Tuesday, 9th July
Australian Society for Microbiology Annual Scientific Meeting 2013
Days
Sunday, 7th July
Monday, 8th July
Tuesday, 9th July
Wednesday, 10th July
Thursday, 11th July
Friday, 12th July
Tracks
Division 1 – Medical & Veterinary Microbiology
Division 2 – Virology
Division 3 – General, Applied and Environmental Microbiology
Division 4 – Microbial Genetics, Physiology and Pathogenesis
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Speakers
Education Special Interest Group AGM
7:00AM - 8:30AM
Tuesday, 9th July
Riverbank 1
Chair: Danilla Grando
Plenary 7
8:30AM - 9:15AM
Tuesday, 9th July
Hall E
Chair: Peter Traynor
Microbes to the rescue—The Deepwater Horizon accident
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Ronald Atlas
Plenary 8
9:15AM - 10:00AM
Tuesday, 9th July
Hall E
Chair: Elizabeth Harry
The mycobacterial cell wall: assembly and new drug targets
-
Gurdyal Besra
Morning Tea
10:00AM - 10:30AM
Tuesday, 9th July
Exhibition Hall
Symposium 3 - Parasitology
10:30AM - 12:00PM
Tuesday, 9th July
Hall E
Chair: Andrew Butcher
Introduction of a Multiplex PCR for Routine Detection of Faecal Parasites
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Tania Sadlon
Dientamoeba fragilis
- recent advances.
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Damien Stark
Exploring neglected tropical diseases (NTDs) using next-generation technologies - toward new interventions and diagnostics
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Robin Gasser
Symposium 3 - Virus Structures Receptors and Assembly
10:30AM - 12:00PM
Tuesday, 9th July
Riverbank 2
Chairs: Paul Young & Peter Speck
Herpesvirus homologues of G protein-coupled receptors and their roles in pathogenesis.
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Nick Davis-Poynter
Antibody-mediated premature triggering of an enveloped virus fusion protein
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Paul Young
Phylogeny by Numbers – Charting the Evolution of the Influenza Virus by Mass
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Kevin M Downard
Sphingosine kinase 1 localisation studies in dengue virus infected cells
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Jennifer N Clarke
A Prophylactic Vaccine for Hepatitis C Virus: Vaccine Studies on the HCV Glycoprotein E2 Minimal Core Domain
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Patricia Vietheer
Symposium 3 - Bioremediation
10:30AM - 12:00PM
Tuesday, 9th July
Riverbank 1
Chair: Andrew Ball
Bioremediation of chlorinated solvents in Australian groundwater
-
Mike Manefield
Bioremediation of Marine Oil Spills—When and When Not—The
Exxon Valdez
Experience
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Ronald Atlas
Sustainable remediation: bioenergy generation during the bioremediation of tetrachloroethene contaminated groundwater
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Sayali S Patil
Microbial attenuation of BTEX in natural gas storage aquifers.
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Thomas Aullo
A Novel Catabolic Plasmid for 1,2-dichloroethane Biodegradation
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Jacob E Munro
Symposium 3 - Unique Aspects of the Cell Structures of Pathogenic Bacteria; Biology and Pathogenesis
10:30AM - 12:00PM
Tuesday, 9th July
Hall D
Chair: Renato Morona
Pulmonary immunisation against tuberculosis infection
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Warwick J Britton
Identification of new drug targets and assembly of the TB cell wall
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Gurdyal Besra
The role of the polyhistidine triad proteins of
Streptococcus pneumoniae
in zinc homeostasis
-
Charlie Plumptre
Characterization of O Antigen Polymerization Protein Wzy of
Shigella flexneri
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Pratiti Nath
Bacterial outer membrane vesicles enter epithelial cells via endocytosis, inducing a NOD1-dependent autophagy response
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Maria Liaskos
Lunch
12:00PM - 1:00PM
Tuesday, 9th July
Exhibition Hall
Clinical Serology and Molecular Special Interest Group AGM
12:05PM - 12:55PM
Tuesday, 9th July
Hall D
Chair: David Dickeson
Inaugural History Special Interest Group AGM
12:05PM - 12:55PM
Tuesday, 9th July
Meeting room 10
Bioline Trade Workshop Hosted by Dr R. Phillips Heine, MD - Group B Streptococcus
12:05PM - 12:55PM
Tuesday, 9th July
Riverbank 2
Editorial Board Meeting
12:05PM - 12:55PM
Tuesday, 9th July
Riverbank 1
Plenary 9
1:00PM - 1:45PM
Tuesday, 9th July
Hall E
Chair: Michael Jennings
Dual function of the McaS small RNA in controlling biofilm formation
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Gisela Storz
Plenary 10
1:45PM - 2:30PM
Tuesday, 9th July
Hall E
Chair: Peter Speck
Phage and Origins of the Immune System
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Forest Rohwer
Mini Symposium - Clinical Case Presentations
2:30PM - 3:30PM
Tuesday, 9th July
Hall E
Chair: Sharon Chen
Clostridium difficile
infection diagnosis in a paediatric population: comparison of methodologies.
