Wow! Amazing performance by NGAIIRE with Sydney Symphony Orchestra tonight supported by Godtet. What a voice! And Paul Mac on the pipe organ at the beautiful Sydney Opera House! Adam Zammit

The 2024 Diana Temple Memorial Lecture was delivered yesterday by the truly inspirational Prof Michelle Haber. An outstanding scientist, leader, mentor and advocate for children’s cancer research. Such a pleasure to have Diana Temple’s family in attendance too! A/Prof Kellie Charles

Another beautiful and elegant story from Rosemary Cater, PhD Filippo Mancia and team revealing how choline is transported into the brain. Congratulations all! 🥳👏💪

#BREAKiNG Another woman has been killed by male violence. Now 10 women killed in 22 days. This is a mens issue. I call on all men to contact their local Federal MP office and demand they prioritise action on this. You can find your local Federal MP here electorate.aec.gov.au

An exciting time in Solute Carrier research. Here are some of the areas where SLC structural biology is heading and where future opportunities for new discoveries and therapeutic interventions await. rdcu.be/dE759 nature.com/articles/s4159… Department of Biochemistry at Oxford University Kavli Institute for Nanoscience Discovery, Oxford

No of Aussies killed by terrorism inside Australia since 1916

16

Number of Aussie women killed by male violence since 2014

642

So I ask you what’s the biggest threat?

If you’re tired of me tweeting about this imagine being a woman living with actual threat of this everyday

Congratulations Aurelio Galli!

Both Sydney stabbing attacks were violent and caused fear. Only one was deemed a terror incident
The attacks have sparked debate over what defines an ideologically motivated attack, and whether deliberately targeting women should count as an act of terror.
abc.net.au/news/2024-04-1…

A reminder to submit abstracts for the Membrane Transport Proteins GRC/GRS and don’t forget to apply for our Underrepresented in STEM Researcher Award by April 30 if eligible. See thread below for details 👇Gordon Research Conferences International Transmembrane Transporter Society Susie L Ingram Marco Niello

Congratulations Julian on the submission of your PhD thesis!!! Julian Peiser-Oliver 🥳🎉🍾💪 A busy few weeks for submissions in #TransporterBiologyGroup Professor Robert Vandenberg ryancantwellchater

DP25 EOI applicants: tomorrow all lead CIs will receive an email with their outcomes and all applicants will be able to get their results in RMS. Due to the volume of applications, emails may be staggered throughout the day.

Stay tuned for an update.

Congratulations Aravind and team!

It is impossible to be a top-line manager and administrator and mentor and researcher and writer and outreach officer and IT expert and online instructor and pedagogical innovator and recruiter and teacher and marker and external examiner and

#DiscoveryProjects #DP25

Only just submitted your EOI, right? Well, outcomes are due Mon–Wed next week!

ARC want 50% of full apps funded. With 4149 EOIs submitted & 421 funded in DP24, expect ~20–25% of EOIs to be invited to full app.

Tough, but at least you'll know next week!

Congratulations to Prof Prof Renae Ryan who has received the Biochemical Society 2025 International Award!

This award recognises groundbreaking research that demonstrates the importance of the molecular biosciences in advancing life sciences research.

#LeadershipForGood #BiochemAwards

Thank you to Biochemical Society and my nominators for this award! Science is a team pursuit and this award recognises the hard work of the talented students, early-career researchers & collaborators I am fortunate to do science with! Sydney Health #TransporterBiologyGroup

Is forgetting a bug or a feature? Can you delay it and remember longer? Our 🥶COOLEST paper to date (and our most poetic abstract…) Show LOVE ❤️and please SHARE! Thread (1/N)👇
biorxiv.org/content/10.110…

Thanks to Irina for organising #TransporterBiologyGroup trivia. We all learnt something new!
🥇Chelsea 🥈Amy 🥉Bronte and wooden spoon to visiting Kristine Walløe Salomon from LolandLab - it was her first day though. Professor Robert Vandenberg ryancantwellchater Julian Peiser-Oliver

Very cool work 👇 Congratulations all!

Traditional silicon-based solar cells struggle to convert high-energy light efficiently. But Prof Anita Ho-Baillie (University of Sydney) is a trailblazer in solar cell development whose work is shaping the future of renewable energy. #AcademyAwardees