Monday, 4th July Australian Society for Microbiology Annual Scientific Meeting 2016
Nancy Millis Student Mentoring Breakfast
7:30AM - 8:30AM
Monday, 4th July
Meeting Room 3
Plenary 1
8:30AM - 9:15AM
Monday, 4th July
Bellevue Ballroom 2
Chair: Tim Inglis
Plenary 2
9:15AM - 10:00AM
Monday, 4th July
Bellevue Ballroom 2
Chair: Jon Iredell
Morning Tea
10:00AM - 10:30AM
Monday, 4th July
Exhibition Hall
Controversies in Diagnosis of Infectious Diseases
10:30AM - 12:00PM
Monday, 4th July
Bellevue Ballroom 2
Chair: John Turnidge
Respiratory Viruses
10:30AM - 12:00PM
Monday, 4th July
Meeting Room 1
Chair: Megan Lloyd
A Healthy Biosphere
10:30AM - 12:00PM
Monday, 4th July
Meeting Room 2
Chair: Gupta Vadakattu
Drug Discovery
10:30AM - 12:00PM
Monday, 4th July
Meeting Room 3
Chair: Mitali Sarkar-Tyson
Lunch
12:00PM - 1:30PM
Monday, 4th July
Exhibition Hall
SIG Meeting: History
12:10PM - 12:40PM
Monday, 4th July
Meeting Room 1
SIG Meeting: Microbial Ecology
12:10PM - 12:40PM
Monday, 4th July
Meeting Room 2
Nancy Millis Student/ECR Mentoring Lunch
12:00PM - 1:30PM
Monday, 4th July
Meeting Room 3
Thermofisher Workshop - Phenotypic analysis of antibiotic resistance by acoustic flow cytometry
12:15PM - 1:15PM
Monday, 4th July
Bellevue Ballroom 2
Sponsored by:
Presented by Tim JJ Inglis, Medical Microbiologist, Pathwest and Mike Ward, Senior Engineer, Thermo Fisher Scientific
Patient Testing and Infectious Diseases (Serology SIG)
1:30PM - 3:00PM
Monday, 4th July
Bellevue Ballroom 2
Chair: Justin Morgan
- Near patient Testing and Infectious Diseases: Impacts and Challenges for Microbiology and Microbiologists, 2016 and Beyond - Joan L Faoagali
- New Therapeutics and Vaccine Against Chikungunya Virus - Suresh Mahalingam
- An outbreak of infectious syphilis in northern Australia, 2011-2015: the epidemiology and public health response. - Johanna Dups
- Social media - a new tool in the management of communicable and non-communicable disease. - Enrico Coiera
- Impact of Automation in the Diagnostic Laboratory - Tony Field
- Zika - the last Arbovirus - Linda Hueston
Proffered papers 1 - Division 2: Viral immunology
1:30PM - 2:45PM
Monday, 4th July
Meeting Room 1
- Zika Virus Neutralising Antibodies in West Australian Travelers - Kritu Panta
- MCMV immunomodulatory genes are important for viral persistence - Laura L Masters
- Building Better Inhibitors to Influenza by Understanding the Molecular Basis of Antiviral Binding to their Target Proteins - Kevin Downard
- Rotavirus infections in the vaccine era – a community-based birth cohort study - Suifang Ye
- Monitoring of DENV-2 in a Western Australian traveller cohort shows persistence of a novel Cosmopolitan genotype lineage that emerged in Indonesia in 2011 - Timo Ernst
Proffered Papers 2 - Division 3: Microbial Ecology
1:30PM - 2:45PM
Monday, 4th July
Meeting Room 2
Chair: Elizabeth Watkin
- Advantages, Concerns and Caveats with omics data processing – a microbial ecologist perspective - Gupta Vadakattu
- Spatial and temporal analysis of microbiome assemblages in wastewater plants - Andrea Paparini
- Microbial community dynamics and carbonate precipitation during biostimulation and bioaugmentation in soils for sustainable construction materials - NAVDEEP DHAMI
- In vitro invasive capacity of Salmonella strains into sections of the layer hen oviduct - Andrea R McWhorter
- Bypassing the Bacteria problems in environmental sequences. Western Australia’s semi-arid soils as a case study - Ben Moreira-Grez
Proffered papers 3 - Division 4: Molecular Microbiology
1:30PM - 2:45PM
Monday, 4th July
Meeting Room 3
Chair: Alfred Chin Yen Tay
- Possible synergistic roles of the enteropathogenic Escherichia coli Type III effectors NleB and NleF - Georgina L. Pollock
- Expanding the solar spectrum used by photosynthesis - The cyanobacterium Croococcidiopsis thermalis grown under far-red light - Dennis J Nürnberg
- Perturbation of the two-component signal transduction system, BprRS, results in attenuated virulence and motility defects in Burkholderia pseudomallei - Marina Harper
- Single-molecule imaging of DNA polymerases in E. coli. - Andrew Robinson
- Moraxella catarrhalis ModM: an epigenetic regulator with a potential role in otitis media - Luke V Blakeway
3 minute Thesis - Division 2
