Victorian Infection and Immunity Network

Wonderful to have you all be part of the meeting! 👏👩‍🔬🏖️

ACREME was proud to see students, Kaitlin Pekin, Pailene Lim and Janani Karunarathne contribute to the 16th Victorian Infection and Immunity Network Lorne Infection and Immunity Conference in February 👏
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A huge body of work presented by our lucky last speaker of the whole conference, Dr Marcel Doeflinger from @wehi-research.bsky.social Their team has done some amazing studies into the mechanisms of long COVID and have some exciting therapeutics being developed 🦠🫶🏽💉🫁 #lorneiandi

Beautiful story from @l-beattie.bsky.social from @thedohertyinst.bsky.social revealing a new role for IL-4 from gamma-delta T cells in the CD8+ Tmem response to malaria sporozoite vaccination 💉✨🦟 Check out their recent publication: 📋 www.nature.com/articles/s41... #lorneiandi

We had Dr Shahana Ahmed from CSIRO, who gave a snapshot on transcriptomic signatures that differentiate resilient from susceptible animals in LSDV infection.🦠🐄 #lorneiandi

An interesting science bite by Carissa Aurelia from @thedohertyinst.bsky.social on the effect of bispecific IgG4 on Fc effector functions after SARS-CoV-2 vaccination. 💉
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Dr Michael Leitner from @qimrb.bsky.social gave a talk on cRNA-Seq uncovered neural cell tropism and antiviral responses in human and mouse neural tissues.🧠 #lorneiandi

Thanks to Dr Sudip Dhakal from @csiro.bsky.social for a great talk in our Advances in Treatment for Infectious Diseases session 🦠 he revealed how guide RNA can be used to help in the fight against highly pathogenic avian influenza 🐣🧬 #lorneiandi

We had @mithunbge06.bsky.social, from CSIRO, who gave an interesting science bite on development of a bat airway epithelial cell model to understand innate immune features to pteropine orthoreoviruses🦇 #lorneiandi

@camilahcoelho.bsky.social just presented her amazing work on #Mpox #vaccines and #antibodies at #lorneIandI. Brilliant, enthusiastic and inspiring! She’s looking for postdocs to join her new lab in Brazil! Spread the word! 🦠🧪🫶🇧🇷

Next up in our Advances in Treatment session is PhD student Kimberley Gunther from UQ, who shared their work developing a host-directed therapy based on macrophage metabolites 💥 which enhance antimicrobial functions, to combat the huge global threat of AMR 🦠🐁 #lorneiandi

Thanks so much to our sponsor for the Advances in Treatment for Infectious Diseases Session, ✨ CSL ✨ Keep them in mind for collaborations on human therapeutics 😍 #lorneiandi

Incredibly grateful to hear a beautiful invited talk from Dr Camila Coelho @camilahcoelho.bsky.social from Mount Sinai, NY🗽, revealing the first monoclonal antibody protective against an orthopoxvirus, for developing drugs and vaccines against Mpox which urgently needs new therapies 💉✨ #lorneiandi

A great Science Bite from Anouschka Akerman, a post-doc at UQ, who showed us their team's approach for a rationally-designed T cell vaccine for malaria 🦟🧬💉 #lorneiandi

Final speaker for the Session, @harshw.bsky.social from
@monashuniversity.bsky.social took us through how the metabolic shift acts as a rescue for macrophages in fungal pathogenesis. Great talk!👏 #lorneiandi

Up next Jason Paxman from La Trobe on "lazy" cell penetrating auto-transporte toxins of bacteria 🦠🦥
Shout out to Akila Pilapitiya who was the PhD student behind alot of this amazing work!

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Next up in the session, we had @pailene.bsky.social from @wehi-research.bsky.social gave a great talk on PTRAMP-CSS, first multi-stage malaria vaccine target💉🦟 #lorneiandi

Do you want to do proteomics but don't have a mass spectrometer? Well now you can with just PCR thanks to the #lorneiandi sponsor Olink! 🧬

If you want to learn more about "PCR for proteins" check out their website below 👇

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Our next speaker is A/Prof David Jacques from UNSW, who gave as an interesting talk on multifunctional retrovirus capsids, which act as targets for anti viral drug treatments.💊🦠 #lorneiandi

Kicking off our last day of #lorneiandi with @robmoon.bsky.social talking about zoonotic malaria, vaccines, antibodies and how maralria glides and invades RBCs featuring some amazing videos!
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Thanks @theviin.bsky.social for the invite to join this great meeting, and share our work on Kaptive for capsule typing, and how we can apply it to inform #klebsiella vaccines: tinyurl.com/npaj4vzr
With @tomstantonmicro.bsky.social @shaunkeegan.bsky.social @katholt.bsky.social and many others

Gorgeous views of Lorne for tonight's #lorneiandi Conference Dinner at the Peak! Plus a few furry locals saying hi 🦘

Some amazing work being showcased in Poster Session II #lorneiandi 🫶🏽🦠 Looking forward to seeing everyone at The Peak later tonight 💃

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Sophie Collier from @unimelb.edu.au gave her talk on investigating the role of kelch-13 during sexual and mosquito stage of development of P. falciparum.👏

Science bites session II,
Lily P Kenchington-Evans from @university of Queensland gave us a talk on Design, synthesis, and biological evaluation of antibiotics decorated with a permanent charge.