Division 1 - Medical & Veterinary Microbiology
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
Controversies in Diagnosis of Infectious Diseases
10:30AM - 12:00PM
Monday, 4th July
Bellevue Ballroom 2
Chair: John Turnidge
Using genomics to track the emergence and evolution of staphylococci in hospital and community settings in Australasia
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Deborah Williamson
Controversies in HIV Care
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Matthew Skinner
Enteroviruses - a difficult phylogenetic journey.
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David Speers
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
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Joan L Faoagali
New Therapeutics and Vaccine Against Chikungunya Virus
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Suresh Mahalingam
An outbreak of infectious syphilis in northern Australia, 2011-2015: the epidemiology and public health response.
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Johanna Dups
Social media - a new tool in the management of communicable and non-communicable disease.
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Enrico Coiera
Impact of Automation in the Diagnostic Laboratory
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Tony Field
Zika - the last Arbovirus
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Linda Hueston
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?
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Bernadette M Saunders
Detecting viruses and emerging viral pathogens – Challenges for Public Health Laboratories
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Glenys R Chidlow
Culture-independent diagnostic tests for sepsis and AMR
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Tim Inglis
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
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
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