Tuesday, 5th July
Australian Society for Microbiology Annual Scientific Meeting 2016
Days
Sunday, 3rd July
Monday, 4th July
Tuesday, 5th July
Wednesday, 6th July
Tracks
Division 1 - Medical & Veterinary Microbiology
Division 2 - Virology
Division 3 - General, Applied and Environmental Microbiology
Division 4 - Microbial Genetics, Physiology and Pathogensis
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Speakers
Plenary 3
8:30AM - 9:15AM
Tuesday, 5th July
Bellevue Ballroom 2
Chair: Allison Imrie
Zika virus vaccine development: design and implementation strategies
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Anna P Durbin
Plenary 4
9:15AM - 10:00AM
Tuesday, 5th July
Bellevue Ballroom 2
Chair: Charlene Kahler
Staphylococcus aureus
persisters – how they form and how to kill them
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Brian Conlon
Morning Tea
10:00AM - 10:30AM
Tuesday, 5th July
Exhibition Hall
ASA Session - Antimicrobial Resistance
10:30AM - 12:00PM
Tuesday, 5th July
Bellevue Ballroom 2
Chair: Roy Robins-Browne
The Australian Group on Antimicrobial Resistance (AGAR) – An Overview of Australia’s National Antimicrobial Resistance Active Surveillance Program
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Geoffrey Coombs
Strategies for Controlling Antimicrobial Resistance
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John Turnidge
Antimicrobial Stewardship
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Owen Robinson
The UK AMR initiative- will it have an impact?
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Peter Hawkey
Arboviruses
10:30AM - 12:00PM
Tuesday, 5th July
Meeting Room 1
Chair: David Smith
The West Australian Traveller Cohort: Returned Travellers with Well-Defined Flavivirus Infection
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Allison Imrie
From "spray ‘em and slay ‘em" to "Rear and Release
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Scott Ritchie
Killer mozzies and their mutant swarms: Evolutionary studies of Murray Valley encephalitis virus
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David T Williams
Unravelling Exotic Mosquito Incursions at Australian First Ports of Entry: 2012-2016
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Peter Neville
Geomining
10:30AM - 12:00PM
Tuesday, 5th July
Meeting Room 2
Chair: Andrea Paparini
Acidihalobacter prosperus
, a halophilic acidophile, has unique mechanisms to survive high chloride concentrations at low pH
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Elizabeth L Watkin
Mining with Microbes
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Carla Zammit
Microbiologically induced corrosion: Current knowledge, research and future needs
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Laura Machuca
Microbial responses to locally increased CO2 and CH4 in the deep terrestrial and marine subsurface
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John Moreau
Pathogenesis I
10:30AM - 12:00PM
Tuesday, 5th July
Meeting Room 3
Chair: Malcolm McConville
Isolation of Chlamydia trachomatis mutants that are resistant to a HtrA inhibitor
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Wilhelmina Huston
What more can genomics tell us about multi-drug resistant enterobacteriaceae?
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Scott Beatson
Animal models of infection with enterovirulent strains of
Escherichia coli
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Roy Robins-Browne
Using Molecular Community Analysis Tools to Control Infections in Catheterised Patients
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Scott A Rice
Poster Session A/Lunch
12:00PM - 1:30PM
Tuesday, 5th July
Exhibition Hall
Comparative Evaluation of MICRONAUT-AM EUCAST AFST2-Test Plate and Sensititre® YeastOne® Plate (CLSI) for Susceptibility Testing of
Candida
Species
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Vishal Ahuja
Immunization with a double-mutant (R192G/L211A) of the heat-labile enterotoxin of
Escherichia coli
offers partial protection against
Campylobacter jejuni
in an adult mouse intestinal colonization model
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M John Albert
Bacterial Analysis of Donated Human Milk
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Yahya Almutawif
Conjugal transfer of select acquired macrolide resistance genes from
Pasteurella multocida
to non-typeable
Haemophilus influenzae
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Chris Atkinson
Improving our understanding of the diagnosis, prevalence and impact of Chlamydia pecorum infections on a prime lamb production in Australia
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SANKHYA BOMMANA
Detection of
Propionibacterium acnes
– a comparison study of different incubation times.
