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Linking microbiome researchers across universities in WA from health, environmental disciplines (curated @nataszahain) Annual symposium https://teapawt.org/t.co/VLoa7358e2

Perth, Western Australia
Joined December 2015
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🎉 Congratulations to Our 2025 Prize Winners! 🧬 🏆 Best Flash Talk Kristina Magoutas – University of Western Australia Sponsored by @AUSSOCMIC 🏆 Best Poster Phoebe Car – The Kids Research Institute Sponsored by @WCmicrobiome
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Alicia Tan presents on how early probiotic use after neonatal antibiotics supports healthy infant gut microbiome development
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Dr. Asad Prodhan introduces sangerFlow, a reproducible pipeline for pathogen ID from Sanger amplicon data
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Dr. Matthew Coote discusses the use of FMT in patients with persistent critical illness
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Dr. Reika Masuda presents population-level findings combining urinary metabolomics and microbiome data
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Dr. José Caparrós-Martin discusses the link between nasal microbiota and early-life respiratory disease susceptibility
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Gwendolynn Hummel uses a vaginal organoid model to study the role of dysbiosis in preterm birth
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Karma Jamtsho investigates urbanisation’s impact on soil and riparian microbiomes in a Himalayan city
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Xavier Barton presents on the ability to predict tick microbiomes using population structure
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Katelyn Boase explores the microbial ecology of acidic saline lakes in WA’s Yilgarn Craton
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Georgina McCallum shares how host response biomarkers may be used for early ‘pre-positive’ detection of viral infections
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Bonnie Hyatt investigates commensal-dependant antibiotic resistance in Streptococcus pyogenes
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Kristina Magoutas discusses the INTIMATE Study, exploring microbiome links to intimate health, hygiene, and practices
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Xinyuan Zhu presents a cohort study linking early nasopharyngeal microbiomes to asthma development
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Roaa Arishi shares how human milk oligosaccharides influence the oral microbiome in breastfed infants
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Jenna Wilson discusses metaproteomics to identify microbial biomarkers of spontaneous pre-term birth
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Dr. Ritika Kar Bahal presents on the respiratory microbiome and lower respiratory tract infections using amplicon and whole metagenome sequencing
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Prof. Elizabeth Dinsdale shares insights into microbiomes and viromes in elasmobranchii
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A/Prof. Jeremy Barr explores culturomics and experimental insights into temperate bacteriophages in the human gut
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Our 2025 meeting has officially started!
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