Rachelle Balez
@chellebalez.bsky.social
Stem cell alchemist exploring the world of neurodegenerative diseases through mass spec imaging | UOW | HB2 | she/her
Paper writing is looking a little different these days…
November 5, 2025 at 5:45 AM
Paper writing is looking a little different these days…
Thanks to everyone who came to my talk at the UOW ECR Conference. It was fun to share some of the collaborative work I’ve been involved with at @molecularhorizons.bsky.social
November 4, 2025 at 10:10 PM
Thanks to everyone who came to my talk at the UOW ECR Conference. It was fun to share some of the collaborative work I’ve been involved with at @molecularhorizons.bsky.social
Rubi, Lady and I had a wonderful morning chatting all things science and career at the Women in STEMM Stroll. You can read about this great initiative here 👉 www.theillawarraflame.com.au/networking-o...
November 3, 2025 at 10:47 PM
Rubi, Lady and I had a wonderful morning chatting all things science and career at the Women in STEMM Stroll. You can read about this great initiative here 👉 www.theillawarraflame.com.au/networking-o...
Attending the UOW ECR Conference? I’ll be sharing how we are navigating the metabolic maze of Parkinson’s disease, one cell at a time. Come join me at 12:30 pm in 19.2003! @molecularhorizons.bsky.social
November 3, 2025 at 10:44 PM
Attending the UOW ECR Conference? I’ll be sharing how we are navigating the metabolic maze of Parkinson’s disease, one cell at a time. Come join me at 12:30 pm in 19.2003! @molecularhorizons.bsky.social
I’ve always been intimidated by baking as following the recipe rarely works for me. Then it finally clicked - recipes = protocols, and thus likely require optimisation. I feel like I’ve just unlocked a dormant (and delicious) skill set 💪😋
October 27, 2025 at 11:09 PM
I’ve always been intimidated by baking as following the recipe rarely works for me. Then it finally clicked - recipes = protocols, and thus likely require optimisation. I feel like I’ve just unlocked a dormant (and delicious) skill set 💪😋
Thoroughly enjoyed this mornings Women in STEMM Stroll from @iaccelerate.bsky.social. A wonderful opportunity to connect with the beautifully diverse network of women working in this space. Thank you @ecologee.bsky.social and @tamstutch.bsky.social for organising. 👶🏻 & 🐩 loved it too!
October 27, 2025 at 11:02 PM
Thoroughly enjoyed this mornings Women in STEMM Stroll from @iaccelerate.bsky.social. A wonderful opportunity to connect with the beautifully diverse network of women working in this space. Thank you @ecologee.bsky.social and @tamstutch.bsky.social for organising. 👶🏻 & 🐩 loved it too!
Traded the lab coat for hi-vis this weekend to help set up my dad’s stall for the Sydney Ceramics Market at Carriageworks. It’s been so inspiring seeing all the beautiful creations. Drop by and say hi if you’re in the neighbourhood.
October 18, 2025 at 10:15 PM
Traded the lab coat for hi-vis this weekend to help set up my dad’s stall for the Sydney Ceramics Market at Carriageworks. It’s been so inspiring seeing all the beautiful creations. Drop by and say hi if you’re in the neighbourhood.
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The Jane Goodall Institute of Canada has learned this morning, Wednesday, October 1st, 2025, that Dr. Jane Goodall DBE, UN Messenger of Peace and Founder of the Jane Goodall Institute, has passed away due to natural causes.
She was in California as part of her speaking tour in the United States.
She was in California as part of her speaking tour in the United States.
October 1, 2025 at 6:14 PM
The Jane Goodall Institute of Canada has learned this morning, Wednesday, October 1st, 2025, that Dr. Jane Goodall DBE, UN Messenger of Peace and Founder of the Jane Goodall Institute, has passed away due to natural causes.
She was in California as part of her speaking tour in the United States.
She was in California as part of her speaking tour in the United States.
Grateful to have the opportunity to share some of our lipidomics work at the @molecularhorizons.bsky.social Symposium. This project has truly been an collaborative effort across the institution 💚💜🩷🩵
September 30, 2025 at 7:45 AM
Grateful to have the opportunity to share some of our lipidomics work at the @molecularhorizons.bsky.social Symposium. This project has truly been an collaborative effort across the institution 💚💜🩷🩵
This would be an absolute game changer. Australian medical replace been hanging on for dear life due to lack of funding, and the collapse of the American research sector only makes it worse. We need funding so we can deliver medical advancements for our communities
The National Association of Research Fellows join the call for full disbursement of the #MRFF #DiscoveriesNeedDollars
www.theage.com.au/politics/fed...
www.theage.com.au/politics/fed...
