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Hello! You've come to the homepage of A/Prof Ann Kwan. My lab is focused on solving interesting biological problems using a cross-disciplinary approach especially in the field of fighting antimicrobial resistance.
The research areas we work on include: engineering biocompatible and antimicrobial coatings for implants using functional amyloids, drug and tool molecule development to fight antimicrobial resistance and developing new strategies to allow early detection and identification of infectious diseases.
Techniques range from molecular biology, protein chemistry, biophysics, structural biology, computational biology, molecular docking to omics.
We have opportunities for highly capable and motivated students.
LAB NEWS
Ann was one of 12 researchers from USyd selected to participate in the inaugural Inventor Mentorship Program run by the Sydney Knowledge Hub.
Jessica, a postdoc with Sandro, has been a close collaborator with the Kwan lab on the antimicrobial development project. Jessica has just been awarded $50k to work on our collaboration on PNAs.
Esther has the Sydney Nano's Taste of Research Awards ($2500) to investigate whether modified RNAs have potential as stable RNA decoys for next-generation biotech tools and therapeutics. Many congratulations Esther!
Maddy has won the 2022 ANSTO’s Neutron and Deuteration Impact Awards (https://www.ansto.gov.au/whats-on/anstos-neutron-and-deuteration-impact-awards) for her work in the expression and purification of isotopically labelled proteins as part of the novel antimicrobial development project.
The Greg Ralston Memorial Prize sponsored by The Sydney Protein Group is a $500 travel award for a BSc (Hons) student who plans to continue to a PhD. Well done Maddy and a great looking poster!
The Kwan lab was showcased at ISS 2022 which is an intensive program during the winter break for Year 11 and 12 students to experience STEM at university. A live-streamed lab tour featuring Ann, Tom, Esther, Feiyun, Lou, Aston and collaborator Sandro along with research techniques and facilities was showcased.
Congratulations to our Hons student Jennifer Zhao for being awarded the 2021 ANISE Honours Scholarship worth $5000 from ANSTO. Jennifer will be….
BIOL1997 is the Special Studies Program (SSP) of the Unit “From Molecules to Ecosystems” aimed at talented 1st year biology students. One of the assignments asked…..
A new lecture series on Solid-state NMR and dynamic nuclear polarization’ given by Prof Tatyana Polenova recorded at ANZMAG2019 has been released on the ANZMAG Youtube channel…
Ann Kwan
Associate Professor Rm 602, Building G08 The University of Sydney NSW 2006 EMAIL: ann.kwan@sydney.edu.au Phone: (612) 9351 3911, (614)25244538
Delivery address
Level 1 loading Dock, Building J03 Electrical Engineering Building Black wattle Creek Lane
Darlington NSW 2008