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Ki Yung Brian Chung Tai Him
Clostridium difficile
infection in emergency department patients in Western Australia
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Deirdre A Collins
Surgical antibiotic prophylaxis use and infection prevalence in breast surgery
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Petra Czarniak
Caspofungin-induced
in-vitro
post-antifungal effect and its impact on hemolysin production and adhesion related traits of oral
Candida dubliniensis
isolates
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Arjuna N Ellepola
This retrospective study was conducted at different private hospital, Dhaka during July to December, 2015 with a view to find out incidence of UTI patients with aiming to testing antimicrobial drug susceptibility
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Kaniz Fatema
Carbapenem producing Enterobacteriaceae Screening
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Cathy Lowe
A novel real-time multiplex PCR assay to simultaneously detect
Streptococcus agalactiae
presence and discriminate between serotypes Ia, Ib and III
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Lucy L Furfaro
Contrasting population structures, host ranges and phylogeography for two newly defined species in the Staphylococcus aureus complex: Staphylococcus argenteus and Staphylococcus schweitzeri .
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Philip M Giffard
Novel antifungal surface coating minimises
Candida albicans
adhesion and biofilm formation
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Carla Giles
Rhodococcus equi
vaccines and the challenges of testing vaccines in foals
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Carla Giles
Anaplasmataceae in Australia: The first description of tick-borne Anaplasmataceae endemic to Australia
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Alexander W Gofton
Illuminating the bacterial communities of ticks that parasitise horses
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Telleasha L. Greay
AURA: Developing a national surveillance system for antimicrobial use and resistance in Australia
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John Turnidge
Repurposing Polyether Ionophores for Veterinary Applications
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Elizabeth Hickey
Staphylococcus aureus
colonisation and infection in a prospective cohort of dialysis clients and staff in the Northern Territory.
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Deborah C. Holt
Characterisation of a ribotype 251 strain of
Clostridium difficile
causing severe disease in the community
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Stacey Hong
Development of Fluorescence-Based Cell Assays Combined with
in situ
Hybridisation Enhanced Acoustic Flow Cytometry for Rapid Bacterial Detection in Patients with Bacteraemia
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Xiao Xuan Huang
Gram negative anaerobe susceptibility testing in clinical isolates using Sensititre and E-test methods
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Carly Hughes
TRACKING CHANGING LINEAGES OF METHICILLIN-RESISTANT STAPHYLOCOCCUS AUREUS IN HONG KONG HOSPITALS
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Margaret Ip
Curing transmissible antibiotic resistance from
Enterobacteriaceae
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Muhammad Kamruzzaman
Resolving inconclusive HCV genotypes generated by the Siemens Versant HCV Genotype 2.0 method with the Abbott RealTime HCV Genotype II assay.
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Todd M Pryce
Reproducibility of cryptococcal antigen titre by the IMMY test
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Dianne Gardam
Evaluation of the AusDiagnostics Herpes Assay for the detection of Herpes Simplex Virus and Varicella Zoster Virus in clinical samples using the AusDiagnostics High-Plex system
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Zamri Ahmad
IDENTIFICATION OF FILAMENTOUS FUNGI USING MALDI-TOF MS IN A CLINICAL MYCOLOGY LABORATORY IMPROVES TURN AROUND TIMES
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Marian Nure
Evaluation of the Abbott RealTime EBV assay for the quantitation of EBV in plasma samples using the Abbott m2000 system
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Valerie Hiew
Evaluation of the Adenovirus R-gene Assay for the quantitation of adenovirus in blood
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Trish Mitchell
Title: Evaluation of the Biofire FilmArray Respiratory Panel for the rapid detection of respiratory pathogens in a Quaternary Referral Hospital
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Rebecca Wake
Evaluation of the BinaxNOW
Streptococcus pneumoniae
Urinary Antigen Test for diagnosis of community acquired pneumoniae caused by
Streptococcus pneumoniae
.
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Liana Barrett
Susceptibility of Candida isolates from Royal Perth Hospital 1999 to 2014.
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Peter Boan
Incidence and antifungal susceptibility patterns among blood stream isolates of
Candida
species from a tertiary hospital in Western Australia.
