Monday, 7th July
Australian Society for Microbiology Annual Scientific Meeting 2014
Days
Saturday, 5th July
Sunday, 6th July
Monday, 7th July
Tuesday, 8th July
Wednesday, 9th July
Tracks
Division 1 - Medical & Veterinary Microbiology
Division 2 - Virology
Division 3 - General, Applied and Environmental Microbiology
Division 4 - Microbial Genetics, Physiology and Pathogenesis
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Speakers
Plenary 1: Sheila Lukehart
8:30AM - 9:15AM
Monday, 7th July
Grand 1 & 2
Chair: Robert Moore
Understanding Syphilis: Antigenic Variation and Diversity in Treponema pallidum
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Sheila Lukehart
Plenary 2: Vincent Racaniello
9:15AM - 10:00AM
Monday, 7th July
Grand 1 & 2
Chair: Carl Kirkwood
Antagonism of innate immunity by picornaviruses
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Vincent Racaniello
Morning Tea
10:00AM - 10:30AM
Monday, 7th July
Grand 7 & Lobby (Exhibition Hall)
Symposium 1.1 - Antibiotic Use and Resistance
10:30AM - 12:00PM
Monday, 7th July
Grand 1 & 2
Chair: Jon Iredell
TBA
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Kirsty Buising
Infection Control and its impact on AMR
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Lindsay Grayson
Rapid Diagnostics, Therapeutic Options and Appropriate Antibiotic Use: The M.I.C. or the Genotype in Antimicrobial Resistance
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John Dr. Merlino
TBA
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Anton Peleg
Symposium 2.1 - Virus Discovery and Evolution
10:30AM - 12:00PM
Monday, 7th July
Grand 3
Chair: Robert De Rose
Bats – A mixed bag of new and emerging viruses
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Glenn Marsh
Pandemic GII.4 noroviruses 2009-2014 and the emergence of the Sydney 2012 norovirus
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Peter A White
Detection and 3-Dimensional Reconstruction of a Novel Enterovirus Associated with a Case of Acute Flaccid Paralysis.
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Jason A Roberts
Genetic diversity of Rotavirus strains circulating in Australia post vaccine introduction.
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Daniel Cowley
Symposium 3.1 - Good microbes in food production
10:30AM - 12:00PM
Monday, 7th July
Grand 4
Chair: Ian Powell
Ancient Fermentative Microorganisms: Botanical and Chemical Perspectives
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Patrick McGovern
New developments in the knowledge of cheese microbial ecosystems.
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Henry Eric SPINNLER
Salt stress resistance genes in Lactococcus
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Mark S Turner
Unravelling the mysteries of
Oenococcus oeni
and Malolactic Fermentation: From microbiology to frontier technology
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Eveline Bartowsky
Symposium 4.1 - Bacterial Virulence Mecahnisms
10:30AM - 12:00PM
Monday, 7th July
Element Room
Chair: Jackie Cheung
Symposia Title TBA
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Brett Finlay
Death receptors and bacterial diarrhoea
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Elizabeth Hartland
An antimicrobial role for zinc in innate immune defense against group A
Streptococcus
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Mark J. Walker
Severe intestinal and systemic
Clostridium difficile
disease is associated with Toxin B
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Glen P Carter
Lunch
12:00PM - 1:30PM
Monday, 7th July
Grand 7 & Lobby (Exhibition Hall)
Infection Control Panel Discussion
12:15PM - 1:30PM
Monday, 7th July
Grand 1 & 2
Nancy Millis Student Mentoring Lunch
12:15PM - 1:30PM
Monday, 7th July
Grand 3
Molecular Microbiology SIG
12:15PM - 1:30PM
Monday, 7th July
Grand 4
Education SIG
12:15PM - 1:30PM
Monday, 7th July
Element Room
Symposium 1.2 Anitibiotic Resistance
1:30PM - 3:00PM
Monday, 7th July
Grand 1 & 2
Chair: John Merlino
Bacitracin resistance is encoded on a novel mobile element from
Clostridium perfringens
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Xiaoyan Han
Laboratory detection of intestinal carriage of carbapenemase-producing
Enterobacteriaceae
– which is the optimal method?
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James Knox
RAPID AND QUANTITATIVE SCREENING METHOD FOR DETERMINING ANTIMICROBIAL PEPTIDE ACTIVITY AGAINST A RANGE OF PATHOGENIC BACTERIA
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Neil M O'Brien-Simpson
Novel antimicrobial therapy that targets selenium metabolism to treat
Clostridium difficile
infection.
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Christine Roder
High prevalence of
Neisseria gonorrhoeae
strains with the “mosaic” penicillin binding protein 2 in Australia.
