Join us for our annual VIIN Young Investigator Symposium! 🗓️ Fri 14th Nov 8:00am-7:30pm 📍Monash Institute of Pharmaceutical Sciences, Parkville Abstract submissions close next Fri 29th Aug! Register now! 👇 bit.ly/471WFK0 #VIINYIS

📝 Working on a manuscript? Not sure on how to navigate the submission process? Join our next workshop “Manuscript Mastery” for all the tips and tricks on how to prepare your work for publication! 🕰️ Wed 10th Sept 10am - 12pm Register by 5pm Friday 5th September bit.ly/45gWCst

Starting the day @latrobeuni.bsky.social city campus checking the equipment and venue for our #LongCovid conference on Friday 12th of September Register for online attendance - it’s free ! longcovid2025.com @limsltu.bsky.social

CiiiD is now on Bluesky! After years of sharing discoveries, collaborations, and community, expect the same energy. 🔬 Cutting-edge innate immunity & infectious disease research 🤝 Collaborations across disciplines 📢 Opportunities & insights from the lab and beyond #CiiiD #HudsonInstitute

That’s a wrap on our careers evening! Huge thanks to our amazing speakers for sharing insights on alternative career paths, and to VIIN Emerging leaders Committee & WEHI for a fantastic event. See you at the next one! #VIINcareers

Great to hear about Dr Halina Pietrzak’s work as a clinical trials coordinator. Highlighting the direct impact she sees on patients through their work, and how important communication and problem solving are for her position! #VIINcareers

Thanks to Dr Andrew Foers to showing us what it takes to go from PhD to patent scientist! Andrew shared valuable perspectives on how skills from PhD and post-doc can transfer over to patents but also key differences! #VIINcareers

Thanks to Dr Rebecca Smith for starting off our Careers Evening! Giving us insight in her journey from research to development. As Rebecca put it "Be brave, take a few risks, be kind to yourself. Things will evolve as they need to." #VIINcareers

A great talk from Dr Jodie Abramovitch accompanied by excellent art and insights into the role of a principal scientist at a contract research organisation. Thanks for reminding us all of to trust ourselves and our guts! #VIINcareers

Our excellent panelists answering questions about what they find rewarding about their chosen careers, things they would have done differently and how you can find a career path that suits your values and passions. #VIINcareers

Fantastic insights from Dr Nicholas Liau on challenging yourself, doing things outside of your comfort zone and living beyond the now-- make time to think about your future. Diversifying your experiences can seem intimidating but can lead to great things. #VIINcareers

VIIN Careers Evening, starting soon ⏳️ We're looking forward to hearing from a great line up of panelists. 🕕Start time: 6pm.

Only 3 DAYS LEFT to register! 📝VIIN Webinar: Conference Abstract Writing and Effective Scientific Communication 📅Wed 16 July 10am-12pm ⌛Registrations must close 5pm on Mon 14 July, don't miss out! forms.gle/5SHKrKqu5SMy... See flyer for details. We look forward to seeing you there! #VIINworkshop

Do you need help writing a scientific abstract? or want some tips on how to effectivy communicate you amazing science? Come along to our ebinar to learn more! viin.org.au/event/confer... When ⏰️ Wednesday 16th July, 10am -12pm Register by 5pm Monday 14th of July 👇 docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...

Are you a spectral flow cytometry guru? Join my team @burnetinstitute.bsky.social in Melbourne, where you will contribute to vaccine immunological response studies in immunocompromised and vulnerable people. www.seek.com.au/job/84837146...

Professor Ian Barr from the Centre wrote an article featured in the April 2025 edition of Respiratory Medicine Today, titled 'Influenza in 2025: what to expect and how to ameliorate its impact'. respiratory.medicinetoday.com.au

🚨Our lab is recruiting!!! 🎓 Fully Funded PhD Scholarship Available! Are you passionate about lipid droplets, protein-protein interactions, and cutting-edge biomedical research? Please get in touch with @helbiglab.bsky.social if you are interested!! 🔬

Interested in a PhD focusing on Streptococcus pneumoniae or pyogenes? Our group is looking for new PhD students to join our lab! Apply here: career10.successfactors.com/sfcareer/job...

It’s always a plus when the conference is being held in a place of stunning natural beauty. On the last day of #lorneiandi a got to get my drone up to capture the beauty of the location from the birds eye view. What an amazing place! @theviin.bsky.social

Great list @ebony-monson.bsky.social 👌 Feels good connecting with scientists again during #lorneiandi

A kookaburra came to say goodbye after a great #lorneiandi @theviin.bsky.social What a beautiful place for a conference!

Host tRNAs as novel player in antiviral response. Presented by @lachdehayr.bsky.social at Lorne I&I conference @theviin.bsky.social

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!