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Dianne Gardam
Evaluation of the BK Virus R-gene Assay for the quantitation of BK virus in plasma and urine
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Liwen Lim
Bio-Rad Platelia™
Aspergillus
Antigen Galactomannan Assay at PathWest, Fiona Stanley Hospital
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Courtney Jeffery
Personalised treatment: the best strategy to combat antibiotic resistant
Helicobacter pylori
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Binit Lamichhane
Identifying protective microbial factors in recurrent acute otitis media
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Rachael Lappan
Disseminated Aspergillosis in a young immunocompetent host
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Gar-hing Lee
Identification and molecular characterisation of a novel
Borrelia
sp. in echidna ticks.
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Siew May Loh
Changes in sphingosine 1-phosphate during dengue virus infection
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Alexander M Abraham
Prevalence of toxin A negative, toxin B negative, binary toxin positive
Clostridium difficile
in symptomatic humans
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Alan M. McGovern
OUT OF THE BLUE: Fungal microscopy in colour
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Nur Ashilah Md Pajri
Outbreak of
Clostridium difficile
infection in suckling piglets in Eastern Australia
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Peter Moono
Aggregatibacter actinomycetemcomitans
osteomyelitis in a Paediatric Patient: Case Report and Literature Review
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Poonam Mudgil
Knowledge, attitudes and opinions on measles and the MMR vaccines across two NSW cohorts.
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Poonam Mudgil
Review of bronchiolitis cases in a public hospital in Southwest Sydney
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Poonam Mudgil
Multiplex qPCR assay for the detection and differentiation of Herpes simplex virus 1 and 2, and Varicella zoster virus
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Peter Njuguna
Antimicrobial susceptibility of
Campylobacter
species in Australian commercial chicken flocks
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Pongthorn Pumtang-on
Antimicrobial susceptibility of
Clostridium difficile
isolated in Thailand
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Papanin Putsathit
Toxin A-negative toxin B-positive ribotype 017 Clostridium difficile is the dominant strain type in patients attending tuberculosis hospitals in Cape Town, South Africa
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Sharon Reid
Antimicrobial activity of natural products against
Clostridium difficile
infection
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Niloufar N.R Roshan Hesari
Diversity of
Haemophilus influenzae
and
Haemophilus parainfluenzae
amongst Australian indigenous children characterised using MALDI-TOF
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Hanna E. Sidjabat
A Real-Time Taqman RT-PCR Method for the Quantification of Rhinovirus C (RV-C) in Respiratory Samples
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Chisha T Sikazwe
Direct and specific detection of
Neisseria gonorrhoeae
ciprofloxacin susceptibility—towards individualised treatment
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David Whiley
Purification and safety assessment of bacteriophage preparations against
Pseudomonas aeruginosa
infection in children with cystic fibrosis
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Stephanie Trend
Antimicrobial Use and Resistance in Australia (AURA): New Report Findings
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John Turnidge
Assessment of airborne
Actinobacillus pleuropneumoniae
within a commercial farming environment
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Anne E Watt
Rapid
Chlamydia trachomatis
genotyping assay designed using genome wide orthologous SNP information.
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Judith Wilson
Strongyloides
Serology – An evaluation of the NovaTec NovaLisa
TM
Strongyloides
ELISA
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Bruce Wong
Schistosoma
Serology – An evaluation of the NovaTec NovaLisa
TM
Schistosoma
mansoni ELISA
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Bruce Wong
Helicobacter pylori
Serology – An evaluation of the DiaSorin
Helicobacter pylori
IgG assay on the DiaSorin Liaison XL
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Bruce Wong
Assessment of
Ureaplasma parvum
serovar 3 penetration and inflammatory response in human fetal membranes using an ex-vivo dual-compartment perfusion model
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May Yee Yap
Prevalence of human parechovirus in cerebrospinal fluid samples from paediatric patients in Singapore in 2014
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Sharhana Yusof
Species Level Identification and Clinical Features of Actinomyces spp. using Bruker Daltonics Microflex LT system (MALDI TOF) in a Clinical Microbiology Laboratory
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Peivern Fong
Inability of
H. haemolyticus
to invade epithelial cells
in vitro
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Neeraj Singh
Antimicrobial Efficacy of Acticoat Treated with Saline vs. Water on Common Burn Wound Pathogens
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Monica Stelmach
Investigation for liaF deletion in vancomycin-resistant Enterococcus faecium isolates from Australian hospital patients
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Monica Stelmach
SIG Meeting: Public Health Microbiology
12:10PM - 12:40PM
Tuesday, 5th July
Meeting Room 1
SIG Meeting: Food Microbiology
12:10PM - 12:40PM
Tuesday, 5th July
Meeting Room 2
Editorial Board Meeting
12:10PM - 1:10PM
Tuesday, 5th July
Meeting Room 3
BD Awards Symposium
1:30PM - 3:00PM
Tuesday, 5th July
Bellevue Ballroom 2
Chair: Cheryl Power
Identifying the host substrates of the SseK glycosyltransferase effectors from
Salmonella
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Joshua P.M. Newson
Comparative invasion rate of nontypeable
Haemophilus influenzae
with multiple respiratory cell types
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Neeraj Singh
Microevolutionary analysis of
Clostridium difficile
PCR ribotype 014 lineage in Australian porcine and humans reveals signatures of long-range intra- and interspecies transmission
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Daniel R Knight
Is pentamidine resistance in
Acinetobacter baumannii
ATCC 17978 regulated by
adeRS
?
