DECEMBER 2024
Xmas party !!! as always the end of the year is the occasion to join together for a relaxing and fun week-end with partners and kids. Time to relax and enjoy each other company. Also time to fight for the GrasOlympics 2024 😉
Early December it was time to join the virologists at the #AVS12 conference (Australasian Virology Society Meeting) held at RACV Goldfields (Creswick, Victoria). We had fun presenting our data, were sugar-high thanks to the wall of giant donuts 😉 and happy to see friends and make new ones!!!
The AVS awards and dinner was a lot of fun to relax for our last conference of 2024 together and dance the night away!
Big Congrats to Georgia for her fantastic achievement as the top student of Masters 😉
NOVEMBER 2024
A lovely evening to celebrate our achievements as the BMH2024 organising committee 🙂
Stephanie went to Tokyo for space week conference 😉 a nice way to discover space and all the cool technology that goes with anything and everything space-related 😉
Emma had an amazing time at ASI 2024 conference held in Sydney! Great science, beautiful scenery and a bit of an odd hotel that felt a bit like a prison. Congrats to Emma for her outstanding contribution as treasurer of ASI, a massive job acknowledged 😉
OCTOBER 2024
#SCANZ Crystal35 conference 2024. 35th Biennial Conference of the Society of Crystallographers in Australia and New Zealand (Crystal35) on 27 – 29th October 2024 was held in Fremantle, Western Australia. Great time for Stephanie to catch up with colleagues.
Georgia “A wonderful plenary talk by Stephanie at the 2024 Northern’s Brightest Stars Symposium!”
Emma “Spring has finally sprung here at the La Trobe Bundoora campus! Enjoying the beautiful blooms around campus.”
SEPTEMBER 2024
Stephanie & Emma went to Brisbane to attend the Option XII conference on Influenza and respiratory diseases.
#BMH24 conference (Biomolecular Horizon 2024) was held in Melbourne. Stephanie was program co-chair, a big job that was made easy by our fantastic organising committee. The conference was a great success with fantastic science. Well done to our convenor Leann Tilley 😉
Lab retreat. The month of September was not only busy with conferences, but it was also time for our lab to retreat, regroup, and explore some non-science professional development, as well as team bonding exercises. The team decided that this year we should explore a non-Victorian places, so we went up north to get some sun, which was a great idea as we could enjoy having breakfast outside together, as well as whales watching 😉
#SCANZ Crystal School. Along with the SCANZ education committee Stephanie organised the Crystal School of 2024. A great opportunity for students and young researchers to learn about X-ray diffraction for small and large molecules.
AUGUST 2024
Meets the lab’s animals
From EMMA: Meet Zinny, short for Zinfandel, the grape grown at the winery where he was born!He is a 7yo Russian Blue, Ragdoll cross who likes to sit on the small of my back and chew on my hair… He loves cuddles and chin scratches from all of his favourite humans.
FROM JANESHA: “It is a truth universally acknowledged, that a cat in possession of a cozy spot, must be in want of affection” -Jane Maddumage not Jane Austen. Meet my (pompous) Mr. Darcy (Left photo). Now every Mr. Darcy (the cat) needs an Elizabeth (the cat) to compliment him. Meet my little Lizzy (right photo)
From DHILSHAN: Meet Ryo, a 3 year old medium haired German Shepherd. I love watching tv, and chilling on the couch like a human. Throw a ball and I’ll be sure to fetch.
From SAMUEL: Beau is all grown up now! Still likes to run away when he steals something for attention!
From GEORGIA: Meet Kohei. Named after seven time Olympic medalist, ‘King’ Kohei Uchimura, our sweet boy loves to split his time between snuggling on the couch and people (and cat and bird) watching out the front window. While he’s not so skilled on the high bar as his namesake, he’s got some pretty impressive aerial skills when fetching a ball!
Enjoying this glorious weather reading the Journal Club article outside! First hints of spring, ducklings by the moat!
JULY 2024
EMCR of LIMS symposium. Endless platter of delicious snacks to pull us through a long day of the LIMS symposium. Grateful for to the invited speakers at the LIMS symposium, Dr Catriona Vi Nguyen-Robertson, Prof Yugeesh Lankadeva, Prof Leann Tilley and Dr Christopher Szeto, for giving us an insight on life after PhD. Dr Christopher Szeto, who once was a postdoc at Gras Lab, but now working as a beamline scientist at the synchrotron, giving us an engaging talk about his career path.
Cute lil photo with the invited speakers of the LIMS symposium
CONGRATULATIONS!!!! Our gorgeous postdoc, Dimitra Chatzileontiadou, tied the knot with her wonderful hubby <3
GO BIG OR GO HOME 😉 Why do 2 plates when you can do 20 …
WINTER IS HERE!!! Frosty grass and clear sky’s give promise of a lovely winter day on this beautiful campus.
JUNE 2024
Karaoke night with everyone !!! We do some serious work in the lab. But when we have fun, it is full on 😉 with some nicely display colourful drinks
MAY 2024
Congratulations to Dimitra on giving a beautiful seminar in the School! The science was so exciting that the power shorted out 😉
APPW24 conference in Cairns (Antigen Processing and Presentation Workshop 2024). Pretty good view from the APPW24 conference in Cairns! Exciting science, even the birds are interested!
Samuel, one of our PhD student goes on a well-deserved break in Japan and visited the Osaka Castle, Dotonbori market, seaside city Odawara.
APRIL 2024
The lab has a new mascot: Beau. We love our bb fur 😉
MARCH 2024
Celebrating the International Women’s Day 2024!! In support of the International Women’s Day, LIMS fellows have organised a nice BBQ with lovely cupcakes.
FEBRUARY 2024
Lorne Infection and Immunity 2024 😉 The lab had fun at Lorne Infection and Immunity Conference, grabbing some cheeky drinks and enjoying the stunning view from “The Peak” in Lorne. Smile! What’s the best way to enjoy some conference down time? By the beach of course!
Winning awards is fun right? Congratulations to Dr Emma Grant for her Mid Career Development Award!
Lorne Proteins 2024. Doing our best to do anything to get some freebies at the Lorne Protein conference! Also riding with the boss to the conference 😉
JANUARY 2024
Happy new year and welcome back for another year of fun and science 😉