Happy #Antarcticaday I’m excited to be heading south as part of @penguin_watch team on board @QuarkExpedition to do some rapid, in-field disease surveillance with my new #labinasuitcase 🐧 💩 sponsored by John & Myriam Wylie Foundation & support from @nanopore @FedUniAustralia
With increasing risk of #AvianInfluenza in Antarctic and sub -Antarctic @Wild_Microbes PI @DrMeaganDewar and the Antarctic wildlife health team have put together a guide for working in these regions this austral summer.
Due to the unprecedented #AvianInfluenza outbreak in #seabirds in Nth Hemisphere this year, our team have put together some basic guidelines 4 people visiting Antarctica and Subantarctic this coming Austral summer...
https://t.co/sWZFS0V1F3
This project will use shotgun metagenomics & meta-transcriptomics to examine changes of pathogens & parasites, host-microbiome & host-pathogen/parasite interactions in seabirds in East Antarctica
Excited to be back @AusAntarctic to continue working on our past, present & future changes in microbial ecology & diseases of Antarctic seabirds project #WIPS#seabirds#microbes