Infectious Diseases Epidemiologist (Climate Change) - Mycobacteria | Microbial Genomics & Bioinformatics Scientist | She/her. @UQMedicine
Brisbane
Joined December 2008
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Melinda Ashcroft (PhD) retweeted
This morning we kick off IMUC-III, hosted in Melbourne with @tstinear as Chair! This is the third international M. ulcerans conference, and we are pleased to welcome over 130 researchers from 16 countries to discuss all things Buruli 💡#IMUC-III
@TheDohertyInst @UniMelb
Melinda Ashcroft (PhD) retweeted
We have recently joined LinkedIn and would love to connect with you! Give us a follow to join our network and learn about what we do to better understand gut pathogens, their virulence factors and how they interact with the host to cause disease 🦠🔬
au.linkedin.com/in/lyras-lab…
Melinda Ashcroft (PhD) retweeted
Our work held from publication for quite sometime finally out at iScience. Thanks for the great teamwork @DrTotsika @BegonaHeras
@JilongQ and the rest of team not on this platform.
cell.com/iscience/fulltext/S…
Melinda Ashcroft (PhD) retweeted
Today is whooping cough awareness day and a perfect time to check that we are all up to date with our vaccines.
Read more about the current state of whooping cough in Australia in @Immunisation_Au report card:
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Melinda Ashcroft (PhD) retweeted
If you are a student or an ECR in microbiology based in QLD, enter our competition to win free rego and $500 travel support to attend the Mobile Genetic Elements MGE AUS meeting to be held in Melbourne in February 2025. Details below 👇
mgeaus.org
@AUSSOCMIC
Melinda Ashcroft (PhD) retweeted
A nice newsroom article highlighting our latest whooping cough culture-independent typing study
unsw.edu.au/newsroom/news/20…
Melinda Ashcroft (PhD) retweeted
Excited to share BakRep - our latest work published in @MicrobioSoc #MGen
>661,000 bacterial genomes, uniformly characterized & annotated, enriched with metadata, accessible via a flexible search engine
doi.org/10.1099/mgen.0.00130…
👇 1/7
Melinda Ashcroft (PhD) retweeted
Early bird registration closes Tue 5th November #OHA2024
The 10th #OneHealth Aotearoa Symposium
📅3-4 December 2024
📍University of Otago Wellington
💻#AntimicrobialResistance, climate change, Te Ao Māori & more!
Link: otago.ac.nz/conference/one-h…
Melinda Ashcroft (PhD) retweeted
Just published in Access Microbiology @MicrobioSoc, this #OpenAccess article presents one of my #PhD projects
📌The complete genome sequence of five pre-2013 Escherichia coli sequence type (ST)1193 strains reveals insights into an emerging pathogen
doi.org/10.1099/acmi.0.00089…
Melinda Ashcroft (PhD) retweeted
A packed house at the @ASM_NSWACT Goldsworthy Oration listening to @JocelyneBasseal share her inspirational career as a microbiologist in infection control and personal story of resilience.
“You can make your career what you want it to be as long as you keep your antennas open”
Melinda Ashcroft (PhD) retweeted
In NICUs, time is of the essence for neonatal infections. Handheld @nanopore sequencers can detect & type outbreaks faster & more accurately. This technology can help Health NZ/@TeWhatuOra save lives when it matters most!
📌Tiny tech, big impact: esr.cri.nz/news-publications…
#scicomm
Today on #InternationalMicroorganismDay, we’re focusing on how tiny @nanopore sequencing tech is having a big impact on the lives of vulnerable babies in neonatal intensive care units. Learn how this cutting-edge innovation is saving lives: t.ly/hUCGT
@IntMicroDay
Melinda Ashcroft (PhD) retweeted
Tomorrow is #InternationalMicroorganismDay. Aimed at raising awareness about the importance of microorganisms, this year, to celebrate these tiny organisms, a group of Society Champions have shared quotes and images, illustrated by Champion @eliza_coli.
microb.io/4gpYwuo🦠
Melinda Ashcroft (PhD) retweeted
(1/6) Our new short preprint, led by @helena_bethanyy and myself on incidental bacterial domestication between patient isolation and creation of frozen stock. Geno/phenotype changes are obscured by rich media and more prevalent than we previously thought
biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/…
Melinda Ashcroft (PhD) retweeted
Today is International Microorganism Day – here’s a message from our President on this very special day for microbiology! #InternationalMicroorganismDay @IntMicroDay
Melinda Ashcroft (PhD) retweeted
Comment from @KelWyres and myself on new experimental data (from Tom Russo and colleagues) and how we define #hypervirulent #Klebsiella pneumoniae genetically across diverse lineages.
thelancet.com/journals/ebiom…
Melinda Ashcroft (PhD) retweeted
Clinical Microbiology SIG event on the 15th of August! Two great speakers:
Dr. Melinda Ashcroft (UQ) - Non-TB Mycobacteria Epidemiology
Dr. Timothy Gray (Concord Hosp) - Diagnostic Serendipity
Use below link to register or QR code in attached flyer.
trybooking.com/CTXXY
Melinda Ashcroft (PhD) retweeted
Extremely important point:
“And while computational work will inevitably play a role in this — as it has in most other measurement revolutions in biology — the innovation itself will be wet-lab in nature.”
Without significant novel data, ML won’t have much to learn on
Wet-lab innovations will lead the AI revolution in biology
abhishaike.com/p/wet-lab-inn…
i feel like i keep repeating this argument to people so i decided to just write it out
1.9k words, 9 minutes reading time, very short!
Melinda Ashcroft (PhD) retweeted
We’ve got a new short comm out as a preprint!
📌Resolving a neonatal intensive care unit outbreak of methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus to the SNV level using Oxford @nanopore simplex reads and HERRO error correction | @biorxivpreprint #bioRxiv
doi.org/10.1101/2024.07.11.6…