Tuesday, 4th July Australian Society for Microbiology Annual Scientific Meeting 2017

• Move over retroviruses: restriction of flavivirus replication by TRIM5α. - Sonja Best

• Investigating novel TLR2 dependent host inflammatory responses to hypervirulent Clostridium difficile. - Bill Petri

• New Clinical Microbiology Diagnostics - Robin Patel
• Not available at time of printing - Jon Iredell
• Detection of foodborne pathogens using whole-cell proteomics and metabolomics approaches - Enzo A Palombo
• Mining meconium for microbial DNA: Comparison of DNA extraction methods to increase yield and overcome PCR inhibitors in first pass meconium samples - Lisa F Stinson
• A Real-Time Multiplex-PCR for the detection of Extended-Spectrum β-Lactamases (ESBL) and Carbapenemase-Producing Organisms (CPO) using 3base^TM technology - Dilshan M Abeysekera
• *Archoo, archoo, archoo*… Is that the Flu? - Deane L Byers

• Bacteriophage penetrate the body via epithelial transcytosis - Jeremy J Barr
• Assembly and transfer of tripartite integrative and conjugative genetic elements - Joshua P Ramsay
• Sex, adaptation and diversification in experimental microbial populations - Michael McDonald
• Isolation of Group B Streptococcus bacteriophages with broad clinical host range - Lucy L Furfaro
• Conjugative toxin and antimicrobial resistance plasmids that encode identical parMRC-like partitioning systems are incompatible in Clostridium perfringens - Thomas D Watts
• The plasmid encoding the Clostridium sordellii toxin TcsL undergoes conjugative transfer, mediated by a novel clostridial conjugation locus - Callum Vidor

• Contribution of ammonia-oxidising archaea to ammonia oxidation in acidic soils - Jizheng (Jim) He
• Biophysical properties of bacterial biofilms facilitates survival on surfaces from high velocity sprays and jets.   - Paul Stoodley
• Use of genomics in tracking infectious disease outbreaks - Danielle J Ingle
• Risk Assessment in Food Safety Management - Tom Ross
• Biofilms on dry hospital surfaces incorporating multidrug resistant organisms (MRO): is this worldwide? - Karen Vickery
• Molecular effects of prebiotic oligosaccharides on L. monocytogenes infection - Poyin Chen

• Exploiting a host-pathogen interaction to design a vaccine that protects against Helicobacter pylori pathogenesis - Phil Sutton
• NOD1 mediates processing of interleukin-18 in epithelial cells to maintain tissue homeostasis in Helicobacter pylori infection - Richard L Ferrero
• Clostridium difficile infection compromises colonic stem-cell function and epithelial regeneration. - Dena Lyras
• Interactions between the gut microbiota of sheep and infection with the gastrointestinal parasite Haemonchus contortus - Andrew Greenhill
• Emerging clinical significance of the Bacteroidales family S24-7 in homeothermic animals - Kate L Ormerod
• Helicobacter pylori gene silencing in vivo demonstrates urease is essential for chronic infection. - Aleksandra W Debowski

Prof Mark Douglas

Dr Stephen Graves

Dr Janet Towns

• Active in-class strategies to support student learning  - Sue Merkel
• Video Assessment and Feedback – upscaling student feedback in Science Education - Jack Wang
• The Impact of Interactivity – engaging students with online interactive pre-class activities - Danielle Rhodes

• The ten commandments for a safe food supply. - Heather Haines
• Forty days and forty nights: the role of Quarantine  - Diane Lightfoot
• Hospitals : Hotels dieu or Pathogens' paradise - Cheryl J Power

• Publishing in Nature journals and Editorial Careers - Michael Chao

• Not available at time of printing - Monica Lahra
• Development of a chlamydial vaccine for koalas - Peter Timms
• Molecular Detection of Antimicrobial Resistance in STI Pathogens. - David Whiley
• Genomic and phenotypic characterisation of chlamydial isolates from women that failed to respond to azithromycin treatment. - Wilhelmina Huston
• Rapid, Sensitive and Automated Detection of 12 Bacterial and Viral Causes of Sexually Transmitted Infections with EasyScreen™ STI Assay - Wendy Y. Chen
• Genomic epidemiology and population structure of Neisseria gonorrhoeae from highly endemic heterosexual Western Australian populations - Barakat Alsuwayyid

• Pathogenesis of Streptococcus urinary tract infection - Glen Ulett
• New insights into Chlamydia spill-over, a threat to human and animal health - Adam Polkinghorne
• Shining a (UV) light on the regulatory dark matter of bacteria - Jai Tree
• Development of molecular tools to quantify closely related Haemophilus species reveals evidence of synergism in the nasopharynx. - Lea-Ann Kirkham
• Honey: a topical solution for drug-resistant infections - Nural Cokcetin

• Examining the impact of anthropogenic pollutants on key marine photosynthetic bacteria - Sasha Tetu
• Manipulating microbial constituents for optimizing bioprocesses in engineered environments - Philip Bond
• Novel microbial metabolisms and their impact on sediment biogeochemical processes - Perran Cook
• Silver nanoparticles as a topical treatment for biofilm-related infections - Katharina Richter
• Temperature-induced changes to the microbiome of the haemolymph in the cultured spiny lobster Panulirus ornatus - Mei C Ooi
• The application of enzymatic pre-treatment to improve PCR assay: a quantification method for NoV surrogate - Radestya Triwibowo

• Role of CREM/ICER in Innate Immunity to Amebic Colitis - Bill Petri
• Epigenetic regulation of virulence in Cryptococcus neoformans - James A Fraser
• Combating the re-emergence of tuberculosis with new vaccine strategies - Andreas Kupz
• Antibiotic resistance and host immune evasion in Staphylococcus aureus mediated by a novel metabolic adaptation - Jhih-Hang Jiang
• WNT signalling shapes the host response to acute bacterial infection - Antje Blumenthal
• Primary Ciliary Dyskinesia Ciliated Airway Cells Are Susceptible to Haemophilus influenzae Biofilm Formation  - Luanne Hall-Stoodley

• Is there Light at the end of the Tunnel - John Merlino

• Silencing the clap: enhancing detection and characterisation of an emerging superbug - David Whiley

• The bacterial pathogen Listeria monocytogenes, a unique model in biology - Pascale Cossart