Division 4 – Microbial Genetics, Physiology and Pathogenesis
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 - Bacterial Triggers for Host Response; The Interplay Between Signalling Pathways
10:30AM - 12:00PM
Monday, 8th July
Hall D
Chair: Abiodun David Ogunniyi
Killing of perivascular macrophages by a pore-forming toxin mediates immunoevasion of
Staphylococcus aureus
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Wolfgang Weninger
Mapping Pathogen-Specific Antimicrobial Defense Responses against Urinary Tract Infection: Insights from
In Vivo
and
In Vitro
Studies
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Glen C Ulett
Identification of dynamin II (DynII) as a factor in
Shigella flexneri
cell to cell spreading
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Mabel Lum
Global Transcriptome Profiling of Human Endothelial Cells in Response to Infection with Non-mutant Morphological Forms of
Candida albicans
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Crystale SY Lim
Type III effectors of enteropathogenic
Escherichia coli
and
Salmonella
that disrupt host cell signaling
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Tania Wong
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
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Tamir Gonen
Structure and Dynamics of Biological Rotary Motors
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Daniela Stock
Helicobacter pylori
flagellar motor: structural insight into the mechanism of stator assembly and activation
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Anna Roujeinikova
A mobile element in
Vibrio cholerae
encodes genes for multiple DNA repair pathways
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Rita A Rapa
Tubulin-family proteins controlling Archaeal cell division and morphological development
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Iain G Duggin
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
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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
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
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
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
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
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