Michelle Baker

Cool discovery about 🦇 antibodies: temperature fluctuations regulate antigen binding strength and diversity doi.org/10.1038/s41467…

Avian flu and the black swans… A story run by Sydney morning herald with ⁦@K_RenfreeShort⁩ #flu #uqnews #csiro ⁦@smh⁩ smh.com.au/politics/feder…

@K_RenfreeShort @UQ_News @DavidBurt8 @mlbaker4 Amazing media coverage for the paper: theconversation.com/australias-ico…

<span style="color: #ff4815;">Multidisciplinary Project Examines Australia’s One Health Pandemic Governance bulletin.woah.org/?p=22688

Surveillance is important! Our short communication is out: Detection of filovirus-reactive antibodies in Australian bat species | Microbiology Society microbiologyresearch.org/content/journa…

First chance to hear the federal science minister, Ed Husik @IndustryGovAu, speak in person about the importance of biotechnology manufacturing here in Australia. Great to see as a National Priority!

Our article on #OneHealth approaches to #pandemic risk management with an 🇦🇺 case study is now out in @GHJournal and is open access. @Hopenjohnson @mlbaker4 @mieghanbruce @ali_bat @DrCharOskam @HealthLawQUT …balizationandhealth.biomedcentral.com/articles/10.11…

Great to be part of Australia's Human Animal Spillover & Emerging Diseases Scanning HASEDS Working Grp with @simon_firestone @ali_bat @mlbaker4 @kanta_subbarao & othrs frm @TheDohertyInst @healthywildlife @nswdpi @WAHealth @CentreHealthSec @jcu @Sydney_Uni @healthgovau #OneHealth

Check out the amazing discovery by Rob Miller's lab @unm on loss of #gammadeltaTcells in reptiles @J_Immunol jimmunol.org/content/early/… led by the amazing #WomenInSTEM @KimAMorrissey who is rocking her PhD (today she passed her comps!) Congrats Kim! #ComparativeImmunology

The April 15, 2022 issue of The Journal of Immunology is now available online: ow.ly/bl9150IJcZH #ReadTheJI

A further 5-year $375m investment in 🇦🇺's Health Security Initiative for the #IndoPacific will build on our achievements to date, contribute to the avoidance & containment of infectious disease threats in our region & provide further support to partners. bitly.ws/ovxB

How long does immunity after Omicron infection last? “If high levels of neutralising antibodies are elicited … we would expect to see some level of protection against reinfection, but this is likely to be short-lived,” Prof ⁦@GildaTachedjian⁩ said. cosmosmagazine.com/health/covid/i…

Huge congratulations @edwardcholmes - richly deserved!!

My favourite fact for Day 7 of #SciCommSeptember is the origins of the word "scientist" - first used in 1834 to describe Mary Somerville who, as a woman and multidisciplinary expert, did not fit the patriarchal labels of the time. Here's to women paving the way 💪

Retroviruses of Bats: a Threat Waiting in the Wings? Our review in ⁦@mbiojournal⁩ ⁦is out ⁦@BurnetInstitute⁩ ⁦@JoshuaAHayward1⁩ journals.asm.org/doi/10.1128/mB…

While Nipah virus infections in people are often lethal, outbreaks are usually small with limited transmission among people. Let's hope that this spreads no further & that the rapid response is successful! cbsnews.com/news/kerala-ni…

2 days left to submit your abstract for #ASI2021 @ASImmunology. If your research is non-traditional, then submit to the Wild and Comparative Immunity Symposium! @Jamie_Rossjohn @WildImmunity @DrMichellePower @mlbaker4 @OneHealthRes @KathyBelov @j9deakin asi2021.org/submissions

Discovery of a novel, potentially recombinant rodent #coronavirus with a polybasic cleavage site in the spike protein. pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/34431700/?utm_…