Congratulations to our Centre Director Ian Paulsen on being awarded the prestigious Eureka Prize for Leadership in Science! 🎉 This award recognises his outstanding leadership in advancing synthetic biology in Australia and beyond. We couldn’t be prouder of this well-deserved achievement! 👏

New @nature.com The possibility that lithium deficiency is a driver of Alzheimer's disease. Experimental model shows Li depletion impedes amyloid clearance, and repletion in humans could be achieved with low doses nature.com/articles/s41...

Time flies! I’m currently looking for a new talented volunteer to lead the Sydney Node of SBA. If you’re interested in gaining some leadership experience, running a team, and organising some fun events, please let me know by the 22nd of August

New paper out by @aliciamv.bsky.social 🤩🥳 …where we study the yeast-based antifungal compound and iron-chelator pulcherriminic acid academic.oup.com/femsyr/advan...

I’m petrified about today’s science news. Genetically modifying crabs to have cheetah genes? This could go sideways fast.

It's 25 yrs to the day since the Human Genome Project & Craig Venter declared joint victory in sequencing the human genome - an ideal time for @wellcometrust.bsky.social to annouce their new project, involving our lab, to begin work towards synthesising human genomes. wellcome.org/news/researc...

Well this couldn’t have come at a better time www.bbc.com/news/article...

What's going on in fungi?? Chromosomes are distributed across several different nuclei in Sclerotinia sclerotiorum and Botrytis cinerea Article in @science.org here: www.science.org/doi/10.1126/... And Perspective here: www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

Dear all – I’m re-sharing this open PhD scholarship. I’ve now managed to secure funding for international PhD entry (and MRes if required). Please email me with a EoI if interested. Thanks! It's an old ad, but will soon be updated: www.mq.edu.au/research/phd...

Congrats, Daniel! All the best for the new role

Just to prove to everyone that I am working during my sabbatical:

I/We have a fully funded international PhD scholarship in sunny Sydney that’s just come online! This is part of an exciting collaboration between the ARC Centre of Excellence in Synthetic Biology and the Dementia Research Centre. More information here: www.mq.edu.au/research/phd...

Construction and iterative redesign of synXVI a 903 kb synthetic Saccharomyces cerevisiae chromosome Full text: www.nature.com/articles/s41... #yeast #yeastbiology From @hughiechops.bsky.social

A great opportunity if you're in to automation!

I am looking for postdoc-level candidates interested in developing a joint application for the Australian National Intelligence Postdoctoral Grants to fund a position within a project on "Designing RNA with Custom Properties using AI". #synbio #ai More info: www.jaschke-lab.science/opportunitie...

A fantastic full professorship opportunity is now available at the University of Heidelberg - the focus is on various aspects of Synthetic Biology and Synthetic Genomics. jobs.zeit.de/jobs/full-pr...

Hi – I (we) have an open PhD position for an enthusiastic student in sunny Sydney! Explore new approaches to yeast protein secretion, microfluidics and flow cytometry. Feel free to reach out and apply here. Please note this is for domestic students only. www.mq.edu.au/research/phd...

Just testing out BlueSky Here's a link to our tRNA Neochromosome paper! www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...