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Until next year, @mozztacular.bsky.social, Asad, @royalfizzbin.bsky.social, Mozammel, @wytamma.bsky.social , Bec, and @rhyshparry.bsky.social out!
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And that’s a wrap of #MicroSeq2025! A huge thanks to all our brilliant presenters, fantastic chairs, and wonderfully engaged audience. We hope you all enjoyed the conference as much as we did, and can’t wait to see you next year at #MicroSeq2026!

This year, our best question awards go to Himal Shrestha, Jackie Mahar, @bananabenana.bsky.social x2, Rose Collis, @bioelogy.bsky.social, Md Mizanaur Rahaman, and @munazzahmaqbool.bsky.social!
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Last but certainly not least, we have #MicroSeq2025 merch prizes for the best question of each session. MicroSeq is made special and successful by engagement from our brilliant audience. Thank you for keeping the discussions going!

The #MicroSeq2025 Innovation in Bioinformatics Award goes to... @jwdebler.bsky.social ! Our field depends on creative, innovative minds like yours. Congratulations Johannes!
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This year, we introduced the very first MicroSeq Award for Innovation in Bioinormatics. This prize goes to the best talk showcasing a new #bioinformatics software, tool, or workflow that’s sure to make a great impact in the field of #microbiology.
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The people have spoken: Best Lightning Talk goes to @bananabenana.bsky.social and Best Medium Talk goes to @munazzahmaqbool.bsky.social. Congratulations winner and winner, it was a pleasure listening to your talks! #MicroSeq2025

Now for the prizes decided by you, our #MicroSeq2025 audience! Our People’s Choice Awards are sponsored by #MGen - thank you for your ongoing support!

Our Australasian Virology Society Award for Best Virology Talk goes to Marwan Majzoub! Congratulations Marwan, a fantastic presentation on some awesome #virology research. Thank you @ausvirologysoc.bsky.social for making this prize possible. #MicroSeq2025

First up, our Australian Society for Microbiology Awards! Best Lightning Talk goes to Penelope Galbraith, and Best Medium Talk to @gazollavolpiano.bsky.social! Thanks to @aussocmic.bsky.social for sponsoring these prizes, and congratulations to Penelope and Camila! Very well-deserved. #MicroSeq2025

🏆It’s Prize Time!🏆 #MicroSeq2025 has lots of prizes on offer, generously sponsored by @aussocmic.bsky.social, @ausvirologysoc.bsky.social, and Microbial Genomics #MGen. Not to mention, some real cool merch on offer for our best questions from each session! 🥳

What a fantastic way to wrap up our #MicroSeq2025 talks! Leah gives our junior researchers some valuable career advice, like go new places, find mentors, reflect and introspect, and be strategic about taking opportunities!

Hospital settings generate SO much sequence data, which needs to be efficiently explored and analysed for routine #surveillance. Watch this space - Leah’s got a fantastic framework coming to establish a #plasmid reference network - a plasmid #pangenome.

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Our final plenary for #MicroSeq2025 is Dr Leah Roberts from The University of Queensland Centre for Clinical Research. We’re going to hear how she utilises sequencing technologies to investigate plasmid-mediated antimicrobial resistance in healthcare settings 🩺

Session 2.4 is about to start - our FINAL session for #MicroSeq2025 😭 This session is chaired by @mbhall88.bsky.social and we’re being treated to a plenary talk by Dr Leah Roberts. After that - prizes! 🏅

🦠 @bananabenana.bsky.social closes out our ECR talks for #MicroSeq2025 with the first comprehensive atlas of IMP #carbapenemases! Discover novel insights into their structure, mutations, transmission, & widespread endemicity - an under-recognised but important #publichealth threat! #bacteria

🥬Penny Galbraith demonstrates water-derived microbiomes (eg. irrigation) can alter raw plant food #microbiomes all the way from farm to digestion! Check out the way fresh produce acts as an effective link in the environment-to-gut continuum. #MicroSeq2025 #agriculture #foodsafety

🐖Manavi Muralidhar evaluates #metagenomics as an early pathogen detection method in piggery wastewater samples. Explore the ways metagenomics can monitor disease outbreaks and how to improve sensitivity for successful implementation! #MicroSeq2025 #OneHealth #wastewater

🧬 Next up, Mwila Kabwe uses #WGS in combination with traditional #virology methods to characterise a novel Fusobacterium nucleatum #bacteriophage. Exciting new insights into virus-host relationships, evolutionary history, ecology, and function! #MicroSeq2025 #genomics

💾 @himal2007.bsky.social introduces mlstdb, which handles authentication and automates Multi-Locus Sequence Typing scheme downloads from major repositories amidst ongoing data accessibility challenges. “Always Be Validating” - great motto! #MicroSeq2025 #MLST #bioinformatics #databases

🧬 Keeping the #guthealth trend going is Marwan Majzoub with our final medium talk for #MicroSeq2025! Take a look at this #metagenomic approach to characterise gut #bacteriophages. Could the phageome help us identify disease determinants and treatment outcome? #virology #microbiome

🦠Important work on #IBD being done by Mizanur Rahaman! Insights into the gut microbes influencing IBD pathogenesis and the therapeutic potential of natural compounds combating gut dysbiosis and immune dysregulation. #MicroSeq2025 #guthealth #microbiome

💩 @gazollavolpiano.bsky.social starts us off with a comprehensive study of archaeal diversity and clinical associations in faecal #metagenomic data. Check out what kind of role these strange microbes play in human health! #MicroSeq2025 #archaea #guthealth

Session 2.3 is no less packed! We have talks from @gazollavolpiano.bsky.social , Md Mizanur Rahaman, Marwan Majzoub, @himal2007.bsky.social , Mwila Kabwe, Manavi Muralidhar, Penny Galbraith, and @bananabenana.bsky.social . Our chairs for this session are @munazzahmaqbool.bsky.social and Jia Qi Beh.

Heading back over to ZEP! Keen to hear more from our excellent Session 2.2 lightning speakers 🤩 See you all after lunch! #MicroSeq2025 #networking

Mina Farzaneh rounds out the session with a pragmatic cohort study using shotgun #metagenomics on faecal samples from over 100 Thoroughbred yearlings. Discover the rich and diverse microbiomes in these horses! #MicroSeq2025 #equine #microbiome

Tune in for Elora Qing Siaw showcasing cross-validation strategies to improve #machinelearning models predicting #antimicrobialresistance. Discover how ML can be generalised to greatly streamline antibacterial studies! #MicroSeq2025 #bioinformatics

Amazing stuff @jwdebler.bsky.social!! 🍄

Next up, @zunairkhm.bsky.social is introducing MxSure, a tool to robustly estimate substitutions rates from pairwise SNP data. Very useful for understanding #evolution, persistence, and #transmission of commensal or pathogenic microbes! #MicroSeq2025 #bioinformatics #microbiome