Victorian Infection and Immunity Network

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

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.

Wonderful to have you all be part of the meeting! 👏👩‍🔬🏖️

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 👏
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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

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

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

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. 💉
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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

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

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

@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! 🦠🧪🫶🇧🇷

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

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

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

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

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

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!

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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

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 👇

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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

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!
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Thanks @theviin.bsky.social for the invite to join this great meeting, and share our work on Kaptive for capsule typing, and how we can apply it to inform #klebsiella vaccines: tinyurl.com/npaj4vzr
With @tomstantonmicro.bsky.social @shaunkeegan.bsky.social @katholt.bsky.social and many others

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

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

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