Kerstin and Vinoth presented updates of their PhD project at the annual Department’s HDR presentations session.

The book, “Peptides and Peptide-based Biomaterials and their Biomedical Applications”, highlights new developments in the applications of peptide and peptide-based biomaterials in biomedicine. This is a fast-moving and rapidly expanding research area, which promises to be one of...

Last week the 2017 Synthetic Biology Australasia Conference (SBA17) took place in Sydney, Australia. We had a successful Conference with awesome international and national speakers and over 180 delegates. Kerstin, Dominik, Dennis and Andrew presented posters of their work. Anwar...

Our study on “Solid-binding peptides for immobilization of thermostable enzymes to hydrolyze biomass polysaccharides” gets featured on Renewable Energy Global Innovations as a key scientific paper.

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Anwar presented at the joint workshop on “Nanotechnology meets Bioengineering”, within the framework of University wide trilateral collaboration between Fudan, Hamburg and Macquarie. A strong scientific program has been run to discuss and highlight current trends and progress in...

On the 3-5th of July, the 8th International Nanomedicine Conference took place at Coogee Beach in Sydney.

Vinoth presented a poster about his work on rapid molecular diagnostic by using a portable convective PCR device.

New paper by the Sunna Lab published in Chemosphere. The work describe an innovative approach to bioremediation of mercury contaminated soils from industrial mining operations.

Highlights

• A bulk natural substrate, zeolite, was bio-functionalised with encapsulated P. veronii.
• Th...

Kerstin travelled to Melbourne for the International Biofest 2016. She was able to present her progress on the project of cell free conversion of biomass into glucaric acid.

Alex took part in the “Advances in Biotechnology for Food and Medical Applications” workshop hosted by the University of Sydney. As an HDR student he was able to present a poster on his recent work and upcoming plans for the identification of glucanases in Euglena graci...

Anwar and Peter attended the “Extremophiles” Conference in Kyoto. Anwar gave a talk about recent research on immobilisation using solid binding peptides. We also presented a poster displaying our concepts for cell free bioconversion of waste products into platform chemicals....