Congratulations to Dr Wenyi Li, who has won The Royal Australian Chemical Institute (RACI) Rennie Memorial Medal 2024!

The prestigious award, which celebrates excellence in chemical science research by early and mid-career researchers in Australia, is a wonderful recognition of Dr Li’s work investigating how peptides could be used to create new antibiotics for drug-resistant infection.

Shesh gave a fantastic poster presentation at the Master research project cohort! Well done, Shesh!

Welcome Tep Raesmey Vong (Smey) join our group for her research project as part of her Master of Biotechnology and Bioinformatics! We look forward to having Smey in our group and a fruitful outcome from her project!

Another birthday celebration in July! Happy Birthday, Yujie! Hope you are not missing home too much!

A birthday celebration for Praveen! A nice pink-purple match!

Dr Wenyi Li spoke with Dr Shane Huntington on “Einstein A Go-Go” and “3RRR 102.7FM” talking about peptides for antimicrobial resistance!

Congratulations to Praveen and collaborators’ summary on Marine sourced antimicrobial peptide in Natural Product Reports selected as the Cover! Congrats, Well done, team!Cover

A birthday celebration for Shesh and we also got our first 2024 group photo (photoshop with Dean)!

Warmest welcome Mr Yujie Zhu from China as our 2nd PhD student joining our group!

It is an exciting time with the installation of the first MultiPep in Australia. This SPOT system will significantly help us to push forward of our current research on membrane active peptide and mimetics, especially our antimicrobial research! Many thanks for the support from La Trobe University, School of Agriculture, Biomedicine and Environment, La Trobe Institute for Molecular Science (LIMS)