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Ella Trembizki
Fluoroquinolone-Resistant Extraintestinal Pathogenic
Escherichia coli
(ExPEC) from Australian Canines: A Reservoir of Human-Associated Clonal Lineages
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David Wakeham
Symposium 2.2 - Viral Vaccines
1:30PM - 3:00PM
Monday, 7th July
Grand 3
Chair: Glenn Marsh
The heptad repeat C domain in the respiratory syncytial virus F protein plays a key role in virus mediated membrane fusion
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Imogen M Bermingham
Arthritogenic alphaviral infection perturb osteoblasts function and triggers pathologic bone loss
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Weiqiang Chen
Host-elicited innate immune defense against alphaviral infection: A double-edged sword
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Suan-Sin Foo
Type I, II and III interferons may be a key antiviral response during enterovirus 71 infection of in vitro colorectal cells.
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Yan Long Edmund Lui
Regulation of cell invasion during Vaccinia virus infection
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Christopher McKenzie
Nuclear Localization of Capsid Protein Is Crucial For Flavivirus Replication
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Mah-Lee Ng
Symposium 3.2 - Food and Gut Microbiology
1:30PM - 3:00PM
Monday, 7th July
Grand 4
Chair: Kari Gobius
The clonal structure of
Escherichia coli
isolated from different regions of the human gastro-intestinal tract.
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David M Gordon
Effects of arabinoxylan dietary fibre fine structure on gut microbiota dynamics.
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Deirdre Mikkelsen
Comparative Pathogenicity of Non-Typhoidal
Salmonella
Serovars
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Andrea R McWhorter
Strain-specific quantitative PCR of
Lactococcus lactis
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Ian B Powell
The use of bacteriophages to control specific pathogens in food
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Duncan Craig
Metagenomic analysis of the microbial communities contributing to beef carcass contamination during slaughter
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P. Scott Chandry
Symposium 4.2 - Division 4 Proffered Papers I
1:30PM - 3:00PM
Monday, 7th July
Element Room
Chair: Kathryn Holt
A Genomics Approach to Understanding the Evolution of Methicillin-Resistant Staphylococcus aureus Sequence Type 239 in Australia
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Sarah L Baines
Global dissemination of multidrug resistant
Escherichia coli
ST131
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Scott A Beatson
Using genomics to unravel the
Haemophilus
puzzle
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Erin P Price
Novel staphylococcal species that form part of a
Staphylococcus aureus
related complex: the non-pigmented
S. argenteus
and the non-human primate associated
S. schweitzeri
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Steven Tong
Tetracycline resistance genes and associated genomic elements of
Clostridium sordellii
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Callum J Vidor
The novel relaxosome of conjugative resistance and toxin plasmids from
Clostridium perfringens
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Jessica A Wisniewski
Afternoon Tea
3:00PM - 3:30PM
Monday, 7th July
Grand 7 & Lobby (Exhibition Hall)
Symposium 1.3 - New Technologies
3:30PM - 5:00PM
Monday, 7th July
Grand 1 & 2
Chair: Thomas Riley
Understanding the mechanisms and clinical impact of emerging antimicrobial resistance in gram-positive pathogens
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Benjamin Howden
TBA
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Tony Korman
Mass spectrometry - applications in microbiology beyond identification
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Enzo Palombo
Application of whole microbiome profiling methods to inform our understanding of host-pathogen interactions in a porcine model of scabies mite infection
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Katja Fischer
Symposium 2.3 - Viral Vaccines
3:30PM - 5:00PM
Monday, 7th July
Grand 3
Chair: Julie Bines
TBA
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Rino Rappuoli
Assessing the Impact of the Australian HPV Vaccination Programme: a Lesson For All
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Suzanne M Garland
Development of barrier immunity to HIV
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Robert De Rose
What can rotavirus vaccines teach us about rotavirus?
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Jim P Buttery
Symposium 3.3 - Pathogen persistence, biofilm formation and control in the food industry
3:30PM - 5:00PM
Monday, 7th July
Grand 4
Chair: Lesley Duffy
Two Bites at the Cherry - Toxicity and biodegradation screening as a development tool leading to safer antimicrobials
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Nicholas Gathergood
Do
Campylobacter
biofilms contribute to their survival in the environment?
