Dr Rosemary Cater
@rosemaryjcater.bsky.social
Senior Research Fellow and Group Leader at @IMBatUQ
Interested in the structural and functional biology of transporters 🇦🇺🔬
Interested in the structural and functional biology of transporters 🇦🇺🔬
Congratulations to the Cater Lab's first ever graduate Parteek! Bachelor of Advanced Scince with First Class Honours - we are SO proud of you! Looking forward to another year of fun in the lab together in 2026! 🎓🔬🧪✨
December 18, 2025 at 2:06 AM
Congratulations to the Cater Lab's first ever graduate Parteek! Bachelor of Advanced Scince with First Class Honours - we are SO proud of you! Looking forward to another year of fun in the lab together in 2026! 🎓🔬🧪✨
This week we had the pleasure of hosting cryo-EM guru @OliBClarke who gave the @UQ_News cryo-EM community a fantastic cryo-EM data-processing workshop. Thank you Oli for sharing your tricks with us, @FarrahBlades for wrangling the Bunya supercomputer, and all who attended! 🔬
May 8, 2025 at 5:28 PM
This week we had the pleasure of hosting cryo-EM guru @OliBClarke who gave the @UQ_News cryo-EM community a fantastic cryo-EM data-processing workshop. Thank you Oli for sharing your tricks with us, @FarrahBlades for wrangling the Bunya supercomputer, and all who attended! 🔬
Want to Structure, Function, Surf, Repeat?!
@LorneProteins is renowned for being an outstanding international protein conference in a beautiful Aussie beach town. Have a read to get a feel and hope to see you all at the 50th anniversary meeting!...
@LorneProteins is renowned for being an outstanding international protein conference in a beautiful Aussie beach town. Have a read to get a feel and hope to see you all at the 50th anniversary meeting!...
May 8, 2025 at 5:28 PM
Want to Structure, Function, Surf, Repeat?!
@LorneProteins is renowned for being an outstanding international protein conference in a beautiful Aussie beach town. Have a read to get a feel and hope to see you all at the 50th anniversary meeting!...
@LorneProteins is renowned for being an outstanding international protein conference in a beautiful Aussie beach town. Have a read to get a feel and hope to see you all at the 50th anniversary meeting!...
Well done @FarrahBlades on an excellent talk @bmh2024Melb! The streamline #CryoEM data processing pipeline you've set up at @CMMUQ1 using the Bunya supercomputer is helping so many researchers @UQ_News to process data efficiently and answer important biological questions! 👏👏👏
May 8, 2025 at 5:28 PM
Well done @FarrahBlades on an excellent talk @bmh2024Melb! The streamline #CryoEM data processing pipeline you've set up at @CMMUQ1 using the Bunya supercomputer is helping so many researchers @UQ_News to process data efficiently and answer important biological questions! 👏👏👏
Talk about a beautiful spot for a conference 😍 Big thank you to @_VanessaMorris_ and Michael Edmonds for putting together and inviting me to the spectacular Biomolecular Interactions satellite meeting for Queenstown Research Week!
May 8, 2025 at 5:33 PM
Talk about a beautiful spot for a conference 😍 Big thank you to @_VanessaMorris_ and Michael Edmonds for putting together and inviting me to the spectacular Biomolecular Interactions satellite meeting for Queenstown Research Week!
It was my absolute pleasure to host @renaemryan1 for the Centre for Chemistry and Drug Discovery seminar @IMBatUQ this week! She shared such beautiful research and it was so fun to have my PhD advisor get to know my new academic home!
May 8, 2025 at 5:33 PM
It was my absolute pleasure to host @renaemryan1 for the Centre for Chemistry and Drug Discovery seminar @IMBatUQ this week! She shared such beautiful research and it was so fun to have my PhD advisor get to know my new academic home!
What a fantastic week at the #MembraneTransportProteins @GordonConf! So much excellent science being shared and so great to reconnect with my transporter family! Thanks to everyone who made it special, especially @renaemryan1 and @DrSusieLIngram1 for putting it all together.
May 8, 2025 at 5:39 PM
What a fantastic week at the #MembraneTransportProteins @GordonConf! So much excellent science being shared and so great to reconnect with my transporter family! Thanks to everyone who made it special, especially @renaemryan1 and @DrSusieLIngram1 for putting it all together.
The time has come for me to farewell #ManciaLab, @ColumbiaPS and NYC! 🗽🍎 It's been an amazing ride, and I'm going to miss everyone so much, but excited for the next chapter for my own lab at @IMBatUQ! Thank you to everyone who made the last six years what they were - you rock!
