Kelly joined our lab this year as a research assistant.

It has been an absolute pleasure to have you in the lab!

We wish you all the best for your future endeavours!

Josh is joining us (all the way from Level 5 of FMC next door’s) as a post-doc working on an industry project!

A detailed description of Josh’s project can be found by following this link!

It’s great to have you in the lab!

The 3rd Optogenetics Australia Meeting will take place at Flinders University on February 23rd and 24th, 2023.

A special thanks to our fearless chair Professor Nick Spencer for organizing this meeting!

The meeting will feature and impressive list of international speakers, keynote lectures and EMCR short talks.

And of course there will be a Best Talk Award!

Find a full program here https://www.optogeneticsaustralia.com

We are looking forward to welcoming many of you there!

The one and only Alex has lead a project towards the rational design of engineered receptors called OptoXRs (light-activated G protein-coupled receptors); believe it or not, rational design for the first time through structure-guided optimisation.

By incorporating specific GPCR-Gα contacts we achieved significant enhancement in signaling and demonstrated the potential for targeted cell and network manipulation using these optimized receptors.

The paper published in Cell Structure can be found here: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.str.2022.04.012

Congratulations to everyone involved: Alex, Elliot and Wang Lok!

Rahkesh is joining us for his Ph.D. on GPCRs – lots and lots of GPCRs!

Thank you for being first student to join us in our new home!

Matthew is joining us as a Research Assistant and Lab Manager!

Lots to do starting a new lab but if someone can do it then it is you!

Time to rock’n’roll!

Kelly is joining us as a Research Assistant!

Welcome, Kelly!

Yes, that’s right, the FCIC is our new home!

We would like to thank all of our new colleagues, especially the Selth, Conn and Petersen labs, for their support during this exciting time!

We promise to be good neighbours and bring a good vide (and lots of fancy kit…) to this unique place!

The Janovjak Group is moving in early 2022!

As of January 2022, Harald is a Matthew Flinders Full Professor at Flinders University in the Flinders Health and Medical Research Institute (FHMRI)!

You can find Harald’s updated staff profile [here] and his updated research profile [here].

Check back here for lots of exciting updates from our new home in a few months time!

It was a true pleasure to put a perspetive on optogenetic neuroregeneration together with none other than the fantastic Sonja Kleinlogel.

You can access the perspective here [LINK].

And also consider visiting the website of Sonja’s research group here [LINK].