Division 2 – Virology
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
Symposium 1 - Current Virus Outbreaks
10:30AM - 12:00PM
Monday, 8th July
Riverbank 2
Chair: David Gordon
In-house PCR - Challenges and Viral Epidemiology
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Mark Turra
The Human T-cell Lymphotropic Virus type 1 in central Australia: understanding the burden of infection and disease in an Indigenous population
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Lloyd Einsiedel
Fish and dolphin deaths in South Australia in March/April 2013
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Rob Rahaley
Viral community diversity and activity in the Coorong is driven by salinity
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Kelly Newton
Symposium 2 - Control of Blood-Borne Virus Infections: New Perspectives
4:00PM - 5:30PM
Monday, 8th July
Riverbank 2
Chair: Gilda Tachedjian
New life from dead cells: necrotic cell vaccines and immunotherapy
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Eric J Gowans
HIV infection of Hematopoietic Progenitor Cells
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Kathleen Collins
Tackling HIV latency: a path toward a cure for HIV
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Sharon R Lewin
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
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
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 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 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 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