📢 New collaborative paper with Nick Matzke and Matt Baker labs out today! 🎉 Study explores the origin of bacterial flagellum using phylogeny, structural reconstruction and motility experiments. Congrats Kaustubh Amritkar UW-Madison Department of Bacteriology, thank you HFSP! ➡️biorxiv.org/content/10.110…

After 5 years of work by a group across the world our paper describing the parasitic lifestyle of Ca. Nha. antarcticus is finally out today in Nature Communications! Many thanks to all of the co-authors especially my amazing co-first author Yan Liao! nature.com/articles/s4146…

UTS has made the media release to report our novel discovery --the first predatory Archaea. Many secrets of Archaea to be unlocked! Please read the press release here uts.edu.au/news/health-sc… Australian Institute for Microbiology & Infection UTS UTS Research UTS Science

Generous profile! But happy to mention awesome colleagues UNSW eg. Prof George Paxinos & Victor Chang Cardiac Research Institute Eleni Giannoulatou and opportunity to talk GR-AU collaboration. Cool idea to just get-to-know colleagues UNSW Science 🇬🇷🇦🇺🤝🤺🇳🇿 inside.unsw.edu.au/campus-life/mi…

Great to fence in a staff-student combo with UNSW students in the National Club Team Championships. Lost a close match 45-38 to UWA to finish 5th. UNSW Fencing Club in good shape, - recent men's UniSport Australia unigames overall champions! Congrats to all our student-athletes.