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Gilda Tachedjian

@profgilda.bsky.social

Virologist, preventing HIV/STIs by targeting the vaginal microbiome, antiretrovirals, bat viruses and bat antiviral factors, VIIN co-convenor. Past AVS President.

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Ready for an inspiring day of infection and immunology presentations!! Can't wait to hear from our young investigators #YoungVIIN2025 #VIINYIS

13.11.2025 21:30 β€” πŸ‘ 8    πŸ” 4    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 2

Looking forward to seeing all the exciting #infection and #immunology research from the #EMCRs in Victoria! A really great event to be a part of ☺️πŸ§ͺ🦠🧬🧫

13.11.2025 21:53 β€” πŸ‘ 4    πŸ” 2    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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Deborah Gebregzabher kicking off Oral Presentations Session 1 with her talk titled 'Defining how macrophages drive OLAH-mediated life-threatening influenza disease'
#YoungVIIN2025 #VIINYIS @thedohertyinst.bsky.social

13.11.2025 22:34 β€” πŸ‘ 5    πŸ” 1    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0
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An excellent talk from @therealmonocyte.bsky.social from MCRI about the Determinants of innate immune cytokine responses in pre-school children!
#YoungVIIN2025 #VIINYIS

13.11.2025 22:38 β€” πŸ‘ 7    πŸ” 3    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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Another great presentation from @hudsonresearch.bsky.social Centre for Innate Immunity and Infectious Diseases (CiiiD) PhD student, Anita Chaulagain (@aneeta0110) about type I interferon signalling during Shigella flexneri! #YoungVIIN2025 #VIINYIS

13.11.2025 22:59 β€” πŸ‘ 8    πŸ” 3    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0
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Great hearing from @tommclean.bsky.social about his brilliant work on the structural basis of DNA sliding clamp-mediated long-range gene silencing on a multi-drug resistance plasmid!
#YoungVIIN2025
#VIINYIS

13.11.2025 23:00 β€” πŸ‘ 6    πŸ” 2    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0
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Totally loved the talk by Dr Marcel Doerflinger on How to become a Laboratory Head ...for Dummies!
My main takeaway: chase the science that excites you, be patient with the process, and sooner or later those big opportunities (the so-called β€˜luck’) will come your way.

#YoungVIIN2025
#VIINYIS

14.11.2025 00:02 β€” πŸ‘ 4    πŸ” 2    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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One step closer to developing a rapid point-of-care test for liver disease- Lateral flow assay for ALT1
Great talk by Angus Watson πŸ‘
@burnetinstitute.bsky.social #YoungVIIN2025 #VIINYIS

14.11.2025 00:20 β€” πŸ‘ 4    πŸ” 2    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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Dr Julia Chitty showing us how pirfenidone can be repurposed to treat viral exacerbations of COPD based on a novel precision-cut lung slice model. Exciting work!
#YoungVIIN2025 #VIINYIS
@monashuniversity.bsky.social @hudsonresearch.bsky.social

14.11.2025 00:33 β€” πŸ‘ 4    πŸ” 2    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Next up is Dr Mitchell Trickey taking us through his work on how the voltage dependent ion channel is an essential mitochondrial protein in malaria parasites from his time at @deakinuniversity.bsky.social Great work!
#YoungVIIN2025 #VIINYIS

14.11.2025 00:37 β€” πŸ‘ 3    πŸ” 1    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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14.11.2025 00:48 β€” πŸ‘ 3    πŸ” 1    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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An excellent presentation from Khoi Nguyen from the
@burnetinstitute.bsky.social on repurposing human medicines as novel antimalarials against Plasmodium falciparum malaria!
#YoungVIIN2025 #VIINYIS

14.11.2025 00:50 β€” πŸ‘ 4    πŸ” 1    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

Next up at #YoungVIIN2025 we have our first Science bites session, kicking off with Yijia (Jessica) Ji from Monash Institute of Pharmaceutical Sciences (MIPS). #VIINYIS

14.11.2025 00:54 β€” πŸ‘ 3    πŸ” 1    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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Kicking off the Science Bites session with 13 exciting talks! πŸ€“#YoungVIIN2025 #VIINYIS

14.11.2025 00:53 β€” πŸ‘ 2    πŸ” 2    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Great energy from Long Huynh from bio21 Institute as they walk us through their reseach on "Expansion microscopy" revealing how Kelch 13 mutations impair feeding in artemisinin resistant Plasmodium parasites!
Malaria is in the spotlight at #YoungVIIN2025 ! 🦠
#VIINYIS