-
Julie Hart
Rising from the Ashes!
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Kija Smith
A retrospective evaluation of the EuroImmun
Bordetella pertussis
toxin ELISAs.
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Stuart McKessar
EasyScreen
™ multiplexed real-time PCR assays for rapid and cost effective routine detection of faecal pathogens
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Lee C Thomas
Mini Symposium - Late Breakers
2:30PM - 3:30PM
Tuesday, 9th July
Riverbank 2
Chair: Peter Speck
Vaccine Induced Neutralising Antibodies and the Susceptibility to Newly Emerging Influenza A Viruses
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Mohammed Alsharifi
Ecotype-specific Physiology of Low Light
Prochlorococcus
Strains
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Lisa R Moore
Potential for environmental contamination of urine samples used for diagnosis of sexually transmitted infections
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Philip Giffard
Mini Symposium - Putting the Setting into Systematics: Bringing Ecology into Teaching
2:30PM - 3:30PM
Tuesday, 9th July
Riverbank 1
Chairs: Cheryl Power & Danilla Grando
Microbiology in the News—An approach to developing critical thinking
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Ronald Atlas
Applied Microbiology and Microbial Biotechnology: Teaching with a Regional Perspective
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Dilber Ipek Dr Kurtboke
The Integration of Microbial Ecology and Environmental Biotechnology
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Andrew S Ball
Learning approaches to engage the current generation of students in Environmental Microbiology
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M. Josie Lategan
Mini Symposium - Antimicrobials
2:30PM - 3:30PM
Tuesday, 9th July
Hall D
Chair: Charlie Plumptre
Teaching ‘old’ polymyxins new tricks: targeting Gram-negative ‘superbugs’ resistant to all current antibiotics
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Jian Li
Glycopeptide and Lipopeptide Antibiotics With Potent Activity Against Multi-Drug Resistant Pathogenic Bacteria Responsible for UTI, cSSSI and CAP/NP Infections.
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Matthew A Cooper
Afternoon Tea
3:30PM - 4:00PM
Tuesday, 9th July
Exhibition Hall
Symposium 4 - Mycobacteriology
4:00PM - 5:30PM
Tuesday, 9th July
Hall E
Chair: Sushil Pandey
Tuberculosis in Australia
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Ivan Bastian
The future of drug resistant tuberculosis due to an Orwellian state of mind
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Stephen D Vincent
Identification of host RNA expression biomarkers for Tuberculosis
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Lachlan Coin
Symposium 4 - Pathogenesis: Virus-Host Interactions
4:00PM - 5:30PM
Tuesday, 9th July
Riverbank 2
Chair: Peter Speck
The development pathway for tissue-resident memory T cells of skin
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Thomas Gebhardt
Definition of herpes simplex viral proteins involved in transport and assembly in neurones
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Russell J Diefenbach
Dynamic imaging of HCV Viral RNA traffic and localisation
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Guillaume N Fiches
Systemic toll-like receptor 9 agonist treatment does not separate direct and cross priming of anti-viral CD8
+
T cells
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Yik Chun (Michael) Wong
Discovery of novel insect-specific viruses in Australia and demonstration that they suppress the replication of important vector-borne pathogens in mosquito cells.
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Jody Hobson-Peters
Symposium 4 - Marine and Aquatic Microbiology
4:00PM - 5:30PM
Tuesday, 9th July
Riverbank 1
Chair: Levente Bodrossy
Personalized "Medicine": From Coral Reefs to Human
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Forest Rohwer
The red-shifted chlorophylls and their ecological significance
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Min Chen
Molecular and morphological identification of cyanobacteria: How well do they match up?
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Elvina Lee
Modification of bacterial surface polysaccharide by integron-associated gene products – a role for a unique genetic resource in
Vibrio
species
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Maurizio Labbate
Surveillance of cholera inendemic inland region having fresh water environment, India
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Neelam Taneja
Symposium 4 - Novel Regulatory Pathways; Their Role in Bacterial Physiology and Disease
4:00PM - 5:30PM
Tuesday, 9th July
Hall D
Chair: Glen Ulett
Regulating at the membrane with ignored small proteins
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Gisela Storz
Phasevarions: Phase Variation of Type III DNA Methyltransferases Control Coordinated Switching of Multiple Genes in Host-Adapted Bacterial Pathogens
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Michael P Jennings
Harnessing Single Cell Sorting To Identify Cell Division Genes and Regulators in Bacteria
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Catherine Burke
Insertion sequence IS
Pst4
activates pUC plasmid replication in
Pseudomonas stutzeri
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Nicholas V Coleman
A Novel Class of Antimicrobial Compound that Inhibits Transcription Initiation Complex Formation
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Cong Ma
Poster Session II & Trade Exhibition
5:30PM - 7:30PM
Tuesday, 9th July
Exhibition Hall
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