Wednesday, 2nd June Australian Society for Microbiology Annual Scientific Meeting 2021

• Structural insights into the function and inhibition of bacterial virulence proteins - Begoña Heras
• Maintaining a replicative niche: How to keep your house in order - Hayley Newton
• Breaking Streptococcus pneumoniae drug resistance in a pneumonia infection model - Christopher McDevitt
• Staphylococcus aureus membrane vesicles contain immunostimulatory DNA, RNA and peptidoglycan that activate innate immune receptors and induce autophagy. - Natalie J Bitto
• Human Plasminogen Exacerbates Clostridioides difficile Enteric Disease and Alters the Spore Surface - Milena Awad
• A unique glycosyltransferase effector from enteropathogenic Escherichia coli that targets innate immune signalling proteins - Cristina Giogha

• Insights into the pathogenesis of lower respiratory tract infection in infants from a South African birth cohort - Mark Nicol
• Addressing the challenges of AMR using implementation science and health services research - Karin Thursky
• Understanding the molecular basis of Plasmodium parasite protein export; a key to malaria pathogenesis - Brendan Crabb AC
• Strain-specific risks and mechanisms of colistin resistance among K. pneumoniae clinical isolates - Kelly L Wyres
• Wollamide cyclic hexapeptides synergise with tuberculosis antibiotics against Mycobacterium tuberculosis - Rachel Rollo
• Uncovering the role of the functional small RNA interactome in antibiotic tolerance in Staphylococcus aureus - Winton Wu

• Mapping single IAV-specific killer T cell transcriptional heterogeneity after infection and vaccination - Stephen Turner
• Canonical T cell Receptor Docking on peptide–MHC is essential for an effective antiviral immune response - Pirooz Zareie
• Endothelial cells elicit a pro-inflammatory response to SARS-CoV-2 without productive viral infection - Kirsty Short
• The genomic epidemiology and evolution of Human Metapneumovirus in Australia between 2013-2020.   - Rachel Tulloch
• Interactions of Escherichia coli ST131 and lytic bacteriophages in vivo. - Carola Venturini
• Experimental evolution of a bacteriophage within the mammalian mucosa: a novel trans-domain adaptation? - Wai Hoe WH Chin

• Pathogenesis of Enteric Fever - Ferric Fang

• Challenging the Dogma - Changing the World View on Legionnaires’ Disease - David Murdoch

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• Using meta-omics to characterise chronic lung disease infections - Erin Price
• Shotgun metagenomic sequencing of Australian Ixodes spp reveals novel vertebrate viruses and formalises the potential human pathogen Rickettsia tasmanensis as present in New South Wales Koala populations. - Rhys Parry
• Investigating Pasteurella multocida pathogenesis through comparative genomics and TraDIS - Thomas Smallman
• Monitoring diverse enteric pathogens and antimicrobial resistance genes across One Health reservoirs in the RISE Program - Rachael Lappan
• What makes a bacterial fish pathogen? - Laura Baseggio
• Chlamydia of a Feather: Chlamydial Prevalence and Diversity in Wild Australian Birds   - Vasilli Kasimov

• Unnatural Production from Cyanobacterial Extremophiles - Brett Neilan
• Unlocking the secrets of an ancient antimicrobial, honey, using modern transcriptomics - Nural Cokcetin
• Re-evaluating the importance of fermentative microorganisms to the enhanced biological removal process for wastewater treatment - Simon McIlroy
• Utilising microbial diffusion chambers to enhance antimicrobial discovery - Sacha J Pidot
• Key coral-bacterial symbioses are driven by eco-evolutionary forces - Francesco Ricci
• The use of budding yeast to gain insights into Alzheimer’s Disease and its prevention - Ian G Macreadie

• CSL, the fossil that adapted and thrived. - Ian Gust
• The Evolution of Melbourne Sexual Health Centre - 100 Years of Public STI Services in Victoria - Ian Denham
• The Burnet Institute – from one pandemic to the next…. - David Anderson

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• Crossing barriers: perinatal phage interactions - Lucy Furfaro
• Inhaled phage therapy for lung infections - Yoon (Rachel) Chang
• BIOLOGY OF PHAGE THERAPY: TARGETING MULTIDRUG RESISTANT INFECTIONS - Aleksandra Petrovic Fabijan
• Bacteriophages Target Acinetobacter baumannii Capsules Forcing Antimicrobial Resensitization in Phage-resistant Mutants - Fernando L Gordillo Altamirano
• Guided missile strikes: Targeting mechanisms by novel bacteriophages. - Rhys A Dunstan
• Isolation and characterisation of two novel Bacillus pumilus phages and phylogenetic investigation into the phi29-like phages - Cassandra R Stanton

• Healthy Skin for remote living Aboriginal Children - Asha Bowen
• Genomic assessment of within-host population variation in Neisseria gonorrhoeae: Implications for gonorrhoea transmission - Melinda M Ashcroft
• Vaginal microbiome: Immunobiological Effects on the Genital Epithelium and HIV risk   - Gilda Tachedjian
• New mechanisms of resistance to Zn and Cu intoxication revealed in Group B streptococcus - Matthew J Sullivan
• Central role of a transcriptional switch for stress protection and virulence in Acinetobacter baumannii - Ram P Maharjan
• Urinary isolates from Australian dogs and cats: antimicrobial resistance patterns and implications for empirical therapy   - Ri Scarborough

• Efficacy of Wolbachia-infected mosquito deployments for the control of dengue - Cam Simmons
• Towards a world-first treatment for viral arthritis - Lara Herrero
• A phase 1b clinical trial to assess safety and efficacy of an attenuated hookworm larvae vaccine - Alex Loukas
• Genomic Insights into the Zoonotic Transmission of Clostridioides difficile Sequence Type 35 Reveals a Clone of Emerging One Health Importance - Dazhi Jin
• Mycobacterial hydrogen metabolism is regulated by catabolite repression - Paul R. F. Cordero
• Chlamydia psittaci: Not a pathogen to horse around with in Australia - Susan I Anstey

• Edward Holmes presentation - Edward Holmes