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ASM QLD Branch @asmqld.bsky.social · 6d

🚨 SAVE THE DATE 🚨
MiM2025 — ASM QLD’s annual microbiology meeting 🧫✨
📍 Gold Coast | 🗓️ 22 Nov 2025
🧪 Talks & 5-min #Microbites for students
📨 Abstracts due 20 Oct — send to [email protected]
@aussocmic.bsky.social
#MiM2025 #microbiology

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Rhys Parry @rhyshparry.bsky.social · 2d

Haunted lately by @galaxyproject.bsky.social CO₂e estimates for jobs. This one MEGAHIT assembly: ~450g CO2e. I've run this ~150k times on HPC, ~75 tonnes of CO2e 😬. Perhaps ARC/NHMRC would accept Australian Carbon Credit Units as part of the grant cost for offset? What others are doing in AUS/INT?

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Merja Joensuu @joensuulab.bsky.social · 7d

🌟 Thrilled to share that my lab’s first publication is now out in @natmetabolism.nature.com. Congrats to the team 🎉

🧠 We discovered that neurons use endogenous fatty acids as an energy fuel, challenging long-standing models of sugars being the exclusive energy source for neurons. 1/3

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Tamanash Bhattacharya @tamanash.bsky.social · 9d

New preprint alert! 🦟 <-> 🦠 <-> 🧑

I am thrilled to share our latest study on alphavirus host adaptation. More specifically, on how a single codon helps blunt alphavirus-induced host innate immune responses in mosquito and human cells. Continue reading for more!

www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

The Sindbis virus nsP3 opal codon protects viral RNA and fitness by maintaining replication spherule integrity

Most alphaviruses encode an in-frame opal stop codon between nsP3 and nsP4 in their nsP ORF. This opal stop codon mediates a temperature-dependent balance between viral polymerase production and prote...

www.biorxiv.org

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Joe Grove @grovearmada.bsky.social · 12d

🚨 New Web Resource Alert! 🚨 We're delighted to share Viro3D a database of >85000 viral protein structure predictions from >4400 human & animal viruses.

🔗 viro3d.cvr.gla.ac.uk
📄 www.embopress.org/doi/full/10....

@molsystbiol.org @cvrinfo.bsky.social @uofgmvls.bsky.social #Virology #AlphaFold 🧪 🦠

Viro3D

viro3d.cvr.gla.ac.uk

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Rhys Parry @rhyshparry.bsky.social · 11d

Congrats to @summabibby.bsky.social @naphakm.bsky.social Daniel Watterson et al. here at SCMB on the first high-res cryo-EM structures of yellow fever virus! Striking vaccine vs virulent particle differences and a single R380 residue shaping antigenicity & neutralisation. doi.org/10.1038/s414...

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Rhys Parry @rhyshparry.bsky.social · 11d

The use of attenuated SC2 JN.1 as a bivalent vaccine vector. Mutate (D130A) in nsp16, delete FCS in spike, delete accessory ORFs, and/or modify transcription regulatory sequences, then add prefusion RSV F. Successfully protects, although modified TRS seem to over-attenuate. doi.org/10.1126/scia...

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Germán Bonilla-Rosso @germusthermophilus.bsky.social · 12d

🧪🦠🖥️🧬🧫🔬 The Roadmap for equitable use of public microbiome data -including the Data Reuse Information Tag (DRI)- by the #DataReuseConsortium.
Must read if you use or produce microbiome data!

Kudos to the Data Reuse Core Team for their hard work!

doi.org/10.1038/s415...

A Roadmap for equitable use of public microbiome data published in Nature Microbiology by The Data Reuse Core team @alexjprobst.bsky.social @lhug.bsky.social @environmicrobio.bsky.social Cristina Moraru @geomicrosoares.bsky.social @folker.bsky.social Anke Heyder

and a QR code that takes you to the webpage of the manuscript

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Rhys Parry @rhyshparry.bsky.social · 13d

Establishment of reverse genetics systems for Colorado tick fever virus. Remind me never to complain about monopartite reverse genetics systems.
journals.plos.org/plospathogen...

