Andre Mu
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Snr Lect. @MonashBDI | Integrative Microbiome Sci | Prev. Fellows: @sangerinstitute @salkinstitute @UCSanDiego & @TheDohertyInst | R/T != endrsmnt. 🚴♂️📸🎵 ⚽️
Melbourne, Australia
Joined December 2014
The 2025 @RACInational Rita Cornforth lectureship award🙌 Super proud of @LudovicaMonti
Congratulations to Dr Ludovica Monti @LudovicaMonti, who was awarded the 2025 @RACInational Rita Cornforth Lectureship. The award recognizes her outstanding contribution to chemical research in medicinal chemistry, drug discovery & nucleic acid biology👩🔬🧬@scimelb @ChemistryUoM
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Cheatsheet for purrr. Never repeat yourself again! #rstats If you are still using for loop, take a look at purrr::map() https://t.co/VDhr31fIFb
https://t.co/eXENp2vwoU
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Integrating chemical biology, genomics, ChIP-seq, and drug discovery to identify novel molecular targets to fight parasitic diseases. New preprint led by @LudovicaMonti as part of her Marie Curie Fellowship @Bio21Institute @ChemistryUoM @imperialcollege
✨New preprint on genome-wide mapping of DNA G-quadruplexes in trypanosomes🧬 Led @imperialcollege & transition to PI @UniMelb with collab @UniOfYork & @LSHTM 👏🏻Congrats to my MSc student @gentafirth on 1st paper! @ChemistryUoM
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Truly honoured to receive this award from the Selby Foundation to support our research on drug discovery for infectious diseases!🧪🧫🪱 @UniMelb @ChemistryUoM
Congratulations to Dr Ludovica Monti @LudovicaMonti and Dr Marcus Giansiracusa @mjgians for receiving the 2025 Selby Research Award for their novel research approaches to the field of chemistry. https://t.co/IBzUsQNiCX
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I feel gratitude and am inspired constantly by the early career scientists I work with at the Sanger @sangerinstitute .... @AGunjur is an oncologist who is focused on leveraging the human microbiome to save and improve patient lives...great blog below.. https://t.co/EDXUdy2chi
sangerinstitute.blog
Did you know that your gut bugs may affect your cancer risk? Dr Ashray Gunjur, Clinical Research Training Fellow at the Wellcome Sanger Institute, is exploring how clinicians can use the biology of...
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Job advert - Please share! Mark Viney ( https://t.co/stCzh4mnkJ) and I are seeking a motivated postdoctoral fellow to work on drug treatment responses of soil-transmitted helminth and hookworm genomics in Southeast Asia. Do reach out if keen! https://t.co/hZOlKvvK96
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New preprint alert!! ClusterApp for #metabolomics is finally here and it is glorious!!
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Exciting time for the Monti Lab!
🚀 Exciting news from the Monti Lab! This week, we welcomed our first two PhD students, Minghui Zhu and Paolo Gagliardi! 🎉 They’ll be working on DNA-targeting approaches to tackle infectious diseases. Looking forward to the discoveries ahead!🤩 @ChemistryUoM @Bio21Institute
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Are you based in South America and work on helminths? Join me & a great group of instructors on the Helminth Bioinformatics course in Montevideo during 18–24 May! We'll cover expenses, you just need to come, interact, and learn. Please share & apply! https://t.co/BRJfvXeYZW
coursesandconferences.wellcomeconnectingscience.org
Practical hands-on training in helminth genome analysis
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An hour of #bioinformatics can save a week in the lab. ALSO An hour in the lab can save a week of #bioinformatics.
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Really fun to write this paper on spatial transcriptomics with @SarahBuddenborg . It’s an exciting technique that has a lot of potential in Parasitology for new insights.
In our Jan issue: Entering the #spatial age of parasite #genomics, authored by @SarahBuddenborg & @stephenrdoyle highlighting Simone Haeberlein & colleagues’ @NatureComms article. #Transcriptomics #Helminths #Fasciola #hepatica @sangerinstitute @jlugiessen
https://t.co/tIwTbYN7C6
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We welcome the appointment of Academy Fellow Prof @UteRoessner AM as Australian Research Council's new Chief Executive Officer. Prof Roessner was elected a Fellow in 2022. Our profile video below details the unique path that led to her influential role as a biochemist and now in
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Check out the @GuardianAus's feature of @TrevorLithgow's fantastic work highlighting the significance of #bacteriophages in our fight against #AMR. #phages #antimicrobialresistance @PhageAustralia @Monash_FMNHS
https://t.co/ODTfZPKZeL
theguardian.com
Antimicrobial resistance threatens many of the gains of modern medicine, making even routine surgery much riskier. Some scientists believe phages, lurking in every corner of the planet, offer hope
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Beautiful work by MSc student Huanchang Chen from the 1st Affiliated Hospital of Wenzhou Medical University and @MonashBDI investigating Klebsiella-phage cocktails @CentreImpactAMR @MonashUni #AMR
nature.com
npj Biofilms and Microbiomes - A Klebsiella-phage cocktail to broaden the host range and delay bacteriophage resistance both in vitro and in vivo
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Delighted to share that my UKRI Future Leaders Fellowship has been renewed. Looking forward to the next phase of exciting science! Many thanks to a wonderfully smart and productive team & generous support of mentors and collaborators past and present. #UKRIFLF @sangerinstitute
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Nature News piece on the hidden players of the gut microbiome (hint, they're phages, of course) “Our virome is hugely abundant and incredibly diverse, and we’ve looked at just a tiny percentage,” https://t.co/34DeKqF2DZ
nature.com
Nature - Viruses known as bacteriophages are difficult to study, but they are beginning to give up their secrets.
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Thrilled to be a 2024 Big Science Pitch finalist! 🥳🤩 Join me Nov 13 (link below) to discover how we’re tackling superbug resistance with innovative DNA-based approaches. Excited to share our vision for new treatments! Register:
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Join University of Melbourne’s leading emerging researchers as they battle for a prize pool of $110k in the Big Science Pitch
1/2: Congrats to @LudovicaMonti @ChemistryUoM for being named a finalist at the 2024 Big Science Pitch! This exciting event showcases top emerging researchers @SciMelb, who will present their ideas and compete for a share of $110k in prizes. See👇for the list of finalists!
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Proud to see this paper from the lab out today @Nature showing how rifaximin use is driving dapto-R in VRE. Many years of work, great multi-disciplinary collaborations. Led by @adriannamturner and Glen Carter @TheDohertyInst
@UniMelbMDHS
@Austin_Health
https://t.co/UTfCGiuPqc
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🦠🧬Our paper is live @CellCellPress: Genome integrity sensing by the broad-spectrum Hachiman antiphage defense complex https://t.co/id7uU1YRIe Through structural, genetic and microbiological approaches, we show that Hachiman degrades DNA… by sensing low integrity DNA.
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