Huge congratulations to Charlie for completing his PhD oration today! Brilliant summary of some excellent work. It's been a pleasure to supervise you over the years. Next up: thesis submission 👏

Excited to see our phenogenomics study of Staphylococcus aureus bacteraemia published in eLife. doi.org/10.7554/eLife.…. With Abdou Hachani Romain Guérillot Tim Stinear Benjamin Howden Ruth Massey Pidot Lab Calum Walsh 🇮🇪🇦🇺 Hayley Newton Doherty Institute. 1/

🚨 Want to fit a molecular clock, or 2? 🚨 👉 Try clockor2.github.io - a client side tool for fitting global and local clocks with root-to-tip regression. Developed in collaboration with Wytamma, arambaut, and Sebastian Duchene (rb.gy/dro6j)

The third indictment of Donald J. Trump — this one for trying to steal the government of the United States. storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.usco…

Great opening keynote of day 2 of #ICE6 given by Benjamin Howden about clinical and public health aspects of #Enterococcus

Thank you! Grateful to be in beautiful Porto for #ICE6

BREAKING NEWS The 2023 #NobelPrize in Physiology or Medicine has been awarded to Katalin Karikó and Drew Weissman for their discoveries concerning nucleoside base modifications that enabled the development of effective mRNA vaccines against COVID-19.

Comparison of contemporary invasive and non-invasive isolates of the opportunistic pathogen, Streptococcus pneumoniae, shows the potential of non-invasive isolates to serve as reservoirs for antimicrobial resistance determinants. #AACJournal: asm.social/1x8

Researchers solve an 80-year mystery confirming categorically that mosquitoes transmit Mycobacterium ulcerans, the bacteria that causes #BuruliUlcer, from the environment to humans.🦟 doherty.edu.au/news-events/ne… Published in Nature Microbiology, led by Tim Stinear UniMelb MDHS The Royal Melbourne Hospital

Really glad to see this out - we now know a lot about the diversity and distribution of enterococci on Earth. Good work Julia, Francois, Ashlee and the rest of the team! doi.org/10.1073/pnas.2…

What’s behind the predominance of clade A1 strains in nosocomial E. faecium infections? 🏥><🏡 Find out in our paper „Interactions between commensal Enterococcus faecium and Enterococcus lactis and clinical isolates of E. faecium“ academic.oup.com/femsmicrobes/a…

Very insightful keynote by Benjamin Howden to start off the clinical AMR & Diagnostics session, presenting results of his work understanding the genomics of resistance and adaptation. These understandings can improve our clinical practices and interventions #NordicAMRConference

The next speaker is Sher Main Tan from Doherty Institute investigating multidrug resistant Klebsiella pneumoniae

Pathogenic Bacteroides fragilis strains can emerge from gut-resident commensals biorxiv.org/cgi/content/sh… #bioRxiv

Congratulations to ON alumni HydGene Renewables and their UK partner Nium on being awarded $2.265M in grants from the Australian Government for their groundbreaking work in sustainable solutions. We recently spent time with their CEO to hear about their journey: vimeo.com/896032983

🦠🔬An international team of researchers has found that an antibiotic commonly prescribed for patients with liver disease, has led to the global emergence of an almost untreatable form of antimicrobial resistant superbug. go.unimelb.edu.au/4zg8 UniMelb MDHS The Royal Melbourne Hospital

Proud to see this paper from the lab out today nature showing how rifaximin use is driving dapto-R in VRE. Many years of work, great multi-disciplinary collaborations. Led by Adrianna Turner and Glen Carter Doherty Institute UniMelb MDHS Austin Health rdcu.be/dXUDt

Also proud to share my PhD work out today in nature rdcu.be/dXUDt Thankful for great supervisors and many collaborators who made this work possible

Nature research paper: Rifaximin prophylaxis causes resistance to the last-resort antibiotic daptomycin go.nature.com/3Yyk690