Wednesday, 10th 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
Trade Breakfast
7:30AM - 8:15AM
Wednesday, 10th July
Exhibition Hall
Plenary 12
8:30AM - 9:15AM
Wednesday, 10th July
Hall E
Microbiology: Yesterday, Today, and Tomorrow
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Patrick R Murray
Plenary 13
9:15AM - 10:00AM
Wednesday, 10th July
Hall E
Diagnosing invasive fungal diseases in the 21st Century: do we have the right tools?
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Peter Donnelly
Morning Tea
10:00AM - 10:30AM
Wednesday, 10th July
Exhibition Hall
Symposium 5 - Mycology
10:30AM - 12:00PM
Wednesday, 10th July
Hall E
Chair: Wieland Meyer
Putting PCR for
Aspergillus
through its paces
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Peter Donnelly
PNEUMOCYSTIS JIROVECII: AN EMERGING NOSOCOMIAL PATHOGEN?
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Sharon CA Chen
DNA barcoding of human pathogenic fungi
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Wieland Meyer
Difficulties associated with identification of a mystery “yeast” from blood cultures
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Karen Rogers
Mucormycosis: a furry foe
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Susan Coloe
Symposium 5 - Emerging, Unusual Viruses and Phage
10:30AM - 12:00PM
Wednesday, 10th July
Riverbank 2
Chair: Peter Speck
Viral Dark Matter
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Forest Rohwer
Developing a novel treatment for sinonasal
Staphylococcus aureus
biofilms: The enemy of my enemy is my friend
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Amanda Drilling
Bacteriophage Adhering to Mucus Provide a Non-Host-Derived Immunity
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Jeremy J Barr
Virological and entomological investigations into the first outbreak of chikungunya in Papua New Guinea
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Paul F Horwood
Identification of diverse full-length endogenous betaretroviruses in megabats and microbats
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Joshua A Hayward
Symposium 5 - Use, Abuse, and the Obtuse: Tales from MediaLand
10:30AM - 12:00PM
Wednesday, 10th July
Riverbank 1
Chair: Peter Traynor
Culturing of microorganisms—dual use concerns in the Culture Media
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Ronald Atlas
Microbiology, Media and the Democratic Republic of Congo
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Richard Jones
Comparison of wipe and swab sampling tools for the detection of
Bacillus
spores from porous and non-porous surfaces
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Taryn Crighton
Impact of lactose starvation on the physiology of
Lactobacillus casei
GCRL163 in the presence and absence of Tween 80
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Ali Al Naseri
Symposium 5 - Emerging Concepts of Regulation, Quorum Sensing and Bacterial Regulation
10:30AM - 12:00PM
Wednesday, 10th July
Hall D
Chair: Bart Eijkelkamp
Microbial Ecology meets Industrial Microbiology: The role of Quorum Sensing in Community Function and Organisation in a Sequencing Batch Reactor
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Scott A Rice
Stigmergy: a mechanism of self-organisation of bacterial communities.
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Cynthia B Whitchurch
Interphylum Interactions in Polymicrobial Biofilm Formation by Oral Bacteria.
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Stuart G Dashper
Development of a new web application for comparative gene ontology and gene ontology–based gene selection in bacteria
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Abiodun D Ogunniyi
Discriminating invasive strains
of Staphylococcus epidermidis
by developing a novel Single Nucleotide Polymorphism typing method
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Sharon Kleinschmidt
Lunch
12:00PM - 1:00PM
Wednesday, 10th July
Exhibition Hall
Mycology Special Interest Group AGM
12:05PM - 12:55PM
Wednesday, 10th July
Riverbank 3
Chair: Wieland Meyer
Culture Media Special Interest Group AGM
12:05PM - 12:55PM
Wednesday, 10th July
Riverbank 1
Chair: Peter Traynor
Public Health Microbiology SIG AGM
12:05PM - 12:55PM
Wednesday, 10th July
Meeting room 10
Introduction of QConnect, NRL's Complete QC Program and a Demonstration of the Updated EDCNet
12:05PM - 12:55PM
Wednesday, 10th July
Riverbank 2
Chair: Wayne Dimech
Plenary 14 - Snowdon Lecture
1:00PM - 2:00PM
Wednesday, 10th July
Hall E
Chair: Robert Moore
A Revisit of Foot and Mouth Disease for the 21st Century: Can we eradicate FMD ?
