Tuesday, 4th July Australian Society for Microbiology Annual Scientific Meeting 2023

• Evolution of the breastfed infant gut microbiome across the first year of life in the BLOSOM cohort - Lisa F Stinson
• Prebiotic intervention with HAMSAB in untreated essential hypertensive patients: a phase II randomized trial - Hamdi Jama
• Exploring the scabies-associated microbiota to understand the pathobiology of scabies-related secondary skin infections - Katja Fischer
• Phenotyping the host-gut microbe co-metabolome to investigate the gut-brain axis in health and disease - Luke Whiley
• Bacterial interactions in the gastrointestinal tract prevent microbiome community disruption by dietary compounds - Remy Young
• Lactobacillus - a new key player in gastric carcinogenesis? - Karla Vinasco Pacheco
• Human Upper Respiratory Tract Microbiome and Epithelium Interactions - Pooja Narang

• Q Fever – Overview and Epidemiology - Robert Gibb
• Development of Helitope, a precision-serology assay for gastric cancer risk based on selected linear epitopes of the CagA protein of Helicobacter pylori - Samuel B Lundin
• Serological profiling of Strep A disease: From improving diagnostics to correlates of protection - Nikki Moreland
• Fluorescence-based rapid tests for the detection of chlamydial infections - Martina Jelocnik
• Utilising virtual microscopy for parasitology EQA: Standardising the gold standard - Rory C Gough
• Evaluating viability qPCR for improved detection of polymicrobial bacteraemia - Mariam Doualeh
• Rapid confirmation of Candidemia using acoustic-enhanced flow cytometry - Malgorzata Kopczyk

• Breaking antibiotic resistance in Streptococcus pneumoniae - Christopher A McDevitt
• Beta-lactam resistance in the spore-forming pathogen Clostridioides difficile - Sheena McGowan
• The Suppressor of copper sensitivity protein C from Caulobacter crescentus is a trimeric disulfide isomerase         - Maria A Halili
• Cross-protection and cross-feeding between Klebsiella pneumoniae and Acinetobacter baumannii promotes their co-existance - Lucie Semenec
• Understanding roles of non-antibiotic pharmaceuticals on the emergence and spread of antibiotic resistance - Ji Lu
• Host-dependent resistance of Group A Streptococcus to sulfamethoxazole mediated by a horizontally-acquired ECF transporter S component - Kalindu Rodrigo
• Resistance is Futile: Technological Assimilation for Enhanced Surveillance of Antimicrobial Resistance in Food Animals - Alec AT Truswell

Includes welcome from Mikayla Kingston

• The Diagnosis of Strongyloidiasis in Humans - Richard Bradbury
• Allplex GI Bacterial and Viral Assay Verification   - Elton EM Mosqueda
• Tale of two camps - Andrew Strack
• Building Laboratory capacity in a West Timor Hospital - an UnFOHGettable experience - Patricia Green
• Benchmarks for tuberculosis control that incorporate routine whole genome sequencing - Xiaomei Zhang

• The origins of SARS-CoV-2: Where science and politics meet - Dominic E Dwyer

• Dissecting the evolutionary history and host-adaptive mechanisms of Staphylococcus aureus - Ross Fitzgerald

Theme: PhD and Postdoc Career Pathways

Prof Erica Donner
Research Director, CRC SAAFE

Dr Alma Fulurija
Co-Founder & Director, Biotome

Come and have a discussion with us about career options!

Topics to cover:
1.Getting grants
2.Overseas postdoc experience
3.Collaborating with industry partners
4.Heading your own lab
5.Promotion in academia
6.Working in the industry, including start-up
7.Work-life balance

https://www.theasmmeeting.org.au/clinicon-biomerieux-workshop

• A group of temperate bacteriophages equip their Klebsiella hosts with potent interbacterial weapons - Sally Byers
• Clinical trial of a novel molecular RDT for the detection of Plasmodium falciparum in whole blood for use in low resource setting.  - Genevieve Kerr
• Construction of a signal blind MisS sensor kinase for the determination of the inducing signal(s) of MisRS in Neisseria meningitidis. - Nicolie McCluskey
• The bacterial invisibility cloak - how S.aureus can evade antibiotic treatments in chronic osteomyelitis - Anja R Zelmer
• Teaming up two ESKAPE: cross-feeding between Klebsiella pneumoniae and Acinetobacter baumannii promotes their co-existence - Catherine J Dawson

• Clinical and laboratory evaluation of the BioFire Respiratory Panel 2.1 plus compared to SpeeDx PlexPCR - Todd Pryce and Edward Raby
• Does the presence of heparin in nasopharyngeal swabs interfere with detection of SARS-CoV-2 by PCR? If so, can the effect be prevented through the addition of the heparinase I enzyme? - Kira Edwards
• The evolution of deployable molecular diagnostic capability in Western Australia - Tim J Inglis
• Trip to Bali - Mathew Thomas

