Burnet's Dr Johanna Fraser on a landmark project in Brazil to introduce Wolbachia bacteria into mosquito eggs to stop the spread of dengue and other viruses such as chikungunya and Zika: "Evidence to date suggests it is going to be a very effective solution." www.npr.org/sections/goa...

Hendra virus has caused fatal disease in a horse in QLD, the first case in three years

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/...

Josh Giddey tonight: 15 PTS 10 REB 17 AST 8 STL First player in NBA history with this stat line.

The measles outbreak in West Texas is likely to persist for a year, perhaps even setting back the country’s hard-fought victory over the virus, local health officials said. As of Friday, there were more than 300 known cases in the state since January.

Twice a year, WHO brings together experts to analyze #influenza virus surveillance and characterization data and issue recommendations on the composition of influenza vaccines. 🧵

A great collection of Aussie infection and immunity researchers!! 🦠🔬👩‍🔬🥼

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

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

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

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

Well done Long Huynh on a nice talk. Schmick presentation on artemisinin resistance in malaria parasites at the Lorne infection and immunity meeting. Beautiful imaging! @theviin.bsky.social #Lorneiandi

Great presentation by Alysha from @burnetinstitute.bsky.social on novel vaccines that outsmart blood-stage malaria parasites!

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

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

"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

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

@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

To close out a great adaptive immunity session at #lorneiandi is our international invited speaker Prof Dietmar Zein explaining the role for T cell exhaustion in regulating the Immune response

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

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!

First science bite of session 9 we have @lachdehayr.bsky.social from UQ! Teaching us all about his awesome work on Flavivirus infections and tRNA 🦠 #lorneiandi

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!

Dr Joshua Hayward and ShuoShuo Tian from @profgilda.bsky.social Lab @Burnetinstitute.bsky.social presenting research on APOBEC antiviral factors in marsupials #Lifesciences

ShuoShuo Tian from @profgilda.bsky.social lab @burnetinstitute.bsky.social presenting research on #APOBEC in marsupials supervised by Dr Joshua Hayward

Dr Paula Ellenberg from @burnetinstitute.bsky.social and @ProfGilda.bsky.social lab presenting her research on #vaginalmicrobiome at the 15th #LorneI&I meeting #lifesciences #HIV

@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

Lorne I&I 2025 co-chair Antjie Blumenthal kicking off the meeting featuring an exciting program with 7 international and 8 national speakers covering the breadth of infection and immunity.

#LorneIandI here we come!! Looking forward to some great science 🩵 @ebony-monson.bsky.social @irumii.bsky.social

It’s good to be back at #lorneiandi! What a great talk to kick off proceedings by Anca Dorhoi @unigreifswald.bsky.social on hypoxic macrophages in TB infection @theviin.bsky.social

Session 3 of #lorneiandi off to a great start! Our first presenter was Dr Mehreen Datoo from The University of Oxford @ox.ac.uk who spoke about clinical development and success so far of the R21/Matrix-M malaria vaccine.

Fantastic talk by Dr Joey McGregor from @burnetinstitute.bsky.social who presented exciting work on novel mRNA vaccine targets for Hepatitis C. #lorneiandi

Fascinating presentation by Dr Connor Scott @connorapscott.bsky.social from The University of Queensland who discussed developments in therapeutic targets for Japanese encephalitis #lorneiandi

Go team Burnet! 👏 It is amazing to think that a Hep C vaccine could be on the horizon. Great work by Dr Joey McGregor, Prof Heidi Drummer, Dr Andy Poumbourios the team. #lorneiandi @burnetinstitute.bsky.social

Thanks to Professor William Petri from The University of Virginia who presented exciting new data looking at the mechanisms of how faecal microbiota transplantation protects against recurrent C.diff infections. #lorneiandi

First up this morning is Katja Fischer from @qimrb.bsky.social. Katja is discussing her work on scabies - from detection, characterisation, and her more recent translational work in the clinic!

Lovely to have Katja Fischer @qimrb.bsky.social at the Lorne Infection and Immunity meeting - such important work on terribly neglected scabies #lorneiandi

Next up is the Hartland Oration, this year delivered by Lynn Nazareth from @csiro.bsky.social. Lynn is presenting her work on ex vivo models of nasal epithelia to examine influenza replication, which won her the best ECR talk at our Young Investigator Symposium!

Very lucky to have @petterbrodin.bsky.social kick off the Molecular Basis of Infectious Disease session, speaking to us about establishing healthy immune-microbe interactions in human newborns #lorneiandi

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

Dana Van Fossen presenting her research on the dynamics of T follicular helper cells in response to Cryptosporidium infection in children at #lorneiandi

Our first plenary speakers is Anca Dorhoi coming to us from the Friedrich-Loeffler-Institut in Griefswald, Germany and is telling us about the immune response against Tuberculosis in humans and animals #LorneIandI

Very clever way of tricking the immune system into production of extremely specific neutralising antibody against Japanese encephalitis virs by presenting JEV proteins on the surface of an insect virus. Presented today by Connor Scott at Lorne I&I conference @theviin.bsky.social

Damian Oyong from @burnetinstitute.bsky.social kicking off a great session on Adaptive immunity at #lorneiandi

What was happening in my hotel room while I was attending the sessions at Lorne I&I conference @theviin.bsky.social Cheeky #cockatoos !

👏🏻 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

Excited about the upcoming immunology session at the Lorne Infection and Immunity meeting. Sometimes the air conditioning in the auditorium is quite strong so it pays to dress warmly @theviin.bsky.social

Next up is Dr Chelsea Marie Braun talking to us today about how protein kinase C alpha modulates B cell activity in cryptosporidiosis #lorneiandi

Loved this talk from Prof Bowen, great example of how to engage with Aboriginal communities to improve health outcomes both respectfully and effectively 🖤💛❤️@theviin.bsky.social #lorneiandi

@connorapscott.bsky.social from UQ discussing his work on JEV epitopes for therapeutic design at Lorne I&I @theviin.bsky.social #UQSCMB