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‘Animal Farm’ immunity receptors only work in a crowd, researchers find
‘Team Tiny Trap’ take top honours at Harvard
12 Million in NHMRC Project Funding announced for our Investigators
19 NHMRC grants, totalling over $12 million, awarded to Imaging CoE researchers
2016 Imaging CoE Summit
2019 IMAGING COE SUMMIT
2020 ECR Legacy Award
2020 Student E-Poster Session
3D RECONSTRUCTIONS OF INDIVIDUAL NANOPARTICLES
4.6 Million Dollar Wellcome Trust Funding for HIV Research
A killer award for killer T cells
A killer award for killer T cells
A physicist abroad
A titanic electron microscope that snap-freezes cells to reveal immune secrets
A workshop on Nature’s Method of the Year
ABOUT US
Activation
Advanced imaging tips T cell target recognition on its head
Alaric Sanders
ALUMNI SUCCESS
Amanda Dodds
An afternoon with Nobel Laureate, William E. Moerner
ANNUAL REPORTS
Another brick in the celiac wall
Antibiotic insight may help in battle against bacterial resistance
Antigen-induced T cell arrest: the role of membrane tension
Antoine van Oijen CoE AI – Biology at the nanoscale, one molecule at a time
ARC funds capability in cryo-electron microscopy and protein structural biology
ASI ADVANCED IMMUNOLOGY SCHOOL
AT A GLANCE 2014 - 2020
Atomic Imaging
Australian flu research raises hopes for universally effective vaccine
BACTERIAL LINK IN COELIAC DISEASE
Bad diet damages the immune system even before weight gain
Baharak Mahyad
Barcode scanner microscope films neurons firing
Big win for researchers unlocking the secrets of the immune system
BIOPHYSICS SUMMER PROJECT SCHOLARSHIPS
Blake Mazzitelli
Blood Studies
Branch Moody visit
Broadband x-ray ptychography
Call for applications: Premier’s Award for Health & Medical Research 2016
CANCER-KILLING T CELLS ‘SWARM’ TO TUMOURS, ATTRACTING OTHERS TO THE FIGHT
Capitalising on single turn helical structures
Capturing How Amyloid Beta Initiates Death of Neuronal Cells With High-Speed Imaging
Carnivorous mushrooms reveal human immune trick
CASE STUDIES
CASTING LIGHT IN THE DARK SPACES OF CANCER
Catherine Sadatnajafi
Catriona Nguyen-Robertson
Caught on camera: the first glimpse of powerful nanoparticles
Cellular Imaging
Centre AI A/Prof Laura Mackay named Eureka prize finalist
Charge sensors to watch the regulation of our T cells
Charles Bayly-Jones
Chris Lupton talks: industry engagement
CI Rossjohn receives psoriasis research renewal
COMMUNICATING OUR SCIENCE
Communicating science with peers from different disciplines
Completion of ARC mid-term review
Confocal microscopy: Past, present and future
CONGRATULATIONS TO DR ELIZABETH HINDE, NEW ARC FUTURE FELLOW
Congratulations to Imaging CoE AI Michelle Dunstone
CONTACT US
Contactless Trampoline
Creating next generation medicines: new industry collaboration announced
Crowning Imaging CoE CIs
Cryo-EM Data Analysis just got SIMPLE 2.1
CRYSTAL 30: advancing crystallography in the science community
Dale Godfrey talks: immunology
David Smith
Deadly blessing? Stonefish venom could hold the key to understanding the immune system
DISCOVERY MAKES THE INVISIBLE VISIBLE
Discovery shines light on the cause of some allergic responses
Discovery tour
DNA NANOBOTS BUILD THEMSELVES – HOW CAN WE HELP THEM GROW THE RIGHT WAY?
Double Fellowships for our CI’s
Dr Hugh Reid talks
Dr Stephanie Gras on a universal flu vaccine
Dr Stephanie Gras on ABC Weekend Breakfast
Driving online engagement with cutting-edge research
EARLY AND RELIABLE DETECTION OF PARKINSON’S DISEASE IN CEREBROSPINAL FLUID
Edith Espie
Effector Function
Einstein a Go Go in July
Electrons and X-rays working together, spurring new ideas?
