Steve Turner
@sjturn.bsky.social
Immunologist @MonashUni, Head of Dept Microbiology, Past President of @ASImmunology; Trying to work out how immunity works, in particular T cells #Tcellsarecool #immunosky
Oh great, so a solution to climate change has to adapt because we were too slow to adapt to climate change, looking at you @liberalaus.bluesky.social
New study shows that extreme #wind speeds critical for #WindTurbine design have increased across 63% of global #coasts. Over half of offshore #WindFarms in Asia and Europe are affected, urging adaptive #infrastructure under #ClimateChange. www.nature.com/articles/s41...
Increasing extreme winds challenge offshore wind energy resilience - Nature Communications
Extreme wind speeds critical for wind turbine design have increased across 63% of global coasts. Over half of offshore wind farms in Asia and Europe are in areas with increasing extreme winds, urging ...
www.nature.com
November 10, 2025 at 10:39 AM
Oh great, so a solution to climate change has to adapt because we were too slow to adapt to climate change, looking at you @liberalaus.bluesky.social
Great to contribute to this great study from @sammybedoui and colleagues at the Peter Doherty Institute
Microbiota-derived butyrate promotes a FOXO1-induced stemness program and preserves CD8+ T cell immunity against melanoma: Immunity www.cell.com/immunity/ful...
Microbiota-derived butyrate promotes a FOXO1-induced stemness program and preserves CD8+ T cell immunity against melanoma: Immunity www.cell.com/immunity/ful...
Microbiota-derived butyrate promotes a FOXO1-induced stemness program and preserves CD8+ T cell immunity against melanoma
The gut microbiome impacts immunity at various levels, including response to immunotherapy.
Bachem et al. find that metabolic pathways shared across different microbiota constituents,
including SCFA s...
www.cell.com
November 4, 2025 at 8:47 AM
Great to contribute to this great study from @sammybedoui and colleagues at the Peter Doherty Institute
Microbiota-derived butyrate promotes a FOXO1-induced stemness program and preserves CD8+ T cell immunity against melanoma: Immunity www.cell.com/immunity/ful...
Microbiota-derived butyrate promotes a FOXO1-induced stemness program and preserves CD8+ T cell immunity against melanoma: Immunity www.cell.com/immunity/ful...
What a wonderful day of science, organised and led by the Dept of Microbiology @monashuniversity.bsky.social grad students, great science, great presentations, great interactions, the discipline of Microbiology is in great hands!
October 31, 2025 at 3:50 AM
What a wonderful day of science, organised and led by the Dept of Microbiology @monashuniversity.bsky.social grad students, great science, great presentations, great interactions, the discipline of Microbiology is in great hands!
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A long walk to the sea. Solitude and light on the jetty.
Elliston, South Australia.
© 𝓐𝓵𝓵 𝓡𝓲𝓰𝓱𝓽𝓼 𝓡𝓮𝓼𝓮𝓻𝓿𝓮𝓭 𝓫𝔂 𝓚𝓮𝓿 𝓟𝓮𝓲𝓻𝓬𝓮.
#photo #photography #australia #southaustralia #EllistonJetty #JettyLife #BlackAndWhitePhotography #Monochrome #Seascape #OceanView #jetty
Elliston, South Australia.
© 𝓐𝓵𝓵 𝓡𝓲𝓰𝓱𝓽𝓼 𝓡𝓮𝓼𝓮𝓻𝓿𝓮𝓭 𝓫𝔂 𝓚𝓮𝓿 𝓟𝓮𝓲𝓻𝓬𝓮.
#photo #photography #australia #southaustralia #EllistonJetty #JettyLife #BlackAndWhitePhotography #Monochrome #Seascape #OceanView #jetty
October 21, 2025 at 9:53 PM
A long walk to the sea. Solitude and light on the jetty.
Elliston, South Australia.
© 𝓐𝓵𝓵 𝓡𝓲𝓰𝓱𝓽𝓼 𝓡𝓮𝓼𝓮𝓻𝓿𝓮𝓭 𝓫𝔂 𝓚𝓮𝓿 𝓟𝓮𝓲𝓻𝓬𝓮.
#photo #photography #australia #southaustralia #EllistonJetty #JettyLife #BlackAndWhitePhotography #Monochrome #Seascape #OceanView #jetty
Elliston, South Australia.
© 𝓐𝓵𝓵 𝓡𝓲𝓰𝓱𝓽𝓼 𝓡𝓮𝓼𝓮𝓻𝓿𝓮𝓭 𝓫𝔂 𝓚𝓮𝓿 𝓟𝓮𝓲𝓻𝓬𝓮.
#photo #photography #australia #southaustralia #EllistonJetty #JettyLife #BlackAndWhitePhotography #Monochrome #Seascape #OceanView #jetty
Looking forward to hearing more about this during my visit to @tcddublin.bsky.social today with @adrianbracken.bsky.social lab.
