If you’ve had the unfortunate experience of being bitten by a Green Ant (Rhytidoponera metallica) in Australia, you’ll understand the long-lasting pain and irritation inflicted by such a tiny creature. The majority of ant species produce venom and some have characteristic and exceptionally painful stings. The bullet ant (Paraponera clavata) of tropical Central and South […]
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CIPPS professional staff recently had the opportunity to attend the ARC Centre of Excellence Professional Staff Day held at QUT. Read the below article by Junming He. Powered By EmbedPress
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Congratulations to our winners of the latest round of the CIPPS Capacity Building Grants: Flynn Attard – International Lab Visit to the Baran Lab at Scripps Research Dani Rojas Azofeifa – Industry Internship at Sophion Bioscience Callum Breeze – Industry Internship at CSIRO for 3 months Paul Visendi Mulindira – International Lab Visit – Collaborative Research and Innovation Workshop […]
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PhD student Henry Lamb, from the Henriques Group at QUT, recently travelled to Portugal where he spent time with Professor Miguel Castanho and his team from the Institute of Molecular Medicine at University of Lisbon. His Trip was supported by the CIPPS Capacity Building program. Read more in the below article by Junming He.
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Dr. Walter Beck a Postdoctoral Research Associate from the Payne Group at the University of Sydney, recently travelled to Canberra for an inter-nodal exchange with Professor Gottfried Otting and Professor Thomas Huber at the Australian National University. His trip was supported by a CIPPS Capacity Building Grant. Read the below article by Junming He:
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Professor David Craik has been awarded the 2024 Emil Thomas Kaiser Award by The Protein Society. The award recognizes a recent, highly significant contribuition to the application of chemistry in the study of proteins. The full article can be read here.
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Dr Mahya Bahmani a potdoctoral Fellow from the Colgrave Group with CSIRO & Edith Cowan University, recently travelled to Brisbane for an inter-nodal exchange with the Craik Group. Her Trip was supported by a CIPPS Capacity Building Grant. Read the below article by Junming He:
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On the back of the Nature family publication, Extant and extinct bilby genomes combined with Indigenous knowledge improve conservation of a unique Australian marsupial | Nature Ecology & Evolution, CIPPS CI’s Carolyn Hogg and Katherine Belov, have received a large amount of media attention. Read the news article published in The Conversation on 1 July […]
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Read the news article by Jackson Ryan, published in the Guardian (Sat 22 June 2024) on Andrew Walker and the King Group .
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Our researchers are unlocking the peptide universe of unique Australian animals and plants. Read the report from their recent trip to beautiful K’gari.
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CIPPS Alumni Simon Tang completed his honours as a part of the Belov Group. In 2023 he received the University Medal (USyd) for his project – When Frogs Fight Back: Developing multi-omics resources to characterise antimicrobial peptides in the stuttering frog (Mixophyes balbus). Since submitting he has written up his thesis into a first-author publication […]
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Professor Glenn King elected to the Fellowship of The Australian Academy of Science
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Our 2023 Annual Report has been published that showcases many great stories and photos from our team. It’s exciting to read about so many highlights spanning the CIPPS Symposium 2023, the EMCR and PhD Retreat in the Blue Mountains, our progress reporting against the UN Sustainable Development Goals, and the many research in focus stories. Thanks also […]
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As part of our broader communications and engagement strategy, CIPPS aims to have a presence at a major science-based event in each of our node states. Our outreach activities include making peptide models from pipe-cleaners and practicing intracellular targeting with a ‘giant inflatable cell’. Outreach events provide valuable opportunities for our Centre members to put […]
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Yuhui Zhang a PhD student with the Craik Group recently travelled to visit the Jackson Group from the CIPPS ACT Node at the Australian National University in Canberra. His trip was supported by a CIPPS Capacity Building Grant. Read the below article by Junming He:
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Australia hosted this year’s International Peptide Symposium at the Brisbane Convention and Exhibition Centre, and CIPPS was a Platinum Sponsor for the event. It was a wonderful opportunity for us to showcase our research and forge collaborations with the leading international peptide scientists in this once-in-a-decade opportunity in Australia.
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Dr Tom Hawtrey, Research Fellow from the New group, recently attended the 14th International Conference on Optical Probes and Organic Semiconductors and took the opportunity to visit Associate Investigator Dr Tina Schroeder at Genentech.
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