In another effort by the QBI Coronavirus Research Group, we and many others have studied the commonalities of host targeted mechanisms of SARS-CoV-2, SARS-CoV-1 and MERS-CoV, identifying drug targets with potential pan-coronavirus activity #QCRGglobal science.sciencemag.org/content/early/…

Act now, wait for perfect evidence later, says ‘high priestess’ of U.K. COVID-19 masking campaign sciencemag.org/news/2020/10/a…

Proud to have a small contribution to this excellent work!

In Norfolk in November (& 1st 3 days of Dec), 19% (131/681) of SARS-CoV-2 genomes were the new variant (B.1.1.7). There were none in October so this has expanded quite rapidly.

Infectious diseases are in the firing line of #UQ researchers, thanks to significant new #NHMRC funding. UQ Science is at the forefront of this discovery, landing a significant share of UQ's total $25 million NHMRC Ideas Grants funding. tinyurl.com/yafrlrqq #UQResearch

Discovery of DtrJ as an IncC plasmid conjugative transfer component - DtrJ is essential for DNA transfer and forms a complex with coupling protein TraD. Great work Steven Hancock Leah Roberts Minh-Duy Phan Beatson Lab 🏄‍♂️ Patrick Harris onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/mm…

Third paper from his PhD, Steven Hancock is our star!

We are looking for genomics scientists for public health genomics including SARS-CoV-2 real time surveillance for Queensland au.jora.com/job/Medical-La… and au.jora.com/job/Senior-Sci…

The plasmid gene aac(6’)-Ib-cr confers 4x increase in MIC to cipro in strains already harbour resistant gyrA and parC mutations. This dual resistance combination shows strong association with emerging carbapenem resistant clones. journals.asm.org/doi/10.1128/AA…

Our work on the RNA interactome of Staph is out (twice!). Using RNase III-CLASH our groups uncovered RNA interactions controlling vancomycin tolerance (a last-line antibiotic) and production of cytolytic toxins. nature.com/articles/s4146… nature.com/articles/s4146…

In parallel work, the @GrannemanSander lab investigated sRNAs important for pathogenesis and found sRNAs controlling cytolytic PSM toxins! nature.com/articles/s4146…

Excited to share the final version of our paper on UPEC/ExPEC Ucl fimbriae published in PLoS Pathogens. A great collaboration between our lab and Mulvey Lab, Kobe Lab, Thomas Ve, Griffith University's Institute for Glycomics, Beatson Lab 🏄‍♂️ journals.plos.org/plospathogens/…

Try it now: biodock.ai Read the blog post: blog.biodock.ai/biodock-coming… (8/8)

Looking forward to present this work at UTI Global Alliance - with contributions from Daniel Mediati Nhu Nguyen Brandon Sy @IgnatiusPang Nico Wenner

Global mortality associated with 33 bacterial pathogens in 2019: a systematic analysis for the Global Burden of Disease Study 2019 thelancet.com/journals/lance…

Very excited to share our work on NMEC led by Nhu Nguyen (under review by eLife). We highlight that even with appropriate antibiotic treatment, causative NMEC that resides intestinally might not be eliminated and can cause relapse. medrxiv.org/cgi/content/sh…

Really excited to present this work led by Nhu Nguyen at Institute for Molecular Bioscience in collaboration with A/Professor Sumaira Z. Hasnain Glen Ulett and Jana Vukovic.

A new discovery reveals why some bacteria are life-threatening while others are harmless. Schembri Lab 🔗 Find out more: bit.ly/3SVlG0W

We combined TraDIS and metabolomics to identify new genes required for growth in human urine by multidrug-resistant Escherichia coli ST131 in a study led by Minh-Duy Phan in collaboration with Ulrike Kappler and Horst Joachim Schirra journals.asm.org/doi/10.1128/mb…

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