Australian Institute for Microbiology and Infection

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...

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/...

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! 🎉

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 👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻

Happening TODAY! Don’t miss out!

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

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!

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...

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

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/...

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)

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...

Protein degraders delivered via mRNA…

www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

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

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