School of Molecular Bioscience

The School of Molecular Bioscience was one of the first and largest schools in Australia devoted to research and teaching in the areas of microbiology, biochemistry, molecular biology and genetics, cell biology and human nutrition. The School organisation reflects its research and teaching strengths and priorities being composed of five research disciplines in Structural Biology, Microbiology, Molecular Biology and Genetics, Nutrition and Metabolism, and Proteomics and Biotechnology. In 2010 the School was comprised of a total of 75 academics (including 4 Fellows of the Australian Academy of Science, 2 Federation Fellows, and 31 postdoctoral fellows) and 51 general staff. A central mission of the School is in the training of the next generation of scientists and because of our research commitment we are very well placed to translate the latest scientific discoveries from the research lab into the lecture theatre and practical class.

Latest News

• Jacquelyn Horsington Wins Best Presentation Award

  

  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.

• An Nguyen Awarded Wenkart Foundation Grant

  

  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's F11 Insulin Algorithm

  

  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.