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Kate Wegener 🧩💊🧪

@KateWegener1

Lecturer, the University of Adelaide

Joined May 2021
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Read more about @QiZhang85's 2025 @CSL Centenary Fellowship at bit.ly/3Aie1nR Look forward to seeing what you do next @SAiGENCI! @UniofAdelaide @ACEpigenetics @EMBLAustralia 🔬🧪👏
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University of Washington@UW9 Oct 2024
University of Washington biochemist David Baker has won the 2024 Nobel Prize in Chemistry for his pioneering work designing new proteins that can neutralize viruses, target cancer cells, and more. Read more from @uwmedicine: go.uw.edu/2024NobelPrize #NobelPrize #GoHuskies
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Alison Roennfeldt@AliRoennfeldt25 Sep 2024
Absolute pleasure to co-chair the @ITSASBMB special interest group session at #BMH2024 with these amazing speakers! Shout out to Ibrahim Javed representing @AdelaideProtein and for giving an amazing talk!
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Dr Tatiana Soares da Costa@Tatiana_Biochem13 Aug 2024
There is still time to apply for 2 fully funded #PhD positions in my lab @UniofAdelaide in Australia. Information on how to apply 👇🏻 scholarships.adelaide.edu.au… #PhDchat #PhDpositions #PhDopportunities #GradSchool #biochemistry #plantscience #molecularbiology
Dr Tatiana Soares da Costa (@Tatiana_Biochem) profile pictureDr Tatiana Soares da Costa@Tatiana_Biochem3 Jul 2024
Are you looking to complete a #PhD in biochemistry, molecular biology and/or plant science? We have 2 fully funded scholarships available @UniofAdelaide as part of my @arc_gov_au Future Fellowship! Info on how to apply 👇🏻 Please RT 🙏🏻 #PhDposition scholarships.adelaide.edu.au…
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The Adelaide Protein Group Awards Fest is almost here! 🌟 Check out our amazing lineup of speakers and the program. Don't miss out on this incredible opportunity to connect and learn. Register now to secure your spot! 📝 #APGAwardsFest #ScienceCommunity #Networking
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Dr Tatiana Soares da Costa@Tatiana_Biochem14 May 2024
A few days left to apply for our fully funded #PhD scholarship to work in antimicrobial resistance @waiteresearch @UniofAdelaide. Please RT! Details 👇🏻
Dr Tatiana Soares da Costa (@Tatiana_Biochem) profile pictureDr Tatiana Soares da Costa@Tatiana_Biochem30 Apr 2024
📣 We are recruiting 📣 Looking for a highly motivated #PhD student to work on a project in antifungal drug development funded by the @arc_gov_au Training Centre for Environmental and Agricultural Solutions to Antimicrobial Resistance. To apply 👇🏻 scholarships.adelaide.edu.au…
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Pink crystals for Valentine's Day! What could be better? Thanks for the wonderful news @AlixHarlington ! @fiona_whelan
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What a great group of students (and staff) to work with!
Dr Alistair Standish (@alstandish) profile pictureDr Alistair Standish@alstandish11 Dec 2023
Was great to celebrate the end of year with our fantastic University of Adelaide Master of Biotechnology (Biomedical) Students last month! Pizza (lots), games and a beautiful afternoon. Congrats to Shreetha and Araniyah who were announced as joint prizewinners.
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An honour to be recognised as a teacher alongside these wonderful people who have taught me so much over the past few years.
Melissa Pitman (@MelissaPitman17) profile pictureMelissa Pitman@MelissaPitman178 Dec 2023
Congratulations to the winners of awards today at the @UofA_SET event! What a talented and dedicated group of educators! Bravo and we’ll deserved 👏👏👏 it’s an Honour to work with these legends
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Bronwyn Gillanders@BronGillanders18 Nov 2023
New tenure track Lecturer/Senior Lecturer in #immunology in Biological Sciences @UniofAdelaide. #Teaching & #Research. #Adelaide great place to live and work.
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Michael Beard@BeardLabUofA10 Nov 2023
Teaching and research academic position in immunology, open at The University of Adelaide. Great opportunity to build your academic career. careers.adelaide.edu.au/cw/e… @UofA_SET – at Adelaide, South Australia
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Rietie Venter@LabMuis6 Nov 2023
Phone Bacteria How dirty is your phone? It was fun to look at the microbes present on the phone of @Amelia__Moseley from Behind the News on #ABCme who is one of the ~45% of people regularly browsing on her phone in the toilet. Luckily no poo particles.🧫 abc.net.au/btn/high/phone-ba…

How Dirty is Your Phone? - Behind The News

Do you take your phone to the toilet? Find out how much bacteria is living on your phone.

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Stephen Bell@BellP450Chem19 Oct 2023
Congratulations to @aleciagee_ @UofA_SET on publishing her first manuscript from her PhD on engineering a #P450 #enzyme #biocatalyst from a #thermophilic #archaeum from a #hotspring for #CHfunctionalization (oxidation) using #H2O2. @ChemCommun doi.org/10.1039/D3CC04626E
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Super-chuffed to learn our paper was highlighted in Derek Lowe’s ‘In the Pipeline’ Drug Discovery blog – wonderful to hear his thoughts and so good to know he enjoyed the paper! #DrugDiscovery #Fragments @UofA_SET science.org/content/blog-pos…

Not What It Said on the Menu

Not What It Said on the Menu

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📣 Exciting News! 📣 Our paper has been published in ACS Chem Biol! It’s a prequel to our 2021 work, where we transformed a fragment hit into a powerful inhibitor 🚀 doi.org/10.1021/acschembio.1…. Now, it's time to reveal the mysterious origins of that initial fragment. 😮 🔬✨(🧵1/8)
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So, what's the takeaway? 🤔 Remember, compounds can react and transform under your assay conditions. ⚗️ You might be measuring the activity of a completely different molecule! (🧵7/8)
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Read the full story in the paper itself: pubs.acs.org/doi/10.1021/acs… @uniofadelaide @UofA_SET (🧵 8/8)
Fortuitous In Vitro Compound Degradation Produces a Tractable Hit against Mycobacterium tuberculo...

Fortuitous In Vitro Compound Degradation Produces a Tractable Hit against Mycobacterium tuberculo...

Abstract. We previously reported potent ligands and inhibitors of Mycobacterium tuberculosis dethiobiotin synthetase (MtDTBS), a promising target for antit

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