✯Mystery proteins reveal how embryos & cancers grow: Melanie Eckersley-Maslin Mel Eckersley-Maslin Peter Mac Cancer Centre Peter Mac Research ✯Genes may hold key to leukaemia survival: Steven Lane Steve Lane @QIMRBerghofer Congratulations to our 2020 #MetcalfPrize winners: stemcellfoundation.net.au

Our regional ECR symposium (21st of January, Brisbane) will still take place as in person meeting in a COVID-19 safe manner. To enjoy our exciting program (tinyurl.com/y2nkf5zh) be part of the audience by registering at tinyurl.com/y69e3o3t until Friday.

Bioinformatics meets stem cell science: a handy explainer from 2015 #MetcalfPrize winner Christine Wells 👇

A study from Queensland Brain Institute, UQ has revealed how exercise increases neurogenesis, the creation of new brain cells that play crucial roles in regulating mood, memory and spatial learning. bit.ly/35DJgHI

Congratulations Allon Klein #ISSCR’s 2020 Outstanding Young Investigator & Aviv Regev a 2020 Presidential Symposium speaker on this prize, recognizing their groundbreaking single-cell sequencing tech that has accelerated #stemcell science. Allon Klein Lab Harvard Medical School @Genentech

AIBN at the University of Queensland is looking for a strategic, operational and scientific management of its StemCore facility, including responsibility for personnel and finance management, business development and scientific outcomes. Apply on: search.careers.uq.edu.au/caw/en/job/512…

Are you a rural or regional STEM professional? We have two Regional STEM scholarships up for grabs for this year’s #ScienceMeetsParliament. The scholarships cover full registration fees for #SmP2021, one-on-one mentoring, and an exclusive event. scienceandtechnologyaustralia.org.au/scholarships-s…

This morning we're formally awarding the #MetcalfPrizes for Stem Cell Research to Melanie Eckersley-Maslin Mel Eckersley-Maslin Peter Mac Cancer Centre and Steven Lane Steve Lane @QIMRBerghofer - via an online event. Read about them here: stemcellfoundation.net.au/2020_metcalf_p…

Proud of our new work Development – more in vivo evidence that retinoic acid is important to trigger meiosis, and clues as to how DMRT1 helps. Plus a cool new mouse line that ‘waves’! 😉 UQ Medicine ANZSCDB SRB dev.biologists.org/content/early/…

After our successful regional ECR symposium in QLD, the next meet of the series will take place in NSW (14/05/2021). To support career development most participants will have the opportunity to present. Limited spaces, submit abstract until 26th March at tinyurl.com/2mym9vsh.

look out for more - ASSCR The Australasian Gene and Cell Therapy Society joint meeting November 2021 in person in Melbourne!

Save the date (10th-12th Nov, Melbourne) for our annual meeting organised jointly with The Australasian Gene and Cell Therapy Society - a great opportunity to reconnect in person.

ASSCR member James Hudson and Dr Richard Mills talk with 9News Queensland about the findings of their study on the effects of #covid19 on the #heart

👇awesome work Richard Mills, James Hudson david james . Great to be involved. ACvA ASSCR