Domestic PhD scholarship at UoN! Surveillance and Characterisation of Arboviruses in the Hunter Region 🦟🦠. Send CV and questions to [email protected] by 20 July 2024. For more info: newcastle.edu.au/study/research… #phdposition #UniNewcastle

Congratulations to Winnifred Duk on passing her PhD confirmation! Winni's researching novel and safer treatment options for Chlamydia in koalas. 🐨👩🏿‍🔬 #koala #phdstudent

The commemoration of World Water Day in South Korea. A great opportunity to speak about the amazing applications of microbial genomics to keep our water safe. Especially in our changing climate. Thank you NIER for the invite and Seoul for being so welcoming. Neilan Lab of Microbial & Molecular Diversity

Congratulations 🎉 to Dan Nebauer on your first primary author publication "Critical steps in an environmental metaproteomics workflow". A must read for anyone new to the field. …icro-journals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/14…

Congratulations to the winners of our inaugural #CoESB Video Competition 🎊 🏅1st place - lukegrees of University of Newcastle 🥈Equal 2nd place – @louisnightinga3 and सरोज दुलाल of University of Newcastle 🥈Equal 2nd place – Yutong Han of UQ News Watch them on instagram.com/arccoesb

The CoESB held a competition to create a video to celebrate the launch of their new Instagram page in the theme of synthetic biology. First prize and second prize were won by the Neilan Lab! Congratulations to Luke Rees (1st), Saroj Dulal and Louis Nightingale (2nd)!

Legionellosis incidence does coincide with the weather and genomics can reveal outbreak clones. But do the two collide? Not according to our results. Weather predicts sporadic cases but not an outbreak due to a major clone. #OneHealth

🎉 Exciting News! 🎉 Our Centre Director, Prof Ian Paulsen, is a finalist for Leadership in Science at the 2024 @EurekaPrizes! 🏆 Under his leadership, #syntheticbiology has become a thriving discipline in Australia🌟🌏🔬 #EurekaPrizes Australian Research Council

We are very excited to welcome our new DAAD RISE student Lenny to the Neilan Lab! He will be working on hterologously producing novel MAAs!

Check out our latest review in The Alkaloids. Access is free for the next 50 days :) authors.elsevier.com/a/1jaoy3v-bT2k…

Congratulations to Mitchell Aafjes with his most recent publication "The Effect of Relative Humidity Calibrations on the Performance of Light-Scattering Low-Cost Air Quality Sensors" In the CASANZ Air Quality and Climate Change journal! casanz.org.au/casanz-library…

Louis Nightingale crushed it at the Three Minute Thesis #3MT competition. He came in 3rd and it's not because of his tan. #NaturalProducts

Dr Verlaine Timms Dr Verlaine Timms was consulted as an expert scientist on the Legionnaires’ disease outbreak in Melbourne. The likely source of the outbreak was finally identified after 78 cases and two deaths. #HealthScience #PublicHealth theguardian.com/australia-news…

Congrats to Erik Baker on completing his Honours! Erik investigated endophytes associated with indigenous grape plants for novel and environmentally-friendly sources of biopesticides. #biopesticides #grape #microbiology

Centre researchers gathered in Gosford for the Theme 1: Synthetic Microbial Communities retreat yesterday. Huge thanks to the team from Neilan Lab of Microbial & Molecular Diversity, Mia Gottstein, Dr Verlaine Timms, and all presenters for making it a success! 👏 Learn more about this theme: coesb.com.au/synthetic-micr…

Amazing talks at the Synthetic Microbial Communities retreat in Gosford. The future is microbial! More info: coesb.com.au/synthetic-micr… Australian Research Council University of Newcastle ARC Centre of Excellence in Synthetic Biology #CoESB #SyntheticBiology #EngineeringBiology

Winni presented a poster at the HDR festival about finding interesting endophytes in Eucalyptus that could tackle the chlamydia epidemic in Koalas. 🐨🌿 University of Newcastle #koala #endophytes

Ahmad presented a very cool poster about nanoparticles! His project consisted of biosynthesizing these tiny particles which have high antibacterial activity against nasty bacteria and zero toxicity on the host cells. 🍚🍽️

Last Friday we held the first Neilan Lab Olympic Games! We had 10+ participants, 5 events and 4 medallists. -Bronze: Niki Elliott and Dan Nebauer -Silver: Winnifred Duk -Gold: Md Javed Foysal Thanks to all who participated, and thanks to our sponsor, Hussys Kebabs University of Newcastle !