Congratulations to mid-career researchers Natalie Spillman, Yi Lin Kang and senior lecturer Heather Verkade.

Speakers Sarah Atkinson, Monash University, Tatiana Soares da Costa, La Trobe University, Charlotte Conn, RMIT and Bio21’s Sarah Overall presented at the Biophysics Symposium at Bio21, 7 March 2017.

Author Tim Winton (pictured with Roger Swainston's painting of Winton's grunter) and Dean of Science Prof Karen Day and Biosciences PhD students James Shelley and Matt LeFeuvre

On International Women's Day, Bio21's Professor Frances Separovic is one of 12 women globally to have been honoured with the IUPAC Distinguished Women in Chemistry or Chemical Engineering award.

Collective intelligence needed to solve malaria. Hear Leann Tilley explain

Howard Russell was honoured with the inaugural Grimwade Medal for Biochemistry, 17 November 2016.

Ten years of work by researchers from the University of Melbourne's, Bio21 Molecular Science and Biotechnology Institute and the Florey Institute of Neuroscience and Mental Health, a human trial for a drug that could fight Motor Neurone Disease has begun.

Perran Ross, a PhD student at the University of Melbourne, subjected Aedes aegypti mosquitoes to temperatures from 26 degrees to 37 degrees under controlled laboratory conditions to see how well the bacterium survives.

Nominated by 31 of peers, Dr Nancy Endersby- Harshman has won the Behind the Scenes Invitrogen Science Hero Award.

On the 14 December 2016 Prof Frances Separovic, Bio21 and School of Chemistry, Dr Luke O’Dell, Deakin University, Dr Marc-Antoine Sani and Dr David Keizer, Bio21 and a team from Bruker all gathered in the Magnetic Resonance facility to celebrate the installation of the DNP-NMR at Bio21.