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Victorian Infection and Immunity Network @theviin.bsky.social · 22h

🔬 𝙁𝙧𝙤𝙢 𝙄𝙣𝙨𝙞𝙜𝙝𝙩 𝙩𝙤 𝙄𝙢𝙥𝙖𝙘𝙩: 𝙏𝙝𝙚 𝙋𝙤𝙬𝙚𝙧 𝙤𝙛 𝘾𝙤𝙣𝙨𝙪𝙢𝙚𝙧 𝙀𝙣𝙜𝙖𝙜𝙚𝙢𝙚𝙣𝙩 𝙞𝙣 𝙍𝙚𝙨𝙚𝙖𝙧𝙘𝙝 How can patients & families help shape the research that affects them ? Join VIIN on 𝟴 𝗢𝗰𝘁, 𝟭𝟬𝗮𝗺–𝟭𝟮𝗽𝗺 𝗔𝗘𝗗𝗧 for an online workshop exploring meaningful consumer engagement and the value of lived experience in research.

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Victorian Infection and Immunity Network @theviin.bsky.social · 21/08/2026

📣 Final Call! Abstract Submissions for the 2026 VIIN Young Investigator Symposium close at 5pm TODAY, Friday 21 August. Don't miss out! #VIINYIS #YoungVIIN2026

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Victorian Infection and Immunity Network @theviin.bsky.social · 19/08/2026

Join us at the 2026 VIIN Young Investigator Symposium! 📅When: Wednesday 25 November, 8am-7pm 📍Where: MIPS, Parkville 🎫Register via TryBooking 📣 Abstract submissions close THIS WEEK on Friday 21st August. Get your submissions in by 5pm to be a part of this fantastic program! #YoungVIIN2026 #VIINYIS

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Victorian Infection and Immunity Network @theviin.bsky.social · 17/07/2026

What an amazing event 🎉 Thank you for answering all our questions speakers in our panel Q&A session #VIINcareers

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Victorian Infection and Immunity Network @theviin.bsky.social · 16/07/2026

Fantastic to hear from our brilliant speakers about their journey into industry!! - Dr Angela Nguyen @angelanguyen.bsky.social - Dr Alice West - Dr Hamish McWilliam @hay-mish.bsky.social - Prof Kaylene J Simpson #VIINcareers @qiagen.bsky.social @10xgenomics.bsky.social @milleniumscience

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Victorian Infection and Immunity Network @theviin.bsky.social · 16/07/2026

Starting soon ! VIIN Careers Evening kicks off at 6pm tonight ! Come along and hear all about alternative career pathways from our brilliant panel.

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Victorian Infection and Immunity Network @theviin.bsky.social · 01/07/2026

Thanks to everyone who joined VIIN workshop 𝙎𝙘𝙞𝙚𝙣𝙘𝙚, 𝘿𝙞𝙨𝙩𝙞𝙡𝙡𝙚𝙙: 𝙀𝙛𝙛𝙚𝙘𝙩𝙞𝙫𝙚 𝘾𝙤𝙢𝙢𝙪𝙣𝙞𝙘𝙖𝙩𝙞𝙤𝙣 𝙛𝙧𝙤𝙢 𝘼𝙗𝙨𝙩𝙧𝙖𝙘𝙩 𝙩𝙤 𝙋𝙧𝙚𝙨𝙚𝙣𝙩𝙖𝙩𝙞𝙤𝙣 🎉 Big thanks to @faolivier.bsky.social @duckswabber.bsky.social and @drnatsampaio.bsky.social for their insights on abstracts, presentations & science comms. Q&A was a highlight 🙌

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Victorian Infection and Immunity Network @theviin.bsky.social · 25/06/2026

Looking to improve your conference abstracts and presentations? join us for 𝙎𝙘𝙞𝙚𝙣𝙘𝙚, 𝘿𝙞𝙨𝙩𝙞𝙡𝙡𝙚𝙙: 𝙀𝙛𝙛𝙚𝙘𝙩𝙞𝙫𝙚 𝘾𝙤𝙢𝙢𝙪𝙣𝙞𝙘𝙖𝙩𝙞𝙤𝙣 𝙛𝙧𝙤𝙢 𝘼𝙗𝙨𝙩𝙧𝙖𝙘𝙩 𝙩𝙤 𝙋𝙧𝙚𝙨𝙚𝙣𝙩𝙖𝙩𝙞𝙤𝙣 1/7/26 10am–12pm Registrations close 5pm Friday 26/6. lnkd.in/gYBsvWz3 @faolivier.bsky.social @duckswabber.bsky.social @drnatsampaio.bsky.social

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Victorian Infection and Immunity Network @theviin.bsky.social · 10/06/2026

