Join us at AIMI for your PhD! We have a position open with @iduggin.bsky.social investigating the mechanisms and evolution of cell division across bacteria, archaea, and eukaryotes. www.linkedin.com/feed/update/...

PhD opportunity available at the Australian Institute for Microbiology & Infection, UTS, with Iain Duggin. | Australian Institute for Microbiology & Infection

PhD opportunity available at the Australian Institute for Microbiology & Infection, UTS, with Iain Duggin. Join a collaborative team investigating how cells divide across archaea, bacteria, and eukar...

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Many fantastic talks from AIMI students and researchers at the annual ASM @aussocmic.bsky.social meeting in Adelaide over the past few days. Congrats to all! Dr. Gustavo Espinosa Vergara Lachlan Chisholm Jonathan Koong @hannjbrown.bsky.social

We did it! What a fabulous learning opportunity to be part of UTS 2025 Research Translation Competition. So excited to see what's ahead for our Wonder Project! @aimi-uts.bsky.social @australianmms.bsky.social @micro-au.bsky.social Congrats to other teams & thx to competition organisers and judges.

JAMS June Monthly is next week🥳 📅 Tuesday 24th June, 2024 📍 The Rose, Chippendale (LOCATION CHANGE!) Can't wait to see you all at this new location! Come for the microbes, stay for the mates 🍻 #microbiolgy #JAMSmicro #science #seminar #networking #biology #research @doylemt1.bsky.social

🎉 Congratulations to the winners of the 2025 Early Career Microbiologist Award! 🏆 Winner: Dr Hannah Brown @hannjbrown.bsky.social 🏆 Runner-Up: Dr Binod Rayamajhee We’re proud to support the next generation of microbiology leaders and can’t wait to see where their research takes them!

Feeling very humbled by receiving this award and equally excited to attend ASM in Adelaide this year! 🎉

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🎉 Congratulations to the winners of the 2025 Early Career Microbiologist Award! 🏆 Winner: Dr Hannah Brown @hannjbrown.bsky.social 🏆 Runner-Up: Dr Binod Rayamajhee We’re proud to support the next generation of microbiology leaders and can’t wait to see where their research takes them!

The MIF @aimi-uts.bsky.social is proud to display the new #AcknowledgementGuidelines launched by @royalmicrosoc.bsky.social and @globalbioimaging.bsky.social – helping #ImagingScientists get #CreditWhereItsDue Download poster & join the campaign! globalbioimaging.org/documents/im...

Brand new preprint on #AMR plasmids in Acinetobacter from @mehrad-hamidian.bsky.social @liamtobin1.bsky.social and @margaretlam.bsky.social Congratulations all 👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻

Mehrad Hamidian@mehrad-hamidian.bsky.social · last yr.

🚨 New preprint out! Pan-Genus Analysis and Typing of AMR Plasmids in Acinetobacter Here, is the link: doi.org/10.21203/rs.... #AMR #Acinetobacter @liamtobin1.bsky.social @margaretlam.bsky.social @aimi-uts.bsky.social

Happening TODAY! Don’t miss out!

Pauline M.L. Coulon@pmlcoulon.bsky.social · 2y ago

Hi everyone! This is official, with the participation of @asm-nswact.bsky.social , @aimi-uts.bsky.social will host Prof Leo Eberl from the Univ of Zurich to talk about the most fascinating bacteria: #Burkholderia Please register for this exciting event!!!!!

Hi everyone, just a quick reminder about @aimi-uts.bsky.social hosting Prof Leo Eberl next week for an @asm-nswact.bsky.social event!

Pauline M.L. Coulon@pmlcoulon.bsky.social · 2y ago

Hi everyone! This is official, with the participation of @asm-nswact.bsky.social , @aimi-uts.bsky.social will host Prof Leo Eberl from the Univ of Zurich to talk about the most fascinating bacteria: #Burkholderia Please register for this exciting event!!!!!

AIMI is excited to host Professor Leo Eberl from the University of Zurich, in collaboration with @asm-nswact.bsky.social Please join us on April 24th to hear about Leo’s work on Burkholderia quorum sensing, biofilms, and more!

Pauline M.L. Coulon@pmlcoulon.bsky.social · 2y ago

Hi everyone! This is official, with the participation of @asm-nswact.bsky.social , @aimi-uts.bsky.social will host Prof Leo Eberl from the Univ of Zurich to talk about the most fascinating bacteria: #Burkholderia Please register for this exciting event!!!!!

Hi everyone! This is official, with the participation of @asm-nswact.bsky.social , @aimi-uts.bsky.social will host Prof Leo Eberl from the Univ of Zurich to talk about the most fascinating bacteria: #Burkholderia Please register for this exciting event!!!!!

Excited to share this article with the community! Many thanks to @dezieleric.bsky.social for allowing me to start this work during my PhD and for his continued support. I also appreciate @mariecg.bsky.social for her amazing contribution and constant support!

