Françios Olivier
@faolivier
Fungal biology & advanced imaging. Research Fellow @TravenLab @Monash University. It is an important and popular fact that things are not always what they seem. Curator of Fungal Path Researchers feed 📃
Brisbane, it has been far too long. Excited to present a talk at Yeast Products and Discovery (YPD) hosted at The University of Queensland next week! So many connections to make, so many ideas to exchange.
UPDATE (v1.2): now allows for more complicated 3-list scenarios (Euler plots included)
Need a Venn diagram? I've just built a web tool for that: "so much VENNING", link (& UPDATE) in the comments ☺️ It's not just for visualizing overlaps: you can also pull out the overlapping entries (e.g. gene or protein names) by hovering over data points or as a downloadable .csv summary.
Congratulations to @helenisinthelab.bsky.social for winning the Suspended! challenge at #lorneiandi 2026! She had great competition from Long Huynh. Thank you to VIIN and all the sponsors for making this amazing event possible.
The leaderboard heating up! Long Huynh currently in the lead ⚡ #lorneiandi
Announcing my Suspended! competition just for #Lorneiandi 26 🎮 Play my video game (grow into a C. albicans biofilm). Highest biomass wins a Suspended! t-shirt ❤️ More details on poster 158, or play game here: gd.games/frankcandida...
Great work from Leanie Kleynhans showing that alveolar macrophages from diabetic patients have impaired responses to Mtb! #lorneiandi
Just a lovely time hanging out with @drshanerrr.bsky.social, ChrisKP and Dr Scarlett on Triple R today 🎙❤️ Also my first time singing about fungi on radio... a love song about Candida 😍 Definitely harder to do live! Listen here: www.rrr.org.au/shared/broad...
Thank you to Monash Micro Imaging and Thermo Fisher Scientific for awarding me 2nd place 🥈 honours in the 2024 MMI Image competition 🤩 Well done to all the winners, there were some truly spectacular images and I am so proud to be featured alongside them all.
Everyone meet “Billy” my new desk mate, already has a long induction waitlist 🔬 Safety SUNglasses recommended for use, which involves staring directly into an LED. The blindness that results is temporary and absolutely worthwhile for the outstanding imaging achieved.
New year, new toys 🍄🔬 Wishing everyone a happy 2024, keep pioneering and discovering!
New paper! STARProtocols actually let me write a big ol’ protocol: live cell imaging to quantify Candida albicans escape from macrophages. star-protocols.cell.com/protocols/3144 I’m talking notes, video demonstrations, troubleshooting, sample data, MATHS!
I’m excited to announce my grant-writing think tank. Already a few strong opinions expressed.
How human pathogenic fungi escape from macrophages- lovely review from Sonnberger & co onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10....
Yesterday I was bestowed with a superb farewell gift from @drlachie.bsky.social… “The Francois Line” on the lab’s table tennis ladder, showing my final score 🥹 I am honoured. 🫡 @ngeo.bsky.social