JAMS Monthly – Tuesday 27th August 2024
In July JAMS Sydney is bringing you three presentations from different fields of microbiology at Keg & Brew, Surry Hills
Join us from 6 pm on Tuesday 27th August 2024.
Note – there will be no zoom live stream at our monthly events
Date: 6 -7:30 pm AEDT Tuesday 27th August 2024
Location: Level 1, Keg & Brew
26 Foveaux St, Surry Hills, NSW, 2010
6:00 pm Jonathon Koong from the University of Technology Sydney will present “Assessment of parameters influencing plasmid transfer in Acinetobacter baumannii“
Jonathan Koong is a current PhD student under the supervision of Dr. Mehrad Hamidian and Associate Professor Iain Duggin, at the University of Technology Sydney. His research is focused on the bacterial pathogen Acinetobacter baumannii and how it is able to acquire antibiotic resistance genes. Specifically, he is looking at the mechanisms of A. baumannii plasmids. This includes understanding their replication machinery, as well as the machinery required for the transfer of plasmids between bacterial cells.
6:15 pm: Dr Taylor Szyszka from the University of Sydney will present “Synthetic biology and game design with microbial proteins“
Dr Taylor Szyszka is a postdoctoral research associate in the School of Chemistry at The University of Sydney. She is a synthetic biologist developing protein technologies with applications in agriculture, biomanufacturing, and bioremediation. In addition to her work as a researcher, she is an avid science communicator; speaking at SXSW Sydney 2023, performing science stand up comedy at Sydney Fringe and Sydney Comedy Festival, and co-creating a synthetic biology card game called Remediate! In 2022 she was selected as one of Science and Technology Australia’s Superstars of STEM, a program that increases the visibility of women and non-binary STEM experts.
7:00 pm Professor Buzz Baum from University College London will present “Our Archaeal Origins”
Buzz Baum is a cell biologist interested in the way cells shape themselves now and how this has changed over the course of the history of life on earth. Buzz studied Biochemistry at the University of Oxford, obtained his PhD studying the cell division cycle with Sir Paul Nurse in London, and was a postdoctoral researcher with Norbert Perrimon at Harvard Medical School, where he studied morphogenesis in flies and fly cells. He returned to the UK in 2001, when he set up a lab at UCL studying cell shape control in animal cells during development and cell division. He became an EMBO young investigator in 2005 and an EMBO member in 2013. In 2020 his lab moved to the MRC’s Laboratory of Molecular Biology Cambridge, where his team is exploring the biology of TACK and Asgard archaea during cell growth and division, and is using archaea to study the evolution of complex cells. In doing so, his interdisciplinary team aims to put his and David Baum’s 2014 “inside-out model of eukaryogenesis” to the test.
JAMS Sydney is organised by Dr. Hugh Goold and Dr. Meghann Thai, and hosted by Dr Meghann Thai and Jordan Vink
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