Monday, 8th July Australian Society for Microbiology Annual Scientific Meeting 2013
Student Breakfast
7:30AM - 8:15AM
Monday, 8th July
Riverbank 2&3
Plenary 3
8:30AM - 9:15AM
Monday, 8th July
Hall E
Chair: Philip Giffard
Plenary 4
9:15AM - 10:00AM
Monday, 8th July
Hall E
Chair: Christopher Burrell
Morning Tea
10:00AM - 10:30AM
Monday, 8th July
Exhibition Hall
Symposium 1.1 - Mycoplasma
10:30AM - 12:00PM
Monday, 8th July
Hall E
Chair: Steven Djordjevic
Symposium 1 - Current Virus Outbreaks
10:30AM - 12:00PM
Monday, 8th July
Riverbank 2
Chair: David Gordon
- In-house PCR - Challenges and Viral Epidemiology - Mark Turra
- The Human T-cell Lymphotropic Virus type 1 in central Australia: understanding the burden of infection and disease in an Indigenous population - Lloyd Einsiedel
- Fish and dolphin deaths in South Australia in March/April 2013 - Rob Rahaley
- Viral community diversity and activity in the Coorong is driven by salinity - Kelly Newton
Symposium 1 - Environmental Monitoring of Production Areas
10:30AM - 12:00PM
Monday, 8th July
Riverbank 1
Chair: Alan Heritage
Symposium 1 - Bacterial Triggers for Host Response; The Interplay Between Signalling Pathways
10:30AM - 12:00PM
Monday, 8th July
Hall D
Chair: David Ogunniyi
- Killing of perivascular macrophages by a pore-forming toxin mediates immunoevasion of Staphylococcus aureus - Wolfgang Weninger
- Mapping Pathogen-Specific Antimicrobial Defense Responses against Urinary Tract Infection: Insights from In Vivo and In Vitro Studies - Glen C Ulett
- Identification of dynamin II (DynII) as a factor in Shigella flexneri cell to cell spreading - Mabel Lum
- Global Transcriptome Profiling of Human Endothelial Cells in Response to Infection with Non-mutant Morphological Forms of Candida albicans - Crystale SY Lim
- Type III effectors of enteropathogenic Escherichia coli and Salmonella that disrupt host cell signaling - Tania Wong
Lunch
12:00PM - 1:00PM
Monday, 8th July
Exhibition Hall
Cosmetics and Pharmaceuticals Special Interest Group AGM
12:05PM - 12:55PM
Monday, 8th July
Riverbank 1
SAHMRI Update from Steve Wesselingh
12:05PM - 12:55PM
Monday, 8th July
Riverbank 2
NSAC Meeting
12:05PM - 12:55PM
Monday, 8th July
Meeting room 10
Plenary 5
1:00PM - 2:00PM
Monday, 8th July
Hall E
Chair: Peter Speck
Plenary 6 - BD Awards
2:00PM - 3:30PM
Monday, 8th July
Hall E
Chair: Cheryl Power
Sponsored by:
- Viral community composition in deep aquifer ecosystems - Renee J Smith
- Novel residues that mediate the inactive-to-active transition of Chlamydia trachomatis HtrA - James W Marsh
- The Light-Driven Proton Pump Proteorhodopsin Promotes Growth of Sea-Ice Psychrophile during Salinity Stress - Shi Feng
- Antibacterial and biofilm inhibitory activity of yarrow essential oil against Listeria - Snehal R Jadhav
- Extracellular ATP controls twitching motility-mediated expansion of Pseudomonas aeruginosa biofilms - Laura M Nolan
Afternoon Tea
3:30PM - 4:00PM
Monday, 8th July
Exhibition Hall
Symposium 2 - Serology
4:00PM - 5:30PM
Monday, 8th July
Hall E
Chair: David Dickeson
- RCPAQAP Serology - Case Studies - Deane Byers
- Standardised approaches to validation of Class 3 in-house IVDs - Susie Braniff
- "Point of Care Testing: Can a Quality Result be ASSURED?" - Noelene Wilson
- Evaluation of three commercial EIA kits for the detection of Lyme borreliosis antibodies in human sera compared to Western immunoblots. - David Dickeson
Symposium 2 - Control of Blood-Borne Virus Infections: New Perspectives
4:00PM - 5:30PM
Monday, 8th July
Riverbank 2
Chair: Gilda Tachedjian
Symposium 2 - Mining -omic Data - Recent Advances in Bioinformatics
4:00PM - 5:30PM
Monday, 8th July
Riverbank 1
Chair: Kathryn Holt
Symposium 2 - The Molecular Basis for Bacterial Structure and Function: New Views of Old Ideas
4:00PM - 5:30PM
Monday, 8th July
Hall D
Chair: Miranda Ween
- Structure and function of a bacterial nitrate/nitrite exchanger - Tamir Gonen
- Structure and Dynamics of Biological Rotary Motors - Daniela Stock
- Helicobacter pylori flagellar motor: structural insight into the mechanism of stator assembly and activation - Anna Roujeinikova
- A mobile element in Vibrio cholerae encodes genes for multiple DNA repair pathways - Rita A Rapa
- Tubulin-family proteins controlling Archaeal cell division and morphological development - Iain G Duggin
CDS Users Group Workshop
4:00PM - 5:30PM
Monday, 8th July
Riverbank 3
Australian Society for Microbiology Annual General Meeting
5:30PM - 6:45PM
Monday, 8th July
Riverbank 1
Rubbo Dinner & Oration
7:00PM - 11:30PM
Monday, 8th July
Hall F&G
Chair: Paul Young