Billions going unspent from Australia’s $24b medical research fund
Costings commissioned by independent MP Monique Ryan reveal the government could double how much funding it gives to innovative health research each year.
www.theage.com.au
September 29, 2025 at 9:58 AM
This would be an absolute game changer. Australian medical replace been hanging on for dear life due to lack of funding, and the collapse of the American research sector only makes it worse. We need funding so we can deliver medical advancements for our communities
And we’re off! The first @molecularhorizons.bsky.social ECR Symposium is underway. This mornings session covered everything from nanobody applications to a signature for metastatic cancer and ALS biomarkers.
September 29, 2025 at 1:04 AM
And we’re off! The first @molecularhorizons.bsky.social ECR Symposium is underway. This mornings session covered everything from nanobody applications to a signature for metastatic cancer and ALS biomarkers.
When the theme is ‘art party’, so you make it a family affair.
September 23, 2025 at 12:16 AM
When the theme is ‘art party’, so you make it a family affair.
Been playing around with good old faithful SH SY5Y cells as we optimise some mass spec imaging sample prep methods. Keen to get these under the mass spec to see if we are moving in the right direction!
September 12, 2025 at 10:12 PM
Been playing around with good old faithful SH SY5Y cells as we optimise some mass spec imaging sample prep methods. Keen to get these under the mass spec to see if we are moving in the right direction!
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After quitting Twitter and going into social media eXile (see what I did there?) I'm keen to get back into Academic socials. If you know people in the #vascular, #atherosclerosis, #SCAD, #ECM, #sex_difference, #proteomics, or #iPSC space I would love some recommendations please!!
September 11, 2025 at 12:56 PM
After quitting Twitter and going into social media eXile (see what I did there?) I'm keen to get back into Academic socials. If you know people in the #vascular, #atherosclerosis, #SCAD, #ECM, #sex_difference, #proteomics, or #iPSC space I would love some recommendations please!!
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Disasters like the algal bloom in SA are becoming more and more frequent due to climate change.
Australia Institute research shows a climate disaster fund, paid for by big polluters, would save taxpayers tens of billions of dollars a year. #auspol
Australia Institute research shows a climate disaster fund, paid for by big polluters, would save taxpayers tens of billions of dollars a year. #auspol
August 19, 2025 at 12:42 AM
Disasters like the algal bloom in SA are becoming more and more frequent due to climate change.
Australia Institute research shows a climate disaster fund, paid for by big polluters, would save taxpayers tens of billions of dollars a year. #auspol
Australia Institute research shows a climate disaster fund, paid for by big polluters, would save taxpayers tens of billions of dollars a year. #auspol
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Come and work with us!
Do you believe that research matters? Do you want to use your research skills to drive important public policy debates in Australia?
Apply for our Postdoctoral Research Fellowship!
Applications close Sunday 24 August 2025
Apply here 👉 australiainstitute.org.au/about/jobs/
Do you believe that research matters? Do you want to use your research skills to drive important public policy debates in Australia?
Apply for our Postdoctoral Research Fellowship!
Applications close Sunday 24 August 2025
Apply here 👉 australiainstitute.org.au/about/jobs/
August 19, 2025 at 3:31 AM
Come and work with us!
Do you believe that research matters? Do you want to use your research skills to drive important public policy debates in Australia?
Apply for our Postdoctoral Research Fellowship!
Applications close Sunday 24 August 2025
Apply here 👉 australiainstitute.org.au/about/jobs/
Do you believe that research matters? Do you want to use your research skills to drive important public policy debates in Australia?
Apply for our Postdoctoral Research Fellowship!
Applications close Sunday 24 August 2025
Apply here 👉 australiainstitute.org.au/about/jobs/
📣Calling all NSW & ACT ECRs in chemistry, biomedical, life sciences and biophysics!
Looking for an opportunity to share your research and foster collaborations? Submit an abstract to @molecularhorizons.bsky.social ECR symposium 👉
www.uow.edu.au/events/2025/...
Looking for an opportunity to share your research and foster collaborations? Submit an abstract to @molecularhorizons.bsky.social ECR symposium 👉
www.uow.edu.au/events/2025/...
2025: Molecular Horizons Early Career Researcher Symposium - University of Wollongong – UOW
Connecting Early Career Researchers to Advance Innovation in Molecular Science
www.uow.edu.au
August 19, 2025 at 2:43 AM
📣Calling all NSW & ACT ECRs in chemistry, biomedical, life sciences and biophysics!
Looking for an opportunity to share your research and foster collaborations? Submit an abstract to @molecularhorizons.bsky.social ECR symposium 👉
www.uow.edu.au/events/2025/...
Looking for an opportunity to share your research and foster collaborations? Submit an abstract to @molecularhorizons.bsky.social ECR symposium 👉
www.uow.edu.au/events/2025/...
