Wednesday, 6th 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 5
8:30AM - 9:15AM
Wednesday, 6th July
Bellevue Ballroom 2
Chair: Christopher Peacock
Early-life exposures, the gut microbiome and allergic asthma development in childhood
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Susan Lynch
Plenary 6
9:15AM - 10:00AM
Wednesday, 6th July
Bellevue Ballroom 2
Chair: Mark Schembri
Unexpected Functions of Three Classical Group A Streptococcal Virulence Factors to Modulate Innate Immunity
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Victor Nizet
Morning Tea
10:00AM - 10:30AM
Wednesday, 6th July
Exhibition Hall
Emerging zoonotic infections of public health importance
10:30AM - 12:00PM
Wednesday, 6th July
Bellevue Ballroom 2
Chair: Sam Abraham
From chickens to koalas – An overview of bacterial zoonotic infections in Australia
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Pat Blackall
Australian Ticks in the Lyme-light
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Charlotte Oskam
A retrospective study of
Babesia macropus
associated with morbidity and mortality in eastern grey kangaroos and agile wallabies.
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Christopher S Peacock
Viruses and Public Health
10:30AM - 12:00PM
Wednesday, 6th July
Meeting Room 1
Chair: Heidi Drummer
A Large Prolonged Mumps Outbreak in Highly Vaccinated Aboriginal Western Australians
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Paul Effler
Rotavirus vaccination: impact of introduction on circulating wildtype rotavirus strain population in Australian children
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Carl Kirkwood
Examining past and future Hepatitis C virus epidemic trends in the era of direct acting antivirals
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Rowena Bull
Resistance mechanisms to antimicrobial agents
10:30AM - 12:00PM
Wednesday, 6th July
Meeting Room 2
Chair: David Hampson
Predicting the risk of antibiotic resistance evolution—which parameters should be measured?
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Dan Andersson
Mechanisms of antimicrobial-resistance gene transfer in
Staphylococcus
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Joshua p Ramsay
Genomic resistance island AGI1 carrying a complex class 1 integron in a multiply-antibiotic resistant ST25
A. baumannii
from an Australian Hospital
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Ruth Hall
Microbial cell processes
10:30AM - 12:00PM
Wednesday, 6th July
Meeting Room 3
Chair: Kate Seib
A novel role for a chromosome segregation protein in regulating cell division in bacteria
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Elizabeth Harry
Replication fork collapse and processing in living bacteria
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Ian Grainge
High resolution CryoTEM analysis of the MRSA 70S ribosome; understanding the molecular basis of multidrug resistance
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Matthew Belousoff
Poster Session B/Lunch
12:00PM - 1:30PM
Wednesday, 6th July
Exhibition Hall
Novel SSCmecIV element confers high level tolerance to tobramycin and kanamycin in
Staphylococcus aureus
ST93 MRSA
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Patiyan Andersson
A cryptic
vanB2
operon carried on a
Tn
1549-like element in
Clostridium difficile
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Grace A Androga
The diversity of virulence genes is related to unexpected purifying evolutionary pressures differentially affecting clades of
Moraxella catarrhalis
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Amir Ariff
A brief note on the molecular characteristics of
Alloiococcus. otitidis:
an organism
isolated from Indigenous and non-Indigenous children in the Hunter region
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Joanne Barfield
Potential origin of the Australian extensively antibiotic resistant global clone 2
Acinetobacter baumannii
isolates
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Grace A Blackwell
Identification of
Acinetobacter baumannii
type VI secretion system toxins
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John D Boyce
Investigating differences in nitrogen fixation efficiency in
Mesorhizobium
microsymbionts of the pasture legume
Biserrula pelecinus
.
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Rachel Brewer
Investigating the role of Cyclophilins in the virulence of
Burkholderia pseudomallei
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Nicole Bzdyl
Co-infection of multiple Helicobacter species in a Western Australian cohort.
