Invited Speaker
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
Bazeley Oration (Sponsored by CSL) Ulrike Holzgrabe
6:30PM - 7:30PM
Sunday, 3rd July
Bellevue Ballroom 2
Chair: Russell Basser
Sponsored by:
CSL Limited
Small Molecules for Treatment of Critical Infectious Diseases
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Ulrike Holzgrabe
Plenary 1
8:30AM - 9:15AM
Monday, 4th July
Bellevue Ballroom 2
Chair: Tim Inglis
Antimicrobial resistance (AMR) has recently been recognised as a major threat to the practice of modern medicine. There has been a particular upsurge in multi- drug resistant strains of gram negative bacteria, particularly
Enterobacteriaceae
and
Pseudomonas aeruginosa.
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Peter Hawkey
Plenary 2
9:15AM - 10:00AM
Monday, 4th July
Bellevue Ballroom 2
Chair: Jon Iredell
Evolution of antibiotic resistance at very low levels of antibiotics and heavy metals
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Dan Andersson
Pittard Lecture
5:30PM - 5:50PM
Monday, 4th July
Bellevue Ballroom 2
Chair: Jon Iredell
The orchestration of life and death by bacterial gut pathogens
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Jaclyn Pearson
Fenner Lecture
5:50PM - 6:10PM
Monday, 4th July
Bellevue Ballroom 2
Chair: Jon Iredell
Developing vaccines for bacterial chameleons
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Kate Seib
Fenner Lecture
6:10PM - 6:30PM
Monday, 4th July
Bellevue Ballroom 2
Chair: Jon Iredell
Sequential acquisition of virulence and fluoroquinolone resistance has shaped the evolution of
Escherichia coli
ST131
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Scott Beatson
Gilbert Lecture
6:30PM - 7:00PM
Monday, 4th July
Bellevue Ballroom 2
Chair: Jon Iredell
Delivering diagnostic microbiology: keep it interesting, keep it relevant and keep your eyes on the prize
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David Smith
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
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
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
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