And that’s a wrap of #MicroSeq2025! A huge thanks to all our brilliant presenters, fantastic chairs, and wonderfully engaged audience. We hope you all enjoyed the conference as much as we did, and can’t wait to see you next year at #MicroSeq2026!

🏆It’s Prize Time!🏆 #MicroSeq2025 has lots of prizes on offer, generously sponsored by @aussocmic.bsky.social, @ausvirologysoc.bsky.social, and Microbial Genomics #MGen. Not to mention, some real cool merch on offer for our best questions from each session! 🥳

Our final plenary for #MicroSeq2025 is Dr Leah Roberts from The University of Queensland Centre for Clinical Research. We’re going to hear how she utilises sequencing technologies to investigate plasmid-mediated antimicrobial resistance in healthcare settings 🩺

Session 2.4 is about to start - our FINAL session for #MicroSeq2025 😭 This session is chaired by @mbhall88.bsky.social and we’re being treated to a plenary talk by Dr Leah Roberts. After that - prizes! 🏅

🦠 @bananabenana.bsky.social closes out our ECR talks for #MicroSeq2025 with the first comprehensive atlas of IMP #carbapenemases! Discover novel insights into their structure, mutations, transmission, & widespread endemicity - an under-recognised but important #publichealth threat! #bacteria

🥬Penny Galbraith demonstrates water-derived microbiomes (eg. irrigation) can alter raw plant food #microbiomes all the way from farm to digestion! Check out the way fresh produce acts as an effective link in the environment-to-gut continuum. #MicroSeq2025 #agriculture #foodsafety

🐖Manavi Muralidhar evaluates #metagenomics as an early pathogen detection method in piggery wastewater samples. Explore the ways metagenomics can monitor disease outbreaks and how to improve sensitivity for successful implementation! #MicroSeq2025 #OneHealth #wastewater

🧬 Next up, Mwila Kabwe uses #WGS in combination with traditional #virology methods to characterise a novel Fusobacterium nucleatum #bacteriophage. Exciting new insights into virus-host relationships, evolutionary history, ecology, and function! #MicroSeq2025 #genomics

💾 @himal2007.bsky.social introduces mlstdb, which handles authentication and automates Multi-Locus Sequence Typing scheme downloads from major repositories amidst ongoing data accessibility challenges. “Always Be Validating” - great motto! #MicroSeq2025 #MLST #bioinformatics #databases

🧬 Keeping the #guthealth trend going is Marwan Majzoub with our final medium talk for #MicroSeq2025! Take a look at this #metagenomic approach to characterise gut #bacteriophages. Could the phageome help us identify disease determinants and treatment outcome? #virology #microbiome

🦠Important work on #IBD being done by Mizanur Rahaman! Insights into the gut microbes influencing IBD pathogenesis and the therapeutic potential of natural compounds combating gut dysbiosis and immune dysregulation. #MicroSeq2025 #guthealth #microbiome

💩 @gazollavolpiano.bsky.social starts us off with a comprehensive study of archaeal diversity and clinical associations in faecal #metagenomic data. Check out what kind of role these strange microbes play in human health! #MicroSeq2025 #archaea #guthealth

Session 2.3 is no less packed! We have talks from @gazollavolpiano.bsky.social , Md Mizanur Rahaman, Marwan Majzoub, @himal2007.bsky.social , Mwila Kabwe, Manavi Muralidhar, Penny Galbraith, and @bananabenana.bsky.social . Our chairs for this session are @munazzahmaqbool.bsky.social and Jia Qi Beh.

Heading back over to ZEP! Keen to hear more from our excellent Session 2.2 lightning speakers 🤩 See you all after lunch! #MicroSeq2025 #networking

Mina Farzaneh rounds out the session with a pragmatic cohort study using shotgun #metagenomics on faecal samples from over 100 Thoroughbred yearlings. Discover the rich and diverse microbiomes in these horses! #MicroSeq2025 #equine #microbiome

Tune in for Elora Qing Siaw showcasing cross-validation strategies to improve #machinelearning models predicting #antimicrobialresistance. Discover how ML can be generalised to greatly streamline antibacterial studies! #MicroSeq2025 #bioinformatics

