Monday, 1st July Australian Society for Microbiology Annual Scientific Meeting 2024

Objective: to celebrate and showcase alternative and exciting career paths that local microbiologists have taken.

Panellists

• Dr Michelle Williams PhD - Strategic Partnerships Lead; Sanofi
• Dr Joanne Mollinger BBiomedSc, GDipInfecCnt, GCPH, PhD - Department of Agriculture and Fisheries, Queensland Government
• Dr Kylie Ellis PhD - Head of Research Partnerships, Microba Life Sciences
• Dr Kylie Hewson PhD - Lead (Animal Health and Environment), Minimising Antimicrobial Resistance Mission, Health and Biosecurity, CSIRO

• Towards a serotype-independent pneumococcal vaccine - Erin Brazel

• Preclinical assessment of non-M protein group A streptococcal vaccines - Mark J. Walker

• The Ins and Outs of Antibiotic Accumulation in Gram Negative Bacteria - Jessica Blair

• Expression of a hydrogen scavenging [NiFe] uptake hydrogenase is regulated by the transcriptional activator MSMEG_2260 - James Archer
• Dissecting the Humoral Response of Mpox and MVA-BN in a Cohort of Convalescent and Vaccinated Participants. - William Asquith
• Emergence of ciprofloxacin resistant invasive salmonella chester infections in victoria associated with travel, 2022-2023 - Jessica Barnden
• A rapid molecular detection tool for toxigenic M1_UKStreptococcus pyogenes - Stephan Brouwer
• Shelf life and chemical characteristics predictive for antimicrobial activity in Australian honeys produced from native flora - Dee A Carter
• Modulating Opportunistic Pathogen Growth in Broiler Chickens Using Proteogenic Amino Acids - David Chau
• Hit for Saks(enaea): an emerging cause of severe mucormycosis in North Queensland - Sophie Cunningham
• An immunogenic thermostable novel spray dried vaccine against Psittacine beak and feather disease - Tridip Das
• A catalogue of small proteins from the global microbiome - Luis Pedro Coelho
• Gardnerella vaginalis colonisation among pregnant women and clade characterisation - Lucy L Furfaro
• The role of adaptive, but unstable, large-scale duplications in microbial genome evolution   - Jenna Gallie
• Escherichia coli, Enterococcus faecalis, and Candida albicans triple-species biofilm: clinically relevant recurrent urinary tract infection model for screening novel treatment approaches - Cathrina Geldard
• CdspoCR_R disruption impairs CdSpoCR-mediated cephamycin resistance in Clostridioides difficile - Georgia-Rose Gilmore
• Comparison of antibiotic susceptibility testing of bacterial isolates from blood culture between direct testing, and testing of young and mature agar cultures - Si Ying SY Goh
• The broccoli-derived antioxidant sulforaphane changes the growth of gastrointestinal microbiota, allowing for the production of anti-inflammatory metabolites. - Emily L Gulliver
• Development of a bacterial mRNA vaccine against Streptococcus pyogenes using Moderna platform technology - Nichaela Harbison-Price
• "From Stability to Vulnerability: disrupting fatty acid homeostasis damages the Gram-negative bacterial cell envelope to overcome existing antibiotic resistance" - Yaoqin Hong
• Antibacterial Effects of Chinese medicinal herbs on extended-spectrum beta-lactamase-producing Enterobacterales (ESBL-PE) strains - Ching Ching Hui
• Enhanced surveillance for multidrug resistant Neisseria gonorrhoeae in Queensland: Development of an amplicon pipeline for antimicrobial resistance typing. - Olivia Jessop
• Targeting bacterial transcription for effective antimicrobial solutions - Cheuk Hei Kan
• Fifteen Years of External Quality Assessment in the Laboratory Detection and Diagnosis of Anthrax - Alexa Kaufer
• Design and Synthesis of Dual-Acting Antimicrobials: Alleviating the Burden of Antimicrobial Resistance - Lily P. Kenchington-Evans
• Utility of a fluorescent daptomycin probe for mode of action studies, resistance analysis and rapid diagnosis - Glen A Lamb
• Prebiotic potential of Davidsonia pruriens in yoghurt: An in-vitro investigation focussing on product quality and the human gut microbiota - Thomas Leadbetter
• Australian stingless bee (Tetragonula carbonaria) honey and propolis have a distinctive profile of activity against fungi and bacteria - Jasmin Li
• Virulence plasmids of extra-intestinal pathogenic Escherichia coli - Zheng Jie Lian
