Tuesday, 12th July Australian Society for Microbiology Annual Scientific Meeting 2022
Nancy Millis Student Breakfast
7:30AM - 8:45AM
Tuesday, 12th July
Meeting Room E3.1 & E3.2
Host-Pathogen Interactions 1
9:00AM - 10:30AM
Tuesday, 12th July
Cockle Bay Rooms
Chairs: Ana Traven & Cristina Giogha
- Capturing Legionella effectors that target the host epitranscriptome - Kitty McCaffrey
- Available soon - Glen Ulett
- An unexpected link between Clostridioides difficile sporulation and antibiotic resistance - Yogitha N Srikhanta
- Targeting of microvillus protein Eps8 by the NleH effector kinases from enteropathogenic E. coli - Cristina Giogha
- Dynamic localisation of DamX regulates bacterial filamentation and division during UPEC dispersal from host cells - Bill Söderström
- ‘Metabolic upcycling’ – insights into the metabolic underpinning of Haemophilus influenzae persistence in human airways - Ulrike Kappler
Public Health
9:00AM - 10:30AM
Tuesday, 12th July
Meeting Room C3.4
Chairs: John Ferguson & David Gordon
- Where are we on the road towards hepatitis B cure? - Peter Revill
- Furthering epidemiological knowledge of paediatric RSV through record linkage - Hannah C Moore
- Development of diagnostic microbiology and quality management in Papua New Guinea - John K Ferguson
- A pilot study of meningococcal carriage among Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people in the Pilbara: implications for future studies. - August Mikucki
- A longitudinal genomic survey of invasive pneumococcal serotype 3 disease in Australia - Shona Chandra
- A changing landscape of Neisseria gonorrhoeae genotypes; rise of the susceptible clones? - Ella Trembizki
Veterinary Microbiology
9:00AM - 10:30AM
Tuesday, 12th July
Meeting Room C3.5
Chairs: Martina Jelocnik & Gary Muscatello
- Nemabiome metabarcoding for identity and drug-resistance: gastrointestinal worms matter - Jan Slapeta
- Zoonotic hookworms – not just a cause of cutaneous larva migrans - Rebecca Traub
- Phasevarions in bacterial veterinary pathogens: a gambling strategy to generate diversity - John Atack
- Dust infection model for Salmonella Typhimurium infection in poultry - Samiullah Khan
- Geographical variation in antimicrobial resistance patterns of bacteria isolated from canine skin and ear samples in Queensland - Sara Horsman
- Whole-genome sequencing of Australian equine and avian Chlamydia psittaci strains: One clone to rule them all? - Rhys T White
Marine Microbiology
9:00AM - 10:30AM
Tuesday, 12th July
Meeting Room C3.6
Chairs: Michelle Moffitt & Anusuya Willis
- Lighting up the dark - microbial dark matter matters in mats - Brendan P Burns
- Microbes and Viromes of sharks and rays - Elizabeth Dinsdale
- Genomic divergence powers the diversity of microbial photosymbionts in coral reefs - Cheong Xin Chan
- Emergent community architecture despite distinct diversity in the global whale shark epidermal microbiome - Michael P Doane
- Asgardians of the Galaxy: Cultivation of Eukaryotic-Like Archaea - Fraser I MacLeod
- Molecular hydrogen is an overlooked energy source for marine bacteria - Rachael Lappan
Morning Tea
10:30AM - 11:00AM
Tuesday, 12th July
The Gallery
Plenary Session
11:00AM - 12:30PM
Tuesday, 12th July
Cockle Bay Rooms
Chairs: Megan Lenardon & Peter Revill
Lunch
12:30PM - 2:00PM
Tuesday, 12th July
The Gallery
Nancy Millis Student & ECR Lunch
12:30PM - 2:00PM
Tuesday, 12th July
Meeting Room E3.1 & E3.2
Nancy Millis Student Awards
2:00PM - 3:30PM
Tuesday, 12th July
Cockle Bay Rooms
Chair: Cheryl Power
- Are all plumbing materials created equally? Antimicrobial activity of brass versus stainless steel against opportunistic premise plumbing pathogens - Claire Hayward