Next up, @zunairkhm.bsky.social is introducing MxSure, a tool to robustly estimate substitutions rates from pairwise SNP data. Very useful for understanding #evolution, persistence, and #transmission of commensal or pathogenic microbes! #MicroSeq2025 #bioinformatics #microbiome

🧬 @mbhall88.bsky.social presents LRGE, a new tool using long-read overlaps to estimate genome size - no reference needed! Increasing computational efficiency without sacrificing confidence in your estimates. #MicroSeq2025 #bioinformatics #genomics

Mona Taouk now shows us how not to ruin our #microbial phylogenies! Check out Core-SNP-filter, which counteracts limitations in bacterial #genomics from overly strict-core SNP alignment approaches. #MicroSeq2025 #alignment #bioinformatics

Johannes Debler takes us through a novel, virus-like, circular genetic element identified in #Ascochyta blight-causing fungal pathogens. Cryptic genomic features influencing pathogen evolution & disease dynamics in #agriculture revealed! #MicroSeq2025 #fungi

🥬Our next presenter is Huong Pham, providing valuable insights into #foodsafety strategies for supply chains. Check out how #WGS was applied to #Salmonella isolates from leafy greens and their environments to infer transmission routes and diversity. #MicroSeq2025 #agriculture

🦠Our first medium talk of #MicroSeq2025 Day 2 is @rhystwhite.bsky.social talking about the #evolution of a methicillin-resistant #Staphylococcus aureus strain, uncovering the genomic and environmental factors contributing to its #emergence and spread. #bacteria #phylogeny

Starting #MicroSeq2025 Day 2 strong with our plenary speaker, Dr Rose Collis. Based at AgResearch in NZ, today Rose is telling us about strategies for antimicrobial resistance (AMR) surveillance in New Zealand freshwater environments 💧

Tune in for Miranda Pitt covering the optimisation of a #nanopore #dRNA-seq protocol to uncover novel features of bacterial transcriptomes. Opens up a whole new avenue to track #antimicrobialresistance, virulence, & pathogenicity! #MicroSeq2025 #transcriptomics

Session 2.2 is jam-packed with talks from Miranda Pitt, Huong Pham, @jwdebler.bsky.social, Mona Taouk, Michael Hall, Zunair Khurram, Elora Qing Siaw, and Mina Farzaneh! Our chairs are @gbouras13.bsky.social and Penny Galbraith.

Session 2.1 of #MicroSeq2025 will start with a plenary presentation from Dr Rose Collis followed by our first medium talk of the day from @rhystwhite.bsky.social.

Good morning and welcome to Day 2 of #MicroSeq2025! We hope you’re all well-rested and ready for some great science! We have another 19 brilliant #ECR talks lined up today, along with 2 more incredible plenary speakers 🤩

Back in ZEP for the afternoon session! Five more excellent lightning speakers hanging out to answer all our questions #MicroSeq2025 #ECR #networking

🏇Amin Kawarizadeh highlights alarming levels of #antimicrobialresistance in #Klebsiella pnemoniae in equine reproductive tracts. Tune in to see how #WGS was used to track genetic diversity and novel configurations of resistance genes. #MicroSeq2025 #equine

🏥Wrapping up our last set of today’s #MicroSeq2025 lightning talks is @RTiffarent, characterising the genomic #epidemiology of clinical #Klebsiella pnemoniae. Discover how #WGS data was used to assess diversity, #antimicrobialresistance, and genotyping.

🦠There is a critical need for improved serotyping methods for #Klebsiella oxytoca antigens. Naoise McGarry presents a curated KoSc-specific database for in-silico serotyping that can be applied for #epidemiology observations. #MicroSeq2025 #database #serotyping

🌏Jocelyn Hume shows us how #sequencing was able to characterise the evolutionary trajectory and driving forces behind IMP-4 transmission. Delve into one of the largest global and regional #epidemiology studies of blaIMP-4 in #bacterial isolates! #MicroSeq2025 #plasmid

Edwin Djonlagic describes the emergence of a multi-drug resistant sub-lineage of E. coli in Australia, identified by a population genomics analysis of clinical isolates. Shows how critical surveillance and evolutionary investigation is! #MicroSeq2025 #ecoli #genomics

