Congratulations to the Cater Lab's first ever graduate Parteek! Bachelor of Advanced Scince with First Class Honours - we are SO proud of you! Looking forward to another year of fun in the lab together in 2026! 🎓🔬🧪✨

I am thrilled to release ProteinDJ: a high-performance and modular protein design pipeline. Our open-source workflow incorporates #RFdiffusion, #ProteinMPNN, #FAMPNN, #AlphaFold2 and #Boltz-2. It is a fast, free, and fun way to design proteins (1/5) doi.org/10.1101/2025.09.24.678028 #proteindesign

Thank you to all of our plenary speakers for sharing your incredible research with us at #ASBMB2025! @nanigrotjahn.bsky.social @ajknights7.bsky.social Michelle Haber and Randal Halfmann. We have loved having you all in Brisbane and hearing about your labs awesome work! 🦠🧬🧪🧫🔬

And that's a wrap! A huge shout out goes to our conference chair Michael Landsberg @dr-berger.bsky.social and the rest of the organizing committee for putting together such a vibrant #ASBMB2025! See you all at #ComBio2026!

Lorne 2026 is set to be excellent! Especially with a Transporter Satellite Meeting!!

👕✨ Design the next Lorne Protein Conference T-shirt! Entries close 17 Oct – don’t miss your chance to show off your creativity and cement your place in the history of Lorne Proteins 🤓 👉 Submit your design-see the link below... 📢 And don’t forget to submit your abstract by 24 Oct! #LorneProteins

DEADLINE extended till tomorrow!!! Decorate the ASBMB gelato cart with your cool microscopy image/favourite protein structure!!

Still time to sneak in an abstract for ASBMB! www.asbmb2025.com.au/2025-call-fo...

Just over 1 week left for ASBMB 2025 abstract submission!!! Make sure you don't miss the deadline! WE want to hear the cool science YOU have to share! www.asbmb2025.com.au

Add it to your calendars! Register and submit your abstract for ASBMB this month! 🗓️📃🧬🧫🔬

The ASBMB 2025 Conference is coming to UQ Brisbane – and the official website is now LIVE! Explore the program, register early & submit your abstract now! www.asbmb2025.com.au #ASBMB2025 #UQ #biochemistry #molbio #academiclife #conferences

Why are biological membranes asymmetric, with different lipids in the two bilayer leaflets? Discovered in the 70s, lipid asymmetry is linked to many cellular processes, but why the cell needs it is largely unclear. @pavelbarahtjan.bsky.social addresses this question: www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

One more sleep to the @biophysicalsoc.bsky.social CRT Symposium on tomorrow morning bright and early! Join us in Petree Hall C at 8.30am.

Our inspirational Leach Lecturer Frances Separovic. A champion of women in STEM. "A reluctant chemist". Croatia to Broken Hill. A peace lover. First in family to finish primary school. And one cool Professor 😎. #LorneProteins2025

50 years of Lorne Proteins on one stage! Happy anniversary to us 😁 and the supportive and inclusive research culture we've built 🫶 #LorneProteins2025

Session 9: Mitch O'Connell bacterial/bacteriophage arms race. Small RNAs to mount an adaptive MGE immune response. CRISPR RNA defence systems. How does Cas13 work as an enzyme to target RNA? Csx28 128 aa protein, TM, cyt. Co-opt membrane effectors? 👏 #LorneProteins2025

Session 10 Ibrahim Cissé-Super-res imaging of transcription. Cooperativity in weak & transient biological interactions. PolII clustering in a cell nucleus w STORM. Limitations for weak and transient interactions. Lightsheet microscopy to follow polymerase condensates & gene bursts #LorneProteins2025

Excellent talk, impressive techniques, definitely going to look into biomolecular condensates in prokaryotes

Exciting new position at UC Berkeley! Cal-Cryo is looking for a new scientific director! This is an ideal position for someone who is looking to continue doing science and collaborating with research teams at Berkeley. Come work with us! aprecruit.berkeley.edu/JPF04670

As Lorne Protein Meeting approaches its 50th anniversary we’re excited to welcome the fantastic speakers coming in 2025 to celebrate. www.lorneproteins.org/speakers2025

Ok, trying to bring my community back together... I created a starter pack for lipids and membrane protein aficionados! Feel free to share, add and distribute, so we can come together again! 😍 go.bsky.app/AEeXh86

This week in Science Without Anguish: Who is driving our bus? The importance of controlling the controllables in research life. www.sciencewithoutanguish.com/blog/who-is-...

🚨 #DiscoveryProjects #DP25 announcement: ❗️Outcomes announced publicly for Discovery Projects 2025❗️ See ARC's RMS for list ➡️ rms.arc.gov.au/RMS/Report/D... /bot

ARC says they’ll release the Discovery Projects 2025 outcomes tomorrow. Recently, outcomes announcements have tended to happen at/around 11am Canberra time. My bot will pick up the announcement in RMS’s database and post immediately. Good luck!

This week we had the pleasure of hosting cryo-EM guru @OliBClarke who gave the @UQ_News cryo-EM community a fantastic cryo-EM data-processing workshop. Thank you Oli for sharing your tricks with us, @FarrahBlades for wrangling the Bunya supercomputer, and all who attended! 🔬

Want to Structure, Function, Surf, Repeat?! @LorneProteins is renowned for being an outstanding international protein conference in a beautiful Aussie beach town. Have a read to get a feel and hope to see you all at the 50th anniversary meeting!...

