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Amazing Public Lecture by Nobel Laureate Donna Strickland, Nobel Prize in Physics in 2018, at RMIT’s Capitol Theatre. Strickland pioneered chirped pulse amplification for lasers, enabling innovations such as laser eye surgery. An inspirational talk about her love of photons.

Why make a cofactor when you can get it for free? Our work, led by @FabianMunder, shows that bacteria from 22 phyla use the high-affinity transporter PqqU to obtain the redox cofactor PQQ from the environment as an alternative to cofactor synthesis. science.org/doi/10.1126/sc…

Botswana Chobe National Park. Amazing to see lion cubs playing.

The Malaria Drug Accelerator meeting held in Livingstone, Zambia, was an amazing opportunity to connect with colleagues from across the work, working together to develop new antimalarial drugs. .

I really enjoyed visiting my colleagues, Sharon Prince (Deputy Dean, Research) and Edward Sturrock at the University of Cape Town (UCT). It was so rewarding to spend time with Sharon’s excellent and enthusiastic research team.

World Parasite Awareness Day is March 20th. Join us that day as we help to shed light on the importance of parasite prevention in animals. #animalhealth #worldparasiteawarenessday #parasiteawarenessday #parasiteprevention #pethealth

Congratulations to Nutpakal Ketprasit (@nkprst). He submitted his thesis today on reaction hijacking of tRNA charging enzymes of Plasmodium & bacteria. This work will guide development of new treatments. Co-supervised by Stanley Xie and Stuart Ralph (@sturalph). @UniMelb

Happy International Women’s Day! We’re celebrating women who have changed the world. Here are all of the amazing women who have received the #NobelPrize and their remarkable achievements at the time of the award. Tell us about the women who inspire you the most - and why…

Thanks to the amazing and inspirational International Women's Day #IWD2025 Morning Tea Panel organised by the School of Biomedical Sciences @UniMelb. “It takes a village to raise a successful woman scientific leader”. Great buzz of collaboration and support at the event.

** Organic & Biological Seminar ** Prof. Dame Juliet A. Gerrard (Willsmore Fellow) University of Auckland @ScienceUoA @UoAEngineering "Antimicrobial resistance – a case study in connecting research to government policy" Friday 28 Feb | 12-1 pm | Bio21 Auditorium ALL WELCOME!

Congratulations Enrico

Amazing work. Congratulations.