December 2022
Congrats Dr Nguyen
What a way to end the year 😉 and welcoming a new Doctor to our lab, Congratulations to Andrea who was just awarded her PhD and is joining us in the Drs club !!!! Also she passed with very minor edits, well done on a brilliant and extremely successful PhD.
Always hard to say goodbye
It has been 5 fabulous years with Dr Christopher Szeto in the lab, and it is time for him to move on to a new challenge 😉 thanks for the fantastic time in science, fun, communications, art, and so much more. Been a real pleasure to work with such a talented scientist.
Xmas party
What a fun week-end altogether enjoying the sunset in Monington peninsula having fun, great food with the lovely people we have for colleagues !!!! Always a great event 😉
Crystal 34, SCANZ conference in Bendigo
The Society of Crystallographers in Australia and New Zealand meeting was held in Bendigo at the La Trobe University campus 😉 Andrea won a Rising Star awards and Stephanie the Sandy Mathieson medal 😉
Special event at LIMS: Protein crystallography: careers, discoveries and mentoring the new generation.
We were extremely lucky to have both Prof. Jenny Martin (Australia) and Elspeth Garman (UK), two world leaders in protein crystallography as well as remarkable mentors of the next generation of scientists, visiting and presenting at the La Trobe Institute for Molecular Science (LIMS).
November 2022
ASI conference in Melbourne
The 50th Annual Scientific Meeting of the Australian and New Zealand Society for Immunology was held in Melbourne. This 50th annual meeting will be a significant milestone in the history of the society. This will be the first time since 2019 that the society will be meeting altogether in-person. In addition, it will be 25 years since Peter Doherty and Rolf Zinkernagel was awarded the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine. We have much to celebrate!
Collecting good data
Trip to the Australian Synchrotron with PhD student Lawton and Master student Lekh 😉 getting some good data !!!!
Karaoke
What a fantastic evening !!! this was so much fun, a combine party for more fun.
AIDS Kumamoto conference, Japan
It was such a pleasure to travel back to Japan and be invited to the AIDS conference in Kumamoto. A lot of amazing science, new collaborators, and terrific food as well.
October 2022
Not much has happened, we all been busy working 😉
September 2022
Combio conference, Melbourne
The Combio conference went very smoothly, it was a great opportunity for a lot of us to reconnect after 2 years of pandemic mostly in lockdown in Melbourne, and for many to return to face to face conference. Our new PhD student Lawton did an amazing job presenting his work on COVID-19 published in Nature Communications 😉
IBS, EMBL, ESRF, Grenoble, France
This was the last stop of our “European tour” in Grenoble (France) where the ESRF (European synchrotron) is located, near the EMBL and IBS (institute for Structural Biology). It was a great opportunity to have a look at the latest technologies from those 3 institutes.
Biochemistry Institute, Franckfurt, Germany
We went to visit the institute, Chris and Steph gave a talk, then we talked about science all day with students and researchers, then we had some amazing dinner with our host.
Pasteur Institute, Paris, France
We were lucky to visit the institute with our collaborator, went to the roof top terrace of the institute (amazing view), and also got the chance to present our work on HIV and COVID-19.
ECM22, Versailles, France
An opportunity not to miss, a conference on crystallography in Versailles!!! what an amazing place to discover more about worldwide research and new hot topic in X-ray crystallography.
August 2022
Honours’ poster presentation
Great job from our 3 honours students presenting their work as posters like at a conference.
July 2022
WIMR conference, Davos, Switzerland
June 2022
LIMS Morning teas
The inaugural LIMS ‘cake and cuppa catch up’ getting started earlier this morning. On again next Thursday at 10.30am. All LIMS members encouraged to join in. BYO cuppa, we’ll bring the cake! Great to see so many coming for cakes, and if you have missed the delicious cakes today please come next week same day, same time & same place for more
QLD visit
In June it was the time to go to sunny Queensland and visits a few institutes (UQ, QIMR, TRI, IMB)
The TRI building is amazing with its own rainforest thanks for the warm welcome and great discussion. Thanks for inviting me Navarro Severine to present our work on COVID19 at QIMR Berghofer. It was great to meet so many people today, discover the amazing research done in Brisbane ! Thanks to Kirsty Short at UQ for showing me around and meeting some people at the IMB as well. looking forward to more collaborations
ASMR (Australian Society for Medical Research) dinner
Looking forward to tonight ASMR Victorian Gala that will take place at the arts centre in Melbourne and the presentation by ASMR medallist Prof Fiona Wood AM. Also looking forward catching up with colleagues.
LIMS deputy Director appointment
Such a great honour and pleasure to be appointed as LIMS deputy director alongside Brian Abbey.
May 2022
EFI conference, Amsterdam, Netherlands
Day of Immunology
we organise the Day of Immunology at LIMS to welcome the public into our Institutes and showcase our research. Such a great way to share our passion for science and hopefully inspire the next generation of medical researchers.
April 2022
Data collection
Ice Hockey game
We went and supported Lawton for his ice hockey game
IgV meeting
March 2022
Double birthday in the lab, and more reasons to celebrate with two PhD students finishing their lab work, doing their final PhD review and now time to write the thesis!
Cricket Final
We went and cheer for Dhilshan during his cricket game final 😉 Yes his team won !!!!!
International Women Day 2022.
A special event to meet the La Trobe scholars making the connections between gender, social equity and climate change, highlighting actions and solutions that will help us build a more sustainable future.
February 2022
Lorne I&I conference
New year new school of agriculture, biomedicine and environment (SABE) at La Trobe University, so new colleagues and so much fun !!!!!
Lorne Proteins conference
Congrats to Chris who for voted the best poster with >800 likes on twitter!!! while posters are usually display with a classical design it was never the case for Chris’s posters, beautiful design, creative way of presenting amazing science Making Science Fun is the best way to communicate
Congrats to Andrea for her prize and Stephanie for her prize in the Sparrow Session
JANUARY 2022
Happy New year and all the best for 2022 from the Gras Lab 😉
