Lorne Proteins 2026 🏖️🤩 Featuring speakers Elitza Tocheva, UBC, on outer spore membrane biogenesis for endospore formation in Firmicutes; and EMBO keynote speaker David Drew, Stockholm University, focusing on GLUT glucose transporters and Na⁺/H⁺ exchangers. 🔗 Register now at: www.lorneproteins.org

An unexpectedly vibrant live music scene in Canberra. Very much hoping to run into Sir Paul and to hear him sing about his mini horse called Jet. Imagine the pressure on the Friday and Saturday acts?!

The great news for me is that it’s Saturday in Australia so the chances of even more editor and reviewer assignments have plummeted for at least 2 days. I’m hoping everyone will be as kind to my year end submissions

Every July and August, us good folks in the southern hemisphere review our little hearts out to pick up the slack for the “sorry I’m travelling” crowd up north. Guess what Santa’s bringing our northern friends for the festive season?! Peer review requests!

📢 Lorne Proteins 2026 features Ruchi Anand, IIT Bombay—applying advanced structural biology to AMR mechanisms 🦠and biosensor development 💡. And synthetic biology titan Hagan Bayley, Oxford, fabricating 3D tissues 🧫 to founding Oxford Nanopore 🍩. 🤓 Register now at: www.lorneproteins.org

@ginaravenscroft.bsky.social & #NARF are collecting impact statements from Australian researchers ‘ Please consider sharing your story about the impact of Australia's chronic underfunding of science and biomedical research.’ lnkd.in/g8A_PAZG 1/

Great culture can save lives. Literally. Amazing letter in today’s @thetimes.com about Tom Stoppard

Happy thanksgiving to those in the US! Also time to celebrate for those in other jurisdictions who get a much earned break from review requests for 2-3 days. Time to unleash that magnum of champagne and sacrifice that turkey

🧪 The Campbell lab at UTokyo is looking to hire a postdoctoral researcher for a project focused on protein engineering for optogenetic tool development. Details here: www.s.u-tokyo.ac.jp/en/recruit/?...

⏳Four days to go until #AusUb2025! Check out the video below to hear some conference tips and tricks from our committee chair David Komander (and some potentially controversial interest rankings!?!?). More interviews to come in the next few days so watch this space 😉

Register today for our December 9 webinar on Mass Photometry, organized by Justin Benesch, University of Oxford. www.proteinsociety.org/webinars

Who wants to discuss innate immunity and host defense? Join us in Banff to share your exciting research. www.keystonesymposia.org/conferences/...

Australia’s MRFF is sitting on billions of taxpayers’ dollars which was meant to be invested in world-leading, lifesaving health innovations.

The Wilkinson Lab is open for science! @mskcancercenter.bsky.social 🧬We'll be finding funky new RNA biology, mainly by looking at reverse transcriptases (i.e. the Best Enzymes In The World)🧬 annnd: I'm hiring - come join! Especially postdocs and PhD students - please get in touch (NYC is great)

A really interesting new study from Ivan Poon and @someblondesci.bsky.social on the "footprint of death" - apoptotic cell remnants generated following apoptotic cell retraction.

#InflammaZoom free Webinar is back on Monday October 20th! With James Murphy (WEHI, Melbourne, Australia) @pseudokinase.bsky.social and Jonathan Maelfait (VIB-UGent, Ghent, Belgium) Register now: bit.ly/4iXGqjw

Want to see your artwork featured on the cover of a scientific journal?! Share your ideas at @cp-trendsbiochem.bsky.social! 🎉 Help us celebrate #TIBS50 and share your #CoverArt now! 📅 Deadline is October 31! More information at: lnkd.in/e6db3_nr #TIBSCelebrates50 #SciArt

9 days to go: * 2 x open positions! * Exceptional environment, competitive start-up package * University of Toronto appointments * Toronto has great (and peaceful) quality of life!

We have an open post-doc position in my group to study mRNA cleavage and polyadenylation using biochemical reconstitution and cryoEM. Please get in touch if you are interested in joining this amazing team! 🔬🧬🤩 #RNA #cryoEM

Thank you for “Open”. So beautiful and also so appropriate. Viva the death protein!

I am super excited to announce that we have a tenure-track faculty position in biophysics open in the Department of Physics at Carnegie Mellon! 🧪 Interfolio link: apply.interfolio.com/174360 PLEASE, share widely across the blue skies! Let me briefly explain what we're looking for: 1/10

👇 We want you! Don’t miss out on our inaugural "Indigenous Researcher Award" from the Lorne Proteins conference. Full support to attend the 2026 conference. Deadline October 24. www.lorneproteins.org/researcher

🎓 Applications are now open for WEHI’s International PhD Scholar Initiative. 📅 Apply by Sunday 26 October 2025 🔗 Learn more about eligibility, scholarships and how to apply: wehi.edu.au/education/ph... Help us spread the word by sharing with your networks!

Peer reviewers are exhausted. It's common to spend *months* inviting reviewers, getting refusals, inviting more, maybe 12 or more, then 2 agree but 1 doesn't complete, so you go again. That's why your paper is in limbo. I'm very sorry, it's awful, but it's also an untenable academic labour issue.

