The School of Molecular Bioscience is delighted to announce the decision by the University Senate to confer upon Philip the title of Professor Emeritus effective from his retirement data in 2013
A dramatic image of a virus replicating and spreading through cells, destroying them as it goes, has been captured by researchers in the Newsome Lab in the School of Molecular Bioscience
Professor Noel Hush has been announced the winner of the 4th Ahmed Zewail Prize in Molecular Science for his outstanding contributions to electron transfer processes.
PhD Candidate Aline Noçon and Postdoctoral Fellow Magdalena Grill, from SMB's Prof Iain Campbell's Laboratory, have been awarded travel grants by the International Society of Neuroimmunology (ISNI) to attend the 11th International Congress of Neuroimmunology in Boston, Massachusetts in November.
Associate Professor Andy Holmes is currently investigating the interplay between the human body's microbiota and the nutrients in various foods consumed, and the significance that this has to weight gain and obesity. Furthermore, Andy is also looking at the influence of environment and diet on an individual's microbiota, in order to understand the variation in how consumed calories are used in different people.
In an ongoing debate between Australian Nutrition experts including the Heart Foundation and CSIRO's Peter Clifton, and the National Health and Medical Research Council (NHMRC), the Council's draft 2012 Australian Guide to Healthy Eating has been discredited by acclaimed experts for it's lack of emphasis on polyunsaturated fats.
The exceptional research potential of a native Australian plant has been accelerated by the release of both its DNA and RNA sequence by University of Sydney researchers and their partners.
Professor Tony Weiss has been named a finalist in the Eureka Prize for Medical Research Translation for his outstanding medical research which has been translated into clinical applications.
Kavya Swaminathan, a PhD candidate with A/Prof. Kevin Downard, has been awarded one of only five poster prizes at the Australian Society for Microbiology 2012 Conference in Brisbane.
Emeritus Professor Stewart Truswell has taken a stand against the NHMRC's new draft dietary guidelines, claiming that they do not distinguish between good and bad fats. Truswell, along with the Dietitians Association of Australia are pushing to have the wording of the draft changed
New York City's mayor Michael Bloomberg, with the endorsement of Associate Professor Margaret Allman-Farinelli, has proposed a limitation on the serving size of soft drinks to a maximum of 500mL at fast food outlets, restaurants, cinema and street-side vendors.
At the start of June, School of Molecular Bioscience Lecturer Bridget Kelly visited Mongolia as part of a World Health Organization supported research project.
Research by SMB staff on the value of lectures to undergraduate students was mentioned by the Financial Review in their story about the value of online lectures.
Professor Ruth Hall has been awarded the Academy of Science's 2012 Macfarlane Burnet Medal and Lecture for research in the biological sciences. Her substantial and highly influential research on how antibiotic resistance genes are acquired by gram negative bacteria has made a huge contribution to the scientific community's understanding on the subject. Well done Ruth!
SMB PhD Candidate with Associate Professor Kevin Downard, Kavya Swaminathan has been awarded a Faculty of Science Postgraduate Research Prize for Outstanding Academic Achievement. She will be presented with a certificate and cash prize at a forthcoming Faculty of Science Awards Evening. Well done Kavya!
The Mackay Lab is working to create designer RNA-binding proteins; such proteins would have many exciting potential research and clinical applications.
Keith Taylor, a former Professor of Biochemistry at the University of Sydney recently passed away. Professor Ian Caterson presents a tribute to Keith's considerable contributions to the university and to science.
Samantha Cheung, a PhD student with Nicholas Coleman has been featured by the the Sydney Alumni Magazine. The feature focuses on her work funded by the Selby Research Award.
Zoe (Yiping) Che, an SMB PhD student (Christopherson Lab) has won one of the two student poster prizes, awarded at the 17th Lorne Proteomics Symposium in February for her poster "Proteomic analysis of drug synergy between the Hsp90 inhibitor SNX7081 and fludarabine".
A cartilage gel being developed by tissue engineers and biochemists at the University of Sydney could bring increased mobility to people living with debilitating sports injuries.
Emeritus Professor Stewart Truswell has co-edited a new nutrition textbook titled 'Essentials of Human Nutrition (Fourth Edition)'. Four members of the School's Human Nutrition Unit also contributed to the book - A/Prof Samir Samman, A/Prof Margaret Allman-Farinelli, Dr Kim Bell-Anderson and PhD candidate Meika Foster.
