Thursday, 4th July Australian Society for Microbiology Annual Scientific Meeting 2024

• You are what you eat: Comparative metabolic modelling of Klebsiella pneumoniae reveals clone-specific profiles - Kelly L Wyres
• Small proteins of the global microbiome with a focus on antimicrobial peptides - Luis Pedro Coelho
• RoundHound: detecting plasmid transmission from short-read datasets - Leah Roberts
• Benchmarking reveals superiority of deep learning variant callers on bacterial nanopore sequence data - Michael B Hall
• Addressing Challenges in Prokaryote Pangenomics - Gerry Tonkin-Hill
• TRAPPing an RNA binding protein in pathogenic E. coli: How a T6SS immunity protein is co-opted for small RNA regulation. - Thomas TZ Zammit
• Longitudinal changes in the oral microbiome of healthy adults undergoing intensive training program - Katherine Barlow

• How HIV breaches the nuclear envelope using karyopherin mimicry - David A Jacques
• ENTELLI-02: Standardised Front-Line Phage Product for Nosocomial Enterobacter Cloacae Complex Infections - Jeremy J Barr
• PhageCraft: Using, analysing, and creating phages for a better future - Robert Edwards
• Evolutionary And Coevolutionary Phage Training Approaches Enhance Bacterial Suppression And Delay The Emergence Of Phage Resistance - Lyman Ngiam
• Elucidation of the host transcriptomic response to pneumococcal-viral co-infection in infant mice - Hanwen Hou
• The cooperation of Flaviviral Subgenomic RNA (sfRNA) and non-structural protein 5 (NS5) for Flaviviral antagonism of host innate immune response - Jarvis Goh
• Human cytomegalovirus infection of cholangiocyte organoids promotes TGF-β mediated epithelial–mesenchymal transition and disrupts cell-barrier function - Allen Ka Loon KL Cheung

• A stem cell powered drug discovery pipeline for nontuberculous mycobacteria - Sohinee Sarkar
• Novel antimalarials targeting the late liver stage confer sterile immunity to malaria - Justin A Boddey
• Inositol polyphosphate kinases: “new kids on the block” from an antifungal drug targeting perspective? - Julianne T Djordjevic
• Exploring the utility of zinc-ionophores for the treatment of Acinetobacter baumannii lung infection - David MP De Oliveira
• A novel scabicidal treatment with anti-bacterial properties - Deepani D Fernando
• Discovery and development of novel inhibitors for bacterial ribosomal RNA synthesis as first-in-class antimicrobial candidates - Xiao YANG
• Delineating the activity of a guanidine functionalized anthranilamide peptidomimetic against ESKAPEE pathogens - Shyam Mishra (Baishnab)

• Defining therapeutic vulnerabilities in drug-resistant strains of Mycobacterium tuberculosis - Greg M. Cook
• A whole organism vaccine approach to target parasites of medical and veterinary importance - Danielle Stanisic
• Drug repurposing to treat antimicrobial resistant infectious diseases by targeting glycointeractions. - Michael Jennings
• Hybrid Drugs to Kill Nasty Bugs: Combining antibiotics to fight antimicrobial resistance. - Anthony D Verderosa
• Investigating novel interventions for carbapenem resistant Klebsiella pneumoniae - Aimee Tan
• Prophylactic and Therapeutic Efficacy of Synthetic Peptide Vaccine candidates against Streptococcal Superficial and Invasive Infections - Manisha Pandey
• Investigation of a gel-based delivery method for the administration of a live, attenuated Salmonella Typhimurium vaccine - Siyuan Jia

• Evolutionary ecology of avian influenza viruses in Australia, and how this may inform our preparation for HPAI - Michelle Wille
• Towards predicting zoonotic spillovers: From mechanistic modelling to a One Health digital twin  - Roslyn I Hickson
• Whole-genome sequencing of the One Health Chlamydia psittaci from Australasian avian hosts - Martina Jelocnik
• Defining prokaryotic plankton biogeography through metagenomic and climatic data integration - Vinícius W Salazar
• Investigating the gut-brain axis in autism: insights from multi-site microbiota sampling - Rachele Gore
• Mining for Microbes: Antagonists and Protagonists in Acid and Metalliferous Drainage - Nicholas W Falk

• A novel screening platform reveals clinical mutations in Staphylococcus aureus that promote intracellular persistence - Abderrahman (Abdou) Hachani
• Acquisition of Hypervirulence by Cryptococcus neoformans  - James A Fraser
• How Gram-negative bacteria fortify their cell envelope - Waldemar Vollmer
• Developing a Novel Tool of Pseudomonas aeruginosa Adhesion to Endothelial Cells Under Shear Stress - Sarah M Hickson
• Characterisation of a master regulator of Uropathogenic Escherichia coli virulence - Yvette Ong
• Wolbachia elevates host methyltransferase expression and alters the m6A methylation landscape in Aedes aegypti mosquito cells. - Michael ML Leitner
• Linking genes to secondary metabolites through transposon mutagenesis in human pathogenic Nocardia - Sacha J Pidot

• Combatting viruses with evolutionary concepts. - Marco Vignuzzi

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Outbreak investigation - Can you crack the case

Introductions

Interactive Activity (outbreak investigation based on real-life scenario)

Case Debrief - with Q&A

Expert Talks with Q&A: Prof Julian Cox (UNSW) – Foodborne outbreaks; and Dr Rhys White (PH NZ) – Genomics for outbreak investigation

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