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Happy birthday Dr Natalee Newton! Your cake design skills are becoming legend Connor Scott!

Thanks for the writeup Stuart Layt and Brisbane Times! @ProfPaulYoung Naphak Modhiran UQ News UQ COVID-19 vaccine researchers shift focus to next virus fight brisbanetimes.com.au/national/queen…

Our paper describing Binjari virus structure redefines our understanding of flavivirus maturation and is out in Science Advances today! Great work led by Dr Natalee Newton and Jody Peters (Hobson-Peters) at UQ News and Fasseli Coulibaly Josh Hardy at Monash University advances.sciencemag.org/content/7/20/e…

We demonstrate a chimeric approach to safely solve pathogenic flaviviruses by #cryoEM, revealing conserved pocket factors across diverse viruses. Beautiful work led by Josh Hardy at Fasseli Coulibaly Monash University and Dr Natalee Newton at UQ Chemistry and Molecular Biosciences Nature Communications nature.com/articles/s4146…

Great to see our multi-lab study in Nature Communications Huge team effort led by Alex Khromykh Prof Andreas Suhrbier Jody Peters (Hobson-Peters) Jason Mackenzie. Congrats to 1st author & our PC3 guru @Alberto91592929 who was instrumental in applying CPER to polyA tailed RNA viruses nature.com/articles/s4146…

The first publication from my PhD was published today 😊. We investigated the role of differential DENV maturation on humoral immunity in mice using chimeric vaccines. Made possible by Naphak Modhiran Dan Watterson @ProfPaulYoung and the team UQ Chemistry and Molecular Biosciences UQ News mdpi.com/1272504

Happy to share new research published in Viruses MDPI! Here we design, produce and characterise Nipah and RSV F-G immunogens as vaccine candidates that elicit immune responses that target multiple epitopes across both F and G antigens. mdpi.com/1999-4915/13/1…

I’m honoured to receive the 2022 CSL Centenary Fellowship. This award will enable my team UQ Chemistry and Molecular Biosciences to look deeper into how viral proteins work and make new broad-spectrum therapies that can target emerging viruses before they become pandemics.

Isn't it annoying when you develop an immunoassay & then the virus mutates & your mAbs don't work anymore? In this work, @Alberto91592929, myself and others characterise nucleocapsid specific diagnostics for the detection of divergent SARS-CoV-2 variants. frontiersin.org/article/10.338…

Proud of Summa Summa Bibby presenting her 3MT “Spot the Difference: Virus Edition” at the UQ Finals tonight! Taking home the People’s Choice Award 🥳👏🏻UQ Chemistry and Molecular Biosciences UQ Science

We are now less than a week away from the start of #AVS11! I’m (Morgan Freney), a PhD student in the Dan Watterson lab UQ Chemistry and Molecular Biosciences 🔬👩🏻‍🔬 We are a structural focussed group and use #cryoEM to look at viruses on an atomic level 🧬⚛️ Designing new therapies to fight viral disease 🦠 🦟

I’m excited to announce that we were awarded an #MRFF EMCR grant! An incredible team of EMCRs UQ Chemistry and Molecular Biosciences developing broad spectrum vaccines for emerging RNA viruses. Ari Chris McMillan Rhys Parry Naphak Modhiran gabefoley Jessica Harrison & Yu Shang Low.

UQ researchers aim to be a step ahead of any potential pandemic with a finding about a recently emerged virus. They've uncovered how Langya virus enters human cells, paving the way for vaccines and treatments. Read more: bit.ly/46cvt8t @UQScience

Pleased to share the great work of Ari Yu Shang Low Naphak Modhiran and the team. We used our next generation clamp tech and CMM@UQ CRYOARM300 to reveal novel F structures for the divergent Langya and Mojiang Henipaviruses. nature.com/articles/s4146…

Ari, Yu Shang, Dan Watterson and Naphak Modhiran at UQ Chemistry and Molecular Biosciences determine the structure of the fusion glycoprotein of Langya virus and demonstrate antigenic divergence from bat-borne henipaviruses, yielding insights for future vaccine designs #henipavirus #cryoEM #langyavirus #nipah