We have a couple of exciting events coming up: a face-to-face catch up for families in Sydney on 29 July (2.30pm, Powerhouse Museum) and a free webinar with University of Tasmania researchers on genetic causes of childhood cataract on 12 August. Details and tickets here: cataractkids.org.au/events.html

Honoured to be awarded the 2023 Early Career Research award (and people’s choice award) at Tasmania’s ASMR Medical Research Week.

Recognising work being performed on the genetics of childhood cataracts.

Presented by the Governor at the fabulous Government House Tasmania!

Dr Johanna Jones of Menzies Institute for Medical Research explains the identification of a novel cause of paediatric cataracts at the Tasmanian The Australian Society for Medical Research (ASMR) Annual Symposium

Excited to have our latest paper out highlighting new variants for some of our cataract families 🧬👁 a big thank you to the team!!
Pathogenic genetic variants identified in Australian families with paediatric cataract bmjophth.bmj.com/content/7/1/e0…

Dr Johanna Jones Johanna Jones of the genetics and cancer group from Menzies Institute for Medical Research University of Tasmania presented their talk ‘Paediatric cataract causing variants identified in an Australian cohort’.

Today we had the presentation of our annual excellence awards! This allows us to recognise our achievements from the previous year. We award the Ten of the Best for the ten best research papers, and the Best of the Best for the most outstanding paper.

Applications for Genetics AustralAsia Student Research Grant now open for all postgrad members. Prize is NovaSeq 6000 S1 Flowcell + library construction from Illumina & Ramaciotti Centre for Genomics valued at over $15k. See genetics.org.au/student-grants/ to apply by Dec 1st.

Excellent talk by Johanna Jones on paediatric cataracts at #GSAA21 . It’s great to see the direct impacts of a Ph D students’ research on the study participants.

Keep an eye out for the 2021 GSA Student Grant Award sponsored by Ramaciotti Centre for Genomics and Illumina.
Great to hear the talk at #GSAA21 by the 2019 winner Johanna Jones. Looking forward to hearing the 2020 winner @RubyOberin present tomorrow.

Thank you so much - looking forward to working with the data!