Deborah Marsh
@djmarsh24.bsky.social
Cancer Scientist & Head, Translational Oncology Group | Professor & Discipline Leader, Medical Science @ the Uni of Technology Sydney | mum, enquirer | just trying to work it all out | thoughts always my own | she/her
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Listening to witnesses being sworn in at a Parliamentary Enquiry on university governance ending with “so help me god”. Wondered about the power of these words in a largely secular & multicultural society that Australia is today. Keep this for historical gravitas or maybe we need an alternative?
November 9, 2025 at 1:23 AM
Listening to witnesses being sworn in at a Parliamentary Enquiry on university governance ending with “so help me god”. Wondered about the power of these words in a largely secular & multicultural society that Australia is today. Keep this for historical gravitas or maybe we need an alternative?
Parliamentary Inquiry into the NSW University Sector - a difficult day for my university. Expertly chaired by The Hon. Dr Sarah KAINE, BEc, PhD MLC (thank you). Acknowledging everyone who spoke today & especially the 3 #UTS students. #Governance #UniversityGovernance #OperationalSustainability
November 7, 2025 at 6:31 AM
Parliamentary Inquiry into the NSW University Sector - a difficult day for my university. Expertly chaired by The Hon. Dr Sarah KAINE, BEc, PhD MLC (thank you). Acknowledging everyone who spoke today & especially the 3 #UTS students. #Governance #UniversityGovernance #OperationalSustainability
Had the pleasure of presenting with cancer consumer & friend
@herbalgill.bsky.social today as part of the 'Consumer Involvement in Research PhD Translational Skills Workshop' run by SPHERE on 'The impact of successful partnerships in cancer research'. Picture is 4 yrs old but msgs still ring true.
@herbalgill.bsky.social today as part of the 'Consumer Involvement in Research PhD Translational Skills Workshop' run by SPHERE on 'The impact of successful partnerships in cancer research'. Picture is 4 yrs old but msgs still ring true.
November 6, 2025 at 6:54 AM
Had the pleasure of presenting with cancer consumer & friend
@herbalgill.bsky.social today as part of the 'Consumer Involvement in Research PhD Translational Skills Workshop' run by SPHERE on 'The impact of successful partnerships in cancer research'. Picture is 4 yrs old but msgs still ring true.
@herbalgill.bsky.social today as part of the 'Consumer Involvement in Research PhD Translational Skills Workshop' run by SPHERE on 'The impact of successful partnerships in cancer research'. Picture is 4 yrs old but msgs still ring true.
Submitting abstracts with my PhD students to 2026 meetings & hitting home that I still need a lot more of 2025 to achieve that long academic list!! #LorneCancer (www.lornecancer.org) #LorneGenome (www.lornegenome.org)
November 4, 2025 at 5:29 AM
Submitting abstracts with my PhD students to 2026 meetings & hitting home that I still need a lot more of 2025 to achieve that long academic list!! #LorneCancer (www.lornecancer.org) #LorneGenome (www.lornegenome.org)
Seems that #Darwinian selection is at play in our pond. Breeding when they feel like it, increasingly survivors are black baby fish that eventually turn white. Sometimes they’re quite big before they turn. Camouflage is excellent!! Give it 50 yrs & I think all fish could be white. #NaturalSelection
October 17, 2025 at 8:22 AM
