Jacquelyn Horsington, a Post-doctoral Research Associate in Tim Newsome's lab, has won an award for best presentation by a post-doc at the 2011 Sydney Imaging Group Symposium, held at the University of New South Wales.
An Nguyen, starting his PhD research in the Downard laboratory, has been awarded a prestigious Wenkart Foundation Grant to fund his scholarship, research and travel costs over 3 years.
Jiansong Bao and colleagues have improved acute postprandial glycemia through the development of a new novel food insulin index F11-based algorithm for estimating mealtime insulin dose. Comparison with the use of carbohydrate counting in 21 adults with Type 1 diabetes showed favourable results for the algorithm.
A group of SMB researchers, including Gareth Denyer Andy Holmes and Ian Caterson and led by Yan Lam and Len Storlien, have made the front cover of Obesity Research - the official journal of the Obesity Society.
As part of the University of Sydney's commitment to social inclusion, SMB contributed to this year's COMPASS program for the first time. 70 indigenous students and students with links to the Smith Family from all over Sydney visited G08 in June and July.
Suzie Ferrie, a PhD student with A/Prof. Margaret Allman-Farinelli, has won the Three Minute Thesis Competition. She will next be heading to Perth to represent the University of Sydney at the national level.
A number of researchers from the School of Molecular Bioscience, including Charles Collyer, Nan Li, Cy Jeffries, David Langley, Rolandand Gamsjaeger have published a paper which has been featured on the front cover of the September edition of Molecular Microbiology.
PhD candidate Wen Li, working under the supervision of Prof. Iain Campbell, has been awarded a travel grant to the ISICR 9th Joint Meeting in Florence.
A team from the Matthews and Mackay labs used a combination of biophysical and structural techniques to show how sets of proteins come together to form large protein complexes, built around Gata1, that help to fine-tune the activity of this master regulator transcription factor.
Nick Coleman has been awarded the 2011 Selby Research Award. It is awarded by the Faculty of Science to an outstanding academic within five years of their first appointment as a Lecturer or Senior Lecturer in the physical, chemical or biochemical disciplines to establish their research career.
James Taylor's paper on the immune systems of bacteria has been featured in this years ILL Annual Report as well as making the front cover of the Journal of Molecular Biology.
Recent work published by the Sunde group shows that the surface tension of a solution is critical for the self-assembly of this unique family of fungal proteins known as hydrophobins.
The Carisma potato is making waves as the world's first certified low GI potato (wwww.carismapotato.com.au). It was recently awarded the AUSVEG National Excellence Award 2011 as the 'biggest development the potato industry has experienced in decades'
Australia's peak nutrition body, the Dieticians Association of Australia has announced that University of Sydney dietitian, Margaret Allman-Farinelli, has been awarded the highly-regarded Advanced Accredited Practising Dietitian (AdvAPD) credential.
Emeritus Professor A. Stewartt Truswell's book "Cholesterol and Beyond: The Research on Diet and Coronary Heart Disease 1900-2000" has received critical acclaim from a wide range of publications.
Vicki Xie (PhD candidate in Campbell lab), Marjorie Linares (PhD candidate in Carter Lab) and Aaron Lun (Honours student in Downard lab), were awarded travel bursaries at the University of Queensland Winter School in Mathematical and Computational Biology.
SMB's Gareth Denyer, Dale Hancock, Jill Johnston, Hannah Nicholas and Sashi Kant are successfully awarded two STEPs grants out of the 29 awarded University-wide.
Researchers led by Professor Jennie Brand-Miller at the University of Sydney have recently found that the glycemic load - not just carbohydrate content alone - is a more reliable predictor of blood sugar and insulin levels after eating.
Working with Gerd Blobel from the Childrens Hospital of Philadelphia, the Mackay lab has been on a quest to understand the story behind the acetylation of specific lysine residues in the erythroid master regulator GATA1.
Len Lawler joined the Department of Biochemistry as a laboratory assistant in 1956 and retired as a senior professional officer in 1986. He recently passed away on the 11th of February this year.
