A catalyst for change: stronger, consistent funding to safeguard our future

In the latest edition of Microbiology Australia our ASM President Professor Dena Lyras calls for the current pandemic to be a catalyst for change. A change that will secure stronger and more consistent funding for Australian research.

New vaccines and drugs cannot be discovered and developed overnight. Prioritisation of strong and consistent funding is needed for fundamental discovery research - the basis of all new medical advances - to safeguard our health in the future.

Please read the full text HERE.

Rebecca LeBard3 June 2020Comment

Members elected as fellows to the Australian Academy of Science

Two of our members, Professor Linda Blackall and Distinguished Professor Ian Paulsen, have been elected Fellows of the Australian Academy of Science.

Rebecca LeBard29 May 2020Comment

NEW website for Microbiology Australia

A new website for Microbiology Australia has been released today by CSIRO Publications. This coincides with the publication of our new issue around the relevant theme of Zoonoses. This issue features a hot topic article on COVID-19. Please visit our new site here: https://www.publish.csiro.au/ma

Rebecca LeBard3 April 2020Comment

Databases of scientists

ASM is creating a volunteer database of people who can assist with COVID19 tests or share reagents with hospital labs in Australia. The database will be shared with hospitals. Please fill the form if you think you can help.

Rebecca LeBard24 March 2020Comment

ASM /EduCon / Clinicon -COVID-19 update

Due to the evolving global medical crisis caused by the COVID-19 pandemic and its current escalation in Australia, the Australian Society for Microbiology Executive has decided to postpone the Annual Scientific Meeting that was due to take place in July 2020. Click for more details.

Rebecca LeBard17 March 2020Comment

Research report NZMS Postgraduate research travel award 2019

Laurine Kaul was grateful and honoured to receive the New Zealand Microbiology Society (NZMS) Postgraduate Research Travel Award from the ASM in 2019. This award supported her attendance at the NZMS annual meeting 2019 and a two-week research visit to Associate Professor Simon Swift’s laboratory at the University of Auckland.

AwardsRebecca LeBard9 March 2020research, travel, award, ECRComment

ASM welcomes reaffirmation of the Parliamentary Friends of Microbiology

The Australian Society for Microbiology warmly welcomes the reaffirmation of the Parliamentary Friends of Microbiology, in the 46th Parliament.

We gratefully acknowledge the interest of our Federal parliamentarians and their staff in matters pertaining to the discipline, across its broad range of areas, and the work of SA/NT branch member Peter Traynor to establish this group.

Rebecca LeBard18 February 2020Comment

Australia Day honours for our past president

We congratulate our past president Professor Roy Michael Robins-Browne who was awarded Officer (AO) in the general division of the order of Australia. For distinguished service to medical education and research in the field of microbiology & immunology, and to professional groups.

Rebecca LeBard30 January 2020Comment

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