Monday, 3rd July
Australian Society for Microbiology Annual Scientific Meeting 2017
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Speakers
Nancy Millis Student Mentoring Breakfast
7:30AM - 8:30AM
Monday, 3rd July
Harbour View 1
Plenary 1
8:30AM - 9:15AM
Monday, 3rd July
Concert Hall
Chair: Thomas Riley
Prosthetic Joint Infection
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Robin Patel
Plenary 2
9:15AM - 10:00AM
Monday, 3rd July
Concert Hall
Chair: Nick West
Exploitation of the inflammatory response by Mycobacterium tuberculosis
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Chris Sassetti
Morning Tea
10:00AM - 10:30AM
Monday, 3rd July
Federation Ballroom
Laboratory Processes and Automation
10:30AM - 12:00PM
Monday, 3rd July
Concert Hall
Chair: Belinda McEwan
Automation in Microbiology – quality and clinical impact
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Maryza Graham
Automating the Bacteriology Laboratory: Using data to support continuous improvement
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Michael Maley
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Kara Taglieri
Implementation of a reference laboratory service for carbapenemase-producing Enterobacteriaceae (CPE) surveillance – a Victorian perspective
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Kerrie Stevens
Clinical evaluation of the
EasyScreen
TM
enteric viral detection kit EV002
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Rohan T Baker
The impact of culture independent diagnostic testing (CIDT) on Shigella surveillance in Victoria
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Marion Easton
Arboviruses and Host Pathogen Interactions A
10:30AM - 12:00PM
Monday, 3rd July
Grand Ballroom 1
Chair: Francesca Frentiu
Arboviral disease emergence and the conservation of biodiversity
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Philip Weinstein
Ross River virus transmission, emergence and multiscale ecoepidemiology
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Emily J. Flies
Arbovirus transmission¦ Mosquito-virus interaction
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Prasad N Paradkar
Mutation of the N-Terminal Region of Chikungunya Virus Capsid Protein: Implications for Vaccine Design
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Adam Taylor
Proteomic adaptation of Australian epidemic
Bordetella pertussis
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Laurence Luu
CD4+ T Cells Exacerbate
Clostridium difficile
Disease Severity in Hosts with Prior Inflammatory Colitis
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Mahmoud Saleh
Marine and Antarctic Microbiology
10:30AM - 12:00PM
Monday, 3rd July
Grand Ballroom 2
Chair: Linda Blackall
Diversity and function of prevalent symbiotic marine bacteria in the genus Endozoicomonas
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Christian Voolstra
The molecular ecology of marine biotoxin-producing microbial eukaryotes
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Shauna Murray
An in situ microfluidic approach for investigating the chemical interactions between marine microbes
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Jean-Baptiste Raina
A space for time approach to help understand future impacts of temperature on marine microbiomes
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Megan Huggett
Microbes of the Southern Ocean water masses
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Swan Li San Sow
Bioremediation of residual fuels in Antarctic soils
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Sarita Pudasaini
Surface Structures and Complex Machines
10:30AM - 12:00PM
Monday, 3rd July
Grand Ballroom 3
Chair: Charlene Kahler
The assembly of integral membrane proteins into bacterial outer membranes
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Trevor Lithgow
Finding the sweet spots: Identifying the
in vitro
Arg-GlcNAcylation targets of the NleB/SseK family of effectors
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Nichollas E Scott
Functional and structural biology of the
tcp
conjugation system from
Clostridium perfringens
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Vicki Adams
Raising the stakes: Loss of efflux pump regulation leads to decreased meropenem susceptibility in
Burkholderia pseudomallei
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Derek S. Sarovich
The
Coxiella burnetii
effector protein MceA targets the mitochondria during infection
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Laura F Fielden
Evolving Resistance to Imatinib in Vaccinia Virus: From Molecules to Mice
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Melanie Duncan
Lunch
12:00PM - 1:30PM
Monday, 3rd July
Federation Ballroom
CDS Meeting
12:00PM - 1:15PM
Monday, 3rd July
Grand Ballroom 1
Nancy Millis Student/ECR Mentoring Lunch
12:15PM - 1:30PM
Monday, 3rd July
Harbour View 1
SIG Meeting: Clinical Serology and Molecular SIG
12:30PM - 1:00PM
Monday, 3rd July
Grand Ballroom 2
SIG Meeting: Food Microbiology SIG
12:30PM - 1:00PM
Monday, 3rd July
Grand Ballroom 3
SIG Meeting: Molecular Microbiology SIG
1:00PM - 1:30PM
Monday, 3rd July
Grand Ballroom 3
ASM/BD Awards Symposium
1:30PM - 3:00PM
Monday, 3rd July
Concert Hall
Chair: Cheryl Power
Sponsored by:
Becton Dickinson Pty Ltd
Gastrointestinal carriage is a major reservoir of Klebsiella pneumoniae
infection in intensive care patients
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Claire Gorrie
We Are What We Eat: Identifying a Regulatory Crosstalk between Central Carbon Metabolism and Cell Division in Bacteria
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Riti Mann
Whole-genome sequencing reveals a new cluster of penicillin-resistant serogroup W Neisseria meningitidis in Western Australia
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Shakeel Mowlaboccus
Are adverse pregnancy outcomes linked to periodontitis influenced by changes in the gut microbiome?
