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Join our team! We are looking for a Project Officer to support regional AMR and laboratory projects at Doherty Institute - Apply here: jobs.unimelb.edu.au/en/job/905852/…

Happy to see this published. Great collaborative effort to explore emergence and evolution of Salmonella 4,[5],12:i:- in Australia using Bayesian phylodynamics, genomic epidemiology, and phenotypic characterisation. nature.com/articles/s4146… Doherty Institute Hudson Institute of Medical Research

Excited to share the preprint of the last major paper from my PhD, which provides genomic insights into a year-long collection of K. pneumoniae clinical isolates. Huge thanks to everyone who contributed to this, with particular thanks to my PhD supervisor @DrKatHolt

Pleased to have this out…. A slow burner, but we got there! Led by Maisem Laabei with contributions from Sarah L Baines Tim Stinear Benjamin Howden Sharon Peacock and Beth Blane microbiologyresearch.org/content/journa…

Significant variability exists in the cytotoxicity of global methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus lineages ift.tt/32hEals

Very happy to have my first paper published as part of my PhD, "Optimising genomic approaches for identifying VRE transmission in healthcare settings". Thanks to all involved for their help along the way. nature.com/articles/s4146…

🧪POSTDOC POSITION AVAILABLE 🧫 Join us The Viral and Vaccine Immunology Lab to study the antigenic evolution and antibody responses to influenza viruses! See details below ⬇️ Doherty Institute WHO CC Influenza Melbourne UniMelb MDHS Aust'asian Virology Australian and New Zealand Society for Immunology ASM The Australian Society for Medical Research (ASMR)

Great to see this huge amount of work led by Norelle Sherry out this week sciencedirect.com/science/articl… Jason Kwong Charlie @robyn_s_lee Torsten Seemann Benjamin Howden Doherty Institute

Glad to share our bacterial GWAS of clinical outcomes of S. aureus bacteraemia Benjamin Howden Tim Stinear Romain Guerillot Steven Tong Joshua Davis Abdou Hachani Sarah L Baines medrxiv.org/content/10.110…

Enrolment is now open for Bioinformatic Analysis Basics: Gain practical skills in cutting-edge global #bioinformatics techniques and investigate microbial sequence data. Learn more: go.unimelb.edu.au/b8re Tim Stinear Benjamin Howden Claire Gorrie Sarah L Baines Torsten Seemann

Excited to share my newest paper, published in Nature Communications; the last paper to come out linked to my PhD work! nature.com/articles/s4146… Huge thank you to everyone who contributed to this paper, especially my PhD supervisor @DrKatHolt.

First work trip in a while to somewhere brand new for me! Waiting to board in Bangkok, next stop Bhutan! #worktravel #science #collaboration

Excited that our new pre-print is out in SSRN We found that asymptomatic throat carriage is a likely reservoir for #StrepA caused impetigo in remote communities in Northern Australia where hyper endemic levels of impetigo and #RHD occur papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cf…

Staphylococcus aureus host interactions and adaptation rdcu.be/c4thB Howden and co-workers examine and integrate recent key advances in understanding the mechanisms that Staphylococcus aureus uses to cause infections. Benjamin Howden Tim Stinear Stefano Giulieri

Very pleased to share our latest review on S. aureus pathogenesis, just published in Nature Rev Microbiology. Team effort bringing together expertise in genomics, molecular biology and host-pathogen interactions. Doherty Institute UniMelb MDHS 1/ rdcu.be/c4hNd

A new training opportunity has been shared on our website, an introduction to #microbial #genomics. Read more about it at the link 👉 cdgn.org.au/events/microbi…

The Antibiotic Resistant Pathogens Data Initiative multi-omics resource is now published! A wonderful collaboration supporting discovery and translational research to tackle the global challenge in the rise of antimicrobial resistance (1/3) #NCRISimpact nature.com/articles/s4146…

Very excited our paper is out today in The Lancet Microbe 🦠🧬📜 This was an amazing inter-disciplinary project where we found asymptomatic throat carriage of Strep A is a likely source of skin infections in remote tropical settings #StrepA #RHD #GAS #ARF doi.org/10.1016/S2666-…

🧬 Exciting milestone! Initiated bacterial WGS at the NIH Pakistan using cutting-edge v14 chemistry on R10.4.1 flow cells. This wouldn't have been possible without invaluable guidance and support from the Benjamin Howden team and CEO NIH.Sarah L Baines Claire Gorrie Louise Judd