Excited to see our paper out, and much improved from the pre-print version - we find that the “real job” of AmvA, a disinfectant resistance efflux pump from A. baumannii, is transport of polyamine metabolites. nature.com/articles/s4200…

Check out this thread all about an undergrad project led by Francesca Short in the Paulsen Lab at Molecular Sciences @Macquarie University that turned into a paper! Really nice study showing how important biocide stewardship is.

The Bill Lab goes infection biology! 😍FtsZ and DamX dynamics in Infection-Related Filamentation (IRF) in model UTIs. Great to work with Iain Duggin 🇦🇺& theDaleyLab 🇸🇪as always! Congrats to PhD student Matthew on his first publication as well! 🎉 nature.com/articles/s4146…

Only 10 days left! If you are interested in a #PhDposition on the #gutmicrobiome and #neurodegeneration #MJD, check out this ad mq.edu.au/research/phd-a…

Gloomy Monday morning? Cheer up, I made a "Where's Wally: Bacterial edition" just for you. You're welcome. Australian Institute for Microbiology & Infection UTS Science UTS Research

Very happy for amazing Australian Institute for Microbiology & Infection Honours students Charlotte and @ariana_costas that their Pearl mini-review is out in PLoS Pathogens! UTS Science. UPEC filamentation during UTIs: journals.plos.org/plospathogens/…

Fantastic imaging and research from Bill Söderström and his group in this latest preprint. They report multi-species bacterial infections and symbiosis in a urinary tract infection model. UTS Science Microscopy Australia

Happy #InternationalWomensDay! 👩🏻‍🔬 So inspired and lucky to have these amazing women around me every day! Vinaya Shinde Alaska Pokhrel Yan Liao @ariana_costas Today also marks the day I started my PhD, which means I’ve officially done 2 years!

Heeey Australia! We have an opening for a PhD student (domestic scholarship) in my lab, soderstrombill.wixsite.com/billslab . High-level microscopy & bacteria. If interested, please reach out for an informal chat. uts.edu.au/scholarship/cr…

Join the lab! We have a PhD scholarship for a domestic student in Australia 🇦🇺. Super cool project involving lots of single-molecule imaging of bacteria🔬! Reach out for a chat if interested. Link to position below: uts.edu.au/scholarship/cr… Australian Institute for Microbiology & Infection UTS Science RT🙏

Please RT - I am recruiting a postdoctoral researcher to join my lab at Monash Micro. 2-year position working using functional genomics + mol micro to understand how Klebsiella pneumoniae controls its virulence. Email me for more info :) careers.pageuppeople.com/513/cw/en/job/…

It was great success for our first 2023 UTS Biological and Biomedical Sciences Seminar today, with 32 people attended in person and 16 online. Thanks a lot for supporting our speakers and the efforts of Seminar Committee Mike Kendig Laurence Luu Alaska Pokhrel UTS Science

Million thanks to our generous sponsors for the great support to Early Career Women in STEMM Paper & Grant Writing Workshop 2023 NSW Chief Scientist & Engineer MetaOptics Exciton Science COEMinerals: An ARC Centre of Excellence Materials Australia UTS Faculty of Engineering and IT & University of Sydney. Dr Natalie Holmes Helen McGuire

🔔We are recruiting!🔔 We are looking for an AIMI Pathway Fellow to conduct research that addresses significant questions in one or more of our research themes. More info in the link below! seek.com.au/job/70015319

Macquarie University scientists have contributed to a new study that suggests we may need to rethink current disinfection strategies at home and in hospitals in the fight against superbugs: macq.it/3LVRFet Paulsen Lab A/Prof Amy Cain Karl Hassan Francesca Short @MQNatSci

Hot off the press 🔥 find out how Acinetobacter baumanii responds to biocides and the consequence for antibiotic tolerance in this new study by @paulsenlab @arc_coesb A/Prof Amy Cain Liping Li Macquarie University School of Natural Sciences @macquarie_uni nature.com/articles/s4156…

A big congratulations to Alaska Pokhrel a postdoc at AIMI for winning a prize for her beautiful imaging of bacteria during urinary tract infections UTS Science UTS

E. coli division machinery drives cocci development inside host cells biorxiv.org/content/10.110… Amazing imaging, cracking open a new area here by Alaska Pokhrel Bill Söderström with @ariana_costas @Matt_Pittorino here!

New artwork going up in Australian Institute for Microbiology & Infection corridor in UTS Science UTS Medical Science UTS Research Image taken by Alaska Pokhrel showing E.coli invasion of a bladder cell (membrane label Cellbright 405 blue). UPEC expressing cytoplasmic mCherry (magenta) and division protein (green). 😍🔬

Catch up on the recent study from Bill Söderström’s group on multi-species urinary tract infections, featured on #FEMSmicroBlog fems-microbiology.org/femsmicroblog-…