May 8, 2025 at 5:44 PM
The time has come for me to farewell #ManciaLab, @ColumbiaPS and NYC! 🗽🍎 It's been an amazing ride, and I'm going to miss everyone so much, but excited for the next chapter for my own lab at @IMBatUQ! Thank you to everyone who made the last six years what they were - you rock!
Choline! We need it to make membranes and acetylcholine, & for DNA/protein methylation.
Our brains need a LOT of it! 🧠
We show that FLVCR2 transports choline into the brain & solved its structure in the OFS & IFS with choline bound. 🐀🔬
Check it out!...
Our brains need a LOT of it! 🧠
We show that FLVCR2 transports choline into the brain & solved its structure in the OFS & IFS with choline bound. 🐀🔬
Check it out!...
May 8, 2025 at 5:49 PM
Choline! We need it to make membranes and acetylcholine, & for DNA/protein methylation.
Our brains need a LOT of it! 🧠
We show that FLVCR2 transports choline into the brain & solved its structure in the OFS & IFS with choline bound. 🐀🔬
Check it out!...
Our brains need a LOT of it! 🧠
We show that FLVCR2 transports choline into the brain & solved its structure in the OFS & IFS with choline bound. 🐀🔬
Check it out!...
What a fantastic Mechanisms of Membrane Transport #GRC in Les Diablerets! It was fantastic to hear about all of the exciting transporter research being done, to catch up with old friends, make new friends, and all in this breathtaking part of the world 🏔️🇨🇭
May 8, 2025 at 5:49 PM
What a fantastic Mechanisms of Membrane Transport #GRC in Les Diablerets! It was fantastic to hear about all of the exciting transporter research being done, to catch up with old friends, make new friends, and all in this breathtaking part of the world 🏔️🇨🇭
The NYC TBG alumni must have known there was something to celebrate over the weekend! @renaemryan1 @QianyiWu_
May 8, 2025 at 6:09 PM
The NYC TBG alumni must have known there was something to celebrate over the weekend! @renaemryan1 @QianyiWu_
A huge thank you to @NYASciences for a fantastic Annual Gala! I'm so honoured to be a 2022 @BlavatnikAwards Finalist, and it was great to celebrate in style with the other honorees and a few of my nearest and dearest! 🏅💃🕺🥂
May 8, 2025 at 6:14 PM
A huge thank you to @NYASciences for a fantastic Annual Gala! I'm so honoured to be a 2022 @BlavatnikAwards Finalist, and it was great to celebrate in style with the other honorees and a few of my nearest and dearest! 🏅💃🕺🥂
What an inspiring experience to attend the #stsforum2022 in Kyoto!
When you bring scientists, politicians, and CEOs together to discuss issues in science and technology our society faces, it's incredible to see the walls come down and the ideas come out. We need more of this!
When you bring scientists, politicians, and CEOs together to discuss issues in science and technology our society faces, it's incredible to see the walls come down and the ideas come out. We need more of this!
May 8, 2025 at 6:19 PM
What an inspiring experience to attend the #stsforum2022 in Kyoto!
When you bring scientists, politicians, and CEOs together to discuss issues in science and technology our society faces, it's incredible to see the walls come down and the ideas come out. We need more of this!
When you bring scientists, politicians, and CEOs together to discuss issues in science and technology our society faces, it's incredible to see the walls come down and the ideas come out. We need more of this!
Thank you Wayne, @pippomancia & @OliBClarke for a top notch @comppaa 2022 meeting! Everything from the science to the kareoke was outstanding! Great to catch up and talk science with old friends, new friends, and meet some in 3D for the first time! What a special community 😊
May 8, 2025 at 6:20 PM
Thank you Wayne, @pippomancia & @OliBClarke for a top notch @comppaa 2022 meeting! Everything from the science to the kareoke was outstanding! Great to catch up and talk science with old friends, new friends, and meet some in 3D for the first time! What a special community 😊
Couldn't be more proud of my superstar undergrad 'Prof' Brendon Choy @brendon_choy on his commencement @Columbia! You have grown so much and excelled over the last 4 yrs in the #ManciaLab! Keep your scientific training in mind as you should @harvardmed what you're made of!! 👊🦁
May 8, 2025 at 6:25 PM
Couldn't be more proud of my superstar undergrad 'Prof' Brendon Choy @brendon_choy on his commencement @Columbia! You have grown so much and excelled over the last 4 yrs in the #ManciaLab! Keep your scientific training in mind as you should @harvardmed what you're made of!! 👊🦁
Our MFSD2A paper is out in print today! 📖
While we didn't make the cover, my extremely talented cousin @MaddieBurkitt created this gorgeous piece. Thank you Maddie, I will treasure this forever!