- Inhibition of an Acid-Sensing Two-Component Regulatory System as a Novel Therapeutic Strategy for Tuberculosis - Miljan Stupar
- N-acetyl-β-hexosaminidase is important for chitooligosaccharide metabolism and biofilm formation in Burkholderia pseudomallei - Clare L Moran
- The Antibacterial Power of Plasma-Activated Water - Joanna G Rothwell
- Last-line antimicrobial resistance in vancomycin-resistant Enterococcus faecium is an unintended consequence of rifamycin antibiotic use - Adrianna Turner
Afternoon Tea
3:30PM - 4:00PM
Tuesday, 12th July
The Gallery
Molecular Virology
4:00PM - 5:30PM
Tuesday, 12th July
Cockle Bay Rooms
Chairs: Timothy Newsome & Rebecca Rockett
- High throughput single cell analysis of vaccinia virus replication - Timothy P Newsome
- GENOMICS TO PHENOTYPE – Functional Genomics Provides Evidence Based Public Health - Rebecca J Rockett
- Tracking COVID-19 in New Zealand using genomics - Jemma L Geoghegan
- Patterns of within-host variation of SARS-CoV-2 - Jessica E Agius
- Mining bat transcriptomes: can we find the next pandemic virus? - Tanu Sridhar
- Assessing the fitness of a dual-antiviral drug resistant human influenza virus in the ferret model. - Harry Stannard
Mobile Genetic Elements
4:00PM - 5:30PM
Tuesday, 12th July
Meeting Room C3.4
Chairs: Slade Jensen & Sally Partridge
- The life and death of Starship transposable elements in fungi - Alexander Idnurm
- Discovery of integrons in Archaea: platforms for cross-domain gene transfer - Sasha Tetu
- The dif module mobile element system of Acinetobacter species; role in spreading antibiotic resistance and environmental survival genes. - Ruth M. Hall
- Recipient cell surface structures modulate the outcome of gene transfer by bacterial conjugation. - Galain C Williams
- Conjugation efficient hybrid interference plasmids to cure target antibiotic resistance plasmids in vivo - Muhammad Kamruzzaman
- Sequencing of Acinetobacter baumannii isolate MRSN56 reveals a novel route to antibiotic resistance via IS26-mediated gene amplification - Christopher J Harmer
Antimicrobial Targets
4:00PM - 5:30PM
Tuesday, 12th July
Meeting Room C3.5
Chairs: Julianne Djordjevic & Adele Lehane
Sponsored by:
- A drug candidate for Alzheimer's and Huntington's disease, PBT2, can be repurposed to render Neisseria gonorrhoeae susceptible to cationic antimicrobial peptides. - Freda Jen
- Combatting bacterial antimicrobial resistance through new antibiotics that target multidrug resistant microbes - Henrietta Venter
- Host-dependent resistance of Group A Streptococcus to folate pathway antibiotics - Tim Barnett
- The critical role of dietary lipids during bacterial infection and their impact on antibiotic treatment - Bart Eijkelkamp
- Defects in DNA double-strand break repair re-sensitise antibiotic-resistant Escherichia coli to multiple bactericidal antibiotics - Sarah Revitt-Mills
- Development of broad-spectrum antivirals for positive-sense RNA viruses using in silico methods - Grace JH Yan
Biofilms
4:00PM - 5:30PM
Tuesday, 12th July
Meeting Room C3.6
Chairs: Scott Rice & Luke Allsopp
- Axes of Microbial Pathogenesis - Helicobacter pylori and Parkinson's disease - Jim Manos
- When lightning strikes water: Cold plasma technology to fight antibiotic-resistant bacteria and biofilms - Katharina Richter
- Novel perspectives on biofilms as diversity incubators in the microbial world. - Anahit Penesyan
- Disarming Proteus mirabilis and blowing its cover: N acetylcysteine inhibits P. mirabilis urease activity and prevents catheter encrustation due to biofilm formation in catheter-associated UTIs - Arthika Manoharan
- Efficacy of a metal chelator as antibacterial agent against staphylococci biofilms - Laurine Kaul
