It's almost time for another exciting seminar of Infection and Immunity research theme at
UQ Chemistry and Molecular Biosciences! Join our fantastic speakers this Friday to learn about the latest research of SCMB ECRs on a novel #antimicrobial , l-complex #plasmids and #COVID19 in children!

#UQ researchers have been awarded more than $10 million from the Australian Research Council Future Fellowships scheme.

This includes the Faculty of Science's very own Teresa Ubide and Dr Andrii Slonchak. 🌋🦟

See the full list of recipients: bit.ly/3OfuLzg
UQ Chemistry and Molecular Biosciences

This Barbie is an academic going into lab on a Saturday

Infection and Immunity seminars at UQ Chemistry and Molecular Biosciences are back! Join our fantastic speakers this Friday to learn about the latest research of SCMB ECRs on #RNAi , #vaccine and #antibody development!

So excited to be awarded ARC Future Fellowship. This funding will allow me to find out how insect-specific #flaviviruses make mosquitoes incapable of transmitting pathogenic ones and to develop more efficient biocontrol strategies in the future.

Spatial transcriptomics has indeed opened a new era of biology. So I’m spending the next 3 days at WEHI (Walter and Eliza Hall Institute) learning about all the emerging spatial technologies from industry leaders and pioneering researchers

Thanks for kicking off the Tweetorial Rhys Parry ! Please find our preprint at the following link with some key thoughts below: 1/6
biorxiv.org/content/10.110…

In a letter written by committee members of the Australasian Virology Society and co-signed by 121 virologists, we agree with and Support “Virology under the Microscope—a Call for Rational Discourse”. Copublished today mBio JVirology Editors mSphere 1/7 journals.asm.org/doi/10.1128/jv…

The SCMB #GenGen seminar series are back in full force. Join us this Friday in person at Building 76, Room 228.

Hi Students! We have and exciting opportunity UQ Science for a PhD candidate to conduct state of the art #virology research using brain #organoids and single cell sequencing. Scholarship provided! For more details visit the web site: graduate-school.uq.edu.au/project/dissec…

#scRNASeq #Zika

Very excited to be accepted for Millennium Science Fellowship Program for first time users of 10x Genomics platform. Looking forward for kickstarting my scRNA-Seq project with the support of the best 10x experts as a part of the Fellowship. So more pretty tSNE-plots are coming soon!

The revolution comes to science when we finally dethrone the hypothesis-driven mode as the only respectable form of scientific inquiry for grant and thesis proposals.

A fast-growing dengue virus mutant reveals a dual role of STING in response to infection | Open Biology
Fun to work with Wy Ching Ng, Yaw Shin Ooi Kuan Rong Chan Meisam Yousefi and many others.
royalsocietypublishing.org/doi/10.1098/rs…

#UQ scientists grew a microscopic ‘brain in a dish’ and infected it with Zika virus

What they saw has taken research a big step towards drugs to combat the mosquito-borne virus which can have a devastating impact on babies

Read more bit.ly/3BkXQU6 @UQScience

#SARSCoV2 does go to brain! nature.com/articles/s4158…

Very excited that NHMRC provided us #ideas grant to dissect the mechanism of #flavivirus pathogenesis in human brain. As such Alex Khromykh's lab is now hiring. We are looking for a postdoc, RA, and a PhD student to work on two research projects.

Nice work Xiang Liu Biggest Hannh demonstrating ocular tropism of #SARSCoV2 via neuronal invasion of trigeminal and optic nerves in Nature Communications 🇰🇷🇦🇺 collaboration MenziesHealth Griffith University nature.com/articles/s4146…

Dr Andrii Slonchak and Prof Alex Khromykh discovers the role viral noncoding RNA (sfRNA) plays in evading antiviral responses and cell death in developing brains in Zika infection.

tinyurl.com/yvu2ebmu

When you can see your poster has found it’s target audience at #AVS11 RNA structures are beautiful indeed!

Our article reporting hyperfolder YFP ( #hfYFP ) and other fixative-resistant fluorescent proteins based on #mGreenLantern is now available at Nature Methods. hfYFP enhances electron- and expansion-microscopies, protein purification, and so much more! 🧵nature.com/articles/s4159…