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Matthew Macowan
Genomic characterisation of carbapenem resistance conferred by the plasmid-encoded
bla
NDM-1
gene in the extraintestinal pathogenic lineage
Escherichia coli
ST101
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Melinda M Ashcroft
Haemophilus haemolyticus
secretes a novel bacteriocin-like substance that inhibits nontypeable
haemophilus influenzae
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Roger D Latham
Afternoon Tea
3:00PM - 3:30PM
Monday, 3rd July
Federation Ballroom
WGS in Clinical Laboratories
3:30PM - 5:00PM
Monday, 3rd July
Concert Hall
Chair: Monica Lahra
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Benjamin Howden
Next-generation Sequencing Up and Coming Microbiology Applications
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Christiane Honisch
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Dieter Bulach
Use of molecular methods to identify changes in
Neisseria gonorrhoeae
epidemiology: New South Wales, 2012-2014
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Cameron Buckley
Genomics of tuberculosis transmission in TB/HIV co-infected patients in Vietnam
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Mai Q Trinh
Suspected cases of intracontinental
Burkholderia pseudomallei
sequence type homoplasy resolved using whole-genome sequencing.
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Ammar Aziz
Virus-Host Interactions
3:30PM - 5:00PM
Monday, 3rd July
Grand Ballroom 1
Chair: Philip Weinstein
Induction and evasion of host type I interferon responses by Ebola virus.
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Sonja Best
Experimental evolution indicates absence of rapid adaptation in dengue virus to
Wolbachia
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Francesca Frentiu
Bacteriophages: how viruses can be our friend
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Peter Speck
BK virus infection and risk factors in Vietnamese renal transplant recipients
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Thi My Hanh Vu
A novel 3base assay for the rapid detection of flavivirus/alphavirus in clinical samples
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Doug Millar
Picornavirus modulation of Ire1-Xbp1s pathway of unfolded protein response.
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Anna Shishova
Innovations from Genomics
3:30PM - 5:00PM
Monday, 3rd July
Grand Ballroom 2
Chair: John Bowman
Determining the targets and function of
N
-linked glycosylation in
Campylobacter jejuni
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Stuart J. Cordwell
Yeast 2.0: Building the world's first synthetic eukaryote
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Ian Paulsen
The genomic deluge: making sense of genome sequencing data
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Brian Forde
T cell immunity induced by rhesus PD1-based DNA vaccine controls SHIV infection in rhesus macaques
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wan liu
A novel pathogen-specific penicillin binding protein promoting
Salmonella
cell division
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FRANCISCO GARCIA DEL PORTILLO
Comparative genomic analysis identifies X factor-independent
Haemophilus haemolyticus
: a formal identification of “
Haemophilus intermedius
”?
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Tegan M Harris
Bacterial Virulence Mechanisms
3:30PM - 5:00PM
Monday, 3rd July
Grand Ballroom 3
Chair: Kate Seib
Metabolic regulation of antibiotic susceptibility in Mycobacterium tuberculosis
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Chris Sassetti
Glycan recognition contributes to group A streptococcal infection
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Martina Sanderson-Smith
Multi-drug resistant
Neisseria
gonorrhoeae
: “disarming virulence” as a future therapeutic option
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Charlene Kahler
Phasevarions in bacterial pathogens: epigenetic regulators evolving from restriction-modification systems
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John M Atack
A novel serogroup 11 genetic variant of
Streptococcus
pneumoniae
discovered in nasopharyngeal swabs from Fijian children
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Sam Manna
Clostridium perfringens
-mediated myonecrosis: it is not all about toxins
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Julian Rood
Break
5:00PM - 5:30PM
Monday, 3rd July
Jim Pittard Award Lectures
5:30PM - 6:15PM
Monday, 3rd July
Concert Hall
Chair: Dena Lyras
Pathogens, pattern-recognition receptors and innate immunity
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Si Ming Man
Genetics and structures of the capsular polysaccharides produced by the hospital superbug,
Acinetobacter baumannii
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Johanna Kenyon
Frank Fenner Award Lectures
6:15PM - 7:00PM
Monday, 3rd July
Concert Hall
Chair: Dena Lyras
Pneumococcal vaccines - impact of current vaccines in the Asia Pacific region and efficacy of a new whole-cell vaccine using a murine model of colonisation
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Catherine Satzke
Getting to know
Coxiella burnetii
, 80 years after we first met.
