A true honour to be featured by Nature ❤️ #seekRNA

It is a really good idea to fund basic research on transposable elements. nature.com/articles/d4158…

Congrats Haritha Sudhakar Jackie Yau and Lisa Sydney Chemistry for their work in OBC on peptide bicyclisation with a 1,2,3-substituted linker to generate new peptide conformations pubs.rsc.org/en/content/art… Just in time for #TDF2024 ! 🚵‍♀️🚵‍♀️🚵‍♀️ CIPPS Sydney Science

Molecular cloning: a ubiquitous and essential molecular biology technique. It's also the reason many scientists become superstitious, some equating cloning to witchcraft. But why, and does it have to be this way?

So proud of our PhD student Felicia taking home a travel award for her brilliant talk from #ECPM2024 and I'm super humbled to win the Biomolecular Horizons Award! What a great few days of protein science ☺️ #SuperstarsofSTEM Sydney Chemistry

It's been a busy week for the lab, talks at 3 different meetings!! Haritha Sudhakar doing amazing at Royal Australian Chemical Institute #MCCB symposium yesterday, and Dr Taylor Szyszka + Felicia doing us proud today at #ECPM2024 - well deserved recognition of the amazing science you each have been doing!

Read our latest work on ways to access diverse bicyclic peptides conformation 🚵‍♀️👇

Brayden and his prize winning poster at ECPM. Congratulation! ⁦usyd_FABLab⁩

Thanks East Coast Protein Meeting 2024 for giving me the opportunity to share our #seekRNA discovery. Great conference! It was great to catch up with colleagues and see everyone's exciting work. #ECPM2024

Today in Nature Biotechnology, we describe first-gen click editors (CEs), which couple the advantageous properties of DNA-dependent DNA polymerases and HUH endonucleases with RNA-programmable nickases for precise and versatile human genome editing. 🧬 nature.com/articles/s4158…

The new gene editing tool created by scientists at Arc Institute is a step well past CRISPR, & is essentially a ‘word processor’ for DNA. Based on jumping genes, the new system—being called both ‘bridge editing’ and ‘seekRNA’—is able to “cut, paste, and flip any DNA sequence” 2/

How much good science is not happening these days because of the way credit gets distributed, which discourages scientists from collaborating in a true partnership?

Check out research by Lisa Alcock, Yu Heng Lau & co Sydney Chemistry in our latest issue on accessing diverse bicyclic peptide conformations using 1,2,3-TBMB as a linker Read the full article here🔽 pubs.rsc.org/en/content/art…

What I don't get about academia is the chronic lack of celebration. It is hard to get & maintain grant funding, hard to get papers accepted without Faustian bargains, hard to be a great mentor, & hard to maximize trainee success. All of it is hard. We should celebrate everything.

I love this very accurate description!

Boy: Do not try and bend the protein. That's impossible. Instead... only try to realize the truth. Neo: What truth? Boy: There is no protein structure. Neo: There is no protein structure? Boy: Then you'll see, that it is not the protein that bends, it is only yourself.

My favourite discovery ever has just come online. Can I please tell you about some seriously wacky molecular biology? The story starts with a reverse transcriptase that SOMEHOW defends bacteria from viruses. (👇 I recommend sound ON for the video 🎹) 1/

My mind is blown. Biology is too cool! How clever.

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