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Juan Lubroth
Symposium 6 - Antimicrobials
2:00PM - 3:30PM
Wednesday, 10th July
Hall E
Chair: John Merlino
Antibiotic Resistance: Global Problems for Physicians and Microbiologists
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Patrick R Murray
The silent catastrophe: human impact on biodiversity in the microbiome and the transmissible gene pool
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Jonathan Iredell
VRSA, VISA, and hVISA – 2013 update
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Iain B Gosbell
Symposium 6 - Viral Immunity, Immune Evasion
2:00PM - 3:30PM
Wednesday, 10th July
Riverbank 2
Chairs: David Tscharke & Peter Speck
ANTIVIRAL RESISTANCE IN INFLUENZA: THE PAST, PRESENT AND FUTURE
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Aeron C Hurt
Requirements for generating memory T cells in infection
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Gabrielle T Belz
Enhancing the immunogenicity and vaccine efficacy of vaccinia virus through the removal of innate immunomodulatory genes
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Rebecca P Sumner
Quantitative kinetics of antigen presentation during vaccinia virus infection
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David C Tscharke
Symposium 6 - Insights into Established and Emerging Food-Borne Pathogens
2:00PM - 3:30PM
Wednesday, 10th July
Riverbank 1
Chair: Gary Dykes
Cronobacter
and what we know in Australia
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Catherine McAuley
Modelling of the ecology of
Listeria
monocytogenes
in foods
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Lyndal Mellefont
Inter-strain inhibitory activity within the bacterial community of Australian vacuum-packaged beef
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Peipei Zhang
Development of models to determine non-thermal inactivation of bacteria in cheese
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Chawalit Kocharunchitt
Antibiotic resistance influences biofilm formation by
Salmonella enterica
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Gary Dykes
Symposium 6 - The Varied Roles of Bacterial Surface Structures: Biofilms and More
2:00PM - 3:30PM
Wednesday, 10th July
Hall D
Chair: Dena Lyras
A FimH inhibitor prevents acute bladder infection and treats chronic cystitis caused by multidrug resistant uropathogenic
Escherichia coli
ST131
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Mark A Schembri
Shigella flexneri
IcsA structure, function and oligomerisation in pathogenesis
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Renato Morona
The Connection between Capsule Biosynthesis and Autolysis in
Streptococcus pneumoniae
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Alistair J Standish
Elucidating the molecular mechanisms of
Escherichia coli
O157:H7 adherence to the roots of fresh produce plants.
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Ashleigh Holmes
P. multocida
lipopolysaccharide outer core genetics and polymorphism: simultaneous expression of multiple LPS glycoforms that mimic the Globo series of vertebrate glycosphingolipids.
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Marina Harper
AMS Symposium 2 – Fungal Pathogens
2:00PM - 3:30PM
Wednesday, 10th July
Riverbank 3
Chair: Sarah Kidd
Pythium insidiosum
mimic fungal infection
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Ariya Chindamporen
Sequence, Assemble, Annotate, Align, Species Tree .. next?
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Gavin Huttley
A novel branch of phospholipase C-mediated signalling involving inositol polyphosphate synthesis is essential for fungal virulence
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Julianne (Julie) T Djordjevic
Understanding the causes of virulence in Scedosporium fungi
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Åsa Pérez-Bercoff
Afternoon Tea
3:30PM - 4:00PM
Wednesday, 10th July
Exhibition Hall
Symposium 7 - Women's and Children's Health
4:00PM - 5:30PM
Wednesday, 10th July
Hall E
Chair: Anna Maria Costa
Viral Gastroenteritis: Rotavirus and the Rest are Not Just in Kids
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Geoffrey Higgins
The female upper genital tract microbiome
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Elise Pelzer
Diagnosis and Management of Group B Strep in Pregnancy
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Robert Phillips Heine
Symposium 7 - Gene Expression and Replication
4:00PM - 5:30PM
Wednesday, 10th July
Riverbank 2
Chair: Damian Purcell
Roles of alphavirus proteins in immune evasion and replication
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Suresh Mahalingam
Lipid requirements facilitating the replication of the flavivirus West Nile virus
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Jason Mackenzie
RNA processing mechanisms that support Tat expression in HIV-1 latency.
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Damian Purcell
Symposium 7 - Microbial Functional Resilience in Terrestrial Systems
4:00PM - 5:30PM
Wednesday, 10th July
Riverbank 1
Chair: Gupta Vadakattu
Trait-based approaches for understanding microbial functional diversity and resilience
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Jeff Powell
Metagenomic insights of microbial feedbacks to elevated CO
2
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Jizhong Zhou
Biological functional resilience of microbial communities in Australian soils
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Gupta Vadakattu
Anaerobic methane oxidation by Proteobacterial methanotrophs enriched from the rumen of Australian cattle.
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Damien Finn
Symposium 7 - The Evolution of Commensals and Pathogenic Bacteria: Traits Important for Survival
4:00PM - 5:30PM
Wednesday, 10th July
Hall D
Chair: Alistair Standish
Species -specific attributes that help explain the success of
Acinetobacter baumannii
and the identification of a global virulence regulator
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Anton Y Peleg
Staphylococcal plasmids: genetic systems for bacterial adaptation
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Neville Firth
The virulence potential of Shiga toxin-producing
E. coli
isolated from humans and other sources in a lethal mouse model
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Neelam Taneja
Understanding the Success of ST203 Vancomycin-resistant
Enterococcus Faecium
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Margaret Lam
The prevalence, relatedness and polymorphisms of zonula occluden toxin gene in multiple Campylobacter concisus strains isolated from saliva of patients with inflammatory bowel disease and controls
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Li Zhang
AMS Symposium 3 – Molecular Mycology
4:00PM - 5:30PM
Wednesday, 10th July
Riverbank 3
Chair: Julianne Djordjevic
New insights into
Candida
-macrophage interactions
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Ana Traven
Microevolution of the
Cryptococcus
genome during human infection
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James A Fraser
Understanding the structure and functional role of the hydrophobin proteins RodA and RodB from
Aspergillus fumigatus
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Margie Sunde
Remodelling growth and survival in response to the host by
Penicillium marneffei
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Alex Andrianopoulos
Elucidating the response of wheat to the exposure of
Stagonospora nodorum
effectors
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Peter S Solomon
Closing Address
5:30PM - 6:00PM
Wednesday, 10th July
Hall E
Chair: Paul Young
AMS Special Meeting
5:30PM - 6:00PM
Wednesday, 10th July
Riverbank 3
AMS Welcome Reception
6:00PM - 8:00PM
Wednesday, 10th July
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