The next speaker is Sher Main Tan from Doherty Institute investigating multidrug resistant Klebsiella pneumoniae

Very insightful keynote by Benjamin Howden to start off the clinical AMR & Diagnostics session, presenting results of his work understanding the genomics of resistance and adaptation. These understandings can improve our clinical practices and interventions

#NordicAMRConference

What’s behind the predominance of clade A1 strains in nosocomial E. faecium infections?
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Find out in our paper
„Interactions between commensal Enterococcus faecium and Enterococcus lactis and clinical isolates of E. faecium“

academic.oup.com/femsmicrobes/a…

Really glad to see this out - we now know a lot about the diversity and distribution of enterococci on Earth. Good work Julia, Francois, Ashlee and the rest of the team! doi.org/10.1073/pnas.2…

Researchers solve an 80-year mystery confirming categorically that mosquitoes transmit Mycobacterium ulcerans, the bacteria that causes #BuruliUlcer , from the environment to humans.🦟
doherty.edu.au/news-events/ne…
Published in Nature Microbiology, led by Tim Stinear

UniMelb MDHS The Royal Melbourne Hospital

Yes, phylogenetic trees are my passion

Comparison of contemporary invasive and non-invasive isolates of the opportunistic pathogen, Streptococcus pneumoniae, shows the potential of non-invasive isolates to serve as reservoirs for antimicrobial resistance determinants. #AACJournal : asm.social/1x8

Finally, I'd like to highlight a great new tool that Ian Monk developed during this project; split-luciferase reporters for time-resolved protein:protein interactions in S. aureus. If you want to investigate a PPI in its native context in S. aureus, then give this a try!

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Happy to share our new paper out today on WalKR; the only essential two-component system in S. aureus.

We found that WalKR is at the heart of cell growth, linking cell wall turnover to initiation of DNA replication and other essential processes.

journals.asm.org/doi/10.1128/mb…

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BREAKING NEWS
The 2023 #NobelPrize in Physiology or Medicine has been awarded to Katalin Karikó and Drew Weissman for their discoveries concerning nucleoside base modifications that enabled the development of effective mRNA vaccines against COVID-19.

Thank you! Grateful to be in beautiful Porto for #ICE6

Great opening keynote of day 2 of #ICE6 given by Benjamin Howden about clinical and public health aspects of #Enterococcus

The third indictment of Donald J. Trump — this one for trying to steal the government of the United States. storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.usco…

🚨 Want to fit a molecular clock, or 2? 🚨

👉 Try clockor2.github.io - a client side tool for fitting global and local clocks with root-to-tip regression.

Developed in collaboration with Wytamma, arambaut, and Sebastian Duchene (rb.gy/dro6j)

Excited to see our phenogenomics study of Staphylococcus aureus bacteraemia published in eLife. doi.org/10.7554/eLife.…. With Abdou Hachani Romain Guérillot Tim Stinear Benjamin Howden Ruth Massey Pidot Lab Calum Walsh 🇮🇪🇦🇺 Hayley Newton Doherty Institute. 1/

Huge congratulations to Charlie for completing his PhD oration today! Brilliant summary of some excellent work. It's been a pleasure to supervise you over the years. Next up: thesis submission 👏

Fantastic work by Adrianna Turner: unrelated rifaximin use to prevent encephalopathy in patients with liver disease can cause and drive daptomycin resistance in VRE Benjamin Howden Tim Stinear Claire Gorrie GlenCarter Doherty Institute #ECCMID23 #VRE

Excited to be in beautiful Copenhagen for #ECCMID2023

Today we report that an engineered skin bacterium, swabbed gently on the head of a mouse, can unleash a potent immune response against a distant tumor. Y. Erin Chen, MD PhD led the charge w/ help from Djenet Bousbaine, Alessandra Veinbachs, Belkaid Lab. Science Magazine 1/26
science.org/doi/10.1126/sc…