To end this conference with a bang, we have Professor Leo Eberl from the University of Zurich, telling us all about uncovering and characterising the good and bad guys within the Burkholderia sensu lato. Sensu-tional! #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

What an intriguing talk at #lorneiandi by Desirel Ng from Lyras Lab @monashuniversity.bsky.social! Desirel's work explored how disrupting circadian rhythms through acute light exposure can help protect the host from Clostridioides difficile infection 💡

Last day of #Lorneiandi @theviin.bsky.social! 🦠🔬 @irumii.bsky.social @helbiglab.bsky.social

Great to get the opportunity to present our work on expansion microscopy of mosquito-stage malaria parasites at Lorne I&I this morning! Cheers to @theviin.bsky.social for the ECR award that allowed me to attend this meeting #LorneIandI

As usual, some lovely microscopy from @benliffner.bsky.social, showing unprecedented detail of how Plasmodium sporozoites get made and how they work. #Lorneiandi @theviin.bsky.social

What an impressive talk by Ezekiel Otaegui-Campos from @unsw.bsky.social at #lorneiandi! Ezekiel highlighted how TLR4 triggers chronic inflammation during H. pylori infection, driving gastric carcinogenesis. Unraveling the link between infection, inflammation and cancer progression!

Kitty McCaffrey from @hudsonresearch.bsky.social uncovered how ER stress boosts STAT1-driven immunity to fight bacterial infections at #lorneiandi. A fascinating look at the defense mechanism of host in action!

Continuing our Host-Pathogen session, @benliffner.bsky.social from the University of Adelaide shared how expansion microscopy has enabled his work imaging malaria parasites during their development in the mosquito 🦟🔬 A deep dive into how these parasites grow and evolve within their mosquito host!

Very lucky to have Professor Patrick Reading, the Director of the WHO Collaborating Centre for Reference and Research on Influenza @thedohertyinst.bsky.social, to give us an update on the current influenza global situation #Lorneiandi

Big thanks to our sponsor, CSL, for their sponsorship of our Host-Pathogen Interactions Session, as well as their unwavering support of the entire conference - from the very start of #lorneiandi! Your partnership has made this conference possible.

What a fascinating talk by A/Prof Sarah Dunstan from University of Melbourne & @thedohertyinst.bsky.social at #lorneiandi this morning! An insightful journey unraveling how genetics have shaped the battle against tuberculosis in Asia - & how genomics continues to reveal groundbreaking discoveries!

Fascinating work by Dr Catherine Inizan from Institut Pasteur de Nouvelle-Calédonie to help pave the way in Pacific Islander health research, looking at hybrid humoral immune response to SARS-CoV-2 vaccination. #lorneiandi

Session 11 at #lorneiandi featured invited speaker A/Prof Suzanne Noble MD PhD, from @ucsfhealth.bsky.social , who unpacked how Candida auris taps into IFN-γ to colonize mammalian skin. What tricks does this fungal pathogen use to thrive on its host?

Our first session of Day 3 at #lorneiandi this morning dove into the fascinating world of Host-Pathogen Interactions! Get ready to explore how microbes and hosts battle it out, featuring insights from top researchers —science at its finest!

Can good gut bacteria clear Candida from the gut and prevent life-threatening invasive fungal infections? Exciting work by Bianca Briscas from @unsw.bsky.social #lorneiandi

To kick off our last (but certainly not least) session on Global Health, COVID-19 and Emerging Infectiouse Disease we have Brittany Hill from The University of Queensland speaking about how antibodies from VITT patients induce a prothrombotic endothelial cell phenotype. Don't miss it! #lorneiandi

@theviin.bsky.social co-convenor @profgilda.bsky.social and #LorneI&I program committee Michelle Boyle from @burnetinstitute.bsky.social honoured to contribute to the 15th Lorne meeting bringing together research on the breadth and intersection of infections and the immune responses of the host

Thank you @theviin.bsky.social for the opportunity to present! Great to be back at #lorneiandi

Thank you @theviin.bsky.social for the opportunity to present at #lorneiandi !

Wrapping up the session 9 science bites is an amazing talk by Tanya from Federation University! Her work is about targeting saliva antibodies for diagnosing different stages of small strongyle infections in equines! Visit her at her poster tonight to learn more #318 #lorneiandi

Our final Science Bite in Session 10 of #lorneiandi presented by Shambel Haile from @hudsonresearch.bsky.social who shared some exciting work looking at the link between Helicobacter pylori infection and the development of gastric B-cell MALT lymphoma #lorneiandi

Excellent Science Bite by Dr Carmen Mathmann who shared some new insights into our understanding of the mechanisms that govern TLR4 functions #lorneiandi

Great presentation by Charuni from @deakinuniversity.bsky.social on evaluating a new formaldehyde-inactivated Coxiella burnetii vaccine for controlling Q fever in dairy goats! #lorneiandi

Interesting presentation by Joshua who is investigating how microbe associated antibody cross-reactivity impacts SARS-CoV-2 nucleocapsid immune response! Learn more at his poster #314

Linda Kurth from the University of Melbourne gave an exciting snapshot of their research on the role of hnRNPM and ELAVL1 in the immune response and their regulation by viruses #lorneiandi

Intriguing presentation by Michelle from UQ on how antibody-dependent serum resistance helps bacteria thrive in chronic wound infections! Find out more tonight at her poster #312 #lorneiandi