Christopher McDevitt

Distinct structural features of Pseudomonas aeruginosa ATP synthase revealed by cryo-electron microscopy - Nature Communications ATP synthase powers cells by converting proton translocation into energy. Here, authors reveal distinct structural features of the P. aeruginosa ATP synthase that regulate activity and may serve as ta...

Thrilled to announce a new @natcomms.nature.com paper led by Alastair Stewart and team @victorchang.edu.au with contributions from @mcdevittlab.bsky.social
Using #cryoEM we discovered unique features of the #Pseudomonas aeruginosa ATP synthase including an unexpected role for #zinc in the complex 🦠🔬

11.12.2025 01:12 — 👍 10    🔁 5    💬 0    📌 0

Salma Naleem receiving a trophy and flowers

Emeritus Professor Peter Doherty presenting Abigail with her poster award

Proud #supervisor announcements! Congratulations to two of my brilliant PhD students 🌟
🥳 Huge congrats to Salma Naleem for winning the University of Melbourne 3 Minute Thesis competition,
and Abigail Hartono for winning the Graduate Student Poster Award at the Doherty Symposium!
🔥 You’re both stars!

04.09.2025 21:22 — 👍 4    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 1

Antibiotic resistance kills millions. These Australians have an answer Investment in research has stalled, which means scientists are struggling to work on solutions for a serious global health issue.

🗞️ New interview!
@camcdevitt.bsky.social and @ellacasale.bsky.social of @thedohertyinst.bsky.social spoke to The Australian Financial Review about developing PBT2, a CARB-X-supported oral therapeutic that aims to restore the activity of antibiotics used to treat CABP. 🧪 #IDSky
🔗 bit.ly/45j832Q

20.08.2025 13:43 — 👍 2    🔁 2    💬 0    📌 0

Forecasting the Fallout from AMR: Economic Impacts of Antimicrobial Resistance in Humans Antimicrobial resistance (AMR) is a growing global health crisis that threatens to undo decades of progress in medicine. This tool allows you to explore the potential impact of different interventions...

The costs of #antimicrobial resistance 🦠 continue to rise 📈. The Center for Global Development reports that by 2050 #AMR could shrink the global economy by US$1.7T.
Improving treatments and funding development of new antimicrobials 💊 could save millions of lives and billions in healthcare costs.

20.07.2025 21:30 — 👍 3    🔁 4    💬 0    📌 0

Closure of the Fleming Fund risks undermining UK leadership on AMR - The British Society for Antimicrobial Chemotherapy

"Closure of the Fleming Fund risks undermining UK leadership on AMR." BSAC is seeking urgent clarification from the Government regarding the UK’s future leadership on antimicrobial resistance (#AMR), following reports that the Fleming Fund – the UK’s flagship global AMR programme – is set to close.

16.07.2025 11:56 — 👍 4    🔁 6    💬 0    📌 1

Comma Leadership Leadership coaching and facilitation with Dr Katy McDevitt – a specialist in development for leaders navigating complexity

Hello, it’s lovely to be here. I’m so glad to share with you insights for leaders about cultivating inner and outer change. Please enjoy, and let me know what’s resonating for you! ✨ commaleadership.com/leadership-i...

01.06.2025 00:28 — 👍 1    🔁 1    💬 0    📌 0

Congratulations 👏 to Matt Giles for representing @mcdevittlab.bsky.social and the Moraes group at the CanBIC-9 conference. A great presentation sharing his recent work on the #zinc uptake pathways in the #AMR bacterial pathogen 🦠 #Klebsiella pneumoniae.

23.05.2025 15:13 — 👍 4    🔁 1    💬 1    📌 0

Harnessing structural insights into bacterial zinc efflux for new human therapeutics

Excited to announce a funded #PhD project with my amazing colleagues Jeff Harmer and Evelyne Deplazes (Uni of Queensland). This collaborative project uses #biochemistry 🧪, advanced spectroscopy, and computational approaches 🖥️ to study a #zinc export system in a priority pathogen 🦠. Find out more at:

29.04.2025 23:50 — 👍 2    🔁 1    💬 0    📌 0

Antimicrobial Resistance #AMR is a term most people have never heard of before yet it's a global health crisis

Our charity, #theAMRnarrative has created a 90-second explainer video to help you grasp the basics

youtu.be/S_0XQ5LhA6o?...

#AntibioticResistance
#AntimicrobialResistance #GlobalHealth

03.12.2024 02:45 — 👍 21    🔁 14    💬 0    📌 0

- ON Core 20 February, 2025 | Brisbane Connecting Australia’s deep tech community   ON Core, powered by the ON Innovation Program, is […]

Congratulations to @camcdevitt.bsky.social @ellacasale.bsky.social and @blisscunningham.bsky.social for progressing in the CSIRO ON Innovation program to the ON Core stage. Great insights, advice and support on how to bring new #biomedical #AMR #technology to patients.
wp.csiro.au/oncore/

19.02.2025 23:28 — 👍 4    🔁 2    💬 0    📌 0

Congratulations @naomilpollock.bsky.social on the appointment 🎉 You're an amazing #science communicator and it'll be great to see you bring that to undergrad #student #teaching.
Good luck with the new #laboratory set up 🧑‍🔬 🧪🔬 Definitely an adventure, hopefully with some bacterial membrane proteins

30.01.2025 21:35 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0

CARB-X is excited to join Bluesky! As a global public-private partnership addressing the rising threat of drug-resistant bacteria and #AMR, we look forward to engaging with our audience on Bluesky. Learn more about CARB-X below.

27.01.2025 14:00 — 👍 11    🔁 5    💬 0    📌 0

Hello world 🌏
The @mcdevittlab.bsky.social team 🧑‍🔬👩‍🔬👨‍🔬 and I will be posting updates here and on LinkedIn going forward as we depart Twitter/X.
We look forward to sharing our exciting 🧪🔬🦠🧫 work on #biometals, #infection, #bacteriology, #AMR, and #antibiotic development with this community.

12.01.2025 21:11 — 👍 9    🔁 1    💬 0    📌 0