• Digital droplet PCR provides reference-free high throughput quantification of cereal pathogens in host samples - Kar-Chun Tan
• Evolution and diversity of rhizobia as legume symbionts and soil saprophytes - Jason Terpolilli
• Belowground Strategies for Sustainable Agricultural Systems: A Plant-Soil-Microbial Perspective. - Barbara Drigo
• Bacterial endosymbionts protect beneficial soil fungus from nematode attack - Sacha J Pidot
• Salmonella Typhimurium vaccine diluent and dose minimally affect gut microbiota of layer chicks - Samiullah Khan
• Horses as Sources? Clostridioides difficile in Western Australian Equine Populations: A One Health Genomic Approach - Natasza M.R. Hain-Saunders
• Genetic determinants of host range in symbiotic Mesorhizobium ciceri strains WSM1497 and WSM1284 - Georgina Stagg

• Genomics for responding to emerging bacterial public health threats - Amy V Jennison
• The World Health Organization Global Antimicrobial Resistance and Use Surveillance System - Monica M. Lahra
• Genomic Characterisation of Enterococcus faecium Causing Bacteraemia in Australia - Shakeel Mowlaboccus
• AMR analysis of global Salmonella entericaserovar Typhimurium - Sandeep Kaur
• SABRes: In silico detection of drug resistance conferring mutations in subpopulations of SARS-CoV-2 genomes - Winkie Fong
• Repeated evolution of bedaquiline resistance in South African Mycobacterium tuberculosis is driven by truncation of the regulatory gene mmpR5 - Leah W Roberts
• Defining the role of community transmission in carbapenemase resistance: a five-year case study of blaIMP and blaNDM   - Georgia P Lynch

• Genomics of Escherichia coli causing neonatal meningitis - Nhu Nguyen
• Dissecting the role of antimicrobial copper at the host-pneumococcal interface - Stephanie Neville
• Small RNAs are TRAPP’ed by a T6SS toxin-immunity complex in EHEC - Jai Tree
• Contrasting the domains: archaeal versus bacterial cell division and morphogenesis - Iain G Duggin
• A novel quorum sensing system regulates a network of non-coding RNAs - Tahlia Bastholm
• Delivery determinants of type VI secretion system cargo effectors in Acinetobacter baumannii - Valeriya Bezkorovayna
• Tn5403 promotes plasmid rearrangements and degradation of the Klebsiella pneumoniae carbapenemase (KPC) transposon Tn4401 - Anna E Sheppard

• National Alert System for Critical Antimicrobial Resistances: What is happening in Australia? - Jan Bell
• Genomics-guided Infection Control: reality or pipe-dream? - Patrick Harris
• EQA in Clinical Microbiology - Something Old, Something New, Something Borrowed, Something Blue - Torsten Theis

• Where bacterial extracellular polysaccharides and genomes meet - Johanna J Kenyon
• Diverse mechanisms of transfer, regulation and persistence employed by bacterial conjugative elements and their mobilizable companions - Joshua Ramsay
• Using Whole Genome Sequencing for Antimicrobial Resistance Profiling – MRSA as an example - Shakeel Mowlaboccus
• Microbial determinants of effective donors in faecal microbiota transplantation for ulcerative colitis - Laurence DW Luu

