Sunday, 27th September

2:30AM - 6:00PM

Entrance of the Churchill/Flinders

3:30PM - 4:30PM

Sunday, 27th September

Watermark Restaurant

4:30PM - 4:45PM

Sunday, 27th September

Churchill/Flinders

5:45PM - 6:45PM

Sunday, 27th September

Churchill/Flinders

Chair: Timothy Stinear

Identification of a single SNP that controls virulence of the African S. Typhimurium ST313 - Jay Hinton

7:00PM - 8:30PM

Sunday, 27th September

Watermark Restaurant

8:30PM - 10:30PM

Sunday, 27th September

Waratah/Coronet

Phasevarions of pathogenic bacteria – widely distributed epigenetic regulators that evolved independently from distinct classes of restriction-modification systems - John M. Atack
Production of a heterologous protein vaccine candidate through an autotransporter based platform - Irene Beriotto
Lysine acetylation targets key metabolic enzymes and virulence factors of the anaerobe Porphyromonas gingivalis - Catherine A. Butler
Characterisation of the virulence-associated RevSR regulatory system of Clostridium perfringens - Jackie K. Cheung
The Lancefield cell wall antigen of group A Streptococcus contributes to macrophage resistance and pharyngeal colonisation - Jason N. Cole
Dynamin-like proteins in the gastric pathogen Helicobacter pylori - Emma M. Dawson
Neisseria Spp secretes extracellular vesicles to control innate immune responses - Pankaj Deo
Pathogens, passengers, and PATRs: The importance of the passenger-associated transport repeat motif in autotransporters - Matthew T. Doyle
Zinc homeostasis in Streptococcus pneumoniae during disease - Bart A. Eijkelkamp
Substrate recognition by the zinc metalloprotease effector NleC from enteropathogenic Escherichia coli - Cristina Giogha
Stigmergic social behaviours facilitate the active expansion of Pseudomonas aeruginosa interstitial biofilms - Erin S. Gloag
Asymptomatic carriage of K. pneumoniae and its role in hospital acquired infection - Claire Gorrie
The structural basis for iron piracy from host ferredoxin by Pectobacterium spp - Rhys Grinter
Accessory regions of the genome of Streptococcus pneumoniae are responsible for strain-strain variation in virulence between clinical isolates from remote indigenous communities - Richard M. Harvey
Conserved intramembranous acidic residues function in transport but not substrate binding in PACE family proteins - Karl Hassan
Dynamics of insertion sequences in a global collection of Shigella sonnei - Jane Hawkey
Characterisation of the cell wall carbohydrate antigen in non-M1 serotype group A Streptococcus - Anna Henningham
The role of de novo methionine biosynthesis and transport proteins for virulence in Salmonella Typhimurium, and their potential use as novel drug targets - Asma Ul Husna
The elusive Chlamydia pecorum plasmid: Strain-specific virulence or harmless accessory? - Martina Jelocnik
Maturation of molybdoenzymes and its influence on the pathogenesis of non-typeable Haemophilus influenzae - Ulrike Kappler
Porphyromonas gingivalis and Treponema denticola polymicrobial interactions - Lin Xin Kin
Acinetobacter baumannii efflux pump regulation - Qi Liu
Chemically generated chromosomal mutants suggest a critical role for C. trachomatis HtrA in heat shock and the production of infectious progeny - James W. Marsh
Species-specific protein antibiotics show potent activity against Pseudomonas aeruginosa in the murine lung - Laura C. McCaughey
Bacterial disarmament: DSB proteins as an anti-virulence target in Burkholderia pseudomallei - Roisin M. McMahon
Porphyromonas gingivalis uses specific domain rearrangements and allelic exchange to generate diversity in surface proteins associated with virulence - Helen L. Mitchell
Genetic determinants of β-lactam tolerance via reversible cell morphotype transitions in Pseudomonas aeruginosa - Leigh G. Monahan
Deciphering the glyco-interactome of Neisseria meningitidis - Tsitsi D. Mubaiwa
Metabolic adaptation in two invasive non-typeable Haemophilus influenzae strains: NTHi 2866 and NTHi C188 - Noor Marian Muda
An antimicrobial role for zinc in innate immune defense against Group A Streptococcus - Cheryl-Lynn Y. Ong
A combinatorial synthetic peptide vaccine can protect against virulent streptococcal pyoderma and bacteremia - Manisha Pandey
ZnuA and zinc homeostasis in Pseudomonas aeruginosa - Victoria G. Pederick
Vancomycin susceptibility in methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus is mediated by YycHI activation of the essential two component regulatory system WalKR - Anton Y. Peleg
Gonococcal vaccines: What is needed to reduce prevalence? - Kate L. Seib
Neisseria heparin binding antigen (NHBA): A potential vaccine candidate for Neisseria gonorrhoeae - Evgeny Semchenko
Interaction of group A Streptococcus with innate immune signalling pathways - Amelia T. Soderholm
The epidemiology of bla_CMY-2 in Escherichia coli: A change over time? - Kaitlin Tagg
Utilizing peptide arrays as a method for assessment of biofilm inhibition - Greg Tram
Type IX secretion substrates are attached to the cell surface via a novel linker that is conjugated to the secreted proteins by a sortase-like mechanism - Paul D. Veith
Investigating moDCs and the cytokines IFN-γ and IL-22 in the control of Legionella pneumophila infection in the lung - Chao Yang

4:45PM - 5:45PM

Sunday, 27th September

Churchill/Flinders

Chair: Richard Ferrero

Understanding heterogeneities in host-to-host transmission - Denise Monack

Sunday, 27th September BacPath 13: Molecular Analysis of Bacterial Pathogens Conference 2015

Registration

Afternoon Tea

Introduction

Keynote session 2

Welcome Dinner

Poster session 1

Keynote session 1