One of our PhD candidates, Lara, features in an article recently published by QUT about the fascinating research she is doing here at CMR. Click the link below to read about Lara's studies investigating the gut microbiome and human health. 📚 qut.edu.au/insights/healt…

Congratulations, TRI-based Luis Pedro Coelho (@Luxembourg 26 Aug-2 Sep) from QUT and Centre for Microbiome Research, leading research that's found 863,498 molecules that can potentially kill infectious microbes and become the source of antibiotics. And they're all from the natural world!

CMR researchers Dr. Alex Chklovski & Dr. James Volmer are currently in Rome, presenting at the IHMC! Here they are presenting at a poster session earlier this week. Special congrats to Alex who won a poster award! Congrats both, we hope you are having a great time when in Rome!

Congrats to CMR Group Lead Prof. Phil b. Pope, a collaborator on the project 'Biorefining of brewer's spent grain into novel dietary fibres', awarded $382,963 from the ARC Linkage Projects grants program. Read more about this years QUT recipients below: qut.edu.au/news?id=195293

CMR researchers Katherine Barlow, Dr. James Volmer and Georgina Joyce presented today at ASM in Brisbane! We hope attendees enjoyed their talks, reach out to learn more.

We have a #PhDScholarship available for a student to join our team at Griffith University on the Gold Coast ☀️ to work on #Acinetobacterbaumannii capsules! See application details in the link 👇🏼 griffith.edu.au/research-study…

🚨Centre for Microbiome Research is currently recruiting PhD students in environmental microbiology 🦠🌳. For more info: seek.com.au/job/76604594. Please share 😀

Excited to present a novel method that we developed Centre for Microbiome Research at #ISME19. Join me on Thursday in the novel technique session (PS3.18) at 11.30am to hear all about GenomeFISH, a genome-based FISH method for strain level visualisation of microbial communities.

A fishy tale about the the Salmon Microbial Genome Atlas is now out in Nature Microbiology. We hope this culture and genome biobank provides a functional resource to the community and supports the next generation of salmon gut microbiome projects. nature.com/articles/s4156…

So excited to see this out! Aerated environments can be major sources of methane. This is due to the activities of aerotolerant methanogens. In the process, we show unexpected feedbacks between pollution and climate change. Ning Hall Perran Cook biorxiv.org/content/10.110…

Check out this recent review featuring CMR’s A/Prof Luis Pedro Coelho (16-20 July @ London, UK), which highlights recent advancements and current challenges in the field of orthology-based research. Read the full article here: rb.gy/d532ez

Congratulations to the 123 new members inducted into the ARC’s College of Experts for 2025. The College plays a key role in identifying research excellence to deliver outcomes for Australia’s economic, social, environmental and cultural benefit. More: arc.gov.au/news-publicati…

The ASMR would like to announce Professor Tony Kenna as the next ASMR President. Prof Kenna is the Associate Dean (Research) in the Faculty of Health at QUT (Queensland University of Technology), and group leader at the QUT Centre for Immunology & Infection Control Centre for Immunology and Infection Control.

Congrats to the TRI-based team from the Centre for Microbiome Research, winning a Research Australia Frontiers Award, sponsored by ourANU. Under QUT Prof Gene Tyson, the team is answering vital questions about the role of microbial communities in human and environmental health. bit.ly/3YNMIu2

We are proud to share that CMR's Prof Gene Tyson, A/Prof Luis Pedro Coelho and A/Prof Ben WoOdcroft have been named 2024 Clarivate Highly Cited Researchers! A well-deserved recognition of your dedication to advancing scientific knowledge 👏👏 See the full list: shorturl.at/d6WxE

A great way to get more MAGs out of your metagenomes without further sequencing cost. MAGs from coassemblies appear *better* quality, not more chimeric. Excellent work from Samuel Aroney here.

Check out our team's latest preprint, which introduces GenomeFISH—an innovative, genome-based FISH technique that enables strain-level visualisation of microbial communities🔬 Read the full study here: shorturl.at/QmdWw

Excited to share GenomeFISH: genome-based fluorescence in situ hybridisation for strain-level visualisation of microbial communities. Centre for Microbiome Research Simon McIlroy Donovan Parks James Volmer Ben WoOdcroft Allison McInnes @eilishmcm doi.org/10.21203/rs.3.…

Our newest tool, CoverM, a unified software package which calculates several coverage statistics for contigs and genomes in an ergonomic and flexible manner has been published in Bioinformatics. You can find the full article at the link below! rb.gy/17w2df

Check out our team's latest paper, published in The ISME Journal, introducing GenomeFISH—an innovative, genome-based FISH technique enabling strain-level visualisation of microbial communities Pam Engelberts Simon McIlroy James Volmer Ben WoOdcroft doi.org/10.1093/ismejo…