Viral and Structural Immunology

Wishing everyone the very best for 2021. Our boxes are waiting for us to unpack and reorganise our lab in our new institute 😉

We have a lot to cheer for in November: conferences talks, conference prizes, and fellowship success !!! And we are also officially announcing our depart from Monash at the end of the year, and a 2021 start at La Trobe University!!! New adventures

How lucky we are in Victoria to be allowed to some good size gathering for Xmas. Perfect opportunity to relax at the Hot Spring and enjoy a relaxing week-end all together with our partners/kids coming to celebrate a successful year despite the difficulties. We also pack, move and say goodbyes.

We are very pleased to receive $1 million with our collaborators in QLD to pursue our work on the immune response to COVID-19. In addition our first publication on COVID-19 is now online !!!

First research article for Andrea as co-author, one from Stephanie, and one more with Chris S as 1st author 😉 but also two ECR grants for Chris S and Dimitra !!!

How to build a structure, how to use twitter workshops 😉 but also some information about the mentoring program for the ECRs

Some chocolate cake, again 😉 for Stephanie’s birthday. And Chris made some special cupcakes with some crystals on them, so pretty and delicious. And some “real” crystals as well 😉

Some chocolate mud cake for Dhilshan’s birthday 😉 his favourite

Due to COVID-19 we have to rearrange our work and time in the lab to share the space 😉

Even the 1^st year PhD confirmation had to be done with zoom, which is not an easy exercise. Andrea has done a great job to explain her PhD project and also showed some amazing results a manuscript is in preparation so we will be able to share this with you all soon. Congratulations again Andrea! and to her supportive supervisors Emma and Chris S.