ASM QLD Branch

We’re excited to announce that this year’s MIM2025 conference will feature two People’s Choice Awards for the best presentations! 🏆🥳 Join us to support our speakers and have your say by casting a vote. For registration info and the full list of speakers, check out below 👇🏼

💡 ASMQ Summer Awards now open! The @aussocmic QLD Branch is offering $1500 + 1-yr ASM membership to undergrads doing microbiology research in QLD. Winners present at the Nancy Millis Award Night (Feb 2026). Apply by 21 Nov 2025 → qldbranch@theasm.org.au #Microbiology #ASMQ

🚨 SAVE THE DATE 🚨 MiM2025 — ASM QLD’s annual microbiology meeting 🧫✨ 📍 Gold Coast | 🗓️ 22 Nov 2025 🧪 Talks & 5-min #Microbites for students 📨 Abstracts due 20 Oct — send to qldbranch@theasm.org.au @aussocmic #MiM2025 #microbiology

🚨 SAVE THE DATE! 🚨 We’re excited to announce that MiM2025, the annual ASMQ conference, will be held on the Gold Coast on 22nd November. Open to ASM members AND non-members. More information and call for abstracts coming soon!

🚀 We're Live! 🎉 We’re excited to announce the launch of the official website for the Queensland branch of the Australian Society for Microbiology. 🔗 Visit us at theqldasm.org.au

ASM is hosting Dr Jessica Thompson, Senior Editor at Nature Microbiology, for an interactive seminar followed by a standup lunch with EMCRs at two locations in QLD. Hear about her journey from researcher to editor – plus insights behind the editorial scenes. 👇🏼details below

🧫 Join us for our @AUSSOCMIC Visiting Speaker event at UQ on May 15! Join Prof. Leo Eberl and Prof. Henrik Strahl for talks on #quorum sensing, biofilms & antibiotic mechanisms. Lunch + rooftop drinks too! Registration QR code in flyer.🔗 Zoom: uqz.zoom.us/j/8941296361 #Superbugs

📢 Clinical #Microbiology SIG – Online! 💻 🗓 Wed, 23rd April 2025 | 6:30PM AEST 🦠 Case studies on #Metamycoplasma, #Trichophyton, #Dermatophilus, and “blood-loving” #Mycobacterium from top clinicians & microbiologists! 🔗 Register for Zoom trybooking.com/DAVRE #ClinicalMicro

📢 Save the Date! ASM & AIMS QLD Combined Scientific Meeting 🧫 🗓️ Wed, 4 June 2025 | ⏰ 6:30–8:00PM AEST | 💻 Zoom 🎯 Topic: Microbiology Menaces – Pathogens in Respiratory Diseases Speakers TBA! #Microbiology #ASM #AIMS

Join Dr. Katrina Lythgoe (@katrina_lythgoe) as she explores virus evolution across scales—from within-host dynamics to global pandemics! Using HIV, HCV & SARS-CoV-2, she'll reveal how selection pressures shape viral evolution. 📍 AIBN, UQ, St Lucia 💻 Zoom available

#Flooding can bring deadly soil bacterium to the surface 😷 Here's what you need to know to reduce the risk of infection during clean-up efforts of ex-tropical #CycloneAlfred 👉 🔗 bit.ly/3DwPP2S

Our student Xavier Bertran (who is not on X) worked out that in a closed culture system, the nitro oxide donor SNP, in addition to its role in dispersing PAO1 biofilms, promotes PAO1 biofilm and planktonic cell growth, potentially through donating its iron centre.

📢 Clinical #Microbiology SIG – Brisbane & Online! 🗓 Wed, 19th March 2025 | 6:30 PM AEST 📍 PEHRL (Brisbane) & Zoom 🍕 Pizza for in-person attendees! 🔬 Talks on Shigella, #JEV & STI superbugs from public health experts. 🔗 Register: trybooking.com/DABAS #PublicHealth

Exciting news! The ASM QLD Branch is now on Bluesky. Follow us at @asmqld.bsky.social for the latest updates on the ASMQ community. #Bluesky #ASMQLD #Microbiology

🦠 Job Opportunity in Microbiology! 🦠 UNSW Sydney is hiring a Lecturer/Senior Lecturer (Education Focused) in Microbiology! 🎓 📅 Apply by: March 31st, 2025 More details & applications here: lnkd.in/gdSKZ4s9 Please share with your networks or anyone interested!

Abstract submissions for #ASM2025 are now open! Get your abstracts in now!!

We have two new awards on offer for members this year! For more information on these awards and check out the other awards we have on offer, visit theasm.org.au/member-awards

🚨 Queensland Microbiology ECRs – Want FREE registration for #ASM2025? 🚨 Send a 3-min video pitch about your research & you could win early-bird rego for the ASM 2025 Conference in Adelaide! 🎥🔬 📅 Deadline: Feb 14 Not a member? Join now ➡️ theasm.org.au/join-the-socie… #ECR

🔬✨ First Keynote presentation at #MiM2025! Dr. @NataleeNewton is presenting work on tick-borne flaviviruses with a chimeric viral platform, revealing high-resolution cryo-EM structures & antigenic insights. 🦠🔎 Exciting advances in #flavivirus vaccine development! @ASM_QLD

Final session and keynote at #MiM2025 from previous @ASM_QLD chair Dr. John Atack @sciency_atack from @GlycoGriffith 🦠 "Understanding bacterial gene regulation to design better treatments." Can decoding gene regulation or phasevarions lead to more effective #antimicrobials?