First up, we have an insightful invited talk from Sam Manna!! Sam is sharing their journey during their PhD here at La Trobe and the transition into a postdoc showing that not all PhD journeys look the same!

Thanks for having me! It was so great to come back to La Trobe and talk about what I have been doing since I left!

Now published in Microbiology Spectrum journals.asm.org/doi/10.1128/sp…

Attention pnemuococcologists! For ISPPD 2024 in Cape Town, early-bird registration closes December 18. Robert Austrian Research Awards for early(ish) career researchers also close Dec 18th. I encourage those eligible to apply- up to 25K in funding. isppd.kenes.com

Interested in developing your #scicomm skills and getting involved with ASM? Applications for the 2024 round of the communications ambassador program are now open! For more info and application form: theasm.org.au/asm-communicat…

I'm recruiting for a new post-doc role based in Melbourne and contributing to #klebNET-GSP activities on #klebsiella genomic surveillance. Sylvain Brisse @DrKatHolt Centre for Genomic Pathogen Surveillance @chcrestani Tom Stanton Sophia David Theycallmemaggie Check out the details ⬇️

Yesterday, I had the pleasure of flying the flag on behalf of our group at the first Infection Immunity and Global Health theme symposium. A great day and congrats to the organisers for putting on an amazing event!

Highlighting #GBS awareness month at ASM #ASM2024 - Ruth Zadoks shares her exciting research with @chcrestani on differentiating Group B Strep into generalist, adapters and restricted hosts

#EDI Panelled with the best - Prof Dena Lyras, Rochelle Soo, & Sam Manna! V. interesting & open discussions on pertinent/interrelated topics: childcare, LGBTQIA+, neurodiversity, & PoC/WoC experiences in navigating Micro/STEMM & beyond! #ASM2024 #ASM2024_XAward ASM

Great work Rex! Fantastic presentation!

It was a real pleasure to be a panelist on this discussion of equity, diversity and inclusion in STEM at #ASM2024

An amazing reference tool of pneumococcal serotypes and lineages all in one place! Great work Anne Wyllie pneumococcalcapsules.github.io/serotypes/#clo…

Really excited to see our paper, "Synergism and Antagonism of Bacterial-Viral Coinfection in the Upper Respiratory Tract", highlighted as an ASM Highly Cited paper in 2024! #ASMJournals journals.asm.org/top-cited-arti…

A multiplex-qPCR developed by Catherine Satzke's team with other clinical researchers including empyema-loving Josh Osowicki... Improved pathogen diagnosis in 61% kids, and would have reduced untargeted antibiotics by a median of 20 days. Nice #AMS! journals.plos.org/plosone/articl… @MCRI_for_Kids

#WorldPneumoniaDay is next week Our NHMRC Centre for Research Excellence on Pneumococcal Disease Control is hosting 2 events Prof Stephen Bentley Wellcome Sanger Institute & CRE investigator On genomics 🙏 to Catherine Satzke for organising

Call for Abstracts! ASM Vic Branch has opened abstract submission for the Nancy Millis (theasmvic.org.au/nancy-millis-s…) and ECR Awards (theasmvic.org.au/nancy-millis-s…) for travel to the ASM 2025 Annual Meeting in South Australia. Submission will close February 7 th 2025, so start planning now!

Streamline analysing pneumococcal genomes at scale ? Try out the GPS pipeline to do everything for you in one go! QC ✅ In silico serotype ✅ GPSC✅ MLST✅ Susceptibilities to 20 antibiotics ✅ De novo assemblies ✅ #pneumococci #genomic #surveillance biorxiv.org/content/10.110…

Interested in a PhD focusing on Streptococcus pneumoniae or pyogenes? Our group is looking for new PhD students to join our lab! Apply here: career10.successfactors.com/sfcareer/jobre…

Shout out to Sam Manna and Catherine Satzke et al discovered the 107th serotype in #pneumococci. There will be many more new serotypes to come! Glad to be part of this work. #PCV #vaccine #serotype #polysaccharidecapsule pneumonia.biomedcentral.com/articles/10.11…

Do you need a #bioinformatic tool to detect almost all serotypes in #penumococci ? The new SeroBA v2.0 can detect 102 of 107 pneumococcal serotypes biorxiv.org/content/10.110…