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Ian Henderson

@hendersonlab.bsky.social
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Executive Director, UQ Institute for Molecular Bioscience

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BactiVac Network @bactivac.bsky.social · 11/05/2026
🎤Welcoming @hendersonlab.bsky.social to @bactivac.bsky.social ANM26! 📅 10–12 Nov 2026, Rio, Brazil 💉 Agnostic approaches to vaccine design: developing a pan serovar #Salmonella #vaccine 👉 bit.ly/ANM26 #BactiVacEvents #AMR @wellcometrust.bsky.social @britsocimm.bsky.social @microbiologysociety.org
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Shu-Sin Chng @figlegend.bsky.social · 17/04/2026
Finished my work trip earlier this week with a visit and seminar at @imperialcollegeldn.bsky.social - many thanks to @bugsinblood.bsky.social for playing host! Great catch up with Gadi Frankel too! Most coincidentally, met @hendersonlab.bsky.social on ICL campus - what are the odds?!
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Lorne Proteins @lorneproteins.bsky.social · 02/02/2026
Countdown to Lorne Proteins 🏖️ Session 6: Invited speakers Nieng Yan, Tsinghua University, on the structural pharmacology of Voltage-gated sodium channels; closing with Simon Newstead, University of Oxford, on plasma membrane polyamine transporters in chronic pain. 🔗 www.lorneproteins.org
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🖇️ Jane @janetea4.bsky.social · 06/12/2025
I’m from the generation that remembers when these diseases ran rampant. Perhaps we need to be reminded with a dose of repeated history
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Kimberly Kline 🏔 @kimingeneva.bsky.social · 17/11/2025
Why does daptomycin resistance appear so fast in Enterococcus? We finally have a clue. DAP resistance in enterococci pops up quickly. What’s been missing is why resistance-associated membrane changes look the way they do, and why the classic path of mutations is so predictable.
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Ian Henderson @hendersonlab.bsky.social · 03/11/2025
Delighted to be attending the Prime Ministers Prizes for Science again. Awesome winners and awesome scientists #AustraliasBest #science #price
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Onisillos @onisillos.bsky.social · 14/10/2025
"...one year on and it feels like much of the political momentum around tackling AMR has already vanished." www.theguardian.com/global-devel...
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‘As new infections outpace new drugs, are we sleepwalking into a global health disaster?’ | Dr Manica Balasegaram
Much of the political momentum around the antimicrobial resistance crisis has dissipated, but a new report shows the danger to our health has not
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Ian Henderson @hendersonlab.bsky.social · 14/10/2025
Curing disease: it's in our nature! As the Institute for Molecular Bioscience enters its 25th year, we’re not just celebrating the milestones behind us we are shaping the future. We invite the next generation of scientific leaders to join us in writing that future. uniroles.com.au/display-job/...
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Group Leader - Institute for Molecular Bioscience (IMB)
Institute for Molecular Bioscience Join a university ranked in the world’s top 50 Australia’s #1 research institute Based at St Lucia Campus About UQ What started as Queensland's first university in 1...
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Ian Henderson @hendersonlab.bsky.social · 14/10/2025
Curing disease: it's in our nature! As the Institute for Molecular Bioscience enters its 25th year, we’re not just celebrating the milestones behind us we are shaping the future. We invite the next generation of scientific leaders to join us in writing that future. uniroles.com.au/display-job/...
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Group Leader - Institute for Molecular Bioscience (IMB)
Institute for Molecular Bioscience Join a university ranked in the world’s top 50 Australia’s #1 research institute Based at St Lucia Campus About UQ What started as Queensland's first university in 1...
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Diana Fisher @dianafisher1080.bsky.social · 07/10/2025
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Autism should not be seen as single condition with one cause, say scientists
Those diagnosed as small children typically have distinct genetic profile from those diagnosed later, study finds
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Ming Tommy Tang @tommytang.bsky.social · 03/10/2025
Your data is lying to you. Here’s how technical artifacts distort biology—and how to see the truth. 👇 1/ Beautiful t-SNE? Shiny heatmap? Look closer. Technical artifacts can fake whole cell types. Here’s where the ghosts hide.
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Ian Henderson @hendersonlab.bsky.social · 10/09/2025
Want to know what natural products are in clinical trials? Read this review! Great job from Mark Butler, Rob Capon, Mark Blaskovich! pubs.rsc.org/en/content/a... #naturalproducts #antibiotic #amr #drugdiscovery #drug
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Natural product-derived compounds in clinical trials and drug approvals
Covering: January 2014–June 2025. Previous review: Natural Product Reports, 2014, 31, 1612Natural products (NPs) have long been foundational in medicine, from ancient herbal remedies to the discovery ...
