Melinda Ashcroft (PhD)

Join clinicians, scientists, researchers & patients at the #NTMSym2025 Nov 6-7. 2 days of cutting-edge talks on diagnosis, management & treatment of #NTM. A huge thanks to our Gold Sponsor @Insmed for their support! #NTMSym2025. 📍 #UQCCR, Brisbane 🔗 brnw.ch/21wWn00

This morning we kick off IMUC-III, hosted in Melbourne with @tstinear as Chair! This is the third international M. ulcerans conference, and we are pleased to welcome over 130 researchers from 16 countries to discuss all things Buruli 💡#IMUC-III @TheDohertyInst @UniMelb

We have recently joined LinkedIn and would love to connect with you! Give us a follow to join our network and learn about what we do to better understand gut pathogens, their virulence factors and how they interact with the host to cause disease 🦠🔬 au.linkedin.com/in/lyras-lab-g…

Our work held from publication for quite sometime finally out at iScience. Thanks for the great teamwork @DrTotsika @BegonaHeras @JilongQ and the rest of team not on this platform. cell.com/iscience/fullt…

Today is whooping cough awareness day and a perfect time to check that we are all up to date with our vaccines. Read more about the current state of whooping cough in Australia in @Immunisation_Au report card: static1.squarespace.com/static/5d13113…

If you are a student or an ECR in microbiology based in QLD, enter our competition to win free rego and $500 travel support to attend the Mobile Genetic Elements MGE AUS meeting to be held in Melbourne in February 2025. Details below 👇 mgeaus.org @AUSSOCMIC

A nice newsroom article highlighting our latest whooping cough culture-independent typing study unsw.edu.au/newsroom/news/…

Excited to share BakRep - our latest work published in @MicrobioSoc #MGen >661,000 bacterial genomes, uniformly characterized & annotated, enriched with metadata, accessible via a flexible search engine doi.org/10.1099/mgen.0… 👇 1/7

Early bird registration closes Tue 5th November #OHA2024 The 10th #OneHealth Aotearoa Symposium 📅3-4 December 2024 📍University of Otago Wellington 💻#AntimicrobialResistance, climate change, Te Ao Māori & more! Link: otago.ac.nz/conference/one…

Just published in Access Microbiology @MicrobioSoc, this #OpenAccess article presents one of my #PhD projects 📌The complete genome sequence of five pre-2013 Escherichia coli sequence type (ST)1193 strains reveals insights into an emerging pathogen doi.org/10.1099/acmi.0…

A very special symposium run by the ASM at #BMH2024 last week with a stellar lineup of speakers from our membership including Karl Hassan, John Atack, Hayley Newton, Mitali Sarkar-Tyson and Steve Petrovski

@addictedtoigno1 I mean, it's really pretty?

This is apparently a protein-protein interaction diagram... Published in 2024 by Elsevier's Journal of Agriculture and Food Research. doi.org/10.1016/j.jafr…

#AcademicChatter #AcademicX

A packed house at the @ASM_NSWACT Goldsworthy Oration listening to @JocelyneBasseal share her inspirational career as a microbiologist in infection control and personal story of resilience. “You can make your career what you want it to be as long as you keep your antennas open”

Following on from #InternationalMicroorganismDay: we could all use some hilarious #Microbiology images‼️ 🦠🧫🔬