Australasian Virology Society
@ausvirologysoc.bsky.social
The Australasian Virology Society was incorporated in 2011 following 10 years as a group. We serve the Australasian virology community and hold biennial meetings.
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A lot of people at #AVS12 are joining Bluesky!!
We have made a starter pack to make it easier to follow each other!
👇Comment below to be added!
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We have made a starter pack to make it easier to follow each other!
👇Comment below to be added!
go.bsky.app/FgBEzfc
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Great to see this hard work finally published, led by UQ colleagues Ariel Isaacs & Dan Watterson 👏
We assessed the nanobody and engineered bispecific nanobody-MAb at BSL4 with live virus and found superior neutralization capability
We assessed the nanobody and engineered bispecific nanobody-MAb at BSL4 with live virus and found superior neutralization capability
New online: A nanobody-based therapeutic targeting Nipah virus limits viral escape
A nanobody-based therapeutic targeting Nipah virus limits viral escape
Nature Structural & Molecular Biology, Published online: 08 July 2025; doi:10.1038/s41594-025-01598-2Here, Isaacs, Nieto and Zhang et al. discover a potent nanobody and engineer a dual-action antibody that targets two viral proteins, offering strong protection against Nipah and Hendra viruses while preventing viral escape, potentially contributing to future treatments.
go.nature.com
July 8, 2025 at 10:52 AM
Great to see this hard work finally published, led by UQ colleagues Ariel Isaacs & Dan Watterson 👏
We assessed the nanobody and engineered bispecific nanobody-MAb at BSL4 with live virus and found superior neutralization capability
We assessed the nanobody and engineered bispecific nanobody-MAb at BSL4 with live virus and found superior neutralization capability
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New online: A nanobody-based therapeutic targeting Nipah virus limits viral escape
A nanobody-based therapeutic targeting Nipah virus limits viral escape
Nature Structural & Molecular Biology, Published online: 08 July 2025; doi:10.1038/s41594-025-01598-2Here, Isaacs, Nieto and Zhang et al. discover a potent nanobody and engineer a dual-action antibody that targets two viral proteins, offering strong protection against Nipah and Hendra viruses while preventing viral escape, potentially contributing to future treatments.
go.nature.com
July 8, 2025 at 10:28 AM
New online: A nanobody-based therapeutic targeting Nipah virus limits viral escape
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🦋Hello BlueSky!🦋 Let's get right into it. MicroSeq is back September 3-4, 2025! Stay tuned for more details on registration and abstract submission coming soon here and at www.microseqconference.com. 🌟Save the date!🌟
#MicroSeq2025
#MicroSeq2025
July 3, 2025 at 5:47 AM
🦋Hello BlueSky!🦋 Let's get right into it. MicroSeq is back September 3-4, 2025! Stay tuned for more details on registration and abstract submission coming soon here and at www.microseqconference.com. 🌟Save the date!🌟
#MicroSeq2025
#MicroSeq2025
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Very rare human case of Australian Bat Lyssavirus (ABLV). A man was bitten by a bat several months ago and is now in a critical condition 😢
www.health.nsw.gov.au/news/Pages/2...
www.health.nsw.gov.au/news/Pages/2...
News - Community urged not to touch bats after rare case of Australian bat lyssavirus
NSW Health confirms first bat lyssavirus case in 2025. Avoid handling bats and seek urgent care if bitten or scratched. Only trained experts should manage injured bats.
www.health.nsw.gov.au
July 2, 2025 at 9:30 AM
Very rare human case of Australian Bat Lyssavirus (ABLV). A man was bitten by a bat several months ago and is now in a critical condition 😢
www.health.nsw.gov.au/news/Pages/2...
www.health.nsw.gov.au/news/Pages/2...
We wish @slonchak.bsky.social good luck as he starts his new Virology lab at @qimrb.bsky.social May your tip boxes always be filled and your biosafety applications be approved first time round.
Systems virology team has arrived to our new amazing home at @qimrb.bsky.social It was an exciting first day unpacking and unboxing and thank you to my fantastic team for their effort in getting setup!
July 1, 2025 at 10:30 AM
We wish @slonchak.bsky.social good luck as he starts his new Virology lab at @qimrb.bsky.social May your tip boxes always be filled and your biosafety applications be approved first time round.
New COVID-19 strain 'pretty much everywhere' in Australia
Read in ABC News: apple.news/AnMbXMgVdRFW...
Read in ABC News: apple.news/AnMbXMgVdRFW...
New COVID-19 strain 'pretty much everywhere' in Australia — ABC News
Australians are being urged to get their COVID-19 booster as a new coronavirus variant drives up infections.
apple.news
May 30, 2025 at 1:03 AM
New COVID-19 strain 'pretty much everywhere' in Australia
Read in ABC News: apple.news/AnMbXMgVdRFW...
