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  1. Promotion to Associate Professor

    Dr Douglas Brumley has been promoted to Associate Professor (Level D) at The University of Melbourne (effective January 2025).

    brumley-lab.science.unimelb.edu.au/2024/12/08/promotion-to-associate-professor

  2. Research Grant from Gordon and Betty Moore Foundation

    We are excited to receive a Research Grant from the Gordon and Betty Moore Foundation, as part of the Symbiosis Model Systems Initiative. The project, “New …

    brumley-lab.science.unimelb.edu.au/2024/10/29/research-grant-from-gordon-and-betty-moore-foundation

  3. Magnetotaxis paper in Royal Society Interface

    Congratulations to Xinyi Yang, for the first paper from her PhD, “Escape motility of multicellular magnetotactic prokaryotes“, published today in Journal of the Royal Society Interface. …

    brumley-lab.science.unimelb.edu.au/2024/10/16/magnetotaxis-paper-in-royal-society-interface

  4. Chemotaxis paper preprint

    Congratulations to Riccardo Foffi and Jonasz Słomka from ETH Zürich for leading this work, “Slower swimming promotes chemotactic encounters between bacteria and small phytoplankton”. A preprint …

    brumley-lab.science.unimelb.edu.au/2024/10/09/chemotaxis-paper-preprint

  5. Machine Learning Paper in Computational and Structural Biotechnology Reports

    Congratulations to Filippo and Arash for leading this work, “Machine learning driven image segmentation and shape clustering of algal microscopic images obtained from various water types”. …

    brumley-lab.science.unimelb.edu.au/2024/09/09/machine-learning-paper-in-computational-and-structural-biotechnology-reports

  6. Peijing Li – PhD completion

    Congratulations to Peijing Li for completing the PhD degree! Co-supervised with Jesse Collis and John Sader, Peijing’s thesis examined the streaming forces acting on small solid …

    brumley-lab.science.unimelb.edu.au/2024/09/02/peijing-li-phd-completion

  7. Editorial Board of PLOS Computational Biology

    Douglas Brumley is excited to join the Editorial Board for PLOS Computational Biology, a journal dedicated to investigating living systems at all scales, through the application …

    brumley-lab.science.unimelb.edu.au/2024/08/26/editorial-board-of-plos-computational-biology

  8. Associate Editor at Bulletin of Mathematical Biology

    Douglas Brumley is excited to join as an Associate Editor of the Bulletin of Mathematical Biology, a journal devoted to research at the junction of computational, …

    brumley-lab.science.unimelb.edu.au/2024/08/23/associate-editor-at-bulletin-of-mathematical-biology

  9. Model citizens: how mathematicians are helping the planet

    On Monday 12 August, Dr Douglas Brumley, Professor Jennifer Flegg, and Associate Professor Guoqi Qian joined in a lively panel, hosted by science communicator Graham Phillips, …

    brumley-lab.science.unimelb.edu.au/2024/08/22/model-citizens-how-mathematicians-are-helping-the-planet

  10. Tristan Bunnage MSc completion

    Congratulations to Tristan Bunnage for completing the Master of Science (Mathematics and Statistics). Tristan’s research project, co-supervised with Dr. Edward Hinton, examined “Miscible Viscous Fingering Subject …

    brumley-lab.science.unimelb.edu.au/2024/07/11/tristan-bunnage-msc-completion

  11. Vicky Waymouth receives Women In Science of the Environment (WISE) Fellowship

    Congratulations to Vicky Waymouth for being awarded $6000 through the Women in Science of the environment (WISE) Fellowship. Vicky (co-supervised with Professor Michelle Watt) will use …

    brumley-lab.science.unimelb.edu.au/2024/07/11/vicky-receives-women-in-science-of-the-environment-wise-fellowship

  12. Cover image of Trends in Microbiology

    We are excited to see that our paper, “Swimming towards each other: the role of chemotaxis in bacterial interactions“, has been featured on the cover of …

    brumley-lab.science.unimelb.edu.au/2024/07/04/cover-image-of-trends-in-microbiology

  13. Paper in Journal of Experimental Botany

    Congratulations to Dr. Pranali Deore for her latest publication, “Unique photosynthetic strategies employed by closely related Breviolum minutum strains under rapid short-term cumulative heat stress“. While …

    brumley-lab.science.unimelb.edu.au/2024/06/04/paper-in-journal-of-experimental-botany

  14. Honourable Mention for Xinyi Yang

    Congratulations to Xinyi Yang, whose poster, “Microswimmers in vortical flows”, received an Honourable Mention at the 7th Microscale Ocean Biophysics Meeting on Heron Island this week. …

    brumley-lab.science.unimelb.edu.au/2024/06/04/honourable-mention-for-xinyi-yang

  15. VicANZIAM prize for Tristan Bunnage

    Congratulations to MSc student Tristan Bunnage (co-supervised with Dr. Edward Hinton), who won second prize ($125) at the one-day meeting of the Australian and New Zealand …

    brumley-lab.science.unimelb.edu.au/2024/06/04/vicanziam-prize-for-tristan-bunnage

  16. Paper in Journal of Fluid Mechanics (Rapids)

    Congratulations to Peijing Li, for the second paper from her PhD, published today in Journal of Fluid Mechanics. This paper identifies the mechanism underlying reversal of …

    brumley-lab.science.unimelb.edu.au/2024/03/27/paper-in-journal-of-fluid-mechanics-rapids

  17. Best student paper prize for Antony Selvan

    Congratulations to Antony Selvan, who won the Best Student Paper Prize at the 2024 Mathematical Biology Special Interest Group (MBSIG) workshop at the University of South …

    brumley-lab.science.unimelb.edu.au/2024/02/16/best-student-paper-prize-for-antony-selvan

  18. ANZIAM Honourable mention for Xinyi Yang

    Congratulations to Xinyi Yang for receiving an Honourable Mention in the Thomas Cherry Prize at the 2024 Australian and New Zealand Industrial and Applied Mathematics (ANZIAM) …

    brumley-lab.science.unimelb.edu.au/2024/02/16/anziam-honourable-mention-for-xinyi-yang

  19. Fluorescence lifetime imaging microscopy paper

    Our preprint posted on bioRxiv, led by Dr. Pranali Deore, uses fluorescence lifetime imaging microscopy (FLIM) and FISH to visualise intracellular bacteria in Symbiodiniaceae. Significant changes …

    brumley-lab.science.unimelb.edu.au/2024/01/19/fluorescence-lifetime-imaging-microscopy-paper

  20. Paper in Trends in Microbiology

    Our latest work, published in collaboration with colleagues at University of Technology Sydney and ETH Zurich, examines the role of chemotaxis in bacterial interactions. The paper …

    brumley-lab.science.unimelb.edu.au/2024/01/12/paper-in-trends-in-microbiology

  21. Paper in Physical Review Fluids

    Congratulations to Antony Selvan for the first paper from his PhD. This work, published in Physical Review Fluids, employs a point torque (or “rotlet”) model to …

    brumley-lab.science.unimelb.edu.au/2024/01/03/paper-in-physical-review-fluids

  22. Paper in Journal of Fluid Mechanics

    Congratulations to Peijing Li for the first paper from her PhD, published recently in Journal of Fluid Mechanics. This work explores the streaming flow generated by …

    brumley-lab.science.unimelb.edu.au/2024/01/03/paper-in-journal-of-fluid-mechanics