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Ian Henderson @hendersonlab.bsky.social · 10/09/2025
Want to know what natural products are in clinical trials? Read this review! Great job from Mark Butler, Rob Capon, Mark Blaskovich! pubs.rsc.org/en/content/a... #naturalproducts #antibiotic #amr #drugdiscovery #drug
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Natural product-derived compounds in clinical trials and drug approvals
Covering: January 2014–June 2025. Previous review: Natural Product Reports, 2014, 31, 1612Natural products (NPs) have long been foundational in medicine, from ancient herbal remedies to the discovery ...
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Mark O. Martin @markowenmartin.bsky.social · 07/09/2025
I heard this sad news yesterday. I had known Kim for about 30 years. She was unfailingly kind and supportive toward all. The world is less bright without her. Deepest condolences to her friends and family. obits.oregonlive.com/us/obituarie...
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Kimberly Walker Obituary (1965 - 2025) - Allentown, PA - WFMZ-TV 69 News
View Kimberly Elaine Walker's obituary, send flowers and sign the guestbook.
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Sabrina Sofia Burgener @s-burgener.bsky.social · 07/09/2025
🌟 I am truly honoured to be named a finalist for the Rose-Anne Kelso Commemorative Award from Life Sciences Queensland Ltd (LSQ). A big thank you to LSQ for their tireless work in fostering innovation, collaboration, and growth across the life sciences sector in Queensland.
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Ian Henderson @hendersonlab.bsky.social · 02/09/2025
When the world seems so anti-science, here is something to brighten your day! The UQ Institute for Molecular Bioscience is recruiting a new Director for its Centre for Chemistry and Drug Discovery to drive its drug discovery program! #DrugDiscovery #Biotech www.linkedin.com/feed/update/...
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#drugdiscovery #medicinalchemistry #biotech #imb #uq #pharmaceuticalscience #hiring | Ian Henderson
🚀 Exciting Leadership Opportunity at the UQ Institute for Molecular Bioscience! We are delighted to announce that the position of Director of Chemistry and Drug Discovery is now open for recruitment...
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Ian Henderson @hendersonlab.bsky.social · 02/09/2025
When the world seems so anti-science, here is something to brighten your day! The UQ Institute for Molecular Bioscience is recruiting a new Director for its Centre for Chemistry and Drug Discovery to drive its drug discovery program! #DrugDiscovery #Biotech www.linkedin.com/feed/update/...
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#drugdiscovery #medicinalchemistry #biotech #imb #uq #pharmaceuticalscience #hiring | Ian Henderson
🚀 Exciting Leadership Opportunity at the UQ Institute for Molecular Bioscience! We are delighted to announce that the position of Director of Chemistry and Drug Discovery is now open for recruitment...
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Thomas Lumley @tslumley.bsky.social · 20/08/2025
In Australia (UQ) if you click through
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Gernot Segelbacher 🪶 🧬 @gsegelbacher.bsky.social · 20/08/2025
Check out #consgen #popgen
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Emily Goodall @emgoodall.bsky.social · 14/08/2025
Thank you @narjournal.bsky.social and reviewers, and thank you team @hendersonlab.bsky.social @weinehue.bsky.social Brian forde and Matt Hemm, and Jack Bryant who was there from the beginning
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Ian Henderson @hendersonlab.bsky.social · 19/08/2025
Dear Bluesky, some good news to brighten your day! We are recruiting for the Director of the Centre for Population and Disease Genomics!! I would be grateful if you could share across your networks! uq.wd3.myworkdayjobs.com/uqcareers/jo...
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Director, Centre for Population and Disease Genomics
Centre for Population & Disease Genomics - Institute for Molecular Bioscience Join a university ranked in the world’s top 50 Full-time, fixed-term position for up to 5 years at Academic Level E Ba...
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Alexander Harms @aharms485.bsky.social · 16/08/2025
Elio Schaechter, eminent microbiologist and great human, leaves us his memoirs that tell the story of an extraordinary life: www.eliosmemoirs.org. What a fantastic and impactful journey!
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Elio's Memoirs
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Asaf Levy @asaflevylab.bsky.social · 15/08/2025
4 years ago I was honored to host the legendary Elio Schaechter in the microbiology journal club, when he was only 93 yo... Elio told us about very peculiar microbes that travel 1 mm/sec, reside inside mitochondria, ride a microbial bus...He named my kids who also joined "micro microbiologists" RIP
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Emily Goodall @emgoodall.bsky.social · 14/08/2025
Out yesterday. Using a translation reporter on a mini-tn5 transposon, and high freq. mutagenesis, we looked at translation on whole genome scale independently of genome annotation. academic.oup.com/nar/article/...
