Wow! Our first group Christmas celebration and Farewell to Dr Jing Wang! Thank you, Jing, for your 3-month visit. We have learned new knowledge from you.

PS, thank you, Hong, for dropping by!

Congratulations to Dr Wenyi Li for the High Commended for Vice-Chancellor’s ECR Research Excellence Award, La Trobe University.

Congratulations to Dr Wenyi Li for the Early Career Researcher Excellence Award from the School of Agriculture, Biomedicine and Environment, La Trobe University.

Nice invited talk from our Visiting Scholar Dr Jing Wang from Yangzhou University, China, on their study of colistin resistance in salmonella at the biannual Peptide User Group (PUG) symposium at Bio21 Institute, University of Melbourne.

Congratulations to Dr Wenyi Li on receiving a Ramaciotti Health Investment grant from Clive and Vera Ramaciotti Foundations, Perpetual Limited to support his important research into a new treatment for severe gum disease. The whole 8 early career scientists of 2023 Ramaciotti Health Investment Grant Recipients can be found in the link.

Congratulations to Dr Wenyi Li listed in the single year (2023) Stanford/Elsevier's Top 2% Scientist List! The ranking of scientists can be found in the following link (https://elsevier.digitalcommonsdata.com/datasets/btchxktzyw).

Warmest welcome Tianmeng Zhang from China as our 1st PhD student in our group!

Congratulations to Pengyu’s manuscript on antimicrobial peptides from marine organisms has been accepted to Natural Product Reports! Well done!

Welcome Dr Jing Wang from Yangzhou University, China to visit our lab for 3 months!

Congratulations to Dr Wenyi Li for being selected as mentors for the 15th APEC Cross Mentoring Research Program run by the APEC Mentoring Centre for the Gifted in Science.