Do cutting-edge research at the frontiers of AI-driven Whole Cell Modelling! We invite applications for two fully funded, 3.5-year PhD positions based with MACSYS at The Australian National University (ANU). 2026 PhD applications are now open for two exciting projects.👇 macsys.org/phd-scholars...

📢We're hiring! Come join us in sunny☀️Brisbane. We are recruiting a postdoctoral Research Fellow to join us at QUT. This position is intended for applied mathematicians. 🔷Level A/B, Fixed-term, 2 years 📍Gardens Point (hybrid option available) 👉More info/apply: lnkd.in/gA_tJqHV @mjsimpson.bsky.social

🎙️We're launching a brand‑new season of our podcast this week & you’re invited to be part of the action! We're bringing a StudioPod recording booth straight to the Univ of Melbourne campus and will be recording new podcast episodes throughout our in-person launch event. Come watch the magic happen!

Only 9 days left to apply for this post doctoral position. Please share and forward to your colleagues.

I use a combination of Multalin and Espript. Then import the AlphaFold prediction of the protein of interest and it generates a fairly nice image with the sequence and AF-derived secondary structure overlaid.

We’re proud to see MACSYS Associate Investigator, Dr Francesca Short, featured in this insightful ABC News story on hand hygiene and antibacterial soap. Dr Short is a Senior Lecturer in Microbiology at Monash University’s Centre to Impact Antimicrobial Resistance. www.abc.net.au/news/2026-03...

Join #EMBOOmics which aims to showcase new technologies and formulate questions to move the systems biology field forward 👉 s.embl.org/omx26-01-bl#EMBOOmics 📥 Abstract deadline 11 September

Join #EESMetabolicEco and submit your abstract by 14 April: s.embl.org/ees26-11-bl#EESMetabolicEco This event will inform sustainable practices, advance research methodologies, and drive transformative advancements in the understanding and management of metabolic interactions in complex biological ecosystems.

🎙️Come See a Podcast Come to Life! MACSYS is launching a brand‑new season of The Random Sample podcast by bringing a StudioPod recording booth straight to the University of Melbourne campus - and will be recording new podcast episodes throughout the launch event. Come watch the magic happen!

I am so excited for this! I'll be in Melbourne to launch another season of The Random Sample podcast - something I've been involved with since 2018. If you're in town, please stop by and say hello. Thanks to MACSYS for its support of the podcast.

Lithgow lab ready for action in the #Monash Node #MACSYS badminton tournament this afternoon …

Emma Johnston (1973–2025) | Nature Ecology & Evolution share.google/8C3YzLRFM9QC...

A new theme issue of #PhilTransB focuses on #marine disease ecology - highlighting novel findings across a broad taxonomic range of host organisms, sharing new methodologies, and evaluating management approaches. Read #OA: buff.ly/JZIFY6h

“A complete joke” After the starting gun fires, Australian researchers have to wait 2–3 years before even starting the race. Really clear article explaining the impossibly long new time-frames for Australian Research Council grants. By @liammannix.bsky.social

Come and work with us! I'm looking for a PDRA in data-driven modelling of collective cell behaviour to join the group. More information at www.maths.ox.ac.uk/node/80472

RIP David Botstein #MicroSky

We’re recruiting new Research Group Leaders! We offer: 🔬 Core funding 💻 Access to world-leading infrastructure 👩🏽‍🔬A network of world-leading scientists …and much more. Apply by 11 April: embl.wd103.myworkdayjobs.com/en-US/EMBL/j... #ResearchCareers #Bioinformatics @timcoorens.bsky.social @embl.org

Come do a PhD with me and @trevor-lithgow.bsky.social at @monashuniversity.bsky.social ! We’re at the leading edge of pathogen biology using cutting edge Cryo-EM and AI-driven genetic screens to uncover the mysteries of outer membrane biology. Reach out to me for a chat! macsys.org/phd-scholars...

The ARC have said (on LinkedIn) they will release outcomes for Discovery Projects Expressions of Interest (2027) tomorrow👇

Are you a structural biologist pushing the boundaries of molecular science with an ambitious research programme? Join our Structural Studies Division as a tenure-track Group Leader, with core funding, world-leading facilities & enthusiastic colleagues. Apply by 16 MAR www.nature.com/naturecareer...

Standing room only at the @monashuniversity.bsky.social Microbiology seminar today. Hearing from Bob Leung and his work on microbial communities found on the bark of trees and their role in regulating greenhouse gases www.science.org/doi/10.1126/... Amazing science!

Thanks @theviin.bsky.social for the invite to join this great meeting, and share our work on Kaptive for capsule typing, and how we can apply it to inform #klebsiella vaccines: tinyurl.com/npaj4vzr With @tomstantonmicro.bsky.social @shaunkeegan.bsky.social @katholt.bsky.social and many others

an extraordinary and generous scientist, Brenda Andrews set in motion omics and multi-omics analysis decades ahead of it becoming trendy. We all now benefit from her work at was back then a hazy frontier

2026 Winner of the Lorne Genome Julian Wells Medal: Christine Wells (no relation!) @stemcellsystems.bsky.social congratulations, well deserved!!

