Monday, 2nd July Australian Society for Microbiology Annual Scientific Meeting 2018

• Clostridium difficile infection in Australia: not so nosocomial anymore - Daniel R Knight
• The epidemiology of Clostridium difficile infections - Archie Clements
• Getting One Health into practice in Fiji - Simon Reid
• Towards a one health approach: dissemination of antibiotic resistant microbial communities and genes from hospital, municipal wastewater to downstream environments - Barbara Drigo
• The gut microbiota shapes mucosal inflammatory tone and homeostasis in inflammatory bowel disease. - Paraic O Cuiv
• Virulence characteristics of adherent-invasive Escherichia coli isolated from healthy individuals, patients and the environment - Mohammad Katouli

• Targeting the middle man: Staphylococcus aureus targets human dendritic cells thereby hindering the activation of effector T lymphocytes - Victor Torres
• Spore Wars: strategies combating spore-forming pathogens - Yogitha N Srikhanta
• Structural insights into the regulation and inhibition of bacterial autotransporter proteins  - Begoña Heras
• Genome-wide discovery of genes required for capsule production by uropathogenic Escherichia coli - Mark A Schembri
•   Complexity of interactions between uropathogenic E. coli strains and the innate immune system: role of the hemolysin A toxin and the cof phosphatase in initiating human macrophage cell death     - Ambika Murthy
• Identification of Pasteurella multocida small RNAs: unravelling the regulatory network - Marianne N Mégroz

• The metabolic potential of ASGARD archaea in light of eukaryogenesis - Anja Spang
• After the storm: Microbial community dynamics and antibiotic resistance within an anthropogenically impacted urban beach - Justin Seymour
• Not available at time of printing - Nicole Webster
• Vibrio cholerae senses and responds to the presence of the predator, Tetrahymena pyriformis by increasing biofilm formation - Diane McDougald
• Tissue preparation and nucleic acid purification influences the outcome of Pacific oyster (Crassostrea gigas) microbiome studies - Erandi Pathirana
• Confirmation of anatoxin-a producing cyanobacteria in Australia: evidence of a changing global distribution? - Nijoy John

• Targeting membrane transporters of the malaria parasite with antitubercular drugs - Natalie J Spillman
• Think zinc: exploiting bacterial stress responses to visualize immune-mediated antimicrobial responses against bacterial pathogens - Matt Sweet
• Not available at time of printing - Gregory Moseley
• Green Fluorescent Protein as a tool for studying Group B Streptococcal microbiology - Matthew J Sullivan
• Nanoscale imaging of protein secretion systems used by bacteria and their viruses - Iain D Hay
• Nanoparticles loaded chitosan-polyethylene oxide constructs to combat antimicrobial resistance: A drive towards better performance - Hafiz M. N. Iqbal

• Cost-effective, Clinically-relevant work up of respiratory and wound specimens - Susan Sharp

• The Role of Glycan Interactions in the Cell and Host Tropism of Bacterial Pathogens - Michael Jennings

Professor Phil Hugenholtz, Microba

Illuminating the Human Gut Microbiome

Dr Thien Tran, application scientist Bruker Pty Ltd

Next generation, microbiological workflow for rapid identification, antibiotic resistance and subtyping of microorganisms

• Elucidating the Scs redox pathway and its role in copper tolerance in Salmonella - Pramod Subedi
• Cryptococcus and the Swiss Army Knife of Virulence - Kenya E Fernandes
• Surveying Bacillus cereus sensu lato in Tasmanian dairy environments and dairy products to inform food safety risk assessments. - Zoe Bartlett
• Folding your way to Greater Pathogenicity; the role of cyclophilins in Burkholderia pseudomallei virulence - Nicole M Bzdyl
• Presence of inhibitory antibodies in patients with Escherichia coli urosepsis. - Carrie F Coggon
• Overcoming antimicrobial resistance – exploiting zinc intoxication to restore antibiotic efficacy - Erin B. Brazel

