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Congratulations Sebastian and a sincere thank you to all our wonderful collaborators on this work - fantastic to see it published Microbial Pathogenicity Mechanisms Cyrille Boyer A/Prof Amy Cain nature.com/articles/s4146…

Super proud of my talented PhD student Hannah Hannah Lott taking out both the School Macquarie University School of Natural Sciences and Faculty Macquarie University School of Engineering first place and peoples’ prizes for the Macquarie University 3 minute thesis competition! Go Hannah go!

Join us for ASM BacPath 2024 at 11-14th Nov at the beautiful Hunter Valley NSW! This is a perfect opportunity to showcase your work and connect with fellow bacteriologists. Abstracts close on the 31st August and early bird closes soon: REGISTER TODAY: bacpath.org

We determined gene essentiality in 13 Enterobacteriaceae including E. coli, Salmonella and Klebsiella strains, and find ~1/3 of the essential genome is variable -- but! there's no evidence for genus-specific essential genes, implying rapid turnover journals.asm.org/doi/10.1128/mb…

I am delighted to welcome Professor Cynthia Whitchurch and Asst/Professor Laura Nolan SCELSE . Their expertise on molecular aspects of biofilms and microbial communities is a fabulous addition to our team. Check their first impression at youtube.com/watch?v=N-rLs8…

A reminder that the sign up for our biannual Goldsworthy Lecture and dinner closes in 1 week! Grab you tickets today to avoid disappointment👇

Congratulations to Hannah Lott for winning Best Poster sponsored by AGRF ltd. and to Dr Kenya Fernandes for winning the Powell's Pick Poster Prize 👏 #JAMS13

Delighted to have some of our work on plastic degrading biofilms showcased in this Feature article.

Join us for an exciting Antimicrobial Resistance Symposium, a joint initiative between Australian Institute for Microbiology & Infection Mehrad Hamidian and ASM NSW ASM held at UTS on the 21st Nov 2024. Sign up, submit your abstract now! See flyer for info:

In partnership with ASM NSW/ACT Branch, AIMI is hosting a Antimicrobial Resistance Symposium! 📆 21st November, 2024 📍 UTS, Ultimo NSW 📑 Abstract deadline: 10th Nov 🎟️ Registration deadline: 10th Nov 🔗 bit.ly/AMRSymposium20…

Resistant fungal infections are the next looming pandemic (after the bacterial one..) but have even fewer therapeutic options. CO-ADD Antibiotics based at Institute for Molecular Bioscience has been screening compounds against bacteria AND fungi (yeast) for almost 10 years..... nature.com/articles/s4159…

Check out my talented PhD student Natasha Delgado’s Visualise your thesis entry on how synergistic antibiotics work together in a World Health Organization (WHO) critical priority pathogen - A. baumannii!  You can vote for her here:  visualiseyourthesis.figshare.com/articles/prese…

We have an open postdoc position for those interested in using SynBio and biofilm engineering to tackle environmental challenges careers.brunel.ac.uk/vacancy/resear…

New work published in nature shows that rifaximin prophylaxis has resulted in the escalation of daptomycin resistance in Enterococci. Thanks to Adrianna Turner for the research visit at Flinders University to work with us on this important study. rdcu.be/dXQ6r

Not just a pretty picture on the front cover of ACS Infectious Diseases (ACS for Authors), this work by Jack Waters, Ella Haracic, Xenia Kostoulias and Francesca Short shows the alarming impact of Klebsiella pneumoniae infection on liver dyslipidemia. pubs.acs.org/doi/10.1021/ac…

Happy to announce that we were awarded a JPIAMR grant to investigate Metalloantifungals in an international collaboration with Prof. Amy Cain ( 🇦🇺 A/Prof Amy Cain), Prof. Michaela Wenzel (🇸🇪) and Dr. Michael Bromley (🇬🇧). york.ac.uk/chemistry/abou…

🌍 A global research collaboration, including Macquarie University’s Associate Professor Amy Cain A/Prof Amy Cain, has been awarded €1 million to combat the growing crisis of antifungal resistance. The RAFT initiative (Revitalising the Antifungal Pipeline with Transition Metals),

I/We have a fully funded international PhD scholarship in sunny Sydney that’s just come online! This is part of an exciting collaboration between the ARC Centre of Excellence in Synthetic Biology and the Dementia Research Centre. More information here: mq.edu.au/research/phd-a…

We have two new awards on offer for members this year! For more information on these awards and check out the other awards we have on offer, visit theasm.org.au/member-awards

Congratulations to Associate Professor Amy Cain A/Prof Amy Cain of our Macquarie University node on being awarded The Australian Academy of Science (AAS) Australian Academy of Science 2025 #GottschalkMedal — in recognition of her pioneering work in the fight against #antibioticresistance 🦠💊