A Howard Hughes Medical Institute (HHMI) International Research Program grant will support Professor Tony Weiss in hosting a visit by Joshua Thompson from the Fischell Department of Bioengineering, University of Maryland, USA.
The 37th Lorne Conference on Protein Structure and Function on Feburary 5 saw three SMB PhD Candidates and an SMB Postdoctoral Fellow take home awards. Congratulations Soumya Joseph (Matthews Lab), Kaavya Kumar (Gell/Mackay Lab) and Vanessa Morriss (Sunde/Kwan Lab) and Dr David Jacques (Matthews Lab)!
Associate Professor Gareth Denyer has won the 2012 Invitrogen Life Technologies Education Award from the Australian Society for Biochemistry and Molecular Biology. This Award rewards outstanding achievement in education in biochemistry or molecular biology, especially innovation and creativity in education.
Associate Professor Kevin Downard was invited to open the Gordon Research Conference entitled 'Isotopes in Biological & Chemical Sciences: Centennial Celebration of the Discovery of Stable Isotopes' in Texas, USA from February 5-10.
An international team of scientists, including the University of Sydney research team led and coordinated by Professor Tony Weiss, has found the molecular structure in the body which functions as our 'shock absorber'.
Suzie Ferrie has won the AuSPEN David Russell Clinical Research Award with her oral presentation 'Commonly-Used "Nutritional" Indicators do not Predict Outcome in the Crticially Ill: A Systematic Review'.
Dr Ian Darnton-Hill has been recognised by the Governor-General in the 2012 round of Australia Day Honours. Ian was recognised for his distinguished service to the international community, particularly in areas of public health and nutrition, to disease prevention and health promotion, and as a physician, academic and educator.
Meika Foster has won the 2011 Nutrition Society of Australia Early-Career Travel Grant. This competitive award recognises and encourages original research by a student member of the NSA.
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Giselle Yeo has been awarded the 2012 Bercovici Medal and Prize.
Recent graduate of the School of Molecular Bioscience - Miriam-Rose Ash has been awarded the Australian Synchrotron Thesis Medal.
The School of Molecular Bioscience is delighted to announce the decision by the University Senate to confer upon Philip the title of Professor Emeritus effective from his retirement data in 2013
A dramatic image of a virus replicating and spreading through cells, destroying them as it goes, has been captured by researchers in the Newsome Lab in the School of Molecular Bioscience
Professor Noel Hush has been announced the winner of the 4th Ahmed Zewail Prize in Molecular Science for his outstanding contributions to electron transfer processes.
PhD Candidate Aline Noçon and Postdoctoral Fellow Magdalena Grill, from SMB's Prof Iain Campbell's Laboratory, have been awarded travel grants by the International Society of Neuroimmunology (ISNI) to attend the 11th International Congress of Neuroimmunology in Boston, Massachusetts in November.
Associate Professor Andy Holmes is currently investigating the interplay between the human body's microbiota and the nutrients in various foods consumed, and the significance that this has to weight gain and obesity. Furthermore, Andy is also looking at the influence of environment and diet on an individual's microbiota, in order to understand the variation in how consumed calories are used in different people.
In an ongoing debate between Australian Nutrition experts including the Heart Foundation and CSIRO's Peter Clifton, and the National Health and Medical Research Council (NHMRC), the Council's draft 2012 Australian Guide to Healthy Eating has been discredited by acclaimed experts for it's lack of emphasis on polyunsaturated fats.
The exceptional research potential of a native Australian plant has been accelerated by the release of both its DNA and RNA sequence by University of Sydney researchers and their partners.
Professor Tony Weiss has been named a finalist in the Eureka Prize for Medical Research Translation for his outstanding medical research which has been translated into clinical applications.
Kavya Swaminathan, a PhD candidate with A/Prof. Kevin Downard, has been awarded one of only five poster prizes at the Australian Society for Microbiology 2012 Conference in Brisbane. 
