Introducing another one of our wonderful JAMS-Brisbane Committee Member 😎 😁

Treasurer- @jamesvolmer.bsky.social 😊 🔬 🦠 🧫 🧪

Introducing another one of ours JAMS-Brisbane Committee Member 😎 😁

Deputy Director- @pam-engelberts.bsky.social 😊 🔬 🦠 🧫 🧪

Who’s excited to hear our amazing plenary speakers present at JAMS14? Read this post to learn more about our plenaries and the talks that they’ll be presenting this Friday🔬

#microbiology #JAMSmicro #science #seminar #networking #biology #research

We are starting a new series where we introduce our BrisJAMS committee memebers in a fun-microbiology-kinda way 😊 🔬 🦠 🧫 🧪

Starting with none other than our wonderful Director
- Meghann Thai 😎 😁

Thank you everyone for attending last night's BrisJAMS session and our three wonderful speakers for sharing valuable insights into their research.
🔬💡🧫🙌 😎 😁
#MicrobiologyForAll #BacterialInfections #ViralPhylogeny #AntibioticDevelopment #Biofilms #Microbiology2025 #jamsbrisbane

Happening tonight 😀

Dont forget to join us for the JAMS session with our wonderful 3 speakers Mark Blaskovich Brett B. Sarah Hickson😁
-Wednesday, 3rd September (6-7.30 pm)
-Burrow, West End.😎

Hello BrisJAMS Community 😎

BrisJAMS returns this September with some scintilating talks featuring three fantastic speakers.

📅 Wednesday, 3 September 2025
🕕 6:00–7:30 PM
📍 The Burrow, West End

This free event is open to all in microbiology: students, researchers, and industry pros alike.

2. Brett Babec (Centre for Microbiome Research, QUT)
Estimating viral species trees using gene/species tree reconciliation.

3. Sarah Hickson (Frazer Institute, UQ)
Investigating Psuedomonas aeruginosa pathogenesis mechanisns in bacteraemia and infective endocarditis.

Our amazing speakers :

1. Prof Mark Blaskovich (Institute for Molecular Bioscience, UQ)

Seeing the unseen: anitbiotic derived fluorescent probes to image bacteria and biofilms.

Hello BrisJAMS Community 😎

BrisJAMS returns this September with some scintilating talks featuring three fantastic speakers.

📅 Wednesday, 3 September 2025
🕕 6:00–7:30 PM
📍 The Burrow, West End

This free event is open to all in microbiology: students, researchers, and industry pros alike.

Dont forget to join us for our Antimirobial resistance special JAMS session this Wednesday, 23rd July (6-7.30 pm)😎

📣 Join us for JAMS14 – the 14th Annual Microbiology Symposium! 🧬
📍19 Sept | 10AM–5PM | The Eveleigh, Sydney
🎤 Top speakers from CSIRO, UQ, USyd & more
🎟️ Early-bird tickets close 1 Aug
📄 Abstracts due 19 Aug
#JAMS14 #Microbiology #STEM

1. Prof. Greg Cook (QUT)
The role of efflux pumps in multi-drug-resistant Mycobacterium tuberculosis.

2. Michelle Novais de Paula (UQ)
Breaking bacterial resistance with synergistic combinations.

3. Dr. Jiarui Sun (UQ)
Antimicrobial resistance genes in pristine Antarctic soils.

Hello BrisJAMS Community :)

BrisJAMS returns this July with an Antimicrobial Resistance Special featuring three fantastic speakers.

📅 Wednesday, 23 July 2025
🕕 6:00–7:30 PM
📍 The Burrow, West End
🍽 Free food provided!
This free event is open to all in the microbiology community.

Some more photos from the night :)

The cultures grew and so did the connections. 😌Thanks for joining us! 🧫🙌 Here’s to future collaborations 🔬💡

#Microbiology2025 #jamsbrisbane #agrf #pacbio #microbiologyseminar #academia

Had a great time at the @brisjams.bsky.social event last night. Some great talks about using PacBio sequencing in microbiology.

Also love the venue. More scientific presentations need to take place surrounded by indoor plants. 😅

Dr. Axayacatl Gonzalez
Senior Bioprocess Engineer – Integrated Design Environment for Advanced biomanufacturing (IDEA bio), The University of Queensland
Talk Title: Building Communities: A Synthetic Biology Approach to Assemble Robust Microbial Communities to Restore Soil Health and Productivity

Dr. James Miller
Regional Commercial Lead, ANZ – PacBio
Talk Title: Updates on current PacBio workflows and technology

🔹 Dr. Yan Lu
Mucosal Immunology Laboratory, QIMR Berghofer
Talk Title: Scheduled Caesarean Section and Antibiotic Exposure: Consequences for the Breast Milk Microbiome

🎤 Featured Talks & Speakers
🔹 Dr. Luis E. Valentín-Alvarado
HFSP Research Fellow, Monash University
Talk Title: High-fidelity long-read sequencing enables recovery of hundreds of contiguous MAGs from wetland soils

PacBio Special 🔬
✨ Proudly Sponsored by AGRF Ltd & PacBio ✨
📅 Date: 18th June 2025
🕕 Time: 6:00 PM – 8:00 PM
📍 Venue: The Burrow, Beer Garden Room, West End
🥗 Free food and refreshments provided

Don’t forget to sign up for the PacBio & AGRF special free event this Wednesday at 6 PM!

We sure can do a lot at a good old pub! 😎
So join us this time for some scintillating microbiology talks at Burrow, Beer Garden Room, Brisbane 👩‍🔬👨‍🔬🧬🧪🧫🔬🎤

🎤 Featured Talks & Speakers:
🔹 Dr. Axayacatl Gonzalez
Senior Bioprocess Engineer – IDEA bio, The University of Queensland.
Talk Title: Building Communities: A Synthetic Biology Approach to Assemble Robust Microbial Communities to Restore Soil Health and Productivity