Jiansong Bao, a PhD candidate working under the supervision of Professor Jennie Brand-Miller, will be awarded a best abstract prize at the 1st Asia Pacific CODHy Congress
The School of Molecular Bioscience recently held its award ceremony on Thursday 5th of May. We would like to extend our thanks to all those who attended, the presenters and our sponsors as well as our congratulations to all the award winners.
Emeritus Professor Noel Hush has been elected to the prestigious US National Academy of Sciences in recognition of his outstanding career in theoretical chemistry research.
Professor Tony Weiss has been awarded the inaugural Pauling Medal for "notable and outstanding research in Materials Chemistry". The Medal recognises his achievements in the development of human tropoelastin-based biomaterials. The award is to be conferred at the international association's annual conference in May 2011
Professor Jennie Brand Miller's paper: "Glycemic index, glycemic load, and chronic disease risk—a metaanalysis of observational studies" has become the most the most cited paper in The American Journal of Clinical Nutrition.
As part of the University's "Degree in a Day" program, some budding young scientists experienced an afternoon in the lab at SMB. Forty high school students from around the state had the opportunity to go behind the scenes and perform biochemical assays to diagnose a case of chest pain.
Professor Ruth Hall was recognized at the Sydney Medical School Celebratory Dinner on the evening of Thursday 24 March, for her recent McFarlane Burnet Medal from the Australian Academy of Science.
David Jacques, a PhD student in the Guss/Trewhella Lab, has described in exquisite detail the KipI-KipA complex and the findings were recently published in the Journal of Molecular Biology.
Professor Tony Weiss has led an international team to solve the structure of elastin's essential element, tropoelastin. The findings are published in the journal Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences USA this month.
Dr Dick Loughlin was a Senior Lecturer in the Department of Biochemistry from 1963 - 1990. He passed away on December 16, 2010. The School sends its condolences to Dr Loughlin's wife and family.
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Jacquelyn Horsington, a Post-doctoral Research Associate in Tim Newsome's lab, has won an award for best presentation by a post-doc at the 2011 Sydney Imaging Group Symposium, held at the University of New South Wales. 
An Nguyen, starting his PhD research in the Downard laboratory, has been awarded a prestigious Wenkart Foundation Grant to fund his scholarship, research and travel costs over 3 years.
Jiansong Bao and colleagues have improved acute postprandial glycemia through the development of a new novel food insulin index F11-based algorithm for estimating mealtime insulin dose. Comparison with the use of carbohydrate counting in 21 adults with Type 1 diabetes showed favourable results for the algorithm.
A group of SMB researchers, including Gareth Denyer Andy Holmes and Ian Caterson and led by Yan Lam and Len Storlien, have made the front cover of Obesity Research - the official journal of the Obesity Society.
As part of the University of Sydney's commitment to social inclusion, SMB contributed to this year's COMPASS program for the first time. 70 indigenous students and students with links to the Smith Family from all over Sydney visited G08 in June and July. 
Suzie Ferrie, a PhD student with A/Prof. Margaret Allman-Farinelli, has won the Three Minute Thesis Competition. She will next be heading to Perth to represent the University of Sydney at the national level.
A number of researchers from the School of Molecular Bioscience, including Charles Collyer, Nan Li, Cy Jeffries, David Langley, Rolandand Gamsjaeger have published a paper which has been featured on the front cover of the September edition of Molecular Microbiology.
PhD candidate Wen Li, working under the supervision of Prof. Iain Campbell, has been awarded a travel grant to the ISICR 9th Joint Meeting in Florence. 
A team from the Matthews and Mackay labs used a combination of biophysical and structural techniques to show how sets of proteins come together to form large protein complexes, built around Gata1, that help to fine-tune the activity of this master regulator transcription factor. 
Nick Coleman has been awarded the 2011 Selby Research Award. It is awarded by the Faculty of Science to an outstanding academic within five years of their first appointment as a Lecturer or Senior Lecturer in the physical, chemical or biochemical disciplines to establish their research career.
Vanessa Gysbers spent a day with over 150 international agents from around the world, showing them how to extract DNA from bacterial cells.
