Bosch Institute News - July to September 2009
Journal honors Professor Graham A. R. Johnston
Neurochemical Research has elected to dedicate their current issue to honoring Professor Graham A. R. Johnston. Professor Johnston is the head of the Neuropharmacology Laboratory at the Bosch Institute and is one of Australia’s most renowned and internationally well known biomedical scientists.
The issue was co-edited by Vladimir Balcar (also a Bosch member) and Phil Beart, who were two of Graham's earliest students.
Please click here to read the preface about Professor Johnston by Balcar and Beart titled "Graham Johnston: Bringing Success to Neuroscience Through Medicinal Chemistry".
Other articles in this issue of the journal include:
- "GABA Analogues Derived from 4-Aminocyclopent-1-enecarboxylic Acid" Katherine E. S. Locock, Graham A. R. Johnston and Robin D. Allan
- "Guanidino Acids Act as ρ1 GABAc Receptor Antagonists" Mary Chebib , Navnath Gavande, Kit Yee Wong, Anna Park, Isabella Premoli, Kenneth N. Mewett, Robin D. Allan, Rujee K. Duke, Graham A. R. Johnston and Jane R. Hanrahan
- "Modulation of Glutamate and Glycine Transporters by Niflumic, Flufenamic and Mefenamic Acids" Suzanne Habjan and Robert J. Vandenberg
- "Distribution of Glutamate Transporter GLAST in Membranes of Cultured Astrocytes in the Presence of Glutamate Transport Substrates and ATP" Jae-Won Shin, Khoa T. D. Nguyen, David V. Pow, Toby Knight, Vlado Buljan, Maxwell R. Bennett and Vladimir J. Balcar
- "Rottlerin Inhibits (Na+, K+)-ATPase Activity in Brain Tissue and Alters d-Aspartate Dependent Redistribution of Glutamate Transporter GLAST in Cultured Astrocytes" Khoa T. D. Nguyen, Jae-Won Shin, Caroline Rae, Ellas K. Nanitsos, Gabriela B. Acosta, David V. Pow, Vlado Buljan, Maxwell R. Bennett, Paul L. Else and Vladimir J. Balcar
- "The Flavonoid Glycosides, Myricitrin, Gossypin and Naringin Exert Anxiolytic Action in Mice" Sebastian P. Fernandez, Michael Nguyen, Tin Thing Yow, Cindy Chu, Graham A. R. Johnston, Jane R. Hanrahan and Mary Chebib
Bosch City to Surf Team - Sunday 9 August 2009
On Sunday 9th August a team of researchers took part in the City to Surf, a 14km fun run from Sydney city to Bondi beach. The groups spent the preceding weeks training as a team after work and were plagued by injury and illness throughout the lead-up. The hard work definitely paid off with the team finishing in 95th place out of 572 teams in the corporate category, based on the first three team members (at least one of each gender) across the line.
One of the aims of the team was to raise the profile of the Bosch Institute, and the Bosch logo was plastered on the back of each team member’s shirt. Professor Rebecca Mason was waiting at the 5km mark cheering on the team. Throughout the race several of our runners were asked questions about the institute. When one of our members injured her knee at the 7km mark someone remarked, “Today’s Research, Tomorrow’s Medicine?! I hope they can help you tomorrow!”. All good publicity.
The team were joined at Bondi by Chun Wang, Li Jin and Yi Chun. They were easily spotted on the grass hill beside the big Bosch Institute banner and they served lunch to our hungry runners. It was fantastic to see so many researchers, students and academics take part in this event, and the team would like to thank all those who supported us with donations and those who turned up on the day to support us.
Team
Katie Dixon, Aaron Camp, Tim Young, Melissa Barron, Michael Bourke, Jin Huang, Andrew Affleck, Tim Khaw, Steve Kokkinis, Victor Tiong, Sue McLennan, Dario Protti, Jenny Brockhausen, Elizabeth Hegedus, Mitchell Nash, Craig Vonhoff, Vladimir Balcar. Training partner: Sivaraman Purushothuman.
Australian Society for Parasitology – ARC/NHMRC Network for Parasitology Annual Conference - July 2009
Professors Georges Grau and Nick Hunt both gave symposium presentations at the Australian Society for Parasitology – ARC/NHMRC Network for Parasitology Annual Conference, held in Sydney in July 2009. They spoke about their separate and collaborative research projects aimed at understanding severe malaria, which kills more than 1 million people each year.
