So very grateful for the opportunity to present at #AVS12 among amazing company. Looking forward to the next one.

Thanks Creswick (+ Ballarat)! It's been fab 🤩 #AVS12

Live laugh lab. The Khromykh lab at #AVS12 thanks everyone for a phenomenal meeting. See you all in Adelaide in 2026! @ausvirologysoc.bsky.social

Always a treat to catch up with past and current members of the Beard Lab 🦠 @ausvirologysoc.bsky.social #AVS12

#AVS12 has wrapped up and what a great conference. Excellent science and a lovely location. Well done to the LOC. I also reflect upon the fact that I am privileged to be part of such a supportive and collegial community. See you at #AVS13.

Enjoy your victory… it will be short lived!! Thanks @grovearmada.bsky.social for overcoming the jet lag and not only giving us an amazing talk but for also supporting our ECRs at #AVS12.

And that’s a wrap…great meeting as always #AVS12

Breaking news 🗞 A photo of me in my natural habitat has been captured today 📸 🤣

Thanks to the organisers of #AVS12 for the chance to present our work & the audience for sticking around for the last session of the conference 🙏

Now we are honoured to hear from the first Paul Young’s Oration at #AVS12, delivered by our very own Prof Paul Young - A Virologist’s Adventures in Wonderland. @profpaulyoung.bsky.social was the first president and vision behind the Australasian Society for Virology. Take it away Paul.

Last data talk of the conference is
The @amersocvirology.bsky.social
Ann Palmenberg Junior Investigator Award winner Jenna Guthmiller who is going to talk about Antigenic drift within the receptor binding site differentially modulates sialic acid binding by H1N1 viruses #AVS12

Pivoting to HCV is Arunasingam Abayasingam (UNSW) who is taking us through the Affinity of Transmitted/Founder virus associates with early emergence of Hepatitis C Virus specific neutralising antibodies #AVS12

Ariel Isaacs (SCMB, UQ), is next up presenting a protective bispecific antibody that targets both Nipah virus surface glycoproteins and limits viral escape. #Nipah is highly pathogenic (50-100% mortality) with no approved treatments/vaccines. Check him out next week at #Hendra30 #AVS12

Next up is Samantha Davis @iamdrsam.bsky.social (ACDP, CSIRO) who is discussing New Insights Into Immune Dysregulation at the cellular and transcriptional level Following Infection of Domestic Pigs With Virulent African Swine Fever Virus. ASFV is fatal in pigs in almost 100% of cases #AVS12

Never considered an immunological synapse between a T cell and an APC as a love story before but my eyes have been opened, thanks Stephanie Gras 🥺 #AVS12

Had a fantastic time at #AVS12! Plenty of great science and met lots of wonderful people. With the amazing @huiyilim.bsky.social

Kicking off our final data session on Adaptive immunity chaired by Lara Herrero & Naphak Modhiran is our plenary speaker Stephanie Gras (La Trobe University) @graslab.bsky.social on COVID: what else is to be discovered? #AVS12

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#CSIRO had a fantastic booth set up at #AVS12 providing lots of engagement for attendees 🤩

Day 3 of #AVS12 did not disappoint! Fabulous science, fun sponsor games (CSIRO) and a dinner to celebrate a successful conference!!

Plenty of cool science to come on the last day!

“Pivoting back to sex and drugs” is Bethany Horsburgh (Kirby institute) presenting a novel long-range sequencing assay and verification for #HIV and #HCV for use in a diagnostic/clinical setting #AVS12 This tiling PCR method is sensitive and robust (131/134 sequenced!), best chance at adoption?

Now we are hearing from Andrew Young (ViceBio/UQ) who is sharing work on a uniquely Australian virology invention in the vaccine space: The Molecular Clamp Platform: A broadly applicable solution to the manufacture of multivalent subunit vaccines for respiratory viruses. #AVS12

Had an amazing time at #AVS12, met so many amazing virologists in the field and all sparked so many great ideas to discover more, loved speaking to everyone and can’t wait to get back into it! Feel free to reach out if I had a chat you and you had anymore questions!

Ingenious and highly entertaining game set up by @csiro.bsky.social at #AVS12 where you compete to close as many screw top tubes while wearing two types of gloves, as required when working in a PC4 lab! Can't wait for playoffs in 20 mins...

Finishing up our Indigenous Oral presentations session today is Natasha Jansz (Doherty Institute) who is talking about the #HTLV-1C genomic landscape reveals host-virus interactions in a humanised mouse model of infection. #AVS12

Very beneficial discussions during #AVS12 panel on Indigenous virology including how the Nagoya Protocol relates to our work - lots to learn but here is some basic information specific to Australia: www.dcceew.gov.au/science-rese...

What can researchers do right away? To start, non-indigenous people can up-skill with cultural sensitivity training to ensure we can create cultural safe workplaces for First Nations people. If your institution doesn't offer this campaign for access to this training #AVS12

@trevor-lithgow.bsky.social representing @monashuniversity.bsky.social at #AVS12 @ausvirologysoc.bsky.social telling us about building relationships with indigenous custodians of country, and forming partnerships to identify novel environmental phages #viralsky #scienceyeah #indigenousvoice

Very interesting to understand the different perspectives on naming viruses isolated from country and also the data governance framework considerations when taking samples from the environment too. Looking forward to hearing more from a larger discussion from Alison Imrie. #AVS12

Great turnout to our Indigenous virology panel discussing how @ausvirologysoc.bsky.social can better engage with our indigenous communities to conduct culturally aware research. #AVS12

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Today is the day! I will be speaking in the last session of the last day at #AVS12 sharing a snippet of a very cool story involving pigs & a nasty virus called African swine fever virus 🐷 Hope I will see you there (promise I will be more engaging than Ross) 😊 @ausvirologysoc.bsky.social