I'm excited to announce we have started our first large Bd-challenge study in corroboree frogs. This project has been many years in the making. We will be investigating the genetic basis of immunity in this critically endangered species One Health Research @FVASunimelb Mikaeylah Davidson @microbemik.bsky.social 🐸🧬

Do you love frogs and genetics? We're looking for another PhD student to join our research group at One Health Research at @FVASunimelb at University of Melbourne🐸🍄🧬👩‍🔬👩🏿‍🔬👨‍🔬👨🏾‍🔬

There are still a few days left to apply to do a PhD with us at One Health Research Group One Health Research at @FVASunimelb at University of Melbourne. This is an excellent opportunity to use the latest technologies to develop solutions for chytridiomycosis 🐸🍄🧬👩‍🔬👩🏿‍🔬👨‍🔬👨🏾‍🔬

We got the best news today ⬇️🐸👏 Super excited to see this come to fruition, and to now be able to utilise this amazing resource for more #frog disease research! ✨

Great segment on #frog mortalities, the deadly chytrid fungus and what we’re all trying to do to conserve our native species 🐸 with ⁦Dr Tiffany Kosch 👩‍🔬 🤿🐸🧬⁩ ⁦deborah bower 🐢 🌈 🐸⁩ and Mike McFadden ⁦Taronga Zoo⁩! abclisten.page.link/3cGs6fT8X1Ng31…

OUT NOW 🥳👩🏼‍🔬🐸 So exciting to see my first #PhD chapter published! 🥺 Starting off as an opportunist side project, this has turned into a topic I have become super passionate about and I can’t wait to see where it all ends up! 🤞 int-res.com/articles/dao_o…

New research from One Health Research has found that captive breeding could be a solution to conserving animals at risk of extinction. Tap to learn more from PhD candidate and frog researcher Mikaeylah Davidson @microbemik.bsky.social ➡️ unimelb.me/3Y7A8Eu

My first #publication as a co-author!! 🥺🥳 We FINALLY got Alpine Tree frogs to breed in #captivity 😱 How did we do it? Overwinter the 🐸 at ❄ temperatures, then put them in outdoor mescosms to experience the 🌤 and 🌧 #firstpaper #new #PhD @LA_Brannelly peerj.com/articles/15179/

Tune in to Einstein A Go Go today to hear me talk about selective breeding, and how we can use it to assist the conservation of some of our most endangered 🐸🐸🐸 📸D.Goodall

PhD student Mikaeylah Davidson @microbemik.bsky.social is one of a few frog enthusiasts in the Faculty 🐸She’s researching how Southern Corroboree tree frog populations can stay resilient against amphibian disease with One Health Research. Watch ⏯ Tap to learn more about One Health ➡️ unimelb.me/3paRTGp

I realize I'm a bit late mentioning this paper, but I just wanted to make sure that everyone reads the new assessment on amphibian declines [1/5]. nature.com/articles/s4158…

And that's a wrap 💫🐸👩🏼‍🔬 After 3 longs years, Friday marked the end of my last experiment of my #PhD 🥹 I'm not sure what to do without all the #frogs, but if I asked my supervisors I'm sure they'd tell me to get writing 🙈

🐸 Happy world #frog day 🐸 Heres to this little frog, who reminds me every day what it means to be a conservation biologist, to keep fighting to help conserve our precious wildlife and ecosystems 🫶

It's #WorldFrogDay! 🐸 Some scientists from Science at Melbourne have dedicated their research to improving our knowledge and the lives of frogs. Prof Kirsten Parris (Kirsten M. Parris), Danielle Wallace (Danielle Wallace) and Mikaeylah Davidson (Mikaeylah Davidson @microbemik.bsky.social) share some un-frog-etable facts.

Today marks the end of my #PhD lab work; 7 experiments, 13,152 samples and 137 qPCR plates… Done ✔️

IT’S FINALLY DONE! 🧬💻🐸 It’s taken me nearly 4 years, but I have genotyped ~1,100 Southern Corroboree #frogs 🎉 This mammoth project involved…

*me trying to convince everyone at #GSA2024 that we can and should be breeding frogs from improved conservation outcomes

Congratulations to our PhD Mikaeylah Davidson @microbemik.bsky.social 🎉🐸👏

Congratulations 2024 VIC Young Tall Poppies! A/Prof B. Beck Dr D. Bui Dr J. Ong Dr J. Richardson Dr K. Lycett A/Prof K.A. Allen Dr K. Soanes Dr L. Brannelly Dr M. Wille Dr P. Dempsey Dr R. Borovica A/Prof S. Li A/Prof S. Filbay Dr S. Johnston Dr S. Baidawi Dr S. Seibt

Congrats @LA_Brannelly - our 2024 VIC Young Tall Poppy!