Tuesday, 1st June Australian Society for Microbiology Annual Scientific Meeting 2021

• Mycobacteriophages: Diversity, Dynamics, Collusion, and Therapy - Graham Hatfull

• Rapid Vaccine Development in the Age of COVID-19: Challenges and Opportunities - Paul Young
• The advantages and pitfalls of animal vaccine development - Ala E Tabor
• Trial of a safe anti-biofilm therapy, and identification of modifiable targets, to prevent repeat grommet surgery   - Ruth B Thornton
• Targeting the glyco-Achille’s heel of Neisseria gonorrhoeae : a new strategy for vaccines to prevent gonorrhea - Freda Jen
• From Deciphering the Glycointeractome to Potentially New Treatments to combat multi-drug resistant Neisseria gonorrhoeae - Evgeny Semchenko
• In vitro Probiotic Potential of Haemophilin-producing Strains of Haemophilus haemolyticus - Brianna Atto

• Directing traffic in the mobile gene pool - Jon Iredell
• Zinc-binding to the cytoplasmic PAS domain regulates the essential WalK histidine kinase of Staphylococcus aureus - Ian R Monk
• Nonsense-mediated decay is highly divergent in the malaria parasite Plasmodium falciparum - Emma McHugh
• Archaeal cell division: Two FtsZs are required for cytokinesis - Yan Liao
• Epigenetic control of bacterial quorum sensing and horizontal DNA transfer - Tahlia R Bastholm
• Staphylococcus aureus Pathogenicity Island-Mediated Phage Interference Contributes to SaPI Persistence Across Multiple Infection Cycles - Melissa SJ Chee

• The science of sourdough: understanding microbial communities in a flour fermentation to create delicious bread. - Kate Howell
• Risk profiling of Salmonella and Escherichia coli in chicken layer farms and retail eggs in Western Australia - Ihab Habib
• It’s time for slime: Biofilms of psychrotrophic meat spoilage pseudomonads - Gary Dykes
• Seasonal variation of key food safety pathogens in Australian meat chicken processing plants - Jillian M Templeton
• Comparative genomics of Chinese and international isolates of Escherichia albertii: population structure and evolution of virulence and antimicrobial resistance - Lijuan Luo
• The antimicrobial efficacy of native Australian essential oils against food microbes - Agnes Mukurumbira

• Population genomics of emerging resistance in Salmonella Dublin - Cheryll M Sia
• Surface Polysaccharide Variation and Evolution in the Multidrug Resistant ST25 Clonal Lineage of Acinetobacter baumannii - Sarah M Cahill
• Shape-shifting bacteria are key to infection - Elizabeth Peterson
• The Evolutionary Adventures of Clostridioides difficile Ribotype 017 - Korakrit Imwattana
• Old anti-alcoholic drug to fight biofilms on hernia meshes - Laurine Kaul

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Novel promising MALDI-TOF applications for microbiology including rapid AST and polymyxin resistance detection

Over the last decade, MALDI-TOF technology has transformed microbiology in many ways. A significance transformation is the ability to rapidly identify a wide range of microorganisms by the MALDI Biotyper, which contributed to better management of infectious diseases.

This workshop will discuss novel approaches with the MALDI Biotyper for AST and antibiotic resistance detection, novel techniques for the differentiation of E. coli and Shigella spp., S. pneumoniae and viridans streptococci, and identification of filamentous fungi.

In this workshop, our instrument specialist will also guide you through the processes to optimise the performance of your MBT systems.

Thien Tran
Bruker

Asteway Hailemariam
Alfred Hospital

Stuart Allan
Bruker

• Vibrio cholerae in food vacuoles expelled by protozoa are protected from stresses and more infectious in vivo than free-living cells - Diane McDougald
• Metagenomics to Microbiome Based Medicines - Samuel C Forster
• Synergistic and antagonistic interactions between Streptococcus pneumoniae and respiratory viruses in an infant mouse model - Sam Manna
• Bacteriophage FNU1 attenuates chemotherapy resistance and increased cell proliferation in gastric cancer cells and colon cancer cells co-cultured with Fusobacterium nucleatum - Mwila Kabwe
• Pseudomonas aeruginosa outer membrane vesicles have altered antimicrobial activity against Gram‑positive and Gram‑negative bacteria. - Lauren Zavan
• Interaction dynamics between clinical coinfection isolates of Klebsiella pneumoniae and Acinetobacter baumannii - Lucie Semenec

• Similarities and differences in plasmids from an infection with multiple Klebsiella pneumoniae - Sally Partridge
• Targeted Conservative Cointegrate Formation Mediated by IS 26 Family Members - Christopher J Harmer
• Structural Biology and Evolution of QseM, a Dual-target Antiactivator of Quorum Sensing and Horizontal Gene Transfer - Joshua P Ramsay
• The DNA-binding domain of Tnp26, the transposase of insertion sequence IS26 - Carol H Pong
• Characterisation of the IncP-10 plasmid, R91-5 which inhibits the conjugal transfer of IncP-1 plasmid RP1 - Aurelie AT Tsee
• Identification and characterization of a novel plasmid entry exclusion system in pKPC_UVA01, a promiscuous conjugative plasmid carrying bla_KPC carbapenemase gene - Muhammad Kamruzzaman

• Molecular mechanisms underlying the emergence of polygenetic antifungal drug resistance in Cryptococcus - Kylie Boyce
• Anti-fungal resistance in Aspergillus spp in Vietnam, and how this relates to agricultural anti-fungal use - Justin Beardsley
• Proteomic characterization of extracellular vesicles from fungi to identify biomarkers and potential roles for EVs in virulence and tolerance to antifungal drugs  - Marilyn Anderson
• Altered eukaryotic microbiome composition in inflammatory bowel disease - Gina L Guzzo
• Inositol polyphosphates as "intermolecular glue" promoting fungal pathogenicity - Julianne T Djordjevic
• Development of an improved real-time PCR assay for the detection of fungal DNA - Olusola Olagoke

This session will not be live streamed. 

