Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology
The department's research laboratories are located at the Bio21 Institute, which is home to scientists and graduate students from wide-ranging disciplines in the physical and biological sciences, including chemistry, engineering, bioinformatics and genetics.
NHMRC and ARC grants for 2010
Congratulations to members of the department and their colleagues who received NHMRC and ARC grants
Awards
In the annual awards announced by the Australian Society for Biochemistry and Molecular Biology,
- Danny Hatters received the Applied Biosystems Edman Award to a researcher with no more than seven years of postdoctoral experience, for outstanding research work
- Graham Parslow received the Invitrogen Education Award for outstanding achievement in the teaching of biochemistry or molecular biology
- Three of the four ASBMB Fellowships awarded to early-career biochemists and molecular biologists:
- Robert Zi Zhao Lieu (President's award for the most outstanding applicant), post-doc in the laboratory of Paul Gleeson
- Jet Phey Lim, PhD student in the laboratory of Paul Gleeson
- Laura Vella, who recently completed her PhD in the laboratory of Andy Hill
Seminars
Emma Toulmin, PhD Oration Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology,
The University of Melbourne
'Direct intracellular delivery of copper and its effects on
the prion protein'
12 noon, Wed 18 Nov, Bio21 Auditorium