Division 3 – General, Applied and Environmental Microbiology
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 - Environmental Monitoring of Production Areas
10:30AM - 12:00PM
Monday, 8th July
Riverbank 1
Chair: Alan Heritage
Innovative technologies in clean room monitoring
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Colin Booth
Risk Based approaches to setting environmental monitoring (EM) programs:
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Fergus O'Connell
Dealing with Environmental Monitoring Out of Specification Results and Changes to ISO
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David R Buckley
Symposium 2 - Mining -omic Data - Recent Advances in Bioinformatics
4:00PM - 5:30PM
Monday, 8th July
Riverbank 1
Chair: Kathryn Holt
BioCyc Tools for Mining Omics Data
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Peter D Karp
Automated, Non-Hybrid
De Novo
Genome Assemblies and Epigenomes of Bacterial Pathogens
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Jonas Korlach
Validation of next generation sequencing for insect gut microbiome community analysis
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Purnika D Ranasinghe
Symposium 3 - Bioremediation
10:30AM - 12:00PM
Tuesday, 9th July
Riverbank 1
Chair: Andrew Ball
Bioremediation of chlorinated solvents in Australian groundwater
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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
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
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 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 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 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