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Congratulations to Andrew Vaitekenas on successfully submitting you PhD thesis into overcoming phage resistance. Proud supervisor/mentor along with Josh Ramsay and Dr Anna Tai. Looking forward to great things ahead. Wal-yan Respiratory Research Centre Curtin University @CHIRI_curtin telethonkids

Remember when we used to talk about heading towards 3%GDP? Now we are in a race to the bottom of the OECD. Australia being ‘left behind’ as federal research and development funding sinks to 30-year low | Australian economy | The Guardian theguardian.com/business/2024/…

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Australian government should learn and follow Researchers in Canada got a big boost in postgraduate pay and more funding for research and scientific infrastructure. “We are investing over $5 billion in Canadian brainpower” nature.com/articles/d4158…

Registration and abstract submission is now open for MGE AUS! Visit mgeaus.org to register

Following a long hiatus after covid, our beloved Mobile Genetic Elements meetings will recommence this coming February 17-18th in Melbourne Australia. Oral presentations from student/EMCR encouraged. Abstracts due 29th Nov! mgeaus.org

If you are a Western Australian microbiology student interested intending the mgeaus.org meeting in Melbourne in February, apply below to Win $1,000 towards your travel and accommodation and free registration. asmwabranch.com/mge-travel-awa…

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!

Reminder to all WA microbiologists interested in attending the MGEaus meeting in Melborne in Feb - win $1,000 towards your travel and free registration. Competition entries due Nov 11th asmwabranch.com/mge-travel-awa…

A reminder to submit your abstracts for MGE AUS by November 29th - Student/ECR focused - Travel sponsorships available - Keynote speakers announced - Two day program coming soon - Early bird prices still available mgeaus.org ASM

It's such a beautiful day, I think I might sit under our tree and submit an abstract for MGE AUS. If you're in Australia and work on mobile genetic elements, you should join me! Only two weeks left before abstract submission closes! mgeaus.org MGE AUS ASM

Dont forget to get your MGEAUS abstracts in this week for our first MGE meeting in Feb!

I can't believe it's almost time for our MGE meeting. I'm so excited to spend time chatting about mobile elements with such a great line up of speakers and topics. mgeaus.org/full-program

I’m excited to finally share our work published in @NAR_Open! This is the final paper from my PhD – showing how my focal research protein RdfS uniquely coordinates a bunch of different molecular roles. Read along to get the whole story! 👀👇1/13 doi.org/10.1093/nar/gk…

Fast forward a few years, and while Josh Ramsay was doing his PhD, he wanted to know how these symbiosis islands were moving on a molecular level. How do these N-fixing ICEs transfer between the Mesorhizobia bacteria, and what controls it all? 3/13