Zuryn Lab

Out today! We find that an epigenetic modification (6mA) to the mitochondrial genome (mtDNA) influences lifespan and the heritability of mtDNA mutations to the next generation. It implies that epigenetics determines genetic composition in future offspring. cell.com/cell-metabolis…

Abstract submission and registration closes soon for the Cell Biology of the Nervous System in Crete. Hope to see you there!

This will be a great meeting!

@MSamantzis @matildebalbi Congrats Montana! Well deserved

Extremely honoured to have been awarded the Joan Lawrence prize for High Achieving Women in Neuroscience today - many thanks must go to @matildebalbi, my lab members and all of the wonderful community at QBI who is very supportive of my research! 🧠

Congratulations to Anne Hahn from our lab who has won the best PhD student publication in 2024 at our institute @QldBrainInst 🥳🥳🥳 2nd year in a row we have won this award! Well done, Anne! Her amazing paper is pinned above.

This year’s medicine laureates Victor Ambros and Gary Ruvkun studied a relatively unassuming 1 mm long roundworm, C. elegans. Despite its small size, C. elegans possesses many specialised cell types such as nerve and muscle cells also found in larger, more complex animals, making it a useful model for investigating how tissues develop and mature in multicellular organisms. Read how the 2024 medicine laureates’ investigations into C. elegans revealed an entirely new dimension to gene regulation: bit.ly/4dlPE6f #NobelPrize

BREAKING NEWS The 2024 #NobelPrize in Physiology or Medicine has been awarded to Victor Ambros and Gary Ruvkun for the discovery of microRNA and its role in post-transcriptional gene regulation.

Anne from tha lab, has a podcast episode!

Do you know a grad student who has completed an outstanding PhD research project in #genetics & #genomics of #Celegans? Nominate them for the Sydney Brenner Dissertation Thesis Award by Sept 30—the recipient will present their research at #Worm25: bit.ly/3MGtVLv 🪱🧬

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Very cool that our lab will be part of this new NHMRC centre of research excellence led by Prof Jürgen Götz @AustraliaGoetz to investigate the mitochondrial contribution to Alzheimer's disease and treatments 👏 @QldBrainInst

@SamStehbens @robertr33 @arc_gov_au @drDJVDavid @NatureCellBio This slipped under my radar. Great work, Sam! Congrats to all involved.

Excited to announce…..it’s finally arrived (!!) nature.com/articles/s4155… A big thank-you to my team (particularly @robertr33), co authors & #FutureFellowship funding from @arc_gov_au Importantly- a big shoutout to @drDJVDavid @NatureCellBio for their support. 👇tweetorial 👇 #VivaLaMicrotubules 🎉

@marmol_dr Thanks, Ramon!

@ZurynLab Congratulations to all members of @ZurynLab !! Well deserved!!

Out today! We find that an epigenetic modification (6mA) to the mitochondrial genome (mtDNA) influences lifespan and the heritability of mtDNA mutations to the next generation. It implies that epigenetics determines genetic composition in future offspring. cell.com/cell-metabolis…

@marinarsfortes @UQ_News @QldBrainInst Thanks, Marina. Yes, and important for livestock fitness I would imagine!

@UQ_News @QldBrainInst @ZurynLab Nice work @ZurynLab - A great reminder that mitochondrial DNA is also a very important component of our genomes. #Genomics #Mutations

#UQ researchers have discovered a mechanism in DNA that regulates how disease-causing mutations are inherited 🧬 🔗tinyurl.com/23bx8lpw @QldBrainInst @ZurynLab

@stcoakley @zury Thanks, Sean!

@ZurynLab Congratulations Steve and Anne! @zury

@SamStehbens Thanks, Sam!

@ZurynLab Congratulations Steve & team! 🎉

We find that mtDNA 6mA is wdiely conserved across animals and plants, including human cells implying an ancient mechanism of regulation. This work was driven by Dr Anne Hahn in the lab and is out in @Cell_Metabolism.

QBI researchers have discovered a DNA mechanism that controls how disease-causing mutations are inherited. Dr. Anne Hahn and A/Professor Steven Zuryn believe this could lead to therapies that prevent heritable and age-related diseases. Read: bit.ly/3Mhm5Yu @ZurynLab

Take a look at our article! nature.com/articles/s4146…

@CoralWarr @GeneticsAus Thanks, Coral!

@ZurynLab Great work Steve! Fantastic to see you deliver teaching outcomes as well as your great research ones. @GeneticsAus

We built a simple App to help identify genetic markers for C. elegans crosses. Great for the lab and for teaching genetics! academic.oup.com/g3journal/adva…