput protease-activated nanosensor assay. "The assay was optimized to detect all stages of PDAC with better performance than the clinical biomarker CA 19-9." www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

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Early detection of pancreatic cancer by a high-throughput protease-activated nanosensor assay

A high-throughput, noninvasive, rapid protease-activated nanosensor identifies patients with pancreatic cancer in a small volume of blood.

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Nature Portfolio @natureportfolio.nature.com · 13/02/2025

In response to the emergence of H5N1 influenza A viruses as a novel pathogen of cattle, a study in Nature Communications shows that pasteurisation of cows’ milk should effectively inactivate the virus, but that it remains infectious in unpasteurised milk. go.nature.com/3WRQ8fb 🧪

This is figure 1, which shows pasteurisation effectively inactivates influenza viruses in milk.

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GrasLab @graslab.bsky.social · 13/02/2025

Sun rising on a beautiful Friday morning @limsltu.bsky.social ❤️

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GrasLab @graslab.bsky.social · 12/02/2025

Sadly this is the end of the @lorneproteins.bsky.social and before we all go back to the lab it’s time to say a few thank you and congrats as well!!!! To our sponsors 👍 🙏

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GrasLab @graslab.bsky.social · 12/02/2025

Now we have Ben Gully presenting his work on #Tcell and the special function and structure of gamma delta T cell @lorneproteins.bsky.social

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GrasLab @graslab.bsky.social · 12/02/2025

Last session of @lorneproteins.bsky.social 2025 conference on #Proteins structure and mobility and their impact on disease. Starting with Chi-Min Ho talking about #malaria

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GrasLab @graslab.bsky.social · 11/02/2025

Great session this evening at @lorneproteins.bsky.social conference, walking memory lane and celebrating 50 years of amazing science, friendship, collegial meeting that welcomed so many outstanding researchers working on proteins!!! Great photos shared by those who contributed to its success 🥂🎉😉🔬

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Lorne Proteins @lorneproteins.bsky.social · 11/02/2025

Light-ning Talks #LorneProteins2025 Taylor Szyszka Engineering carbon-fixing protein cages. Carboxysomes are great, but encapsulins can assemble a uniform cage around any target tagged with a cargo peptide at C term. 42 nm across. Carboxysome mimic with encapsulin? Encapsulating rubisco.

Taylor N Szyszka standing behind a lectern giving a cool talk about building encapsulated rubisco complexes.

Co-expressed with encapsulin - no activity. But is rubisco assembled? Staged induction expression system. 2 plasmids; IPTG for rubisco; rhamnose for encapsulin with fresh media.

Staged expression retains activity.

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GrasLab @graslab.bsky.social · 11/02/2025

Short and fast lightning talk with 3 beautiful stories from Gökhan Tolun on “How Cryo-EM Structures Reveal Molecular Mechanisms of Biomolecular Complexes” at @lorneproteins.bsky.social Not only amazing science but also an excellent and very engaging speaker with beautiful protein structures!!!

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Lorne Proteins @lorneproteins.bsky.social · 11/02/2025

Light-ning Talks 🥁 sponsored by ANSTO. Alice (Jeeeun) Shin. C. albicans multi drug transporter. Cdr1 cryoEM ANU Centre for Advanced Microscopy. Asym architecture ATP sensing motif and asym mechanism. 3D prob analysis in cryoSPARC. Separate functional states for insights into transport mechanism. ⚡️

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GrasLab @graslab.bsky.social · 11/02/2025

Start of @lorneproteins.bsky.social conference session on “light-ning talks” 🎉😉

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Lorne Proteins @lorneproteins.bsky.social · 10/02/2025

IUPAC Global Women's Breakfast at #LorneProteins2025. Held annually on the International Day of Women and Girls in Science with the aim to establish an active network of people to overcome the barriers to gender equality in science! Thanks to Frances Separovic for organising ✊️

A group of women seated at a long table celebrating the IUPAC Global Women's Breakfast at Lorne Proteins 2025.

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GrasLab @graslab.bsky.social · 10/02/2025

Day 3 of @lorneproteins.bsky.social conference Happy international Women and Girls in Science day !!! Starting with an early breakfast for women organise by this year Leach Lecturer 😉☕️🎉

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GrasLab @graslab.bsky.social · 10/02/2025

Last session of @lorneproteins.bsky.social day 2 is a display of high caliber ECRs talks with the Anders awards. Nice way to end today’s talks before a late poster session 🥂

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Lorne Proteins @lorneproteins.bsky.social · 10/02/2025

Michael Healy is first speaker of the Anders early career investigators session. The scientists of the future (and the present!).