Hard to believe that just over a week ago we wrapped the #iubmbKinases meeting. What an epic. Such a spectacular location with such spectacular people and science (and sheepdogs). Hat tip to @petermace.bsky.social for the hard yards. This one will be hard to top

Onward into metabolism. Kicking off the pm session with Grace Gong (LMB) and John Burke (UVic) #iubmbKinases @iubmb.bsky.social We thank @biochemsoc.bsky.social #BiochemJ for their support of this session. The weather couldn’t even lure us away!

Day 3 of #iubmbKinases @iubmb.bsky.social and many of us sprung up to take this photo through the conference room window - even during talks. Queenstown turning on a stunner of a day, matched only by some terrific science

Another tremendous day in (pseudo)kinase paradise at #iubmbKinases in NZ courtesy of @iubmb.bsky.social Wrapping up the final session with Isa Lucet from @wehi-research.bsky.social kindly sponsored by our friends at Science Signaling @aaas.org

Flying start to the #iubmbkinases meeting in beautiful Queenstown, NZ. Jubilee Award from IUBMB to Kevan Shokat yesterday, and a kinase masterclass from Susan Taylor this morning

Petitioning the crowd out there. What’s our vibe around supporting society journals vs the for profit crowd? Maybe I got old, maybe I chair a publications committee for a union, maybe I am Editor in Chief for one of the society journals. But I’ve had enough of the obstruction from reviewers

Time is running out to submit your abstract for Plant Proteins: functions, regulation, production and utility! Join us in Leeds to hear from four #BiochemAwards winners, advance understanding of plant proteins and unlock new insights! 🧪Abstract deadline: 21 August www.eventsforce.net/biochemsoc/2...

His government need to say “yes” to supporting innovation, R&D and discovery science. Otherwise I’ll see all of NZ’s finest here in Australia or further afield very soon. Most importantly, and simply, he should stop empowering his colleagues to say “no”. Science shouldn’t be a bloodsport

📣 New paper alert! Just out in Cell Reports! pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/40644298/ Thrilled to share that we have discovered a brand-new anti-phage defense system! Bacteria have evolved various defense strategies (CRISPR etc) to counter phage attacks. We found a new one - fascinating and dramatic ⚔️🦠❄️🔬

Excited to see this work led by Cameron Reddington and Annabel Walsh out in @febsj.bsky.social — ASXL proteins share a PHD domain that is not a PHD domain, evolved to bind an MBD domain that is not an MBD domain! febs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

📣 Save the date for the 51st Lorne Conference on Protein Structure and Function! ✨ Lorne, Victoria, Australia. We have a packed program and we'll be sharing all the details here - Like, Follow and Share - because friends don't let friends miss the epic Lorne Proteins 😊 www.lorneproteins.org

🎉TIBS is soon turning 50! To celebrate, we’re inviting our global community to submit original biochemistry-inspired artwork - one standout design will be chosen for the January 2026 journal cover! Find the details here: www.cell.com/trends/bioch... #TIBSCelebrates50 #TIBS50 #SciArt #CoverArt

Not sure about y’all but signing off emails with “warmest regards” is really working for me here in Arizona

We can accept registrations until July 25th, but space is filling up! @iubmb.bsky.social @iubmbtrainee.bsky.social @pseudokinase.bsky.social

We are looking for a PhD student in (mostly )wet-lab biochemistry to work on short linear motifs, intrinsically disordered regions, in the context of the Marie Curie network "IDPro". More info an apply here: www.uu.se/en/about-uu/...

All the best, everyone!

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LoxCode: innovative new tech, provides individual cells with one of billions of DNA barcodes. An ancestry test for every cell. Top research from Prof Shalin Naik + Dr Tom Weber + team in @cellcellpress.bsky.social. LoxCode mice available at @jacksonlab.bsky.social www.wehi.edu.au/news/barcode...

Congrats to these legends. Never seen such scrum depth and so much from 14 and 15 in complementing the breakdown. Also clutch boot from Reihana. Well done lads #OtautahiProud

It's June 20 in New Zealand, which means it's the last day to have your abstract considered for oral presentations at the IUBMB Focussed Meeting on kinases and pseudokinases!

Guaranteed to be precisely like this in August* but with awesome science and more cool (pseudo)kinase research than you can shake a stick at *exceptions may include weather like snow. Or the sun being absent, such as at night times

Only one week left to submit your abstract and register at early bird rates for the IUBMB Focussed Meeting - (pseudo)kinases in signal transduction. Sign up and register by June 20!! Join @pseudokinase.bsky.social Natalia Jura, and a who's who of kinase research! www.ivvy.com.au/event/IUBMB25/

📺 The landmark test for coeliac disease that promises to take away the pain of diagnosis. Exciting new research led by WEHI's Assoc Prof Jason Tye-Din and Olivia Moscatelli 🔬

A new blood test could revolutionise the way coeliac disease is diagnosed after detecting the condition in patients, even when they weren’t eating gluten. Brilliant study led by Assoc Prof Jason Tye-Din and Olivia Moscatelli, now published in Gastroenterology. www.wehi.edu.au/news/landmar...