West Coast Microbiome

Linking microbiome researchers across universities in WA from health, environmental disciplines (curated @nataszahain) Annual symposium

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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!