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Gary A Dykes
Susceptibility of
Salmonella
Typhimurium biofilms to disinfectants
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Hui San Wong
Persistence of
Listeria monocytogenes
in food production environments
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Ed Fox
Symposium 4.3 - Regulation of Microbial Virulence
3:30PM - 5:00PM
Monday, 7th July
Element Room
Chair: Glen Carter
Role of inositol polyphosphates in fungal virulence
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Julianne T Djordjevic
Commensal to Pathogen via Gene Transfer and Regulation
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Marija Tauschek
Phasevarions as regulators of bacterial adaptation and virulence
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Kate L Seib
The RevSR system modulates the virulence of
C. perfringens
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Jackie K Cheung
ASM Annual General Meeting
5:00PM - 5:30PM
Monday, 7th July
Grand 4
Trade Mixer & Poster Session B
5:30PM - 7:30PM
Monday, 7th July
Grand 7 & Lobby (Exhibition Hall)
The Rns regulon of Enterotoxigenic
Escherichia coli
(ETEC) strain H10407
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Carla Hodson
In vitro
growth-inhibitory effects of extracts from GRAS plants against oral pathogenic microorganisms
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Lukas Huml
Detection of Group B
Streptococcus
in ante-natal screening specimens: a comparison of culture on chromogenic agars, broth enrichment and a molecular method
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Peter G Huntington
The therapeutic use of colostrum-derived antibodies against toxin and spores of
Clostridium difficile
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Melanie L Hutton
Characterization of biofilm formation in
Campylobacter concisus
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Taghrid Istivan
Detection of
Listeria monocytogenes
directly from selective enrichment broth using MALDI-TOF MS
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Snehal Jadhav
Calibrated Dichotomous Sensitivity Testing to European Committee on Antimicrobial Susceptibility Testing- positive and negative aspects.
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Pranali Jayasuriya
The Sydney Harbour microbiome: bacterioplankton dynamics and function in an urbanized marine system
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Thomas Jeffries
SURVEILLANCE OF FLUOROQUINOLONE RESISTANCE IN MYCOBACTERIUM TUBERCULOSIS IN NSW
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Peter Jelfs
Influenza C outbreaks in Perth, Western Australia, 2002-2012.
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Lauren Jelley
A lethal screening for discovering Cu chaperone required for nitrite reductase activity in pathogenic
Neisseria
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Freda E.-C. Jen
Effect of antibiotics in combination with manuka honey on Streptococcus pyogenes
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Rowena Jenkins
Laboratory investigation and molecular epidemiological characterisation of the largest reported Australian Shiga-toxigenic
Escherichia coli
O157 outbreak.
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Amy Jennison
Evaluation of the
SHIGA TOXIN QUIK CHEK
and
ImmunoCard
STAT! EHEC as screening tools for the detection of Shiga toxin in faecal specimens
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Amy V Jennison
Novel routes to β-peptide synthesis
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Marietta R John
AtfA, a new transcription factor from
Acinetobacter
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Matthew Jordan
Genomic sequencing of the ovine footrot pathogen
Dichelobacter nodosus
provides evidence that it exists globally as a bimodal population.
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Ruth M Kennan
Towards the development of chlamydial vaccine in koalas
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Shahneaz Khan
Necrosis Activity of Extracellular Proteins secreted in
Aeromonas hydrophila
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Kyu Lee Kim
Rapid and simultaneous detection of pathogenic E. coli using microfluidic chip-based real-time PCR
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Seok Hwan Kim
Stressed out: Why is molecular chaperone HtpG essential for leptospiral virulence?
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Amy M King
Investigating the interaction of commensal and invasive
Haemophilus haemolyticus
isolates with human respiratory epithelium
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Lea-Ann Kirkham
Prevalence, concentration and molecular epidemiology of
Clostridium difficile
on neonatal calf carcasses in Australia
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Daniel R Knight
Phenotypic detection of carbapenemase-producing
Enterobacteriaceae
using MALDI-TOF MS and the Carba NP test
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James Knox
In vitro
synergistic anti-staphylococcal effect of demethyltexasin in combination with oxacillin
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Ladislav Kokoska
Antecedent viral infection increases bacterial adhesion by suppressing the host’s inflammatory responses in a cell type-dependent manner, and the roles of bacterial interactions and epithelial cell contact in promoting biofilms
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Ajay Krishnamurthy
A SYBR-GREEN assay for recombinase polymerase amplification screening, and development of a rapid assay for Murray Valley Encephalitis
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Joanna Kristoffersen
The fabrication of electrospun
Antrodia cinnamomea
extraction AC901/TiO2 nano-fibrous mats for skin care dressings.
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Jong-Tar Kuo
Snapshot of the three domains of life in the oral niche
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Donnabella C Lacap-Bugler
Comparison of epidemiologically linked
Campylobacter jejuni
isolated from human and poultry sources
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Salma A Lajhar
Large clostridial toxin production is controlled by conserved but functionally distinct mechanisms in different clostridial species
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Sarah Larcombe
A Novel System for Examining DNA Replication Fork Processing and Recovery in
Escherichia coli
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Nikki Lawrence
Detailed analysis of motility regulation in
Salmonella enterica
Typhimurium by c-di-GMP
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Soazig Le Guyon
An investigation into the microbial quality of raw bovine milk from selected bulk tanks in Victoria
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Roselyn Leclair
The second messenger cyclic diguanylic acid is an essential regulator on motility and secretion of protein in enterohemorrhagic
Escherichia coli
O157:H7
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Hyung Tae Lee
Rapid Detection of
C.Difficile :
A Comparative Evaluation
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Toni Lee-Archer
Enterohaemorrhagic
E. coli
(EHEC) colonisation of human colonic epithelium and the immune response to infection
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Steven Lewis
The role of holin-like genes in the secretion of large clostridial toxins.