Well done @FarrahBlades on an excellent talk @bmh2024Melb! The streamline #CryoEM data processing pipeline you've set up at @CMMUQ1 using the Bunya supercomputer is helping so many researchers @UQ_News to process data efficiently and answer important biological questions! 👏👏👏

Talk about a beautiful spot for a conference 😍 Big thank you to @_VanessaMorris_ and Michael Edmonds for putting together and inviting me to the spectacular Biomolecular Interactions satellite meeting for Queenstown Research Week!

It was my absolute pleasure to host @renaemryan1 for the Centre for Chemistry and Drug Discovery seminar @IMBatUQ this week! She shared such beautiful research and it was so fun to have my PhD advisor get to know my new academic home!

What a fantastic week at the #MembraneTransportProteins @GordonConf! So much excellent science being shared and so great to reconnect with my transporter family! Thanks to everyone who made it special, especially @renaemryan1 and @DrSusieLIngram1 for putting it all together.

Inaugural Cater Lab birthday cake! Happy 30th birthday to @FarrahBlades! #1 postdoc!

(1/8) Do you eat enough choline? Have you even heard of it?? Choline is super important for the brain and must come from your diet 🐟🥚🥦 Here @Nature we show that FLVCR2 transports choline into the brain and use #cryoEM to show how! 🧠🔬...

When better to unleash a bit of girl power than International Women's Day! Introducing the Cater Lab's first postdoc: Dr. Farrah Blades @FarrahBlades. With expertise in #CryoEM, neurobiology, and algae, she's ready for any challenge! Let's get this show on the road! #IWD24💪✨

The time has come for me to farewell #ManciaLab, @ColumbiaPS and NYC! 🗽🍎 It's been an amazing ride, and I'm going to miss everyone so much, but excited for the next chapter for my own lab at @IMBatUQ! Thank you to everyone who made the last six years what they were - you rock!

Choline! We need it to make membranes and acetylcholine, & for DNA/protein methylation. Our brains need a LOT of it! 🧠 We show that FLVCR2 transports choline into the brain & solved its structure in the OFS & IFS with choline bound. 🐀🔬 Check it out!...

What a fantastic Mechanisms of Membrane Transport #GRC in Les Diablerets! It was fantastic to hear about all of the exciting transporter research being done, to catch up with old friends, make new friends, and all in this breathtaking part of the world 🏔️🇨🇭

Congratulations @renaemryan1 and all the other Honourees on being appointed as a Member of the Order of Australia! 🏅 You have lifted the careers of so many around you - so well earned!...

Check out our latest work on blood brain barrier #Omega3 transporter MFSD2A! 🐟➡️🧠 @NatureComms This work led by @GeorgeKhelashv1 reveals how substrate enters, occlusion occurs, and the role sodium plays in this! @pippomancia @ColumbiaPS @WeillCornell http://bit.ly/43xs2aP

Mum @renaemryan1, Dad @pippomancia, and Grandpa @JoeMindell, happy #BPS2023 family reunion!

Three #BPS2023 cryo-EM postdoc co-chairs, three lipid transporter lovers @MeghnaG27 @CristinaSantar6

A huge thank you to @NYASciences for a fantastic Annual Gala! I'm so honoured to be a 2022 @BlavatnikAwards Finalist, and it was great to celebrate in style with the other honorees and a few of my nearest and dearest! 🏅💃🕺🥂

What an inspiring experience to attend the #stsforum2022 in Kyoto! When you bring scientists, politicians, and CEOs together to discuss issues in science and technology our society faces, it's incredible to see the walls come down and the ideas come out. We need more of this!

Thank you Wayne, @pippomancia & @OliBClarke for a top notch @comppaa 2022 meeting! Everything from the science to the kareoke was outstanding! Great to catch up and talk science with old friends, new friends, and meet some in 3D for the first time! What a special community 😊

Couldn't be more proud of my superstar undergrad 'Prof' Brendon Choy @brendon_choy on his commencement @Columbia! You have grown so much and excelled over the last 4 yrs in the #ManciaLab! Keep your scientific training in mind as you should @harvardmed what you're made of!! 👊🦁

What a blast of a #bps2022! Nothing like sharing science in person again - big highlights for me were all the fantastic posters and catching up with everyone in the Channels-Receptors-Transporters Subgroup. Thank you again @moiseenkovabell for the invite, can't wait for #bps2023!

Our MFSD2A paper is out in print today! 📖 While we didn't make the cover, my extremely talented cousin @MaddieBurkitt created this gorgeous piece. Thank you Maddie, I will treasure this forever! #Omega3 #CryoEM #DHA @pippomancia #ManciaLab 🐠➡️🧠 https://dir.lat/5Kg0xT

Let's have a cheers to our amazing scientific mentors! @pippomancia has been the best adviser I could have hoped for over the last four years. Without great leadership, science goes astray. I'm so grateful I have you to guide me. To good science... and tennis 🎾🎾🎾

1/9 Did you know that your brain has tons of #omega3 fatty acids like DHA in it but can’t make them? Here @Nature is our #cryoEM structure of MFSD2A that transports DHA across the #BloodBrainBarrier to fuel your brain! 🐠➡️🧠 @pippomancia #ManciaLab https://go.nature.com/3xtQhpE

#Multidrugtransporters use so many clever ways to pump drugs out of their active sites! Check out our review in @JMolBiol for the latest on MFS, MATE, DMT, SMR, ABC, & RND transporters in #infectiousdiseases! @jonathankim14 @pippomancia @brendon_choy https://bit.ly/3bcapE8