A birthday celebration for Shesh and we also got our first 2024 group photo (photoshop with Dean)!

Warmest welcome Mr Yujie Zhu from China as our 2nd PhD student joining our group!

It is an exciting time with the installation of the first MultiPep in Australia. This SPOT system will significantly help us to push forward of our current research on membrane active peptide and mimetics, especially our antimicrobial research! Many thanks for the support from La Trobe University, School of Agriculture, Biomedicine and Environment, La Trobe Institute for Molecular Science (LIMS)

Happy New Year of 2024, everyone! Our group is growing with two new members. Shesh is doing his Master's research project for his Master of Biotechnology and Bioinformatics this year! And Dean will start his Master of Research degree (Part-Time) this year! Welcome both!

A new co-authored paper is online at Nature Reviews Bioengineering! Congrats!

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.