Monday, 28th September BacPath 13: Molecular Analysis of Bacterial Pathogens Conference 2015

• Resolution of Pseudomonas aeruginosa infection in patients through antibody modulation - Ian Henderson

• Glycan:glycan interactions: A new paradigm in biomolecular interactions that can mediate binding of pathogenic bacteria to host cells - Christopher Day
• The cholesterol-dependent cytolysins, pneumolysin and streptolysin O, require binding to red blood cell glycans for hemolytic activity - Lucy K. Shewell
• Capsular polysaccharide from an Acinetobacter baumannii Global Clone 1 isolate contains 5,7-di-N-acetyl-acinetaminic acid, a novel non-2-ulosonic acid - Johanna J. Kenyon
• Osmoporin OmpC forms a complex with MlaA to maintain outer membrane lipid asymmetry in Escherichia coli - Shu Sin Chng

• Targeting BCL-XL controls Legionella infection by inducing apoptosis of infected macrophages - Mary Speir
• Porphyromonas gingivalis surface-associated molecules stimulate a host immune response - Jacqueline E. Heath
• Lifestyle choices of Pseudomonas aeruginosa in the cystic fibrosis lung - Sheemal S. Kumar
• Role and regulation of type 1 fimbriae in the pathogenesis of multidrug resistant, pandemic Escherichia coli ST131 clone - Sohinee Sarkar
• The role of caveolin-1 in the uptake of Streptococcus pyogenes into non-phagocytic host cells - Jin Yan Lim
• A genome-wide RNAi screen to identify host factors involved in Legionella pneumophila Dot/Icm effector translocation - Sze Ying Ong

• To P~ or not to P~: Unphosphorylated SsrB activates csgD (agfD) to regulate Salmonella Typhimurium biofilms - Linda J. Kenney
• Proteins involved in the adherence of Mycoplasma hyopneumoniae to abiotic surfaces and porcine monolayers which may also play a role in biofilm formation - Benjamin Raymond
• Legionella longbeachae creates a replicative vacuole similar to Legionella pneumophila despite translocation of distinct effector repertoires - Rebecca E. Wood

• Porin defects and carbapenem resistance in Klebsiella pneumoniae - Alex Agyekum
• Characterisation of a low molecular weight protein tyrosine phosphatase in Streptococcus pneumoniae - Zuleeza Ahmad
• Filamentation as a survival strategy: Identification of a novel regulator of cell division during stress - Shirin Ansari
• Cell-wall defective β-lactam-induced Pseudomonas aeruginosa spheroplasts use alternative proliferation mechanisms  - Ibrahim Awadh
• Protein cleavage produces diversity in virulence factors of pathogenic bacteria  - Iain J. Berry
• Conjugative antibiotic and copper resistance plasmids in global clone 2 Acinetobacter baumannii isolates from Singapore  - Grace Blackwell
• Effect of micronutrient-limitation on Porphyromonas gingivalis outer membrane vesicles - Tanya M. D'Cruze
• Genomic examination of the 2011 group A streptococcal scarlet fever outbreak in Hong Kong and mainland China - Mark R. Davies
• Transcriptomic analyses of an HNS-mediated, colistin-resistant, clinical isolate of Acinetobacter baumannii - Deanna Deveson Lucas
• Identification and analysis of virulence factors in Clostridium difficile - Briony Elliott
• Molecular analysis of an uncharacterised chaperone-usher gene cluster of Acinetobacter baumannii - Sharon Goh
• IS26-mediated excision of Translocatable Units - Christopher J. Harmer
• Understanding how Pasteurella multocida lipopolysaccharide diversity impacts the efficacy of live and killed fowl cholera vaccines - Marina Harper
• Identification of the AggR regulon in enteroaggregative Escherichia coli - Christopher Icke
• Urine constituents that trigger filamentation of uropathogenic E. coli - Greg Iosifidis
• TPR domain of pathogenic Neisseria O-oligosaccharyltransferase is essential for in vivo activity - Freda E.-C. Jen
• Coping with loss: Membrane remodeling in lipid A deficient Acinetobacter baumannii - Matthew D. Johnson
• The immunopathogenesis of group A streptococcal skin infections - Emma Langshaw
• Structure-functional relationships of uropathogenic Escherichia coli autotransporter adhesion UpaB - Alvin Lo
• Airway epithelial cell integrity protects from cytotoxicity of Pseudomonas aeruginosa quorum-sensing signals - Davide Losa
• Tight regulation of Staphylococcus aureus proteases is essential for in vivo pathogenesis - Allister J. Loughran
• The development of a proteogenomic pipeline to investigate bacterial virulence factors - Jacqueline A. Melvold
• pCERC3: A virulence-resistance plasmid from a commensal Escherichia coli - Robert A. Moran
• Bacterial moonlighting proteins in Mycoplasma hyopneumoniae: A pathogenic role for glycolytic enzymes - Marcelo Moreno
• A unique mechanism of zinc acquisition in Streptococcus pneumoniae - Jacqueline R. Morey
• Molecular mechanisms of polymyxin resistance in uropathogenic Escherichia coli - Nhu T.K. Nguyen
• Understanding the epidemiology of Australian GC2 Acinetobacter baumannii using variation in genomic islands and plasmids - Steven J Nigro
• Understanding the disease pathogenesis of group A streptococcus upper respiratory tract infection to help improve vaccine and vaccination strategies with J8-DT - Victoria Ozberk
• Legionella pneumophila effector protein MavL targets host ubiquitination machinery - Shivani Pasricha
• In vivo colonisation with Haemophilus haemolyticus: A mouse model for investigating the prevention of NTHi colonisation and infection - Janessa Pickering
• Neisseria gonorrhoeae and CR3: Probing the lectin functions of the I-domain of CD11b - Jessica Poole
• Evolution of multiple drug resistance in porcine commensal E. coli - Cameron Reid
• Phylogenetic analysis of insertion sequences within the multidrug resistant uropathogenic Escherichia coli ST131 lineage - Leah W. Roberts
• The essential Bam components, BamA and BamD, are required for trimeric autotransporter biogenesis - Jessica L. Rooke
• Epigenetic regulation by the ModD1 methyltransferase in N. meningitidis - Aimee Tan
• A new role for Autoinducer-2 in S. pneumoniae - Claudia Trappetti
• Role of MntE in group A streptococcal manganese homeostasis - Andrew G. Turner
• Impact of cefepime treatment on antibiotic resistance patterns in the Enterobacteriaceae - Carola Venturini
• The role of PxxP domains of SIC in protecting Streptococcus from antimicrobial peptides - Miranda E. Vidgen
• EPEC’s take on an elixir of immortality: Insights on the functional regions of the NleB1 effector - Tania Wong Fok Lung

Bus departing from Silverwater Resort at 5:15pm. Returning for dinner at Silverwater Resort Watermark Restaurant at 8:00pm

Please note this first dinner sitting is for those NOT attending the Penguin Parade

Please note the second sitting is for those attending the Penguin Parade or who would like to eat later than the first sitting. The menu will be the same.