Tuesday, 29th September
BacPath 13: Molecular Analysis of Bacterial Pathogens Conference 2015
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Sunday, 27th September
Monday, 28th September
Tuesday, 29th September
Wednesday, 30th September
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Registration
8:00AM - 5:30PM
Tuesday, 29th September
Entrance of the Churchill/Flinders
Keynote session 4
8:30AM - 9:30AM
Tuesday, 29th September
Churchill/Flinders
Chair: Stuart Dashper
Biogenesis and functional roles of bacterial outer membrane vesicles
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Meta Kuehn
Cell surface modifications and membrane vesicles
9:30AM - 10:30AM
Tuesday, 29th September
Churchill/Flinders
Chairs: Melanie Hutton & Christopher McDevitt
Explosive cell lysis in
Pseudomonas aeruginosa
biofilms
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Amelia L. Hynen
The properties and transport of DNA carried by bacterial outer membrane vesicles
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Natalie Bitto
Uropathogenic
Escherichia coli
genes promoting reversible bacterial filamentation
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Daniel G. Mediati
Bacterial outer membrane vesicles migrate to early endosomes, resulting in NOD1-dependent autophagy and inflammation
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Maria Liaskos
Morning Tea
10:30AM - 11:15AM
Tuesday, 29th September
Watermark Restaurant
Gene regulation and contol of virulence factor expression
11:15AM - 12:45PM
Tuesday, 29th September
Churchill/Flinders
Chairs: Jackie Cheung & Mark Davies
Tyrosine phosphorylation regulates
Shigella flexneri
virulence
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Alistair Standish
Inactivation of the RNA-binding chaperone Hfq in
Pasteurella multocida
results in reduced capsule expression and reduced
in vivo
fitness
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Marianne N. Megroz
Understanding the roles of non-coding RNAs in Enterohaemorrhagic
E. coli
pathogenesis
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Jai Tree
ModM DNA methyltransferase methylome analysis reveals a potential role for
Moraxella catarrhalis
phasevarions in otitis media
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Luke V. Blakeway
Complete definition of cis-acting mutations at the fimS locus regulating type 1 pili in
E. coli
by saturating genome editing
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Swaine L. Chen
High-throughput screening to identify
E.coli
cell division regulators: Characterisation of a gene with a potential role in kidney infection
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Amy Bottomley
Lunch
12:45PM - 2:00PM
Tuesday, 29th September
Watermark Restaurant
PacBio workshop
2:00PM - 3:00PM
Tuesday, 29th September
Churchill/Flinders
Chairs: Glen Carter & Yogitha Srikhanta
Exploiting long read sequencing to characterise antibiotic resistance in carbapenem resistant
Enterobacteriaceae
at the genomic level
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Brian M. Forde
Complete bypass of restriction systems for major
Staphylococcus aureus
lineages
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Ian Monk
A user’s experience preparing DNA and libraries for PacBio sequencing
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Sacha Pidot
An introduction to analysis of PacBio data
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Tim Stinear
Afternoon Tea
3:15PM - 4:00PM
Tuesday, 29th September
Watermark Restaurant
Antimicrobial resistance and treatment strategies
4:00PM - 5:30PM
Tuesday, 29th September
Churchill/Flinders
Chairs: Jaclyn Pearson & Ulrike Kappler
Staphylococcus aureus
reduces daptomycin susceptibility and evades host innate immune response by altering membrane phospholipid composition
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Jhih-Hang Jiang
Reversing antimicrobial resistance with efflux pump inhibitors
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Rietie Venter
Cadmium-induced mismetallation causes dysregulation of transition metal-ion homeostasis in
Streptococcus pneumoniae
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Stephanie Begg
Transcriptional response of methicillin-resistant
Staphylococcus aureus
(MRSA) to a novel polymyxin analogue
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Matthew D. Johnson
Characterisation of the MAC analogue, polyC9, by electron microscopy
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Bradley Spicer
Soft selective pressure driving acquisition of resistance genes in atypical enteropathogenic
E. coli
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Danielle J. Ingle
Pre dinner break
5:30PM - 6:30PM
Tuesday, 29th September
Conference Dinner
6:30PM - 8:00PM
Tuesday, 29th September
Watermark Restaurant
Poster session 3
8:30PM - 10:30PM
Tuesday, 29th September
Waratah/Coronet
Plasmid spaghetti – Plasmid sequencing in
Clostridium perfringens
strain CN4003
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Vicki Adams
Mapping the methylome: Distribution of methyltransferase target sites in the uropathogen
Escherichia coli
EC958
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Melinda M. Ashcroft
Mapping the spatial distribution of Bairnsdale ulcer cases in the Bellarine Peninsula
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Michael ASM Avumegah
A combined strategy for the eradication of
Pseudomonas aeruginosa
biofilms
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Giulia Ballerin
Phylogenomic analysis reveals new insights into the emergence of multi-drug resistant
Escherichia coli
ST131
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Nouri L. Ben Zakour
The role
adeR
plays in regulating genes critical for virulence and cell survival in
Acinetobacter baumannii