• Pan-genome of the livestock gut-associated Streptococcus bovis/Streptococcus equinus complex - Rosalind A Gilbert
• The rumen microbiome and its functional relationship with the host animal - Stuart Denman
• Koala retrovirus infection in Queensland and South Australian koala populations - Joanne Meers
• Effect on the rumen microbiomes of cattle shifting from grazing extensive pastures to floodplain pastures in the Northern Territory. - Diane Ouwerkerk
• Cyanobacteria in dryland rehabilitation - Angela M Chilton
• Population and evolutionary dynamics of Shiga-toxin Producing Escherichia coli O157 in an Australian beef herd - Ruiting Lan

• Biogenesis, composition and immune detection of bacterial membrane vesicles - Maria Liaskos
• Tuberculosis: New therapies for an old enemy - Jamie Triccas
• Neisseria gonorrhoeae vaccine development – targeting of minor outer membrane proteins MetQ and NHBA to elicit host immunity - Evgeny Semchenko
• Reviewing the effects of chlamydial immunizations on the host immune system - David Lizarraga
• Identification of small molecules as novel therapeutic options that suppress virulence in Neisseria gonorrhoeae and increase susceptibility to CAMPs - Christopher A Mullally
• Improving tetanus toxoid vaccine production - Nicolas Zaragoza

• Ticks in Australia: endemics; exotics; which ticks bite humans? - Stephen C Barker
• Tick-borne infectious diseases in Australia. - Stephen R Graves
• The search for Australia’s tick-borne disease causing pathogens - Peter Irwin
• Protozoan expelled food vacuoles are an unrecognized vector for the transmission of cholera - Diane McDougald
• Serological evidence for the non-human reservoirs of Ross River virus; Australia’s most common arbovirus - Eloise Stephenson
• In vivo transcriptome of insect pathogen Yersinia entomophaga MH96. - Amber R Paulson

• Rapid and smart diagnostics for low resource detection of human and animal diseases - Joanne Macdonald
• Novel insights on the genomic RNA packaging and assembly of HIV - Johnson Mak
• Human papillomavirus and cervical cancer control in Australia - Dorothy A Machalek
• HIV-1 Env trimers eliciting antibody with neutralising and cellular-dependent functions in vaccinated cows - Damian F Purcell
• A multiple checkpoint HIV-1 inhibitor can block virus replication in vivo - David Harrich
• The Role of Exosomes During Infection with Bovine Herpesvirus 1 - Tristan T Wimpenny

• Variation in the capsular polysaccharide locus of Streptococcus pneumoniae isolates from low and middle-income countries in the Asia-Pacific - Sam Manna
• Diversity – The Dilemma and The Joy of Diagnostic Veterinary Bacteriology - Pat Blackall
• My journey with E. coli and urinary tract infections: 15 years, 3 continents, 6 universities and lots of fun on the way. - Makrina Totsika

