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.
Awards
- 9 Sep 2009: Matt Perugini and Stuart Ralph have been awarded ARC Future Fellowships in the first round of these highly prestigious 4-year mid-career research awards, announced today by Senator Kim Carr, the Minister for Innovation, Industry, Science and Research
- 11 Sep 2009: Laura Vella, who recently completed her PhD in the laboratory of Andy Hill, has been awarded Dean’s 'Award for Excellence in a PhD Thesis' for her thesis Investigating the spread and propagation of infectious prions.
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
Kim la, PhD Oration Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology,
The University of Melbourne
'The regulation and protein substrates selectivity of Csk homologous kinase'
12 noon, Wed 11 Nov, Bio21 Auditorium
