The Lorne Conference Series, held annually in the town of Lorne along Victoria’s picturesque Great Ocean Road, is one of the premiere events in the Australian biomedical research calendar.  CHIRI’s Dr Mark Agostino, along with PhD students Sebastian Pohl and Melissa Eccles, recently attended the 43rd Lorne Conference on Protein Structure and Function.  Dr Agostino received a Postdoc Travel Bursary for his attendance at the conference and presented three posters of recent work covering topics including Wnt signalling, regulation of integrin signalling, and structural glycobiology.  Sebastian and Melissa both received prizes for their posters, respectively titled “DEAD-box RNA helicase DDX20 in redox-dependent regulation of Wnt/β-catenin signalling in triple-negative breast cancer” and “Specific combinations of presenilin 1 protein regions are required for differential cleavage of amyloid precursor protein and Notch receptor”. The prizes to all of Curtin’s attendees at the conference serve to highlight nationally the high quality of research at CHIRI across all of its key themes. In conjunction with the conference, Dr Agostino and Mr Pohl’s paper published in the Journal of Biological Chemistry last year is presently being featured in a Virtual Issue of the journal titled “Focus on Australasia”, with all articles in the Virtual Issue available for free until the end of February 2018.  See here for further details.