Associate Professor in the School of BioSciences, University of Melbourne.
Metabolic signalling, circadian clocks.
Teacher of Genetics. Researcher of plants.
Dad. Runner.
https://blogs.unimelb.edu.au/haydonlab/
Mike Haydon 🌱 🌾 🧬 ⏰
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Congrats @benpwilliams.bsky.social !
Congrats, Francis. Well done!
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Doing the periodic cleaning of used plasmid miniprep columns and realized in honor of Earth Day it may be worth reminding you molecular biologists:
Plasmid miniprep columns can be cleaned and reused essentially indefinitely! Just add 1 M HCl, soak overnight and wash 3x w/ water. Save $ and plastic
People keep (wrongly) claiming the overturning of the Central Dogma of Molecular Biology by discoveries like reverse transcription
Crick predicted such modes of information transfer were perfectly possible
Reverse translation is where he drew the line. Nature has never invented it. But we now have
Announcing a Transformation Lead role (level B) at the Adelaide University node of Plant Synthetic Biology Australia (international applicants welcome)!
For more information on PSBA, see plantsynbio.au
More details on the position: lnkd.in/g3GZSRT8
Really great session this morning on microbial circadian clocks. So much good science! #SRBR2026
Since I moved to @mrclmb.bsky.social I’ve been trying to answer this: Why are some mammals active at night and others in the day? Today our answer is out @science.org www.science.org/doi/10.1126/....
If you’re interested in circadian biology, evolution or how timing shapes physiology, take a look
🎓 2025 Conference Postgraduate Travel Award Reflection. Yalin Liu (UniMelb) reflects on ASPS 2025 in Adelaide, highlighting her first poster presentation experience, insights from outreach sessions, and valuable networking
For details: www.asps.org.au/phytogen
#AusPlantSci
Mike Haydon 🌱 🌾 🧬 ⏰
Mike Haydon 🌱 🌾 🧬 ⏰
Mike Haydon 🌱 🌾 🧬 ⏰
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Abstract. Most cultivated lettuce varieties have 27-hour circadian clocks resulting from domestication-driven selection for delayed bolting yet are grown u
Early mammals were nocturnal while dinosaurs dominated the daytime. Mammalian transition to daytime activity accelerated after the Cretaceous-Paleogene extinction, but the underlying mechanisms remain...
Single-molecule peptide sequencing through reverse translation of peptides into DNA | Nature Biotechnology https://www.nature.com/articles/s41587-026-03061-z
Woohoo! 🎉 Our preprint is out!
We studied an underexplored plant enzyme, ACC oxidase, and uncovered a new regulatory mechanism that controls ethylene biosynthesis.
Huge thanks to all co-authors and to my amazing supervisors, Dr Ivanhoe Leung and @hikemaydon.bsky.social!🙌🌱
Steven Hussey, PhD 🇦🇺 🇿🇦 🏳️🌈
MichaelMcMurray lab
Single-molecule peptide sequencing through reverse translation of peptides into DNA | Nature Biotechnology https://www.nature.com/articles/s41587-026-03061-z
James Lloyd 🧬
Absolutely delighted that our paper on epigenetic dynamics during plant aging is out today in Science!
www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
Plants display a wide range of life spans and aging rates. Although dynamic changes to DNA methylation are a hallmark of aging in mammals, it is unclear whether similar molecular signatures reflect ra...