James Taylor's paper on the immune systems of bacteria has been featured in this years ILL Annual Report as well as making the front cover of the Journal of Molecular Biology.
Recent work published by the Sunde group shows that the surface tension of a solution is critical for the self-assembly of this unique family of fungal proteins known as hydrophobins.
The Carisma potato is making waves as the world's first certified low GI potato (wwww.carismapotato.com.au). It was recently awarded the AUSVEG National Excellence Award 2011 as the 'biggest development the potato industry has experienced in decades'
Associate Professor Samir Samman's review on phytonutrients has become the highest cited paper in Food Chemistry for the period 2006-2010
The Coleman and Holmes labs discover a copper-based monooxygenase HmoCAB is involved in oxidation of C2-C4 alkanes in strain NBB4. 
Australia's peak nutrition body, the Dieticians Association of Australia has announced that University of Sydney dietitian, Margaret Allman-Farinelli, has been awarded the highly-regarded Advanced Accredited Practising Dietitian (AdvAPD) credential.
Emeritus Professor A. Stewartt Truswell's book "Cholesterol and Beyond: The Research on Diet and Coronary Heart Disease 1900-2000" has received critical acclaim from a wide range of publications.
Vicki Xie (PhD candidate in Campbell lab), Marjorie Linares (PhD candidate in Carter Lab) and Aaron Lun (Honours student in Downard lab), were awarded travel bursaries at the University of Queensland Winter School in Mathematical and Computational Biology.
SMB's Gareth Denyer, Dale Hancock, Jill Johnston, Hannah Nicholas and Sashi Kant are successfully awarded two STEPs grants out of the 29 awarded University-wide. 
For the Queen's Birthday awards 2011 our very own Jennie Brand-Miller was named a Member in the general division of the Order of Australia.
Researchers led by Professor Jennie Brand-Miller at the University of Sydney have recently found that the glycemic load - not just carbohydrate content alone - is a more reliable predictor of blood sugar and insulin levels after eating. 
Working with Gerd Blobel from the Childrens Hospital of Philadelphia, the Mackay lab has been on a quest to understand the story behind the acetylation of specific lysine residues in the erythroid master regulator GATA1. 
Len Lawler joined the Department of Biochemistry as a laboratory assistant in 1956 and retired as a senior professional officer in 1986. He recently passed away on the 11th of February this year.
Jiansong Bao, a PhD candidate working under the supervision of Professor Jennie Brand-Miller, will be awarded a best abstract prize at the 1st Asia Pacific CODHy Congress
The School of Molecular Bioscience recently held its award ceremony on Thursday 5th of May. We would like to extend our thanks to all those who attended, the presenters and our sponsors as well as our congratulations to all the award winners.
Emeritus Professor Noel Hush has been elected to the prestigious 
Congratulations to Nestor Solis on being awarded the Faculty of Science Postgraduate Research Prize for Outstanding Academic Achievement.
Professor Tony Weiss has been awarded the inaugural Pauling Medal for "notable and outstanding research in Materials Chemistry". The Medal recognises his achievements in the development of human tropoelastin-based biomaterials. The award is to be conferred at the international association's annual conference in May 2011
As part of the University's "Degree in a Day" program, some budding young scientists experienced an afternoon in the lab at SMB. Forty high school students from around the state had the opportunity to go behind the scenes and perform biochemical assays to diagnose a case of chest pain.
Professor Ruth Hall was recognized at the Sydney Medical School Celebratory Dinner on the evening of Thursday 24 March, for her recent McFarlane Burnet Medal from the Australian Academy of Science.
David Jacques, a PhD student in the Guss/Trewhella Lab, has described in exquisite detail the KipI-KipA complex and the findings were recently published in the Journal of Molecular Biology.
Professor Tony Weiss has led an international team to solve the structure of elastin's essential element, tropoelastin. The findings are published in the journal Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences USA this month.
Dr Dick Loughlin was a Senior Lecturer in the Department of Biochemistry from 1963 - 1990. He passed away on December 16, 2010. The School sends its condolences to Dr Loughlin's wife and family.