📣 2026 ACDS Professional Development Award: Application deadline extended 📣 (1/5) The deadline to apply for the 2026 ACDS Professional Development Award has been extended. Applicants now have until Friday the 19th of June, 5:00pm AEST to submit their application. See below for details:

(1/5) 🌏International Cell Death Seminar Series - Edition #1 is just around the corner!🌏 Join us for our first International Cell Death Seminar of 2026, hosted in collaboration with @ecdoorg.bsky.social and CCD Press.

(1/6) ACDS PD Workshop #2 Recap 📝 This week we continued our Rapid Fire PD workshop series as part of the ACDS Mentorship program with a session dedicated to managing career setbacks!

📣 Applications Now Open: 2026 ACDS Professional Development Award 📣 (1/6) ACDS members are invited to apply for the 2026 ACDS Professional Development Award, designed to support early-career researchers in taking part in professional development opportunities and advancing their career!

(1/5) ACDS PD Workshop #1 Recap 📝 This week we opened our Rapid Fire PD workshop series as part of the 2026 ACDS mentorship program with a session on leading a collaboration!

(1/4) 📣 Featured #publication from the Vince Lab! Recent work by Dr Xiuquan Hugh Ma and colleagues introduces a new class of IAP-based intrabodies that enable targeted degradation of cancer-driving proteins while shifting inflammatory necroptotic cell death toward apoptosis.

(1/4) 💫What an amazing start to our 2026 Cell Death Seminar Series!💫 🤝Thank you to everyone who joined us for our Welcome Event, whether in-person or virtually!

(1/6) ✍ DEADLINE EXTENDED FOR MENTEE APPLICATIONS ✍ The ACDS Mentorship program is back for 2026! Prospective mentees now have until the 10th of March, 5pm AEDT to apply for this fantastic opportunity to meet and connect with an experienced senior researcher in the cell death field 🤝

📣 REMINDER: Our first event of the year is just one week away! 📣 👋Join us for our 2026 Welcome Event! Listen to some exciting talks from leading experts in the cell death field and meet fellow ACDS members at our networking session over a cup of coffee and light refreshments☕ Details below ⬇️

📣 REMINDER: Applications for the 2026 ACDS Mentorship Program are still open!📣 (1/7) 👀Looking for an opportunity to connect with with an experienced senior researcher and gain invaluable insights and feedback tailored to your career aspirations? Look no further!

💫 You’re invited - our first event of 2026 is just around the corner! 💫 (1/6) 💡Join us for an exciting morning of insightful talks from leading experts and invaluable conversations with members of the cell death community

UPDATE‼️ Mentor list update for the ACDS 2026 Mentorship Program (details below): Applications are still open - Closing 27th Feb, 5pm AEDT. Apply here: australasiancelldeathsociety.com/mentorship-p...

UPDATE‼️ Mentor list update for the ACDS 2026 Mentorship Program (details below): Applications are still open - Closing 27th Feb, 5pm AEDT. Apply here: australasiancelldeathsociety.com/mentorship-p...

📣 Applications for the ACDS 2026 Mentorship Program are now open 📣 (1/6) Following the success of last year’s program, we are thrilled to announce that the ACDS Mentorship Program will be returning in 2026!

LIVE: Our next speaker Dr Najoua presenting on checkpoints blocking RIPK! 🔬 join now latrobe.zoom.us/j/85747490867

LIVE: We are excited to start our session with Dr Marcel Doerflinger from WEHI (Walter and Eliza Hall Institute of Medical Research) talking about exploring cell death to treat HTLV-1 infection! 🦠

LIVE NOW: latrobe.zoom.us/j/85747490867

🌟 Happening Today! 🌟 The ACDS End-of-Year Seminar & Networking Event is on this afternoon at WEHI, with a live Zoom stream for those joining remotely. Excited to wrap up 2025 with great talks, good people, and lots of cell-death science. If you're attending- see you there!

(1/4) 🌟 It’s nearly the end of 2025- let’s celebrate together! 🌟 Our ACDS End-of-Year Seminar + Networking Event is Tue 9 Dec, 2 PM AEDT at WEHI. Zoom available for remote members 👉 www.linkedin.com/posts/austra...

(Live update) Panel now underway with A/Prof Zhen He, Dr Anna Triggs & Dr Travis Johnson- exploring how to maximise AI’s impact in biology. Watch live: latrobe.zoom.us/j/85651701553

(Live update) Dr Travis Johnson (La Trobe University) now sharing how AI is driving breakthroughs in metabolic disease research - Tune in on latrobe.zoom.us/j/85651701553

(Live update) Dr Anna Trigos from Peter Mac on integrating AI into cancer research — bridging computational models with biology. Join the session: latrobe.zoom.us/j/85651701553

(Liver update) We’re live! A/Prof Zhen He now sharing insights on how AI is reshaping experimental biology 🔍🤖

(Live update) Happening now! Tune in on latrobe.zoom.us/j/85651701553

(1/2) 🎉 The 2025 ACDS Prize for Outstanding ECRs is now open! Recognising an ECR who’s advanced the Australasian cell death community. 🏆 Winner gets a cash prize, medal & invited talk. Apply by 7 Nov 2025 (5 pm AEDT) → australasiancelldeathsociety.com/acds-awards

🔬✨ Join us online for Bench to Bytes: How to Maximise AI for Biological Research! 🗓 Tue 21 Oct 2025 | 3:00–4:30pm AEDT (MELB,SYD) 🎙 Talks + panel with leading AI + biomedical experts 👉 Zoom link - Scan QR code

Thank you to Prof. Kate Schroder (@inflammasomelab.bsky.social) for closing out our 2025 Mentorship PD workshop series with such an insightful session! Biggest tip? 👉 Reach out to potential employers before a conference- invite them to check out your talk or poster. It can make all the difference!

