Wednesday, 13th July Australian Society for Microbiology Annual Scientific Meeting 2022

• DEVELOPMENT OF A HUMAN NEONATAL ROTAVIRUS VACCINE (RV3-BB) TO TARGET PROTECTION FROM ROTAVIRUS DISEASE FROM BIRTH - Julie E Bines
• Rapid Response with the Molecular Clamp Vaccine Platform - Daniel Watterson
• Progress towards a vaccine to prevent gonorrhoea - Kate Seib
• Determining the role of phase-variable DNA methyltransferases in Actinobacillus pleuropneumoniae - Nusrat Nahar
• Koala combination vaccine against Chlamydia and KoRV induces cellular immune response in wild free ranging koalas - Samuel Phillips
• Novel small molecules that increase the susceptibility of Neisseria gonorrhoeae to cationic antimicrobial peptides by inhibiting lipid A phosphoethanolamine transferase - Charlene Kahler

• Foodborne pathogens as adulterants? - Julian Cox
• Anti-biofilm activity of cold atmospheric-pressure plasma - Anne Mai-Prochnow
• Reduction of Environmental Listeria Using Gaseous Ozone in a Cheese Processing Facility. - Sofroni Eglezos
• Genomic epidemiology and multilevel genome typing of Australian Salmonella enterica serovar Enteritidis   - Lijuan Luo
• Evaluating plasma-activated water as a method for controlling Salmonella on egg farms - Adrian I Abdo
• Peroxyacetic acid and acidified sodium chlorite reduce Campylobacter jejuni and Salmonella Typhimurium contamination on whole chicken carcasses and reduce bacterial virulence - Andrea R McWhorter

• A new water sanitiser for widespread use in the food industry - Abiodun D Ogunniyi
• Silver gulls and Salmonella: microbial exchange at the human-wildlife interface - Bethany Hoye
• F Plasmid Lineages in Escherichia coli ST95: Implications for Host Range, Antibiotic Resistance, and Zoonoses - Max L Cummins
• Cyanobacteria as a critical reservoir of the environmental antimicrobial resistome - Verlaine J Timms
• Plasmids of multidrug resistant Klebsiella pneumoniae pathogenic clones. - Carola Venturini
• A role for ColV plasmids in the evolution of pathogenic Escherichia coli ST58 - Steven P Djordjevic

• Defining new molecular pathways involved in stomach B cell lymphoma associated with chronic Helicobacter pylori infection - Richard Ferrero
• Chronic unexplained (functional) gut disorders and novel gut bacteria - Nicholas Talley
• Developing novel microbial therapeutics to prevent life-threatening fungal infections - Megan D Lenardon
• Characterising the functional diversity of the gastrointestinal microbiota - Remy B Young
• Clostridioides difficile infection damages host recovery processes - Ashleigh P Rogers
• Understanding increased virulence of invasive multidrug resistant Salmonella enterica - Jaclyn S Pearson

• Coral reef bacteriology and virology: What we know and how it informs us about the principles of microbiomes - Rebecca Vega-Thurber
• L-form bacteria: antibiotics, lytic enzymes, oxidative stress and recurrent infection - Jeff Errington

A support network for LGBTQIA+ microbiologists and their allies where we can openly talk about what it is to be sexually and gender diverse in heteronormative environments, how we can express ourselves and how we support each other to get the best for ourselves. This session follows on the heels of the inaugural LGBTQIA+ Network event hosted by the NSW-ACT Branch and now we aim to take the network national. So come along to learn more, get involved or to just have a chat with like-minded people

Contact Maurizio Labbate and Heema Vyas for more information.

• Lessons from COVID-19, and future challenges - Kerry Chant

• Transitioning to a teaching and research position – tales from an ex-research only fellow. - Sheena McGowan
• The tracks of my years – in teaching - Julian Cox

Panel Discussion:

• Martina Jelocnik
• Jack Wang
• Sheena McGowan
• Julian Cox

• A short history of hospital IPC in Australia: post-WW2 to COVID-19 - Lyn Gilbert
• Sydney’s Vaccine Institution: our local response to a global disease - Peter Hobbins

• Fabricating fluorescent food-poisoning friends for fun and finance - Nicholas Coleman
• Protozoan predation drives tuned biofilm formation and fibril formation in Pseudomonas fluorescens SBW25.  - Heather Hendrickson
• Replication control of enetrococcal pRUM-like MDR plasmids - Slade Jensen
• An epigenetic switch activates bacterial quorum sensing and horizontal DNA transfer - Tahlia R Bastholm
• Visualization of mRNA Expression in Pseudomonas aeruginosa Aggregates Reveals Spatial Patterns of Fermentative and Denitrifying Metabolism  - Jadzia R K Livingston
• A small protein plays a big role in archaeal cell division - Yan Liao

• Domination through Microbial Manipulation: An investigation of how Australian native shrubs can inhibit forestry plantation establishment by driving repressive soil microbiomes - Jonathan Plett
• Microbial community responses to drought in dryland soils - a continental and global view - Thomas Jeffries
• Understanding and mitigating microbial disease in our underwater forests - Suhelen Egan
• An oxygen-insensitive hydrogenase extracts and reduces respiratory quinone using atmospheric hydrogen - Chris Greening
• Nomadic communities emerge from natural microbial communities - Susanna R Grigson
• An investigation into the Antarctic uncultured bacterial phylum Candidatus Eremiobacterota - Dana Tribbia

• Challenges in the chronic management of cryptococcosis - Tania Sorrell AM
• Monkeypox – an old virus causing a new problem - Dominic Dwyer
• Rapid method combining genotypic and phenotypic measures for viability and antibiotic susceptibility - Nicole E Lima
• The efficacy of antioxidant-antibiotic combination therapy on Achromobacter xylosoxidans in a cystic fibrosis lung cell model. - Aditi Aiyer
• A modern-day detective finding a way to use bioinformatics tools to detect stx1/2 genes in shiga toxin-producing E. coli isolates - Raquel Cooper
• SALTy: a novel Staphylococcus aureus Lineage Typing tool  - Liam Cheney

• Novel antibiotic adjuvant approaches against multidrug resistant pathogens and biofilms - Makrina Totsika
• Antibiotic discovery from human pathogenic Nocardia species - Sacha Pidot
• A diamond in the rough: high-throughput approaches to hone antibiotic discovery - Amy K Cain
• Broad-spectrum in vitro activity of macrophage infectivity potentiator inhibitors against Gram-negative bacteria - Nicole Bzdyl
• Next-generational antimicrobial eutectogels for rapid wound treatment - Miyah Awad
• Delivering fluconazole to cryptococcus neoformans in style using pH-responsive lipid nanoparticles - Sheeana Gangadoo

• Large and alternatively coded phages, obligate symbionts and other intriguing members of human microbiomes - Jill Banfield