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PIRT-Seq: a high-resolution whole-genome assay to identify protein-coding genes
Abstract. The advent of high-density mutagenesis and data-mining studies suggest the existence of further coding potential within bacterial genomes. Small
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Willem van Schaik @wvschaik.bsky.social · 25/07/2025
Just a few days left to apply for PhD positions in the Health Protection Research Unit - Public Health Genomics @imibirmingham.bsky.social. preview-uob.cloud.contensis.com/research/cen... I am offering two projects (on Clostridioides difficile & metagenomics of wastewater and freshwater).
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PhD Microbial Genomics for Health Protection, Biosciences - University of Birmingham
PhD in Microbial Genomics, exciting new Doctoral Training Programme in Microbial Genomics for Health Protection in collaboration with the UK Health Security Agency (UKHSA) launches
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Willem van Schaik @wvschaik.bsky.social · 14/07/2025
Best day of the year (if a bit hot this time)
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Alan McNally @alanmcn1.bsky.social · 14/07/2025
I know you will all play a tiny violin but I genuinely very rarely get invited to speak at big conferences. So the invite this morning to present at ESCMID next year is a career highlight! Can’t wait!!!!
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Daniel Fisch @danielhfisch.bsky.social · 07/07/2025
Thank you @inflammasomelab.bsky.social and @s-burgener.bsky.social for the invitation to visit the IMB@UQ in Brisbane! I had a fantastic time presenting my postdoc work in the Kagan lab (@jkagan1.bsky.social) and talking science!
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Prof Helen Bostock @oceanhelen.bsky.social · 08/07/2025
Any international research colleagues interested in a move to Australia 🌊🔬🧪🇦🇺🌏
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Global Talent Attraction Program
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Celtic Karla @celtickarla.bsky.social · 05/07/2025
#sciencejobs
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Ian Henderson @hendersonlab.bsky.social · 03/07/2025
A wonderful example of how the right support can make a world of difference in research! Professor Walker’s group at #IMB has made substantial progress in developing a safe and effective vaccine for Strep A – thanks to investments from the Leducq Foundation and Open Philanthropy. shorturl.at/Qdblo
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Game-changing international support accelerates Australian research tackling rheumatic heart disease
Strep A bacteria, common in children, can lead to serious complications like rheumatic heart disease (RHD) when infections are untreated, especially in communities with limited healthcare access. Prof...
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Ian Henderson @hendersonlab.bsky.social · 02/07/2025
What fantastic news from Protagonist! With the company moving PN-477 into first-in human clinical Phase 1 studies, Protagonist continues to deliver incredible research - putting biomedical research in Queensland on the map. This is fantastic for IMB, UQ & Australia! www.biospace.com/drug-develop...
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Protagonist Enters Obesity Fray With Triple-G Pill, Eyeing 2026 Clinical Start
With PN-477, Protagonist is directly going up against Eli Lilly, which is advancing retatrutide, also a triple-G agonist, in a Phase II trial.
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Magdalena Skipper @magdalenaskipper.bsky.social · 06/06/2025
Maternal iron deficiency causes male-to-female sex reversal in mouse embryos 🧪 @nature.com www.nature.com/articles/s41...
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Maternal iron deficiency causes male-to-female sex reversal in mouse embryos - Nature
Iron-deficient conditions in pregnant mice can cause XY mouse embryos to develop female rather than male genitalia, revealing that iron metabolism has a role in determining male sex in mice.
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Syma Khalid @sykhalid.bsky.social · 27/05/2025
Another fun collaboration with our chemistry colleagues.
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Emily Goodall @emgoodall.bsky.social · 21/05/2025
Home sweet home! After an excellent time with @hendersonlab.bsky.social in Aus! I have finally returned to the UK and started a postdoc position this week with the van Houte lab at @uniofexeteresi.bsky.social with some fun research to come
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Ian Henderson @hendersonlab.bsky.social · 08/05/2025
Camino Day 32. It’s a wrap! Made it to Santiago de Compestela. A lot of emotion at the Cathedral. We spent the afternoon cheering on pilgrims from a street cafe. Tonight we celebrate!!! $5000 raised for heart disease research from people across the globe. www.justgiving.com/campaign/cam...