🚀𝙒𝙤𝙣𝙙𝙚𝙧𝙞𝙣𝙜 𝙬𝙝𝙚𝙧𝙚 𝙖 𝙨𝙘𝙞𝙚𝙣𝙘𝙚 𝙙𝙚𝙜𝙧𝙚𝙚 𝙘𝙖𝙣 𝙩𝙖𝙠𝙚 𝙮𝙤𝙪? Join us at the 𝙑𝙄𝙄𝙉 𝘾𝙖𝙧𝙚𝙚𝙧𝙨 𝙀𝙫𝙚𝙣𝙞𝙣𝙜 and hear from professionals who have taken their science backgrounds into careers spanning venture capital, biotechnology, patent examination and industry. 📅 16 July | Melbourne 🎟️ www.trybooking.com/events/landi...

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Trevor Lithgow @trevor-lithgow.bsky.social · 14/05/2026

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Victorian Infection and Immunity Network @theviin.bsky.social · 14/05/2026

Thanks to everyone who joined VIIN workshop “𝙃𝙤𝙬 𝙩𝙤 𝙂𝙚𝙩 𝙖 𝙂𝙧𝙖𝙣𝙩: 𝘽𝙪𝙞𝙡𝙙𝙞𝙣𝙜 𝙔𝙤𝙪𝙧 𝙏𝙤𝙤𝙡𝙠𝙞𝙩 𝙛𝙤𝙧 𝙁𝙪𝙣𝙙𝙞𝙣𝙜 𝙎𝙪𝙘𝙘𝙚𝙨𝙨” 🎉 Big thanks to 𝘿𝙧 𝙎𝙖𝙧𝙖𝙝 𝙇𝙤𝙘𝙠𝙞𝙚, 𝘿𝙧 𝘾𝙖𝙧𝙤𝙡𝙞𝙚𝙣 𝙫𝙖𝙣 𝙙𝙚 𝙎𝙖𝙣𝙙𝙩 & 𝘼/𝙋𝙧𝙤𝙛 𝙅𝙖𝙨𝙤𝙣 𝘾𝙖𝙞𝙣 for practical advice on grant writing and funding. Thanks to ELC organisers, moderators & VIIN contributors.

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Victorian Infection and Immunity Network @theviin.bsky.social · 30/04/2026

The VIIN Emerging Leaders Committee is delighted to invite you to our first workshop for 2026! Join us online for How to Get a Grant: Building Your Toolkit for Funding Success, to be held on Wednesday 13 May from 10am - 12pm. Register here: forms.gle/MBkiDutL1cwE...

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Hudson Institute of Medical Research @hudsonresearch.bsky.social · 01/04/2026

Outside Parliament House, 50 researchers wore white lab coats 🤍 while 50 grey coats hung beside them 🩶 A stark visual of what’s at stake for medical research in Victoria. Half the Funding. Half the Future. #MedicalResearch saves & changes lives. Thank you to AAMRI for bringing us together.

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aamri.bsky.social @aamri.bsky.social · 01/04/2026

Every coat tells a story. White = breakthroughs Victoria’s independent medical research institutes have delivered Grey = what’s at risk without State investment in 2026/27 Pause. Read. Then act. ✉️ Write to your MP: www.aamri.org.au/100labcoats #100LabCoats #VicBudget2026

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Joshua Newson @joshnewson.bsky.social · 20/02/2026

Really nice to be back on the beach for Lorne Infection & Immunity. Thanks to the organisers for a great meeting and the chance to share our work. Lorne was my first ever conference when I was a young student, and it's great to see the community going strong #lorneiandi

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Françios Olivier @faolivier.bsky.social · 20/02/2026

Congratulations to @helenisinthelab.bsky.social for winning the Suspended! challenge at #lorneiandi 2026! She had great competition from Long Huynh. Thank you to VIIN and all the sponsors for making this amazing event possible.

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Australian Centre of Research Excellence in Malaria Elimination @acreme.bsky.social · 03/03/2026

ACREME was proud to see students, Kaitlin Pekin, Pailene Lim and Janani Karunarathne contribute to the 16th Victorian Infection and Immunity Network Lorne Infection and Immunity Conference in February 👏 @theviin.bsky.social @burnetinstitute.bsky.social @wehi-research.bsky.social

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Victorian Infection and Immunity Network @theviin.bsky.social · 20/02/2026

A huge body of work presented by our lucky last speaker of the whole conference, Dr Marcel Doeflinger from @wehi-research.bsky.social Their team has done some amazing studies into the mechanisms of long COVID and have some exciting therapeutics being developed 🦠🫶🏽💉🫁 #lorneiandi

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Victorian Infection and Immunity Network @theviin.bsky.social · 20/02/2026

