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Missed VoM2024? Relive the excitement! 🎙️ 🌟MicrobeTV and Jolene Ramsey hosted a LIVE TWiV podcast interviewing Rob Lavigne & Krystyna Dabrowska. 🌟 Catch it when it drops on September 29! #VoM2024 #TWiV at microbe.tv 👀

💫 Our new publication in Science Signaling reveals insights into gastric cancer progression! Funded by La Trobe University, Dr Shoukat Sterle & team found inhibiting DCLK1 reduces tumour growth and prevents cancer from reshaping its environment. Congrats to the team! 👉 tinyurl.com/onjsho

Just a few days left to apply to our open post-doctoral positions, don't miss it!

Exciting study! Organoid models reveal a novel role for human tuft cells in gut regeneration upon damage. Video: Tuft cell division is triggered by IL-4, visualized in human gut AVIL-Clover reporter organoids (Credit: Daniel Krueger) nature.com/articles/s4158…

Unfortunately, this is the reality and there's basically no funding for nearly 90% of the applications made to the ARC.

My current workflow for grant resubmissions: 1️⃣ Get Claude to summarize our proposal—quick reminder of what we actually wrote. 2️⃣ Check reviewer comments, starting with the worst: “this isn’t novel.” 😬 1/1

Happy to have this next piece of work out in our battle to tackle #AMR in children. Curtin University @CHIRI_curtin Wal-yan Respiratory Research Centre The Kids Research Institute Australia UWA Research Phage Australia - Connect. Discover. Cure

Free scientific illustrations for biologists! 😍 NIH has released a library of 500+ free scientific illustrations to create figures, presentations, and illustrations! all freely available in the public domain. Retweet and spread the message! bioart.niaid.nih.gov

Emergency bulletin! 14 journals have co-published an urgent call for the deployment of microbial solutions against climate catastrophe, by Raquel Peixoto et al. nature.com/articles/s4156…

1/2 🚀 GASTRONAUTS ARE GO! On Monday, LIMS Director Prof Patrick Humbert & PhD student Samantha Melrose sent gut cells into space on the MAPHEUS-15 Mission, to see how they function in microgravity. Read more: latrobe.edu.au/news/articles/… Patrick Humbert DLR - English La Trobe University La Trobe Agriculture, Biomedicine & Environment

Bacteria be like This is my resistance era

One of the major problems facing humanity is the inability to treat bacteria that make us sick. Prof Martha Clokie and her Centre for Phage Research team are studying bacteriophages to combat this growing issue. #CitizensOfChange | #AMRAwarenessWeek | #AMR | BeckyMayerCentreforPhageResearch

📢 Historic day for Portugal and phage therapy! 🇵🇹 A framework was approved, allowing magistral preparation of personalized phage products. 🙌 Grateful to Jean-Paul Pirnay, my group Azeredo Lab Portuguese patients, and doctors who signed a petition inspired by the Belgium model.

An early #Christmas present from Springer Nature BMC Virology journal. Congratulations to Siti Saleha for this work on purification of bacteriophages!! La Trobe University La Trobe Rural Health School La Trobe Institute for Molecular Science link.springer.com/article/10.118…

This #MeetMeMonday, meet PhD student Jayson Rose from the Petrovski Lab. Jayson has recently published his research at how Patescibacteria depend on mycolic acid in Gordonia amarae for infection.🧫 Join me in congratulating Jayson! 👏 rdcu.be/eccRX

This #WomensWednesday we are celebrating Ebony Monson, PhD’s recent interview on Einstein A Go Go with Dr Shane Huntington OAM 🎙️ Want to learn about the importance of lipid droplets in the immune response and science communication? Have a listen to Ebony’s interview: 👂 rrr.org.au/explore/progra…

Siti Adil (@Latrobe) and colleagues published a new #phage purification methods comparison paper, showing Triton X-100 was most effective for #endotoxin removal and phage recovery compared to CsCl ultracentrifugation and endotoxin removal resin columns. buff.ly/8ys6YTi

What exactly does "Fusobacterium nucleatum" refer to? It depends who you ask (and when you asked them). Our new perspective on taxonomy and naming challenges @GutMicrobes, proposing a genomics-based framework for Fusobacterium species designations. 🦠 tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.10…

Funded by a 2024 Synergy Grant, Professor John Mariadason (@onjcri & La Trobe University) is leading a multidisciplinary team of experts tackling bowel cancer treatment resistance and looking to enhance drug effectiveness and patient outcomes #BowelCancerAwarenessMonth

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