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Ju Yee (Joey) Chong
Cloning, expression and characterization of GH10 and GH11 xylanases from
Paenibacillus
sp MAEPY2 from landfill leachate
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Patric Chua
Tyrosinase inhibitory and antioxidant activities of three
Lactobacillus acidophilus
-fermented herb extracts
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Ying-Chien Chung
Bioelectricity production generated from pure algal microbial fuel cell (AMFC)
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Ying-Chien Chung
The new skin-care bio-membrane for antioxidant, anti-aging, and whitening functions from
green algae
by using plant factory
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Ying-Chien Chung
Phosphatidylcholine and cholesteryl esters as antibacterial compounds in tears
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Katie da Silva-Antunes
Genetic diversity of
Enterococcus faecalis
isolated from environmental, animal and clinical sources in Malaysia
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Diane Daniel
Microbial-Mineralogical properties of biomineralized cave speleothems indicate their influence on Mechanical properties
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NAVDEEP DHAMI
A Retrospective Clinical Audit on the Management of Abscesses in a Western Australian Peripheral Hospital
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Aaron Esmaili
Exploring loss in
E. coli
culturability after combined cold and osmotic shock
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Tai Gardner
Bacterial and archaeal diversity and composition in mangrove sediments along the WA coast
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Deirdre B Gleeson
A trimethoprim-sulphamethoxazole-resistant, methicillin-resistant
Staphylococcus aureus
clone isolated from skin sores of children in remote communities of the Northern Territory, Australia
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Tegan M Harris
Evolution of N
2
-fixing symbioses through acquisition of tripartite mobile genetic elements
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Timothy L Haskett
Monitoring of microbial indicators and food-borne pathogens in various food and functional health food categories for evaluation of microbial criteria
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Eun Jeong Heo
Isolation, characterization, and application of a lytic phage active against Shiga toxin-producing
Escherichia coli
O157:H7 contaminated to raw beef
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Son Hoang Minh
Identifying Urine Constituents that Trigger Filamentation of Uropathogenic
E. coli
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Greg Iosifidis
Burkholderia pseudomallei
capsule exacerbates respiratory melioidosis but does not afford protection against antimicrobial signalling or bacterial killing in human olfactory ensheathing cells
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Deepak Samuel Ipe
Review Of The Settling Plate Method For Indoor Air Quality And Mould Inspections
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Cameron Jones
Indoor Fungal Biogeography Mapping Using Word Clouds In Residential Real Estate And Their Potential Use For Identifying Insurance Fraud
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Cameron L Jones
Potential for Misuse of Fungal Exposure Thresholds Used for Risk Assessment in Building Biology
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Cameron Jones
Microbiological quality of dietary supplements in South Korea
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JEEEUN KIM
The potential of
Streptomyces
as biocontrol agent against rice blast fungus,
Magnaporthe oryzae
(
Pyricularia oryzae
)
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Jodi Woan-Fei Law
High prevalence of
Clostridium difficile
found on Australian retail vegetables
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Su Chen Lim
Prevalence and distribution of
Clostridium difficile
PCR ribotypes in gardening products
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Su Chen Lim
Antibody Titres to Bacterial Protein Vaccine Candidate Antigens in Children with Obstructive Sleep Apnoea and Recurrent Tonsillitis
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Tulia Mateus
Screening for Carbapenemase-producing Enterobacteriaceae (CPE), A Local Approach to a Global Concern
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P Meade
Streptococcus pseudopneumoniae -
An Identification Algorithm for an Emerging Pathogen
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Margaret Savanyo
Horizontal gene transfer events in asymptomatic carriage and pathogenic isolates of
Neisseria meningitidis
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Christopher Mullally
Evaluating the Role of CRISPR-Cas in the Inhibition of Antimicrobial-Resistance Plasmid Transfer in
Staphylococcus aureus
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Riley Murphy
Identifying the genetics steps in the development of antibiotic resistance in
Helicobacter pylori
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Wen Qi Ong
Novel primer sets for next generation sequencing-based analysis of water quality
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Andrea Paparini
Novel Chromosomal Variants Facilitating Polymyxin Resistance in Extensively Drug-Resistant
Klebsiella pneumoniae
from Clinical and Induced Isolates
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Miranda E Pitt
Characterising the putative helix-helix-turn-helix (H-HTH) DNA-binding domain of the IS
26
-encoded transposase, Tnp26
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Carol H. Pong
The role of the TCA cycle in symbiotic N
2
-fixation in
Phaseolus vulgaris
(common bean) bacteroids
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Talitha H Rogers
New targets for the old drugs: exploring the antimicrobial potential of sulfonamide carbonic anhydrase inhibitors.
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Anna Roujeinikova
Transfer of
Campylobacter
and
Salmonella
from poultry onto poultry processing and preparation surfaces
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Amreeta Sarjit
Quaternary mixture of PAHs degradation potential of bacterial consortia–significance for bioremediation of crude oil contaminated soil
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Hemen Sarma
A novel actinobacterium,
Streptomyces malaysiense
sp. nov., isolated from Malaysian mangrove soil with cytotoxic potential against human cancer cell lines
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Hooi-Leng Ser
Comparative genomics of the meat spoilage organism,
Brochothrix thermosphacta
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Tamsyn Stanborough
Lovastatin production by
Aspergillus terreus
using a novel substrate as a carbon source in solid state fermentation
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Mishal Subhan
DARTSEQ AS A METHOD FOR CHARACTERIZATION AND IDENTIFICATION OF BACTERIAL ISOLATES
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Berenice Talamantes Becerra
MUM256: A Malaysia mangrove soil
Streptomyces
species with apoptosis-inducing properties in cancer cells
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Tan Loh Teng Hern
Bioleaching with Phosphate Solubilising Microorganisms for Recovery of Rare Earth Elements from Western Australian Monazite
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Elizabeth Watkin
Saline water bioleaching with halotolerant iron and sulfur oxidizing microorganisms
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Elizabeth Watkin
Anti-biofilm activity of red pitahaya (
Hylocereus polyrhizus
) and red spinach (
Amaranthus dubius
) extracts: a comparative study
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Yi Yi Yong
Deciphering the molecular recognition of origin-of-transfer sequences by the pWBG749 family of
Staphylococcus aureus
conjugative plasmids
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Karina Yui Eto
Biogas plants: Source of sink for antibiotic resistant bacteria?