Seems that #Darwinian selection is at play in our pond. Breeding when they feel like it, increasingly survivors are black baby fish that eventually turn white. Sometimes they’re quite big before they turn. Camouflage is excellent!! Give it 50 yrs & I think all fish could be white. #NaturalSelection
Celebrating 1st authorships in the group. Congratulations again to 2nd yr PhD student Tali Skipper on her paper out in Cellular Oncology - "Revealing genetic drivers of ovarian cancer and chemoresistance: insights from whole-genome CRISPR-knockout library screens". doi: 10.1007/s13402-025-01102-4 🎉🧪
September 22, 2025 at 7:15 AM
Celebrating 1st authorships in the group. Congratulations again to 2nd yr PhD student Tali Skipper on her paper out in Cellular Oncology - "Revealing genetic drivers of ovarian cancer and chemoresistance: insights from whole-genome CRISPR-knockout library screens". doi: 10.1007/s13402-025-01102-4 🎉🧪
It's official, I'm one of the judges for the 2025 Great Microscopy Bake-off @ the University of Technology Sydney organised by @louisecole.bsky.social on Oct 13th! Now there's a role! Microscopy-themed or science-related cakes, cupcakes or cookie decoration. Entries from last yr for inspiration 😀🧪
September 8, 2025 at 7:17 AM
It's official, I'm one of the judges for the 2025 Great Microscopy Bake-off @ the University of Technology Sydney organised by @louisecole.bsky.social on Oct 13th! Now there's a role! Microscopy-themed or science-related cakes, cupcakes or cookie decoration. Entries from last yr for inspiration 😀🧪
Plates of pasta about to go down well as our research group hosted Professor Caroline Ford and Dr Cecilia Ng on a visit to consider us as a research project site for the new Ainsworth Endometriosis Research Institute (AERI). We had lots to talk about! #endometriosis #AERI
September 8, 2025 at 4:22 AM
Plates of pasta about to go down well as our research group hosted Professor Caroline Ford and Dr Cecilia Ng on a visit to consider us as a research project site for the new Ainsworth Endometriosis Research Institute (AERI). We had lots to talk about! #endometriosis #AERI
Exceptional final 3 Minute Thesis competition at my university this week. #STEM ones my favourites - Samara Bridge from my Faculty on new ways to detect colorectal cancer with biosensors (brilliant!) & Adam Haysom-McDowell on lung cancer. Adam's slide was superb! So creative. #3MT #PhDStudents 🧪
September 5, 2025 at 1:16 AM
Exceptional final 3 Minute Thesis competition at my university this week. #STEM ones my favourites - Samara Bridge from my Faculty on new ways to detect colorectal cancer with biosensors (brilliant!) & Adam Haysom-McDowell on lung cancer. Adam's slide was superb! So creative. #3MT #PhDStudents 🧪
Wrapping up with a panel in the rare cancers session after my talk last week @ the Ovarian Cancer Australia Symposium 2025 in Melbourne beside my colleague @kylie-gorringe.bsky.social. Looking for new therapies to treat Small Cell Carcinoma of the Ovary, Hypercalcemic Type (SCCOHT). #ovariancancer 🧪
September 1, 2025 at 6:36 AM
Wrapping up with a panel in the rare cancers session after my talk last week @ the Ovarian Cancer Australia Symposium 2025 in Melbourne beside my colleague @kylie-gorringe.bsky.social. Looking for new therapies to treat Small Cell Carcinoma of the Ovary, Hypercalcemic Type (SCCOHT). #ovariancancer 🧪
Oh Sydney … I always love flying home to you.
September 1, 2025 at 12:24 AM
Oh Sydney … I always love flying home to you.