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• Versatility of Type IV Secretion Systems in Gram-positive Bacteria - Elisabeth Grohmann

• Using Ecology in Microbial Ecology: Why we need it, where it is at and where did it go?   - Jennifer L Wood
• Shifting dynamics of multidrug resistant Shigella in Australia - Danielle Ingle
• Microbial glycoproteomics; how do you find glycopeptides when you’re not sure what you’re looking for? - Nichollas E Scott
• Bacterial phasevarions: an emerging gambling strategy in old (and new) enemies - John Atack

We encourage you to view e-Posters during this time

• Filamentous fungi conidia adhesion to polyester surfaces using synchrotron-sourced macro ATR-FTIR microspectroscopy. - Arturo Aburto Medina
• Azithromycin resistant Neisseria gonorrhoeae – has the time come to re-consider use of azithromycin for NG treatment in Australia? - Bushra Alharbi
• Multiple CetZ tubulin-like proteins influence swimming motility in the archaeon Haloferax volcanii - Hannah J Brown
• Disseminated Tuberculosis; a potential role for Ag85B - Chiara Carnevali
• MultiLevel Genome Typing describes short and long-term Vibrio cholerae molecular epidemiology - Liam Cheney
• Antimicrobial activity of Cu(II) Schiff base complexes against methicillin-resistant and biofilm-forming Staphylococcus aureus - Pooi Yin Katrina Chung
• The Salmonella Effector SseK3 Targets Small Rab GTPases - Jiyao Gan
• Zinc oxide quantum dots as effective antimicrobial agents against infectious superbugs: shiga-like toxin producing Escherichia coli, Candida auris, and Methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus - Sheeana Gangadoo
• A two-plasmid FRT-Flp recombinase system for the genetic analysis of essential genes - Yaoqin Hong
• Nasal microbiota diversity and abundance in shelter dogs carrying methicillin-resistant and -sensitive Staphylococcus species - Sara Horsman
• Molecular method improves bacterial identification in paediatric pleural empyema - Jonathan Jacobson
• Mechanism of daptomycin resistance in Staphylococcus aureus mediated by mutations in mprF   - Jhih-Hang Jiang
• Evalutation of a novel and ultrafast assay using microfluidic chip based real-time PCR device with dual temperature control modules to detection of Coronavirus-19 - Dazhi Jin
• Effect of Trypsin on the Antimicrobial Peptide Mel4 and Mel4-coated Contact Lenses - Parthasarathi Kalaiselvan
• Surviving high levels of inflammation – hypochlorite-resistance in Haemophilus influenzae - Ulrike Kappler
• Translocation events between gold nanoclusters and eukaryotic cells - Erim Kosyer
• Caffeic acid as a potential quorum sensing inhibitor in Aliivibrio fischeri ATCC 7744 - Eric Kat Jun Low
• Population structure and multidrug resistance of non-O1/non-O139 Vibrio cholerae in freshwater rivers in Zhejiang, China - Yun Luo
• Development and comparison of novel multiple cross displacement amplification (MCDA) assays with other nucleic acid amplification methods for SARS-CoV-2 detection - Laurence D Luu
• New Curated Databases in BioCyc.org for the Pathogens Acinetobacter baumannii and Chlamydia trachomatis - Lisa R Moore
• In-Vitro Model for Interaction between Upper Respiratory Tract Microbiome and Human Epithelium - Pooja Narang
• The alternative sigma factor RpoE2 is involved in the stress response to hypochlorite and in vivo survival of Haemophilus influenzae. - Marufa Nasreen
• Redesigning an Anticoccidial Drug for Treatment of Multidrug-Resistant Bacterial Infections - Hang T. Nguyen
• Phenotypic characteristics of human-associated Escherichia coli sequence types ST73, ST95, and ST131 - Truc Nguyen
• Genomic analysis of the appearance and spread of a novel Salmonella Abortusovis clade in New South Wales clinical and poultry samples. - Michael Payne
• The epidemiology of vancomycin-resistant Enterococcus faecium ST78 in a Brisbane hospital: a genomic approach - Budi Permana
• Characterising the role of the M-related protein from Group A Streptococcus in virulence - Emma-Jayne Proctor
• Flagellin gene analysis allows thousands of E. coli to be strain identified per sample - Peter R Reeves
• Functional characterisation of a novel mycobacterial two-component system LirAB - Miljan Stupar
• Microaerobic conditions leads to increased biofilm formation in Bordetella pertussis - Hiroki Suyama
• Taking AIM-(1) at carbapenem resistance in Pseudomonas aeruginosa - Rietie Venter
• Cluster-specific gene markers enhance Shigella and Enteroinvasive Escherichia coli  in silico serotyping - Xiaomei Zhang
• Characterisation of pili-linked phosphorylcholine modification in Neisseria meningitidis  - Yuan Zhang
• Epidermal microbiome complexity similar on whale sharks from around the world - Michael P Doane
• A comparison study of the performance of penicillin and Ceftriaxone E-test Gradient MIC testing and Vitek automated BMD testing - Clair Stewart
• The Spin-and-Stick method for Direct Identification of Organisms from Blood Cultures using MALDI-TOF MS - Harry Walker
• Elucidation of global and local genomic epidemiology of Salmonella enterica serovar Enteritidis through multilevel genome typing - Michael Payne