Our most recent collaborative paper with our good friends from the Colin Jackson lab at the Australian National University is now online here!

Need a monomeriser domain that does exactly that – monomerise from a dimeric state upon addition of a stoichiometric ligand – look no further!

Thank you everyone involved and especially James, Steffi, Josh and Colin for their leadership!

How exciting that Felipe is joining us for his Masters in Biotechnology research project!

Best of luck with your project and welcome, Felipe!

Kara was awarded the Flinders University Medal!

Flinders University Medals honour outstanding academic achievements in Bachelor Degree programs.

Welcome to Flinders’ finest, Kara!

Well done! We are all very proud of you!

This is truly great news!

Kara is joining us for a PhD after being a superstar in her Honours project!

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

The 4th Optogenetics Australia Meeting has concluded!

Delegates, speakers and industry partners made OptoAus2025 in Sydney (February 6&7, 2025) a massive success!

For more details, check out the Optogenetics Australia website.

Wohooo and see you in 2027!

Two of our new Methods papers are available online now!

The first paper, with our recent PhD graduate Christina as the lead author, describes the design and application of new and scalable illumination devices for optogenetics.

The paper can be accessed here.

The second paper, led by Elliot and Alex who have moved on from the lab a while ago, presents new assays to study light-activated GPCRs in high throughput with automation.

This article can be accessed here.

Congratulations to Christina, Elliot and Alex – great work getting these out!

And what a competition it was! Amazing desserts and (and least one) controversy that we will all tell our children and grandchildren about!

Congratulations to the winners! Some entries are shown below!

And a special thanks to our judges and to Josh for hosting the event!

Join us in Sydney February 6&7 at the Kolling Institute for the 4th edition of OptoAus!

A special shout-out to our new rockstar chair Karin Aubrey for organizing this meeting and for giving us the opportunity to be involved in the organising committee.

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!

You can find more information here: https://www.optogeneticsaustralia.com.

We are looking forward to seeing many of you there!

Congratulations, Rahkesh and Daniel!

Rahkesh and Daniel received travel awards to attend Cell Bio 2024, the joint meeting of the American Society for Cell Biology (ASCB) and European Molecular Biology Organization (EMBO).

The congress takes place in San Diego from December 14th to 18th, 2024.

Check out the congress webpage: https://www.ascb.org/cellbio2024/

Congratulations to Daniel and Rahkesh for winning the awards for “Best Taste” and “Best Presentation”, respectively!

Some entries are shown here, with the winning “Great Pyramid of Gangemi” (Best Presentation) on the top right.