Great to see this hard work finally published, led by UQ colleagues Ariel Isaacs & Dan Watterson 👏 We assessed the nanobody and engineered bispecific nanobody-MAb at BSL4 with live virus and found superior neutralization capability

New online: A nanobody-based therapeutic targeting Nipah virus limits viral escape

🦋Hello BlueSky!🦋 Let's get right into it. MicroSeq is back September 3-4, 2025! Stay tuned for more details on registration and abstract submission coming soon here and at www.microseqconference.com. 🌟Save the date!🌟 #MicroSeq2025

Very rare human case of Australian Bat Lyssavirus (ABLV). A man was bitten by a bat several months ago and is now in a critical condition 😢 www.health.nsw.gov.au/news/Pages/2...

We wish @slonchak.bsky.social good luck as he starts his new Virology lab at @qimrb.bsky.social May your tip boxes always be filled and your biosafety applications be approved first time round.

New COVID-19 strain 'pretty much everywhere' in Australia Read in ABC News: apple.news/AnMbXMgVdRFW...

Excited to share our latest work, creating an artificial lipid droplet! 🦠🧠 This is @timetogoz.bsky.social's first first-author paper from her PhD, and my first senior-author paper!! 🎉🥹 Check it out ⬇️ www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti... @helbiglab.bsky.social @ausvirologysoc.bsky.social

Exciting news! The AVS12 Meeting Report is now published in the @asm.org Journal of Virology! 🎉 AVS prides itself on supporting diverse voices in virology through career development, Indigenous engagement, collaboration, and recognition of excellence. Read it here: journals.asm.org/doi/10.1128/...

Registration now open for HCV-Flavi 2025!

Fascinating presentation by @turville.bsky.social on how complex formation of ACE2 with solute carriers SLC6A19 and SLC6A20 allows for TMPRSS2 use by SARS-CoV-2 Omicron lineages #lorneiani

Exciting work by Dr Andrii Slonchak on using virus-inclusive scRNA-Seq to reveal the mechanism of flavivirus neuropathogenesis #lorneiandi

"This is the hot mess of influenza" - Patrick Reading, Director of the WHO Collaborating Centre for Reference and Research on Influenza He's not wrong... #lorneiandi @theviin.bsky.social

We've created a starter pack for everyone attending & supporting this year's Lorne Infection and Immunity Conference! 🔬🧪🦠🏖️ Let us know if you're attending #lorneiandi and would like to be added! Check out the starter pack here: go.bsky.app/G6cE3nw

👏🏻 to @irumii.bsky.social for presenting her research into the roles lipid droplets may play during viral infection and what we can learn from EVs! 🦠 #lorneiandi @theviin.bsky.social

I know all the headlines about the recent Japanese Encephalitis death in NSW state “a man from Sydney” but please keep in mind that there is currently no evidence the virus is active in mosquitoes along the east coast (inc. Sydney). https://www.health.nsw.gov.au/news/Pages/20250225_01.aspx

Feeling very grateful to receive an early career development and ECR oral presentation award at Lorne I&I @theviin.bsky.social An amazing few days in Lorne learning about all types of pathogens and host responses. Great science at a stunning location!

Attention virologists - Upcoming Keystone Virology meeting #KSEmergingVirus26

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

Excellent Flaviviridae meeting (Flaviviruses and hepatitis C virus) October 13th-16th, 2025 Singapore - don't miss out on hearing our Keynote Dan Barouche speak so close to home! Details to follow!

Here we provide evidence of henipaviruses in North America with the discovery of Camp hill virus in the Northern Short-Tailed Shrew, Alabama. Early release article available from EID wwwnc.cdc.gov/eid/article/... #virology

New preprint out now! The history of some RNA virus lineages that infect vertebrates might date back to our invertebrate ancestors. Read more here: biorxiv.org/cgi/content/...

Diversity and cross-species transmission of viruses in a remote island ecosystem: implications for wildlife conservation. Work led by Rebecca French and @eddieholmes.bsky.social academic.oup.com/ve/advance-a...

Hendra@30 meeting has started with a fantastic smoking ceremony and welcome to country for the traditional owners of the land in Geelong #hendra30

Amazing 10 days in Melbourne, Geelong, Creswick, and the Great ocean road for AVS12 @ausvirologysoc.bsky.social 🎉 An awesome combo of fantastic science, collaboration, great food, and sight seeing across Victoria.

Will COVID bivalent vaccines provide better protection against future variants? (Spoiler alert - yes) Find out why here: t.author.email.elsevier.com/r/?id=h77a8d...

