Infectious Diseases Epidemiologist (Climate Change) - Mycobacteria | Microbial Genomics & Bioinformatics Scientist | She/her. @UQMedicine
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Join clinicians, scientists, researchers & patients at the #NTMSym2025 Nov 6-7. 2 days of cutting-edge talks on diagnosis, management & treatment of #NTM. A huge thanks to our Gold Sponsor @Insmed for their support! #NTMSym2025.
📍 #UQCCR, Brisbane
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Melinda Ashcroft (PhD) retweeted
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This morning we kick off IMUC-III, hosted in Melbourne with @tstinear as Chair! This is the third international M. ulcerans conference, and we are pleased to welcome over 130 researchers from 16 countries to discuss all things Buruli 💡#IMUC-III
@TheDohertyInst @UniMelb
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We have recently joined LinkedIn and would love to connect with you! Give us a follow to join our network and learn about what we do to better understand gut pathogens, their virulence factors and how they interact with the host to cause disease 🦠🔬
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Melinda Ashcroft (PhD) retweeted
15 Nov 2024
Our work held from publication for quite sometime finally out at iScience. Thanks for the great teamwork @DrTotsika @BegonaHeras
@JilongQ and the rest of team not on this platform.
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Melinda Ashcroft (PhD) retweeted
8 Nov 2024
Today is whooping cough awareness day and a perfect time to check that we are all up to date with our vaccines.
Read more about the current state of whooping cough in Australia in @Immunisation_Au report card:
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Melinda Ashcroft (PhD) retweeted
6 Nov 2024
If you are a student or an ECR in microbiology based in QLD, enter our competition to win free rego and $500 travel support to attend the Mobile Genetic Elements MGE AUS meeting to be held in Melbourne in February 2025. Details below 👇
mgeaus.org
@AUSSOCMIC
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Melinda Ashcroft (PhD) retweeted
5 Nov 2024
A nice newsroom article highlighting our latest whooping cough culture-independent typing study
unsw.edu.au/newsroom/news/20…
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Melinda Ashcroft (PhD) retweeted
4 Nov 2024
Excited to share BakRep - our latest work published in @MicrobioSoc #MGen
>661,000 bacterial genomes, uniformly characterized & annotated, enriched with metadata, accessible via a flexible search engine
doi.org/10.1099/mgen.0.00130…
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Melinda Ashcroft (PhD) retweeted
1 Nov 2024
Early bird registration closes Tue 5th November #OHA2024
The 10th #OneHealth Aotearoa Symposium
📅3-4 December 2024
📍University of Otago Wellington
💻#AntimicrobialResistance, climate change, Te Ao Māori & more!
Link: otago.ac.nz/conference/one-h…
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Melinda Ashcroft (PhD) retweeted
22 Oct 2024
Just published in Access Microbiology @MicrobioSoc, this #OpenAccess article presents one of my #PhD projects
📌The complete genome sequence of five pre-2013 Escherichia coli sequence type (ST)1193 strains reveals insights into an emerging pathogen
doi.org/10.1099/acmi.0.00089…
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Melinda Ashcroft (PhD) retweeted
30 Sep 2024
A very special symposium run by the ASM at #BMH2024 last week with a stellar lineup of speakers from our membership including Karl Hassan, John Atack, Hayley Newton, Mitali Sarkar-Tyson and Steve Petrovski
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Melinda Ashcroft (PhD) retweeted
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Melinda Ashcroft (PhD) retweeted
19 Sep 2024
A packed house at the @ASM_NSWACT Goldsworthy Oration listening to @JocelyneBasseal share her inspirational career as a microbiologist in infection control and personal story of resilience.
“You can make your career what you want it to be as long as you keep your antennas open”
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18 Sep 2024
Following on from #InternationalMicroorganismDay: we could all use some hilarious #Microbiology images‼️
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17 Sep 2024
There is a major lack of microbial/music parody stickers. Thankfully I'm here to change that!
pinkpetri.etsy.com
ALT 6 stickers made and designed by Keira: mycobacterial romance, clean day, yeastie boys, phage against the machine, N. Vana and lady agar
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17 Sep 2024
In NICUs, time is of the essence for neonatal infections. Handheld @nanopore sequencers can detect & type outbreaks faster & more accurately. This technology can help Health NZ/@TeWhatuOra save lives when it matters most!
📌Tiny tech, big impact: esr.cri.nz/news-publications…
#scicomm
17 Sep 2024
Today on #InternationalMicroorganismDay, we’re focusing on how tiny @nanopore sequencing tech is having a big impact on the lives of vulnerable babies in neonatal intensive care units. Learn how this cutting-edge innovation is saving lives: t.ly/hUCGT
@IntMicroDay
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Melinda Ashcroft (PhD) retweeted
16 Sep 2024
Tomorrow is #InternationalMicroorganismDay. Aimed at raising awareness about the importance of microorganisms, this year, to celebrate these tiny organisms, a group of Society Champions have shared quotes and images, illustrated by Champion @eliza_coli.
microb.io/4gpYwuo🦠
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Melinda Ashcroft (PhD) retweeted
15 Sep 2024
(1/6) Our new short preprint, led by @helena_bethanyy and myself on incidental bacterial domestication between patient isolation and creation of frozen stock. Geno/phenotype changes are obscured by rich media and more prevalent than we previously thought
biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/…
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Melinda Ashcroft (PhD) retweeted
17 Sep 2024
Today is International Microorganism Day – here’s a message from our President on this very special day for microbiology! #InternationalMicroorganismDay @IntMicroDay
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Melinda Ashcroft (PhD) retweeted
11 Sep 2024
Comment from @KelWyres and myself on new experimental data (from Tom Russo and colleagues) and how we define #hypervirulent #Klebsiella pneumoniae genetically across diverse lineages.
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⚠️ Interested in Nontuberculous #Mycobacteria #NTM? Join us for the NTM Symposium 2024 for clinicians, researchers, scientists & patients. Hosted: NTM Australia Research Network. Abstracts & early registration close this Fri 30 Aug: bit.ly/NTM-symposium-2024 @UQMedicine @GMRF
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