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Bio21 Molecular Science and Biotechnology Institute

Locality: Parkville, Victoria, Australia

Phone: +61 3 8344 2220

Address: 30 Flemington Road 3052 Parkville, VIC, Australia

Website: http://www.bio21.unimelb.edu.au

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25.01.2022 Some holiday colouring-in fun for the kids? Here is the poster depicting Professor Frances Separovic [https://metrotunnel.vic.gov.au//Professor-Frances-Separovi] but go to the Metro Rail Tunnel site for many more., including Ruth Bishop: https://metrotunnel.vic.gov.au//parkville/prof-ruth-bishop

25.01.2022 The 3MT grand final is here...this Thursday 2pm!

24.01.2022 RACI Women in Chemistry Networking event - Don't miss it!

24.01.2022 Listen to Bio21's Troy Attard talk peptides and proteins on EavesDrop on experts!

23.01.2022 Don't miss this opportunity - be our next SUPERSTAR of STEM!

22.01.2022 Genome editing of plants, animals, even humans is possible, but what's ok and where to draw the line? This technology will affect us all. These implications are so important, believe researchers led by Professor John Dryzek, head of Australia’s Centre for Deliberative Democracy and Global Governance at the University of Canberra, they should be examined not just by those in the field, but by the general public: teachers, plumbers, butchers, bakers and candlestick-makers. Read this important paper co-authored by Bio21's Professor Philip Batterham and Genepool Production's, Director and Producer Sonya Pemberton among others, starting a very important conversation that strikes at the very heart of what it means to be human.

22.01.2022 Peer into the tiny world of peptides with Troy Attard interviewed by Andi Horvath for the University of Melbourne's podcast series 'Eavesdrop on Experts': As humans we tend to think in pictures, so using that approach you could think of peptides as segments of protein, says Dr Troy Attard, from the Melbourne Protein Characterisation platform at the Bio21 Institute at the University of Melbourne. You can think of protein like a ball of twine, a long linear string that is all scrunched up into a ball or various shapes. If you took a pair of scissors and snipped little bits of a segment of that string, that would be your peptide, Dr Attard says. They’re basically short proteins, which are chains of amino acids that are joined head to tail, a little bit like links in a chain.

21.01.2022 TODAY: CryoEM sample presentation '101' with Andrew Leis 11am, 27 Aug @Bio21Institute'101' Platform Technology Series https://bit.ly/2D0VU8n

21.01.2022 So how do we stop an enemy that isn’t alive, but hides within our cells? This is a question asked by many scientists across the globe, with answers urgently needed for many viruses including #sarscov2. Professor Spencer Williams from the University of Melbourne, and Professor Gideon Davies from the University of York in the UK, along with colleagues from the University of Warwick and University of Oxford, may have found a way to derail viral replication that could in turn become a broad spectrum anti-viral #drug target.

20.01.2022 Missed it? Last night Dr Anthony Fauci was in conversation with Professor Sharon Lewin and Professor Shitij Kapur in "Conversations On COVID-19" You can watch the recording here:

20.01.2022 Co-led by University of Melbourne’s Dr Hamish McWilliam and Professor Jose Villadangos from the Doherty Institute and the Bio21 Institute, and Dr Jeffrey Mak and Professor David Fairlie from the ARC Centre of Excellence in Advanced Molecular Imaging, Institute for Molecular Bioscience, The University of Queensland, the team discovered the cellular machinery that MR1 relies on. This is a key discovery on a critical arm of the immune system’s powerful defence against bacteria that will contribute to global efforts to design immune-boosting treatments..

18.01.2022 #imidacloprid is one of the most widely used insecticides, despite it being banned in the EU. Yes, insecticides kill insects! But they don't just kill pest species. New findings published today in PNAS https://bit.ly/3igTTTX by @scimelb researchers @Phil Batterham @Felipe Martelli and Baylor College of Medicine show that at low doses (2.5ppm), #insects suffer blindness and #immunesystem and #metabolic damage due to reactive oxygen species. Together with the pressures of climate change and disease, insecticides are a significant threat to insect populations. With the dramatic decline of insects globally this provides evidence for the mechanism driving harms to insects.

16.01.2022 EVENT: Honours Info Session, 1pm, 11 September

16.01.2022 Streaming live now: Official Opening of National Science Week 2020...

14.01.2022 Congratulations Emily!

12.01.2022 Did you know that mutations in Covid-19 can affect the ability of drugs to bind viral proteins (e.g. spike protein) or vaccines to effectively stimulate your immune system? Now researchers have a tool - COVID-3D - to predict these ‘mutational hotspots’, and check their effect, keeping science a step-ahead of the virus. This software tool and library has been developed by teams at the Bio21 Institute and the Baker Heart and Diabetes Institute (David Ascher, Elston D'Souza and... Stephanie Portelli and others - follow the link to read their fantastic Pursuit piece) and contains information about ALL the protein structures that coincide with the whole SARS-CoV-2 genome including every known genetic mutation and its resultant mutant protein structure. Now that's impressive! The tool can also be used to help researchers recognise when mutations affect drug binding or to identify alternative targets for drug and vaccine development. To develop this tool, our team analysed the genome sequencing data of over 120,000 samples of SARS-CoV-2 from infected people around the globe (including those that uniquely affect Australia) to identify mutations present within each protein. This work was published in Nature Genetics. #covid19research #structuralbiology #computationalbiology #drugdiscovery #mutations https://pursuit.unimelb.edu.au//locked-and-loaded-using-ge See more

11.01.2022 STARTS next Friday, 6 November! Please register to attend. Need #tech in your research? Don't miss @Bio21Institute '101' Platform Technology Series: Part 2! Magnetic Resonance #NMR with Shenggen Yao & DNP with Marc Sani; @MetabolomicsAus; Protein Characterisation & Systems with Katie Ganio; Systems and Computational Biology with David Ascher 11am-12pm 6-13 Nov Register https://bit.ly/2SQOSaq

08.01.2022 "Our political leaders state that decisions are being taken on the basis of the scientific advice. It is most satisfying that the vision of Bio21 has taken root and spread beyond the building itself" - Prof Andrew Holmes https://bit.ly/2YO6Bmh Australian Academy of Science Science at Melbourne

05.01.2022 STARTS TODAY! 11am, 24 Aug - 4 Sept Bio21 Institute's '101' Platform Technology Series. Today Nick Williamson will be presenting on 'HPLC '101'. It's not too late to register for the webinar: https://bit.ly/2D0VU8n Learn about how to use #tech in your research? Don't miss it! #massspectrometry #CryoEM #Microscopy & Protein Characterisation University of Melbourne https://bit.ly/2D0VU8n

03.01.2022 Congratulations Mona!

01.01.2022 What a story! Be inspired...

01.01.2022 Hear some thoughts from members of the Faculty of Science, including Bio21's Uta Wille, about noticing when our colleagues are a bit down, showing compassion, listening and taking action if needed. It's RUOK today, but let's be open to reaching out and supporting each other every day, particularly this year, when we're all physically separated from each other.