Read in ABC News: apple.news/AnMbXMgVdRFW...
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Excited to share our latest work, creating an artificial lipid droplet! 🦠🧠
This is @timetogoz.bsky.social's first first-author paper from her PhD, and my first senior-author paper!! 🎉🥹
Check it out ⬇️
www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
@helbiglab.bsky.social @ausvirologysoc.bsky.social
This is @timetogoz.bsky.social's first first-author paper from her PhD, and my first senior-author paper!! 🎉🥹
Check it out ⬇️
www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
@helbiglab.bsky.social @ausvirologysoc.bsky.social
May 14, 2025 at 11:07 PM
Excited to share our latest work, creating an artificial lipid droplet! 🦠🧠
This is @timetogoz.bsky.social's first first-author paper from her PhD, and my first senior-author paper!! 🎉🥹
Check it out ⬇️
www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
@helbiglab.bsky.social @ausvirologysoc.bsky.social
This is @timetogoz.bsky.social's first first-author paper from her PhD, and my first senior-author paper!! 🎉🥹
Check it out ⬇️
www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
@helbiglab.bsky.social @ausvirologysoc.bsky.social
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/...
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/...
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...
journals.asm.org
April 29, 2025 at 11:56 PM
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/...
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/...
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Registration now open for HCV-Flavi 2025!
March 14, 2025 at 10:12 AM
Registration now open for HCV-Flavi 2025!
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Fascinating presentation by @turville.bsky.social on how complex formation of ACE2 with solute carriers SLC6A19 and SLC6A20 allows for TMPRSS2 use by SARS-CoV-2 Omicron lineages #lorneiani
February 20, 2025 at 12:20 AM
Fascinating presentation by @turville.bsky.social on how complex formation of ACE2 with solute carriers SLC6A19 and SLC6A20 allows for TMPRSS2 use by SARS-CoV-2 Omicron lineages #lorneiani
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Exciting work by Dr Andrii Slonchak on using virus-inclusive scRNA-Seq to reveal the mechanism of flavivirus neuropathogenesis #lorneiandi
February 20, 2025 at 1:06 AM
Exciting work by Dr Andrii Slonchak on using virus-inclusive scRNA-Seq to reveal the mechanism of flavivirus neuropathogenesis #lorneiandi
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"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
He's not wrong...
#lorneiandi @theviin.bsky.social
February 21, 2025 at 1:37 AM
"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
He's not wrong...
#lorneiandi @theviin.bsky.social
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We've created a starter pack for everyone attending & supporting this year's Lorne Infection and Immunity Conference! 🔬🧪🦠🏖️
Let us know if you're attending #lorneiandi and would like to be added!
Check out the starter pack here: go.bsky.app/G6cE3nw
Let us know if you're attending #lorneiandi and would like to be added!
Check out the starter pack here: go.bsky.app/G6cE3nw
February 19, 2025 at 4:31 AM
We've created a starter pack for everyone attending & supporting this year's Lorne Infection and Immunity Conference! 🔬🧪🦠🏖️
Let us know if you're attending #lorneiandi and would like to be added!
Check out the starter pack here: go.bsky.app/G6cE3nw
Let us know if you're attending #lorneiandi and would like to be added!
Check out the starter pack here: go.bsky.app/G6cE3nw
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👏🏻 to @irumii.bsky.social for presenting her research into the roles lipid droplets may play during viral infection and what we can learn from EVs! 🦠
#lorneiandi @theviin.bsky.social
#lorneiandi @theviin.bsky.social
February 19, 2025 at 10:02 PM
👏🏻 to @irumii.bsky.social for presenting her research into the roles lipid droplets may play during viral infection and what we can learn from EVs! 🦠
#lorneiandi @theviin.bsky.social
#lorneiandi @theviin.bsky.social
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I know all the headlines about the recent Japanese Encephalitis death in NSW state “a man from Sydney” but please keep in mind that there is currently no evidence the virus is active in mosquitoes along the east coast (inc. Sydney). https://www.health.nsw.gov.au/news/Pages/20250225_01.aspx
News - NSW records first death of person with Japanese encephalitis since 2022
NSW Health continues to urge the public to be vigilant and take precautions against mosquitoes as NSW records its first death of a person with Japanese encephalitis (JE) since May 2022.
www.health.nsw.gov.au
February 26, 2025 at 10:34 PM
I know all the headlines about the recent Japanese Encephalitis death in NSW state “a man from Sydney” but please keep in mind that there is currently no evidence the virus is active in mosquitoes along the east coast (inc. Sydney). https://www.health.nsw.gov.au/news/Pages/20250225_01.aspx
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Feeling very grateful to receive an early career development and ECR oral presentation award at Lorne I&I @theviin.bsky.social An amazing few days in Lorne learning about all types of pathogens and host responses. Great science at a stunning location!
