1. Postdoc in plant-fungal interactions: jobsite.sheffield.ac.uk/job/Research... 2. Postdoc in molecular plant-microbe interactions: jobsite.sheffield.ac.uk/job/Research... 3. Research technician: jobsite.sheffield.ac.uk/job/Technici... (Pls share!)

ARC says Discovery Projects outcomes will be tomorrow (Tuesday). Linkage Projects (2025, round 1) on Wed. Over past ~year, it's often been at about 11am (Canberra). My bot will pick up the change to RMS & post immediately. ARC should email outcomes to lead CIs, but might take an 1hr or so for DPs

Excited to share our preprint led by Carlos Voogdt et al We developed new genetic tools & genome-wide libraries for species of the Bacteroidales order; constructed saturated barcoded transposon libraries in key representatives of three genera. www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

Check out my PhD student Fiona Facey’s first first-author paper on finding microbes that can degrade multiple types of plastics in the Galleria mellonella gut microbiome 👇 enviromicro-journals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

🌟 Applications are now open for the 2025 ASM NSW-ACT Branch Summer Student Research Awards! 🌟 Are you an undergrad, Honours, or Masters (Coursework) student? Apply for a $1,500 research award to support a 4-week summer project. Deadline: 5pm, Fri 5 Dec Learn more & apply: asm-nswact.org.au/awards/

Delighted to share that @evgeniamaslova.bsky.social passed her PhD viva today with only minor corrections. Her project focused on novel models to study wound infection. Thank you to the @nc3rs.bsky.social for funding her PhD and @flamycain.bsky.social and Anthony Tsolaki for being superb examiners.

At the @asm-nswact.bsky.social AGM hosted by our outgoing Chair Karl Hassan and Secretary Tom Jeffries 🫡 Our post AGM speaker @bill-lab.bsky.social giving a fantastic post AGM talk with some eye candy microscopy! Thanks to all who joined!

Come join us on the ASM NSW committee! All you have to do is email back the committee form below!

📢 Reminder: ASM Committee Nominations Are Open! 📝 Nomination form: asm-nswact.org.au/wp-content/u... 📅 AGM details: www.trybooking.com/events/landi... We’d love to see more members getting involved and helping shape the future of ASM. ✨

@livingseawalls.bsky.social is a finalist in the NSW DCCEEW Eureka Prize for Environmental Research. Learn more: youtu.be/9yrRzgyZqoI #EurekaPrizes @sims-australia.bsky.social @melaniejbishop.bsky.social @cariocamayer.bsky.social @marialvozzo.bsky.social

The Fission Chips Team from Macquarie University is a finalist in the @ansto.bsky.social Eureka Prize for Innovative Use of Technology. Learn more: youtu.be/6yf27LdQkhw #EurekaPrizes

Ian Paulsen has transformed #syntheticbiology from a niche science in Australia to a national strength. Under his leadership, our Centre has spun out ten startup companies that have raised more than $200 million in venture capital. Join us in congratulating Ian on this fantastic achievement! 🎊

Water everywhere 😜 - with Mario @feldmanlab.bsky.social & Amy @flamycain.bsky.social at Acinetobacter conference in Niagara Falls

Very excited about our latest combining advanced cell culture, transposon-insertion sequencing, and statistical modeling to map Shigella virulence determinants in organoid models. Great collaboration w/ @mldm.bsky.social @sellinlab.bsky.social in @natgenet.nature.com www.nature.com/articles/s41...

I'm excited to present our latest study in @plos.org NTDS, collaborating with @sydney.edu.au and UNSW that uncovers the potent antifungal activity of phytocannabinoids against life-threatening Cryptococcus and tinea/athletes foot fungi: lighthouse.mq.edu.au/article/may-... Reach out for more info!

Very pleased to share this preprint! "Characterisation of Ornithobacterium hominis colonisation dynamics and interaction with the nasopharyngeal microbiome in a South African birth cohort" 🧵 www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

Congratulations to Associate Professor Amy Cain @flamycain.bsky.social of our #MacquarieUniversity node on being awarded The Australian Academy of Science (#AAS) 2025 #GottschalkMedal — in recognition of her pioneering work in the fight against #antibioticresistance 🦠💊

Anyone interested in joining us @quadraminstitute.bsky.social as part of @norwichmicro.bsky.social we’re recruiting for group leaders! www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DMF274/g...

🎉 Congratulations to Centre startups Levur, Newera Bio, Swan Genomics and Wild Yeast Zoo on securing Australia's Economic Accelerator (AEA) Ignite Grants! Read the full story 👇 bit.ly/3DM9BY2

🦠 Job Opportunity in Microbiology! 🦠 UNSW Sydney is hiring a Lecturer/Senior Lecturer (Education Focused) in Microbiology! 🎓 📅 Apply by: March 31st, 2025: url.au.m.mimecastprotect.com/s/F9dHCRONg6... Please share with your networks or anyone interested!

✨ Exciting new Lancet role ✨ This autumn, our Group is launching an OA journal dedicated to the unique health challenges on the African continent: The Lancet Regional Health—Africa 🌍 To lead this important endeavour, we are searching for an Editor-in-Chief. Find out more & apply ⤵️ bit.ly/3Xp919w

📣Students and ECRs of Microbiology in NSW! The ASM travel award application deadlines are coming up on the 28th Feb and 17th March 2025. Make sure you apply below: Student Nancy Millis: asm-nswact.org.au/wp-content/u... ECR BD Award: asm-nswact.org.au/wp-content/u...

🌍 A global research collaboration, including Macquarie University’s Associate Professor Amy Cain, has been awarded €1 million to combat the growing crisis of antifungal resistance. Congratulations! 👏👏👏 bit.ly/4jkB6YO

Super excited to announce that we’ve successful in an important new NHMRC/JPIAMR grant developing new metal-containing antifungals. Looking forward to working with some fantastic collaborators across Europe! url.au.m.mimecastprotect.com/s/Ur_tCWLVn6...

Huge congratulations to my talented PhD student Geraldine Sullivan and amazing MRes student Natasha Delgado who graduated from Macquarie University yesterday - both with VC awards! Feeling proud and grateful to work with such fantastic students - looking forward to watching your careers grow!

Are you applying RNA-seq or TraDIS/Tn-seq to antibiotic-treated bacteria? Our paper from earlier this year with @flamycain.bsky.social shows that antibiotic interference with chromosome replication can confound functional genomics analyses! Thread 1/n journals.asm.org/doi/full/10....

And most of the credit should go to Geri Sullivan for all the hard work, and her PhD supervisor (and excellent collaborator!) @flamycain.bsky.social

Very pleased to finally see this out in Genome Biology: we used mixed-effect machine learning to predict CRISPRi guide efficiency, learning more about the system along the way. Work from very talented former PhD student Yanying Yu, now postdoc at Broad Institute. link.springer.com/article/10.1...

Check out the latest Microbiology Primer on using TraDIS to link genotype to phenotype www.microbiologyresearch.org/content/micr...

Cool new paper from Ian Paulsen and co - Systematic analyses identify modes of action of ten clinically relevant biocides and antibiotic antagonism in Acinetobacter baumannii www.nature.com/articles/s41...