For those of you interested in Clostridium perfringens and novel plasmids please enjoy our recent publication as some light weekend reading! microbiologyresearch.org/content/journa…

Please RT - I am recruiting a postdoctoral researcher to join my lab at Monash Micro. 2-year position working using functional genomics + mol micro to understand how Klebsiella pneumoniae controls its virulence. Email me for more info :) careers.pageuppeople.com/513/cw/en/job/…

Our next presenter in the running for the ECR award is Sarah Revitt-Mills Sarah Revitt-Mills, PhD working on Paeniclostridium sordellii plasmid carriage and sporulation Lyras Lab Monash University ASM

🦠Attention Bacteriologists🦠 Thinking about meetings in 2024? Consider planning to attend "BacPath No. 17" - Australia's Premier Bacterial Pathogenesis Conference which will be held in mid-Nov 2024 in beautiful regional NSW, Australia. Follow us here for updates!!

A project 6 years in the making, the ASM was at Parliament House this week for the inaugural meeting of the Parliamentary Friends of Microbiology.

Very proud of Melanie Hutton and her great work with our industry partner Immuron Ltd. 🥳

New preprint online! Come see how division proteins build the cell wall inward in B. subtilis, one molecule at a time! @eleni_karinou, @pstansfeld, @seamus_holden biorxiv.org/content/10.110…

ASM 2023 is here! ASM Dena will give her Distinguished Award Oration tonight. We are excited to share how the cell envelope shapes the flow of DNA in bacterial conjugation on Wed (@GalainW) and how C. difficile perturbs colonic transit on Thurs (Christine Ong)!

Get your applications in for the 2024 Nancy Millis Student Awards!

Interested in developing your #scicomm skills and getting involved with ASM? Applications for the 2024 round of the communications ambassador program are now open! For more info and application form: theasm.org.au/asm-communicat…

Excited to announce that I have recently joined the Department of Microbiology and Immunology Doherty Institute and I am recruiting! Seeking a highly motivated post-doc interested in bacteriology and host-pathogen interactions. Details jobs.unimelb.edu.au/caw/en/job/916…. Please RT

I am very happy to report that the years of work we put into studying the ecology and evolution of a single cryptic human gut plasmid is now nicely summarized in a paper that just appeared in Cell: sciencedirect.com/science/articl… Here is a 🧵 to cover some take home messages.

Please join us for our March session of ASM Hour, chaired by Christine Ong and Sarah Revitt-Mills from our Gut Microbes Special Interest Group! Date: 12pm AEDT, Tuesday March 12th Join here: theasm.org.au/asm-hour

Big congratulations to Lyras Lab PhD student Georgie Gilmore, taking out the ASM Vic Branch Award for her Master's work with us!

Huge congratulations to Georgie Gilmore who won 1st place for the ASM Vic Branch Award last night for her Masters work supervised by Sarah Revitt-Mills, PhD, Yogi Srikhanta, Dr Sheena McGowan and Prof Dena Lyras! ASM Vic Branch

🦠Attention Bacteriologists🦠 BacPath, Australia's premiere molecular bacterial pathogenesis meeting, will be held in the Hunter Valley, Nov. 11-14. See our speaker line up at (bacpath.org) and register your email to be first to hear when registrations/abst open!

Don't forget - ASM hour next week!

Attention QLD Microbiology students and ECRs! ASM QLD Branch are offering $500 towards attending the Mobile Genetic Element meeting in Melbourne next year! This is a great opportunity to present your work and meet Australian leaders in this field! Don't miss out, please retweet!

Early bird registration closes Tue 5th November #OHA2024 The 10th #OneHealth Aotearoa Symposium 📅3-4 December 2024 📍University of Otago Wellington 💻#AntimicrobialResistance, climate change, Te Ao Māori & more! Link: otago.ac.nz/conference/one…