Beautiful story from @l-beattie.bsky.social from @thedohertyinst.bsky.social revealing a new role for IL-4 from gamma-delta T cells in the CD8+ Tmem response to malaria sporozoite vaccination 💉✨🦟 Check out their recent publication: 📋 www.nature.com/articles/s41... #lorneiandi

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Victorian Infection and Immunity Network @theviin.bsky.social · 20/02/2026

We had Dr Shahana Ahmed from CSIRO, who gave a snapshot on transcriptomic signatures that differentiate resilient from susceptible animals in LSDV infection.🦠🐄 #lorneiandi

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Victorian Infection and Immunity Network @theviin.bsky.social · 20/02/2026

An interesting science bite by Carissa Aurelia from @thedohertyinst.bsky.social on the effect of bispecific IgG4 on Fc effector functions after SARS-CoV-2 vaccination. 💉 #lorneIandI

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Victorian Infection and Immunity Network @theviin.bsky.social · 20/02/2026

Dr Michael Leitner from @qimrb.bsky.social gave a talk on cRNA-Seq uncovered neural cell tropism and antiviral responses in human and mouse neural tissues.🧠 #lorneiandi

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Victorian Infection and Immunity Network @theviin.bsky.social · 20/02/2026

Thanks to Dr Sudip Dhakal from @csiro.bsky.social for a great talk in our Advances in Treatment for Infectious Diseases session 🦠 he revealed how guide RNA can be used to help in the fight against highly pathogenic avian influenza 🐣🧬 #lorneiandi

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Victorian Infection and Immunity Network @theviin.bsky.social · 20/02/2026

We had @mithunbge06.bsky.social, from CSIRO, who gave an interesting science bite on development of a bat airway epithelial cell model to understand innate immune features to pteropine orthoreoviruses🦇 #lorneiandi

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Natalia Sampaio @drnatsampaio.bsky.social · 20/02/2026

@camilahcoelho.bsky.social just presented her amazing work on #Mpox #vaccines and #antibodies at #lorneIandI. Brilliant, enthusiastic and inspiring! She’s looking for postdocs to join her new lab in Brazil! Spread the word! 🦠🧪🫶🇧🇷

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Victorian Infection and Immunity Network @theviin.bsky.social · 20/02/2026

Next up in our Advances in Treatment session is PhD student Kimberley Gunther from UQ, who shared their work developing a host-directed therapy based on macrophage metabolites 💥 which enhance antimicrobial functions, to combat the huge global threat of AMR 🦠🐁 #lorneiandi

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Victorian Infection and Immunity Network @theviin.bsky.social · 20/02/2026

Thanks so much to our sponsor for the Advances in Treatment for Infectious Diseases Session, ✨ CSL ✨ Keep them in mind for collaborations on human therapeutics 😍 #lorneiandi

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Victorian Infection and Immunity Network @theviin.bsky.social · 20/02/2026

Incredibly grateful to hear a beautiful invited talk from Dr Camila Coelho @camilahcoelho.bsky.social from Mount Sinai, NY🗽, revealing the first monoclonal antibody protective against an orthopoxvirus, for developing drugs and vaccines against Mpox which urgently needs new therapies 💉✨ #lorneiandi

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Victorian Infection and Immunity Network @theviin.bsky.social · 20/02/2026

A great Science Bite from Anouschka Akerman, a post-doc at UQ, who showed us their team's approach for a rationally-designed T cell vaccine for malaria 🦟🧬💉 #lorneiandi

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Victorian Infection and Immunity Network @theviin.bsky.social · 19/02/2026

Final speaker for the Session, @harshw.bsky.social from @monashuniversity.bsky.social took us through how the metabolic shift acts as a rescue for macrophages in fungal pathogenesis. Great talk!👏 #lorneiandi

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Victorian Infection and Immunity Network @theviin.bsky.social · 19/02/2026

Up next Jason Paxman from La Trobe on "lazy" cell penetrating auto-transporte toxins of bacteria 🦠🦥 Shout out to Akila Pilapitiya who was the PhD student behind alot of this amazing work! #lorneiandi

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Victorian Infection and Immunity Network @theviin.bsky.social · 19/02/2026

Next up in the session, we had @pailene.bsky.social from @wehi-research.bsky.social gave a great talk on PTRAMP-CSS, first multi-stage malaria vaccine target💉🦟 #lorneiandi

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Victorian Infection and Immunity Network @theviin.bsky.social · 19/02/2026

Do you want to do proteomics but don't have a mass spectrometer? Well now you can with just PCR thanks to the #lorneiandi sponsor Olink! 🧬 If you want to learn more about "PCR for proteins" check out their website below 👇 olink.com

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Victorian Infection and Immunity Network @theviin.bsky.social · 19/02/2026

