Tuesday, 3rd July Australian Society for Microbiology Annual Scientific Meeting 2018

• Rapid Testing for Blood Cultures; Microbiology working with ID and Pharmacy to Maximize Patient Outcomes. - Susan Sharp
• The machine comes to bacteriology: automation, agility and disruption. - Rod Givney
• A Molecular Gram-Stain for Sepsis: The Silent Killer - Flavia Huygens
• New tools for enhanced diagnosis and characterisation in atypical sepsis - Seweryn Bialasiewicz
• Diagnostics and prognostics through machine learning; a tutorial and case study in gut microbiome-based weight-loss prediction - Mark N Read
• Phenotypic and genotypic characterisation of ribotype 251 strains of Clostridium difficile causing severe disease in the Australian community - Stacey Hong

• Rapid Laboratory responses to ceftriaxone-resistant Neisseria gonorrhoeae; on behalf of the National Neisseria Network, Australia. - Ella Trembizki
• Transposon maker IS26, flagship of the versatile IS6 family of insertion sequences - Christopher J Harmer
• Epidemiology, mechanisms and implications of colistin resistance in Klebsiella pneumoniae. - Timothy Kidd
• Alarming Expansion of Penicillin-resistant Serogroup W Neisseria meningitidis and Identification of a borderline-ceftriaxone-susceptible Strain in Western Australia - Shakeel Mowlaboccus
• OMV-mediated horizontal gene transfer occurs in Gram negative bacteria. - Ella Johnston
• A novel TA system provides plasmid stability and antibiotic tolerance in Enterobacteriaceae - Muhammad Kamruzzaman

• Infectious diseases in Australian wildlife – recent studies performed in partnership with wildlife veterinarians - Joanne Devlin
• Zoonotic bacterial pathogens - Conny Turni
• Equine chlamydiosis: emerging threat or under-diagnosed disease? - Cheryl Jenkins
• Fowl Cholera; a modern insight into an old disease. - Lida Omaleki
• Multiple bacterial veterinary pathogens contain phase-variable regulons; phasevarions - John Atack
• Campylobacter transmission in Australian free-range broiler flocks - Pongthorn Pumtang-on

• Modulation of antiviral responses by low dose-DNA damaging agents - Michael P Gantier
• Vaginal Microbiota and HIV Susceptibility - Gilda Tachedjian
• Past, present and future strategies for control of arbovirus transmission by the Aedes aegypti mosquito - Andrew van den Hurk
• Novel delivery of a live-attenuated chikungunya virus vaccine candidate - Adam Taylor
• miR-956 suppression delays viral pathogenicity in model Drosophila melanogaster-virus system - Verna M Monsanto-Hearne
• Mapping the virome in wild-caught Aedes aegypti from Cairns and Bangkok - Martha Zakrzewski

• Staphylococcus aureus follows a “DARC” path to lethal infections - Victor Torres

• New lights on the phylogenetic and metabolic diversity of archaea and their key role in the evolution of life on Earth - Anja Spang

• Act like a scientist! Using physical performance in undergraduate science teaching - Terry Mulhern
• Flipping the classroom: design, implementation and outcomes - Vincent Wheatley
• Contract cheating in Australian higher education: Results from a nation-wide survey of students and staff - Tracey Bretag

• Eradication of Contagious Bovine Pleuropneumonia in Australia - Frances Morey
• Veterinary Bacteriology in Queensland – a personal perspective - Pat J Blackall
• Gram Stains to Genomics: Bacterial Identifications in a Public Health Laboratory - Jenny Davis

• Reversing antibiotic resistance by destabilization of bacterial metal homeostasis - Mark Walker
• New drugs from old bugs - Sacha J Pidot
• Evaluation of novel inhibitors against the macrophage infectivity potentiator in Gram-negative bacteria - Mitali Sarkar-Tyson
• Rational design for therapeutic use of bacteriophages against pathogenic bacterial clones. - Carola Venturini
• Alternatives in tackling enzyme mediated antimicrobial resistance - Brinda Chandar
• Bio-responsive gels containing glycoside hydrolase/gentamicin to combat P. aeruginosa biofilms   - Nicky Thomas

• Not available at time of printing - Paul Bartley
• Not available at time or printing - Rachel Thomson
• Not available at time of printing - Louise Roddam
• Integrating genomics and transcriptomics to understand Burkholderia pseudomallei evolution in the cystic fibrosis lung - Erin P. Price
• Induced repeat expansion: Characterising a novel mechanism for carbapenem resistance in fatal respiratory diphtheria - Brian M Forde
• Identifying microbial factors protective against recurrent acute otitis media - Rachael Lappan

• Harnessing Environmental Biocontrol Lactic Acid Bacteria For Food Safety and Quality - Mark S Turner
• Survival of Campylobacter through poultry processing - Lesley Duffy
• Salmonellosis and eggs: closing the feedback loop from research to regulation - Harriet Whiley
• Metagenomic profile of the bacterial community structure on poultry carcasses throughout a factory processing line - Stanley H Chen
• The need for speed: Development of a rapid Campylobacter detection system for the Australian chicken industry - Michael Mason
• Tracking a naturally recombinant Campylobacter by WGS - Jillian Templeton

• The complement alternative pathway: another contributor to dengue virus-induced vascular leak.  - Jillian Carr
• Defining host restriction factors that modulate respiratory virus entry and exit from infected cells. - Patrick Reading
• HIV-1 RT mutations and small molecules inhibit the interaction between RT and eEF1A and highlight its importance in uncoating, reverse transcription and replication - Daniel J Rawle
• Identification and characteristics of the newly emerged subclades of enterovirus D68 associated with severe respiratory/central nervous system infections in Hong Kong - Pyrear SH Zhao
• Ross River virus: does persisting virus and/or genome contribute to chronic disease? - Elisa X.Y. Lim

Jill Carr

• A Virologist in Wonderland: through the looking glass - Paul Young

Room: Sky Deck, Sky Room & Sky Terrace