• Evaluation of porcine circovirus type 2 (PCV2) infection in pigs by histopathology, IHC and qPCR in tissue and serum samples from the Philippines - Agnes dela Cruz
• Peptidoglycan enzymes used by Salmonella inside eukaryotic cells - Francisco Garcia-Del Portillo
• Changes in susceptibility of oral Candida dubliniensis isolates to lysozyme and lactoferrin following brief exposure to drugs with antifungal properties - Arjuna N Ellepola
• One hour detection of organisms from positive blood culture broth using the BioFire FilmArray^® Blood Culture Identification Panel - Catherine Janto
• One hour detection of clinically significant pathogens from cerebrospinal fluid using the BioFire FilmArray^® Meningitis/Encephalitis Panel - Catherine Janto
• The prebiotic effects and human gut alteration of Gwakhyangjeonggisan, a traditional Korean medicine - YEONGYUN JUNG
• Isolation and initial characterisation of bacteriophages against clinical isolates of Aeromonas hydrophila. - Mwila Kabwe
• Variability of top 7 Shiga toxin-producing Escherichia coli (STEC) and microbial populations through slaughter in Australian beef export abattoirs - Seong San Kang
• Microbial diversity profiling and taxonomy evaluation of macropods using three hypervariable regions of bacterial 16S rRNA gene. - Mohammad Katouli
• Comparative genome analyses of Nocardia seriolae strains isolated from outbreaks of nocardiosis in fish farms in Vietnam - Mohammad Katouli
• Acinetobacter baumannii K24 capsular polysaccharide requires a novel gene for sugar biosynthesis and a gene located outside of the K locus - Johanna J Kenyon
• Combating multidrug-resistant bacteria by phages equipped with sRNAs - Karen HK Kong
• A chemoreceptor in Campylobacter jejuni responds to multiple classes of chemoeffectors - Victoria Korolik
• Bacteriophages as a biocontrol agent of Vibrio species contaminating algae cultures in aquaculture - Tuan Son Le
• Whole genome analysis of Aspergillus sojae SMF 134 supports its merits as a starter for soybean fermentation - Inhyung Lee
• Human brucellosis by Brucella melitensis in South Korea - Kyeong Ah Lee
• Mechanisms of intracellular survival of Pseudomonas aeruginosa in Acantamoeba castellanii and raw 264.7 macrophage cells - Wai Leong
• Unlocking the Complete Arsenal of Acinetobacter baumannii Type VI Secretion System Effectors - Jessica M Lewis
• The performance of an oral microbiome biomarker panel in predicting oral cavity and oropharyngeal cancers - Yenkai YKL Lim
• Global Metabolomic Analysis of the Synergistic Killing against Extensive Drug-resistant Pseudomonas aeruginosa by the Combination of Polymyxin B and Enrofloxacin - Yu-Wei Lin
• The carbohydrate dimension of nutrition in gut microbiome modulation - Alison WS Luk
• Searching for the remarkable among the unremarkable: Neglected plants from the New England region (NSW) and their antibacterial compounds - Dane Lyddiard
• Characterisation of a Novel Bacteriophage and its Use in Therapies Against Bacteria Associated with Bovine Mastitis. - Stephanie Lynch
• Statins promote clearance of Alzheimer’s amyloid beta fused to green fluorescent protein in yeast - Ian Macreadie
• Non-capsular antibodies reduce pneumococcal colonisation density following therapeutic administration of pneumococcal whole cell vaccine - Jayne Manning
• Disrupting and killing of Methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus in biofilms - Arthika Manoharan
• A long-term efficacy trial of a live, attenuated Salmonella Typhimurium vaccine in layer hens - Andrea R McWhorter
• Exploring the behaviour of Salmonella Typhimurium in aioli, a raw egg-based sauce - Andrea R. McWhorter
• Molecular characterization of porcine circovirus type 2 in South East Queensland pig herds, Australia - Nway K. Mone
• Evolutionary changes in the capsid P2 region of the norovirus GII.Pe_GII.4 - Jean M Moselen
• Organoids, a new, innovative way to grow “unculturable” human viruses that pose a public health threat   - Jean M Moselen
• The effect of in vivo passage on S. Typhimurium MLVA type and virulence - Talia S Moyle
• Lectin activity of the Bexsero Neisseria meningitidis serogroup B vaccine antigen NHBA - Tsitsi D Mubaiwa
