Really grateful to Malgana language experts and elders for allowing us to bring Indigenous language and culture into our work. It was an immensely rewarding experience for me as non-Indigenous to learn and engage in this space. Words do matter. #IndigenousKnowledge #Malgana #SharkBay
Was so grateful to be able to work with one of THE cryoEM gurus in Debnath Ghosal on this journey...taking this work to the next level to go from inference to actually seeing interactions with our novel Asgards. Holding up a mirror to perhaps what their microbial ancestors did on an early Earth....
While not quite making onto the winner's stage, honoured to have been nominated as part of an amazing team in the Builds Collaboration category in this year's #UNSW Vice Chancellor's People's Awards, for our work on the Bush Tucker Trail - where Indigenous Knowledge and Sustainability meet 🍃
marumarumayae meaning “ancient home”...connecting unique Aboriginal culture in Australia and the ancient microbe we discovered that calls the mats of Gathaagudu “home”...https://theconversation.com/first-contact-that-may-have-led-to-complex-life-on-earth-finally-witnessed-by-scientists-280173
Immensely rewarding part of this work was working with Indigenous language experts and elders in the naming of our species of Asgard….’marumarumayae’ derived from the Malgana language from the people of Gathaagudu (#Shark Bay)
Brendan Burns
‘First contact’ that may have led to complex life on Earth finally witnessed by scientists theconversation.com/first-contac... via @ConversationEDU
Was thrilled to see colleague @kmichie.bsky.social awarded a prestigious #UNSW Vice Chancellors Award. Kate leads the Structural Biology Facility and has been the tour d’ force developing the computational structural biology community in Australia. Awesome achievement and throughly deserved 👏
📣 New paper alert! Just out in Cell Reports! pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/40644298/
Thrilled to share that we have discovered a brand-new anti-phage defense system! Bacteria have evolved various defense strategies (CRISPR etc) to counter phage attacks. We found a new one - fascinating and dramatic
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Archaea and bacteria reveal the ancient origins of another ‘eukaryotic’ complex. Membrane trafficking is old… check this out for an integrative approach showing how bioinformatics and computational structural methods marry with x-ray crystallography and cryo EM to reveal biology in all its beauty.🧶🧬