- The cyclophilin, PpiA, is involved in motility, biofilm formation and polyhydroxybutyrate production in Burkholderia pseudomallei - Nicole M Bzdyl
Break
5:30PM - 5:45PM
Tuesday, 12th July
Award Lectures
5:45PM - 7:15PM
Tuesday, 12th July
Cockle Bay Rooms
Chair: Kate Seib
- Guanylate-binding proteins (GBPs) provide a host-inspired roadmap for the design of synthetic antimicrobial peptides - Daniel Enosi Tuipulotu
- The Persistence of Microbes: uncovering microbial survival strategies through metagenomics - Rachael Lappan
- Down the helix: a molecular journey through antimicrobial resistance - Amy Cain
- Shining a light on regulatory RNA function in bacterial pathogens - Jai Tree
- The Ins and Outs of Gram-negative Cell Envelopes - Karl Hassan
Poster Session II and 'Trade Night'
7:15PM - 8:45PM
Tuesday, 12th July
The Gallery
- Detection and characterization of Legionella pneumophila associated free-living amoebae from engineered water systems - Muhammad Atif Nisar
- Skeletons out of the closet: evolution of the dynamic cytoskeleton unveiled by the Asgard Archaea lineage - Stephanie-Jane Nobs
- IL-18R-dependent protection against bacterial pneumonia by epithelial cells - Lara Oberkircher
- Light and fast – high-throughput UV-Visible method for assessing antimicrobial activity - Rebecca Orrell-Trigg
- Analysing The Impact Of pH On The Human Faecal Virome Cultivated in Mini-Bioreactors - Evan J Pargin
- A flexible, standardised, genomic nomenclature for Bordetella pertussis using multilevel genome typing (MGT). - Michael Payne
- GraphSNP: Using a graph approach to investigate outbreak cluster and transmission in a web browser - Budi Permana
- Indirect regulation of the glutamine transporter GlnPQ by cyclic-di-AMP affects cefuroxime resistance in Lactococcus lactis - Huong Pham
- A fluorescent Pseudomonas sp. can utilise ferric phytate as a sole phosphorus source and improve Triticum aestivum phosphorus uptake from sodium phytate. - Carl Pille
- Evolutionary defences of Bacteroides and how phages overcome them. - Will Plewa
- Characterisation of a hybrid histidine kinase controlling acetate transport and metabolism in Acinetobacter baumannii - Alaska Pokhrel
- A novel, in vitro model to study the effects of human GI microbiota on Candida albicans - Matthew Prokop
- Development of point-of-care test for hepatitis B virus (HBV) infection. - Rayid K. Qasim
- Wastewater-based monitoring reveals geospatial-temporal trends for antibiotic-resistant bacterial pathogens in Sydney, Australia, from 2017 to 2019 - Zillur Rahman
- Genomic characterization of extended-spectrum beta-lactamase-producing and carbapenem-resistant Enterobacteriaceae isolated from urban Wastewater - Zillur Rahman
- Bioaccessibility of Lactobacillus acidophilus LA-5 does not vary with the type of carrier milk matrices - Senaka Ranadheera
- Characterization of microbiome composition of Acanthamoeba isolates recovered from clinical and environmental samples - Binod Rayamajhee
- Investigating the effects of salinity on wheat plant-soil microbiomes - Dante Romeo
- The effects of glucose on microbial spoilage of vacuum-packed lamb - Laura Rood
- Comparison of minimum inhibitory concentrations by Etest® and broth microdilution for Granulicatella and Abiotrophia spp. - Lamali Sadeesh Kumar
- A probabilistic model to assess the risk of listeriosis from paneer consumption: initial framework, scenario analysis and risk estimates for Australia - Dipon Sarkar
- Structure-function studies of CetZ tubulin-like cytoskeletal protein from haloarchaea - Vinaya Shinde
- Insertion of blaCTX-M-15 within a phage-inducible chromosomal island in Shigella flexneri serotype 6 - Eby M Sim