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Felise G Adams
Use of whole genome sequencing to track outbreaks of carbapenem-resistant
Enterobacter cloacae
in Queensland
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Leah W Roberts
The role of receptor Smad (R-Smad) proteins during vaccinia virus infection
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Caitlin R Abbott
Afternoon Tea
3:00PM - 3:30PM
Tuesday, 5th July
Exhibition Hall
Infectious Diseases of regional Australia
3:30PM - 5:00PM
Tuesday, 5th July
Bellevue Ballroom 2
Chair: Deborah Holt
Scabies and associated secondary infections
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Katja Fischer
Becoming unstuck – targeting bacterial persistence mechanisms in otitis media to improve treatments.
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Ruth b Thornton
Trachoma control in Australia: the pathway to elimination by 2020
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John Kaldor
Diversity of
Chlamydia trachomatis
in the Northern Territory: implications from basic science to child protection
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Philip M Giffard
Viral Discovery
3:30PM - 5:00PM
Tuesday, 5th July
Meeting Room 1
Chair: Allison Imrie
The risk of emerging arboviruses: Discovery of a divergent group of bunyaviruses in Australian mosquitoes
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Jody Hobson-Peters
Exploring the invertebrate virosphere using metatranscriptomics
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Mang Shi
A novel flavivirus in the yellow fever group, isolated from mosquitoes collected in northern Western Australia
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Cheryl A Johansen
The discovery of novel mosquito-borne flaviviruses provides new perspectives on viral host range, ecology and evolution.
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Roy A Hall
Ecology of the gut and healthy living
3:30PM - 5:00PM
Tuesday, 5th July
Meeting Room 2
Chair: Carl Kirkwood
Disease Severity and
in vitro
Immune Activity is Related to Discrete Inter-Kingdom Gut Microbiomes in Ethnically Distinct Ulcerative Colitis Patients
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Susan V Lynch
Manipulation of the gut microbiota using resistant starch is associated with protection against colitis-associated colorectal cancer in rats
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Claus T Christophersen
The Australian Mining Boom 2.0: Bioprospecting the Human Gut Microbiome for Lead Bioactives to Drive the Development of Novel Therapeutics
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Paraic O Cuiv
The Infant Nasopharyngeal Microbiome: Patterns and Its Impact on Asthma Development
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Danny Mok
Pathogenesis II
3:30PM - 5:00PM
Tuesday, 5th July
Meeting Room 3
Chair: Elizabeth Harry
Understanding virulence and fitness related features of the
E. coli
ST131 clone
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Mark Schembri
The role of transition metal ions at the host-pathogen interface
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Christopher McDevitt
Glycan:glycan interactions: A new paradigm in biomolecular interactions that can mediate binding of pathogenic bacteria to host cells.
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Christopher J Day
Measuring the metabolism of intracellular microbes; from culture flask to tissues
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Malcolm McConville
Break
5:00PM - 5:15PM
Tuesday, 5th July
Rubbo Oration Introduction
5:15PM - 5:30PM
Tuesday, 5th July
Bellevue Ballroom 2
Rubbo Oration – Anne Kelso
5:30PM - 6:30PM
Tuesday, 5th July
Bellevue Ballroom 2
Chair: Roy Robins-Browne
Balancing national research needs – is there a bug in the system?
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Anne Kelso
Rubbo Function
6:30PM - 8:00PM
Tuesday, 5th July
Exhibition Hall
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