Our 2027 awards are now open for nominations! Each year, we recognise researchers who have made remarkable achievements across diverse fields. Nominations close 1 May 2026. science.org.au/news-events/...

Meet Dr Joshua Hamey, one of our outstanding MACSYS Research Fellows. Based at our UNSW node, Josh is a molecular biologist studying how proteins are made inside cells. In this video, Josh shares insights into his research and what inspired him to join MACSYS. youtu.be/MuAfPxFXWZk?...

Mathematical modeling of 1,2-propanediol utilization bacterial microcompartments in vivo activity arxiv.org/abs/2602.11338

Do cutting-edge research at the frontiers of AI-driven Whole Cell Modelling! We invite applications for two fully funded, 3.5-year PhD positions based with MACSYS at The Australian National University (ANU). 👉Info on the 2 PhD projects & how to apply: macsys.org/phd-scholars...

Antibiotic use in Australia is lower than a decade ago, and hospitals use last-line antibiotics carefully. However, rising #AMR and inconsistent prescribing, especially after surgery and in geriatrics, highlight the need to strengthen antimicrobial stewardship. pharmacydaily.com.au/news/amr-ant...

MACSYS at ANZIAM! This past week, members from three of our nodes represented the Centre at the Conference of the Australia & New Zealand Industrial and Applied Mathematics (ANZIAM) held this year in Canberra. Among the highlights, PhD Student Yong See Foo winning the prize for best student paper.

On the International Day of Women and Girls in Science, MACSYS proudly celebrates the exceptional women who are advancing our mission to model a whole cell - one of the most ambitious challenges in modern science. Pictured here are our Chief Investigators, Research Fellows, and PhD candidates.

Their expertise spans biology, mathematics, statistics, machine learning, AI, computer science and computational modelling. Their collaborative work is bridging disciplines & pushing the boundaries of what we can understand about life at the molecular level! #InternationalDayOfWomenAndGirlsInScience

Dr Tom Litfin (Australian Biocommons) presented the Structural Biology Platform project and the Australian Computational Structural biology community. If you are interested and missed him you can join up here: australian-structural-biology-computing.github.io/index 🧬🧶 #lorneprotein2026

First speaker. Last session at Lorne Proteins. Michael Hecht on designing proteins for novel functions @lorneproteins.bsky.social

It was a hybrid event, with our Melbourne & Monash node members gathering at The University of Melbourne. We had another in-person gathering at UNSW, while others from QUT and ANU nodes joined online. The event was organised by our Centre's Equity, People, and Culture Committee.

Did you know that only around 20% of all biographies on Wikipedia are about women? To mark the International Day of Women & Girls in Science, MACSYS hosted a Wikipedia Edit‑a‑thon to help address this imbalance by improving & creating pages about #WomenInSTEM.

what a brilliant talk! classic Lorne Proteins stuff, getting into how things (in this case Alphafold) works

such a brilliant workshop, and so well presented. very exciting stuff

Sparrow Session - Gavin Knott @knottrna.bsky.social up next - but I've been sworn to secrecy! #lorneproteins2026

Gavin Knott in the Anders session at Lorne on antiphage defence proteins. @knottrna.bsky.social @lorneproteins.bsky.social

fantastic stuff!

Fabien Munder - New strategies to fight AMR. Bacterial competition via L-type pyocins; targeting (1) BamA EC loop 6, (2) beta-strand 1. Inhibit beta barrel assembly by blocking the BAM barrel lumen. Increase cell permeability - holes in the OM. 👏 (EMReady post-processing) 🤓 #lorneproteins2026

Dame Carol Robinson gave a fabulous career talk, including how her education trajectory was unorthodox (but fabulously self-driven) her choice (and change) of mentors mattered so much and how she has always and still continues to promote the careers of junior colleagues who worked with her.

I hope you didn’t feed them chips or biscuits 😉 … Lorne is such a great venue for our conference and visits from a friendly cockatoo … Wow

Chris Barnes on now! Outpacing RNA viruses. #lorneproteins26 is go 🎆

JS1 is a #phage that does not respect host species boundaries, but it does look stylish as it binds, enters in and kills them all. doi.org/10.1128/mbio... @macsys.bsky.social @staph-papers.bsky.social @monashbiol.bsky.social

Rendering the Staphylococcus cell wall to the scale of the #phage makes us wonder if flexibility is what helps phage JS1 to snake through the canyons of the bacterial cell wall. doi.org/10.1128/mbio... #MicroSky @macsys.bsky.social @staph-papers.bsky.social @stcmicrobeblog.bsky.social

The textbooks show #phages with stumpy-tails (podo-type) or contractile-tails (myo-type) or flexible-tails. (sipho-type). Meet JS1, a flexible AND contractile phage. Images of phage JS1 by EM showed that it's flexed tail. Contractile phages should be straight, JS1 isn’t. doi.org/10.1128/mbio...

A very cool molecular machine, the bacteriophage JS1, has taught us several surprising things doi.org/10.1128/mbio... #MicroSky @stcmicrobeblog.bsky.social @monashbiol.bsky.social @macsys.bsky.social

“The new rule may someday be that there are no strict anaerobes; it's just a matter of how sensitive our methods are in detecting low oxygen concentrations.” #MicroSky