Wednesday, 9th 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 5 - Patrick McGovern
9:00AM - 9:45AM
Wednesday, 9th July
Grand 1 & 2
Chair: Mark Turner
Uncorking the Past: Fermentation as Humankind's First Biotechnology
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Patrick McGovern
Plenary 6 - Brett Finlay
9:45AM - 10:30AM
Wednesday, 9th July
Grand 1 & 2
Chair: Dena Lyras
Diarrhea, Asthma and the Microbiota
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Brett Finlay
Morning Tea
10:30AM - 11:00AM
Wednesday, 9th July
Grand 7 & Lobby (Exhibition Hall)
Symposium 1.6 - Mycobacteriology
11:00AM - 12:30PM
Wednesday, 9th July
Grand 1 & 2
Chair: Timothy Stinear
TBA
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Emma McBryde
Is
Mycobacterium ulcerans
transmitted from marsupials to humans by mosquitoes?
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Paul D R Johnson
Johne’s disease; a mycobacterial infection of ruminants
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Douglas Begg
New perspectives on the serological diagnosis of active tuberculosis infection
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David Anderson
Symposium 2.6 - Viral pathogenesis, replication and structure
11:00AM - 12:30PM
Wednesday, 9th July
Grand 3
Chair: Gilda Tachedjian
Inhibition of rhinovirus replication by zinc compounds
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Vincent Racaniello
HIV-1 transcription in the central nervous system: Implications for HIV “cure” research
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Melissa Churchill
Molecular biology of West Nile virus
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Alexander Khromykh
Covered in sugar, stuffed with fat and into everything: the multi-functional dengue virus glycoprotein NS1
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Paul Young
Symposium 3.6 - Marine and aquatic microbiology
11:00AM - 12:30PM
Wednesday, 9th July
Grand 4
Chair: Linda Blackall
Peculiar Antarctic ecosystems - overview of 'meta-omic' studies and focus on promiscuous haloarchaea
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Ricardo Cavicchioli
Ecogenomics and environmental flows: delivers the goods, but can muddy the waters.
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Gavin Rees
Marine microbial ecology at the scale of individual drops of seawater
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Justin Seymour
Patterns and Predictions in marine microbiota
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Mark Brown
Symposium 4.6 - Surface structures and complex machines
11:00AM - 12:30PM
Wednesday, 9th July
Element Room
Chair: Chaille Webb
Characterising Protein Glycosylation in Pathogens
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Anne Dell
The translocation and assembly module (TAM) and beta-barrel assembly machinery (BAM) function in outer membrane protein assembly.
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Trevor Lithgow
The
N
-linked glycosylation system of
Campylobacter jejuni
: a functional proteomics approach
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Stuart J. Cordwell
Preventing superbugs from sticking around: Novel anti-adhesion therapeutics against multidrug resistant pathogens
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Makrina Totsika
Lunch
12:30PM - 1:30PM
Wednesday, 9th July
Grand 7 & Lobby (Exhibition Hall)
History SIG
12:45PM - 1:30PM
Wednesday, 9th July
Grand 3
Microbial Informatics SIG
12:45PM - 1:30PM
Wednesday, 9th July
Element Room
BD Trade Symposium
12:30PM - 1:30PM
Wednesday, 9th July
Grand 4
Symposium 1.7 - Vet/Parasitology/Mycobacteria
1:30PM - 3:00PM
Wednesday, 9th July
Grand 1 & 2
Chair: Paul Johnson
First discovery of Dientamoeba fragilis cysts in human stool and description of the cyst formation pathway inferred from RNA-seq
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Damien Stark
Antimicrobial effects of honey on three problematic bacterial pathogens seen in the horse.
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Gary Muscatello
Plasmodium Falciparum Exosomes Contain Nuclear and Organellar DNA
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Matthew A Pimentel
Comparative genomics of koala, cattle and sheep strains of
Chlamydia pecorum
provides novel insight into chlamydial host adaptation
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Adam Polkinghorne
Bacterial filamentation as a survival strategy: searching for novel cell division regulators in Mycobacteria.
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Samuel Burns
The role of Blastocystis sp. In Irritable Bowel Syndrome
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Tamalee Roberts
Symposium 2.7 - Animal Health
1:30PM - 3:00PM
Wednesday, 9th July
Grand 3
Chair: Cameron Stewart
Was it the Wombat?
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Fleur Francis
Wobbly possum disease - the proof of causation
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Julia Giles
Identification of novel insect-specific flavivirus from Aedes vigilax mosquitos collected in Sydney, Australia
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Breeanna McLean
Recombinant ELISA antigens derived from domain III of the flavivirus envelope protein differentiate infections with West Nile virus and Murray Valley encephalitis virus in horses.