🧵1/Exciting news in cancer epigenetics! Our latest research, "AEBP2-Directed H3K27me2 Defines a Specific Vulnerability in EZH2-mutant Lymphoma", is now available on www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1.... Here's a thread summarizing our findings!👇
#CancerResearch #Epigenetics #Chromatin #Lymphoma
#CancerResearch #Epigenetics #Chromatin #Lymphoma
AEBP2-Directed H3K27me2 Defines a Specific Vulnerability in EZH2-mutant Lymphoma
The catalytic subunit of Polycomb Repressive Complex 2 (PRC2), EZH2, is recurrently mutated in 25% of diffuse large B-cell lymphomas (DLBCL), causing increased H3K27me3 and decreased H3K27me2 levels. ...
www.biorxiv.org
October 17, 2025 at 7:54 AM
Looking forward to hearing more about this during my visit to @tcddublin.bsky.social today with @adrianbracken.bsky.social lab.
Conference dinner for @events.embl.org #EESImaging at Heidelburg castle last night. Amazing venue, onto the last couple of sessions today, what a great conference, amazing science, amazing community, very much worth the trip #scienceyeah #imagingiscool #superresolution #seeingisbelieving
October 11, 2025 at 7:05 AM
Conference dinner for @events.embl.org #EESImaging at Heidelburg castle last night. Amazing venue, onto the last couple of sessions today, what a great conference, amazing science, amazing community, very much worth the trip #scienceyeah #imagingiscool #superresolution #seeingisbelieving
Wow! @gaiapigino.bsky.social using cryo-EM tomography to reveal the dynamic choreography of molecular machines in cilia assembly. Same components, different conformation depending on cargo delivery vs removal, working like a biological transformer. @events.embl.org #EESImaging #scienceyeah
October 10, 2025 at 7:32 AM
Wow! @gaiapigino.bsky.social using cryo-EM tomography to reveal the dynamic choreography of molecular machines in cilia assembly. Same components, different conformation depending on cargo delivery vs removal, working like a biological transformer. @events.embl.org #EESImaging #scienceyeah
Day 3 @events.embl.org symposia #EESImaging another exciting day as we are about to go on a deep dive into imaging molecules in cells #scienceyeah #superresolutioniscool #imagingiscool #seeingisbelieving
October 10, 2025 at 7:03 AM
Day 3 @events.embl.org symposia #EESImaging another exciting day as we are about to go on a deep dive into imaging molecules in cells #scienceyeah #superresolutioniscool #imagingiscool #seeingisbelieving
Day 2 of the @embo.org @events.embl.org #EESImaging symposia. Exciting day of science ahead focussing on dynamic single molecule imaging, can’t wait to apply some of this to our own work #scienceyeah #Tcellsarecool #smlmisverycool
October 9, 2025 at 6:59 AM
Day 2 of the @embo.org @events.embl.org #EESImaging symposia. Exciting day of science ahead focussing on dynamic single molecule imaging, can’t wait to apply some of this to our own work #scienceyeah #Tcellsarecool #smlmisverycool
Excited to be at the @events.embl.org #EEEImaging conference in Heidelberg, Germany, hearing the latest in cutting edge imaging of biological systems. The ATC (G) building is modelled on the double DNA helix, the bridges represent the H bonds b/n nucleotides #scienceyeah #microscopyiscool
October 8, 2025 at 10:20 AM
Excited to be at the @events.embl.org #EEEImaging conference in Heidelberg, Germany, hearing the latest in cutting edge imaging of biological systems. The ATC (G) building is modelled on the double DNA helix, the bridges represent the H bonds b/n nucleotides #scienceyeah #microscopyiscool
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Excited to announce our latest preprint, exploring the stereochemistry & antiviral properties of natural product MM46115 (pellemicin) against influenza. 🦠 💊 Big thanks to all co authors, including @afifahtasnim.bsky.social @craigpthomp.bsky.social and others. www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
September 19, 2025 at 12:11 PM
Excited to announce our latest preprint, exploring the stereochemistry & antiviral properties of natural product MM46115 (pellemicin) against influenza. 🦠 💊 Big thanks to all co authors, including @afifahtasnim.bsky.social @craigpthomp.bsky.social and others. www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
October 1, 2025 at 9:59 AM
In the #BDI infection program retreat, listening to Fran Short, Dept of Micro @monashuniversity.bsky.social Sampling of fresh creek water identified pathogenic E. coli in microbial communities, highly active AMR gene and virulence determinants #dontswiminthedandenongcreek
October 1, 2025 at 2:45 AM
In the #BDI infection program retreat, listening to Fran Short, Dept of Micro @monashuniversity.bsky.social Sampling of fresh creek water identified pathogenic E. coli in microbial communities, highly active AMR gene and virulence determinants #dontswiminthedandenongcreek
Who remembers these note books? Once a common sight in labs for recording keeping. Was cleaning out my office for a move into a new role and found a set of books from a past grad student, love the fact there is raw data, protocols, even mouse cards all in one place #scienceyeah
October 1, 2025 at 1:58 AM
