Just finished my first PhD committee meeting today! Got some constructive feedback and encouragements :) Can’t believe it has already been a year since I first started my PhD

Got selected to do a flash talk for the first conference I’m attending as a PhD student!! :D

✅ first flash talk at a conference :D It was fun chatting with people in the field

First Western blot in the new building…slightly crooked but i’m very happy that it works at all 😂😬

Congratulations to Lin, Raffaella, Alexia, Miro and Andrea! Great job on "shedding light" (literally) on an unexpected and very interesting mechanism of #T6SS assembly regulation: embopress.org/doi/full/10.15… More info here thanks to Katrin Biozentrum, University of Basel: biozentrum.unibas.ch/news/detail/ba…

It was fun mentoring two high school summer students :D Thanks for all the hard work you put in and all the interesting questions asked

EMC 2022 at Graz, Austria :)

How to make lab work more fun

Well someone gave my pipette a makeover 😂

So we have a fluffy friend, fried egg, salted egg yolk, and a dumpling (top view) growing on our cold room plates😂 (And yes, I associate things I see with food all the time) Contamination Club

Just two normal PhD students on a normal day in the lab.

We are pleased to announce that ETOX 2023, the 21st European Workshop on Bacterial Protein Toxins, will be held in Scotland, 25-29 June 2023. Registration opens 1st December. Apply early, this will be a great meeting! etox-meetings.org Please retweet

Great time at ETOX2023☺️ Super interesting talks and nice people. I’m so happy to have won the poster prize and have given a flash talk here:)

We send our congratulations to Hoi Ching Cheung (Christy Cheung), who won the Best Poster Prize at #ETOX2023 sponsored by our journal! FEMS Read our interview with Hoi Ching about her research 👉 fems-microbiology.org/about_fems/net…

My first "1st" author paper finally out now. Although its a small detour project from my (in progress) PhD thesis, its nice to publish a small observation and falling it though! With contributions from past members of the Clements lab Kam Pou Ha Christy Cheung

It is an honour to be an author on this paper. Great to see my Master thesis results included in this paper 😊 Congratulations to Brian Leung and the Clements lab 🥳

Snapshot of infection of host cells by Burkholderia thailandensis (white). The pathogen polymerizes actin (green) to move from one host cell to another and breaks the membranes (magenta) by its Type VI Secretion System #T6SS. youtu.be/gqULa2--QUI

It was a great pleasure to give a talk at the GRS and present my poster at both the GRS and GRC in Microbial Toxins and Pathogenicity ☺️ The past few days have been intellectually stimulating and fun. A big thank you to the organisers! #GRC #MicrobialToxins #Pathogenicity #T6SS

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