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Thisun BH Piyasena
Phylogeography of beak and feather disease virus from Australian cockatoos reflects host generalism and an order-wide quasispecies effect within Psittaciformes
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Subir Sarker
Evolution of Antiviral Resistant Influenza Virus Strains with Mass Trees
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Kavya Swaminathan
Symposium 3.7 - Microbes Working For Us
1:30PM - 3:00PM
Wednesday, 9th July
Grand 4
Chair: Mike Manefield
Isolation of Australian electricigenic bacteria
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Rochelle Maile
Exploiting microbial communities as circuit boards in microbiotechnology development.
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Mike Manefield
RNA-stable isotope probing elucidates the outcome of competition between indigenous seawater bacteria and bioaugmentation strains in oil hydrocarbon degradation
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Iman Taleb
Extracellular Mercury Sequestration by Exopolymeric Substances produced by
Yarrowia
spp. during Growth: Thermodynamics, Mass Action Equilibrium, and Kinetics Studies.
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Ganiyu O Oyetibo
Synthetic biology based microbial biosensors for the detection of heavy metals
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Lara T Bereza-Malcolm
Optimization of degradation of winery-derived biomass waste by Ascomycetes
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Avinash V Karpe
Symposium 4.7 - Molecular structure and function of pathogen proteins
1:30PM - 3:00PM
Wednesday, 9th July
Element Room
Chair: Denisse Leyton
Identification of substrate recognition sites for type III effector NleC of enteropathogenic
E. coli
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Cristina Giogha
The Mechanism Of Transcription Pausing, And It’s Potential As A Target For Antibiotic Development
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Peter Lewis
Coordinating bacterial cell division with nutrient availability: a role for glycolysis
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Leigh G Monahan
The molecular composition and morphological features of malaria parasite, P. falciparum- derived exosomes
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Xavier Sisquella
The human fungal pathogen
Candida albicans
hijacks pyroptosis for escape from macrophages
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Ana Traven
The role of ribosomal protein L31 in Acinetobacter baumannii intracellular zinc homeostasis
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Betty Suryawati
Afternoon Tea
3:00PM - 3:30PM
Wednesday, 9th July
Grand 7 & Lobby (Exhibition Hall)
Symposium 1.8 - Zoonoses
3:30PM - 5:00PM
Wednesday, 9th July
Grand 1 & 2
Chair: Steven Djordjevic
Clostridium difficile
in animals - a risk to animals and humans?
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Thomas V Riley
Inoculation of cattle with novel
Escherichia coli
antigens reduces enteric colonisation by enterohaemorrhagic
E. coli
O26.
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Rowland Cobbold
Vaccines for Control of Two Neglected Zoonotic Diseases, Neurocysticercosis and Hydatid Disease
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Marshall W Lightowlers
Diagnosing Lyme Disease in Australia
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Stephen Graves
Symposium 2.8 - One Health
3:30PM - 5:00PM
Wednesday, 9th July
Grand 3
Chair: Melissa Churchill
Hospitals as incubators of emerging viral infections.
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Lyn Gilbert
Host microRNA profiling for the early detection of Hendra virus infection in horses
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Cameron Stewart
Animal–Human interactions with influenza viruses and their potential impact on human health
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Ian Barr
Everyone has Herpes! Studies in Australian Wildlife
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Joanne Devlin
Symposium 3.8 - Microbial Informatics
3:30PM - 5:00PM
Wednesday, 9th July
Grand 4
Chair: Torsten Thomas
An ace up their sleeve: a novel family of drug efflux systems represented by the
Acinetobacter
AceI exporter
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Ian T Paulsen
Meta-genomics/-transcriptomics using MEGAN
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Suparna Mitra
The Biogeography of Melioidosis in Papua New Guinea and Northern Australia
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Anthony Baker
Metagenomic Hi-C: toward strain- and plasmid-level resolution of genomes in microbial communities
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Aaron E Darling
Symposium 4.8 - Host-pathogen interactions
3:30PM - 5:00PM
Wednesday, 9th July
Element Room
Chair: Mark Walker
NOD1 sensing of the gastric pathogen
Helicobacter pylori
: A double-edged sword?
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Richard Ferrero
Identification of novel glycan interactions associated with host colonisation by globally disseminated group A
streptococcus
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Martina Sanderson-Smith
The Role of Plasminogen in
Clostridium difficile
Infection
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Milena M Awad
Transposon mutagenesis reveals essential roles for Dot/Icm effectors in
Coxiella burnetii
pathogenesis
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Hayley J Newton
Closing Address
5:00PM - 5:15PM
Wednesday, 9th July
Grand 1 & 2
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