Who remembers these note books? Once a common sight in labs for recording keeping. Was cleaning out my office for a move into a new role and found a set of books from a past grad student, love the fact there is raw data, protocols, even mouse cards all in one place #scienceyeah
Quince tree update: we have blooming 💐 now just need bees to pollinate
October 1, 2025 at 1:34 AM
Quince tree update: we have blooming 💐 now just need bees to pollinate
@leonsmyth.bsky.social just gave a fascinating talk on how brain substructures enable brain waste management, interface with immune cells @monashuniversity.bsky.social
September 23, 2025 at 2:39 AM
@leonsmyth.bsky.social just gave a fascinating talk on how brain substructures enable brain waste management, interface with immune cells @monashuniversity.bsky.social
Quince tree update: We have flower buds, I repeat, we have flower buds
September 22, 2025 at 12:49 AM
Quince tree update: We have flower buds, I repeat, we have flower buds
TFW the new protocol your grad student set up to test a harebrained idea looks like it worked! #superstargradstudent #Tcellsarecool #epigeneticsiscool #scienceyeah @pacbio.bsky.social #pacbioapplications
September 18, 2025 at 10:32 PM
TFW the new protocol your grad student set up to test a harebrained idea looks like it worked! #superstargradstudent #Tcellsarecool #epigeneticsiscool #scienceyeah @pacbio.bsky.social #pacbioapplications
September 7, 2025 at 7:00 AM
Just read the draft of Australia’s National Health & Medical Research Strategy. Great to see full funding of research being addressed as a need — but an emphasis on discovery research is missing. You can’t drive impact without fueling the pipeline with fundamental/discovery science.
September 4, 2025 at 3:07 AM
Just read the draft of Australia’s National Health & Medical Research Strategy. Great to see full funding of research being addressed as a need — but an emphasis on discovery research is missing. You can’t drive impact without fueling the pipeline with fundamental/discovery science.
Up next, talking with 2nd yr microbiology students @monashuniversity.bsky.social about how the innate immune system engages with different pathogens, RNA viruses 🦠 Gram +ves, DNA viruses, Gram -ves #scienceyeah #microbiologyiscool #campuslife
August 27, 2025 at 12:49 PM
Up next, talking with 2nd yr microbiology students @monashuniversity.bsky.social about how the innate immune system engages with different pathogens, RNA viruses 🦠 Gram +ves, DNA viruses, Gram -ves #scienceyeah #microbiologyiscool #campuslife
Currently sitting in a seminar from Chris Stubenrauch, learning how efflux pumps found in Gram -ve bugs are also found in Gram +ve bugs, instead of outer membrane interactions, they interact with outer protein layers instead @monashuniversity.bsky.social #scienceyeah #microbesarecool
August 21, 2025 at 2:44 AM
Currently sitting in a seminar from Chris Stubenrauch, learning how efflux pumps found in Gram -ve bugs are also found in Gram +ve bugs, instead of outer membrane interactions, they interact with outer protein layers instead @monashuniversity.bsky.social #scienceyeah #microbesarecool
Just finished up an amazing visit to Harry Perkins Medical Institute in Perth. It was a reminder of why I love research. Getting to present our most recent findings, getting great questions, learning about the cool science others are doing, and coming away with new collaborations #scienceyeah
August 7, 2025 at 7:14 AM
Just finished up an amazing visit to Harry Perkins Medical Institute in Perth. It was a reminder of why I love research. Getting to present our most recent findings, getting great questions, learning about the cool science others are doing, and coming away with new collaborations #scienceyeah
New preprint: Ever wonder why memory T cells can look like naive T cells but act like effectors? Part the reason is that a chromatin binding protein called SATB1 restrains acquisition of effector phenotypes. Shout out to my grad student Jason Kah for this work. www.biorxiv.org/cgi/content/...
SATB1 maintains naive-like identity in antiviral CD8⁺ T cells by limiting chromatin remodelling at effector gene loci.
Optimal CD8+ T cell differentiation requires the engagement of transcriptional programs that drive effector phenotypes and function, whilst also shutting down transcriptional programs that maintain th...
www.biorxiv.org
July 31, 2025 at 11:05 PM
New preprint: Ever wonder why memory T cells can look like naive T cells but act like effectors? Part the reason is that a chromatin binding protein called SATB1 restrains acquisition of effector phenotypes. Shout out to my grad student Jason Kah for this work. www.biorxiv.org/cgi/content/...
This is a wonderful study, it is amazing to watch how immune cells can get into tight spaces…
T cells must preserve their structural integrity while migrating through dense environments. A central actin pool under confinement balances forward propulsion with shape integrity to protect nucleus from DNA damage @sciimmunology.bsky.social
www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
July 26, 2025 at 8:17 AM
This is a wonderful study, it is amazing to watch how immune cells can get into tight spaces…