Division 4 - Microbial Genetics, Physiology and Pathogensis
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
Drug Discovery
10:30AM - 12:00PM
Monday, 4th July
Meeting Room 3
Chair: Mitali Sarkar-Tyson
Teixobactin - a new antibiotic that kills by dual target inhibition
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Brian Conlon
Advancing Infectious Disease Research through Structural Genomics
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Peter J Myler
Bacterial disarmament: DSB proteins as anti-virulence targets
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Roisin M McMahon
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
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Georgina L. Pollock
Expanding the solar spectrum used by photosynthesis - The cyanobacterium
Croococcidiopsis thermalis
grown under far-red light
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Dennis J Nürnberg
Perturbation of the two-component signal transduction system, BprRS, results in attenuated virulence and motility defects in
Burkholderia pseudomallei
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Marina Harper
Single-molecule imaging of DNA polymerases in
E. coli.
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Andrew Robinson
Moraxella catarrhalis
ModM: an epigenetic regulator with a potential role in otitis media
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Luke V Blakeway
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
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Alysia M Parker
Culture-independent genomics supports pathogen discovery for uncultivable bacteria within the genus
Chlamydia
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Alyce Taylor-Brown
Transcontinental changes in the population structure of
Neisseria meningitidis
and coverage of the BEXSERO
®
vaccine in Western Australia and Victoria
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Shakeel Mowlaboccus
Characterising quorum-sensing antiactivation in
Mesorhizobium
loti
R7A
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Drew A Hall
Modelling Infectious Disease
3:30PM - 5:00PM
Monday, 4th July
Meeting Room 3
Chair: Scott Beatson
‘The Pertussis Perplex – Shifting Schedules and Strategies’
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Jodie McVernon
Modelling infectious disease systems to quantify intervention effectiveness and cost-effectiveness, with application to influenza and dengue
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George Milne
Understanding Respiratory Synctial Virus: can mathematical models help?
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Hannah C Moore
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
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
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
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
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