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Posts by Ashley Dungan, PhD (she/her)

MVIF 45

MVIF 45

We have an early New Year present for you:
🎁The new #MVIF program is out🎁

Highlights:
🇳🇵 Bishwash Thapa
🇮🇷 Zahra Nezamivand Chegini

Keynote:
🇨🇭 @saramitri.bsky.social

Talks:
🇺🇸 @liliancaesar.bsky.social
🇮🇹 Haseeb Manzoor
🇦🇹 Laurenz Holcik

Free registration: cassyni.com/s/mvif-45

See you in January!

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Contribute to the ISME20 programme by organising your own Roundtable Session! The deadline for submitting your proposal is 7 February 2026.
For more information and submission guidelines, please visit: isme-microbes.org/isme20-call-...
#isme20

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Here, I share research insights, methods, and broader thinking at the interface of microbiology, ecology, and conservation health.

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I’m particularly interested in how captivity, habitat degradation, and climate stress alter host–microbe systems, and whether targeted microbial interventions (e.g. probiotics, assisted evolution) can restore function.

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I study how host-associated microbiomes influence wildlife health, immune function, and resilience to environmental change. I combine non-invasive sampling with metagenomics and experimental microbiome manipulation to understand—and potentially improve—conservation outcomes in threatened species.

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Hello — I’m a conservation microbial ecologist at the University of Melbourne.

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Calling all #wildlife and #veterinary #immunologists in Europe — I’m looking for a host lab for a short training grant! My work bridges microbiology and immunology, and I’m eager to finally get some hands-on ELISA training.

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Ecology/Evolution/Marine Biology labs recruiting for Fall 2026 (Responses)

Also @hannahgreich.bsky.social shared this great resource with me for anyone else on the hunt: docs.google.com/spreadsheets...

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The gut microbiome shapes social behaviour across animal species Nature Reviews Microbiology, Published online: 14 November 2025; doi:10.1038/s41579-025-01262-yThe gut microbiome can influence brain activity and complex behaviours. In this Review, Griffiths et al. discuss microbiome-associated effects on social behaviour in laboratory model organisms, free-living animals and humans, and consider potential mechanistic pathways.

ICYMI: New online! The gut microbiome shapes social behaviour across animal species

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Oh no stress - I didn't apply last year. One last chance coming up!

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Oh dear. I'm about to be depressed opening this, aren't I.

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I'm building a genome database that includes as many terrestrial Australian arthropods as I can find- this is a tool that I hope to use to clairify the diet of native mammals from faecal samples. If you or anyone you know might have some unique genomes that are not on NCBI, please get in touch.

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ECR connection: Meet Meren when you need to A means for ECRs to get advice from a senior scientist outside of their support network

Starting this week, I set aside one hour each week to meet ECRs outside my group who want to discuss career development, mentorship, or any non-technical professional questions.

Here is a blog that explains my motivation for this and how to schedule a meeting:

merenlab.org/2025/11/16/E...

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Post for LGBTIQA+ STEMM Day symposium, being held on 18 November 2025 at Swinburne Uni. In person event only.

Post for LGBTIQA+ STEMM Day symposium, being held on 18 November 2025 at Swinburne Uni. In person event only.

Guess what, QueerFam?

We’re hosting the #LGBTIQA+ STEMM Day symposium at Swinburne Uni (MELB.) on 18 Nov. 2025.

We’d love for you to join us — incl. special
session on Trans+ health & wellbeing + networking.

Info: queersinscience.org.au/event/lgbtqi...

Tickets: www.trybooking.com/events/landi...

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Now Open for Submissions

Now Open for Submissions

🎉ASM is pleased to launch ASM Animal Microbiology🎉 Submit your original research & reviews now! The journal's EiC is José Vázquez-Boland, DVM, Ph.D., Chair of Infectious Diseases at the University of Edinburgh! @edinuni-irr.bsky.social

➡️ Read PR: brnw.ch/21wVUHf
➡️ Submit Now! brnw.ch/21wVUHe

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Early-career researchers: want to run your own lab? 🌟Max Planck Research Groups offer 6+ years, up to €2.7M in funding, open-topic freedom, team support & tenure-track opportunities. Intrigued? 😃Apply by Oct 14, 2025! www.mpg.de/max-planck-r...

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Please RT!

📢 #Doctoral / #PhD position available with us at Leibniz-IZW for 4 years working at the interface of #wildlife + #disease #ecology, #veterinary sciences and #modelling.
🐗🐗🐗🐦🐦🐦
Training within #DFG #RTG 3069 led by @freieuniversitaet.bsky.social

▶️Apply here for P7: tinyurl.com/j2ehtz7m

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Picture of my recent edition 💜

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So, if you're interested in how diet changes or faecal microbiome transplants or probiotics might influence the health of your system, get in touch!

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So why am I here? I love being a microbial ecologist. But I'm also fascinated by conservation and nutrition and immunology and mammalian physiology. I can never be an expert in all those things so I'm on the look out for people who I can learn from and who might want to collaborate.

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Why such a crazy past 20 months?
•Jan-Sept 24 working as a contractor for AIMS in a field I had very little experience in
•Sept 24-Jan 25 in Germany as a Fellow at the Wissenschaftskolleg
•Feb 25 started a fellowship at UniMelb
•April 25 HAD A BABY

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But as it turns out, I was fascinated by the microbiology and just how impactful a microbiome is on host physiology and overall health.

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If you work in Australian mammalian conservation, you've probably never heard of me. That's because I've spent the bulk of the past 13 years working in coral reef ecology. My PhD thesis was on designing coral probiotics.

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It's been a whirlwind 20 months, but I'm finally here. For those of you who haven't met me, I'm a microbial ecologist based out of the University of Melbourne. I apply microbial ecology principles to try and improve conservation outcomes for native Australian species.

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