Wednesday, 3rd July
Australian Society for Microbiology Annual Scientific Meeting 2019
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Speakers
Resistance and Persistence of microbes
8:30AM - 10:00AM
Wednesday, 3rd July
Hall C
Chairs: Philip Giffard & Kimberley McLean
The Osteocyte as a Target Cell and Disease Nidus in Human Periprosthetic Joint Infection
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Dongqing Yang
The Mathematical and Scientific Basis for Developing and Setting Epidemiological Cut-offs Values
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John Turnidge
High throughput robotic antimicrobial resistance surveillance system for diverse applications
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Sam Abraham
Aerobic CO respiration by carbon monoxide dehydrogenases is a widespread mechanism of bacterial persistence
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Katherine Bayly
Multi-level Genome Typing: A stable genomics-based strain typing system for short and long-term epidemiology.
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Michael Payne
Comparative genomics of Australian
Elizabethkingia
clinical isolates resolves incorrect speciation and reveals additional population diversity
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Delaney Burnard
Terrestrial microbiology – Diversity and Redundancy
8:30AM - 10:00AM
Wednesday, 3rd July
E1
Chairs: Andrew Neal & Belinda Fabian
Ecological and genomic attributes of novel bacterial taxa that thrive in subsurface soil horizons
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Noah Fierer
Microbial dynamics in a thawing world
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Gene Tyson
Bacteria living on thin air - strategies for survival in the harsh Antarctic environment
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Belinda Ferrari
Candidatus
Dormibacteraeota, a trace gas scavenging phyla of soil bacteria.
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Kate Montgomery
Transfer of Environmental Microbes to Humans in Urban Green Space Environments
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Caitlin A. Selway
The Australian Microbiome – insights into Australia’s terrestrial microbial diversity
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Andrew Bissett
Polymicrobial disease
8:30AM - 9:50AM
Wednesday, 3rd July
E2
Chairs: Martina Sanderson-Smith & Laurine Kaul
Polymicrobial Nature of Chronic Oral Disease
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Stuart Dashper
Not available
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Amanda Leach
Prevention of nontypeable
Haemophilus influenzae
colonisation and otitis media in mice by microbial interference with a closely-related commensal species
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Lea-Ann S Kirkham
Deep Sequencing of Microbial Communities in Cystic Fibrosis Airways
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Tania Duarte
Novel antimicrobial strategy by arming the essential nutrient for the targeted elimination of
Porphyromonas gingivalis
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Jinlong Gao
Innovations in Mycology
8:30AM - 10:00AM
Wednesday, 3rd July
E3
Chairs: Wieland Meyer & Evanthia Tambosis
Veterinary mycology and updates on agents of aspergillosis
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Jessica Talbot
Fungal IP
7
-protein interaction and invasive fungal disease: a dangerous liaison
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Julianne T Djordjevic
The role of mutators in microevolution and the emergence of antifungal drug resistance in
Cryptococcus neoformans
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Kylie Boyce
Dual DNA barcoding for the molecular identification of the agents of invasive fungal infections
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Minh Thuy Vi Hoang
Panning for Gold in Mould: Genomics-guided discovery of bioactive molecules from fungi
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Yit-Heng Chooi
Including microbial eukaryotes in metagenomic surveys with CCMetagen
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Vanessa Rossetto Marcelino
Morning Tea
10:00AM - 10:30AM
Wednesday, 3rd July
Exhibition Hall
Can microbes influence industrial problems
10:30AM - 12:00PM
Wednesday, 3rd July
Hall C
Chairs: Sophie Leterme & Eman Koshlaf
Geomicrobiology and mining
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Gordon Southam
Microbial interactions with petroleum-based plastics and bioplastic pollutants in aquatic environments
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Mark Osborn
Anti-biofouling: Selective copper uptake and release in seawater
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Mats Andersson
Using Antarctic soil bacterial communities to monitor, remediate and develop guidelines for diesel fuel contamination in polar soils.
