ASM WA

💥WAMM💥 What a day highlighting Western Australian Microbiology at #WAMM2024 Featuring expert speakers across #clinical, #environmental, #molecular and #onehealth micro, student/ECR selected abstracts and posters Thanks to our organising committee and generous sponsors! ❤️

#WAMM2024 ECR spotlight! ⭐️Dr Baca Chan developing transmissible vaccines targeting zoonotic spillover ⭐️Dr Jua Iwasaki assessing L-form development in Group A Strep recurrence ⭐️Nicolie McCluskey characterising a two-component regulatory system in Neisseria meningitidis

The lab is now up and running at New England Biolabs @NEBiolabs! I'm looking for a postdoc to study phage defence systems. If you'd like the academic freedom to publish but the resources of industry, then take a look 🤓😃 neb.wd5.myworkdayjobs.com/en-US/NEB_Care…

Got a copy of Sunday Times #newspaper? Pleasure to chat with Katie Hampson about ways to reduce food-borne illnesses over the festive season - especially in Australia's warm Christmas 🎄! The West Australian: perthnow.com.au/news/health/th… #foodmicrobiology #rinawong #DrRina #scientist

Blink and you will miss it! Our flash talk speakers did a fantastic job covering their research in only 3 minutes ⏰ ⚡️Soraya Leedham ⚡️Van Thai ⚡️Melanie Andrew ⚡️Xinyuan Zhu (@Xinyuan_Z_) ⚡️Joe Hooton ⚡️Nicole Bzdyl (@NBzdyl) ⚡️Ashleigh Peck

Spotlight on ECRs at #WAMM2024 ⭐️Anita Williams (@catanita) highlighting #AMR differences among kids and adults ⭐️Maria Gonzalez-Rovira (@mariagonrov) examining the amniotic fluid #microbiome ⭐️Caroline Thant comparing diagnostic assays to improve #Flavivirus detection

At our inaugural WA Microbiology Meeting #WAMM2024 we had the pleasure of welcoming @hayleyjnewton from Monash Uni (@MonashUni) as our esteemed Xmas Orator! Sharing the beautiful, yet complex and multifaceted world of Coxiella that her team continues to unravel 🤩