Learned from an acquaintance of a 6 yr old little girl, friend of his little girl, who died 10 days ago in Sydney from Influenza Type A. Tragic beyond words. Please get your flu jab & decrease the chance of your body being a vessel to take this virus to someone who may die from it. #vaccination #flu
August 17, 2025 at 5:29 AM
Learned from an acquaintance of a 6 yr old little girl, friend of his little girl, who died 10 days ago in Sydney from Influenza Type A. Tragic beyond words. Please get your flu jab & decrease the chance of your body being a vessel to take this virus to someone who may die from it. #vaccination #flu
New paper out from Martyn Bullock & colleagues in @cp-iscience.bsky.social - "AURKB and PI3K/AKT/mTOR pathways
converge to regulate TERT expression" - #TERT promoter mutations & their regulatory pathways in #ThyroidCancer. #PI3K/AKT/mTOR #AURKB #telomeres #TRIM28
converge to regulate TERT expression" - #TERT promoter mutations & their regulatory pathways in #ThyroidCancer. #PI3K/AKT/mTOR #AURKB #telomeres #TRIM28
August 11, 2025 at 7:31 AM
New paper out from Martyn Bullock & colleagues in @cp-iscience.bsky.social - "AURKB and PI3K/AKT/mTOR pathways
converge to regulate TERT expression" - #TERT promoter mutations & their regulatory pathways in #ThyroidCancer. #PI3K/AKT/mTOR #AURKB #telomeres #TRIM28
converge to regulate TERT expression" - #TERT promoter mutations & their regulatory pathways in #ThyroidCancer. #PI3K/AKT/mTOR #AURKB #telomeres #TRIM28
All scientists are good cooks I believe! Here is one of my weekend lunch winter soups. Add truffle oil & a little yoghurt & it’s a flavour explosion in your mouth - leek, zucchini, Italian parsley, broccoli, chickpeas, garlic, fennel, lemon juice, vegie stock. #soup #ScientistsWhoCook
July 26, 2025 at 9:43 AM
All scientists are good cooks I believe! Here is one of my weekend lunch winter soups. Add truffle oil & a little yoghurt & it’s a flavour explosion in your mouth - leek, zucchini, Italian parsley, broccoli, chickpeas, garlic, fennel, lemon juice, vegie stock. #soup #ScientistsWhoCook
Tao Xie from my group giving her last milestone seminar today for her PhD - "Strategies to improve the response to PARP inhibitors in pre-clinical models of ovarian cancer". A joy to watch her nail this today. Great culmination of her hard work during her PhD! #ovariancancer #PARPi #PhDLife 🧪
July 24, 2025 at 5:55 AM
Tao Xie from my group giving her last milestone seminar today for her PhD - "Strategies to improve the response to PARP inhibitors in pre-clinical models of ovarian cancer". A joy to watch her nail this today. Great culmination of her hard work during her PhD! #ovariancancer #PARPi #PhDLife 🧪
The special collection in @endocancer.bsky.social - "From Discovery Science to the Clinic - Heritable Endocrine Cancers and Related Disorders" is open & calling for contributions. Edited by myself, Lois Mulligan & Joanne Ngeow in memory of Prof Charis Eng erc.bioscientifica.com/page/heritab... 🧪
July 22, 2025 at 2:33 PM
The special collection in @endocancer.bsky.social - "From Discovery Science to the Clinic - Heritable Endocrine Cancers and Related Disorders" is open & calling for contributions. Edited by myself, Lois Mulligan & Joanne Ngeow in memory of Prof Charis Eng erc.bioscientifica.com/page/heritab... 🧪
New open access publication in Nano Research "Design principles and biomedical applications of endoplasmic
reticulum-targeting luminescent nanoparticles". #LNPs #nanoparticles #EndoplasmicReticulum #ER #ER-LNPs 🧪 www.sciopen.com/article/10.2...
reticulum-targeting luminescent nanoparticles". #LNPs #nanoparticles #EndoplasmicReticulum #ER #ER-LNPs 🧪 www.sciopen.com/article/10.2...
July 17, 2025 at 6:09 AM
New open access publication in Nano Research "Design principles and biomedical applications of endoplasmic
reticulum-targeting luminescent nanoparticles". #LNPs #nanoparticles #EndoplasmicReticulum #ER #ER-LNPs 🧪 www.sciopen.com/article/10.2...
reticulum-targeting luminescent nanoparticles". #LNPs #nanoparticles #EndoplasmicReticulum #ER #ER-LNPs 🧪 www.sciopen.com/article/10.2...