EMBL Australia inaugural PhD program
Emphasis on Outreach
Engaging the masses with science
Engaging the public with imaging science
Engaging with the global biotechnology industry
Engaging with the global biotechnology industry
Every Minute Counts for New Collaboration
Exploring the biomedical mechanisms behind coeliac disease
Exploring the frontiers of nano-imaging
Exploring the frontiers of nano-imaging
Exploring the physics of imaging
Exposing the immune system
Exposing the immune system
Eyes on: European XFEL
Falling Walls Labs Australia calling …
Farewell and best wishes to Stephanie
Feeling Itchy? Inflammation could be scratched out
Finding the Future of Chemistry Leadership
FISHING FOR NEW HIV THERAPEUTIC TARGETS USING CAPSID AS BAIT
Formal collaboration with Cardiff University
Francisco Roque
FRONTIERS & FUTURE 2021 Summit
Fruit fly embryos, human growth factors, the press
German Academic Exchange Service scholarships now open!
GLOBAL REACH
Half a million dollar tick
Hans Elmlund on ABC Radio, Health Report
HIGHLIGHT PAPERS
HINT TO HOW SARS-COV-2 MIGHT SUBVERT IMMUNE DEFENCES
HIV CAPSID DATA PROJECTION PROJECT
How a beer at a uni bar sparked an idea that could help save millions
How our immune system targets TB
How the immune system punches holes in bacteria
HOW TO TRAIN A MACHINE TO SEE 3D IN THE DARK
Hugh Marman
Hui Li
Igniting innovation at the Imaging CoE Summit 2015
Illuminating structures with electrons
Imaging
IMAGING COE STUDENTS GAIN INTERNATIONAL RESEARCH EXPERIENCE
IMMUNE BREAKTHROUGH: UNSCRATCHING POISON IVY’S RASH
IMMUNE BREAKTHROUGH: UNSCRATCHING POISON IVY’S RASH
Immune cell development secrets revealed
Immunology
IMPACT
In the news: Imaging CoE AI Assoc. Prof Kate Schroder
Increasing XFEL beamtime success through enhanced protein crystal screening
Industry Engagement training @ Monash
InnoHealth Australia: Call for applications
Inspiring the next generation
Inspiring the next generation
Inspiring the next generation of scientists
International award for CI Kat Gaus
International opportunities: Student research placement and innovation tour to Germany
International placement for CoE students
International research partnership to accelerate impact of Australian discoveries
It was MASSIVE
Jeff Mak talks: chemical tools for research
Jia Ming Geraldine Ler
Joon Keit Loi
Journey to the centre of the cell: nano-rods and worms wriggle best
Kapil Mcinerney
Kat Gaus speaks at a Korean-German Science Innovation Conference
Key to immune system’s memory revealed
LANDMARK DEAL FOR UQ-TRINITY INFLAMMATION START-UP
Laura Ciacchi
Laura Mackay CoE AI – Development and function of tissue resident lymphocytes
Leibniz-DAAD Research Fellowships
Lisa Ciacchi
Lu Lu
Mai Thao Tran
Making heads and tails of embryo development: lessons from the humble fly
MALARIA VACCINE: COULD THIS “INGREDIENT” BE THE SECRET TO SUCCESS?
Malnutrition, shaping up to be a first world problem
Mapping the diffusive route of transcription factors in live cell nuclear architecture
Marc Rigau Cortal
MASSIVE onboarding
Matthias Hans Enders
Max Cryle talks: molecular machines
Mechanical Tuning of the Senses
Megan Farrell
Melbourne Knowledge Week Public Lecture
MELBOURNE RESEARCHERS MAP THE STRUCTURE OF A COVID-19 PROTEIN
Mentoring takes two
Michael Rice
Mir Hadi Seyedzadeh
Molecular Imaging
MONASH UNIVERSITY ANNOUNCES RESEARCH COLLABORATION WITH JANSSEN TO TACKLE COELIAC DISEASE
Monash University has become host to the new Victorian node of Microscopy Australia
MP Steve Dimopoulos visits CoE
New findings into gene regulation
NEW GRANT TO CREATE BIOMEDICINE ROBOTIC ART
New Imaging CoE Operations Team
New population of human T cells
New program for students boosts learning and data exchange
New technology to advance X-ray crystallography
New tool reveals how special immune cells fight bacteria
NEWS
News from the 2016 Imaging CoE Summit
News from the 2018 Imaging CoE Summit
NOVEL IMMUNE-ONCOLOGY APPROACH FOR POTENTIAL CANCER TREATMENT
NOVEL MICROSCOPE SLIDE ENABLES DIAGNOSIS OF CELLS AND TISSUES
One stop flu shot…?
Opening the world of cancer research to the low vision community
OUR PEOPLE
Our people; their vision, their research: our passion.