2:45PM - 3:00PM
Monday, 4th July
Meeting Room 1
- Health Seeking Behaviours and Knowledge of Infectious Disease Risks in Western Australian Travellers to Southeast Asian Destinations: An Airport Survey - Chloe A Thomson
- Does BCG vaccination influence the immune response to Plasmodium falciparum in humans? - Meng Wang
- The development of a protein-based vaccine against disease caused by Mycobacterium ulcerans - Kirstie M. Mangas
- Filamentation as a Survival Strategy: Identification of a Novel Regulator of Cell Division During Stress - Shirin Ansari
3 minute Thesis - Division 3
2:45PM - 3:00PM
Monday, 4th July
Meeting Room 2
- Inositol pyrophosphate PP-IP5 is crucial for the metabolic adaptation of Cryptococcus neoformans to the host environment and for its dissemination to the central nervous system - Cecilia Li
- A non-antibiotic strategy to combat S. aureus biofilms by targeting the iron metabolism - Katharina Richter
- Bacterial metabolism of thiopurines: evidence for an alternative purine nucleotide salvage pathway - Ramya Movva
- Chlorine-rich plasma polymer coating for the prevention of attachment of pathogenic fungal cells onto materials surfaces - Stephanie J Lamont-Friedrich
3 minute Thesis - Division 4
2:45PM - 3:00PM
Monday, 4th July
Meeting Room 3
- Genetic characterization of Australian Mycoplasma bovis isolates through whole genome sequencing analysis - Alysia M Parker
- Culture-independent genomics supports pathogen discovery for uncultivable bacteria within the genus Chlamydia - Alyce Taylor-Brown
- Transcontinental changes in the population structure of Neisseria meningitidis and coverage of the BEXSERO® vaccine in Western Australia and Victoria - Shakeel Mowlaboccus
- Characterising quorum-sensing antiactivation in Mesorhizobium loti R7A - Drew A Hall
Afternoon Tea
3:00PM - 3:30PM
Monday, 4th July
Exhibition Hall
Emerging Technologies in the Clinical Laboratory
3:30PM - 5:00PM
Monday, 4th July
Bellevue Ballroom 2
Chair: Deborah Williamson
- MicroRNA as biomarkers for infection - can they be used to aid diagnosis and monitoring response to tuberculosis infection? - Bernadette M Saunders
- Detecting viruses and emerging viral pathogens – Challenges for Public Health Laboratories - Glenys R Chidlow
- Culture-independent diagnostic tests for sepsis and AMR - Tim Inglis
Viral Host interactions
3:30PM - 5:00PM
Monday, 4th July
Meeting Room 1
Chair: Roy Hall
- The Dengue Human Infection Model: A tool to advance vaccine development and the search of immune correlates of protection - Anna P Durbin
- Influenza A virus Nucleoprotein is a major target of immunodominant CD8+ and CD4+ T cell responses - Weisan Chen
- The increasing global burden of mosquito-transmitted diseases; the on-going search for answers - Lara J Herrero
Global Climate and Health Ecosystem
3:30PM - 5:00PM
Monday, 4th July
Meeting Room 2
Chair: Torsten Thomas
- Gene- and genome-centric metagenomic analysis of complex microbial communities along a permafrost thaw gradient - Ben Woodcroft
- Analyzing ancient bacterial DNA locked in Antarctica to understand past climate change - Laura Weyrich
- Impact of pH on microbial succession during plant residue decomposition - Deirdre B Gleeson
Modelling Infectious Disease
3:30PM - 5:00PM
Monday, 4th July
Meeting Room 3
Chair: Scott Beatson
- ‘The Pertussis Perplex – Shifting Schedules and Strategies’ - Jodie McVernon
- Modelling infectious disease systems to quantify intervention effectiveness and cost-effectiveness, with application to influenza and dengue - George Milne
- Understanding Respiratory Synctial Virus: can mathematical models help? - Hannah C Moore
Break
5:00PM - 5:15PM
Monday, 4th July
Award Ceremony
5:15PM - 5:30PM
Monday, 4th July
Bellevue Ballroom 2
Chair: Jon Iredell
Pittard Lecture
5:30PM - 5:50PM
Monday, 4th July
Bellevue Ballroom 2
Chair: Jon Iredell
Fenner Lecture
5:50PM - 6:10PM
Monday, 4th July
Bellevue Ballroom 2
Chair: Jon Iredell
Fenner Lecture
6:10PM - 6:30PM
Monday, 4th July
Bellevue Ballroom 2
Chair: Jon Iredell
Gilbert Lecture
6:30PM - 7:00PM
Monday, 4th July
Bellevue Ballroom 2
Chair: Jon Iredell
Trade Night Drinks
7:00PM - 8:00PM
Monday, 4th July
Exhibition Hall
Annual General Meeting
7:30PM - 8:30PM
Monday, 4th July
Bellevue Ballroom 2