Welcome to the Otago Biochemistry 2026 400-level students!
Great to meet them at the welcome morning tea today.
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Welcome to the Otago Biochemistry 2026 400-level students!
Great to meet them at the welcome morning tea today.
New post-doctoral research position in my phage-host interactions (Phi) laboratory in @otagomicroimmuno.bsky.social at @universityofotago.bsky.social New Zealand. The project is focused on defences against jumbo phages. Please share and if interested apply using the link in the comments.
Latest publication with a contribution from Otago Biochemistry.
The β-amyloid-induced increased tonic conductance, impaired long-term potentiation and cognitive deficits characteristic of Alzheimer's disease are reversed by an α5 inverse agonist
www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
Latest publication from Otago Biochemistry.
E-cadherin loss in Cd44-positive gastric cells initiates diffuse gastric cancer in a murine model
gut.bmj.com/content/earl...
Department of Biochemistry Seminar
Monday 10 March, 12pm, Rm BIG13
Prof. Ido Braslavsky, Head of the Institute of Biochemistry, Food Science and Nutrition, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem
Ice-Binding Proteins: Nature's Nanotools for Ice Control
Latest publication with a contribution from Otago Biochemistry.
Lost in translation: absence of KIAA1324/ELAPOR1 protein in pathological TDP-43-affected neurons in ALS/FTD
link.springer.com/article/10.1...
Latest publication with a contribution from Otago Biochemistry.
Mitonuclear Discordance and Gout, Type 2 Diabetes and Chronic Kidney Disease in Aotearoa New Zealand Indigenous Māori and Pacific People
onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...
Congratulations to Jess Willans (Ledgerwood Lab) and Lachlan Taylor (Brownfield Lab) on their recent MSc thesis submissions, tau kē!🎉
Do you know about the beginning of recombinant DNA?
This short doco is very interesting…
Life Recombined: The Story of Recombinant DNA feat. Paul Berg & Janet Mertz
youtu.be/YAIX2_QXmwY
I know there is a lot going on and academic communication may not be at the top of your mind.
But if you want to talk about how to make a great conference poster, I’m giving a 🆓 webinar next week.
Register here:
www.repro4everyone.org/blog/r4e-web...
I hope you can join me!
This #RareDiseaseDay, we’re highlighting how open data sharing supports diagnosis, research, and families living with rare conditions.
Watch to find out how access to rare disease data through @deciphergenomics.bsky.social can help families better understand their children’s rare conditions.
Want to know how bees count to two, and why it matters?
on how bees count to two
open.substack.com/pub/peterkde...
Yay the students are back!
Health & Safety lab training for 400-level students this week. Bright eyed, bushy tailed, and super keen for some lab research!
Insect research has used Drosophila as a model organism for over a century. But today’s tools now open up a much wider spectrum of insects which deserve to be studied. See the recent commentary in @fly-journal.bsky.social by @peterkdearden.bsky.social, ‘Why just fly?’ doi.org/10.1080/1933...
Why we need to expect better from science leadership.
on trusting scientists to lead.
open.substack.com/pub/peterkde...
After three (tumultuous) years guiding the department, Professor Peter Dearden has stepped aside from his role as Head of Department to refocus on research and teaching. Professor Julian Eaton-Rye has taken over as HOD, having starting in December last year.
blogs.otago.ac.nz/thesheet/hod...
‘An AlphaFold 4’ – scientists marvel at DeepMind drug spin-off’s exclusive new AI
www.nature.com/articles/d41...
"Anyone who writes seriously will recognize how useful writing can be in the thinking process. ... Or as Richard Feynman said of his notebooks: “They aren’t a record of my thinking process. They are my thinking process.”"
www.thetransmitter.org/artificial-i...
"When we talk about translatable skills from (science) grad school,... near the top of all lists is critical thinking, ... It’s knowing when I don’t know something. That is: I’m (usually) very good at recognizing things I don’t understand."
🎉 GIVEAWAY: Win a free IUCr2026 workshop registration!
Hit 20 likes = TWO winners!
To enter: Like, comment your workshop pick, tag a colleague & repost.
Winner: Feb 27 👉 event.fourwaves.com/...
#IUCR #IUCr2026 #crystallography
One week left to apply for the protein crystallography focused 2.5 year postdoc position in my group @otagobiochemist.bsky.social :
otago.taleo.net/careersectio...
Department of Biochemistry Seminar
Tues 24 Feb 12pm Room BIG13
Assoc Prof Kerwyn Huang
Associate Professor of Bioengineering, Standford University
How resource competition shapes the gut microbiome
PDB-101 materials explore how researchers are using biology in industry.
Watch a webinar to start Exploring the Workhorses of Biotechnology
The indomitable Dr Jordon Lima has been awarded an Otago Health Sciences Māori Postdoc Fellowship to establish a lab in Te Tairāwhiti for cancer screening, working with local cancer care services and Te Aho Matatū Cancer Genetics Lab at Otago Biochem.
Ka mau te wehi!
www.otago.ac.nz/news/newsroo...
A mihi whakatau last week to welcome new staff to Otago Biochemistry, including new lecturer Assoc Prof Matt McNeil 😊
Yup. What's unimaginable is the work that went into synthesising/purifying/crystallising proteins UNSUCCESSFULLY in the past 50 yrs, that don't have a structure to show for it. The structures in the training data represent just the tip of the iceberg in terms of effort. So many postgrad tears...
On the second law of thermodynamics
open.substack.com/pub/peterkde...
Big recommend for Otago-based biologist Peter Dearden’s excellent substack.
open.substack.com/pub/peterkde...
Teasing out more of the details of the amazing machinery behind photosynthesis - by Otago biochemists Bharat Majhi & Julian Eaton-Rye