• Meningococcal Carriage Study of Young Adults in Western Australia - Christopher A Mullally
• The Sequence of the Mature Region of Secreted Proteins Impacts Signal Peptidase 1 Processing - Joanna E Musik
• Ins and outs of blooming Escherichia coli - Buddhie S. Nanayakkara
• Extracytoplasmic Methionine sulfoxide reductase protects Haemophilus influenzae from oxidative stress caused by HOCl. - Marufa Nasreen
• Genes involved in protozoan grazing resistance of Vibrio Vulnificus - Parisa Noorian
• Forward genetics of the human pathobiont Bacteroides vulgatus reveals a novel mode of haem-iron acquisition. - Paraic O Cuiv
• Identification of novel antimicrobial compounds from Australian Myrtaceae species - Malin M Olsson
• Squirrel gliders in the pasteurellosis spotlight - Lida Omaleki
• The role of zinc acquisition and zinc tolerance in Group A streptococcal infection - Cheryl-Lynn Y. Ong
• Root microbial Dynamics influenced by Quorum-Sensing Signal Molecules on Continuous Cropping Soils of Ginseng - Chang Eon Park
• The Prevalence of Inhibitory Antibodies in an Australian Cystic Fibrosis Cohort   - Amy Pham
• Regulation of c-di-AMP levels during osmotic stress in bacteria. - Huong Pham
• The role of phase-variable epigenetic gene regulation in Streptococcus pneumoniae pathobiology and vaccine development - Zachary N Phillips
• Molecular prediction of the O157:H-negative phenotype prevalent in Australian STEC patients - Alexander P Pintara
• Accumulation of Total Lipids and Triacylglycerides as Biodiesel Precursors upon Co-culturing a Phycospheric Bacterium with Indigenous Chlorella vulgaris   - Katherine L. Pintor
• Evaluating the Extensively Drug-Resistant Klebsiella pneumoniae Resistome via MinION Sequencing - Miranda E Pitt
• Resistance for Dummies - april pottinger
• Investigation into resistance acquisition mechanisms in methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus (MRSA) by means of resistance induction and next-generation sequencing - Anggia Prasetyoputri
• Mixed Eucalyptus and Acacia plantations: assessing the link between bacteria community and C-N functions in the soil and litter interface   - Arthur Prudêncio de Araujo Pereira
• Prevalence, Characteristics and behaviour of bacterial dairy contaminants - Behrad Radmehr
• Functional analysis of O-antigen modifying enzyme, O-acetyltransferase B, of Shigella flexneri - Munazza Rajput
• Rapid Detection of Microbes Using DNA-PNA Hairpin Probes and the DiSC₂(5) Dye - Josh T Ravensdale
• Pseudomonas stutzeri skin and soft tissue infection with bacteraemia - Alan J Rogers
• Mechanisms of action of plant extracts against clostridium difficile - Niloufar Roshan Hesari
• Effect of natural products on the production and activity of Clostridium difficile toxins in vitro. - Niloufar NR Roshan Hesari
• Predicting VP meat quality and spoilage in domestic and international supply chain - Tom Ross
• Investigating levels of parvovirus B19 DNA and genotypes circulating in Australian blood donors - Eileen Roulis
• Potential to analyse bacterial contamination of platelets utilizing 16S metagenomics - Lina Rustanti
• Bacterial communities vary between healing and non-healing diabetic foot ulcers (DFUs) - An update on the DFU microbiome. - Sumeet Sandhu
• Salmonella response to heat and pH in meat juice - Amreeta Sarjit
• ARDaP: Improved antimicrobial resistance detection and prediction from whole-genome sequence data - Derek S Sarovich
• Silver Nanoparticles: Green Synthesis and their Effective Applications - SHABANA SHABANA
• Comparison of Copan WASP^TM versus BD Kiestra^TM InoqulA in Examination Time for Positive Urine Culture - Susan Sharp
• Engineering a bacterial toxin for improved function as a N-glycolylneuraminic acid specific lectin - Lucy K Shewell
• Uropathogen Detection Comparison of Enhanced Quantitative Urine Culture Protocol and Standard Urine Culture Protocol in Patients with Urinary Tract Infection: Evidence Based Case Report - Samuel Dominggus Chandra Siahaan
• Potential pathogens identified in lung samples from pigs with pleurisy at an abattoir in Queensland Australia - Reema Singh