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Rhys Parry @rhyshparry.bsky.social · 17d

Impressive work on the effect of #Wolbachia in 60! strains of DENV. Like earlier reports, DENV-1,2,4 was strongly inhibited. DENV-3 isolates had more variable & weaker inhibition.
Given the range of genotypes, this is a strong foundation to examine viral genetic determinants of susceptibility.

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Thelonevirologist @thelonevirologist.bsky.social · 26d

Transcriptomic response of mosquitoes to Japanese encephalitis virus and identification of its potential entry factors

www.nature.com/articles/s44...

Transcriptomic response of mosquitoes to Japanese encephalitis virus and identification of its potential entry factors - npj Viruses

npj Viruses - Transcriptomic response of mosquitoes to Japanese encephalitis virus and identification of its potential entry factors

www.nature.com

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Hugo Perdomo @hugodperdomo.bsky.social · Jul 29

How can mosquitoes tolerate viral infections?

In our latest preprint we show that mosquitoes that can regulate their metabolism after infection can tolerate viral infections better.

Thanks to all the authors for all your ideas and contributions

www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

Metabolic homeostasis favors tolerance to persistent viral infection in Aedes aegypti mosquitoes

The mosquito Aedes aegypti harbors a wide range of persistent viral infections, including both medically important arboviruses and insect-specific viruses (ISVs). However, the mechanisms underpinning ...

www.biorxiv.org

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Rhys White @rhystwhite.bsky.social · 27d

🚨Call for abstracts

#OneHealth Aotearoa Symposium 2025

📍Wellington + online
🗓️2–3 Dec 2025

Submit an abstract by 30 Sept

Themes: #AMR, #Zoonoses, #HealthEquity, #TeAoMāori, #ClimateHealth & more

More info👉 onehealth.org.nz/one-health-a...

📩[email protected]

🖥️🧬💻
#AcademicSky
#MicroSky
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One Health Aotearoa Symposium 2025 - One Health Aotearoa

Our 11th annual symposium will be held on 2-3 December 2025 at the University of Otago, Wellington campus and online. Registrations will open soon! Venue Information Nordmeyer Lecture Theatre – Univer...

onehealth.org.nz

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MicroSeq2025 @microseqasm.bsky.social · Sep 4

Until next year, @mozztacular.bsky.social, Asad, @royalfizzbin.bsky.social, Mozammel, @wytamma.bsky.social , Bec, and @rhyshparry.bsky.social out!
#MicroSeq2025

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Jennifer Barr @jennbarr.bsky.social · Sep 2

Our research describing the isolation and characterisation of a novel henipavirus, Salt Gully virus, discovered in Australian bats has been published in the September edition of Emerging Infectious Diseases.

wwwnc.cdc.gov/eid/article/...

Novel Henipavirus, Salt Gully Virus, Isolated from Pteropid Bats, Australia

Novel Henipavirus Isolated from Bats, Australia

wwwnc.cdc.gov

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MicroSeq2025 @microseqasm.bsky.social · Sep 3

Your #MicroSeq2025 committee - @mozztacular.bsky.social , Asad Prodhan, @royalfizzbin.bsky.social , Mozammel Hoque, @wytamma.bsky.social , Rebecca Roach, and @rhyshparry.bsky.social - are all here and ready to go! 🫡

Please feel free to reach out to any of us w/ questions or concerns at any time ♥️

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MicroSeq2025 @microseqasm.bsky.social · Sep 1

✨ #MicroSeq2025 Plenary Highlight! ✨
Dr Jackie Mahar is an evolutionary virologist & bioinformatician based at CSIRO, managing projects on NGS-based phylogenomics of zoonotic & animal viruses for pathogen discovery, surveillance & viral ecology.
Register👇
trybooking.com/events/landing/1424679

Photograph of Dr Jackie Mahar, a researcher based at Agriculture Victoria Research. Her portrait is decorated with cartoons of microbes. Dr Jackie Mahar is an invited plenary speaker for MicroSeq2025.

