Melinda Ashcroft (PhD)
@biominnie
Infectious Diseases Epidemiologist (Climate Change) - Mycobacteria | Microbial Genomics & Bioinformatics Scientist | She/her. @UQMedicine
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In NICUs, time is of the essence for neonatal infections. Handheld Oxford Nanopore sequencers can detect & type outbreaks faster & more accurately. This technology can help Health NZ/Health New Zealand | Te Whatu Ora save lives when it matters most! 📌Tiny tech, big impact: esr.cri.nz/news-publicati… #scicomm
A packed house at the ASM NSW/ACT Branch Goldsworthy Oration listening to Jocelyne Basseal share her inspirational career as a microbiologist in infection control and personal story of resilience. “You can make your career what you want it to be as long as you keep your antennas open”
Registration for the #NTMSym2024 Oct 31-Nov 1 are closing soon! Learn about patient perspectives #NTM treatment guidelines and #Diagnostics. Thanks to our Silver Sponsor @mannkindcorp bit.ly/NTM-symposium-… #BrisbaneResearch #LungDisease UQ Medicine
Just published in Access Microbiology Microbiology Society, this #OpenAccess article presents one of my #PhD projects 📌The complete genome sequence of five pre-2013 Escherichia coli sequence type (ST)1193 strains reveals insights into an emerging pathogen doi.org/10.1099/acmi.0…
Not long until #NTMSym2024 on Oct 31! Learn about multi-omics, clinical perspectives and infection control in #NTM, along with #Pulmonary vs #Extrapulmonary disease. Proudly supported by Gallipoli Medical Research Foundation UQ Medicine bit.ly/NTM-symposium-…
A huge thank you to all attendees at the #NTMSym2024, the NTM Australia Research Network organising committee. And thank you to our gold sponsor Insmed, silver sponsor @mannkindcorp & supporter Gallipoli Medical Research Foundation for making this year’s event possible and increasing awareness of #NTM
Excited to share BakRep - our latest work published in Microbiology Society #MGen >661,000 bacterial genomes, uniformly characterized & annotated, enriched with metadata, accessible via a flexible search engine doi.org/10.1099/mgen.0… 👇 1/7
Today is whooping cough awareness day and a perfect time to check that we are all up to date with our vaccines. Read more about the current state of whooping cough in Australia in ifa.org.au report card: static1.squarespace.com/static/5d13113…
Our work held from publication for quite sometime finally out at iScience. Thanks for the great teamwork Makrina Totsika Begona Heras Jilong Qin and the rest of team not on this platform. cell.com/iscience/fullt…
This morning we kick off IMUC-III, hosted in Melbourne with Tim Stinear as Chair! This is the third international M. ulcerans conference, and we are pleased to welcome over 130 researchers from 16 countries to discuss all things Buruli 💡#IMUC-III Doherty Institute University of Melbourne