💻Lightning talk time! Hiruni Wijewardena takes us through a method to calculate microbial mutations with recombination-aware #phylogenies. Check out how this was applied to a collection of E. coli isolates from bloodstream infections! #MicroSeq2025 #bacteria #mutations

👶XinYuan Zhu outlines which bacteria are associated with childhood asthma development caused by recurrent wheeze. A massive study with over 4000 nasopharyngeal swab samples that identifies early microbial predictors of childhood wheeze. #MicroSeq2025 #asthma #microbiome

🐔Chathuri Rodrigo unveils a new #Ornithobacterium species associated with upper resp. infections in poultry. Huge implications for farming #diagnostics and surveillance worldwide! #MicroSeq2025 #agriculture #poultry #bacteria

Our next #MicroSeq2025 plenary speaker is Dr Jackie Mahar from CSIRO. She’s telling us about her journey tracing viral origins and spread through genome sequencing and phylodynamics 🧬

Back from lunch 🥪 Onto session 1.3 of #MicroSeq2025 now ! Get ready for our second plenary speaker Dr Jackie Mahar, and two medium ECR talks from Chathuri Rodrigo and Xinyuan Zhu. Our chair for this session is Rebecca Grimwood.

We're all heading over to ZEP to keep chatting with our amazing lightning speakers from Session 1.2. Check out the updated space for #MicroSeq2025! Personally, I'm a fan of the garden🌻

🌲Our final lightning speaker Nilukshi Muthuthanthrige describes microbial community dynamics across different development stages of Pinus radiata in a New Zealand forest. See which bacteria and fungi dominated different stages! #MicroSeq2025 #pinusradiata #soil #microbiome

🦠 Tricia Lee takes us through the largest genomic investigation of OXA-181 in Australia to date. Discover how long-read sequencing characterised plasmid-mediated OXA-181 spread following a hospital outbreak. #MicroSeq2025 #bacteria #carbapenemase #antimicrobialresistance

🐢Keeping up the #virology momentum is @lrnlm.bsky.social, exploring the metatranscriptomes of necropsied turtles. Check out the wide range of #parasites, #bacteria, and #viruses identified in these tissues! #MicroSeeq2025

🐑 @bioelogy.bsky.social gives us a comprehensive overview of the introduction and circulation patterns of Bluetongue virus in Australia. Extra important given the rise of clinical presentations in Europe! #MicroSeq2025 #Bluetonguevirus #virology

❄️Tune in to Rebecca Grimwood unveiling the diversity and evolutionary histories of Antarctic fish species from the Ross Sea! 🐟 Critical insights into viral responses to environmental shifts in these vulnerable ecosystems. #MicroSeq2025 #fish #virusevolution #Antarctica

🍯First up, @athrimawithana.bsky.social tells us about unravelling microbial complexity in mānuka tissues. Learn about the ecological roles of microbes in mānuka health, resilience, and function! #MicroSeq2025 #Manuka #microbiome #planthealth

Welcome back to session 1.2 of #MicroSeq2025! We’ll hear from @athrimawithana.bsky.social , Rebecca Grimwood, @bioelogy.bsky.social , @lrnlm.bsky.social , Tricia Lee, and Nilukshi Muthuthanthrige, all chaired by Marwan Majzoub & Rida Tiffarent. Let’s get into it!

Our first medium-length talk comes from @munazzahmaqbool.bsky.social, giving us some valuable insights on the role of plasmids in third-generation cephalosporin resistance in clinical E. coli 🦠 #MicroSeq2025

Kicking off #MicroSeq2025 is Dr Peter Mee from Agriculture Victoria Research, talking to us about applying genomics for surveillance and solving mysteries in veterinary virology🕵️

Session 1.1 of #MicroSeq2025 will have our first plenary Dr Peter Mee followed by @munazzahmaqbool.bsky.social. @bioelogy.bsky.social is chairing this session.

#MicroSeq2025 is here! It’s going to be an INCREDIBLE conference full of amazing talks from Australian and New Zealand #ECRs 🇦🇺🇳🇿 Day 1 has 19 talks, including 2 fantastic plenary speakers! Let’s go! 🤩