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Mine Altinli @minealtinli.bsky.social · Aug 25

RNAi is a powerful tool for mosquito control, but delivery remains difficult.
Could symbiotic bacteria be the key? Mixed results so far highlight the complexity and the gaps in our understanding of RNAi, bacterial delivery, and host–symbiont interactions.

Read more in our recent review👇

Trends in Parasitology @cp-trendsparasitol.bsky.social · Aug 22

Drs @minealtinli.bsky.social‬ @spleonard1.bsky.social‬ @alainkohlvirology.bsky.social & @mosquitomicrobe.bsky.social review #bacteria-mediated #dsRNA delivery for #mosquito-borne #virus control. #RNAi #vectorcontrol #symbiont #engineering #mosquito #arbovirus

www.cell.com/trends/paras...

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MicroSeq2025 @microseqasm.bsky.social · Aug 7

We are delighted to announce our plenary speakers for #MicroSeq2025! Dr Rose Collis, Dr Jackie Mahar, Dr Peter Mee, and Dr Leah Roberts! We’ll be treated to four excellent talks across September 3-4. We can’t wait! Register below👇
trybooking.com/events/landing/1424679

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Rhys Parry @rhyshparry.bsky.social · Aug 17

Interesting Rickettsia endosymbiont genome.

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Ian M. Mackay, PhD (he/him) 🦠🤧🧬📑🦟🧀 @mackayim.bsky.social · Aug 14

What crap is this?

"The Queensland government says it wasn't "confident" a doctor was suitable to be the state's chief health officer"

-do they not know the last 2 two Qld CHOs were medical doctors (and so stand-ins)?? The need is in the title guys.

www.abc.net.au/news/2025-08...

MP calls for transparency over Qld health head appointment

Sources told the ABC an offer for the state's top health job was made and quickly scrapped.

www.abc.net.au

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Brennan Lab CVR @brennanlab.bsky.social · Aug 15

📢 Thrilled to share our NEW PREPRINT!
SFTSV NSs is a novel tick antiviral RNAi suppressor! 🦠
🧫 NSs essential for tick but not mammalian infection
🧬 Binds 22-nt viral siRNAs to block RNAi
🕷️ Reveals host-specific viral immune evasion
📖 doi.org/p2vf
#lovevirology #bunyavirus #tickborne

SFTSV NSs protein is a novel tick antiviral RNAi response suppressor

Severe fever with thrombocytopenia syndrome virus (SFTSV) is an emerging tick-borne phenuivirus causing high mortality in humans. While the non-structural protein NSs is dispensable for replication in...

doi.org

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International Bat Research Conference 2025 @ibrc2025.bsky.social · Aug 9

IBRC delegates protest visa denials of 8 researchers from Africa and Asia.
#ibrc2025 #batresearch

www.theguardian.com/environment/...

Eight bat researchers mostly from Asia and Africa refused entry into Australia to attend global scientific event

Organisers say move will damage nation’s scientific standing as government refuses to comment on why group of scientists were refused entry

www.theguardian.com

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Rhys Parry @rhyshparry.bsky.social · Aug 5

Is bisegmentation cheating in the ssRNA length race?

Curtis Suttle @virosphere.bsky.social · Aug 5

Very proud of the work from lab members and collaborators that coincidentally came out today www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/... and www.nature.com/articles/s41.... A bacterial and viral pathogen associated with mass mortality in seastars and oysters. @kevinzhong2006.bsky.social @rhizalyssa.bsky.social

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Eddie Holmes @eddieholmes.bsky.social · Jul 29

You’ve been badly misled over COVID origins theconversation.com/how-conspira...

How conspiracy theories about COVID’s origins are hampering our ability to prevent the next pandemic

The COVID pandemic likely began when the virus jumped from animals to humans, and didn’t start in a lab. But false narratives continue to circulate.

theconversation.com

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