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We are excited to announce that the Viruses of Microbes 2024 meeting will be held in Cairns, Australia! Being situated on the shores of the Great Barrier Reef and surrounded by the oldest rainforest on Earth, Cairns will host a truly unique VoM experience. This also marks the first time that the VoM conference series will take place outside of Europe.

The theme for VoM 2024 will be ‘Expanding our viral frontiers’, which references both the expansion of the VoM conference series to Australia and a focus on the next frontiers for viruses of microbes research. Our local organising committee is led by Dr. Jeremy J. Barr (Monash University) and includes; A/Prof. Ruby CY Lin (Westmead Institute), Dr. Lucy Furfaro (University of Western Australia), Dr. Karen Weynberg (The University of Queensland), and Dr. Paul Jaschke (Macquarie University).

Our meeting will be held at the Cairns Convention Centre from July 15th – 19th, 2024. We are excited to host you all in beautiful Cairns, Australia and hope to see you all ‘down under’ soon!