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our work on super saturation and ALS is finally out in PNAS

Spinal motor neuron protein supersaturation patterns are associated with inclusion body formation in ALSNational Academy of Sciences

New gene link provides hope to families with MNDResearchers at the Illawarra Health and Medical Research Institute (IHMRI) and University of Wollongong have contributed to a breakthrough in our understanding of Motor Neurone Disease (MND) which wil

Fresh perspectives win support to push MND research

Walking the tightrope: proteostasis and neurodegenerative diseaseA characteristic of many neurodegenerative diseases, including Alzheimer's disease (AD), Parkinson's disease (PD), Huntington's disease (HD), and amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS), is the aggregation...

Like everything else, proteins have a used-by date. Our latest review ponders the relationship between keeping our proteins healthy and neurodegenerative diseases like #MND, #Parkinson's disease and #Alzheimer's disease.

Our new project aims to give a boost to the cells garbage disposal system to help motor neurons survive by delivering a gene therapy using tricks learned in cancer drug delivery.

US military funds Illawarra researchers to fight motor neurone diseaseA Wollongong motor neurone disease expert uses a $500,000 grant from the American Department of Defence to study MND.

Link between MND, dementia exploredIllawarra scientists will use a $1.65 million government grant to search for the "origins of dementia".

Our collaborative team of researchers will spend the next 5 years peering inside cells to find the origins of Motor Neurone Disease #MND and Frontotemporal Dementia #FTD.

Congratulations to Natalie on her first author paper

posted Aug 26, 2015, 3:19 PM by Justin Yerbury [ updated Aug 26, 2015, 5:45 PM ]

Finally, Natalies paper: Farrawell, N. E. et al. Distinct partitioning of ALS associated TDP-43, FUS and SOD1 mutants into cellular inclusions. Sci. Rep. 5, 13416; doi: 10.1038/srep13416 (2015). is on line. Nat characterised the aggregation process in the three main types of ubiquitinated aggregates in ALS - FUS, SOD1 and TDP-43 aggregates and clearly showed that they all aggregate in different ways in the cell.

Down load the paper here

Rafaa selected to speak in student session at Proteostasis 2014.

posted Mar 31, 2015, 4:17 PM by Justin Yerbury [ updated Mar 31, 2015, 4:18 PM ]

Congratulations goes to Rafaa who was selected from an international field to present her work at the Proteostasis and Disease Symposium Nov 2014. She presented her work along with 7 other PhD students from universities such as UNSW, University of Cambridge, and University of Melbourne.

Isabella's poster shortlisted at the International MND/ALS symposium

posted Dec 24, 2014, 11:37 AM by Justin Yerbury [ updated Dec 24, 2014, 11:40 AM ]

Congratulations goes to Isabella Lambert-Smith after her poster was shortlisted and then recognized as highly commended from the International Symposium on ALS/MND. There were over 400 abstracts submitted, so making the shortlist at the international symposium was a great effort. The news was published on the MND Association's research blog today.

Bec Brown awarded 2014 Hulbert Award

posted Dec 24, 2014, 11:30 AM by Justin Yerbury

This year Bec Brown was honoured with the Biological Sciences annual Hulbert award for her efforts at the Proteostasis Symposium - well done Bec. She was nominated by fellow student Luke McAlary who wrote a very poetic nomination. It should also be mentioned that Luke was nominated for the Meat Pie award for his efforts at Lorne 2014.

Congratulations Dan!

posted Dec 24, 2014, 11:27 AM by Justin Yerbury

Congratulations goes to Dan Whiten for coming away with the Best Speaker Prize at the Annual School of Biological Sciences Post graduate conference.

Congratulations to Megan Faulks!

posted Dec 24, 2014, 11:23 AM by Justin Yerbury

Megan had been awarded the Miller Bridgewater IHMRI Summer Scholarship 2014/15. She will undertake the scholarship during the summer and work as part of our ubiquitin team. Congratulations Megan!

Wollongong Hawks take the challenge...

posted Sep 1, 2014, 8:28 AM by Justin Yerbury

After being challenged by the Yerbury group the Hawks take up the MND Ice Bucket Challenge! See their efforts here:

MND Ice bucket Challenge...

posted Oct 20, 2009, 4:41 PM by Justin Yerbury

The UOW MND reseach team takes the ice bucket challenge and challenges the Dragons, the Hawks and our Lord Mayor Gordon Bradbery!

MND Research team opens its doors to the public...

posted Oct 20, 2009, 3:47 PM by Justin Yerbury [ updated Aug 27, 2014, 8:45 PM ]

Researchers and the people they hope to help joined forces this week to raise awareness for Motor Neurone Disease (MND) at a research open day hosted by the Illawarra Health and Medical Research Institute (IHMRI).

The open day was part of national MND Week and the University of Wollongong-based IHMRI hosted people with MND, local support group members, clinicians, representatives from MND Australia, and others eager to address MND, a progressive, terminal neurological disease with no known cure or effective treatment. Read more

UOW MND research team walks to D-feet MND

posted Oct 20, 2009, 3:46 PM by Justin Yerbury

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