Research seminar: 'Antibody responses upon vaccination' presented by Prof Arup Chakraborty from Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) 🗓️THUR 4 APR | 12 - 1pm 📍Doherty Institute Auditorium Free to attend doherty.edu.au/news-events/ev…

Congratulations Sharon Lewin who was awarded the NHMRC Elizabeth Blackburn Investigator Grant Award (Leadership in Clinical Medicine and Science) last night 👏 doherty.edu.au/news-events/ne… UniMelb MDHS The Royal Melbourne Hospital

Wonderful recognition, Benjamin Howden !

Great to see. Glad that VIDRL Doherty Institute in Aus is part of this important network also.

Another example of using wastewater for pathogen survillance authors.elsevier.com/c/1irQI9pi-e00- We detected mpox virus in wastewater from a treatment plant serving ~16k people, when the first mpox patient in HK was admitted to a hospital within the catchment area. Tong Zhang HKU Public Health

We discuss examples of different types of vaccines, including inactivated vaccines, subunit vaccines, & replication competent, infectious vaccines. These concepts are illustrated using vaccines for poliovirus, influenza virus, hepatitis B virus, & more. 📺 bit.ly/49zLeac

Thanks so much Leo Poon for the wonderful collaboration.

Our recent collab work using AI to predict influenza mutations has been featured by Nature Communications in the 'Microbiology and Infectious Diseases' Editors' Highlights 👉nature.com/collections/je… Matthew McKay Leo Poon HKU Public Health Ahmed Faculty of Engineering and Information Technology UniMelb MDHS

Study shows potential for universal flu vaccine with broad antibody response @svalk03 Janice Nancy Leung 🦠 ⚔️ 💉 👨🏻‍👩🏻‍👧🏻‍👦🏻 Leo Poon Gabriel Leung Haogao Gu Ben Cowling @HKUMed The HKU-Pasteur Research Pole Doherty Institute #vaccines #influenza #flu news-medical.net/news/20240415/…

Thanks to Mohamed Fareh Fareh Mohamed for leading this brilliant study. Was a pleasure to collaborate and play a small role. Such an exciting therapeutic technology! Syed Faraz Ahmed Doherty Institute Faculty of Engineering and Information Technology

I am excited to share our paper published this week in NatureStructMolBiol : rdcu.be/dMm6b This paper describes new design principles of CRISPR-PspCas13b for potent and off-target-free RNA silencing in human cells. #RNA #CRISPR.

Brilliant and well deserved recognition. Congrats to Oanh Nguyen and Louise Rowntree !!

So Jeremy Farrar asked for an "explainer thread" on Noble Prizes in Chemistry around AlphaFold and Protein design, so here goes.

💉"One of the really powerful aspects of the mRNA technology, is that many, many steps … can remain the same" - Professor Damian Purcell. Find out how researchers are trying to keep up with new COVID-19 variants by making new vaccines abc.net.au/news/2024-10-2… UniMelb MDHS The Royal Melbourne Hospital

🦠🔬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

Dr Michelle Wille forever making us proud! The 2024 Victoria Young Tall Poppy #YTP24 award recognises Michelle Wille's leading work in avian influenza research and her thoughtful communication extending knowledge beyond the lab to the community 🦆🌟

💥 Research Fellow opportunity in our group University of Melbourne to develop #bioinformatics pipelines and platforms for cutting-edge 🧬 therapeutics for infectious diseases. Come and join our team👨🏻‍💻! Collab with Doherty Institute and @FarehLab at Peter Mac Cancer Centre

CENTRE ANNOUNCEMENT The Centre is pleased to announce the appointment of Dr. Michelle Wille Michelle Wille as the Centre Educator and Researcher