Session 6 // featured five brilliant ECR and MCR talks on antibiotic resistance and novel approaches to combat MDR infections #AMR #acinetobacterbaumannii #Cdiff #staphylococcus #chryseobacterium by David De Oliveira; Yogi Srikhanta Lyras Lab; Winton Wu; Jhih-Hang Jiang & Yu Wang

Session 7 // We’re goin’ clinical! Exciting to see new approaches for detection and treatment of problematic pathogens #bacteriophage #Enterobacter #Pseudomonas #Neisseria #Salmonella #Treponema by Dinesh Subedi; Joshua Monteith; Olivia Jessop; Rochelle Da Costa and Lina Rustanti

Excellent keynote from Prof Deborah Williamson on novel microbiological approaches for tracking and diagnosis of AMR #AMR #STI #Neisseria #gonorrhoeae #Treponema #Syphilis #BacPath2022 #VDRL Doherty Institute

Session 8 // What a treat! Three fantastic talks from our talented ECRs Yuan Zhang, Griffith University's Institute for Glycomics; Casandra Tan & Jessica Rooke on bacterial metabolism and virulence #BacPath2022 #Neisseria #meningitidis #Enterococcus #faecalis #Salmonella #enterica

Great 3 year postdoc position available at Molecular Microbiology Sheffield with our friend Dr Stéphane Mesnage to characterise transpeptidases of Rhizobium leguminosarum. For informal enquires please email Stéphane directly. Full job advert at jobs.ac.uk/job/CTR535/res…

After one of those highly coveted QR codes? There are 5 here this morning so have a peek around the registration desk and eating areas 🫣🫣 Scan for your chance to win our luxury hamper!

We’ve had a ✨golden✨start to the day today, with Prof Tim Stinear talking to us about persistence and resistance of the Staphylococcus aureus #BacPath2022 #staphylococcus

Session 9 // After a rich 4 days of interactions, we’re nearly at a close with some fitting talks of interactions between hosts and pathogens. Thanks to Anuk Indraratna Lauren Bird and Aleksandra Debowski #Coxiella #burnetii #Streptococcus #pyogenes #macrophage #lysosomes #BacPath2022

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Session 10 // Strong finish with 3 talks about regulation of bacterial virulence by Miljan Stupar Hannah and Christine Ong #BacPath2022 #Tuberculosis #Streptococcus #pneumoniae #Cdiff #GIT

Congratulations to Amy Pham and Jessica Lewis for winning our social media competitions 🏆🍾

Congratulations to all student and ECR talks and poster prize winners! Well deserved!

That's a wrap folks! We would like to thank all attendees and presenters! Hope everyone enjoyed the conference! Safe travels! We hope to see you all again at #BacPath2024. Communications team signing off. Evgeny Semchenko Olivia Jessop Sarah Cahill

🦠Attention Bacteriologists🦠 BacPath, Australia's premiere molecular bacterial pathogenesis meeting, will be held in the Hunter Valley, Nov. 11-14. See our speaker line up at (bacpath.org) and register your email to be first to hear when registrations/abst open!

Hope to catch up with many colleagues at this meeting