Thursday, 3rd June Australian Society for Microbiology Annual Scientific Meeting 2021

• Reprogramming innate immunity to combat bacterial infections - Matthew Sweet
• Diverse mechanisms of host cell control by intracellular bacterial pathogens - Elizabeth Hartland
• Glycine acylation and trafficking of a new class of bacterial lipoprotein by a composite secretion system - Ian Henderson
• The molecular basis for zinc uptake via Streptococcus pneumoniae AdcAII - Marina Zupan
• Bacterial colonisation and biofilms, how adhesins work at the molecular level - and how to block them - Jason J Paxman
• Acinetobacter baumannii PAAR proteins: A tale of functional redundancy - Jessica M Lewis

• Antimicrobial resistance determination of Mycobacterium tuberculosis via WGS on DNA extracted from MGIT tubes – a pilot study. - Linda T Viberg
• Human and pathogen genomics of TB - Sarah Dunstan
• A consequence of antibiotics, Staphylococcus aureus, genomics and mutations. - Tim Stinear
• Genomic epidemiology links Burkholderia pseudomallei from environmental sources to human melioidosis cases located in northern Australia over an 18-year period. - Jessica R Webb
• Global population structure and genotyping framework for genomic surveillance of the major dysentery pathogen, Shigella sonnei - Jane Hawkey
• Rapid prospective strain typing to identify unsuspected nonsocomial transmission of MRSA and VRE - Jessica Johnson-Mackinnon

• Metabolic flexibility: a universal trait of environmental and pathogenic bacteria - Chris Greening
• Microbial community structure and function in disturbed and intact peatlands. - Christina Birnbaum
• The dynamic mycorrhizal fungi-trees-soil interaction and how this determines the plant health and soil nutrients in changing climate - Johanna Wong-Bajracharya
• Chemosynthetic and photosynthetic bacteria differentially contribute to primary production across a steep desert aridity gradient - Sean K Bay
• Unraveling bacterial community dynamics in response to subsoil deep-banded amendment addition - Joshua J Vido
• Metagenomic assessment of benthic seeding in Microcystis bloom development  - Caitlin Romanis

• Neutralizing human antibodies against malaria - Wai-Hong Tham
• The role of host immunity in the emergence and spread of drug resistant malaria  - Freya Fowkes
• Wastewater surveillance in Victoria’s COVID response program - Aaron Jex
• Chromosome segregation and peptidoglycan remodeling are coordinated at a highly stabilized septal pore to maintain bacterial spore development - Christopher D. A Rodrigues
• Molecular epidemiology of clinical and colonising methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus isolates in companion animals - Hester Rynhoud
• Efficacy of imipenem/relebactam in OmpK36 variants characteristic of the principal high-risk clones of Klebsiella pneumoniae from Australia, Italy and Brazil - Ali Khalid

• Prophages, Phages, and Viruses Associated with Irritable Bowel Disease and Crohn’s Disease. - Robert Edwards
• Wanted dead or alive: Characterisation of the viable human milk microbiome in fresh and cold stored samples - Lisa Stinson
• Microbial dynamics of elevated carbon flux in the open ocean’s abyss - Andy Leu
• Stop codon recoding enhances the metabolic capabilities of two novel methylotrophic Asgardarchaeota lineages - Jiarui Sun
• A secret affair: investigation of Symbiodiniaceae-bacteria interactions within the coral holobiont - Justin Maire
• Changes in Gut Microbiome Metabolic Capacity in Response to Diet Alterations - Emma Todd

• Implementing genomics in clinical and public health microbiology - Deborah Williamson
• High burden of Mycoplasma genitalium and other reproductive tract infections in pregnant and postpartum women in Papua New Guinea - Michelle Scoullar
• Pneumococcal chorioamnionitis – a case study - Celia Cooper
• Comparative phosphoproteomics of classical bordetellae elucidates the potential role of serine, threonine and tyrosine phosphorylation in Bordetella biology and virulence - Laurence D Luu
• A novel way to treat UTIs: N-Acetylcysteine prevents bacterial invasion of bladder epithelial cells and displays antibiofilm activity against urinary tract infection pathogens. - Arthika Manoharan
• Crowdsourcing Metal-Complexes as New Antibiotics through the Community for Open Antimicrobial Drug Discovery - Mark AT Blaskovich

• Towards a cure for HIV: the role of immune checkpoint blockers and other immunotherapies - Sharon Lewin

Dr. Michelle Baker - Co-developing an Infectious Disease Resilience Mission
CSIRO, Health and Biosecurity Business Unit, Australian Centre for Disease Preparedness, Geelong, Vic

Christian Hawkins - First line of defence: Diagnostics at the forefront of ID resilience in Australia 
Infectious Disease Area Lead, Roche Diagnostics Australia Pty Limited

Colin Denver - Growth in adversity: Scaling up supply in the midst of a pandemic
CEO, SpeeDx

Monique Chilver - The flu@home Australia project: can we use in-home POCTs for disease diagnostics in future pandemics?
University of Adelaide

Dr. Alberto Amarilla Ortiz - Molecular determinants and pathogenesis of a highly virulent Brazilian Flavivirus: Rocio virus
(2020) UQ early Career researcher, Post-doctoral research fellow, Watterson lab, Australian Infectious Diseases Research Centre, School of Chemistry and Molecular Biosciences, University of Queensland

Professor Grant Rawlin and Dr. Peter Mee - Virus detection by LAMP technology in the field.
Research Scientist, Microbial Sciences, Pest & Diseases, AVR, Agriculture Victoria
Research Leader, Veterinary Pathobiology, AVR, Agriculture Victoria, Department of Jobs, Precincts and Regions, Adjunct Professor in Animal and Veterinary Bioscience, La Trobe University.

Dr Stacey Lynch - The use of metagenomics to support veterinary pathologists and laboratory diagnosticians 
Senior Research Scientist- Virology, Microbial Sciences, Pests and Diseases, Agriculture Victoria Research, AgriBio, Centre for AgriBioscience

Dr. Michelle Baker - Co-developing an Infectious Disease Resilience Mission
CSIRO, Health and Biosecurity Business Unit, Australian Centre for Disease Preparedness, Geelong, Vic

Christian Hawkins - First line of defence: Diagnostics at the forefront of ID resilience in Australia 
Infectious Disease Area Lead, Roche Diagnostics Australia Pty Limited

Colin Denver - Growth in adversity: Scaling up supply in the midst of a pandemic
CEO, SpeeDx

Monique Chilver - The flu@home Australia project: can we use in-home POCTs for disease diagnostics in future pandemics?
University of Adelaide

Dr. Alberto Amarilla Ortiz - Molecular determinants and pathogenesis of a highly virulent Brazilian Flavivirus: Rocio virus
(2020) UQ early Career researcher, Post-doctoral research fellow, Watterson lab, Australian Infectious Diseases Research Centre, School of Chemistry and Molecular Biosciences, University of Queensland

Professor Grant Rawlin and Dr. Peter Mee - Virus detection by LAMP technology in the field.
Research Scientist, Microbial Sciences, Pest & Diseases, AVR, Agriculture Victoria
Research Leader, Veterinary Pathobiology, AVR, Agriculture Victoria, Department of Jobs, Precincts and Regions, Adjunct Professor in Animal and Veterinary Bioscience, La Trobe University.

Dr Stacey Lynch - The use of metagenomics to support veterinary pathologists and laboratory diagnosticians 
Senior Research Scientist- Virology, Microbial Sciences, Pests and Diseases, Agriculture Victoria Research, AgriBio, Centre for AgriBioscience