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Plasma proteome adaptations during feminizing gender-affirming hormone therapy - Nature Medicine Researchers analyzed 5,279 plasma proteins in 40 people undergoing feminizing gender-affirming hormone therapy over 6 months, revealing significant changes in 299 proteins. Such changes could have…

A world-first 🌈🧬 Published today in Nature Medicine: gender-affirming hormone therapy changes the body’s proteins, aligning biology with gender identity.
Led by @unimelb, @MCRI_for_kids & @Austin_Health — a huge step for #TransHealth research.
🔗 www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Get ready, Brazil. The 'good mosquitoes' are coming Scientists are driving around in white Chevys, releasing thousands of specially engineered mosquitoes from tubes — part of a pioneering project to reduce the spread of dengue, a terrible disease.

Burnet's Dr Johanna Fraser on a landmark project in Brazil to introduce Wolbachia bacteria into mosquito eggs to stop the spread of dengue and other viruses such as chikungunya and Zika: "Evidence to date suggests it is going to be a very effective solution." www.npr.org/sections/goa...

Hendra virus has caused fatal disease in a horse in QLD, the first case in three years

Twelfth scientific biennial meeting of the Australasian Virology Society: AVS12 2024 | Journal of Virology The Australasian Virology Society (AVS) biennial meeting is highly recognized as the premier virology conference in Australasia, fostering collaboration across diverse fields of virology and promoting...

Exciting news! The AVS12 Meeting Report is now published in the @asm.org Journal of Virology! 🎉

AVS prides itself on supporting diverse voices in virology through career development, Indigenous engagement, collaboration, and recognition of excellence.

Read it here: journals.asm.org/doi/10.1128/...

Josh Giddey tonight:

15 PTS
10 REB
17 AST
8 STL

First player in NBA history with this stat line.

Texas Measles Outbreak May Continue for a Year, Officials Say Vaccination efforts have faltered, and many residents have turned to alternative treatments endorsed by Robert F. Kennedy Jr., the health secretary.

The measles outbreak in West Texas is likely to persist for a year, perhaps even setting back the country’s hard-fought victory over the virus, local health officials said. As of Friday, there were more than 300 known cases in the state since January.

Woman in a lab

Twice a year, WHO brings together experts to analyze #influenza virus surveillance and characterization data and issue recommendations on the composition of influenza vaccines. 🧵

A great collection of Aussie infection and immunity researchers!! 🦠🔬👩‍🔬🥼

Can good gut bacteria clear Candida from the gut and prevent life-threatening invasive fungal infections?

Exciting work by Bianca Briscas from @unsw.bsky.social #lorneiandi

Great to get the opportunity to present our work on expansion microscopy of mosquito-stage malaria parasites at Lorne I&I this morning!
Cheers to @theviin.bsky.social for the ECR award that allowed me to attend this meeting #LorneIandI

Thank you @theviin.bsky.social for the opportunity to present! Great to be back at #lorneiandi

Exciting work by Dr Andrii Slonchak on using virus-inclusive scRNA-Seq to reveal the mechanism of flavivirus neuropathogenesis #lorneiandi

Well done Long Huynh on a nice talk. Schmick presentation on artemisinin resistance in malaria parasites at the Lorne infection and immunity meeting. Beautiful imaging! @theviin.bsky.social #Lorneiandi

Great presentation by Alysha from @burnetinstitute.bsky.social on novel vaccines that outsmart blood-stage malaria parasites!

Host tRNAs as novel player in antiviral response. Presented by @lachdehayr.bsky.social at Lorne I&I conference @theviin.bsky.social

As usual, some lovely microscopy from @benliffner.bsky.social, showing unprecedented detail of how Plasmodium sporozoites get made and how they work. #Lorneiandi @theviin.bsky.social

"This is the hot mess of influenza" - Patrick Reading, Director of the WHO Collaborating Centre for Reference and Research on Influenza

He's not wrong...
#lorneiandi @theviin.bsky.social

Very lucky to have Professor Patrick Reading, the Director of the WHO Collaborating Centre for Reference and Research on Influenza @thedohertyinst.bsky.social, to give us an update on the current influenza global situation #Lorneiandi

@theviin.bsky.social co-convenor @profgilda.bsky.social and #LorneI&I program committee Michelle Boyle from @burnetinstitute.bsky.social honoured to contribute to the 15th Lorne meeting bringing together research on the breadth and intersection of infections and the immune responses of the host

To close out a great adaptive immunity session at #lorneiandi is our international invited speaker Prof Dietmar Zein explaining the role for T cell exhaustion in regulating the Immune response

Great presentation by Charuni from @deakinuniversity.bsky.social on evaluating a new formaldehyde-inactivated Coxiella burnetii vaccine for controlling Q fever in dairy goats! #lorneiandi

Kitty McCaffrey from @hudsonresearch.bsky.social uncovered how ER stress boosts STAT1-driven immunity to fight bacterial infections at #lorneiandi. A fascinating look at the defense mechanism of host in action!

First science bite of session 9 we have @lachdehayr.bsky.social from UQ! Teaching us all about his awesome work on Flavivirus infections and tRNA 🦠 #lorneiandi

Continuing our Host-Pathogen session, @benliffner.bsky.social from the University of Adelaide shared how expansion microscopy has enabled his work imaging malaria parasites during their development in the mosquito 🦟🔬 A deep dive into how these parasites grow and evolve within their mosquito host!

Dr Joshua Hayward and ShuoShuo Tian from @profgilda.bsky.social Lab @Burnetinstitute.bsky.social presenting research on APOBEC antiviral factors in marsupials #Lifesciences

ShuoShuo Tian from @profgilda.bsky.social lab @burnetinstitute.bsky.social presenting research on #APOBEC in marsupials supervised by Dr Joshua Hayward

Dr Paula Ellenberg from @burnetinstitute.bsky.social and @ProfGilda.bsky.social lab presenting her research on #vaginalmicrobiome at the 15th #LorneI&I meeting #lifesciences #HIV

@theviin.bsky.social co-convenor @profgilda.bsky.social and #LorneI&I program committee Michelle Boyle from @burnetinstitute.bsky.social honoured to contribute to the 15th Lorne meeting bringing together research on the breadth and intersection of infections and the immune responses of the host

Lorne I&I 2025 co-chair Antjie Blumenthal kicking off the meeting featuring an exciting program with 7 international and 8 national speakers covering the breadth of infection and immunity.

#LorneIandI here we come!! Looking forward to some great science 🩵

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