Live laugh lab. The Khromykh lab at #AVS12 thanks everyone for a phenomenal meeting. See you all in Adelaide in 2026! @ausvirologysoc.bsky.social

Always a treat to catch up with past and current members of the Beard Lab 🦠 @ausvirologysoc.bsky.social #AVS12

Thanks @ausvirologysoc.bsky.social for a great meeting. Where else can you turn the evolution of flu A vs flu B strains as described by @marioskoutsakos.bsky.social into a dance move. Having Jenna Guthmiller here from the US was a highlight for me! See you all in Adelaide in 2026

Huge congratulations Lara Herrero, Griffith University for being awarded the first @ausvirologysoc.bsky.social “Young Award” - going to take me awhile to get used to that 🤣. For significant contributions to both their field and community. Can’t think of a more worthy recipient.

I have been so impressed by the @ausvirologysoc.bsky.social meeting. EXCELLENT talks, across all career stages. Amazing sense of community. Really positive and supportive meeting. Plus, I beat @robull.bsky.social at the double-gloved tube capping challenge. Thank you so much for hosting me!

Thank you @profpaulyoung.bsky.social for all you have done for the Aus virology community. It was 12 years ago while sitting in your undergraduate virology class that I decided that I wanted to be a virologist. You ignited the passion which continues to burn in me today. @ausvirologysoc.bsky.social

Last talk: oration by @profpaulyoung.bsky.social at the #AVS2024 @ausvirologysoc.bsky.social “a virologist’s adventures” from the rabbit hole to the wonderland of science ❤️

Now we are honoured to hear from the first Paul Young’s Oration at #AVS12, delivered by our very own Prof Paul Young - A Virologist’s Adventures in Wonderland. @profpaulyoung.bsky.social was the first president and vision behind the Australasian Society for Virology. Take it away Paul.

So lucky to have Jenna joining us for #AVS2024 @ausvirologysoc.bsky.social 🎉👏👏👏 talking about #Influenza #virus ❤️

Last data talk of the conference is The @amersocvirology.bsky.social Ann Palmenberg Junior Investigator Award winner Jenna Guthmiller who is going to talk about Antigenic drift within the receptor binding site differentially modulates sialic acid binding by H1N1 viruses #AVS12

Always great to be sharing science, fun and great time with my wonderful lab ❤️ Enjoying the coffee break during #AVS2024 @ausvirologysoc.bsky.social

Thank you so much to @ausvirologysoc.bsky.social for having me sharing our very latest work on COVID

Pivoting to HCV is Arunasingam Abayasingam (UNSW) who is taking us through the Affinity of Transmitted/Founder virus associates with early emergence of Hepatitis C Virus specific neutralising antibodies #AVS12

Ariel Isaacs (SCMB, UQ), is next up presenting a protective bispecific antibody that targets both Nipah virus surface glycoproteins and limits viral escape. #Nipah is highly pathogenic (50-100% mortality) with no approved treatments/vaccines. Check him out next week at #Hendra30 #AVS12

Next up is Samantha Davis @iamdrsam.bsky.social (ACDP, CSIRO) who is discussing New Insights Into Immune Dysregulation at the cellular and transcriptional level Following Infection of Domestic Pigs With Virulent African Swine Fever Virus. ASFV is fatal in pigs in almost 100% of cases #AVS12

How do we help support & increase Indigenous researchers in virology? Well, it starts with education (get kids interested in cool science!), is supported by policy & strengthend through respect & science communication 🗣 #AVS12 #STEM #firstscientists @ausvirologysoc.bsky.social

Today is the day! I will be speaking in the last session of the last day at #AVS12 sharing a snippet of a very cool story involving pigs & a nasty virus called African swine fever virus 🐷 Hope I will see you there (promise I will be more engaging than Ross) 😊 @ausvirologysoc.bsky.social

#CSIRO had a fantastic booth set up at #AVS12 providing lots of engagement for attendees 🤩

This is afternoon tea at #ASS12. It matches the high standard of the science presented at this conference. Well done to the organisers.

Kicking off our final data session on Adaptive immunity chaired by Lara Herrero & Naphak Modhiran is our plenary speaker Stephanie Gras (La Trobe University) @graslab.bsky.social on COVID: what else is to be discovered? #AVS12

Amazing talk by Yonatan Ganor from @institutcochin.bsky.social during the #AVS2024 @ausvirologysoc.bsky.social conference talking about “sex, drugs and viruses”

“Pivoting back to sex and drugs” is Bethany Horsburgh (Kirby institute) presenting a novel long-range sequencing assay and verification for #HIV and #HCV for use in a diagnostic/clinical setting #AVS12 This tiling PCR method is sensitive and robust (131/134 sequenced!), best chance at adoption?

Now we are hearing from Andrew Young (ViceBio/UQ) who is sharing work on a uniquely Australian virology invention in the vaccine space: The Molecular Clamp Platform: A broadly applicable solution to the manufacture of multivalent subunit vaccines for respiratory viruses. #AVS12

As it’s the last day of #AVS2024 conference @ausvirologysoc.bsky.social it’s time to mark the next AVS conference in your calendar for 2026 !!! Don’t miss out 🎉👍