Tuesday, 2nd July Australian Society for Microbiology Annual Scientific Meeting 2019

• The contribution of membrane transporter proteins to extensively-drug resistant phenotypes in Acinetobacter baumannii - Miguel Viveiros
• Structural dynamics of Neisserial membrane proteins: what can we learn from in silico studies? - Megan L O'Mara
• Exploring physiological substrates of the prototypical PACE family efflux pump AceI - Karl Hassan
• ZorO kills but does it save? - Bikash Bogati
• Staphylococcal multidrug efflux pump QacA: identification of functionally-important residues in helix 12 - Abolfazl Dashtbani Roozbehani
• Acinetobacter baumannii employs multiple pathways for zinc and cadmium export - Bart A Eijkelkamp

• HIV Viral Persistence and Immune Interactions - Alan Landay
• Disarming a killer: targeting of natural killer cells by varicella zoster virus - Allison Abendroth
• Cytomegalovirus latency and reactivation: new insights and clinical implications - Mariapia Degli-Esposti
• Can vaccination prevent viral persistence? - Natalie Prow
• Exploring Mechanisms of Antiviral Resistance in Influenza with a Mass Based Phylonumerics Approach - Kevin M Downard

• Designing peptide polymers as antibiotic adjuvants for multidrug resistant bacteria - Neil O'Brien-Simpson
• Octapeptins – Development of Novel Lipopeptides for The Treatment of MDR/XDR Gram-Negative Infections - Mark A. T. Blaskovich
• In the world of modern antibiotic discovery how much do we really know? - Ernest Lacey
• Storage temperature influences the in vitro invasiveness of Salmonella Typhimurium and minimises disease in mice - Andrea R McWhorter
• Engineering well-defined gold nanoparticles for the treatment of drug resistant bacteria - Nirmal Goswami
• Intermittent fasting effects the mouse gut microbiota and colonic mucin glycosylation in a diet-specific manner - Hasinika K.A.H. Gamage

• Inhaled bacteriophage and endolysin therapy for respiratory infections - Hak-Kim Chan
• Not available - Sandra Morales
• Selection of bacteriophages for therapeutic use against multidrug resistant pathogens. - Carola Venturini
• Membrane vesicles (MVs) as an outcome of bacteriophage mediated bacterial lysis - Pappu K Mandal
• Phage therapy in the 21^st Century: AMR, Phage & Synthetic Biology - Karen D Weynberg
• Phage Therapy in the Postantibiotic Era - Fernando Gordillo Altamirano

• The microbial ecology of our homes - Noah Fierer

• The global movement of fungal crop pathogens: models, predictions and perils. - Sarah Gurr

• Multivariate microbiome data analysis and omics data integration - Kim-Anh Le Cao
• Not available   - Kathryn Holt
• Identifying new metabolic pathways and drug targets in microbial pathogens - Malcolm McConville
• ARDaP: Antimicrobial Resistance Detection and Prediction from whole-genome sequence data - Danielle Madden
• Unveiling microbial diversity and activity in cystic fibrosis sputa using microbial metatranscriptomics - Erin P. Price
• Biological insights into the mechanisms that define the lipidomic landscape of Acinetobacter baumannii - Felise G Adams

• Howard Walter Florey: Baron of Adelaide and MarstonHoward Walter Florey: Baron of Adelaide and Marston - Daniel McMichael
• History of the Institute of Medical and Veterinary Science - Christopher Burrell
• CJ: Charles James Martin, an unstoppable plugger - Cheryl Power

• Student-Professional-Academic Co-creation of collaborative and active learning approaches in the new UTS PC2 Superlab - Wilhelmina Huston
• A ‘Students as Partners’ Approach to Co-creation of Assessment and Feedback to improve Engagement - Nicolene Lottering
• Not available - Adam Montagu

• Phosphohydrolase genes in soil are locally responsive but globally conserved - Andrew L Neal
• The prevalence and distribution of microbial communities that mediate the nitrogen cycle in Australian soils - Pauline M Mele
• Insights into the dynamic wheat microbiome – responses to challenges by pathogens and beneficial microorganisms. - Chris Franco
• Diversity of ACC Deaminase-positive Bacteria – plant and soil factors - Gupta Vadakattu
• Using genome-wide screening to identify genes important for bacterial attachment to plant surfaces - Belinda Fabian
• Bacterial consortia reduce severity of Fusarium wilt in cotton - Zhiguang Qiu

• Two long stories from the Northern Territory - Philip M Giffard
• Not available  - Anton Peleg
• Not available - Makrina Totsika
• Immune regulatory role of flagellin from uropathogenic Escherichia coli during acute urinary tract infection - Dhruba Acharya
• Investigation of the IcsA-mediated Shigella adherence - Jilong Qin
• Comparison of the role of extracellular vesicles (EVs) from methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus (MRSA) isolated from ampicillin stressed and unstressed state on β-lactam antibiotics - Tae Sung Jung

• Taking aim at the flavivirus NS1 protein - Daniel Watterson
• Cysteine proteinase propeptides exhibit secondary functions as bacteriocins - Christine A Seers
• Not available - Steven Djordjevic
• Autoinducer 2 and Galactose: How Quorum Sensing Dictates Sugar Metabolism in Streptococcus pneumoniae - Kimberley T McLean
• Surfaceome analysis of Australian epidemic Bordetella pertussis - Laurence Don Wai Luu

• Strategies to treat recalcitrant biofilm infections. - Robert EW Hancock
• Cross-talk between host and bacterial metabolisms influences the susceptibility of biofilms to aminoglycoside antibiotics - Aurélie Crabbé
• Associational resistance to predation by protists in a mixed species biofilm - Diane McDougald
• Repurposing the metal chelator diethyldithiocarbamate to inhibit bacterial growth of staphylococci - Laurine Kaul
• Staphylococcus aureus biofilm exoprotiens impairs the nasal epithelial barrier   - Beula Panchatcharam
• Large Scale-Free Network Organization is Likely Key for Biofilm Collective Behaviour - Kumar Selvarajoo

• What’s New in the Detection of Bloodstream Infections? - Karen Carroll
• Not available - Alexis Perez Gonzalez
• Clinical metagenomics of fungal infections as basis for precision-based medicine - Wieland Meyer
• A Genotyping strategy for M. intracellulare isolates in QLD - Robyn Carter
• Development of a novel real-time PCR assay for detecting the bacterial pathogen Stenotrophomonas maltophilia - Tamieka A Fraser
• Application of MALDI-TOF MS in foodomics - Snehal R Jadhav

• The planetary health imperative to eliminate nuclear weapons: progress and prospects - Tilman Ruff

Cash bar available from 8:30-10pm