West Coast Microbiome

🎉 Congratulations to Our 2025 Prize Winners! 🧬 🏆 Best Flash Talk Kristina Magoutas – University of Western Australia Sponsored by @AUSSOCMIC 🏆 Best Poster Phoebe Car – The Kids Research Institute Sponsored by @WCmicrobiome

Alicia Tan presents on how early probiotic use after neonatal antibiotics supports healthy infant gut microbiome development

Dr. Asad Prodhan introduces sangerFlow, a reproducible pipeline for pathogen ID from Sanger amplicon data

Dr. Matthew Coote discusses the use of FMT in patients with persistent critical illness

Dr. Reika Masuda presents population-level findings combining urinary metabolomics and microbiome data

Dr. José Caparrós-Martin discusses the link between nasal microbiota and early-life respiratory disease susceptibility

Gwendolynn Hummel uses a vaginal organoid model to study the role of dysbiosis in preterm birth

Karma Jamtsho investigates urbanisation’s impact on soil and riparian microbiomes in a Himalayan city

Xavier Barton presents on the ability to predict tick microbiomes using population structure

Katelyn Boase explores the microbial ecology of acidic saline lakes in WA’s Yilgarn Craton

Georgina McCallum shares how host response biomarkers may be used for early ‘pre-positive’ detection of viral infections

Bonnie Hyatt investigates commensal-dependant antibiotic resistance in Streptococcus pyogenes

Kristina Magoutas discusses the INTIMATE Study, exploring microbiome links to intimate health, hygiene, and practices

Xinyuan Zhu presents a cohort study linking early nasopharyngeal microbiomes to asthma development

Roaa Arishi shares how human milk oligosaccharides influence the oral microbiome in breastfed infants

Jenna Wilson discusses metaproteomics to identify microbial biomarkers of spontaneous pre-term birth

Dr. Ritika Kar Bahal presents on the respiratory microbiome and lower respiratory tract infections using amplicon and whole metagenome sequencing

Prof. Elizabeth Dinsdale shares insights into microbiomes and viromes in elasmobranchii

A/Prof. Jeremy Barr explores culturomics and experimental insights into temperate bacteriophages in the human gut

Our 2025 meeting has officially started!