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Previous JAMS Monthly – Tuesday 25th March 2025

Join us for this month’s JAMS Sydney Session, bringing you three presentations from different fields of microbiology at Keg & Brew, Surry Hills!

Join us from 6 pm on Tuesday 25^th March 2025.

Note – there will be no zoom live stream at our monthly events

Date: 6 -7:30 pm AEDT Tuesday 25^th March 2025
Location:  Level 1, Keg & Brew
26 Foveaux St, Surry Hills, NSW, 2010 

6:00 pm Roisin Sullivan from the University of Sydney will present “Plasmids as drivers of Vibrio harveyi virulence in barramundi?“

Roisin is a third year PhD student at the University of Sydney supervised by Professor Joy Becker, Dr Francisca Samsing and Professor Ruth Zadoks. Growing up, Roisin always aspired of becoming a veterinarian until during her Bachelor of Science majoring in Animal and Veterinary Biosciences when she stumbled upon the field of aquatic animal health and disease. Hooked ever since, Roisin’s research primarily focuses on finfish health and disease and has previously included the development of diagnostic serology assays for the detection of Cyprinid Herpesvirus 3 (the virus at the centre of the carp control debate) and some dabbling into oyster health. Roisin’s PhD focuses on understanding the mechanisms that drive vibriosis infections in barramundi (Lates calcarifer) with an emphasis on the opportunist Vibrio harveyi. Outside of the lab/fish room, Roisin is a keen field hockey player and crafter with many works in progress.

6:15 pm: Natasha Delgado from Macquarie University will present “Beyond Sequential Blockade: How trimethoprim-sulfamethoxazole induces pleotropic cellular responses in susceptible bacteria“

Natasha is a PhD student at Macquarie University, working under the supervision of Dr Amy Cain. She is fascinated by how antibiotics work together (or against each other) at a molecular level. Her research focuses on the combination of trimethoprim and sulfamethoxazole, investigating its effects across different bacterial species, how resistance genes influence the drug interaction dynamics in Acinetobacter baumannii, and how A. baumannii evolves resistance in response to this drug combination. Natasha also enjoys being creative, using graphic design to communicate her research in a fun and effective way. In 2024 she won the 2024 Macquarie University Visualise Your Thesis competition. Outside of science she is an avid reader and gamer, and a dedicated dog mum to a very spoiled yorkie.

7:00 pm Prof. Paul Gribben from the University of New South Wales “When do marine plants benefit, or not, from microbes?“

Paul has had a wandering career. He completed his PhD in aquaculture and fisheries at the University of Auckland before beginning a NZ Post-Doctoral Fellowship at UNSW in 2003 exploring larval chemical settlement cues for commercial mussels. Whilst there he developed an interest in impacts of invasive species, work he continued under a Chancellor’s Fellowship at UTS.  From there, he began exploring how below-ground microbes influence invasive plant success.  In 2014, this work took him back to UNSW under a Future Fellowship. During this time he became interested using experimental methods to understand when below-ground microbes influence marine plant health more broadly. More recently, he has been able to explore these questions with international colleagues under the Fulbright Future Leaders program. Paul is currently a Professor of Marine Ecology at UNSW and remains the least qualified person to talk about microbes.

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