Up next is Erin Price from UniSC: University of the Sunshine Coast talking about infection associated pleural effusion. The team’s been investigating feasibility & challenges associated with various molecular methods for diagnosing suspected pleural infection 🫁 #ASM2024 ASM

ASM QLD Branch in the running for #ASM2024 #ASM2024_Xaward ASM Johanna Kenyon Timothy Wells

Having a blast at #ASM2024! Thank you for the invitation to present on AMR Mechanisms. Well done Piklu Roy chowdhury Yan Liao Mehrad Hamidian for the presentations. Congrats Liam Tobin for the Nancy Mills Student Award Daniel Mediati for the ASM Jim Pittard ECR Award! Australian Institute for Microbiology & Infection

QUT Centre for Immunology & Infection Control at #ASM2024 HDR Nowshin Sharar ns presented a talk and poster 'Modification of Acinetobacter baumannii capsular polysaccharides by genes carried in phage genomes' at the Mobile Genetic Elements SIG yesterday

Join us tomorrow to listen to ASM visiting speaker Prof Colin Hill - in person G26, Griffith GC campus, or via Teams online. Info in flyer below. Teams link here - us06web.zoom.us/j/84983922472?…

Postdoctoral Research Associate (Bioinformatician), University of Oxford – The researcher will support and analyze large bacterial genome collections to understand the epidemiology and evolution of antimicrobial resistance (AMR) in important pathogens. jobs.ac.uk/job/DJC740/pos…

📢 Job Opportunity 📢 We are looking for a talented and driven Postdoctoral Research Fellow to join our team at Griffith University on the Gold Coast. If you're interested in advancing understanding of #Acinetobacterbaumannii capsules, see smrtr.io/mD9vc for more details!

Highlights the need for public education.. ‘I lost my son to sepsis’: the fightback against the spread of superbugs theguardian.com/global-develop…

📣PhD/Honours Opportunity📣 Become an expert in microbial multi-omics while tracking the evolution and expression of antimicrobial resistance plasmids from biosolids to soils. Please share around :) adelaide.edu.au/study/postgrad…

New study from Veronica Jarocki and Steven Djordjevic surveilling E. coli in Australian wastewater and their #AMR profiles, plus more. 👏🏻

Congratulations Dr Carolien van de Sandt for receiving the NHMRC investigator grant for viral immunity research. The $1.6m grant will support research into influenza virus-specific T cell immunity. Read 👉doherty.edu.au/news-events/ne… UniMelb MDHS The Royal Melbourne Hospital #immunity #research

Superiority of native soil core microbiomes in supporting plant growth -in Nature Communications nature.com/articles/s4146…

We close a successful AGM - our branch's 64th. We would like to welcome A/Prof Amy Cain as the Chair Elect, after our current Chair Karl Hassan and Laurence Luu taking over from Chris Harmer as Treasurer for a solid 6 year term! Thank you to the committee for such hard work in 2024!

Stellar work from us UniSC: University of the Sunshine Coast Centre for Bioinnovation #Chlamydians led by Samuel Phillips and Endeavour Veterinary Ecology QCIF Stoked to be part of this important #koala #vaccine study 🐨 nature.com/articles/s4154…

Introducing Bacttle! A board game targeting players in primary school that showcases the life of microbes. From basic concepts of environmental microbiology to motility & biofilm formation, the game aims to increase knowledge about bacteria. #JMBE: asm.social/20z

Development of resistance to antibiotics, including amoxicillin (AMX), hampers eradication of H. pylori infection. In mSphere, researchers highlight a new synergistic AMX resistance mechanism & establish new markers of AMX resistance in the bacterium. asm.social/20A

Anti-fungal resistance webinar

⚗️Congratulations to #UWA's four WA Young Tall Poppy award finalists who have been recognised for their research and passion for communicating science! 🔬 UWA Research Lucy Furfaro D.M. Sampson Neil Robinson Dr Kelsey Pool Australian Institute of Policy & Science uwa.au/9wsekb

📢 New preprint!! Combining transcriptomics, genetic engineering and CRISPRi silencing, we unveiled a plasmid-chromosome transcriptional crosstalk in multidrug resistant clinical enterobacteria - 1/10 🧵👇 biorxiv.org/content/10.110…

💡Interested in tracking mobile genetic elements in #microbiomes? Read our new Research Briefing on the paper by Grodner et al. : nature.com/articles/s4156… nature.com/articles/s4156…