14.11.2025 01:05 β€” πŸ‘ 2    πŸ” 2    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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Another great Malaria talk from Elena Lantero Escolar from @wehi-research.bsky.social
Highlighting how Plasmepsins IX and X in Plasmodium falciparum sporozoites inhibits development within Anopheles stephensi mosquitoes #YoungVIIN2025 #VIINYIS

14.11.2025 01:07 β€” πŸ‘ 3    πŸ” 1    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0
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Pailene Lim from @wehi-research.bsky.social
giving us a quick overview of how PfPTRAMP-CSS may have potential as a multi-stage malaria vaccine target
#YoungVIIN2025 #VIINYIS

14.11.2025 01:09 β€” πŸ‘ 3    πŸ” 1    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0
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Continuing with the malaria theme! Jiaqi (Albert) Shi at the @burnetinstitute.bsky.social giving us insight into the Development of next-generation mRNA vaccines against malaria!
#YoungVIIN2025 #VIINYIS

14.11.2025 01:11 β€” πŸ‘ 3    πŸ” 1    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0
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Now listening to Dr Mitra Ashayeripanah sharing their approach to develop more immunogenic bacille Calmette-Guerin (BCG) strains for vaccination: "Enhanced immunogenicity in mouse by recombinant BCG prime and protein boost based on latency antigen Rv1733c and/or reactivation antigen RpfE".

14.11.2025 01:16 β€” πŸ‘ 3    πŸ” 2    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0
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Christopher McCrory christophermccrory.bsky.social
from the @thedohertyinst.bsky.social explaining his work on the role of bacterial membrane vesicles conferring anti-microbial resistance in H.pylori

#YoungVIIN2025 #VIINYIS

14.11.2025 01:21 β€” πŸ‘ 3    πŸ” 2    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0
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Rachelia Raissa Wibawa from @hudsonresearch.bsky.social gave an excellent talk on her research which has identified novel genetic mutations in Legionella pneumophila that impact host transcriptional responses #YoungVIIN2025 #VIINYIS

14.11.2025 01:21 β€” πŸ‘ 5    πŸ” 2    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

Great work from Kaitlin Clarke at @limsltu.bsky.social showing us how they reprogram bacterial autotransporters for drug delivery! Turning pathogenesis into therapeutics, exciting work!
#YoungVIIN2025 #VIINYIS

14.11.2025 01:25 β€” πŸ‘ 2    πŸ” 1    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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14.11.2025 01:28 β€” πŸ‘ 4    πŸ” 3    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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Sabrina Bush from @monashuniversity.bsky.social AIMing for Streptococcus pyogenes-specific memory T cells in human challenge models!
#YoungVIIN2025 #VIINYIS

14.11.2025 01:35 β€” πŸ‘ 4    πŸ” 2    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

Next up Desirel Ng caused a stir with her novel finding that circadian rhythm disruption in mice actually boosted protective bugs in the gut and increases survival from Clostridioides difficile infection
@MonashBDI
#YoungVIIN2025 #VIINYIS

14.11.2025 01:36 β€” πŸ‘ 3    πŸ” 1    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 1
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Another exciting Science Bite by Kavitha Wilson Rajaratnam on how a common stomach bacteria escape your immune system!
πŸ”¬"Identification of immunomodulatory proteins in Helicobacter pylori-derived extracellular vesicles."

#YoungVIIN2025 #VIINYIS

14.11.2025 01:32 β€” πŸ‘ 3    πŸ” 2    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0
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Wytamma Wirth from @thedohertyinst.bsky.social speaking about a new deep learning approach to bacterial taxonomic classification

14.11.2025 01:38 β€” πŸ‘ 7    πŸ” 3    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0
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Lunch time for scientists to feed their brain πŸ§ πŸ˜‹

#YoungVIIN2025 #VIINYIS

14.11.2025 01:50 β€” πŸ‘ 2    πŸ” 2    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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Great talk from @ludivine-grzelak.bsky.social from @thedohertyinst.bsky.social on "Revealing dose and repeat effects of a novel Influenza vaccine on humoral immunity".
Always excited when flu vaccine research moves ahead. More of this, please! πŸ˜ŒπŸ’‰

#YoungVIIN2025 #VIINYIS

14.11.2025 03:01 β€” πŸ‘ 5    πŸ” 3    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 1
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Our first Keynote speaker group leader Marcel Doerflinger from @wehi-research.bsky.social giving an overview of his career trajectory to becoming a lab head, including 6 key tips on how to succeed #YoungVIIN2025 #VIINYIS

13.11.2025 23:09 β€” πŸ‘ 5    πŸ” 3    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

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