Congratulations Phil Hugenholtz 👏

I’m speaking on food borne pathogen genomics including our AusPathoGen work Australian Pathogen Genomics Program in the AAFP/bioMerieux Food Safety Symposium today #AIFST22 some great topics from the speakers including AI for food ID and Salmonella diversity across the poultry chain

So happy to finally see this work published. A fantastic outcome from a fantastic 4 year collaboration between UQ and QLD Health Patrick Harris David Paterson Trish Hurst Amy Jennison Thom Cuddihy Anna Hume Beatson Lab 🏄‍♂️ @uqmed UQ News QLDgenomics Queensland Health

Clinical genomics is not just useful for cancer and early childhood diagnoses but also a very powerful tool to better understand and help prevent hospital transmission of infectious diseases. In the day and age of superbugs we need to rely less on antibiotics, great read!

My paper got its first citation!🎉 Doi: doi.org/10.1071/MA21031 Despite the restricted use of fluoroquinolones in Australia, the prevalence of FQR E. coli resistance are increasing #AcademicTwitter #PhDChat #GradSchool ASM #MicrobiologyAU CSIRO Publishing #OpenAccess

Interested in microbial transmission? Check out our paper on the vertical transmission of all dominant symbionts in the sponge Ianthella basta. We combined 16S, TEM, and FISH to show that the transmission occurs through a unique mechanism. nature.com/articles/s4370…

New study in ISME Communications from ACE@UQ researchers Pam Engelberts, Steven Robbins, NWebster_Micro, and Laura Rix further establishes the marine sponge Ianthella basta as a model sponge through in-depth characterization of symbiont transmission.

After much development, I'm happy to announce PhyloDM #bioinformatics #rust4bio. A #python and #rustlang package that converts a tree into a pairwise distance matrix. It uses ~94% less memory than DendroPy and is ~183x faster! github.com/aaronmussig/Ph…

Delighted to see this paper led by @loolibear out finally thelancet.com/journals/lanmi… Looking prospectively at all ESBL+ samples (primarily carriage) in 2 ICUs in Hanoi over 6 months, taking weekly samples from all patients, we found huge amounts of AMR and of recent transmission 1/n

Are you a QLD based microbiologist? If so, come join us for Microbiology in Meanjin (MiM), at TRI, Brisbane, on 19th Nov. PhD students/ECRs encouraged to submit abstracts for short talks - submit by 15th Oct to [email protected] or direct to chair John Atack. cc ASM

Genomic characterisation of multidrug-resistant Escherichia coli, Kleb... sciencedirect.com/science/articl… Leah Roberts Estée Torok Zamin Iqbal

GTDB-TK v2 manuscript is now out in Bioinformatics. This release substantially reduces memory requirements. academic.oup.com/bioinformatics…

A pleasure to announce that our third and final keynote for #MiM2022 ASM QLD Branch is Assoc Prof Ulrike Kappler, who will give a talk entitled 'Does bacterial nutrition matter during infection? – new insights into Haemophilus influenzae pathogenesis'. Register via QR code below

Very excited to share my Nature News & Views article about the “Mystery find of microbial DNA elements called Borgs” Hope you enjoy the read and find the article informative 📜 nature.com/articles/d4158…

Announcement🚀 Super excited to share our new paper on Chlamydia psittaci genomics👉 microbiologyresearch.org/content/journa… 📌One clone to rule them all: Culture-independent genomics of Chlamydia psittaci from equine and avian hosts in Australia | Microbiology Society #MGen #OpenAccess 👇Thread

So delighted to receive my PhD testamur yesterday. Finally!! I am incredibly grateful to my advisors Scott Beatson Lab 🏄‍♂️ and Brian Forde for their guidance and mentorship, to my thesis panel and examiner's chair Mark Schembri Lab for keeping me on track during my candidature ...

Whakamihi to the winners of the student talks & poster presentations! I’m chuffed to have been awarded the John Mackay & FEMS best poster for my work on E. coli ST1193 genomics using Oxford Nanopore. Tēnā koutou & thanks to all at #NZMS2022. I’ve learnt loads & met great people ❤️

Excited to share our latest research which identifies the presence of the 'new' pandemic S. pyogenes clone 'M1uk' in Australian invasive #StrepA cases. rdcu.be/c6itX Nature Communications Doherty Institute UQ News UniMelb MDHS

New ACE@UQ study has reports the complete genome of #Chlamydiapsittaci ST24 from a captive Australian parrot. Discovery provides important insight into possible health risks & routes of transmission among humans, livestock, & domesticated & wild animals doi.org/10.1016/j.vetm…

Second poster (P647) is up! Presenting a genomic investigation into an outbreak of #ESBL-producing Escherichia coli in Aotearoa New Zealand at #Microbio23! Come see poster P647 tonight to learn more Microbiology Society Oxford Nanopore 👉You can view the poster at dx.doi.org/10.13140/RG.2.…