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The McDevitt lab studies bacterial pathogens, metals, transporters, and develops novel antibiotics. Based in The Peter Doherty Institute at the Univeristy of Melbourne Lab head: @camcdevitt.bsky.social

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McDevitt Laboratory @mcdevittlab.bsky.social · Sep 4

🚀 Proud McDevitt Team #student achievements! 🌟
🎉 Salma smashed the #UniMelb #3MT 🏆
🎉 Abigail nailed the #Doherty Symposium Poster Award 🏅
🔥 These two are unstoppable!
#PhDlife #Research #AcademicTwitter

Christopher McDevitt @camcdevitt.bsky.social · Sep 4

Proud #supervisor announcements! Congratulations to two of my brilliant PhD students 🌟
🥳 Huge congrats to Salma Naleem for winning the University of Melbourne 3 Minute Thesis competition,
and Abigail Hartono for winning the Graduate Student Poster Award at the Doherty Symposium!
🔥 You’re both stars!

Salma Naleem receiving a trophy and flowers

Emeritus Professor Peter Doherty presenting Abigail with her poster award

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Christopher McDevitt @camcdevitt.bsky.social · Jul 20

The costs of #antimicrobial resistance 🦠 continue to rise 📈. The Center for Global Development reports that by 2050 #AMR could shrink the global economy by US$1.7T.
Improving treatments and funding development of new antimicrobials 💊 could save millions of lives and billions in healthcare costs.

Forecasting the Fallout from AMR: Economic Impacts of Antimicrobial Resistance in Humans

Antimicrobial resistance (AMR) is a growing global health crisis that threatens to undo decades of progress in medicine. This tool allows you to explore the potential impact of different interventions...

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Christopher McDevitt @camcdevitt.bsky.social · May 23

Congratulations 👏 to Matt Giles for representing @mcdevittlab.bsky.social and the Moraes group at the CanBIC-9 conference. A great presentation sharing his recent work on the #zinc uptake pathways in the #AMR bacterial pathogen 🦠 #Klebsiella pneumoniae.

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Christopher McDevitt @camcdevitt.bsky.social · Apr 29

Excited to announce a funded #PhD project with my amazing colleagues Jeff Harmer and Evelyne Deplazes (Uni of Queensland). This collaborative project uses #biochemistry 🧪, advanced spectroscopy, and computational approaches 🖥️ to study a #zinc export system in a priority pathogen 🦠. Find out more at:

Harnessing structural insights into bacterial zinc efflux for new human therapeutics

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Vanessa Carter @vanessacarteramr.bsky.social · Dec 3

Antimicrobial Resistance #AMR is a term most people have never heard of before yet it's a global health crisis

Our charity, #theAMRnarrative has created a 90-second explainer video to help you grasp the basics

youtu.be/S_0XQ5LhA6o?...

#AntibioticResistance
#AntimicrobialResistance #GlobalHealth

What is Antimicrobial Resistance (AMR)? - The AMR Narrative

YouTube video by The AMR Narrative

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McDevitt Laboratory @mcdevittlab.bsky.social · Feb 19

Congratulations to @camcdevitt.bsky.social @ellacasale.bsky.social and @blisscunningham.bsky.social for progressing in the CSIRO ON Innovation program to the ON Core stage. Great insights, advice and support on how to bring new #biomedical #AMR #technology to patients.
wp.csiro.au/oncore/

- ON Core

20 February, 2025 | Brisbane Connecting Australia’s deep tech community ON Core, powered by the ON Innovation Program, is […]

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Christopher McDevitt @camcdevitt.bsky.social · Jan 12

Hello world 🌏
The @mcdevittlab.bsky.social team 🧑‍🔬👩‍🔬👨‍🔬 and I will be posting updates here and on LinkedIn going forward as we depart Twitter/X.
We look forward to sharing our exciting 🧪🔬🦠🧫 work on #biometals, #infection, #bacteriology, #AMR, and #antibiotic development with this community.

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