Just a lovely time hanging out with @drshanerrr.bsky.social, ChrisKP and Dr Scarlett on Triple R today 🎙❤️

Also my first time singing about fungi on radio... a love song about Candida 😍 Definitely harder to do live!

Listen here: www.rrr.org.au/shared/broad...

Thank you to Monash Micro Imaging and Thermo Fisher Scientific for awarding me 2nd place 🥈 honours in the 2024 MMI Image competition 🤩

Well done to all the winners, there were some truly spectacular images and I am so proud to be featured alongside them all.

Everyone meet “Billy” my new desk mate, already has a long induction waitlist 🔬

Safety SUNglasses recommended for use, which involves staring directly into an LED. The blindness that results is temporary and absolutely worthwhile for the outstanding imaging achieved.

New year, new toys 🍄🔬

Wishing everyone a happy 2024, keep pioneering and discovering!

New paper! STARProtocols actually let me write a big ol’ protocol: live cell imaging to quantify Candida albicans escape from macrophages.

star-protocols.cell.com/protocols/3144

I’m talking notes, video demonstrations, troubleshooting, sample data, MATHS!

I’m excited to announce my grant-writing think tank.

Already a few strong opinions expressed.

We shall by morning
Inherit the earth

How human pathogenic fungi escape from macrophages- lovely review from Sonnberger & co

onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10....

Yesterday I was bestowed with a superb farewell gift from @drlachie.bsky.social… “The Francois Line” on the lab’s table tennis ladder, showing my final score 🥹

I am honoured. 🫡

@ngeo.bsky.social