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Wai-Hong Tham @thamlab.bsky.social · 25/05/2026

Nanobodies against malaria parasite adhesins that block receptor engagement and invasion Lovely work by @jaisondsa.bsky.social and Jill Chmielewski on PfRh5, PfRh4 & PvRBP2b nanobodies + stabilized PfRh4 🦙🩸⛰️ Have a read, share widely and please give us feedback! www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...

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Wai-Hong Tham @thamlab.bsky.social · 10/03/2026

Congratulations to @jaisondsa.bsky.social who was awarded the JBC Herbert Tabor Early Career Investigator award from @asbmb.bsky.social 🎉 Awarded for Jaison’s PhD work on stabilized PvRBP2b variants using computational design for a better P. Vivax serological biomarker @wehi-research.bsky.social

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Wai-Hong Tham @thamlab.bsky.social · 26/02/2026

Moments like this I visit my walking onions 😞🧫🧅

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Wai-Hong Tham @thamlab.bsky.social · 18/12/2025

🎉Graduation Day! Congratulations to Dr Jaison D Sa @jaisondsa.bsky.social who was awarded his PhD from University of Melbourne Wonderful to celebrate with his family, the lab and his co-supervisor Phillip Pymm 💕🎓 @wehi-research.bsky.social

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Wai-Hong Tham @thamlab.bsky.social · 27/11/2025

Fun presenting our malaria work at Stromlo Plant Pathology - thanks @plantpathpete.bsky.social for the invite! Megan Outram & Grace Jones gave lovely talks on our new work on chytrid fungus @biologyanu.bsky.social 🐸 Lovely to catch up with Barbara Howlett & learning about fungi 🍄‍🟫 #strompath25

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Wai-Hong Tham @thamlab.bsky.social · 13/11/2025

Introducing Dr Jaison D Sa @jaisondsa.bsky.social who was awarded his PhD from University of Melbourne 🎉🎉 Co-supervised by Phillip Pymm and me 🩸Stabilized vivax antigen for serodiagnostics 🧬 Alpseq open source nanobody discovery workflow 🦙Nanobodies to Plasmodium adhesins – watch this space!

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Wai-Hong Tham @thamlab.bsky.social · 07/10/2025

Incredible two days @cssbhamburg.bsky.social as Scientific Advisory Board and to hear about integrative structural biology for infectious diseases 🦠🧫🔬 🙏Hans-Georg Kräusslich, @oneyrolles.bsky.social , @sykhalid.bsky.social Joost Enninga, Friedrich Förster, Ilaria Ferlenghi for open discussions

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Wai-Hong Tham @thamlab.bsky.social · 29/09/2025

Our first Tham Lab photo with Megan Outram and Grace Jones @biologyanu.bsky.social 🐸 We want to understand how chytrid fungus infects frogs using structural biology, nanobodies & genetic engineering Excited to be branching out to fungal diseases #chytrid #nanobodies #fungus #effector

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Wai-Hong Tham @thamlab.bsky.social · 23/09/2025

Delighted to present our research on blocking malaria transmission at Director’s Seminar @jcsmr.bsky.social 🦟🦟🦟 Fun to discuss cryo-EM structures, nanobodies, new bispecifics and mRNA vaccines that block transmission🔬 💉 💎 🙏 Megan Outram for taking the first ever photo where you can see me 😂

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Wai-Hong Tham @thamlab.bsky.social · 12/09/2025

Frankie Lyons PhD Completion Seminar 💕 She worked on key fertilisation antigens for malaria parasites - Pfs48/45 PfHAP2 - developing nanobodies, bispecifics & mRNA vaccines to block malaria transmission 🦟 @wehi-research.bsky.social 🌱 Wonderful to celebrate in her favourite moss green + BIG MEAL

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Wai-Hong Tham @thamlab.bsky.social · 01/08/2025

Cryo-EM of fertilisation complex Pfs230-Pfs48/45 from malaria parasites! 💕💗 🦟 Transgenic parasites without Pfs230 D13D14 do not transmit 🦙 💉Nanobodies + mRNA induced antibodies reduce transmission New in @Science.org www.science.org/doi/10.1126/... #ScienceResearch #Malaria #WEHI

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Wai-Hong Tham @thamlab.bsky.social · 04/07/2025

Wonderful Friday for a PhD thesis submission @jaisondsa.bsky.social @wehi-research.bsky.social 🩸Stabilized variants for zero-diagnostics 🦙Nanobodies against Plasmodium adhesins (watch this space) Been incredible working with Jaison across the years and sharing co-supervision with Phillip Pymm

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Wai-Hong Tham @thamlab.bsky.social · 02/06/2025

Science road trip to discuss chytrid, frogs + effectors 🐸 Fun visit with MeganOutram to learn all things chytrid from Lee Berger & Lee Skerratt - very interesting links between plant fungal pathogens and chytrid - excited to get this program going @biologyanu.bsky.social #chytrid #plants #effector

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Wai-Hong Tham @thamlab.bsky.social · 15/03/2025

25th anniversary of the La Sportiva Razorback Run - ran this 8 years ago and lots has changed 🤣😂 gorgeous running day - and I did finish!

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Wai-Hong Tham @thamlab.bsky.social · 27/02/2025

For those of us who are awaiting ARC Discovery Projects EOI results today - also a gratuitous Canberra running photo at the Arboretum 🏃🏻‍♀️🏃🏻‍♀️🤞🏼🤞🏼

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Wai-Hong Tham @thamlab.bsky.social · 14/02/2025

Looking forward to posting science fun soon - meanwhile here are “blue skies” in Canberra!

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