ATCC 17978
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Melissa H Brown
Increasing tolerance to hand-wash alcohols among emerging hospital clones of
Enterococcus faecium
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Andrew Buultjens
Kick-starting the application of genomics to clinical and public health microbiology in Australia
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Glen Carter
A FRET-based DNA sensor tracks OmpR-dependent acidification of
Salmonella
upon osmotic stress and during macrophage infection
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Smarajit Chakraborty
The role of
Staphylococcus aureus
Panton-Valentine leukocidin in mammalian macrophages
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Seong Hoong Chow
In vitro
biofilm model of prosthetic joint infections
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Darcie Cooper
Bacterial filamentation in urinary tract infections
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Iain G. Duggin
Molecular mechanisms of compensation for the loss of porins in
Klebsiella pneumoniae
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Alicia Fajardo-Lubian
Identification of
Acinetobacter baumannii
type VI secretion system targets and toxins
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Timothy C. Fitzsimons
Impact of linezolid on global gene expression in clinical
Staphylococcus aureus
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Wei Gao
Exploring emergence of oxacillin resistance in persistent methicillin-susceptible
Staphylococcus aureus
infections
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Stefano Giulieri
Type Ve autotransporters of
Escherichia coli
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Kelvin G.K. Goh
Mechanisms of rifampicin-induced persistent bacterial infection in
Staphylococcus aureus
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Romain Guerillot
Identification of a novel protein involved in
Porphyromonas gingivalis
OMV biogenesis
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May Ju Gui
The role of the GcvB sRNA in the regulation of protein production in
Pasteurella
multocida
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Emily Gulliver
Molecular basics of stable maintenance and conjugation of an IncA/C plasmid carrying
bla
NDM-1
from uropathogenic
Escherichia coli
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Steven J. Hancock
Going beyond glycan arrays for determining carbohydrate recognition by bacterial pathogens
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Lauren E. Hartley-Tassell
Elongation factor Thermo unstable (Ef-Tu) is proteolytically processed and surface exposed in
Staphylococcus aureus
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Kate L Harvey
The pneumococcal whole cell vaccine reduces influenza-induced pneumococcal disease in the ears and lungs of co-infected infant mice
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Jayne Manning
Investigating how
Neisseria meningitidis
native outer membrane vesicles (NOMVs) can be engineered to induce pan-serotype protection against meningococcal strains in Sub-Saharan Africa
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Arianna Marini
Comparative genomics of sequential
Escherichia coli
strains 2009-49 and 2009-52: A micro-evolutionary event in real-time?
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Jessica McKinnon
Identifying the host targets of putative glycosyltransferase effectors from
Salmonella
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Joshua P.M. Newson
Optimization of transformation of the oral spirochete
Treponema denticola
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Hong Min Ng
Combating STEC-mediated pig oedema disease by inhibiting bacterial virulence gene expression
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Rachel Pascoe
Essential molecular mechanisms required for
E. coli
ST131 growth in human urine
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Minh-Duy Phan
Antimicrobial discovery amongst human pathogenic actinomycetes
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Sacha Pidot
Novel antimicrobial therapy that targets selenium metabolism to treat
Clostridium difficile
infection
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Christine Roder
Genetic signatures in the accessory genomes of multiple drug resistant bacteria are essential for unraveling the genealogy of complex drug resistance locus in Gram-negative pathogens
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Piklu Roy Chowdhury
Dental plaque as a reservoir for antibiotic and chlorhexidine resistant bacteria
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Christine A Seers
Ribosomal proteins can act as oxidative stress sensors in
Acinetobacter baumannii
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Uwe H Stroeher
Evidence that plasmid incompatibility in
Clostridium perfringens
is mediated by
parMRC
systems
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Thomas D. Watts
Multiple roles for elongation factor Tu in
Mycoplasma pneumoniae
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Michael Widjaja
Characterising genomic diversity in pathogenic and commensal
Escherichia coli
from Australian pigs
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Ethan Wyrsch
Inefficient signal peptide cleavage of the NDM-1 beta-lactamase results in lower growth rate and reduced biofilm formation
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Yaramah Zalucki
Identification of a distinct substrate-binding domain in the bacterial cysteine methyltransferase effector NleE from EPEC and its homologue OspZ from
Shigella
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Ying Zhang
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