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

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)

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

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
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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

Up now, our second keynote speaker for today, Prof. Ruth Hall (USYD) - Antibiotic resistance - a new problem or old enemy?
#AMR #microbiology #microsky

To wrap up the first session of the day...

A/Prof. Thomas Gottlieb (Concord Hospital/USYD) on gram negative #AMR and its impact in Australian hospitals

Dr. Ala Moha (CSIRO/Westmead) on One-Health and why its important for the future of #AMR

#microbiology #microsky

Our first keynote speaker, Prof. Ian Paulsen, talking about repurposing of 'normal' genes to confer multi-drug resistance
#microbiology #microsky #AMR

And a message from our Director @garrymyers.bsky.social to open the Symposium
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Our very own @mehrad-hamidian.bsky.social kicking things off!

We're all set up and ready for an amazing day of #AMR talks at the #AIMI X ASM NSW-ACT Antimicrobial Resistance Symposium!

#microbiology #microsky

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