Director, Bio21 Institute
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Professor Michael Parker is the Director of the Bio21 Molecular Science and Biotechnology Institute, University of Melbourne.
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http://www.bio21.unimelb.edu.au 21-08-2019 03:22:41
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The second semi final match of #SynchrotronMugMadness is now upon us. Today sees Europe facing off against Australasia with European Synchrotron vs Australian Synchrotron! Who will go on to face DESY (Deutsch) or the European XFEL in the final? Please vote, like and share your favourites!
Prof Ruth Bishop, a remarkable Melbourne clinician scientist, passed away on 12 May. She led a team that discovered rotavirus leading to vaccines that have saved the lives of millions of children. Bio21 Institute UniMelb MDHS Science at Melbourne
Bio21 Institute group at The Australian Society for Medical Research (ASMR) VIC gala dinner - inspired by the 2022 #ASMRmedallist, Dr Fiona Wood, an amazing #WomenInScience
ARC CCeMMP is seeking input on what Industry (small and large) view as the most important challenges for industrial application of cryo-EM. We have set up a short poll (<5min to complete). forms.gle/i3Lb7XEUwiL2AW… Open until end July. Outcome sent to all users. Please Retweet 🙏
Congratulations to our new professors at Bio21 Institute. Two of our Bio21 #WomenInScience have been promoted to full professor at University of Melbourne: Megan Maher from School of Chemistry | University of Melbourne #chemistry and Justine Mintern from Department of #Biochemistry & Pharmacology. Congratulations to Justine &Megan.
🌟CONGRATULATIONS to our new Fellows for 2023🌟 These 20 Fellows are among the Nation’s most distinguished scientists, elected by their peers for ground-breaking research & contributions that have had clear impact. The Fellowship now stands at 601 Fellows science.org.au/newfellows2023
Thrilled to hear that Professor Andrew Wilks has been elected to the Fellowship of the Australian Academy of Science for 2023. Andrew and his team at SYNthesis Group joined Bio21 Institute in 2018 and is an Honorary Melbourne Enterprise Professor @MDHS University of Melbourne Congratulations Andrew!
Thrilled to hear that Professor Leann Tilley Bio21 Institute @MDHS University of Melbourne was awarded the prestigious Lifetime Achievement Award at the 2023 EMBL Biology and Pathology of the Malaria Parasite (BioMalPar) conference in Heidelberg, Germany, last night. Congratulations Leann!
This week we were delighted to open the Bio21 Ruth Bishop building and Ian Holmes Imaging Centre which house cutting edge electron microscopes. Ruth, Ian and teams co-discovered a childhood killer, rotavirus, with EM playing a central role UniMelb MDHS Science at Melbourne University of Melbourne NHMRC
This week we were delighted to open the Bio21 Ruth Bishop building. It joins our existing Bio21 Nancy Millis and Elizabeth Blackburn Science buildings that celebrate outstanding female scientists associated with University of Melbourne UniMelb MDHS Science at Melbourne NHMRC
With the opening of the Bio21 Ruth Bishop building and Ian Holmes Imaging Centre University of Melbourne we have created a museum to honour their medical discoveries that saved countless lives of children around the world UniMelb MDHS Science at Melbourne NHMRC Gates Foundation Bill Gates
Our latest work on bacterial toxins has just been published in Nature Communications - first family of bacterial pore-forming proteins to show a complement-like mechanism of action. See: nature.com/articles/s4146…
AI & its transformative role in life sciences took centre stage at our event feat. EMBL-EBI's Ewan Birney, Merran Smith Population Health Research Network & Director, Bio21 Institute Michael Parker, jointly hosted w/Bioplatforms Australia at the iconic Shine Dome, ACT. 👉Read all about it: bit.ly/4eoBodZ