UNSW Biotechnology & Biomolecular Sciences

New review out in @NAR_Open! 🔎 What makes a bacterial small RNA work? We discuss: 🧬 Sequence features 🤝 Hfq, ProQ & RNA chaperones ✂️ RNase E & degradosome interactions 🧪 Lessons for synthetic RNA design 📖Read: academic.oup.com/nar/article-ab… With @jaitreeau @UNSWBABS @DavidLalaouna

Our recent paper looking at history of flagellar motility now online in final form @ISMEJournal We looked at 10,000 species to map the diversity and history of the bacterial #flagellar motor across the tree of life. @UNSWBABS @UNSWScience academic.oup.com/ismej/article/…

What can wastewater tell us about viruses? 💩🚽🧬📈 During the COVID-19 pandemic many labs turned to wastewater monitoring to detect viruses. However, @WhiteLabUNSW has been using wastewater for over 10 years to monitor circulating norovirus 🤮. 🧵 doi.org/10.1080/237442…

Sydney #RNA people, @SydneyRNASalon, don't miss out on today's @UNSWBABS & @UNSWRNA presentation by Prof. Eric Westhof Limited seats and drinks to follow!

Had an absolute blast presenting a poster at my first international conference, Deuel Conference on Lipids 2025 in beautiful Long Beach, California. #ASBMBDeuel @ASBMB

It is an honour to have been awarded the FEMS Microbiology Reviews outstanding poster award at the #blastmeeting2025! Thank you to the judges and all those who came to my poster and talked all things flagellin! @FEMSmicro @UNSWBABS @UNSWScience @BlastMeetings

As part of the @unswscience "SciX@UNSW" program we hosted a tour of our genomics facility! This program supports passionate high school students who are eager to delve into scientific research, giving them a taste of this career path. #scix

Congratulations Hatu on the first publication from your PhD 😊 doi.org/10.1002/mabi.2… @CyrilleBoyer61 @UNSWBABS

Excited to share my first paper! 🦠🔬 We investigate the human macrophage response to the emerging enteric pathogen #Aeromonas veronii, exploring inflammation, apoptosis, and histone downregulation. Explore our findings here: doi.org/10.1080/215055… @UNSWBABS @UNSWScience

The first of many novel Antarctic fungi to be described by the #Ferrarilab in collab with Brett Summerell and @BotanicSydney @AlintaFurnell @XabiVC @jordan_vink marcwilkins Penicillium psychrofluorescens sp. nov., a naturally autofluorescent Antarc fungus tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.10…

2nd ever @egiannoulatou @phatmattbaker double header, today @PKU1898. Hosted by @OxfordPhysics PhD colleague Prof Bai Fan it was great to represent @UNSWBABS @UNSWScience & @VictorChangInst @UNSWMedicine w/ #flagellar & #SCAD research. Shoutout @LEGO_Group for childcare assist.

Check out the latest Ferrari Lab publication! 🚨 Discover how microbial life at Robinson Ridge, East Antarctica ❄️, shifts up a hillslope, across fine spatial scales and vertical layers. 🧊🏔️❄️ authors.elsevier.com/sd/article/S00… @ferrari_belinda @UNSWBABS #MicrobialEcology #Antarctica

Our last publication for the year which highlights our strong collaboration with @SpeddingTim and Dan Wilkins. Congratulations team. @eden_zh @nathali_micro @UNSWBABS @AusAntarctic Fine-scale landscape heterogeneity drives microbial community structur... sciencedirect.com/science/articl…

Exciting times in the #RegRNALab! We just got our growth chamber 🌱. Getting ready for our #2ToTango #FT24 @arc_gov_au experiments!!! Thanks to the @UNSWBABS team for all your help setting it up and @UNSWRNA for the generous startup + ongoing support! #RNA

Grateful to have contributed to a study led by Feifei Su @UNSW, exploring how NEGR1 deficiency affects GAD65 accumulation, synaptic GABA synthesis, and feeding behavior. NEGR1 influences GABAergic signaling, with potential links to psychiatric disorders. [bit.ly/3OYqDnQ]

Bowling 🎳 w/ @UNSWBABS and our lab for end of year 🎉🍕🍻. Fun bowl-off which our lab lost. Eerie to be inside in the dark then exit after a few VBs to blazing ☀️🌞 32C. Shout out to HoS @shanetgrey & School Mgr Michael Bowen leading us on and off the lanes. #buckhunter also.

"Rescue of bacterial motility using two and three-species FliC chimeras" In this pre-print out we studied the effect of flagellin (FliC) outer domain chimeras on bacterial motility. @UNSWScience @UNSWBABS biorxiv.org/content/10.110…

This work was led by #PhD student Jamiema Sara Philip, supported by @HFSP w/ @SBSatEd @AucklandUni @UNSWBABS contributions from @pseudomoaner @NickJMatzke Caroline Puente-Lelievre @JacobScadden, – and initially started as an undergrad @UNSWEngineering proj. w Sehhaj Grewal.

"Easy come, easier go: mapping the loss of flagellar motility across the tree of life" 🌱🔬 We analysed ~11,000 bacterial genomes to examine how flagellar motility has evolved 🏊‍♂️➡️🛑 @UNSWBABS @UNSWScience biorxiv.org/content/10.110…

A merry Christmas from the Quinlan/Crossley lab! #Babs #UNSW #Labchristmastree