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💥WAMM💥 What a day highlighting Western Australian Microbiology at #WAMM2024 Featuring expert speakers across #clinical, #environmental, #molecular and #onehealth micro, student/ECR selected abstracts and posters Thanks to our organising committee and generous sponsors! ❤️

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Got a copy of Sunday Times #newspaper? Pleasure to chat with Katie Hampson about ways to reduce food-borne illnesses over the festive season - especially in Australia's warm Christmas 🎄! The West Australian: perthnow.com.au/news/health/th… #foodmicrobiology #rinawong #DrRina #scientist

To round out the session, we heard from Dr Binit Lamichane (@itsbinit) who delved in to viral dark matter, exploring RNA virus diversity in mosquitoes using metatranscriptomics

Dr Avram Levy (PathWest Laboratory Medicine) demonstrated the benefits of non-human sampling for public health and the considerations required to do it well

Tying #WAMM2024 together we focus on One Health 🌏 Featuring Prof Tom Riley (@UWAresearch) sharing the history of #Cdiff and the challenges it represents across different niches

#WAMM2024 ECR spotlight! ⭐️Dr Baca Chan developing transmissible vaccines targeting zoonotic spillover ⭐️Dr Jua Iwasaki assessing L-form development in Group A Strep recurrence ⭐️Nicolie McCluskey characterising a two-component regulatory system in Neisseria meningitidis

A/Prof Josh Ramsay @DrJoshRamsay (@CurtinUni) sharing exciting new tech to gain a deeper understanding of quorum sensing in Rhizobia

A/Prof Allison Imrie (@UWAResearch) highlighting the endemic and introduced mosquito-borne viruses

"Bonding" over Molecular Microbiology Session invited speakers at #WAMM2024 With Renee Ng @_reneenicole (@TheKids_AU) speaking about the #Phage WA journey

Blink and you will miss it! Our flash talk speakers did a fantastic job covering their research in only 3 minutes ⏰ ⚡️Soraya Leedham ⚡️Van Thai ⚡️Melanie Andrew ⚡️Xinyuan Zhu (@Xinyuan_Z_) ⚡️Joe Hooton ⚡️Nicole Bzdyl (@NBzdyl) ⚡️Ashleigh Peck

Dr Amanda Ash (@MurdochUni) addressing the need for low-cost detection and prevention strategies against parasite Taenia solium (pork tapeworm)

Prof Elizabeth Watkin (@EdithCowanUni) shifting the focus to microbes for biomining systems and rare earth elements

Getting down to Earth with our Environmental Microbiology Session invited speakers Dr Jason Terpolilli (@MurdochUni) uncovering the diversity of Rhizobia in Australia with their incredible database

Spotlight on ECRs at #WAMM2024 ⭐️Anita Williams (@catanita) highlighting #AMR differences among kids and adults ⭐️Maria Gonzalez-Rovira (@mariagonrov) examining the amniotic fluid #microbiome ⭐️Caroline Thant comparing diagnostic assays to improve #Flavivirus detection

Prof Asha Bowen @AshaBowen (@TheKids_AU) discusses the START study aiming for Group A Streptococcus point of care testing in remote regions

Clin A/Prof David Speers (PathWest Laboratory Medicine) takes us through #HepatitisB and the clinical and veterinary genomic applications

Kicking off the #WAMM2024 Clinical Microbiology Session with our invited speakers! Prof Mark Nicol (@UWAresearch) discusses childhood respiratory infections and the role of bacterial and viral interactions

At our inaugural WA Microbiology Meeting #WAMM2024 we had the pleasure of welcoming @hayleyjnewton from Monash Uni (@MonashUni) as our esteemed Xmas Orator! Sharing the beautiful, yet complex and multifaceted world of Coxiella that her team continues to unravel 🤩