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Lucy Li
Colistin Resistance in three Extremely Drug-Resistant Acinetobacter baumannii Clinical Isolates
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Zhi Feng Li
A unique qPCR system that provides flexibility, specificity, and sensitivity for the personalization of a multiplex diagnostic assay panel
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Tom Lin
Clinical Vancomycin Intermediate
Staphylococcus aureus
Isolates Demonstrate Virulence Attenuation, Persistence and Trigger a Different Host Response Compared to Their Sensitive Parents
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Ya-Hsun Lin
Evaluation of the DiaSorin LIAISON
C.difficile
GDH assay and the DiaSorin LIAISON Biotrin Parvovirus IgG and IgM assays as automated alternatives to EIA.
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Denise Liow
Inactivation of cytomegalovirus in breastmilk using ultraviolet-C irradiation
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Megan L Lloyd
Absolute quantitative detection of enterovirus 71 using Droplet Digital PCR
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Yan Long Edmund Lui
Regulation of binary toxin in
Clostridium difficile
by the orphan response regulator CdtR
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Shelley A Lyon
Typing and antibiotic susceptibility of
Clostridium difficile
strains isolated from patients in Victoria, Australia.
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Kate E. Mackin
Biofilm formation and dispersal of the seaweed associated bacterium
Phaeobacter inhibins
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Marwan Majzoub
Investigations into the Biological Mode of Action of Novel Antibacterial Compounds
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Nikki Y. T. Man
Yeast-Based Expression Strategies for the Development of Enterovirus EV71 Vaccine
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Shahanee Mapulage Don
Visualising vaccinia virus-actin cytoskeleton interactions by a novel fluorescent gene-tagging method
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Bishara Marzook
Isolation and Identification of Inquilinus limosus in a paediatric cystic fibrosis patient.
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Janelle Maskell
Anti-staphylococcal properties of propolis from Australian stingless bees
Tetragonula carbonaria
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Flavia Carmelina Massaro
Prevalence and persistence of enterococci populations and their virulence determines in a large metropolitan watershed after an extreme flood
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Nicole Masters
Microbial competition in the rhizosphere of heavy metal hyper-accumulating plants
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Elizabeth R Mathews
The effects of pilot-scale pulsed electric field processing on microbial and chemical milk quality during storage at 4 and 8°C.
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Catherine M McAuley
Bioscience Illumigene outperforms routine Group B Streptococcus culture
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Belinda McEwan
Helicobacter cinaedi: A case of septic arthritis
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Belinda McEwan
DrsG from
Streptococcus dysgalactiae
subsp
equisimilis
inhibits the antimicrobial peptide LL-37
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David McMillan
A novel multiplex PCR assay for the detection of 26 viral and bacterial causes of Respiratory Tract Infection
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John R Melki
A novel 3base™ multiplex PCR assay for the rapid detection and stratification of MRSA
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John R Melki
Development of genetic tools for the quantitative assessment of gene depletion in pathogenic bacteria
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Linda Mende
DNA Replication Fork Processing and Recovery in
E. coli
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Karla Mettrick
Understanding the Role of
C. difficile
toxin A and toxin B in Pathogenesis and the Host Immune Response, using a Mouse Model of Infection
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Steven Mileto
The basidiomycetous cryptochrome DASH gene,
Le.cry
, encoding a blue-light photoreceptor in the fungus
Lentinula edodes
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Yasumasa Miyazaki
Endocarditis after Dog Bite
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Lorieza Castillo
Can fibre type have a role in the reduction of microorganism survival on healthcare uniforms?
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Kate Riley
Antibiotic resistant characteristics of bacteria isolated from catfish and humans in Vietnam.
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Thi Thu Hao Van
Selection of rhizomicrobes to expand the utility of heavy metal phytoextraction
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Jennifer L Wiltshire
Toxigenic Clostridium difficile: reliability of a testing algorithm in a tertiary Victorian cancer hospital
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Caroline Reed
Non-targeted metabolomic detection and characterisation of
Listeria monocytogenes
in selective media to identify potential biomarkers
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Samuel Fell
Screening of New Antiviral Inhibitors to Influenza with MALDI Mass Spectrometry
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Kevin Downard
News from the Hospitals
7:30PM - 9:00PM
Monday, 7th July
Grand 1 & 2
Nancy Millis Student Mentoring Social
7:30PM - 9:00PM
Monday, 7th July
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