This month ASM Hour is focused on MRFF Pathogen Genomics funded projects.
Approximately $28M was recently awarded through the MRFF scheme to fund 4 Pathogen Genomics projects. We will hear about the projects from representatives of all 4 funded teams.
Registration for Zoom seminar is essential https://www.trybooking.com/BLCQI
Read MoreThis year the SA branch for the Australian Society for Microbiology (ASM) once again had a booth at the 2020 Science Alive! science fair. Held at the Adelaide Showgrounds, this is the largest single interactive science exhibition in Australia and marks the beginning of National Science Week each year. This year over 3,600 students from over 50 schools attended and learned all about careers in science and microbiology. Over the weekend, over 9,000 people attended Science Alive! and our booth, learning all about microbiology!
Read MoreThis month ASM Hour is on a Wednesday 4 November due to the Melbourne Cup holiday in Victoria. The topic is Microbial Pathogenesis introduced by Kate Seib (Griffith University). Registration is now open for the event on Tuesday 6 October. Please remember the times for some branches have changed due to daylight saving.
Read MoreThe October ASM Hour is on Virology: from discovery to vaccines. Registration is now open for the event on Tuesday 6 October - note the change in times due to daylight savings. The event is free for ASM members, and $5 donation from non-members. Registration is essential and you can register at https://www.trybooking.com/BLCOU. The Zoom link will be emailed directly to registrants on the day of the event.
Read MorePlease join us for ASM HOUR! Our NEW monthly event continues on Tuesday 1st September at 12 pm with a series of talks and a Q&A on Environmental Microbial Communication. You can register before 9am, Tuesday 1 September 2020.
Read MorePlease take some time to view the gallery featuring our award recipients. You can read a short biography of each recipient by clicking on their photo. Links to their LinkedIn profiles are also provided so you can easily send them your congratulations - or you may do so in the comments.
Read MoreOur NEW monthly event ASM Hour will run on the first Tuesday of each month from 12-1 pm. This kicks off on Tuesday 7 July at 12 pm with a series of short talks and a Q&A on COVID-19. The event is free for members, so please register below and add the regular event to your calendars.
REGISTER: https://tinyurl.com/asmhourcovid19
Read MoreEducon, the annual ASM education conference will take place online this year. The event runs on Thursday July 9th, from 9 am to 1 pm, EST. The theme for the event is ‘SARS-2-CoV age' and it describes what have we learnt about online teaching and how can we improve our subject delivery and our resilience? The event is free to members and will cost $10 for non-members.
Please register at https://www.trybooking.com/book/event?eid=631027&
Read MoreIn 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.
Read MoreTwo of our members, Professor Linda Blackall and Distinguished Professor Ian Paulsen, have been elected Fellows of the Australian Academy of Science.
Read MoreA 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
Read MoreDue 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.
Read MoreLaurine 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.
Read MoreThe 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.
Read MoreWe 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.
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