Excited to be back antarctica.gov.au to continue working on our past, present & future changes in microbial ecology & diseases of Antarctic seabirds project #WIPS #seabirds #microbes

This project will use shotgun metagenomics & meta-transcriptomics to examine changes of pathogens & parasites, host-microbiome & host-pathogen/parasite interactions in seabirds in East Antarctica

Awesome piece about our #shark #microbiome and #AMR research from the Wild_Microbes lab at Fed Uni in collaboration with Andrew Greenhill and Paul Butcher

With increasing risk of #AvianInfluenza in Antarctic and sub -Antarctic Wild_Microbes PI Meagan Dewar and the Antarctic wildlife health team have put together a guide for working in these regions this austral summer.

Wild Microbes PI Meagan Dewar is heading to Antarctica to conduct disease surveillance in 🐧