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A Message to Our Community It is with a heavy heart that we are announcing the Aus SynBio Challenge will be taking a hiatus in 2024.
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A Message to Our Community It is with a heavy heart that we are announcing the Aus SynBio Challenge will be taking a hiatus in 2024.
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Thank you to everyone who has been part of our network since we began - truly, without you we wouldn’t have made it this far and we’re grateful that you spent time helping us build the Challenge.
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We hope to stay connected with you all as we design what is coming next! Read the full announcement on our blog: aussynbiochallenge.org/post/…

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Great to see this elegant epigenome modifying system published, lead by @TessaASwain with @BlauerPlums and @ry_lister Want to recruit multiple epi-modifiers to the same locus? Well then this is the perfect system, for you!
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Super excited to share our review into #neuronanomedicine for #Alzheimers and #Parkinsons disease has been published in Brain, Behaviour, and Immunity! Big thank you to co-authors @Dr_Andrew_Care, @lyndseypraino, @Stellavalenzu12, and support from @DementiaAus and @UTS_Science
New paper from the lab📢😎 How can we create #nanomedicines to treat #Alzheimers & #Parkinsons? 🧠💊✅ We share our insights into the current state of neuronanomedicine, and make recommendations to help advance the field. #Brain, Behavior & #Immunity: sciencedirect.com/science/ar…
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Wow! Honored to be awarded a @UTSEngage Learning & Teaching Citation😎🙌 Thanks to all the awesome @SynBioChallenge students & my supportive @UTS_Science mentors who have made my start to L&T so much fun! 🙏@willaonthego, Megan Murray, @Stellavalenzu12 #HigherEducation
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A recap of this year's first ever in-person Aussynbio Challenge Final Showcase! aussynbiochallenge.org/post/…
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More snaps from the Final Showcase: aussynbiochallenge.org/photo…

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Proud supervisor moment 👏: Congrats @adrian_henrico for winning a poster prize at @SynBioAusAsia! It was his first conference and he attacked it like a seasoned pro! @UTS_Science @SBASydney #synbio
And that's a wrap for #SBA2023 🧬🦠 ! Thanks to the organisers @SynBioAusAsia for such an amazing conference, cool people and cool science happening all the time. Can't wait to see where it keeps going 👀
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This team of eight undergrad ANU students presented their #SynBio project in Paris, and came home with a silver medal! Their project, called ANU Virumediation, is an innovative new system for remediation of heavy metals. @iGEM @SynBioChallenge science.anu.edu.au/news-even…
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Hot off the press 🔥 find out how Acinetobacter baumanii responds to biocides and the consequence for antibiotic tolerance in this new study by @paulsenlab @arc_coesb @flamycain @LipingLiMicrobe @mqnatsci @macquarie_uni nature.com/articles/s41564-0…

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We are still on a high from the success of our very first ever in person Australasian SynBio Challenge Final Showcase! Massive thanks to all the amazing teams and their mentors, our generous sponsors, guests, supporters, organisers and volunteers who made the event possible!
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This year's #AusSynBioChallenge organisers!
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