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Josie M van Dorst
Effect of bio-stimulation on the distribution and composition of the microbial community of a polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbon-contaminated landfill soil during bioremediation
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Eman Koshlaf
Veterinary Microbiology
10:30AM - 12:00PM
Wednesday, 3rd July
E1
Chairs: John Turnidge & Susan Anstey
Approaches to quantifying antimicrobial use in Australian dogs and cats
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Kirsten Bailey
Not available
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Susan Porter
Use of antimicrobials in a veterinary teaching hospital
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Justine S Gibson
Transmission of critically important antimicrobial resistant E. coli between Silver Gulls, Feral Pigeons and Little Penguins occupying different ecological niches within an urban environment
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Shewli Mrs Mukerji
Emerging and well-known chlamydial infections in Australian domesticated and wildlife animals: On the heels of infection spill-over
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Martina Jelocnik
Characterising novel metabolic pathways in
Coxiella burnetii
, the causative agent of the zoonotic disease Q fever
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Janine Hofmann
Host Pathogen Interactions
10:30AM - 12:00PM
Wednesday, 3rd July
E2
Chairs: Sarah Gurr & Stephanie Lamont-Friedrich
Metabolic control of host-pathogen interactions in infection
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Ana Traven
Title not available
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Alex Andrianopoulos
Heterogenous cell types correlate with disease manifestation in the yeast pathogen
Cryptococcus
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Dee Carter
Beyond
Diptera
: exploring
Wolbachia
-pathogen interactions in two
Lepidoptera
cell lines
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Rhys H Parry
Life in the recycling bin: understanding nutrient acquisition and utilisation in
Coxiella burnetii
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Miku Kuba
Host adaptation and convergent evolution increases antibiotic resistance without loss of virulence in a major human pathogen
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Alicia Fajardo-Lubian
The oral microbiome & systemic disease
10:30AM - 11:40AM
Wednesday, 3rd July
E3
Chairs: Claus Christophersen & Jinlong Gao
Palaeomicrobiology: prospects and pitfalls
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Raphael Eisenhofer
Microbiomes associated with oral cancer: Passengers turned drivers.
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NEWELL W JOHNSON
Development of an
in vitro
biofilm model of the supragingival plaque microbiome
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Peter Varga
Identification and removal of contaminating microbial DNA from PCR reagents
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Lisa F Stinson
Delegates to move to plenary hall
11:50AM - 12:00PM
Wednesday, 3rd July
Plenary Speaker
12:00PM - 12:45PM
Wednesday, 3rd July
Hall C
Chair: Peter Zilm
Multidrug resistance in tuberculosis and nontuberculous mycobacteria: a slow selective process in progress in One-Health/One-World
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Miguel Viveiros
Closing Address
12:45PM - 1:00PM
Wednesday, 3rd July
Hall C
Lunch
1:00PM - 2:00PM
Wednesday, 3rd July
Exhibition Hall
EDSIG AGM
1:00PM - 2:00PM
Wednesday, 3rd July
Hall C
Eukaryotic Microbes SIG AGM
1:00PM - 2:00PM
Wednesday, 3rd July
E1
History SIG AGM
1:00PM - 2:00PM
Wednesday, 3rd July
E2
Clinical Serology and Molecular SIG AGM
1:00PM - 2:00PM
Wednesday, 3rd July
E3
AMR Workshop, one-health approach
2:00PM - 3:30PM
Wednesday, 3rd July
Hall C
Adaptation and Evolution of Eukaryotic Microbes
2:00PM - 3:30PM
Wednesday, 3rd July
E1
Genomics in clinical and public health microbiology
2:00PM - 3:30PM
Wednesday, 3rd July
E2
Clinical Serology and Molecular workshop
2:00PM - 3:30PM
Wednesday, 3rd July
E3
Viral infections in the ageing: a major cause of morbidity and a challenge for vaccine development
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Anthony Cunningham
Mycobacterium Workshop
2:00PM - 5:30PM
Wednesday, 3rd July
Verco room, SA Pathology, Frome Road
Afternoon Tea
3:30PM - 4:00PM
Wednesday, 3rd July
Exhibition Hall
AMR Workshop, one-health approach
4:00PM - 5:30PM
Wednesday, 3rd July
Hall C
Adaptation and Evolution of Eukaryotic Microbes
4:00PM - 5:30PM
Wednesday, 3rd July
E1
Genomics in clinical and public health microbiology
4:00PM - 5:30PM
Wednesday, 3rd July
E2
Clinical Serology and Molecular workshop
4:00PM - 5:30PM
Wednesday, 3rd July
E3
AMR SIG AGM
5:30PM - 6:00PM
Wednesday, 3rd July
Hall C
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