📣 Calling all our student members 📣 Travel support is available for travel to international mass spectrometry conferences Check the guidelines and application process here 👉 www.anzsms.org/travel-suppo...

Out Now! Conserved CD4+ T cell staphylococcal and streptococcal epitopes enable broad-acting vaccines in mice #MicroSky

Monoclonal antibodies against pseudaminic acid (Pse) – present in bacterial LPS, capsular polysaccharides, and glycoproteins – have been developed that enable Pse glycoproteome profiling and show therapeutic potential #glycotime www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Really happy to see this work out! Super fun project with a great team. For me the highlight was that we finally were able to show the O-linked glycosylation systems of H. pylori/C. jejuni are general glycosylation systems which target non-flagellin proteins (suggest >10 years ago by click chem).

Our #phosphoproteomics analysis of insulin signaling in bone uncovered a new mechanism of transcriptional activation via S6K phosphorylation of AFF4. It appears to play a role in regulating the expression of genes in ageing and insulin resistance. www.nature.com/articles/s41...

🚨 Our new paper is out today in Nature Chemical Biology: “Pan-specific antibodies to uncover bacterial pseudaminylation” doi.org/10.1038/s415... This is the product of a collaboration between many teams, led by @nickescott.bsky.social, @payneresearch.bsky.social and myself. 1/6

Protein:protein interactions are incredibly dynamic so how do we quantify and discover changes in native tissues? Our new study uses qXL-MS and PCP-MS to study dynamic remodeling of interactions following skeletal muscle insulin resistance. #MyoBlue #Proteomics www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...

Super thrilled to have this one accepted at AnalChem last week. Nice way to see out the end of the year. 🎉 #lipidomics #TeamMassSpec

Postdoc position open! Digital Pathology: Therapy-response prediction using spatial biology University of Salzburg Deadline: October 26th, 2025 We look forward to hearing from you! www.plus.ac.at/biowissensch...

Conventional proteomics searches struggle with many modifications and fully open searches may be difficult to interpret. We introduce a "detailed" mass offset search in #MSFragger boosting interpretability and localization especially in complex cases (e.g. FPOP data): www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

RIP Alan Marshall, one of the greatest mass spectrometrists ever, and a great human to boot. nationalmaglab.org/careers/meet...

Really nice to see this work finally out in print. This has been a long term project (> 3 years) in the lab to understand why we couldn't make a few mutants in the burkholderia o-linked glycan biosynthesis pathway. Special shout out to Leila who drove most of this work! www.jbc.org/article/S002...

📣 Calling all students! 📣 Did you know that ANZSMS have travel support for attending ANZSMS conferences and international mass spectrometry conferences? 😮 The deadline for students attending the 30th ANZSMS at AUS-oMicS this year is coming up next week, 18th March! 🚨

🎉Announcing our ANZSMS 2025 Medalists 🎉 Congratulations to Prof Nicki Packer from Macquarie University and A/Prof Shane Ellis from University of Wollongong! Join us at AUS-omics from May 18 - 21 to celebrate this wonderful achievement! 🏆 Read about our medalists here 👉 mailchi.mp/6c90f3d41712...

Popularity of current DIA data analysis tools (vendor-independent, based on citations of initial publication) Updated for 2024:

Applications are open for the #FeMS+ 2025 Q2 Empowerment Awards! Thanks @brukercorporation.bsky.social for sponsoring! Apply here: airtable.com/appyGufCIumj... #TeamMAssSpec #WomenEmpowerment

Regardless of current events, highlighting trainees as they continue to excel is a joy. We just added @emmajays.bsky.social's recent [email protected] publication about chemical deamidation from common proteomics buffer to our website, too. Congrats Emmajay! #TeamMassSpec pubs.acs.org/doi/full/10....

I rarely post personal things on here but it's my birthday and as it's the big 4-0 I've spent the week cycling in south east Asia which has been awesome.. 100% recommend cycling around Siem Reap in Cambodia

⏰ Time’s ticking! Only 2 weeks left to submit your oral presentation abstract for #AUSoMicS 2025! 🗓️ Deadline: Jan 31st, 2025 Submit your abstract here: ausomics.com/abstracts #metabolomics #proteomics #glycomics #massspectrometry #multiomics @anzsms.bsky.social @ozglyco.bsky.social

Our latest work on Siglec binding to sulfated glycans. Great help: @khookh.bsky.social, @pengwu.bsky.social ,@raflynn5.bsky.social. Fom 1st PhD graduate of the lab (Jaesoo Jung) and help from Edward, Zeinab, Jhon, Kelli, @tayloregray.bsky.social, and Chris from my lab. pubs.acs.org/doi/10.1021/...

Polysialylation is a general feature of immune activation https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2025.01.10.632476v1

I’m looking for a postdoc with experience in #glycosyltransferases and/or yeast/insect #proteinexpression A new EU pathfinder project begins on 1st February 2025. Contact me if interested!

Oh man this hits way too close to me🤣

Excited to share this story describing new tools for studying Salmonella virulence. We engineered six multimutant strains to be deficient for different sets of SPI-2 T3SS effectors. We think there's lots of potential for new discoveries using these strains www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

An early Xmas present of a portrait of my puppy for my work office :)

For my first Bluesky post … let me introduce you to Paracoxiella! This has been a fun adventure - shedding light on a mysterious Dot/Icm Coxiellaceae causing trouble for crayfish. A wonderful collaboration across rivers, states and oceans! www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

You could say this is cray-zie cool work, super fun work from @hayleyjnewton.bsky.social and co!

I'm recruiting! I'm looking for a motivated postdoctoral scientist to join my new team at SCELSE in Singapore. The role will explore various aspects of how #eDNA is produced and utilised in #Pseudomonas aeruginosa biofilms. #Microsky #phagesky #Science ntu.wd3.myworkdayjobs.com/Careers/job/...

Registrations are open for AUS-oMicS, a joint meeting of Australasian Proteomics Society, @ozglyco.bsky.social, Australian & NZ Metabolomics Society and @anzsms.bsky.social . Registrations & abstract submissions are now open! #TeamMassSpec #massspectrometry www.ausomics.com

for my first bluesky post I'm happy to share a fun project from the lab we have been working on for a few years exploring the essentiality of genes involved in o-linked protein glycan biosynthesis in Burkholderia! www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

Happy to share our last publication. Diclofenac and colistin synergistically act against colistin-resistant A baumannii in mice at low concentration. They repress expression of type IV pili, causing an antivirulence effect! journals.plos.org/plospathogen...