Arrived at the Centre of Excellence in Synthetic Biology 2024 conference with Lau Lab! Ready to learn about some super cool science! Check out the amazing view from our room!

Progress on open-source T7 expression vector. Work done by Carmen Hawthorne and Sahana tinyurl.com/4nx396rx. thanks to Australian Genome Foundry for hosting and funding the work (and paying my salary haha). ARC Centre of Excellence in Synthetic Biology meeting. Wollongong, 2024

Mesmerising stuff! Holliday junction in action! Part of the hall of fame of Australian Science.

Had such a wonderful time at #Coesb2024! Got to meet like minded synthetic biologists and learn about their successes and challenges. And huge thanks to ARC Centre of Excellence in Synthetic Biology for an award for Outreach Excellence!

Yup. Best way to get stuff done nowadays. Design large experiments that test multiple possible hypotheses at once. Then rigorous data analysis.

We have PhD scholarships Sydney Chemistry available to work on a range of drug discovery and chemical biology projects in my lab, applications close Feb 21 Please let any potentially interested candidates know! sydney.edu.au/scholarships/d…

Thanks to JAMS for the chance to speak about seekRNA technology! It was a great turnout! A great place for microbiology talks in Sydney!

Here we go. Next next generation of long read sequencing technology.

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Protein power couple and Centre members from our University of Sydney node Dr Taylor Szyszka and Rezwan Siddiquee have been selected to be part of Raising the Bar! 👏👏👏 This unique outreach initiative features 20 academics visiting 10 bars across Sydney to deliver talks about their research,

In 2000, a physicist made bacteria blink. He did so by stitching together individual pieces of DNA to build a "genetic circuit," called the repressilator. We recently published an interactive article explaining how the repressilator works, and how one can tune its dynamics. 🧵

Excited to share our review on applications of cell free expression towards natural product research. Done in collaboration with Simon Moore, Nigel Mouncey, and Doug Mitchell pubs.rsc.org/en/Content/Art…

Congratulations to A/Prof Yu Heng Lau for receiving a 2024 Career Development Fellowship from Cancer Institute NSW for his project ‘Developing targeted therapies for gliomas by peptide-assisted fragment optimisation.’! Read more: tinyurl.com/5n9x9896

We are hiring 2 chemistry postdocs in the lab of Dr Yu Heng Lau! One synthetic chemist/med chem and one chemical biologist to contribute to our drug discovery pipeline. Details below:

Oh my goodness, I feel like I have made it as a scientist! good papers just retweeted our paper (accepted to Angewandte Chemie like 2 days ago!) Thank you so much for boosting our discovery! ❤️☺️🧪

Employing engineered split inteins to replace the internal regions of target proteins in a single reaction. science.org/doi/10.1126/sc… #NBThighlight

🧬Happy Transposon Day! 🎉Each year on the 16th of June we commemorate the birthdate of the founder of transposable element research, Barbara McClintock (1902-1992). Check out quotes from editors and popular content on our #TransposonDay2025 page 👉mobilednajournal.biomedcentral.com/transposonday2…

I am once again pitching my romantic comedy: - two academics start dating - discover they are each other's terrible reviewer - hijinks ensue Working title: Love is Double-Blind

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