Emeritus Professor Stewart Truswell has taken a stand against the NHMRC's new draft dietary guidelines, claiming that they do not distinguish between good and bad fats. Truswell, along with the Dietitians Association of Australia are pushing to have the wording of the draft changed 
New York City's mayor Michael Bloomberg, with the endorsement of Associate Professor Margaret Allman-Farinelli, has proposed a limitation on the serving size of soft drinks to a maximum of 500mL at fast food outlets, restaurants, cinema and street-side vendors.
At the start of June, School of Molecular Bioscience Lecturer Bridget Kelly visited Mongolia as part of a World Health Organization supported research project. 
Research by SMB staff on the value of lectures to undergraduate students was mentioned by the Financial Review in their story about the value of online lectures.
A publication by graduate student Helena Lynn (Newsome Lab) has been selected as an article of significant interest by the Journal of Virology.
Professor Ruth Hall has been awarded the Academy of Science's 2012 Macfarlane Burnet Medal and Lecture for research in the biological sciences. Her substantial and highly influential research on how antibiotic resistance genes are acquired by gram negative bacteria has made a huge contribution to the scientific community's understanding on the subject. Well done Ruth!
SMB PhD Candidate with Associate Professor Kevin Downard, Kavya Swaminathan has been awarded a Faculty of Science Postgraduate Research Prize for Outstanding Academic Achievement. She will be presented with a certificate and cash prize at a forthcoming Faculty of Science Awards Evening. Well done Kavya!
The Mackay Lab is working to create designer RNA-binding proteins; such proteins would have many exciting potential research and clinical applications.
Keith Taylor, a former Professor of Biochemistry at the University of Sydney recently passed away. Professor Ian Caterson presents a tribute to Keith's considerable contributions to the university and to science.
Samantha Cheung, a PhD student with Nicholas Coleman has been featured by the the Sydney Alumni Magazine. The feature focuses on her work funded by the Selby Research Award.
Zoe (Yiping) Che, an SMB PhD student (Christopherson Lab) has won one of the two student poster prizes, awarded at the 17th Lorne Proteomics Symposium in February for her poster "Proteomic analysis of drug synergy between the Hsp90 inhibitor SNX7081 and fludarabine". 
A cartilage gel being developed by tissue engineers and biochemists at the University of Sydney could bring increased mobility to people living with debilitating sports injuries. 
Emeritus Professor Stewart Truswell has co-edited a new nutrition textbook titled 'Essentials of Human Nutrition (Fourth Edition)'. Four members of the School's Human Nutrition Unit also contributed to the book - A/Prof Samir Samman, A/Prof Margaret Allman-Farinelli, Dr Kim Bell-Anderson and PhD candidate Meika Foster.
A Howard Hughes Medical Institute (HHMI) International Research Program grant will support Professor Tony Weiss in hosting a visit by Joshua Thompson from the Fischell Department of Bioengineering, University of Maryland, USA.
The 37th Lorne Conference on Protein Structure and Function on Feburary 5 saw three SMB PhD Candidates and an SMB Postdoctoral Fellow take home awards. Congratulations Soumya Joseph (Matthews Lab), Kaavya Kumar (Gell/Mackay Lab) and Vanessa Morriss (Sunde/Kwan Lab) and Dr David Jacques (Matthews Lab)! 
Associate Professor Gareth Denyer has won the 2012 Invitrogen Life Technologies Education Award from the Australian Society for Biochemistry and Molecular Biology. This Award rewards outstanding achievement in education in biochemistry or molecular biology, especially innovation and creativity in education. 
Associate Professor Kevin Downard was invited to open the Gordon Research Conference entitled 'Isotopes in Biological & Chemical Sciences: Centennial Celebration of the Discovery of Stable Isotopes' in Texas, USA from February 5-10.
Suzie Ferrie has won the AuSPEN David Russell Clinical Research Award with her oral presentation 'Commonly-Used "Nutritional" Indicators do not Predict Outcome in the Crticially Ill: A Systematic Review'. 
Dr Ian Darnton-Hill has been recognised by the Governor-General in the 2012 round of Australia Day Honours. Ian was recognised for his distinguished service to the international community, particularly in areas of public health and nutrition, to disease prevention and health promotion, and as a physician, academic and educator.
Meika Foster has won the 2011 Nutrition Society of Australia Early-Career Travel Grant. This competitive award recognises and encourages original research by a student member of the NSA.