January 2026
Connie presents at the Joint Genome Institute
December 2025
Connie presents at the Chemistry and Biology of RiPPS Natural Products symposium at Pacifichem
See Anna-Kay West's work on photoreactive pantetheinyl mimics posted as a preprint
Collaborative work with Cole Stevens at University of Mississippi is published in Applied and Environmental Microbiology
Congrats to Gracie Sanders for her award for "Outstanding 1st Year Demonstrator!" We admire your passion for teaching!
November 2025
Natasha successfully completes her Honours thesis. Congrats Natasha!
Visiting student from the University of Gothenberg, Tindra Strindler joins
Connie presents at the Autstralia New-Zealand Natural Products Chemistry and Biology Symposium in Wellington
Connie presents at the Queensland Annual Chemsitry Symposium at University of Queensland
August 2025
Connie presents at the 3rd Cell Free Systems Conference at Northwestern
Ghaeath, Yutong, and Nida present posters and Gracie volunteers at the International Symposium on the Chemistry of Natural Products held in Sydney.
Welcome Dalyell students Adam Learmonth and Harry Ford!
July 2025
The Bailey lab moves into new renovated labs on the 3rd floor of G08!
Welcome new PhD students Jian (Severus) Yuan and Yifan (Frank) Wu!
June 2025
Former Hons student, Xizhe (Bob) Liu joins for a PhD. Welcome back Bob!
March 2025
New review on cell free synthesis for natural products research published in collaboration with Simon Moore (Imperial College London), Doug Mitchell (Vanderbilt University), and Nigel Mouncey (Joint Genome Institute at Berkeley Lab) with Bailey lab alumna Tien Sword as a coauthor!
New honours student Natasha Senicheva joins working on a project collaborating with Ruth Hall in SOLES. Welcome Natasha!
Dalyell students Chelsea Tse and Aqeel Roshan join. Welcome Chelsea and Aqeel!
January 2025
Cai Qinzhou joins as a new PhD student. Welcome Cai!
December 2025
Connie is selected to represent Australia at the 2024 Seminar of UNESCO Regional Network of Natural Products Chemistry for Safety and Well-being in Pan-Asia and the Pacific (URSWAP)", supported by the UNESCO Beijing Office and organized by Shanghai Institute of Materia Medica (SIMM) and the Chinese Academy of Sciences in Shanghai
November 2025
Congratulations Bob on a successful Honours thesis, viva, and departmental seminar!
Connie presents at the RACI organic symposium in Adelaide
Connie presents as an invited speaker associate investigator at the ARC Centre of Excellence for Innovation in Peptide and Protein Science (CiPPs) symposium in Manly, NSW
Bailey group hosts/Connie chairs the Australia-New Zealand Natural Products Chemistry and Biology Symposium Joint with the RACI NSW Symposium at the USyd School of Chemistry. Exciting natural products science going on in the region with many great HDR/ECR talks!
October 2025
New PhD student Gracie Sanders joins. Welcome Gracie!
Connie judges and supervises the Sydney Team at the iGEM Grand Jamboree in Paris where they come 3rd overall! Congrats to the team and to Yu Heng Lau for such success!
Connie presents seminars at I2BC Paris Saclay, the London Cell Free Network at Queen Mary University of London, and Imperial College London
September 2025
Connie presents at JAMS Sydney
Congrats to Yutong on her acceptance of her paper to Biophysical Reviews!
Ghaeath attends John Innes Summer School in Applied Molecular Microbiology in Dubrovnik, Croatia
August 2025
Goodbye to our intern Elsa Giraud!
July 2025
PhD student Nida Ahmed joints. Welcome Nida!
June 2024
Connie presents at the University of New South Wales School of Chemistry
Connie presents at the Earth Life Science Institute (ELSI) at Tokyo Tech
Connie presents at the Synthetic and Constructive Biology symposium at the 21st International Union for Pure and Applied Biophysics Congress joint with the 62 Biophysical Society of Japan
May 2024
Congrats to Tien and everyone for their publication's acceptance to Scientific Reports!
Welcome Elsa Giraud a visiting M.Sc. student from SIGMA-Clermont for the next three months
Welcome undergraduate volunteer Joe Zhou
March 2024
PhD student Yutong Zou joins. Welcome Yutong!
February 2024
Congrats to Dr. Tien Sword for a successful PhD defense!
Honours student Bob Liu joins after his stint as a Dalyell student last semester. Welcome Bob!
Dalyell students Christina Yazbeck and Paris Walters join!