senior research officer. Passionate about vaccines, adaptive immunity and treatments for STIs. Views are my own.
Joined January 2019
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3 Nov 2025
Vote today for the Shaping Australia Awards! shapingaustraliaawards.com.a… #ShapingAustraliaAwards
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Samuel Phillips retweeted
12 Dec 2024
📢Annual @AUSSOCMIC @ASM_QLD #Microbiology in Moreton Bay #MIM event including live Nancy Millis Awards will be held early Feb 2025 at the @usceduau Moreton Bay campus
SAVE THE DATE and start prepping those Nancy Millis abstracts! Due 10th Jan 2025
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11 Dec 2024
Attention Queensland microbiologists, Our annual MiM event will be held early next year along with the Nancy Millis Awards at the University of the Sunshine Coast @usceduau Moreton Bay campus. Save the date; more details will follow soon. @AUSSOCMIC
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11 Aug 2024
I ran my 3rd half marathon this morning at the Sunshine Coast EVA marathon. Perfect weather and managed to get in just under 2 hours.
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8 Aug 2024
Stellar work from us @usceduau @CBioinnovation #Chlamydians led by @Sam_Phillips_83 and Endeavour Veterinary Ecology @qcifltd
Stoked to be part of this important #koala #vaccine study 🐨
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8 Aug 2024
💉The largest and longest-ever survey of wild koalas has confirmed a chlamydia vaccine, developed by the @usceduau, can protect the animals from developing and dying from the disease
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6 Aug 2024
🚨 New Study Alert! 🚨 Our latest npj Vaccines paper, in collaboration with Endeavour Veterinary Ecology, explores the 10-year impact of the UniSC Koala Chlamydia vaccine on disease and mortality
Read more
nature.com/articles/s41541-0…
#KoalaConservation #VaccineResearch #npjVaccines
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Samuel Phillips retweeted
29 Jul 2024
🚨 Call for Abstracts! 🚨
@ohaotearoa invites submissions for the #OneHealth Aotearoa Symposium 2024!
📆 3-4 December
📍University of @otago
Submit your 250-word abstract by 31 August 2024 to one.health@otago.ac.nz
Don't miss out! #Research #Collaboration
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Samuel Phillips retweeted
25 Nov 2023
Lucky last on @ASM_QLD meeting our resident @usceduau #Chlamydians @Sam_Phillips_83 on #treatment failure in #chlamydia #STI infections
25 Nov 2023
Lucky last talk of the day is @Sam_Phillips_83 from @usceduau. Sam is doing some great work using genomics to understand treatment failures with Chlamydia #mim2023
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12 Aug 2023
Just finished the sunny coast half marathon in a PB of 1:43:41. 🥳
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3 Aug 2023
Engaging seminar on the #therapeutic #vaccination of #koalas their #immune responses and #microbiome differences from #CharlotteKunesh 🙌 visiting @usceduau from @Princeton on a #StreickerFellowship to work with the #ChlamydiaResearchGroup in @CBioinnovation 🐨 Thanks, Charlotte!
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20 Jul 2023
Enjoying the UniSC Research Conference with Jessie and Chioma
@usceduau @CBioinnovation
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Samuel Phillips retweeted
19 Jul 2023
Research Talks! Dr Sam Phillips presents #Chlamydia induced #disease in #koalas and the positive results of #vaccine trials at the @usceduau Research Conference #bioinnovation
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Great to see the (successful) efforts of microbiologists to generate a vaccination programme to protect Koalas from Chlaymdial disease that threatens wild populations. Great talk and work by Sam Phillips. @AUSSOCMIC #2023asm. @Sam_Phillips_83
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Samuel Phillips retweeted
3 Jul 2023
Have a great time on #asm2023 and hearing about all things #microbiology
Looking fab UniSC Micro crew @usceduau 🦠🧫🤩
3 Jul 2023
@usceduau @CBioinnovation Micro Crew at #asm2023 @AUSSOCMIC
We are excited for fantastic meeting
UniSC represent 🦠 @KasimovVasilli @Cherriadra @Sam_Phillips_83 @GenevieveKerr17 Dr Ipek Kurtboke and others
Chat to us about #chlamydia #vaccine #koala #malaria #diagnostics
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Samuel Phillips retweeted
3 Jul 2023
@usceduau @CBioinnovation Micro Crew at #asm2023 @AUSSOCMIC
We are excited for fantastic meeting
UniSC represent 🦠 @KasimovVasilli @Cherriadra @Sam_Phillips_83 @GenevieveKerr17 Dr Ipek Kurtboke and others
Chat to us about #chlamydia #vaccine #koala #malaria #diagnostics
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Samuel Phillips retweeted
26 May 2023
Prof Peter Timms presents impressive results from chlamydia vaccinations in koalas. National Koala Conference @ResearchUSC_AU @HospitalKoala #koalaconference
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Samuel Phillips retweeted
26 May 2023
And on #koalaconference 🐨
Our @usceduau @CBioinnovation resident #chlamydians Prof Peter Timms presenting great work on #chlamydia #koala #vaccine done by his team @Sam_Phillips_83
26 May 2023
Prof Peter Timms presents impressive results from chlamydia vaccinations in koalas. National Koala Conference @ResearchUSC_AU @HospitalKoala #koalaconference
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Samuel Phillips retweeted
25 May 2023
Officially a #Chlamydian!🦠 Excited to share my first paper on how #genomics revolutionised understanding of #Chlamydia virulence, evolution and phylogeny.
Thanks @MartinaJelocnik @KasimovVasilli @Sam_Phillips_83 @garrymyers for guiding this newbie 😄
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Samuel Phillips retweeted
22 May 2023
Exciting to see our collaborative work on #Chlamydia #livestock #infections and #sheep #foetal loss in #Australia and #NewZealand
@CBioinnovation @usceduau @nswdpi @MurdochUni @MPI_NZ
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More on this from @RhysTWhite 🧵
21 May 2023
Thrilled to share our #research in #Veterinary #Microbiology!
Molecular characterisation of the Australian and New Zealand livestock Chlamydia pecorum strains confirms novel but clonal ST23 in association with ovine foetal loss | @ElsevierConnect
See: doi.org/10.1016/j.vetmic.202…
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Samuel Phillips retweeted
9 May 2023
Around half of the wild koalas in Queensland have chlamydia, and scientists are trying to vaccinate. Great story by @larsonchristina apnews.com/article/koala-chl…
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