Eric Déziel@dezieleric.bsky.social · 2y ago

New paper out! Phenotypic variation is a feature of several Burkholderia species. We found that quorum sensing and adenosine DNA methylation are two antagonistic systems independently controlling phase variation in B. ambifaria. Great work by @pmlcoulon.bsky.social journals.asm.org/doi/10.1128/...

Grateful to @tstinear.bsky.social and @abdou-hachani.bsky.social for letting me to continue this work during my time @thedohertyinst.bsky.social Many thanks to @garry-myers.bsky.social for letting me carry this project forward and start my new chapter of #Burkholderia CMV at @aimi-uts.bsky.social

@aimi-uts.bsky.social @australianmms.bsky.social Our very own Dr Amy Bottomley presents a talk on potential reuse of student prac data at #APMC13 #ACMM28 👏

A simple ex vivo bladder infection model permits study of host-pathogen interactions in UTI ✍️Rixa-Mareike Köhn, Molly A Ingersoll and colleagues @institutcochin.bsky.social @pasteur.fr @aimi-uts.bsky.social #MicroSky #Infection #UTI www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

I’m pleased to share the publication of my latest first-author manuscript. I would like to thank @mehrad-hamidian.bsky.social, Eradah Abu Sabah, and @garry-myers.bsky.social—as well as our collaborators, Patrick McGann and Francois Lebreton. @aimi-uts.bsky.social academic.oup.com/jac/article/...

Genomic analysis of early ST32 Acinetobacter baumannii strains recovered in US military treatment facilities reveals distinct lineages and links to the origins of the Tn6168 ampC transposon

AbstractObjectives. To study the population structure and genomic characteristics, including antimicrobial resistance genes, plasmid types and surface poly

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What a great way to end a tough year @aimi-uts.bsky.social with a Dean's award for the 'Wonder" project. This award also belongs to Rachel Landers and her FASS team and featured scientists @carminegentile.bsky.social Yan Liao Claire Richards Amy Bottomley Anya Salih @micro-au.bsky.social

MinD proteins regulate CetZ1 localization in Haloferax volcanii www.frontiersin.org/journals/mic... #jcampubs

Four out of five prizes won🎖️ by AIMI students at the UTS Faculty of Science Transdisciplinary ECR Retreat Congratulations to: Lachy (best talk) Liam (runner up talk) Sophia (people’s choice talk) @arianacostas.bsky.social (best poster)

Protein degraders delivered via mRNA… www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

Programmable protein degraders enable selective knockdown of pathogenic β-catenin subpopulations in vitro and in vivo

Aberrant activation of Wnt signaling results in unregulated accumulation of cytosolic β-catenin, which subsequently enters the nucleus and promotes transcription of genes that contribute to cellular p...

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AIMI’s end of year event is underway, with many grants, awards, papers, and other outstanding achievements to celebrate 🎉🥂

Time for prizes! Speaker prizes go to Abiye Tigabu Molla and Andrey Verich Poster prizes go to Zein Maatouk, Ghayah Bahatheg, Jiawei Shen, Brodie Gillieatt, and Jonathan Koong Congratulations to all! 🎉

Samitha Bandaranayake (UNSW) on #AMR profiles in Salmonella Breyer-Lynne Woodland (UTS) talking about proteoform-centric technologies for understanding #AMR mechanisms Andrey Verich (The Kirby Institute, UNSW) on Machine learning for screening diagnostic targets for Neisseria

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For the final session of the day we have five talks from HDR students. Starting off the session is Liam Tobin (AIMI, UTS) on #AMR in A. baumanii Abiye Tigabu Molla (UNSW) on profiling resistance and virulence factors in P. aeruginosa #microbiology #microsky

Excited to present my research at the @aimi-uts.bsky.social symposium on #AMR.

For the final session of the day we have five talks from HDR students. Starting off the session is Liam Tobin (AIMI, UTS) on #AMR in A. baumanii Abiye Tigabu Molla (UNSW) on profiling resistance and virulence factors in P. aeruginosa #microbiology #microsky

We had a fantastic poster session over lunch from students and ECRs #microbiology #microsky #AMR

The final two talks of the session come from Prof. Mark Wilcox (UNSW) talking about the development of antimicrobials for contact lenses A/Prof. Sophia Gu (UNSW) talking about the use of two-dimensional nanomaterials for delivery of drug-free medicines #AMR #microbiology #microsky

Starting session three on drug discovery and alternative approaches, Prof. Jon Iredell of Westmead/USYD, talking about precision therapeutics for the treatment of #AMR #microbiology #microsky

Finishing off session 2 on mechanisms of resistance we have: A/Prof. Karl Hassan (Newcastle University) talking about antibiotic passage across gram-negative cell envelopes A/Prof. Sally Partridge (Westmead/USYD) on resistance plasmids in Enterobacterales #microbiology #microsky #AMR