Our next speaker is A/Prof David Jacques from UNSW, who gave as an interesting talk on multifunctional retrovirus capsids, which act as targets for anti viral drug treatments.💊🦠 #lorneiandi

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Victorian Infection and Immunity Network @theviin.bsky.social · 19/02/2026

Kicking off our last day of #lorneiandi with @robmoon.bsky.social talking about zoonotic malaria, vaccines, antibodies and how maralria glides and invades RBCs featuring some amazing videos! 🦟💉📽️🐒 @lshtm-malaria.bsky.social @lshtm.bsky.social

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Victorian Infection and Immunity Network @theviin.bsky.social · 19/02/2026

Gorgeous views of Lorne for tonight's #lorneiandi Conference Dinner at the Peak! Plus a few furry locals saying hi 🦘

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Victorian Infection and Immunity Network @theviin.bsky.social · 19/02/2026

Some amazing work being showcased in Poster Session II #lorneiandi 🫶🏽🦠 Looking forward to seeing everyone at The Peak later tonight 💃

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Victorian Infection and Immunity Network @theviin.bsky.social · 19/02/2026

Sophie Collier from @unimelb.edu.au gave her talk on investigating the role of kelch-13 during sexual and mosquito stage of development of P. falciparum.👏

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Victorian Infection and Immunity Network @theviin.bsky.social · 19/02/2026

Science bites session II, Lily P Kenchington-Evans from @university of Queensland gave us a talk on Design, synthesis, and biological evaluation of antibiotics decorated with a permanent charge.

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Victorian Infection and Immunity Network @theviin.bsky.social · 19/02/2026

Closing our session is Camila Faoro, post-doc @monashuniversity.bsky.social, giving us a snapshot of how an HLA allele shapes natural killer cell immunity in Oceania First Nations peoples. ✨🦠 Check out their poster tonight! #lorneiandi

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Victorian Infection and Immunity Network @theviin.bsky.social · 19/02/2026

Can yesterday’s vaccine protect against the variant SARS-CoV-2 strains of today? 🫁 Jack Jerome from RMIT revealed cross-reactive responses between viral variant peptides. Check out their poster #170 for more 🦠🧬 #lorneiandi

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Victorian Infection and Immunity Network @theviin.bsky.social · 19/02/2026

Thishan Illankoon from the Mater Research Institute gave us a snapshot of how the unfolded protein response impacts the immune response to respiratory infection with aging 🦠🐁👴 Check out their poster tonight! #lorneiandi

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Victorian Infection and Immunity Network @theviin.bsky.social · 19/02/2026

Audrey Brown from the University of Virginia 👩‍🔬 reveals how CREM dependent action leads to altered amebiasis - check out their poster #166 tonight 💉🦠🧬 #lorneiandi

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Victorian Infection and Immunity Network @theviin.bsky.social · 19/02/2026

@iamdrsam.bsky.social, post-doc at CSIRO gave a great science bite on how we can prioritise animal welfare when undertaking virology and immunology research 🐷. Check out her poster #137 tonight 👩‍🔬🦠🫶🏽 #lorneiandi

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Victorian Infection and Immunity Network @theviin.bsky.social · 19/02/2026

Next up in SBI, we had @faolivier.bsky.social from @monashuniversity.bsky.social, they gave a great quick talk on transcriptomic and morphological profiling of candida albicans liquid suspension biofilms 🧫 🔬 - go to their poster #158 tonight to play a game and win a T-shirt! #lorneiandi

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Victorian Infection and Immunity Network @theviin.bsky.social · 19/02/2026

Jen @habeljen.bsky.social from @thedohertyinst.bsky.social presents on the impacts of pregnancy on virus-specific cytotoxic T cells, and the implications for responses to chronic viral infections! ✨ Check out her poster tonight! #lorneiandi

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Victorian Infection and Immunity Network @theviin.bsky.social · 19/02/2026

Dr Cameron Bastow kicking off a great first half of our science bites II sessjon featuring Eithne Cunney, Xiaohu Zhao, Byron Mobbs and Elizabeth Mullens 🧬🧫

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Victorian Infection and Immunity Network @theviin.bsky.social · 19/02/2026

Continuing the Science Bites is Leslie Dominguez Cadena from UQ, revealing how macrophages respond to mycobacterial infection 🦠 and produce signals important for T cells and control of infection! 💪 Check out their poster tonight! #lorneiandi

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Victorian Infection and Immunity Network @theviin.bsky.social · 19/02/2026

Great to hear from Joshua Levendis @unimelb.edu.au in Science Bites I, revealing how the RNA modification m6A facilitates 3' formation in P. falciparum mRNA 🦟🩸 make sure to check out their poster later tonight #lorneiandi

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