Wednesday, 4th July Australian Society for Microbiology Annual Scientific Meeting 2018

• Not available at time of printing - Patrick Harris
• Refining bacterial disease surveillance: harnessing the benefits of whole genome sequencing in a public health microbiology reference laboratory - Amy V Jennison
• Food, sex and genomics - Deborah A Williamson
• Genomic evolution of Klebsiella pneumoniae clones: the good, the bad and the ugly - Kelly L Wyres
• The real genomic landscape of Legionella pneumophila in Sydney, Australia - Verlaine J Timms
• Whole genome analysis of clinical Group B Streptococcus isolates from Western Australia - Lucy L Furfaro

• Generalisability among respiratory microbiota studies: when does one size fit all? - Robyn Marsh
• Paradoxical Antibody: The mechanisms and treatment of antibody that exacerbates Pseudomonas aeruginosa lung infections. - Timothy J Wells
• Macrolides: friend or foe in respiratory diseases? - Keith Grimwood
• Sugar & Spice – insights into the ‘diet’ of Haemophilus influenzae in the host - Ulrike Kappler
• Molecular epidemiology of the 2013-2017 pertussis epidemic in Australia - Alice(Zheng) Xu
• Translating a topical treatment for chronic upper respiratory tract infections from bench to bedside - Katharina Richter

• Single cell viral tagging - Philip Hugenholtz
• Evolutionary genomics of eukaryotic algae and their microbiota - Heroen Verbruggen
• Not available at time of printing - Pierre Offre
• Parallel systems genetics: combining TnSeq and genetically diverse mice to understand TB susceptibility - Clare M Smith
• Genomic and functional insights of bacteria affiliated with Clostridium Cluster IV of the core human gut microbiota    - Sian Pottenger
• Selection for non-optimal codons in secretory signal sequences is not for weaker mRNA secondary structures in Escherichia coli - Yaramah Zalucki

• Out of control – Ablation of the C. albicans Histone Chaperone HIR Drives Fungal Hypervirulence - Karl Kuchler
• Virulence-promoting non-protein kinases: Mechanism of action and exploitation as antifungal drug targets - Julianne Djordjevic
• Metabolic control of host-pathogen interactions in fungal infection - Ana Traven
• Transcriptome-wide Statistical Structure in Saccharomyces cerevisiae Biofilm   - Kumar Selvarajoo
• Recent progresses in fungal DNA barcoding - Laszlo Irinyi
• SWItching it up: Purification of fungal SWI/SNF complexes reveals compositional differences from their yeast counterparts - Brianna Steed

• Engineering bacteriophages to establish a phage therapy platform for biofilm control - Karen Weynberg
• Tripartite symbioses: Bacteriophage-bacteria-epithelial interactions - Jeremy Barr
• The New Kid on the Block - A Specialised Secretion System During Bacterial Sporulation - Christopher Rodrigues
• Identification and characterisation of a new family of conjugative plasmids in Clostridium perfringens - Julian I Rood
• Guided missile strikes: Receptor targeting by a novel flagellatropic bacteriophage. - Rhys Dunstan
• Genetic Composition and Regulatory Control of IncA/C Plasmid Conjugation - Minh Duy Phan

• Vibrio cholerae biofilm matrix assembly and function - Fitnat Yildiz
• Folding and Froth: Glycosylation in yeast in protein biosynthesis and sparkling wines - Benjamin L Schulz
• Salmonella sweet talking it's way around host innate responses - Jaclyn S Pearson
• Glycan-glycan interactions between host glycans and pathogen glycans: Role in colonisation/adherence. - Christopher Day
• Utilisation of the sugar raffinose dictates disease progression in Streptococcus pneumoniae - Vikrant Minhas
• High frequency changes in pilin glycosylation patterns of epidemic serogroup A Neisseria meningitidis strains in the African meningitis belt - Freda E.-C. Jen

• Not available at time of printing - Gemma Robertson
• Q fever in North Queensland - The changing epidemiology - Robert Norton
• Can we develop of a diagnostic assay to detect and monitor rheumatic heart disease? - Brenda Govan
• Exploration of the upper respiratory tract microbiota of remote Australian Aboriginal children – implications of season and household occupancy. - Kyra Cottrell
• Diagnosing Chlamydia psittaci and Chlamydia pecorum in less than an hour using rapid novel isothermal amplification assays - Martina Jelocnik
• The role of nicotinamide adenine dinucleotide (NAD) synthesis in the pathogenesis of Coxiella burnetii - Fiona M Sansom

• Experimental co-evolution of Yeast - Michael McDonald
• Mucormycosis in the platypus and the amphibian - Joanne H Connolly
• Tropical fungal endophytes, mountain islands and host preference - Kaylene Bransgrove
• Copper (ll) Lead (ll) and Zinc (ll) reduce the growth, zoospore production and attachment rate to organic substrates of three species of zoosporic fungi  from soils of NSW - Linda Henderson
• Fermenting Yeasts and Where to Find Them - Edward D Kerr
• Identifying changes in painted and polyester surfaces during the attachment and proliferation of three species of environmental fungi using Synchrotron-sourced macro ATR-FTIR microspectroscopy - Stephanie Owen

• Fungal Pathogen-Host Interactions – The Winner Takes It All - Karl Kuchler

(Biofinformatics/Public Health/Food Microbiology SIGS)

Cool tools for studying eukaryotic microbes

Old diseases, new challenges in diagnosis

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(Biofinformatics/Public Health/Food Microbiology SIGS)

Old diseases, new challenges in diagnosis