Thursday, 14th July Australian Society for Microbiology Annual Scientific Meeting 2022

• The Future (Remains) Uncertain - Anticipating and responding to COVID-19 - Jodie McVernon
• SARS-CoV-2 and Influenza: Lessons from pandemic respiratory viruses - Kanta Subbarao
• Research and response to COVID-19 in low- and middle-income countries: perspectives from the Asia-Pacific region. - Meru Sheel
• Rapid isothermal detection of Zika virus as an alternative to RT-PCR - Rickyle C Balea
• Designing therapeutic topical emollients to enhance skin barrier function in preterm infants - Noor-Ul-Huda Ghori
• Antiviral Activity of Black Silicon Surfaces - Samson Mah

• Capsular polysaccharide types from Acinetobacter baumannii are determined from an extensive and diverse repertoire of genes found both within and outside the chromosomal locus for capsule biosynthesis - Johanna J Kenyon
• Altered glycosylation of the spike protein in a variant of SARS-CoV-2 - Ben Schulz
• Location, location, location… Using glycoproteomics to understand the substrates and targeting specificities of bacterial PglL glycosylation systems - Nichollas E Scott
• Salivary glycan dynamics during experimental human Streptococcus pyogenes pharyngitis - Anuk Indraratna
• Streptolysins are the primary inflammasome activators in macrophages during Streptococcus pyogenes infection - Johanna Richter
• Probing the expression and adhesion of glycans involved in Helicobacter pylori infection - Daniel Sijmons

• Harnessing the ancient antibacterial weaponry of the type VI secretion system for fighting the antibiotic resistance crisis in the third millennium - John D Boyce
• Half a century after their discovery, cryo-EM structures of Redβ and Erf annealases provide insights into their evolution and molecular mechanisms - Gökhan Tolun
• Transporters in Plasmodium falciparum - new drug targets and resistance determinants - Adele M Lehane
• Deployment of the type six secretion system arsenal by a sigma factor and enhancer binding protein in Pseudomonas aeruginosa - Luke P Allsopp
• Characterising the Tasmanian devil genovirome - Emma F Harding
• Genetically distinct M-related proteins from Group A Streptococcus and their interactions with human IgG - Emma-Jayne Proctor

• Exploring the chemical ecology of an oomycete pathogen, its host, and environment. - Monica Gerth
• Using bacteria to grow mushrooms - the microbial ecology of mushroom compost - Michael Kertesz
• Microbial recruitment, survival, and succession in environments at extremes of pH and salinity - Talitha C Santini
• Atmospheric trace gas oxidation fuels bacterial energy requirements in diverse environments - Zahra F Islam
• Living on a (Pr)Air; Characterising atmospheric chemosynthesis in bacteria and cold desert microbiomes - Angelique Ray
• Uncovering the diversity and plant growth promotion potential of native australian seed microbiomes for improving restoration practices. - Allison Mertin

• Representing the team: selecting protein antigens for CD4⁺ T cell-mediated immunity against intracellular bacterial infection - Nancy Wang
• LAT8881 and other naturally derived cytokine peptides limit respiratory virus replication and severe disease - Michelle Tate
• Nanobodies against COVID-19. - Wai-Hong Tham
• Anti-staphylococcal effect of cold atmospheric plasma is driven by de novo generation of oxygen derivatives in NOX2 dependent manner - Nadira Frescaline
• Polymicrobial biofilm formation by Enterococcus faecalis and Staphylococcus aureus results in resistance and immunomodulation of murine neutrophils - Claudia J Stocks
• Francisella tularensis subsp. novicida infection triggers host immunity via inflammasome signalling and antimicrobial killing by guanylate-binding proteins - Shouya Feng

• Evolution of DNA-binding specificity on a rugged fitness landscape - Colin Jackson
• Bioengineering textiles with synthetic biology: from dyeing fibres to capturing viral particles. - Laura Navone
• The rapid evolution of flagellar ion-selectivity in experimental populations of E. coli - Matt Baker
• Defining the molecular mechanisms driving microbial polyurethane degradation - Lucie Semenec
• TraDISort a holistic approach to metabolic engineering for small molecule overproduction   - Evan Gibbs
• Evolution and characterisation of a plant-like chalcone synthase from cyanobacteria - Joachim Larsen

• Clinical implementation of routine whole-genome sequencing for hospital infection control of multi-drug resistant pathogens - Brian M Forde
• Understanding the mechanisms and collateral damage of common antimicrobial biocides - Francesca Short
• Analysis of the putative replication initiation proteins encoded by plasmids found in Acinetobacter baumannii - Mehrad Hamidian
• Detailed analysis of an expanded Clostridium perfringens genome collection identifies novel plasmids. - Emily L Gulliver
• FIXATION OF ANTIMICROBIAL RESISTANCE GENES IN BACTERIAL CHROMOSOMES - Alicia Fajardo-Lubian
• Uncovering the role of the functional small RNA interactome in antibiotic tolerance in Staphylococcus aureus - Winton Wu

• Type III CRISPR-Cas provides resistance against nucleus-forming jumbo phages via abortive infection - Peter Fineran
• L-form switching confers antibiotic, phage and oxidative stress tolerance in pathogenic Escherichia coli   - Aleksandra Petrovic-Fabijan
• Two-step receptor binding required for bacteriophage infection of Klebsiella pneumoniae. - Rhys A Dunstan
• Application of Next Generation Sequencing for Detection and Identification of Bacteriophages. - Tara L Cassidy
• Hecatomb: An End-to-End Bioinformatics Research Platform for Viral Metagenomics - Michael J Roach
• Using assembly graphs to identify bacteriophages associated with gastrointestinal diseases - Vijini Mallawaarachchi

• The ARC Centre of Excellence in Synthetic Biology - Inspired by Nature, Designed by Science - Ian Paulsen

Lunch is only available to those who have a CliniCon ticket. 

• Faecal Microscopy – Sorting the Parasites from the Crap - Richard Bradbury
• A REVIEW OF BLOOD BORNE PARASITES. - Francesca Azzato
• e-diagnosis in Parasitology - Harsha Sheorey
• A case of Echinococcus sp and helicobacter pylori - Mikayla T Kingston
• Burkholderia pseudomallei – Laboratory identification in the MALDI-TOF era and safety - Robert Norton

• Mycobacteria – more than just TB - Maria Globan
• Buruli ulcer: a tropical disease in temperate Victoria - Caroline Lavender
• Not available - Taryn Crighton
• A changing landscape of Neisseria gonorrhoeae genotypes; rise of the susceptible clones? - Ella Trembizki
• Development and evaluation of a novel Multiple Cross Displacement Amplification assay for detection of toxigenic Clostridioides difficile as a Point-of-care testing - Dazhi Jin