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School of BABS at @UNSWScience | posts from our staff, students, alumni & friends (which don't necessarily represent UNSW views)

[Saleh Alquethamy @SalehAlquethamy]

New review out in @NAR_Open!
🔎 What makes a bacterial small RNA work?
We discuss:
🧬 Sequence features
🤝 Hfq, ProQ & RNA chaperones
✂️ RNase E & degradosome interactions
🧪 Lessons for synthetic RNA design
📖Read: https://t.co/I7kWwFVa9c
With @jaitreeau @UNSWBABS @DavidLalaouna

[Matt Baker @phatmattbaker]

Our recent paper looking at history of flagellar motility now online in final form @ISMEJournal

We looked at 10,000 species to map the diversity and history of the bacterial #flagellar motor across the tree of life.
@UNSWBABS
@UNSWScience

https://t.co/ded2vSGC5h

[Emma Harding @emma__harding]

What can wastewater tell us about viruses? 💩🚽🧬📈

During the COVID-19 pandemic many labs turned to wastewater monitoring to detect viruses. However, @WhiteLabUNSW has been using wastewater for over 10 years to monitor circulating norovirus 🤮. 🧵

https://t.co/iMBKQEy2X6

[Martin Smith @martinalexsmith]

Sydney #RNA people, @SydneyRNASalon, don't miss out on today's @UNSWBABS & @UNSWRNA presentation by Prof. Eric Westhof
Limited seats and drinks to follow!

[Nicole Fenton @NicoleMFenton]

Had an absolute blast presenting a poster at my first international conference, Deuel Conference on Lipids 2025 in beautiful Long Beach, California. #ASBMBDeuel @ASBMB

[Jacob Scadden @JacobScadden]

It is an honour to have been awarded the FEMS Microbiology Reviews outstanding poster award at the #blastmeeting2025! Thank you to the judges and all those who came to my poster and talked all things flagellin! @FEMSmicro @UNSWBABS @UNSWScience @BlastMeetings

[Ramaciotti Centre for Genomics @ramacgenomics]

As part of the @unswscience "SciX@UNSW" program we hosted a tour of our genomics facility! This program supports passionate high school students who are eager to delve into scientific research, giving them a taste of this career path. #scix

[Megan Lenardon @_doctormeg]

Congratulations Hatu on the first publication from your PhD 😊 https://t.co/t86CkrH2Qh @CyrilleBoyer61 @UNSWBABS

[Nick Naidovski @NNaidovski]

Excited to share my first paper! 🦠🔬 We investigate the human macrophage response to the emerging enteric pathogen #Aeromonas veronii, exploring inflammation, apoptosis, and histone downregulation. Explore our findings here: https://t.co/Oxlh77oesP
@UNSWBABS @UNSWScience

[Belinda Ferrari @ferrari_belinda]

The first of many novel Antarctic fungi to be described by the #Ferrarilab in collab with Brett Summerell and @BotanicSydney @AlintaFurnell @XabiVC @jordan_vink marcwilkins Penicillium psychrofluorescens sp. nov., a naturally autofluorescent Antarc fungus https://t.co/34Qr67fpOR

[Matt Baker @phatmattbaker]

2nd ever @egiannoulatou @phatmattbaker double header, today @PKU1898.

Hosted by @OxfordPhysics PhD colleague Prof Bai Fan it was great to represent @UNSWBABS @UNSWScience & @VictorChangInst @UNSWMedicine w/ #flagellar & #SCAD research.

Shoutout @LEGO_Group for childcare assist.

[Nathali Machado-de-Lima @nathali_micro]

Check out the latest Ferrari Lab publication! 🚨 Discover how microbial life at Robinson Ridge, East Antarctica ❄️, shifts up a hillslope, across fine spatial scales and vertical layers. 🧊🏔️❄️
https://t.co/zu3wSXSRas
@ferrari_belinda @UNSWBABS
#MicrobialEcology #Antarctica

[Belinda Ferrari @ferrari_belinda]

Our last publication for the year which highlights our strong collaboration with @SpeddingTim and Dan Wilkins. Congratulations team. @eden_zh @nathali_micro @UNSWBABS @AusAntarctic Fine-scale landscape heterogeneity drives microbial community structur... https://t.co/AoZJv1qO3P

[Selene FeRNAndez @SelFdz]

Exciting times in the #RegRNALab! We just got our growth chamber 🌱. Getting ready for our #2ToTango #FT24 @arc_gov_au experiments!!!

Thanks to the @UNSWBABS team for all your help setting it up and @UNSWRNA for the generous startup + ongoing support!

#RNA

[Saroj Kumar Sah, PhD 🇳🇵🇰🇷🇦🇺🇺🇸 @sarozsah]

Grateful to have contributed to a study led by Feifei Su @UNSW, exploring how NEGR1 deficiency affects GAD65 accumulation, synaptic GABA synthesis, and feeding behavior. NEGR1 influences GABAergic signaling, with potential links to psychiatric disorders. [https://t.co/h8cUMgcGtx]

[Matt Baker @phatmattbaker]

Bowling 🎳 w/ @UNSWBABS and our lab for end of year 🎉🍕🍻.

Fun bowl-off which our lab lost. Eerie to be inside in the dark then exit after a few VBs to blazing ☀️🌞 32C.

Shout out to HoS @shanetgrey & School Mgr Michael Bowen leading us on and off the lanes.
#buckhunter also.

[Jacob Scadden @JacobScadden]

"Rescue of bacterial motility using two and three-species FliC chimeras"
In this pre-print out we studied the effect of flagellin (FliC) outer domain chimeras on bacterial motility. @UNSWScience @UNSWBABS
https://t.co/szTw82QrGz

[Matt Baker @phatmattbaker]

This work was led by #PhD student Jamiema Sara Philip, supported by @HFSP w/ @SBSatEd @AucklandUni @UNSWBABS contributions from @pseudomoaner @NickJMatzke Caroline Puente-Lelievre @JacobScadden, – and initially started as an undergrad @UNSWEngineering proj. w Sehhaj Grewal.

[Matt Baker @phatmattbaker]

"Easy come, easier go: mapping the loss of flagellar motility across the tree of life" 🌱🔬
We analysed ~11,000 bacterial genomes to examine how flagellar motility has evolved 🏊‍♂️➡️🛑 @UNSWBABS @UNSWScience

https://t.co/8EGMNaJuQ7

[Vala Nejad Safari @valasafari]

A merry Christmas from the Quinlan/Crossley lab! #Babs #UNSW #Labchristmastree