#Perplexity is a helpful resource in science. I ask my question, look at the response, and then always ask "show me the publications" that I then read. If we don't use these tools we will be like ostriches with heads in the sand. If we use them without checks & balances; however, we are fools. #AI
July 15, 2025 at 3:53 AM
#Perplexity is a helpful resource in science. I ask my question, look at the response, and then always ask "show me the publications" that I then read. If we don't use these tools we will be like ostriches with heads in the sand. If we use them without checks & balances; however, we are fools. #AI
The UTS-USYD Bioinformatics Symposium 2025 is running in Sydney this Friday at the University of Technology Sydney (UTS). A free event with limited space so you'll need to register. See the QR code on the poster below. 🧪 #bioinformatics
July 14, 2025 at 5:19 AM
The UTS-USYD Bioinformatics Symposium 2025 is running in Sydney this Friday at the University of Technology Sydney (UTS). A free event with limited space so you'll need to register. See the QR code on the poster below. 🧪 #bioinformatics
Procrastination ... " ... the act of needlessly delaying tasks to the point of experiencing subjective discomfort ...” Solomon
and Rothblum (1984) p. 503
and Rothblum (1984) p. 503
June 27, 2025 at 12:58 AM
Procrastination ... " ... the act of needlessly delaying tasks to the point of experiencing subjective discomfort ...” Solomon
and Rothblum (1984) p. 503
and Rothblum (1984) p. 503
Six of us from our Translational Oncology Group are in there somewhere ☺️. Enjoyable day at the Inventia Life Science Headquarters in Sydney for the first RASTRUM User Group Meeting. #3Dbioprinting #3Dmodelling #invasion #cancermodelling #exvivo #drugtesting #translationalscience #precisionmedicine
June 24, 2025 at 3:30 AM
Six of us from our Translational Oncology Group are in there somewhere ☺️. Enjoyable day at the Inventia Life Science Headquarters in Sydney for the first RASTRUM User Group Meeting. #3Dbioprinting #3Dmodelling #invasion #cancermodelling #exvivo #drugtesting #translationalscience #precisionmedicine
Postdoc Amy Sarker from our group speaking at the Inventia Life Science user group mtg on our group’s work in 3D modelling ovarian cancer & endometriosis, including her innovative work on modelling 3D invasion of cancer cells using the #Rastrum instrument. #ovariancancer #endometriosis #Inventia
June 24, 2025 at 12:36 AM
Postdoc Amy Sarker from our group speaking at the Inventia Life Science user group mtg on our group’s work in 3D modelling ovarian cancer & endometriosis, including her innovative work on modelling 3D invasion of cancer cells using the #Rastrum instrument. #ovariancancer #endometriosis #Inventia
In January, I visited Hiroshima Peace Memorial Park. It was freezing, the park nearly empty as I rang the peace bell with my daughter. Profound, humbling & moving experience. I wish time in this park was mandatory for all world leaders who need to pause & think on what they're doing. #Hiroshima #war
June 19, 2025 at 3:12 AM
In January, I visited Hiroshima Peace Memorial Park. It was freezing, the park nearly empty as I rang the peace bell with my daughter. Profound, humbling & moving experience. I wish time in this park was mandatory for all world leaders who need to pause & think on what they're doing. #Hiroshima #war
When you sit down to review a grant...hoping you can just fit it in before the deadline...but become entranced by the innovation & creativity demonstrated by a young researcher & you end up giving it hours because it's just that interesting & good. These feelings remind me of why I am a scientist. 🧪
June 11, 2025 at 12:12 PM
When you sit down to review a grant...hoping you can just fit it in before the deadline...but become entranced by the innovation & creativity demonstrated by a young researcher & you end up giving it hours because it's just that interesting & good. These feelings remind me of why I am a scientist. 🧪
Congrats to Teagan Fisher who started her PhD in our group in Feb on award of a scholarship from #NECST to work on links between #ovariancancer and #endometriosis 🎉🎈. While we've trained honours students in this field, Teagan is our group's 1st PhD candidate. Looking forward to discoveries!
June 2, 2025 at 3:40 AM
Congrats to Teagan Fisher who started her PhD in our group in Feb on award of a scholarship from #NECST to work on links between #ovariancancer and #endometriosis 🎉🎈. While we've trained honours students in this field, Teagan is our group's 1st PhD candidate. Looking forward to discoveries!