Our work out now in PNASNews! Thanks again to everyone on the team across UNSW Biotechnology & Biomolecular Sciences, Sydney Uni Life&Env and Sydney Chemistry, and especially Jason Low for a super fun collaboration 🙏 pnas.org/doi/10.1073/pn…

It is finally out! Spruiking our new paper in PNASNews! I was a fantastic collaboration between the Wilkins’ lab over at UNSW Biotechnology & Biomolecular Sciences, the Payne Research Group group at Sydney Chemistry, the Joel Mackay group and I (Jason Low) at Sydney Uni Life&Env. Thank you everyone for your support!

Taking a weirdly perverse pleasure in this new paper - driven by Jason Low +Tara Bartolec. I recommended Jason not pursue this - but am enjoying him ingoring me and me being totally wrong :-) They combined a massive XLMS dataset with AF2 to v. nice effect. Sydney Uni Life&Env

Final version now in PNASNews !! 🥳 pnas.org/doi/10.1073/pn…

⚛️Protein structures are key to elucidating molecular details of cellular processes. #AlphaFold2 & others unveiled millions of tertiary structures, but these proteins' quaternary structures remain mostly a mystery. Here's how to bridge the gap. Thread👇 biorxiv.org/content/10.110…

What a special day for our lab today! A big congrats Kevin Yonathan for his Stage 3 PhD presentation and Oliver McNeilly for his PhD Thesis submission! Thank you all co-supervisors! Xabier Vázquez-Campos K Rayhan Mahbub Mehrad Hamidian Dr Riti Mann Australian Institute for Microbiology & Infection UTS Science

New year, new paper: "Methylation of elongation factor 1A by yeast Efm4 or human eEF1A-KMT2 involves a beta-hairpin recognition motif and crosstalks with phosphorylation" in Journal of Biological Chemistry jbc.org/article/S0021-…

Final version now out

latest group shot of The Burns Lab as 2024 hurtles along....lucky to have this amazing crew UNSW Biotechnology & Biomolecular Sciences continuing to rock the cradle of life on all things #stromatolites #asgard #archaea ⚔️🧬🦠 Xabier Vázquez-Campos Laurène Leclerc Julia Meltzer Marily

I really like this. I’m decent at Python but R is still the language I feel most comfortable with, so this made some concepts a little more crystallized for me via analogy to R. I think it’s a great resource for people who started with R rebeccabarter.com/blog/2023-09-1…

Happy to share a chapter of my PhD thesis🐣! We review the diversity of the cell envelope in Terrabacteria which tell us a lot about outer membrane biogenesis and the diderm-to-monoderm transition. Thanks to my co-authors Najwa Taib @ChrisBel70 Simonetta Gribaldo nature.com/articles/s4157…

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The #FerrariLab had a great time attending and presenting at #JAMS13 last Friday. Thanks to the wonderful JAMS for their hard work organising this #microbiology conference at the #GroundsofAlexandria

"Had an amazing day with the Belinda Ferrari group at UNSW Biotechnology & Biomolecular Sciences! We talked about so many exciting things to do together in the future. Can’t wait to see what’s next! #antarctica #Networking #blackfungi #Collaboration #extremeenvironments

.Julia Meltzer Belinda Ferrari

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🧬What are protein language models (PLMs) actually learning about biology? Our paper introduces InterPLM - a framework that reveals interpretable features in PLMs using sparse autoencoders, giving us a window into how these models represent protein structure and function. 🧵(1/9)

If you are interested in collapsing nodes of a phylogeny, but you, as I did, struggle doing it with ggtree, I programmed a ggtree extension that allows you to easily collapse the nodes you want. 🧵️ github.com/moibernabeu/gg…

I was asked to contribute an entry on 'Ancestral Reconstruction: Theory & Practice" for the Encyclopedia of Evolutionary Biology, 2nd Edition. The encyclopedia doesn't come out until next year, but my contribution is already available online: doi.org/10.1016/B978-0….

The first of many novel Antarctic fungi to be described by the #Ferrarilab in collab with Brett Summerell and Botanic Gardens of Sydney Alinta Furnell 🌱 Xabier Vázquez-Campos Jordan Vink marcwilkins Penicillium psychrofluorescens sp. nov., a naturally autofluorescent Antarc fungus tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.10…