📢 Join us for the 2025 Australian Inflammation Centres (AIC) Symposium in Adelaide, 10–11 Nov! Featuring top speakers — including Prof. David Huang — and great opportunities for early/mid-career researchers to connect and collaborate. 🧬 Free registration + online option available!

(Live update) Next, we have Dr. Alessandro Annibaldi from University of Cologne (Cologne, Germany) Tune in - latrobe.zoom.us/j/81756544249

(Live update) Next we have Dr. Caroline Holley from Max Planck Institute for Infection Biology (Berlin, Germany). Dr Holley also was the winner of the ACDS Prize for Outstanding ECRs in 2024!!! Don't miss her talk live now at latrobe.zoom.us/j/81756544249

(Live update) Dr. Uris Ros from Max Planck Institute of Biophysics (Frankfurt, Germany) presenting on "MLKL activity requires a splicing-regulated, druggable intramolecular interaction". --> Join us live on latrobe.zoom.us/j/81756544249

LIVE NOW! Join us on zoom : latrobe.zoom.us/j/8175654424...

⏰ Reminder: This seminar kicks off in just 10 minutes! 🌍🧬 Join us on Zoom 👉 latrobe.zoom.us/j/81756544249

Happening today! In 6.5hrs 🌏

⏰ Reminder: just 1 week to go until the next International Cell Death Seminar (3 Sept)! Don’t miss this global line-up of speakers 🌍🧬

Advancing Cell Health Research 📈 @promegacorporation.bsky.social ’s new Lumit™ hKi-67 Immunoassay delivers rapid, luminescent detection of the proliferation marker Ki-67—helping researchers monitor cell growth with speed & precision. 🔗 Exclusive early access: www.promega.com.au/c/global/for...

(1/3) 🚨 We’re back with Edition #2 of our 2025 International Cell Death Seminar Series! 🚨 📅 Wednesday 3 Sept | 🦘 4:30pm AEST / 🌍 8:30am CEST In collaboration with @ecdoorg.bsky.social + @CDDpress. Flyer below ⬇️ #ACDS #CellDeath

🧠 Great ACDS PD Workshop #3 on Research Financing & Budgeting with Prof Ivan Poon (La Trobe). With >$4.4M secured, he shared invaluable tips on planning budgets & avoiding pitfalls. Big thanks, Ivan! 🙌 Next: Prof Kate Schroder on Interviews, Oct 22. #ProfessionalDevelopment

Another fantastic meeting for our cell death community!

🔬 Exciting news for the ferroptosis community! FerrOZtosis 2.0 symposium is happening this 19th September 2025 at The Florey, Melbourne. 📅 Abstract deadline: August 15 📍 Details & registration: lnkd.in/dn7imCzd

🧬 New paper alert! @molregulation.bsky.social’s team reveals a paradox: Nedd4-2 deficiency triggers kidney injury but protects against high blood glucose in diabetes. Fascinating twist! 🔄

🧬 New paper alert!

🧬 New paper alert! Former ACDS committee member Dr Malvina & team identify mitochondrial cardiolipin as a selective inhibitor of CASP4/11-driven cell death & inflammation @inflammasomelab.bsky.social 📄 Read here: www.embopress.org/doi/full/10....

📢 Big shoutout to our MCR Committee Advisor, Dr Kerstin Brinkmann, for her latest publication as first author in Science! Check out her paper below ⬇️ 🔗 www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

🎉 That’s a wrap for today’s ACDS Seminar Series. Thank you to all who joined us—we’ll see you at the next one in September A big thank you to our sponsors for making this possible!

(1/2) 🎉 We were also thrilled to announce the winner of the 2025 ACDS Professional Development Award — congratulations Dr Adrian Lee! 👏 Watch this space 🌍

(Live update) 👏 A big thank you to Dr Andrew Freeman for closing our seminar with a fantastic presentation featuring exciting new findings — great to see such strong collaboration within the cell death community!

(Live update) 🧪 Now welcoming our second speaker: Dr Andrew Freeman, diving into more cutting-edge cell death science. A fantastic session so far! 🚀 Tune in- latrobe.zoom.us/j/85747490867

(Live update) 🔬 A huge thank you to our first speaker, Dr @michelleyeaphw.bsky.social, for their fantastic and insightful talk! 👏 Check out her recent paper to learn more: www.embopress.org/doi/full/10....

(Live update) 🎤 First up in today’s ACDS Seminar Series: @michelleyeaphw.bsky.social kicking off with exciting insights into cell death research. Tune in- latrobe.zoom.us/j/85747490867