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Peter Kaempfer
Diverse bacterial species in the microbiome of upper respiratory tract of patients with chronic rhinosinusitis and healthy participants
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Hanna E. Sidjabat
Eremophila:
Native plants as novel sources of antibacterial compounds
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Dane Lyddiard
SIG Meeting: EDUSIG
12:10PM - 12:40PM
Wednesday, 6th July
Meeting Room 1
Proffered papers 4 - Division 1: Zoonoses Division
1:30PM - 2:30PM
Wednesday, 6th July
Bellevue Ballroom 2
Chair: Charlotte Oskam
Endemic Australian
Chlamydia psittaci
strains from humans and parrots cluster within the highly virulent 6BC clade of this important zoonotic pathogen
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Adam Polkinghorne
Isolation of
Cryptococcus neoformans
var.
grubii
(serotype A) and
C. magnus
from the nasal lining of free-ranging quokkas (
Setonix brachyurus
) on Rottnest Island (Western Australia).
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Pedro A. Martinez-Perez
Circoviruses evolve more slowly than their hosts
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Shubhagata Das
Can RCPAQAP Help your Laboratory Detect Lyme Disease?
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Raellene Dare-Smith
Proffered papers 5 - Division 2: Viral Pathogenesis
1:30PM - 2:30PM
Wednesday, 6th July
Meeting Room 1
Chair: Jillian Carr
Intracranial injection of dengue virus induces interferon stimulated genes and CD8+ T cell infiltration in mice
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Wisam Al Shujairi
Molecular Mechanisms of Evolutionary Adaption in Insect-specific Flaviviruses
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Thisun BH Piyasena
A Novel Alphavirus isolated from
Culex annulirostris
mosquitoes in the Kimberley, Western Australia.
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Alice Michie
A new orbivirus isolated from mosquitoes in north-western Australia shows antigenic and genetic similarity to Corriparta virus but does not replicate in vertebrate cells
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Jessica J Harrison
Proffered papers 6 - Division 3: Environmental Microbiology
1:30PM - 2:30PM
Wednesday, 6th July
Meeting Room 2
Chair: Deepak Kumaresan
Stenotrophomonas maltophilia
: a multiple drug resistant bacterium to a potential herbicide degrading bacterium
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Chong Seng Shit
Salmonella enterica
spp isolated from egg farm environments are able to form biofilm on the eggshell
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Vivek Pande
Methanotrophy across a climate critical thaw environment
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Caitlin M Singleton
Limitations of PCR using ERMI for the Assessment of Water Damaged Buildings
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Heike Neumeister-Kemp
Proffered papers 7 - Division 4: Drug resistant bacteria and drug development
1:30PM - 2:30PM
Wednesday, 6th July
Meeting Room 3
Chair: Philip Giffard
Exploring
Klebsiella
capsule diversity: multi-drug resistant vs hypervirulent clones
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Kelly L Wyres
Unravelling the role of IS
26
in the formation of transposons carrying antibiotic resistance genes
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Christopher J Harmer
Development of recombinant human PON2 as a novel antimicrobial agent
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Louise Roddam
Evaluation of novel inhibitors against
Burkholderia pseudomallei
Mip protein
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Mitali Sarkar-Tyson
Afternoon Tea
2:30PM - 3:00PM
Wednesday, 6th July
Exhibition Hall
Infections of animal health significance
3:00PM - 4:30PM
Wednesday, 6th July
Bellevue Ballroom 2
Chair: John Boyce
Predictive strategies for the control of mycobacterial infection in ruminants
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Kumudika de Silva
Investigation into the occurrence of newly recognised agents of swine dysentery in Australian pig herds
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David J Hampson
Vaccinating Fish- Development of Oral Fish Vaccines
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Andrew R Bridle
Human Virology
3:00PM - 4:30PM
Wednesday, 6th July
Meeting Room 1
Chair: Rowena Bull
Influenza antivirals and resistance
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Aeron Hurt
Antigenic and immunogenic studies on the Hepatitis C Virus E2 glycoprotein: Insights into vaccine design.
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Heidi Drummer
Zika virus: the French Polynesian experience
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Van-Mai Cao-Lormeau
Microbial symbiotic relationships
3:00PM - 4:30PM
Wednesday, 6th July
Meeting Room 2
Chair: Joshua Ramsay
Single cell measurements of metabolic activity: towards a functional understanding of symbiotic interactions in corals
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Mathieu Pernice
Horizontal gene transfer and nitrogen fixation in newly evolved
Mesorhizobium
microsymbionts
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Jason Terpolilli
The science of growing truffles in Western Australia
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Harry Eslick
Bacterial interactions with host defences
3:00PM - 4:30PM
Wednesday, 6th July
Meeting Room 3
Chair: Charlene Kahler
Boosting Endogenous Antimicrobial Activities to Combat Multi-Drug Resistant Bacterial Pathogens
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Victor Nizet
Role of small RNAs in Wolbachia-host interactions
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Sassan Asgari
Staying alive: inhibition of cell death by enteropathogenic
E. coli
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Jaclyn S Pearson
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