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Hayley Newton
Poster Session II
7:00PM - 9:00PM
Monday, 3rd July
Federation Ballroom
RAPD-PCR analysis of geographically diverse
Alicyclobacillus
spp. isolates recovered from fruit juice and fruit based beverages.
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Van TS Luong
Gene expression transitions by altered gravity during fruiting body development of the basidiomycetous mushroom
Pleurotus ostreatus
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Yasumasa Miyazaki
Diversity and abundance of arbuscular mycorrhizal fungi in native and managed landscapes in Tasmania
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Reham Mohammed
Passive immunotransfer reduces
Clostridium difficile
carriage in suckling piglets; a preliminary study
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Peter Moono
Whole genome comparison of carriage strains of
N.meningitidis
reveals novel genomic islands and virulence associated genes
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Christopher A Mullally
Comparison of in-house respiratory viral assays versus a highly multiplexed commercial assay developed by speedx for detection of prospective clinical samples
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Sandhya Nair
FUNCTIONAL METABOLIC INTERMEDIATE (2-PYRON-4,6-DICARBOXYLIC ACID) FROM LIGNIN
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Masaya Nakamura
Escherichia coli
bloom strains have acquired a
Klebsiella
capsule gene region
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Buddhie S. Nanayakkara
Exoenzymes to the rescue: soil structure and phosphatase gene microdiversity.
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Andrew L Neal
MICROBIAL SHELF-LIFE AND QUALITY ASSESSMENT OF MODIFIED ATMOSPHERE PACKAGED LIVE MUSSELS
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Olumide A Odeyemi
Lysosomal biogenesis and the bacterial pathogen
Coxiella burnetii
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Bhavna Padmanabhan
Investigating IEET syntrophy between electrogens
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Brittney Phillips
Remodelling of the
Listeria monocytogenes
cell surface in the adaptation to cold
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MARIA GRACIELA PUCCIARELLI
Identification of two novel transposons that belong to the
Tn5053
-family
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Vaheesan Rajabal
Transcriptome profiling identifies genes/pathways associated with experimental paromomycin resistance in
Leishmania donovani
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Poonam Salotra
Application of transcriptome analysis to identify Koala Retrovirus (KoRV) variant diversity within Queensland and South Australian koalas
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Nishat Sarker
Seroprevalence of Toxoplasma gondii in Australia
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Kirsten Tam
Comparison of two blood culture systems for detection of bloodstream pathogens in the absence and presence of antibiotics
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Wei Ling Tan
A human fungal pathogen evades macrophage immunity by hijacking two distinct host response mechanisms
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Ana Traven
The diabetic foot ulcer microbiome wound swab versus tissue biopsy sampling
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Dorothy J Travis
Within-host evolution of
Burkholderia pseudomallei
chronically infecting cystic fibrosis patients
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Linda T Viberg
Triplex qPCR assay to monitor emerging drug-resistant
Burkholderia pseudomallei
from melioidosis patients
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Jessica R webb
Fermentation of a recombinant agarase and its application in converting agar into biohydrogen
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Yi-Rui Wu
Molecular characterisation of 2013 to 2016
Bordetella pertussis
isolates in Australia
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Zheng Xu
Depolarizing effect of cationic antimicrobial peptides melimine and mel-4 on bacterial cell membranes
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Muhammad Yasir
The detection and characterization of digestive enzymes from Atlantic salmon gastrointestinal (GI) tract contents and associated microbial communities
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Ruixiang Zhao
Inter-agency collaboration averted potential melioidosis outbreak among farm personnel in Sabah, Malaysia
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Sylvia Daim
Biological control of seed borne Aspergilli by chloroform extracts of common herbs
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Naureen Akhtar
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