Good luck in your new job, Christina!

After graduating with her PhD from our lab Christina is moving on to join Stanford University as a post-doctoral fellow!

We are proud of you, Christina, and best of luck from all of us!

This week was both a happy and sad week as we said farewell to Christina, who successfully defended her doctoral thesis “Optical approaches to promote pancreatic β-cell regeneration” last year.

Congratulations, Dr. Gangemi! We eagerly look forward to witnessing the remarkable strides you’ll make in the next phase of your career.

p.s. There was only one proper way to say farewell to Christina – a bake off competition! Harald is pleasantly surprised that it has not been mentioned here to date that his entry did “not so well”…

Kara is joining us for a stint in the lab and then her Honours project (if she likes working with the crew – but who doesn’t, really!)!

It’s great to have you in the lab, Kara!

Christina published a methods chapter discussing the development of a modular and scalable illumination system for optogenetic experiments!

The system utilizes accessible components and a shelving structure to enable multi-intensity, wavelength, and temporal experiments in numerous small and large samples, while also providing methods for temperature and light intensity measurements.

You can find the book chapter here: https://www.researchsquare.com/article/rs-2801275/v1

Well done, Christina!

Christina just published a network-wide computational analysis of convergent kinases-substrate relationships (cKSRs) and a new type of functional assay to decipher convergence!

Who would have thought that cKSRs are not only common but also occur at varying stoichiometries. To read the paper published in FASEB Journal click here: https://faseb.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.1096/fj.202201344R

Congratulations to everyone involved, and off to the next one, Christina!

Emma is joining us for the Advanced Studies project in her Flinders MD degree!

Welcome, Emma!

The Optogenetics Australia meeting was a resounding success, bringing together almost one hundred researches from diverse disciplines to share cutting-edge research and foster collaboration.

Everyone was inspired by the international speakers and fruitful discussions, leaving energised to push the boundaries of optogenetics.

We are looking forward to seen many of you again at the next Optogenetics Australia Meeting! For the lates updates follow us on Twitter https://twitter.com/OptogeneticsAus

Matthew joined our lab at the very beginning of the year (and thus at the very beginning of our time at Flinders University) as a research assistant.

Without Matthew we would sit on the (rather dirty) lab floor without much equipment (and without much hope…)!

It comes a surprise to some of us but going to Med School at a Go8/global Top100 University turns out to be more attractive than working in the Janovjak group?!

Thank you for everything – you will be greatly missed, Matthew!

Daniel is joining us for his Masters research project on membrane proteins; many many membrane proteins! Perhaps so many membrane proteins that it could be the most membrane proteins in a Masters project ever? We will let you know here once we find out…

All the best for your research project!

No better way to end 2022 than with submitting your thesis!

On the last day of the year Christina submitted her thesis titled “Optical approaches to promote pancreatic β-cell regeneration”.

Heartfelt congratulations, Christina!

We are very proud and wish you all the best for your next steps!