New preprint from the Ralph lab! Congrats Michaela, Long Huynh and Stuart Ralph!! biorxiv.org/content/10.110…

Wilco. At The Forum.

7 days left for applications. Free surfing lessons from me for the successful candidates to really get you into the Aussie lifestyle 🤟

BioSciences UniMelb is seeking an Associate Lecturer (level A) to help deliver teaching in genomics/bioinformatics over the coming year. Great opportunity to build teaching experience. Australian Society of Plant Scientists Genetics AustralAsia University of Melbourne Science at Melbourne jobs.unimelb.edu.au/en/job/916806/…

Autumn has always been my favourite time of year in Melbourne. Cool nights and sunny days, & the exotic imports are putting on a good display this year.

Last days to register for 2024 Concepts in Parasitology #CiP Course! Stay at UQ’s Moreton Bay Research Station, work with prominent Australian parasitologists and learn state-of-the-art research techniques. Apply by 6 June! Michelle Power 🏳️‍🌈🦇 Stuart Ralph parasite.org.au/blog/applicati…

We're pleased to announce EvaNowack Geoff McFadden & Therese Solberg joining our speakers lineup #APCOPV2024! Join us in Brisbane for cutting-edge science in #protist #algae #aquaticbotany Abstract submissions due this Friday 14 June! Register now! protist-au.org

Join the #ASPCourse #ConceptsInParasitology at Moreton Bay Research Station and learn state-of-the-art research techniques. #CiP2024 runs 24th Nov to Friday 6th Dec 2024. Apply online by 5 July 2024 Michelle Power 🏳️‍🌈🦇 Stuart Ralph parasite.org.au/blog/applicati…

Dirty Three, back in Melbourne after a very, very long time.

ure is an interesting time time to be in USA

What Kamala Harris’s historic bid for the US presidency means for science. nature.com/articles/d4158…

Jenny Graves gets the Ruby Payne-Scott medal from the Australian Academy of Science for her amazing work on genetics of sex determination. Go Jenny! #ShineDome24

⁦Stuart Ralph⁩ explains why doxycycline protects you from malaria at the International Conference of Tropical Medicine & Malaria in Sarawak, Borneo

Congratulations Sophie Collier on a top notch exposition of Plasmodium organelle inheritance at #ICTMM Borneo, hot on the heels of being awarded her PhD

This is the house in Borneo where AR Wallace wrote his “Sarawak Law” paper, science that changed the world forever. We cruised the rivers nearby and were privileged to see some of the marvellous animals and plant that revealed to Wallace how evolution works.

Norico Yamada tells us about the process of nucleomorphising (new word of the year candidate) in dinoflagellate endosymbionts #CGUE

⁦Ben Jenkins⁩ tells us about glycans in cell/cell recognition for symbiosis. #CGUE

I will be tapping out of here soon. Now enjoying the community on Bluesky fad.bsky.social