#Omega3 #CryoEM #DHA @pippomancia #ManciaLab 🐠➡️🧠
https://dir.lat/5Kg0xT
While we didn't make the cover, my extremely talented cousin @MaddieBurkitt created this gorgeous piece. Thank you Maddie, I will treasure this forever!
#Omega3 #CryoEM #DHA @pippomancia #ManciaLab 🐠➡️🧠
https://dir.lat/5Kg0xT
May 8, 2025 at 6:30 PM
Our MFSD2A paper is out in print today! 📖
While we didn't make the cover, my extremely talented cousin @MaddieBurkitt created this gorgeous piece. Thank you Maddie, I will treasure this forever!
#Omega3 #CryoEM #DHA @pippomancia #ManciaLab 🐠➡️🧠
https://dir.lat/5Kg0xT
While we didn't make the cover, my extremely talented cousin @MaddieBurkitt created this gorgeous piece. Thank you Maddie, I will treasure this forever!
#Omega3 #CryoEM #DHA @pippomancia #ManciaLab 🐠➡️🧠
https://dir.lat/5Kg0xT
Let's have a cheers to our amazing scientific mentors!
@pippomancia has been the best adviser I could have hoped for over the last four years. Without great leadership, science goes astray. I'm so grateful I have you to guide me.
To good science... and tennis 🎾🎾🎾
@pippomancia has been the best adviser I could have hoped for over the last four years. Without great leadership, science goes astray. I'm so grateful I have you to guide me.
To good science... and tennis 🎾🎾🎾
May 8, 2025 at 6:35 PM
Let's have a cheers to our amazing scientific mentors!
@pippomancia has been the best adviser I could have hoped for over the last four years. Without great leadership, science goes astray. I'm so grateful I have you to guide me.
To good science... and tennis 🎾🎾🎾
@pippomancia has been the best adviser I could have hoped for over the last four years. Without great leadership, science goes astray. I'm so grateful I have you to guide me.
To good science... and tennis 🎾🎾🎾
7/9 A huge thank you goes out to Brian Kloss and the team at @compaa and @SEMC_NYSBC, and to our fantastic CEMC microscope staff @BobGrassucci, @zhang_zhening, @ChihThomas, @jingwan84828775 and Chi! #WomenInSTEM #WomenInCryoEM
May 8, 2025 at 7:06 PM
7/9 A huge thank you goes out to Brian Kloss and the team at @compaa and @SEMC_NYSBC, and to our fantastic CEMC microscope staff @BobGrassucci, @zhang_zhening, @ChihThomas, @jingwan84828775 and Chi! #WomenInSTEM #WomenInCryoEM
6/9 58 kDa MFSD2A was a little tricky to solve using cryo-EM by itself so we complexed it with a synthetic #antibody fragment from Tony Kossiakoff & @skerramilli at @UChicago
May 8, 2025 at 7:01 PM
6/9 58 kDa MFSD2A was a little tricky to solve using cryo-EM by itself so we complexed it with a synthetic #antibody fragment from Tony Kossiakoff & @skerramilli at @UChicago
3/9 One wacky feature of this transporter is a disulfide bond that pins together the extracellular side of the N and C domains – could it be that this #MFS #transporter uses an adapted rocker-switch mechanism to selectively transport lysolipids?
May 8, 2025 at 6:45 PM
3/9 One wacky feature of this transporter is a disulfide bond that pins together the extracellular side of the N and C domains – could it be that this #MFS #transporter uses an adapted rocker-switch mechanism to selectively transport lysolipids?
2/9 We used #cryoEM #MolecularDynamics #FlowCytometry and #NativeMassSpectrometry to show that lysolipid substrates bind to a hydrophobic pocket in the MFSD2A central cavity, and are released into the inner leaflet of the membrane through a lateral gate in a Na+-coupled manner.
May 8, 2025 at 6:40 PM
2/9 We used #cryoEM #MolecularDynamics #FlowCytometry and #NativeMassSpectrometry to show that lysolipid substrates bind to a hydrophobic pocket in the MFSD2A central cavity, and are released into the inner leaflet of the membrane through a lateral gate in a Na+-coupled manner.