A big thank you to Ashley St John Ashley St. John Lab from Duke-NUS Medical School for kicking off our 2025 Vic/Tas Branch Meeting at the beautiful Melbourne Zoo, with an engaging talk on how the fetal immune system controls congenital viral infections! 🐅🐘🌿

Last night we had the privilege of listening to Prof Brett Sutton's keynote address, speaking to the future of health and biosecurity research in our modern ecosystem, and discussing ways to combat misinformation and engage the public in the translation of our research.

Great insights on commercialisation and how to move from the bench to translational research ASI VIC TAS branch conference by Sarah Herridge from BioNTech and Kate Schroder Inflammasome Lab from Institute for Molecular Bioscience

Then we follow the morning session of ASI VIC TAS branch conference with Pirooz Zareie and Lauren Howson

Amazing talk from Patrick Lelliott from the Baker Institute who presented his work on the impact of microplastic on #immune system, #inflammation and cardiometabolic dysfunction ASI VIC TAS branch conference Day 2 ;-)

Great talk by Emma Grant La Trobe Institute for Molecular Science at the ASI VIC TAS branch conference on the potential protection from CD8+ #Tcells against #H5N1 flu 👍

Prof Brett #NoSlides Sutton CSIRO asking us all to think deeply on how we can work together to solve the complex and interconnected challenges of our time #climatechange #biodiversity #AIRevolution #socialcohesion at the VIC/TAS ASI 2025 meeting ASI VIC TAS branch at Melbourne Zoo

Kicking off day 2 of the VIC/TAS ASI annual meeting with Prof Si Ming Man's latest intoxicating investigation into cell death Si Ming Man ASI VIC TAS branch Melbourne Zoo

Prof Kate Schroder Inflammasome Lab back with a pyroptotic bang ASI VIC TAS branch VIC/TAS ASI annual meeting at Melbourne Zoo

Dr Tim Gottshalk Timothy Gottschalk showing that beautiful data can also be negative results at ASI VIC TAS branch VIC/TAS ASI annual meeting Melbourne Zoo

A/Prof Mikael Martino demonstrating the power of the immune system to not just respond to damage and threats but to #repair and #regenerate tissue during the resolution phase at VIC/TAS ASI 2025 annual meeting ASI VIC TAS branch Melbourne Zoo

Prof Di Yu Di Yu 余迪 giving us hard scientific evidence we really are what we eat... Thank goodness Melbourne Zoo made us such delicious healthy lunches! At the VIC/TAS ASI 2025 annual meeting ASI VIC TAS branch

And finally, a proud supervisor post, look at 3rd year PhD student Hongyu Zheng explain #autoinflammatorydisease driven by #COPI dysfunction in <3 minutes 🥵. Hongyu was one of 23 PhD students who spoke at ASI VIC TAS branch VIC/TAS ASI 2025 annual meeting Melbourne Zoo 👩‍🎓🧑‍🎓👨‍🎓🐅

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Go Dr Jess!!!?

Congratulations to these amazing ECRs!