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Annual Report 2025

  • 30 April 2026
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Our 2025 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 Annual Symposium and EMCR / PhD retreat at the Mercure Resort Gold Coast, our progress reporting against the UN Sustainable Development Goals, and the many research in […]

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Science! but make it fun

  • 29 April 2026
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Educating children on CIPPS research through arts and craft The centre participated in two outreach events at Woollahra Library at Double Bay, NSW, in April. We explored science through art, hands on crafts and games that focussed on the biological and biochemistry themes of the centre. We hosted a creative school holiday workshop with children […]

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LipiDeck

  • 1 April 2026
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Drs. Fabien Plisson and Quentin Kaas are currently developing LipDB, one of the largest repositories of lipid-protein interactions as part of CIPPS.

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Celebrating Women in Leadership

  • 29 March 2026
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Inspiring confidence, connection and action By Junming He   Date: Friday 6th March 2026 Time: 8:00 – 10:00 AM Venue: The Terrace Room, Level 6 Sir Llew Edwards Building (Building 14), The University of Queensland QLD 4072.    The Centres of Excellence (CoE) Women in Leadership event brought together colleagues from across multiple CoEs for an engaging […]

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Walk a mile in these lab coats

  • 19 January 2026
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Guiding year 12 students through a research facility By Junming He The centre and the Institute for Molecular Bioscience (IMB) at the University of Queensland collaborated to host a group of 30 year 12 students in January for an engaging and interactive event with scientists from the facility. The event provided students with the opportunity […]

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Fresh Ideas Grant – Andrew White

  • 20 August 2025
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Read about how the CIPPS Fresh Ideas Grant has helped to support the reserarh work being done by Dr Andrew White from the Malins Group at Australian National University.

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Fresh Ideas Grant – Dr Xinyun Jian

  • 7 July 2025
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Read about how a CIPPS Fresh Ideas Grant has helped to support  the research work being done by Dr Xinyun Jian from the Challis and Cryle Groups at Monash University.

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CIPPS Fresh Ideas Grants 2025

  • 7 July 2025
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Congratulations to the winners of our third round of Fresh Ideas Grants! The Fresh Ideas Grants (FIG) scheme is a competitive grant process open to all Centre Postdoctoral Research Fellows. It aims to create a springboard to independence for our Research Fellows by creating an opportunity for them to drive their own research ideas.  Dr […]

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CIPPS Capacity Building Grants 2025

  • 7 July 2025
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Congratulations to our winners of the latest round of the CIPPS Capacity Building Grants:  Caitlin Gare – 10 weeks industry internship with AstraZeneca Sweden  Dr Nipuni Thanthrige – Visiting legume engineering team at CSIRO, Canberra for 3 weeks  Dr Sameer Kulkarni – International lab visit to Prof Arun Shukla, Indian Institute of Technology, Kanpur 

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2024 Annual Report

  • 1 July 2025
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Our 2024 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 EMCR and PhD Retreat at Kingscliff, our 3rd Annual Symposium at Q-Station Manly, our progress reporting against the UN Sustainable Development Goals, and the many research in focus […]

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2025 ARC Laureate – Professor Richard Payne

  • 30 June 2025
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Congratulations to CIPPS Deputy Director, Professor Rich Payne, on being awarded a 2025 ARC Laureate Fellowship, FL250100011 – Unlocking the Modified Proteome. Professor Payne aims to uncover how protein modifications influence biological activity. This project will develop automated technologies to produce modified proteins with high precision and scale, enabling new insights into major protein classes. […]

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Protecting our Australian ground dweller, the Ninu (Greater Bilby)

  • 16 June 2025
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Extracting DNA from Ninu scat to save an iconic marsupial from extinction Australia is home to about two-thirds of the world’s known extant species of marsupials, including Tasmanian devils and quolls (dasyurids or carnivorous marsupials), kangaroos, koalas, and wombats (diprotodonts or herbivores), and bilbies and bandicoots (permelemorphs). Marsupials are an iconic group of animals due […]

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