• Investigating the risk of human disease from parasites of small mammals and bats in Cambodia - Gavin JD Smith
• High susceptibility and vector competence of Australian Aedes aegypti to Zika virus - Liesel Stassen
• Seeding of the fetal gut microbiome: insights into origins and significance - Lisa Stinson
• Molecular characterisation of PPVP, a key effector molecule within the LirA regulon of Mycobacterium tuberculosis - Miljan Stupar
• Evolution of influenza A/H3N2 virus in Singapore - Yvonne Su
• Heparan sulfate mimetic compounds in modulating RRV as potential therapies   - Aroon Supramaniam
• Faecal Strongyloides stercoralis real-time polymerase chain reaction assay validation study - Christopher D Swan
• Nuc is an extracellular nuclease that mediates competence and biofilm formation in Moraxella catarrhalis - Aimee Tan
• Adaptation Strategies Inferred From Resource Allocation in Cyanobacterial Membrane Proteomes - Fallen Teoh
• Comparison of the highly multiplexed PlexPCR^® RespiVirus 11 (beta) assay with a commercial assay - Priya Thaivalappil
• Molecular characterization of fluoroquinolone-resistant avian pathogenic Escherichia coli isolated from diseased chickens in Thailand - Thotsapol Thomrongsuwannakij
• Overdiagnosis of rotavirus infection due to vaccine virus shedding. - Sarah Tozer
• Are peri-urban wild dogs another potential source of transmission of Q fever in Queensland? - Sarah J Tozer
• Study for Monitoring Antimicrobial Resistance Trends (SMART) in Australia and New Zealand (ANZ), 2016-2017 - Merrin Tulloch
• Glaesserella australis sp. nov., isolated from the lungs of pigs - Conny Turni
• Phenotypic and genotypic variability of antibiotic-resistant Salmonella Typhimurium exposed to environmental stresses - Md Jalal Uddin
• Characterization of antibiotic-resistant Staphylococcus aureus exposed to oxacillin and ciprofloxacin - Md Jalal Uddin
• Effect of bacteriophage-antibiotic combination on the reduction of the development of antibiotic resistance in Salmonella Typhimurium - Md Jalal Uddin
• Development of indigenous novel climate resilient microbial consortium for enhancing vegetable production - Jay Prakash Verma
• Funcional studies of pyruvate carboxylase regulation by cyclic di-amp in lactic acid bacteria - Thu NM Vu
• Use of whole genome sequencing to determine the genetic basis of multidrug resistance in Escherichia coli isolated from Australian livestock. - David L Wakeham
• Could environmental durability act as an enabler of bacterial pathogenicity? - Liang Wang
• Evaluation of cytotoxicity levels and synergistic antimicrobial activity of Alpiniamalaccensisand Terminaliacatappa extracts against food borne or spoilage bacteria in vacuum packed ready-to-cook (RTC) chicken - Nimsha S Weerakkody
• Capsule-switching is associated with the rapid global expansion of the recently emerged fluoroquinolone-resistant Escherichia coli sequence type 1193 clone - Rhys T White
• Soil and the gut microbiota- Supporting the “hygiene hypothesis” - Gal Winter
• Evaluation of the Vitek 2 AST YS08 Yeast Susceptibility Test in comparison to the Sensititre YeastONE Susceptibility System for antifungal susceptibility testing - Ka Yan Wong
• Functional Diversity of Toxin-Antitoxin Systems in Antibiotic Resistance Plasmids in Enterobacteriaceae - Alma Wu
• The molecular epidemiology of an atypical wooden tongue outbreak - Sarah Yee
• Structural study of a molybdenum cofactor-dependent enzyme - Sung-il Yoon
• Growth stage of Helicobacter pylori regulates the production and content of outer membrane vesicles. - Lauren Zavan
• Identification of serovars’ specific genes for typing the five most prevalent Salmonella serovars in Australia - Xiaomei Zhang
• Metabolomic analysis uncovered the synergistic mechanisms of polymyxin B in combination with rifampicin against MDR Acinetobacter baumannii - Jinxin Zhao
• Elucidating the Zn(II)-binding mechanism of the pneumococcal protein AdcAII - Marina L Zupan
• Development of a method for in-situ characterisation of biofilms grown on meat muscle  - Nirmani Wickramasinghe
• Characterization of Escherichia coli Adhesins - Tugce Onur
• Reservoirs of Clostridium difficile in the community - Su Chen Lim