Thursday, 6th July
Australian Society for Microbiology Annual Scientific Meeting 2023
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Concurrent Session - Remote diseases surveillance and therapy
8:30AM - 10:00AM
Thursday, 6th July
Meeting Room 1
Chairs: Charlene Kahler & Kelly Martinovich
Genital InFlammation Test (GIFT) for HIV prevention and reproductive health: point-of-care screening tool for sexually transmitted infections and bacterial vaginosis
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Lindi Masson
Killing two cocci with one vaccine
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Helen Marshall
Targeting bacterial persistence mechanisms and understanding susceptibility to otitis media in children to inform potential treatment and prevention strategies
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Ruth Thornton
Exploring genomic predictions of antimicrobial resistance in pneumococci from Lao PDR and Mongolia
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Laura Boelsen
Overlapping transmission of group A and C/G
Streptococcus
facilitates inter-species mobile genetic element exchange
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Ouli Xie
The Missing Piece Surveillance Study: does the pharyngeal microbiome predict risk of acquiring GAS pharyngitis in remote-living children
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Noor-Ul-Huda Dr Ghori
Genomic markers of drug resistance in
Mycobacterium tuberculosis
populations with minority variants
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Xiaomei Zhang
Concurrent Session - Drug Targets and Vaccine Technologies
8:30AM - 10:00AM
Thursday, 6th July
Meeting Room 2
Chairs: Amy Cain & Maria Halili
Preclinical assessment of a non-M protein group A streptococcal vaccine demonstrating protective efficacy in the non-human primate model of pharyngitis.
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Mark Walker
Antibody-antibiotic conjugate for treatment of melioidosis
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Michelle Nelson
Hollow Fibre Infection Model Assessment of Melioidosis Therapeutics
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Nathan B Unsworth
Development towards a
Chlamydia pecorum
vaccine for koalas; Vaccine longevity, population effects and future directions
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Samuel Phillips
Re-sensitising S
treptococcus pneumoniae
to tetracycline and macrolide antibiotics with metal ionophores
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Chloe Estoque
Novel EptA inhibitors increase the susceptibility of
N. gonorrhoeae
to killing by innate immune defenses
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Van Chi Thai
Insights into the mechanisms of daptomycin-loaded cubosomes in synergistically killing methicillin-resistant
Staphylococcus aureus
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Jhih-Hang Jiang
Concurrent Session - Microbial Genomics & Bioinformatics
8:30AM - 10:00AM
Thursday, 6th July
Meeting Room 3
Chairs: Karl Hassan & Melinda Ashcroft
Evolutionary biology of streptococcal pathovars through comparative pangenomics
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Mark R Davies
Visualisation tools for genomic surveillance of drug-resistant bacteria in healthcare settings
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Budi Permana
An ISO-certified genomics workflow for identification and surveillance of antimicrobial resistance
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Kristy Horan
New tools to explore metagenomic data
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Gene Tyson
Global distribution of the
Acinetobacter baumannii
K3-v1 type capsular polysaccharide associated with hypervirulence and altered susceptibility to bacteriophage
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Johanna J Kenyon
Capsule switching in an outbreak of clonal complex 11
Neisseria meningitidis
in Western Australia is associated with recombination events and changes in virulence
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August Mikucki
Exploring the intra- and inter-host genomic diversity of mpox virus in Victoria, Australia
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Mona L Taouk
Morning Tea and Exhibition
10:00AM - 10:30AM
Thursday, 6th July
Exhibition Hall
Concurrent Session - Medical Mycology – Pathogenic Fungi making it on to the World Stage
10:30AM - 12:00PM
Thursday, 6th July
Meeting Room 1
Chairs: Megan Lenardon & Kar-Chun Tan
Invasive Aspergillosis in Australia and New Zealand: 2017-2020
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Monica Slavin
Candida auris: the yeast of our worries....
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Christopher Heath
WHO Fungal Priority Pathogens List
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Jan-Willem Alffenaar
Cryptococcus
infection in patients without HIV infection: a multicentre study in 46 hospitals from Australia and New Zealand
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Monica A Slavin
Impact of dysregulated phosphate homeostasis on fungal metabolism and virulence
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Julianne T Djordjevic
Investigation into the roles of
Scedosporium
aurantiacum
secondary metabolites in host-pathogen interactions
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Hamideh Rezaee
Unravelling the mechanism of lactofungin, a peptide that shows potent synergy with the antifungal drug amphotericin
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Evelyne Deplazes
Concurrent Session - Early Childhood Health
10:30AM - 12:00PM
Thursday, 6th July
Meeting Room 2
Chairs: Cuong Tran & Janessa Pickering
Impact of pneumococcal conjugate vaccine introduction on the pneumococcal population in Mongolia
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Catherine Satzke
From Dirt to Disease: Unpacking the Impacts of Environments on Human Health in Low-Middle Income Countries through a One Health Lens
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Rebekah Henry
Early life determinants of lung development and function
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Brian Oliver
Beyond Pathogen Detection - new approaches to the diagnosis and management of acute lower respiratory tract infection
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Christopher Blyth
Bacteraemia and Antimicrobial Resistance in Paediatric Patients across Australia, 2020-21
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Anita Williams
Microbiome-based intervention strategies for childhood pneumonia.
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Ritika K Bahal
A new diagnostic approach for an old pathogen: is saliva the solution for Strep A?
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Anuk Indraratna
Concurrent Session - Host-Pathogen Interactions II
10:30AM - 12:00PM
Thursday, 6th July
Meeting Room 3
Chairs: Jessica Rooke & Nathan Unsworth
The two-component regulator WalKR provides an essential link between cell wall homeostasis with DNA replication in Staphylococcus aureus
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Liam K Sharkey
Bacterial extracellular vesicles target the host cell nucleus
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Richard L Ferrero
Macrophages versus
Burkholderia pseudomallei
; tipping the balance following deletion of the folding protein PpiB.
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Nicole M Bzdyl
Wollamide cyclic hexapeptides synergise with tuberculosis antibiotics in targeting
Mycobacterium tuberculosis
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Rachel F Rollo
Clostridioides difficile
infection perturbs colonic structure and slows gut transit
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Christine Ong
Sulfoxide repair in the respiratory pathogen
Haemophilus influenzae
– what is the connection between hypochlorite resistance, host immune responses and nutrient acquisition?
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Ulrike Kappler
SARS-CoV-2 Spike interaction and effect on central carbon metabolism enzymes Lactate Dehydrogenase and Malate Dehydrogenase
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Dylan DA Alexander
Break
12:00PM - 12:20PM
Thursday, 6th July
Plenary Session
12:20PM - 1:05PM
Thursday, 6th July
Meeting Rooms 1, 2 & 3
Chair: Ulrike Kappler
Structure of fungal cell wall immune epitopes: the origins of immunity
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Neil A.R. Gow
Conference Close
1:05PM - 1:30PM
Thursday, 6th July
Meeting Rooms 1, 2 & 3
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