ALL POSTERS WILL BE UP FOR THE WHOLE TIME. EVEN NUMBERED PRESENTERS TO STAND BY THEIR POSTERS DURING POSTER SESSION II

• Human Passage of Schistosoma incognitum in Tamil Nadu, India, and Review of Autochthonous Schistosomiasis in South Asia - Richard S Bradbury
• Streptococcus agalactiae regulatory factor responsible for cross-talk between responses to copper and zinc intoxication: contribution to fitness in the host - Dhruba Acharya
• Regulation of Replication in pRUM like Plasmids of Enterococci - Divya Annangi
• Genomic characterisation and epidemiology of the capsule locus in the Klebsiella oxytoca Species Complex - Melinda M Ashcroft
• In-vitro approach for improved efficacy of phage therapy against Pseudomonas aeruginosa. - Matias Barenboim
• Understanding the genomic characteristics of linezolid-resistant Enterococcus spp. from Victoria, Australia - Jia Qi Beh
• Developing a microbial therapeutic for the prevention of systemic Candida albicans infections arising from the gastrointestinal tract - Bianca Briscas
• Exploring the Terroir: Bioprospecting Indigenous Vineyard Yeast for Sustainable Winemaking - Natalia Caliani
• Isolation and characterisation of bacteriophage to treat Acinetobacter baumannii and Burkholderia cepacia complex antimicrobial-resistant infections - Jack S. Canning
• Genomic resolution of non-typable invasive Streptococcus pneumoniae  - Shona Chandra
• Alpha-amyrin as an anti-biofilm agent against methicillin-resistant and vancomycin-intermediate Staphylococcus aureus - Pooi Yin Katrina Chung
• Rescuing Tetracycline Class Antibiotics for the Treatment of Multidrug-Resistant Acinetobacter baumannii Pulmonary Infection - David De Oliveira
• Teaching bacteria how to eat PET plastic in marine conditions - Anna Faber
• Investigating Anthranilate Synthase in the Tryptophan Biosynthetic Pathway as a Target for Antimicrobial Drug Design against Burkholderia pseudomallei - Sharita Ganeshan
• Skin Microbiome studies are biased: optimization of microbiome sampling for the skin in a pilot study  - Noor-Ul-Huda Dr Ghori
• Variable resistance to zinc intoxication among Streptococcus agalactiae reveals a novel IS1381 insertion element within the zinc efflux transporter gene czcD - Kelvin GK Goh
• Customized Designer Cell Factory for Advanced Production from Primary to High-Valued Chemicals - Sung Ok Han
• An effective cell-based fluorescence assay for high-throughput screening of potential coronavirus antivirals - Soraya Haynes
• Characterisation of invasive Group B Streptococcus strains from Western Australian infants, 2004-2020 - Ginger Hilpipre
• Effects of Klebsiella pneumoniae bacteriophages on IRAK3 knockdown/knockout THP-1 monocyte cell lines - Mwila Kabwe
• The potential of essential oil vapours to reduce the number of aerosolized food contamination bacteria - Parthasarathi Kalaiselvan
• Regulation of conjugation in Escherichia coli involves a complex interaction between plasmid-borne factors and host-encoded factors - Muhammad Kamruzzaman
• Characterisation of a novel fluorescent daptomycin conjugate to assess mode of action and resistance mechanisms in bacteria - Glen GL Lamb
• Utilization of lion’s mane mushroom (Hericium erinaceus) for drug discovery - Mi Kyeong Lee
• Antimicrobial potential of Chlorella sorokiniana on MRSA  - Charmaine AC Lloyd
• Acinetobacter vs Acinetobacter: uncovering the molecular mechanisms underpinning intraspecies co-infections with multiple Acinetobacter baumannii strains - Hannah Lott
• Determinants of the milk microbiome in allergic mothers - Jie Ma
• Intranasal delivery of the human respiratory commensal Haemophilus haemolyticus prevents development of otitis media from nontypeable Haemophilus influenzae in mice - Kelly M Martinovich
• Microbial diversity in Ashfield Flats sediments - Falko Mathes
• Identification of essential genes in Coxiella burnetii  - Georgie Metters
• Deletion of the Burkholderia pseudomallei Class II Fructose 1,6-bisphosphate Aldolase (bpsl0798) has a Complex Pleiotropic Effect on both Metabolism and Virulence   - Clare L Moran
• Production of Functional Platform Chemicals from Lignin and Phenolics from Agricultural Wastes by Microbial Fermentation and Their Applications - Masaya Nakamura
• Expanding diversity of Archaea expands the diversity of the Tubulin Superfamily of proteins - Stephanie J Nobs
• Evaluation of the Biofire FilmArray Gastrointestinal (GI) Panel for detection of gastrointestinal pathogens in stool. - NORRASHIDAH OSMAN
• Dynamic genomic thresholds for outbreak detection in Salmonella. - Michael Payne
• Comparison between the NG-Test CARBA-5 and the GeneXpert CARBA-R - Vivian Pham-Nguyen
• The role of endosymbiotic Pseudomonas aeruginosa in the development of Acanthamoeba keratitis - Binod Rayamajhee
• Human gut microbiome resilience after antibiotic stress; biomarker identification and predictive model - Azadeh AS Safarchi
• The duodenal mucosa-associated microbiota varies among subjects suffering from different disorders of gut brain interactions. - Lauren Schooth
• Evaluation of patterns of susceptibility of clinical isolates of Acinetobacter spp towards polymyxins and different cationic antimicrobials - Shakeel Shahzad
• Chyle interaction with bacteria and mesothelioma cells - Hui Juin Shak
•    Effect of a reduced fat and sugar maternal dietary intervention during lactation on the infant gut microbiome  - Azhar S Sindi
• The metabolic influence of the gut microbiome in Parkinson’s Disease - Jess Spithoven
• Laboratory diagnostic performance of sputum smear microscopy in Solomon Islands. - Donald TAHANI
• Modelling the transmission of Neisseria gonorrhoeae in Melbourne, Victoria, 2017 – 2021 - Mona L Taouk
• Establishing an in vitro model to study early-life bacterial-bacterial interactions in the upper respiratory tract - Vanessa Tenaglia
• Genomic Analysis of Acinetobacter Strains Recovered from South Australian Aquatic Samples provides Insights into the Circulation of Antibiotic Resistance determinants in the Environment - Liam A Tobin
•  The circulation of human influenza in the Oceanic region following the COVID-19 pandemic - Megan Triantafilou
• Fitting the best statistical model: A case study on longitudinal urinalysis data of uropathogenic Escherichia coli infection in mice. - Dimitrios Vagenas
• Assessing the Efficacy of Plasma Activated Water as a Pre-Treatment Strategy for Biofilm-Infected Chronic Wounds - Heema K N Vyas
• The Essential Genome of Enteroaggregative Escherichia coli strain 042 - Isabel Warner
• Bioprospecting of the acidic saline lakes of the Yilgarn Craton for halotolerant acidophiles. - Elizabeth Watkin
• Kosakonia pseudosacchari RX.G5M8, a Facultative Diazotroph Isolated from Hong Kong Soil - Richard D.Y Xu
• Treating infected wounds with plasma-activated water in vivo in mice - Adrian I Abdo