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GrasLab @graslab.bsky.social · 10/02/2025

Great job by the #PhD students Georgia, Lawton, You Min and Sam from our lab from @limsltu.bsky.social at the @lorneproteins.bsky.social 🎉🎉🎉👍👍👍

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Lorne Proteins @lorneproteins.bsky.social · 10/02/2025

Steve Harrop is remembered by Charlie Bond after his sad passing in 2024.

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Fiona Whelan @freewhelan.bsky.social · 10/02/2025

#LorneProteins2025 Alisa Glukhova-Sparrow Session: PORCN as regulator of Wnt signalling. Does it oligomerise? No. Thermostability enhanced with C59. Amenable to cryoEM? 34 mG/mL!! 2.4 Å resolution. Active site still occupied in the apo purified protein. Extremely rigid. Rotation of a Trp +/- inhib.

Alisa Glukhova in a check jacket presenting a talk on Wnt signalling regulator Porcupine and a cautionary tale on frizzled receptor cryoEM blob interpretability! FZD engage G protein uniquely.

G protein binding mediated by a lipid molecule? There's density there where it engages the g protein. Phospholipid or detergent? In nanodiscs POPC/POPG nanodisc with DDM.

Dissimilar to LMNG; Density still there. Metabolomics- abundance of PG. Actual ligand? Everything in the lab had LMNG contamination. Density is probably LMNG.

Different mode of engagement; mutations led to enhanced binding of G protein by TRUPATH assay.

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GrasLab @graslab.bsky.social · 10/02/2025

Day 2 of @lorneproteins.bsky.social is well underway !!!! With our second session with the Sparrow session and a fantastic line up of speakers!!!!

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GrasLab @graslab.bsky.social · 09/02/2025

@limsltu.bsky.social is proudly sponsoring the parents room for everyone with little ones to enjoy the conference @lorneproteins.bsky.social And super happy to have our new programs on display as well (thanks Jess) 🎉🎉🎉

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GrasLab @graslab.bsky.social · 09/02/2025

So thrilled to be hearing from Frances Separovic on “Breaking barriers with antimicrobial peptides” at the Leach Lecture tonight at @lorneproteins.bsky.social 🎉🎉🎉

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GrasLab @graslab.bsky.social · 09/02/2025

Lab office for the next few days while attending #LorneProteins @lorneproteins.bsky.social Just waiting for the sun to join the party as well 😉

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Fiona Whelan @freewhelan.bsky.social · 09/02/2025

Kicking off #LorneProteins2025 with Olga Boudker putting AV through their paces! Glu transporters 30 Å elevator transport - Bidirectional, dependent on sodium gradient direction. Ancestral gene prediction. Fresh water ancestor Na binding sites lost. Uncoupled transporters connected to aa metabolism.

Picture of a woman in an orange shirt smiling behind a podium.

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GrasLab @graslab.bsky.social · 09/02/2025

@limsltu.bsky.social very happy to support the parents room at Lorne Proteins 2025 @lorneproteins.bsky.social

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GrasLab @graslab.bsky.social · 09/02/2025

Here we are !!!! Start of #LorneProteins 2025 conference So happy to have almost all the lab here

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GrasLab @graslab.bsky.social · 04/02/2025

⏱️ Applications close THIS SUNDAY 9/2 for the LIMS Marilyn Anderson Fellowship, for female molecular scientists at Levels C or D! Don’t wait – apply now 👉 careers.pageuppeople.com/533/caw/en/ #STEMresearch #sciencetwitter #WomeninSTEM

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GrasLab @graslab.bsky.social · 04/02/2025

Back from a long break. And exciting week with the @limsltu.bsky.social retreat day 1 today. Strategy, science and planing for the future !!!!

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Baker Lab @ Notre Dame @nd-bakerlab.bsky.social · 20/01/2025

TCR specificity can be hard to understand. See our latest work showing how dynamic allostery in a peptide/MHC complex can control TCR specificity towards a public neoantigen. Great collaboration with Chris Klebanoff and team at @mskcancercenter.bsky.social #immunosky doi.org/10.1038/s414... 1/7

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Dynamic allostery in the peptide/MHC complex enables TCR neoantigen selectivity - Nature Communications

While static structures can provide insight into T cell receptor (TCR) antigen specificity, this often fails and auxiliary information is needed. Here the authors show, by focusing on an HLA-A3-bound ...

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