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We love #ubiquitin. Lab researching ubiquitination in health and disease @WEHI-research. Posts are by Komander lab members.
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Komander Lab @komanderlab.bsky.social · Apr 7
Join us at the beach for the first Australian Ubiquitin summit from 20-23 Nov! 🏄‍♀️ Check out the amazing speakers here: www.lorneubiquitin.org

And, why not stay a little longer and join the International Symposium on Autophagy from 16-20 Nov, also in beautiful Lorne ☀️. www.isa11.org

See you there!
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Marnie Blewitt @marnieblewitt.bsky.social · Sep 3
Very exciting to see the @wehi-research.bsky.social PINK1 Parkinson’s Disease research team win the Eureka Prize for Scientific Research. Amazing achievement by a brilliant team! @eurekaprizes.bsky.social
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Sylvie Callegari @sylviecallegari.bsky.social · Jul 31
🎉 What an honour to be a finalist in the 2025 Australian Museum Eureka Prizes for Scientific Discovery!! With David Komander, @zhongyangan.bsky.social, Alisa Glukhova and @nskirk.bsky.social.

Excited for the awards ceremony on Sept 3rd!

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PINK1 Parkinson's Disease Research Team – Finalist, 2025 Eureka Prize for Scientific Research
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Komander Lab @komanderlab.bsky.social · Jul 28
📣📣 Abstract deadline extension to Friday 1st August 📣📣
If you missed the last deadline, then don't miss out again!! Join us for sun, surf and ubiquitin in November at Lorne, Australia.
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Komander Lab @komanderlab.bsky.social · Jul 17
Grateful for the support from the Parkinson's Research Foundation!
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WEHI (The Walter and Eliza Hall Institute of Medical Research) @wehi-research.bsky.social · Jul 17
WEHI has formed a partnership with the Parkinson’s Research Foundation with one clear goal: to intensify the search for drug treatments to stop Parkinson’s.

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New partnership with Parkinson’s Research Foundation to accelerate Parkinson’s drug discovery
WEHI has formed a partnership with the Parkinson’s Research Foundation with one clear goal: to intensify the search for drug treatments to stop Parkinson’s.
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Komander Lab @komanderlab.bsky.social · Jul 11
📣 Calling all ubiquitin aficionados - one week to go before abstract deadline (July 18th)!! Join us on the coast in Lorne, Australia. www.lorneubiquitin.org
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Komander Lab @komanderlab.bsky.social · Jul 4
Two weeks to go before the abstract deadline (July 18th)! Looking forward to seeing you all there!
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Rashmi Agrata @rashmiagrata.bsky.social · Jul 4
Australia’s First Ubiquitin Summit is here! 🥳
📍Lorne, Victoria | 🗓️ 20–23 November 2025

Join us on the scenic coastline of Lorne for 4 days of cutting-edge ubiquitin science, featuring a fantastic lineup of international speakers covering all corners of the Ub world—from mechanisms to therapeutics
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Lechtenberg Lab @lechtenberglab.bsky.social · Apr 10
Excited to share our latest work, now out in @lsajournal.org. we show that the E3 ligase HOIL-1 can ubiquitinate many different saccharides and describe a chemoenzymatic platform to generate ubiquitinated sugars as tools for studying non-proteinaceous ubiquitination.
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Life Science Alliance @lsajournal.org · Apr 2
The RBR E3 ligase HOIL-1 ubiquitinates Ser/Thr-residues and various disaccharides in vitro and can be used to generate ubiquitinated sugars as tools to study non-proteinaceous ubiquitination
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WEHI (The Walter and Eliza Hall Institute of Medical Research) @wehi-research.bsky.social · Apr 8
Could this breakthrough research lead to the first treatment for #longCOVID? A world-first milestone made possible through the advanced technologies of the National Drug Discovery Centre.

Find out more: www.wehi.edu.au/news/tacklin...
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Komander Lab @komanderlab.bsky.social · Apr 8
Excited to share news from the lab out in Nature Communications – A novel PLpro inhibitor improves outcomes in a pre-clinical model of long COVID
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
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A novel PLpro inhibitor improves outcomes in a pre-clinical model of long COVID - Nature Communications
A novel antiviral targeting the SARS-CoV-2 PLpro protease shows strong efficacy in a mouse model, preventing lung pathology and reducing brain dysfunction. The study provides proof-of-principle that P...
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Komander Lab @komanderlab.bsky.social · Apr 7
Early and mid-career researcher travel grants are available!
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Komander Lab @komanderlab.bsky.social · Apr 7
Join us at the beach for the first Australian Ubiquitin summit from 20-23 Nov! 🏄‍♀️ Check out the amazing speakers here: www.lorneubiquitin.org

And, why not stay a little longer and join the International Symposium on Autophagy from 16-20 Nov, also in beautiful Lorne ☀️. www.isa11.org

See you there!
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Komander Lab @komanderlab.bsky.social · Mar 13
Exciting news from the lab out today in Science - the structure of human PINK1 on a TOM-VDAC complex!
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Sylvie Callegari @sylviecallegari.bsky.social · Mar 13
Thrilled to share the structure of dimerised human PINK1 docked to an endogenous translocase array on the mitochondrial surface, composed of two TOM complexes, bridged by a VDAC2 dimer! Published today in Science www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

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