Garry Myers
Garry Myers
Australian Institute for Microbiology & Infection at the University of Technology Sydney (UTS). Director
Garry Myers is the Director of the Australian Institute for Microbiology & Infection (AIMI, formerly the iThree Institute) at the University of Technology Sydney (UTS).
He completed his PhD on chlamydial biology in 1998 at the University of Sydney (Faculty of Medicine) via the Menzies School of Health Research (Darwin, NT). He did postdoctoral training at The Institute for Genome Research (TIGR) in Rockville, Maryland, working on microbial genomics and pathogenesis, with numerous high-impact publications, including Science, Nature Biotechnology and Genome Research.
In 2005 he was invited to join the TIGR Faculty. In 2007, along with twelve other TIGR Faculty, he was a co-founder of the Institute for Genome Sciences at the University of Maryland School of Medicine (Baltimore, Maryland).
In June 2014, he relocated to the iThree Institute at the University of Technology Sydney; in 2019 he was appointed the Director of the Institute, and is also co-leading the AusGEM initiative (www.ausgem.net).
He completed his PhD on chlamydial biology in 1998 at the University of Sydney (Faculty of Medicine) via the Menzies School of Health Research (Darwin, NT). He did postdoctoral training at The Institute for Genome Research (TIGR) in Rockville, Maryland, working on microbial genomics and pathogenesis, with numerous high-impact publications, including Science, Nature Biotechnology and Genome Research.
In 2005 he was invited to join the TIGR Faculty. In 2007, along with twelve other TIGR Faculty, he was a co-founder of the Institute for Genome Sciences at the University of Maryland School of Medicine (Baltimore, Maryland).
In June 2014, he relocated to the iThree Institute at the University of Technology Sydney; in 2019 he was appointed the Director of the Institute, and is also co-leading the AusGEM initiative (www.ausgem.net).
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Forget Fungus Zombies: Superbugs Will Get You First
MON, OCT 16, 12:00 PM
Conference
In the last century, the discovery of antibiotics has extended human lifespans and changed infected wounds and bacterial pneumonia from effective death sentences into easily curable conditions.
But now bacteria and other microbes are rapidly evolving to protect themselves against drugs that destroy them, and the overuse and misuse of antibiotics are rapidly driving us towards a “post-antibiotic future”, one in which common conditions like UTIs, gonorrhoea and skin infections may no longer be treatable.
Superbugs – antimicrobial resistant microorganisms – already kill more people globally each year than HIV and malaria, and without urgent action the United Nations predicts that by 2050 they could cause 10 million deaths yearly.
In this session - a live recording of Guardian Australia's flagship podcast Full Story - you’ll learn about the problem the World Health Organization has declared as one of the top 10 global public health threats facing humanity.
Full Story host Jane Lee will speak to experts including Guardian Australia health reporter Natasha May, Professor Jonathan Iredell and Professor Garry Myers, and interrogate how we can prevent a superbug crisis, as scientists urgently race to discover new drugs.