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Gilda Tachedjian
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Virologist, preventing HIV/STIs by targeting the vaginal microbiome, antiretrovirals, bat viruses and bat antiviral factors, VIIN co-convenor. Past AVS President.
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Ready for an inspiring day of infection and immunology presentations!! Can't wait to hear from our young investigators #YoungVIIN2025 #VIINYIS
November 13, 2025 at 9:30 PM
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Looking forward to seeing all the exciting #infection and #immunology research from the #EMCRs in Victoria! A really great event to be a part of ☺️🧪🦠🧬🧫
Ready for an inspiring day of infection and immunology presentations!! Can't wait to hear from our young investigators #YoungVIIN2025 #VIINYIS
November 13, 2025 at 9:53 PM
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Deborah Gebregzabher kicking off Oral Presentations Session 1 with her talk titled 'Defining how macrophages drive OLAH-mediated life-threatening influenza disease'
#YoungVIIN2025 #VIINYIS @thedohertyinst.bsky.social
November 13, 2025 at 10:35 PM
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An excellent talk from @therealmonocyte.bsky.social from MCRI about the Determinants of innate immune cytokine responses in pre-school children!
#YoungVIIN2025 #VIINYIS
November 13, 2025 at 10:38 PM
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Another great presentation from @hudsonresearch.bsky.social Centre for Innate Immunity and Infectious Diseases (CiiiD) PhD student, Anita Chaulagain (@aneeta0110) about type I interferon signalling during Shigella flexneri! #YoungVIIN2025 #VIINYIS
November 13, 2025 at 10:59 PM
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Great hearing from @tommclean.bsky.social about his brilliant work on the structural basis of DNA sliding clamp-mediated long-range gene silencing on a multi-drug resistance plasmid!
#YoungVIIN2025
#VIINYIS
November 13, 2025 at 11:01 PM
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Totally loved the talk by Dr Marcel Doerflinger on How to become a Laboratory Head ...for Dummies!
My main takeaway: chase the science that excites you, be patient with the process, and sooner or later those big opportunities (the so-called ‘luck’) will come your way.

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#VIINYIS
November 14, 2025 at 12:03 AM
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One step closer to developing a rapid point-of-care test for liver disease- Lateral flow assay for ALT1
Great talk by Angus Watson 👏
@burnetinstitute.bsky.social #YoungVIIN2025 #VIINYIS
November 14, 2025 at 12:20 AM
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Dr Julia Chitty showing us how pirfenidone can be repurposed to treat viral exacerbations of COPD based on a novel precision-cut lung slice model. Exciting work!
#YoungVIIN2025 #VIINYIS
@monashuniversity.bsky.social @hudsonresearch.bsky.social
November 14, 2025 at 12:33 AM
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Next up is Dr Mitchell Trickey taking us through his work on how the voltage dependent ion channel is an essential mitochondrial protein in malaria parasites from his time at @deakinuniversity.bsky.social Great work!
#YoungVIIN2025 #VIINYIS
November 14, 2025 at 12:37 AM
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An excellent presentation from Khoi Nguyen from the
@burnetinstitute.bsky.social on repurposing human medicines as novel antimalarials against Plasmodium falciparum malaria!
#YoungVIIN2025 #VIINYIS
November 14, 2025 at 12:51 AM
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Next up at #YoungVIIN2025 we have our first Science bites session, kicking off with Yijia (Jessica) Ji from Monash Institute of Pharmaceutical Sciences (MIPS). #VIINYIS
November 14, 2025 at 12:54 AM
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Kicking off the Science Bites session with 13 exciting talks! 🤓#YoungVIIN2025 #VIINYIS
November 14, 2025 at 12:53 AM
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Great energy from Long Huynh from bio21 Institute as they walk us through their reseach on "Expansion microscopy" revealing how Kelch 13 mutations impair feeding in artemisinin resistant Plasmodium parasites!
Malaria is in the spotlight at #YoungVIIN2025 ! 🦠
#VIINYIS
November 14, 2025 at 1:05 AM
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Another great Malaria talk from Elena Lantero Escolar from @wehi-research.bsky.social
Highlighting how Plasmepsins IX and X in Plasmodium falciparum sporozoites inhibits development within Anopheles stephensi mosquitoes #YoungVIIN2025 #VIINYIS
November 14, 2025 at 1:07 AM
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Pailene Lim from @wehi-research.bsky.social
giving us a quick overview of how PfPTRAMP-CSS may have potential as a multi-stage malaria vaccine target
#YoungVIIN2025 #VIINYIS
November 14, 2025 at 1:09 AM
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Continuing with the malaria theme! Jiaqi (Albert) Shi at the @burnetinstitute.bsky.social giving us insight into the Development of next-generation mRNA vaccines against malaria!
#YoungVIIN2025 #VIINYIS
November 14, 2025 at 1:11 AM
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Now listening to Dr Mitra Ashayeripanah sharing their approach to develop more immunogenic bacille Calmette-Guerin (BCG) strains for vaccination: "Enhanced immunogenicity in mouse by recombinant BCG prime and protein boost based on latency antigen Rv1733c and/or reactivation antigen RpfE".
November 14, 2025 at 1:16 AM
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Christopher McCrory christophermccrory.bsky.social
from the @thedohertyinst.bsky.social explaining his work on the role of bacterial membrane vesicles conferring anti-microbial resistance in H.pylori

#YoungVIIN2025 #VIINYIS
November 14, 2025 at 1:21 AM
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Rachelia Raissa Wibawa from @hudsonresearch.bsky.social gave an excellent talk on her research which has identified novel genetic mutations in Legionella pneumophila that impact host transcriptional responses #YoungVIIN2025 #VIINYIS
November 14, 2025 at 1:21 AM
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Great work from Kaitlin Clarke at @limsltu.bsky.social showing us how they reprogram bacterial autotransporters for drug delivery! Turning pathogenesis into therapeutics, exciting work!
#YoungVIIN2025 #VIINYIS
November 14, 2025 at 1:25 AM
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Australian Medical researchers - this post is for you!
Get behind the the AAMRI campaign to release funds from the #MRFF. They have made an easy tool to email your local MP, it takes 1 minute!
#releasethefullmrff

aamri.org.au/mrff/
Half the Funding. Half the Future. - AAMRI
The Medical Research Future Fund (MRFF) was designed to deliver $1 billion each year in new, lifesaving funding for medical research. We know through financial modelling that the full amount can be re...
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November 14, 2025 at 1:28 AM
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Sabrina Bush from @monashuniversity.bsky.social AIMing for Streptococcus pyogenes-specific memory T cells in human challenge models!
#YoungVIIN2025 #VIINYIS
November 14, 2025 at 1:36 AM
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Next up Desirel Ng caused a stir with her novel finding that circadian rhythm disruption in mice actually boosted protective bugs in the gut and increases survival from Clostridioides difficile infection
@MonashBDI
#YoungVIIN2025 #VIINYIS
November 14, 2025 at 1:36 AM