Australasian Virology Society
The Australasian Virology Society was incorporated in 2011 following 10 years as a group. We serve the Australasian virology community and hold biennial meetings.
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- Reposted by Australasian Virology Society🦋Hello BlueSky!🦋 Let's get right into it. MicroSeq is back September 3-4, 2025! Stay tuned for more details on registration and abstract submission coming soon here and at www.microseqconference.com. 🌟Save the date!🌟 #MicroSeq2025
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- We wish @slonchak.bsky.social good luck as he starts his new Virology lab at @qimrb.bsky.social May your tip boxes always be filled and your biosafety applications be approved first time round.
- New COVID-19 strain 'pretty much everywhere' in Australia Read in ABC News: apple.news/AnMbXMgVdRFW...
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- Exciting news! The AVS12 Meeting Report is now published in the @asm.org Journal of Virology! 🎉 AVS prides itself on supporting diverse voices in virology through career development, Indigenous engagement, collaboration, and recognition of excellence. Read it here: journals.asm.org/doi/10.1128/...
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- Reposted by Australasian Virology SocietyI know all the headlines about the recent Japanese Encephalitis death in NSW state “a man from Sydney” but please keep in mind that there is currently no evidence the virus is active in mosquitoes along the east coast (inc. Sydney). health.nsw.gov.au/news/Pages/20250225…
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- Attention virologists - Upcoming Keystone Virology meeting #KSEmergingVirus26
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- Excellent Flaviviridae meeting (Flaviviruses and hepatitis C virus) October 13th-16th, 2025 Singapore - don't miss out on hearing our Keynote Dan Barouche speak so close to home! Details to follow!
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- Reposted by Australasian Virology SocietyNew preprint out now! The history of some RNA virus lineages that infect vertebrates might date back to our invertebrate ancestors. Read more here: biorxiv.org/cgi/content/...
- Reposted by Australasian Virology SocietyDiversity and cross-species transmission of viruses in a remote island ecosystem: implications for wildlife conservation. Work led by Rebecca French and @eddieholmes.bsky.social academic.oup.com/ve/advance-a...
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- 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.
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- 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
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- 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
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- 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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- “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
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- The Australasian Virology Society now offers Fellowship of AVS (FASV) for those who have demonstrated exceptional professional achievement and distinction in virology, and have shown commitment to A S. www.avs.org.au/fellowship-o... Our first FASV fellow is Paul Young @profpaulyoung.bsky.social
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- 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
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- Rounding out the virus evolution session is Nayomi Danthanarayana (CSIRO) who is discussing the Diversity of insect-specific viruses in Culex mosquitoes collected in Papua New Guinea. What viruses are lurking in PNG!? #AVS12
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- Next up is Marios Koutsakos @marioskoutsakos.bsky.social who is presenting Antigenic evolution of the influenza B virus HA over 80 years of circulation in humans. Marios has apologised for only including one phylogenetic tree in his talk in this evolutionary virology session. #AVS12
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- It wouldn’t be a virus evolution session without a SARS2 talk and we hand it over to Ahmed Abdul Quadeer (University of Melbourne) who is presenting on Within-host genetic diversity of SARS-CoV-2 lineages in unvaccinated and vaccinated individuals #AVS12
- Next up is Mary Petrone @marypetrone.bsky.social who is Extending the evolutionary history of disease-causing RNA viruses. Mary has been sampling marine invertebrates and makes a compelling case that sponges and tunicates are exciting hot beds of virus evolution. #AVS12
- Welcome to the last day of #AVS12 Kicking off our Virus evolution session is our invited speaker Erin Harvey @erinharvey.bsky.social discussing the Macro-scale evolution of mammalian viruses. Aussie Marsupials are one of the basal lineages within mammals and are an interesting group for discovery.
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- A lot of people at #AVS12 are joining Bluesky!! We have made a starter pack to make it easier to follow each other! 👇Comment below to be added! go.bsky.app/FgBEzfcat://did:plc:q5x5wlbe4gr6pg47d5cnq7aj/app.bsky.graph.starterpack/3lch3zsj52u2q
- Next up is our Science Bites 2 session chaired by Wesley Freppel @wesleyfreppel.bsky.social Anjali Gowripalan #AVS12 Lets go!
- Bringing the Structural Virology section home strong is Natalee Newton @nataleenewton.bsky.social who is sharing her Chimeric viral platform that enables high-resolution cryoEM analysis and antigenic characterization of diverse pathogenic tick-borne #flaviviruses. #AVS12 almost every TBF visualised!
- As an avid twitcher I’m excited to see the next talk from Babu Nath (CSU) on the development of a spray-dried vaccine against psittacine beak and feather disease #AVS12 These circoviruses are very small but pack a painful punch.
- Keeping the SARS structural virology going we have Francesca Hills (University of Otago) who is Reviewing the Structural Conservation of SARS-related Coronavirus Spike Glycoproteins Through Cryo-EM #AVS12
- Second up in the structural virology session is the association and molecular mechanism behind asymptomatic SARS-CoV-2 infection by Dimitra Chatzileontiadou (La Trobe University) #AVS12
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Time to present the work on Tasmanian devil chuvirus at @ausvirologysoc.bsky.social 2024 today during the Science bites session !- @julienmelade.bsky.social and I are so excited to present our work on Tassie devil viruses at AVS this week that we went and found one
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- First afternoon session - Structural Virology. Chaired by Stephanie Gras & Emma Grant. Our plenary speaker is Joshua Hardy who is presenting on The Architecture of the Baculovirus Nucleocapsid Defines the Hallmarks of a New Viral Realm. #AVS12
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