Pablo Perez Ferreros
Paper: A molecule with more to say in autoimmune diseases
PAPER: Fluorescence biosensor for real-time interaction dynamics of host proteins with HIV-1 capsid tubes
PAPER: PIE-scope, integrated cryo-correlative light and FIB/SEM microscopy
PAPER: The Cryo-EM structure of the acid activatable pore-forming immune effector Macrophage-expressed gene 1
Paper: Ultimate limitations in the performance of kinoform lenses for hard X-ray focusing
PARTNER INVESTIGATOR PROF. HENRY CHAPMAN BECOMES A FELLOW OF THE ROYAL SOCIETY
Peptide papers point to new ways of tackling bacteria
Perspective on “Der Spiegel: Germany’s most expensive experiment”
Photo Gallery
Physical interactions shape melanoma cell movement and migration
Physics of Imaging
Physics Symposium – 16.1
Plasmonic gold nanoparticles for nano- and bio-photonic applications – Associate Professor James Chon
Playing the numbers: a billion-dollar gamble on the European X-ray Laser
PODCASTS
Postdoctoral Research Fellow – Protein Crystallography
Postdoctoral Research Fellows — Immunity
PROF. THOMAS KAY RECEIVES 2020 KELLION AWARD
Public lecture at Melbourne Knowledge Week
PUBLICATIONS
Rachel Farquhar
Rashmi Pillai
Re-think research funding
Recognition
Reflections
Research assistant wanted – Davidovich Lab
RESEARCH FOR WHAT? - Podcast
RESEARCH THEMES
Research uncovers ‘local heroes’ of immune system
Researchers awarded Australian Laureate Fellowships
RESEARCHERS FIND THAT SUGAR IS THE SOLUTION FOR LOOKING AT PLATELETS
Revealed: how the ‘Iron Man’ of immune cells helps T cells fight infection
Revealing the next generation of science
Rossjohn Lab job opportunity
Safer and more comfortable breast cancer screening on the horizon
Samantha Webster
Sarah Sandford
Science without sight: bringing medical discovery to low vision community
SCIENTIFIC EARWORMS
Scientists reveal key mechanisms of vital enzyme complex
SELF-ALIGNING MICROSCOPE SMASHES LIMITS OF SUPER-RESOLUTION MICROSCOPY
Seminar with Associate Professor Leonie Quinn
Sensitive disease diagnosis made more accessible with 3D printing
SENSORY SCIENCE
Sensory Science in the running for Eureka Prize!
Showcasing inspiring projects from next-generation imaging scientists
Single Particle Imaging, a doily and the FameLab Australia semi-finals!
Snapshots of the immune system
Student Team
Summer Scholarships
Super-bug fighting antibiotics
SUPERBUG IMPACT ON THE GUT
SUPERCHARGE YOUR MICROSCOPE: RESEARCHERS SHARE GUIDE FOR ULTRA-PRECISE 3D IMAGING
Sweet Award for AI Gras
T Cell Signalling postdoc wanted for Single Molecule Microscopy Sydney, Australia
The future of structural biology is now
The future of structural biology is now
THE HONORIFIC AWARDS - Nancy Millis Medal 2020
THEME 1 MOLECULAR IMAGING USING XFEL
THEME 2 SINGLE MOLECULE IMAGING
THEME 3 MOLECULAR IMAGING OF T-CELL ACTIVATION
THEME 4 IN VIVO IMAGING
THEME 5 IMAGING PEPTIDE-MEDIATED IMMUNITY
THEME 6 IMAGING LIPID-MEDIATED IMMUNITY
THEME 7 IMAGING METABOLITE MEDIATED IMMUNITY
THEME 8 IMAGING INNATE IMMUNE RESPONSES
THEME 9 IMAGING IMMUNE EFFECTORS
Thiago Maass Steiner
THIS PROTEIN EMPOWERS CANCER CELLS – TARGETING IT COULD KICKSTART NEW THERAPIES
Three new projects at the Elmlund lab
Tick spit proteins could hold medical key
Timothy J. Vanden Berg
Top prize for imaging technology that detects disease
Trey Guest
Turning T cell immunology on its head
Twitter Chatter
Understanding how HIV evades the immune system
UNEARTHING IMMUNE RESPONSES TO COMMON DRUGS
UNEARTHING THE BASIS OF AUTOIMMUNE DISEASE
Unravelling the immune killing process
Victoria’s status as biomedical research hub strengthened with major prize win
Viertel Fellowship supports research into immune escape
Viona Shlemoon Khames Yokhana
Virus vs Host — an evolutionary arms race
Welcome to the 20’s!
What we do
Winston Churchill Travelling Fellow, Kristin Ladell, visiting Imaging CoE this month
Workshop on cryo-EM and single-particle analysis
World’s largest electron microscope manufacturer heads Down Under for R&D
World’s leading supplier of electron microscopy solutions partners with Imaging CoE for R&D
World’s most powerful X-ray takes a ‘sledgehammer’ to molecules