How we punch our way into cancer cells Full media release, media contacts, photos, videos and background information below. Full paper here Edible oyster mushrooms have an intriguing secret: they eat spiders and roundworms. And they do so using proteins which can punch their way into cells, leaving tidy but deadly holes. It’s a trick…
Launch of the $20 million Clive and Vera Ramaciotti Centre for Structural Cryo Electron Microscopy Monash University, Melbourne 11 am Monday 2 February 2015 With Prof Aidan Byrne, CEO of the Australian Research Council; Prof Edwina Cornish, Provost and Senior Vice-President, Monash University; and Caitriona Fay, National Manager Philanthropy, Perpetual. A unique $5 million electron…
Images available for download from launch of the Clive and Vera Ramaciotti Centre for Structural Cryo Electron Microscopy
Life and health ultimately depend on the interactions of large biological molecules, such as proteins and carbohydrates. And those interactions depend on the 3D shapes and structures of the molecules.
The launch of the Clive and Vera Ramaciotti Centre for Structural Cryo-Electron Microscopy provides a missing piece in Australia’s most extensive and comprehensive suite of technologies to support biomedical research, all based around the Clayton campus of Monash University.
Launch 15 October 2014 from 11 am at Building 75 (STRIP Building), Monash University, Clayton. Click for map. With Professor Aidan Byrne, CEO of the Australian Research Council and MP Michael Sukkar. The $39 million ARC Centre of Excellence in Advanced Molecular Imaging launches today with the mission of changing the way we see the…
How viruses use ‘fake’ proteins to hide in our cells Some viruses can hide in our bodies for decades. They make ‘fake’ human proteins that trick our immune cells into thinking ‘everything is awesome’, there’s nothing to see here. Now researchers at the Imaging Centre of Excellence at Monash and Melbourne Universities have determined the…
Posted on behalf of James Whisstock, Director Imaging CoE Welcome to the June newsletter of the ARC Centre of Excellence for Advanced Molecular Imaging. Another month down the track and the Centre is really coming together. In terms of facilities and equipment, I’m excited because construction of Australia’s most advanced cryo-electron microscope unit is well…
Posted on behalf of James Whisstock, Director Imaging CoE Welcome to my first bulletin as director of the Imaging CoE—the Australian Research Council Centre of Excellence in Advanced Molecular Imaging. The Centre was announced by the ARC in December last year and we’re moving towards launch later this year. Our chief investigators – at Monash, Melbourne,…
Researchers discover how our immune cells bind to wheat proteins triggering the condition Embargo: 1 am AEST Tuesday 29 April 2014 Published in Nature Structural and Molecular Biology Australian, US and Dutch researchers have determined the molecular details of the interaction between the immune system and gluten that triggers celiac disease. Their work opens the…