I am delighted and incredibly grateful to share that I have been awarded a NHMRC Emerging Leadership (EL1) Investigator Grant!
Bronte Johnstone
@bjohnstone.bsky.social
Structural biologist and coffee-fuelled research fellow in the Ghosal Lab at Bio21Institute, University of Melbourne
We've raced past 500 schools and now well over 650! Look how spread out those locations are. We're really happy that our Crystal Explorer Kits are reaching remote primary schools all over. #BraggYourPattern
Very humbled to hear such kind words from others in my research community ☺️. I feel lucky to be part of such a supportive community and be able to contribute towards that supportive and collaborative culture myself!
Next up for our #IWD2026 feature, we have Bronte Johnstone @bjohnstone.bsky.social from the Bio21/UoM node. 🥳Stay tuned as we share more profiles and kind words over the next few days. #GiveToGain
Seminar time⏲️ We welcome Professor Dimitrios Fotiadis, IBMM, Medical Faculty, University of Bern: “Structural and mechanistic insights into transmembrane glucose transport and light-driven proton pumping” 🥳More info: ccemmp.org/events/ccemm...
Join our Cryo-ET workshop and learn sample preparation, grid screening and data collection. 📍Ian Holmes Imaging Centre 🗓️9th-10th September 2025 🔗Register now: rduevents.unimelb.edu.au/event/2271-c... #CryoET #ElectronMicroscopy #StructuralBiology #CCeMMP
Many in the #Crystallography community will remember this (and may have helped put part of it together). Our record breaking diamond structure built at the 2023 IUCr congress in Melbourne [Photo credit Jun Aishima]
Excited to share that our work on a family of pore-forming proteins is now live in Science Advances! We show structural snapshots across the entire pore-forming pathway for a cholesterol-dependent cytolysin-like (CDCL) bicomponent system.
Our paper on the structure and evolution of baculovirus is out! Excited to share work I did at Monash in the Coulibaly lab, with big shout outs to co-authors Josh and Jungmin, collaborators Mart and team and everyone else who contributed. Definitely one of the coolest structures I'll ever work on 🤩
Check out the magnificent #baculovirus structure! The unique virion architecture and structural atlas of hallmark proteins place baculo-like viruses into a separate new realm. Many insights into baculo biology and evolution. Collab with the group of Fasséli Coulibaly. www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...