February 21, 2025 at 3:10 AM
Feeling very grateful to receive an early career development and ECR oral presentation award at Lorne I&I @theviin.bsky.social An amazing few days in Lorne learning about all types of pathogens and host responses. Great science at a stunning location!
Attention virologists - Upcoming Keystone Virology meeting #KSEmergingVirus26
February 16, 2025 at 12:14 AM
Attention virologists - Upcoming Keystone Virology meeting #KSEmergingVirus26
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🔬✨ First Keynote presentation at #MiM2025! for @aussocmic.bsky.social
Dr @nataleenewton.bsky.social is presenting work on tick-borne flaviviruses with a chimeric viral platform, revealing high-resolution cryo-EM structures & antigenic insights. 🦠 Great advances in #flavivirus vaccine development.
Dr @nataleenewton.bsky.social is presenting work on tick-borne flaviviruses with a chimeric viral platform, revealing high-resolution cryo-EM structures & antigenic insights. 🦠 Great advances in #flavivirus vaccine development.
February 8, 2025 at 3:46 AM
🔬✨ First Keynote presentation at #MiM2025! for @aussocmic.bsky.social
Dr @nataleenewton.bsky.social is presenting work on tick-borne flaviviruses with a chimeric viral platform, revealing high-resolution cryo-EM structures & antigenic insights. 🦠 Great advances in #flavivirus vaccine development.
Dr @nataleenewton.bsky.social is presenting work on tick-borne flaviviruses with a chimeric viral platform, revealing high-resolution cryo-EM structures & antigenic insights. 🦠 Great advances in #flavivirus vaccine development.
Excellent Flaviviridae meeting (Flaviviruses and hepatitis C virus) October 13th-16th, 2025 Singapore - don't miss out on hearing our Keynote Dan Barouche speak so close to home! Details to follow!
January 29, 2025 at 10:48 PM
Excellent Flaviviridae meeting (Flaviviruses and hepatitis C virus) October 13th-16th, 2025 Singapore - don't miss out on hearing our Keynote Dan Barouche speak so close to home! Details to follow!
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Here we provide evidence of henipaviruses in North America with the discovery of Camp hill virus in the Northern Short-Tailed Shrew, Alabama. Early release article available from EID
wwwnc.cdc.gov/eid/article/... #virology
wwwnc.cdc.gov/eid/article/... #virology
January 18, 2025 at 11:39 PM
Here we provide evidence of henipaviruses in North America with the discovery of Camp hill virus in the Northern Short-Tailed Shrew, Alabama. Early release article available from EID
wwwnc.cdc.gov/eid/article/... #virology
wwwnc.cdc.gov/eid/article/... #virology
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New preprint out now! The history of some RNA virus lineages that infect vertebrates might date back to our invertebrate ancestors.
Read more here: biorxiv.org/cgi/content/...
Read more here: biorxiv.org/cgi/content/...
December 17, 2024 at 4:10 AM
New preprint out now! The history of some RNA virus lineages that infect vertebrates might date back to our invertebrate ancestors.
Read more here: biorxiv.org/cgi/content/...
Read more here: biorxiv.org/cgi/content/...
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Diversity and cross-species transmission of viruses in a remote island ecosystem: implications for wildlife conservation. Work led by Rebecca French and @eddieholmes.bsky.social academic.oup.com/ve/advance-a...
Diversity and cross-species transmission of viruses in a remote island ecosystem: implications for wildlife conservation
Abstract. The ability of viruses to emerge in new species is influenced by aspects of host biology and ecology, with some taxa harbouring a high diversity
academic.oup.com
December 17, 2024 at 2:56 AM
Diversity and cross-species transmission of viruses in a remote island ecosystem: implications for wildlife conservation. Work led by Rebecca French and @eddieholmes.bsky.social academic.oup.com/ve/advance-a...
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Hendra@30 meeting has started with a fantastic smoking ceremony and welcome to country for the traditional owners of the land in Geelong #hendra30
December 8, 2024 at 10:52 PM
Hendra@30 meeting has started with a fantastic smoking ceremony and welcome to country for the traditional owners of the land in Geelong #hendra30
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Amazing 10 days in Melbourne, Geelong, Creswick, and the Great ocean road for AVS12 @ausvirologysoc.bsky.social 🎉 An awesome combo of fantastic science, collaboration, great food, and sight seeing across Victoria.
December 8, 2024 at 10:06 AM
Amazing 10 days in Melbourne, Geelong, Creswick, and the Great ocean road for AVS12 @ausvirologysoc.bsky.social 🎉 An awesome combo of fantastic science, collaboration, great food, and sight seeing across Victoria.