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Ian Henderson @hendersonlab.bsky.social · 07/05/2025
Camino Day 31. Ribadiso to O Pedrouso. 20km. People are equal parts happy and sad as the end of the camino arrives. Only tomorrow separates us from the end of 800km. Our camino friend Max rejoins for the last day - what a sense of connection! Tomorrow everyone is shopping for new clothes!
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Dirk-Jan Scheffers 🟥 @dirkscheffers.bsky.social · 05/05/2025
Caught up with your posts of the last days....I hope you manage to heal up while walking, makes the experience even more humbling. Have a good last few days on the camino, atmosphere sure changes in the last 100 km when the crowd that is in it for the minimum distance has joined.
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Ian Henderson @hendersonlab.bsky.social · 05/05/2025
Camino Day 30. Portomarin to Palas de Rei: 26km. The end is in sight; 75km left! Crowds out in full force. I wonder if they know other parts of the Camino are just as wonderful! Amazing scenery: reminds me of Ireland & weather is giving similar vibes: wet! Have been lucky to avoid the rain until now
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Ian Henderson @hendersonlab.bsky.social · 04/05/2025
Camino Day 29. Sarria to Portomarin: beautiful scenery! The crowds have joined us! Big shout out to my Camino family for supporting me through my injury; it slows everyone but all have been super. In the last 4 weeks I have spent more time with these people than family & friends in the last year.
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Ian Henderson @hendersonlab.bsky.social · 03/05/2025
Camino day 28/29. Man down - I needed another taxi today from Triacastela to Sarria. after seeing a physio I hope to walk tomorrow but it will be slow going. Bumped into a whole tranche of students from my brothers old school - good idea to give them an unforgettable trip on the Camino!
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Ian Henderson @hendersonlab.bsky.social · 02/05/2025
Camino Day 28. Said good bye to Prof Cunningham today as he returned to the UK. Calf strain severely hampering walking despite the intervention of a trained professional! Took taxi from O Cebreiro to Triacastela in hopes of walking tomorrow. Beautiful scenery. www.justgiving.com/campaign/cam...
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Ian Henderson @hendersonlab.bsky.social · 01/05/2025
Camino Day 26. Walked 14km today from Villafranca to Valcarce. Slow going with calf strain- leg and ankle swollen - had to take cab remainder of the distance to Las Lagunas. Interesting to see crops change over the last month - leaves on the vines, wheat ripening www.justgiving.com/campaign/cam...
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Ian Henderson @hendersonlab.bsky.social · 01/05/2025
Camino Day 25. Walked Ponferrada to Villa Franca del Bierzo. A lot of fun. Crossed the threshold-less than 200km left & over 600km behind us! May 1st festival in the town resulted in a very large pizza to feed the Camino family. Calf strain is giving me problems! www.justgiving.com/campaign/cam...
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Ian Henderson @hendersonlab.bsky.social · 01/05/2025
Day 24. Walked from Foncebadon to Ponferrada - 25km. Molinaseca just beautiful. Ponferrada castle picture postcard! Lovely dinner with my good friend Prof Adam Cunningham who joins for the next few days.
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Ian Henderson @hendersonlab.bsky.social · 30/04/2025
One of ours! Great person and scientist!
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Ian Henderson @hendersonlab.bsky.social · 29/04/2025
Camino Day 23. Didn’t get to post yesterday due to blackout. A very special experience to be separate from the world & know nothing of the blackout. Local man bought us wine & told stories of the connections between Galicia and Ireland. Yoga lessons! www.justgiving.com/campaign/cam...
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Ian Henderson @hendersonlab.bsky.social · 27/04/2025
Camino Day 22. Beautiful day! Short 18km but time for tourist visit to Gaudi Bishops Palace - amazing! Stopped at spot offering free food to pilgrims - just special! Met some wonderful people and with many thanks to Jolanda and all those who donated to the cause www.justgiving.com/campaign/cam...
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Ian Henderson @hendersonlab.bsky.social · 27/04/2025
Camino Day 21. Three weeks and >500km done! Walked from León to Hospital de Orbiga - 36km. Wonderful walk with music and coffee along the way. New people added to the circle and much to celebrate. Thanks to all for the donations to heart disease research! www.justgiving.com/campaign/cam...
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Ian Henderson @hendersonlab.bsky.social · 25/04/2025
Camino Day 20. Had a great rest day in Leon. Visited physio for calf strain - apparently not enough stretching! Said good bye to @paulhoskisson.bsky.social - had a few great days of walking & chatting! Shoes worn out and a new pair needed - but apparently none in Spain is cursed with wide feet!
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