📣 Abstract deadline extended for International Mycobacterium ulcerans Conference (IMUC-III). Inviting clinicians and researchers working on Buruli ulcer to join us NOV 20 - 22 in Melbourne. Learn more 👉 bit.ly/4aHvvqi UniMelb MDHS The Royal Melbourne Hospital

The @WHOCC_AMR hosted the Ministry of Health & Medical Services - Fiji Minister for Health, Hon. Dr Ratu Atonio Lalabalavu for discussions about the current and future work undertaken by the Doherty Institute in Fiji around Antimicrobial Resistance UniMelb MDHS The Royal Melbourne Hospital Kirsty b COMBAT-AMR

Great opportunity for someone interested in genomic epidemiology at PH interface to join our lab - see below

Conference season has officially kicked off for our postdocs! Project lead Jessica Webb presents at #ECCMID2024 on the nationally representative Mtb projects, highlighting the novel insights of national public health importance 🌏🇦🇺

🧬 Exciting milestone! Initiated bacterial WGS at the NIH Pakistan using cutting-edge v14 chemistry on R10.4.1 flow cells. This wouldn't have been possible without invaluable guidance and support from the Benjamin Howden team and CEO NIH.Sarah L Baines Claire Gorrie Louise Judd

The @WHOCC_AMR at Doherty Institute in partnership w/ Asia Pacific Centre for Animal Health has received £3.7m from The Fleming Fund to continue strengthening antimicrobial stewardship and antimicrobial resistance diagnosis and surveillance in the Western Pacific Region. doherty.edu.au/news-events/ne…

We are responding to the detection of avian influenza at an additional Victorian poultry farm near Meredith. This property is located within the current 5 km Restricted Area. Read more 👉 go.vic.gov.au/3TrPJLNc

🔉#genomics community! If you’re heading to Sydney for Global Health Security 2024 (18 June - 21 June) next wk, register for our workshop on the importance of capacity building, M&E 🧬Co-hosted by Centre for Pathogen Genomics UniMelb MDHS & FIND -Speakers APHL The Global Fund World Health Organization (WHO) Duke-NUS Medical School Doherty Institute Africa CDC

Seq data of varying quality can be used for different public health applications (analysis, training, more). Public Health Alliance for Genomic Epidemiology standardized QC tags help users share, triage, and identify a wider array of data in public repos. For more info, see: shorturl.at/1yaCw hot off the presses!

Had the pleasure of presenting shigella genomics 🧬 work last week Australian Pathogen Genomics Program - we used a national collection of 5k sequences, identifying previously unidentified case clusters in Australia, unique clones to east vs central and northern Australia, MDR and XDR Public Health Australia

Kicking off the first Centre for Pathogen Genomics workshop UniMelb MDHS Doherty Institute at the Global Health Security 2024 (18 June - 21 June) 🇦🇺grateful to have this global platform to share some of our learnings and diverse expertise in the Asia Pacific region (and not being the jet lagged ones for once!)

When your Global Health Security 2024 (18 June - 21 June) panel turns to an informal roundtable chat you embrace it & enjoy the wisdom being shared on meaningful, fit for purpose M&E for #genomics📊 👏Swapna Uplekar Angeline Ferdinand Anita Suresh👏 🗣️The Global Fund Noah Hull, PhD, MPH Rukie de Alwis Torsten Seemann Josefina Campos

I am excited to win a CZI EOSS grant! This is the first grant I have ever won after 20+ years in science. It feels wonderful to finally be funded for my open-source contributions. With Wytamma we will deliver the next generation of my popular Snippy software! 🦘🦘🦘

It is hard to overestimate Torsten's contribution to microbial genomics, since so much applied work runs on his stuff. Awesome news!

Did you know that thousands of sequences from across Australia have been contributed to the Australian Pathogen Genomics Program Program across several priority pathogens?🦠🧬You can see our monthly tracking numbers on the website and read more about the individual pathogens too👉auspathogen.org.au

Latest episode of Editors In Conversation Podcast #AACJournal, we discuss with the World Health Organization (WHO) leader Valeria Gigante analyses of the antibacterial pipeline based on a comprehensive analyses over the last 5 years. ASM ASM Texas Medical Center Chapter asm.org/Podcasts/Edito…

Beating Buruli Team Science at Melbourne CSIRO Curtin University PEARG Austin Health Agriculture Victoria is a finalist in the AIDRC Eureka Prize for Infectious Diseases Research. Learn more: youtu.be/QLNYzi5B7jc #EurekaPrizes

This month's tracking numbers of sequences of priority pathogens from across Australia are now up on the website🦠🧬Follow the link to read more about the individual pathogen projects👉auspathogen.org.au

Just a couple of days left to apply for these postdoc positions!!

The panel discussion on "Implementation and accreditation" in the CDGN & Australian Pathogen Genomics Program "Introduction to metagenomic sequencing" webinar is well underway with some facinating perspectives from our panellists 🧬🦠