Led by Simon Maksour, we show transcriptional repressor CoREST3 plays an isoform specific/direct role in repressing epigenetic regulator HDAC2, with CoREST3 dysregulated in AD & may contribute to altered HDAC2 levels in involved in AD
@molecularhorizons.bsky.social
link.springer.com/article/10.1...
@molecularhorizons.bsky.social
link.springer.com/article/10.1...
CoREST3 exhibits isoform specific expression in Alzheimer’s disease and regulation of HDAC2 - BMC Biology
Background The epigenetic regulator, histone deacetylase 2 (HDAC2), is dysregulated in Alzheimer’s disease (AD), resulting in disruption to neuronal dynamics, memory and cognition. The transcriptional...
link.springer.com
August 18, 2025 at 2:07 AM
Led by Simon Maksour, we show transcriptional repressor CoREST3 plays an isoform specific/direct role in repressing epigenetic regulator HDAC2, with CoREST3 dysregulated in AD & may contribute to altered HDAC2 levels in involved in AD
@molecularhorizons.bsky.social
link.springer.com/article/10.1...
@molecularhorizons.bsky.social
link.springer.com/article/10.1...
Next Dutch house added to the window neighbourhood
August 18, 2025 at 1:56 AM
Next Dutch house added to the window neighbourhood
Starting an evening tradition… drawing a new Dutch house on our front window 🧡
August 13, 2025 at 9:11 AM
Starting an evening tradition… drawing a new Dutch house on our front window 🧡
Went to continue reading some papers on NIH website and can no longer access them as the server can’t be found. Went back to X to see if there was anything circulating only to be met with what now seems to be a propaganda account 😳 I just want to finish reading my lipid papers!
August 13, 2025 at 9:08 AM
Went to continue reading some papers on NIH website and can no longer access them as the server can’t be found. Went back to X to see if there was anything circulating only to be met with what now seems to be a propaganda account 😳 I just want to finish reading my lipid papers!
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🎤#ASSCR2025 featuring Maria di Biase, Ed Stanley and Josephone Bowles!
Get ready to hear from leading voices in stem cell science at this year’s ASSCR Annual Scientific Meeting (10–12 Nov, QT Gold Coast)! 🌊🧬
🚨 Abstracts close THIS FRIDAY, at 11:59pm!
www.asscrmeeting.com.au
Get ready to hear from leading voices in stem cell science at this year’s ASSCR Annual Scientific Meeting (10–12 Nov, QT Gold Coast)! 🌊🧬
🚨 Abstracts close THIS FRIDAY, at 11:59pm!
www.asscrmeeting.com.au
August 13, 2025 at 4:26 AM
🎤#ASSCR2025 featuring Maria di Biase, Ed Stanley and Josephone Bowles!
Get ready to hear from leading voices in stem cell science at this year’s ASSCR Annual Scientific Meeting (10–12 Nov, QT Gold Coast)! 🌊🧬
🚨 Abstracts close THIS FRIDAY, at 11:59pm!
www.asscrmeeting.com.au
Get ready to hear from leading voices in stem cell science at this year’s ASSCR Annual Scientific Meeting (10–12 Nov, QT Gold Coast)! 🌊🧬
🚨 Abstracts close THIS FRIDAY, at 11:59pm!
www.asscrmeeting.com.au
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Less than 2 weeks to go! 🤯Mare sure you prepare your entries for our 2nd @arc_gov_au CCeMMP 'Bench to Art' Exhibition during National Science Week & win cash prizes 💰! Please like & share 👍 More info: ccemmp.org/events/arc-c...
#CryoEM
#CryoET
#MembraneProtein
#GPCR
#CryoEM
#CryoET
#MembraneProtein
#GPCR
ARC CCeMMP 2nd Annual Bench to Art Exhibition 2025 | CCeMMP
The Australian Research Council Centre for Cryo-Electron Microscopy of Membrane Proteins (CCeMMP) is holding their 2nd Annual ‘Bench to Art’ Exhibition to showcase the artistic flair of structural bio...
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July 26, 2025 at 12:16 AM
Less than 2 weeks to go! 🤯Mare sure you prepare your entries for our 2nd @arc_gov_au CCeMMP 'Bench to Art' Exhibition during National Science Week & win cash prizes 💰! Please like & share 👍 More info: ccemmp.org/events/arc-c...
#CryoEM
#CryoET
#MembraneProtein
#GPCR
#CryoEM
#CryoET
#MembraneProtein
#GPCR
First talk done and dusted since returning to work! It was a pleasure to share with 3rd year students how social media can by a useful tool as researchers
August 8, 2025 at 1:59 AM
First talk done and dusted since returning to work! It was a pleasure to share with 3rd year students how social media can by a useful tool as researchers