- Whale shark skin microbiome are stable across size and sex, but vary over days - Amber Skye
- ESBL and MRSA carriage rates in Timor-Leste: a hospital based surveillance study. - Jessie C Spargo
- News ways that pathogenic bacteria resist killing by zinc or copper - Matthew J Sullivan
- Towards the Development of Novel Intelligent Antibacterial Coatings - Tahnim TS Sultana
- Co-occurence of non-Saccharomyces yeast in the natural fermentation of palm wine in Indonesia - I Nyoman Sumerta
- Turning the spotlight on persisters: investigation of intracellular pH and redox activity of Escherichia coli antibiotic persisters with fluorescence-activated cell sorting - Joanna Urbaniec
- The hidden world of Antarctic Streptomyces - Jordan Vink
- Investigation of Australian Erysipelothrix rhusiopathiae reveals the diversity of Australian isolates compared to rest of the world - John Webster
- The complete genome sequence of five Escherichia coli sequence type (ST)1193 strains provides detailed insight into a contemporary pathogen - Rhys T White
- Regulation of conjugation in Escherichia coli involves a complex interaction between plasmid-borne factors and host-encoded factors - Alma Wu
- The Commercial Herbicide Florasulam is a Drug-Lead for Tuberculosis Treatment - Shun Jie Wun
- Inactivation of Jag enhances osmotic resistance in Lactococcus lactis - Yuwei Xiang
- Evaluating the effectivity of treatment options for intracellular S. aureus infections in osteomyelitis - Anja Zelmer
- Vancomycin Fluorescent Probes: Tools to Study Mechanisms of Antibiotic Action and Bacterial Membrane Damage - Bing Zhang
- Phage defence and Shiga toxin production in enterohaemorrhagic E. coli - Pranita Poudyal
Virtual Poster Session
7:15PM - 8:45PM
Tuesday, 12th July
- Lysins as promising therapeutics against Uropathogenic Escherichia coli - Syed Ahmed
- Gut Microbiota in Diabetes - Serena Chong
- Exploring bacterial contamination in water play parks and the associated potential public health risks - Lauren Cullinan
- Identification of putative substrate-binding pockets of the QacA multidrug resistance protein: Incentivising the rational development of efflux pump inhibitors - Abolfazl Dashtbani-Roozbehani
- New frontier in the antimicrobial world? Whole plant extracts with antibiofilm activity - Cathrina Geldard
- Exposure to puroindoline-based peptides confers transient resistance in Acinetobacter baumannii and Pseudomonas aeruginosa - Maryam MG Ghahri
- In Situ Structures of Bacterial Toxin Delivery Systems by Electron Cryotomography - Debnath Ghosal
- The evaluation of Azotobacter vinelandii in continuous culture - Srinivasan Jayashree
- Dissecting Listeria monocytogenes persistent contamination in a retail market using whole-genome sequencing - Lijuan Luo
- Understanding toxic cyanobacterial bloom dyanamics through proteogenomics - Daniel Nebauer
- The journey to rapid antibiotic resistance detection in Mycobacterium tuberculosis with direct sequencing of sputum samples: the benefits, the precautions, and the solution - Ting Leung Timothy Mr Ng
- Density and diversity of Strep A emm-types to inform sore throat and skin sore epidemiology and transmission - Janessa Pickering
- Microcystis ecotype emergence within wastewater treatment ponds - Caitlin Romanis
- A synthetic antifungal peptide mimic kills Candida albicans by targeting protein glycosylation and synergistically prevents infection - Sebastian Schaefer
- Rapid molecular diagnostics for extensively drug-resistant Salmonella Typhi - Jacob Tickner
- qPCR enhances detection of Strep A in skin and throat specimens from children at higher risk of disease - Bernadette Wong