• A novel bloodstream infection associated Salmonella Typhimurium ST313 strain from United Kingdom - Lijuan Luo
• Models feasible to study the interaction between food matrices and weaning infant gut microbiome - Shibo Ma
• Characterising the quick-killing mechanism of action of azithromycin analogues against malaria parasites - Emma Mao
• Fermentation of pureed broccoli can reduce the population of selected foodborne pathogens - Catherine M McAuley
• Targeting mucosal gastrointestinal biofilms with antimicrobial peptides - Michael Michael
• Identification of a DASH-type cryptochrome gene from Lentinula edodes - Yasumasa Miyazaki
• PRODUCTION OF A NOVEL PLATFORM CHEMICAL FROM LIGNIN BY MICROBIAL FERMENTATION AND ITS APPLICATIONS - Masaya Nakamura
• BIOLUMINESCENT MOUSE MODELS OF BACTERIAL PATHOGENESIS TO ASSESS THE EFFICACY OF NEW DRUG CLASSES AGAINST MULTIDRUG-RESISTANT BACTERIAL PATHOGENS - Hang Nguyen
• Cellulose disruption mutations drive enhanced bacterial virulence - Nhu TK Nguyen
• Synergy in action octapeptins potentiate repurposed drugs against antimicrobial resistance while mitigating toxicity   - Michelle Novais de Paula
• Anti-chlamydia vaccine reduces the incidence of infection in a wild koala population - Chioma Ojiako
• A novel tamanavirus (Flaviviridae) of the European common frog (Rana temporaria) from the UK - Rhys H. Parry
• A stable and flexible genomic nomenclature for Staphylococcus aureus epidemiology using Multilevel Genome Typing - Michael Payne
• The Koala cough: New insights into bacterial and viral coinfections in koalas with respiratory symptoms - Samuel Phillips
• Characterising bacterial DNA methyltransferases and epigenetic regulation - Samantha L Pratt
• Increasing incidence of Acanthamoeba keratitis at a referral eye hospital in Sydney, Australia - Binod Rayamajhee
• Wollamide exposure induces a unique transcriptional response and disturbs the integrity of the cell envelope in mycobacteria - Rachel F Rollo
• Discovery of novel marine natural products via genome mining   - Nedeljka Rosic
• Seroprevalence of hepatitis B core antibody in Australian blood donors - Lina Rustanti
• Optimizing infection control: a comparative analysis of swab and plate culture methods for environmental surveillance in healthcare settings - Cristiano Sabelli
• A comparison of sample collection approaches for human skin microbiota and mycobiota studies - Cristiano Sabelli
• Induction of lipopolysaccharide modification to improve rapid colistin susceptibility testing - Emily Salisbury
• Soil-transmitted helminths in a rural community in the Western Province of Papua New Guinea - Jessica L Scott
• Chemotaxis system in Campylobacter concisus: a bioinformatics glance - Pradip Sedhai
• Involvement of prophage genes in modifying the sugar composition of the K58 capsule produced by Acinetobacter baumannii - Nowshin Sharar
• Analysis of gonorrhoea-specific antibody responses and antibody glycosylation profiles induced by the 4CMenB meningococcal vaccine. - Valentin A Slesarenko
• The power of whole genome sequencing in tracing Listeria monocytogenes contamination in a cooked chicken processing plant - Jack Stewart
• Cold-stress dampens expression of anti-inflammatory cytokines in fish challenged with Vibrio harveyi - Roisin Sullivan
• Antimicrobial peptides and their mimics can synergize to reduce the infection of Herpes simplex and Influenza viruses in cell culture - Mst Umme Laila Urmi
• Transcriptional Signatures Associated with the Survival of Escherichia coli Biofilm During Treatment with Plasma-Activated Water - Heema Vyas
• Evaluation of Xpert Carba-R and NG-test CARBA-5 for detection of carbapenemases from clinical isolates - Phoebe Webster
• Uncovering genomic features influencing raffinose metabolism in Streptococcus pneumoniae clinical isolates - Kate P Whyte
• New insights into chlamydial and koala Herpes Virus 1 infections in wild koalas from Southeast Queensland - Jessie Wong
• Study on effects and mechanisms of type II secretion system secreted protein PulA on the virulence of Klebsiella pneumoniae - Tieli Zhou
• Enhancing antimicrobial resistance detection in Neisseria gonorrhoeae through machine learning-driven gene selection - Andrey Verich
• Assessing the Performance of an Innovative, Boric Acid-Free Device for Urine Culture Testing in Pre-Analytics for UTIs - Francesco Bonometti