Tuesday, 1st October
BACPATH 2019
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Monday, 30th September
Tuesday, 1st October
Wednesday, 2nd October
Thursday, 3rd October
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Speakers
Perth Convention Bureau Speaker - Paal Skyt Anderson
8:30AM - 9:15AM
Tuesday, 1st October
Chair: Geoffrey Coombs
The nasal microbiome and Staphylococci
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Paal Andersen
Session 2: Omics
9:15AM - 10:35AM
Tuesday, 1st October
Chairs: Nichollas Scott & Stephanie Neville
Unveiling Microbial Diversity And Activity In Cystic Fibrosis Sputa Using Microbial Metatranscriptomics
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Erin P. Price
Genomic insights into a totally new disease caused by Streptococcus agalactiae in Southeast Asia
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Swaine L Chen
Rapid transmission and replacement of diverse
Streptococcus pyogenes
isolates along household and community networks in rural Indigenous communities
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Jake A Lacey
Transcriptomic, proteomic and functional analysis of the plasmid pCS1-1 during spore formation in
Clostridium sordellii
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Samantha J Munn
Revealing the pathogen-specific RNA-binding proteome using UV-crosslinking
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Brandon M Sy
Morning Tea
10:35AM - 11:05AM
Tuesday, 1st October
Session 3: Microbes and Metals
11:05AM - 12:25PM
Tuesday, 1st October
Chairs: Timothy Wells & Amy Cain
The role of glutathione in
Streptococcus pneumoniae
copper resistance at the host-pathogen interface.
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Stephanie L Neville
Copper and zinc resistance mechanisms contribute to Group B streptococcal virulence and pathogenesis
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Matthew Sullivan
Role of Integrative Conjugative Elements in the evolution of the kiwifruit pathogen
Pseudomonas syringae
pv.
actinidiae
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Elena Colombi
The role of zinc acquisition and zinc tolerance in Group A Streptococcal infection
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Cheryl-Lynn Y. Ong
Acinetobacter baumannii
employs multiple pathways for zinc and cadmium efflux
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Saleh F. Alquethamy
Lunch
12:25PM - 1:35PM
Tuesday, 1st October
Visiting Raine Professor - Tim Atkins
1:35PM - 2:20PM
Tuesday, 1st October
Chair: Mitali Sarkar-Tyson
Marmoset model of melioidosis
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Tim Atkins
Session 4: Host-pathogen interactions II
2:20PM - 3:40PM
Tuesday, 1st October
Chairs: Aimee Tan & Jai Tree
Sponsored by:
Institute for Glycomics
Protein
O-
glycosylation is conserved in
Burkholderia
species and results in the generation of
O-
glycosylation glycan specific antibodies during human infections
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Nichollas E Scott
Acute
Clostridioides difficile
gastrointestinal infection induces systemic disease symptoms, in a toxin and time dependent manner
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Steven Mileto
Investigating the role of a novel cell division protein, YtfB, in eukaryotic cell adhesion
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Amy Bottomley
Formation of the spacious
Coxiella
-containing vacuole depends on host transcription factors TFEB and TFE3.
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Bhavna Padmanabhan
Spreading antibiotic tolerance in the Enterobacteriaceae: a novel toxin antitoxin system in major resistance plasmids confers antibiotic and heat tolerance and promotes biofilm formation.
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Muhammad Kamruzzaman
Afternoon Tea
3:40PM - 4:10PM
Tuesday, 1st October
Session 5: Bacteriophage
4:10PM - 5:15PM
Tuesday, 1st October
Chairs: Elena Colombi & Carola Venturini
A pipeline for bacteriophage (phage) discovery, characterization and pre-clinical evaluation.
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Trevor Lithgow
Takes two to tango: characterizing the interactions between
Klebsiella pneumoniae
and its phages.
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Carola Venturini
Characterization of an equine
Klebsiella pneumoniae
infection using
de novo
isolated bacteriophages
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Bethany Bowring
Genetic diversity and distribution of filamentous prophage in
Neisseria
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Barakat Alsuwayyid
Rapid Posters II
5:15PM - 5:30PM
Tuesday, 1st October
Chairs: Elena Colombi & Carola Venturini
Serogroup W clonal complex 11 meningococci from Western Australia have increased invasive potential compared to other hyperinvasive lineages.
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Edward Mikucki
Zinc homeostasis in
Klebsiella pneumoniae
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Aimee Tan
Elucidating the Zn(II)-binding mechanism of
Streptococcus pneumoniae
AdcAII
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Marina L Zupan
Trehalase Activity Supports
Burkholderia pseudomallei
Virulence and External Survival
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Clare L Moran
Defining the regulon of WalKR; the only essential two-component system in
Staphylococcus aureus
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Liam K. R. Sharkey
Free Time
5:30PM - 6:30PM
Tuesday, 1st October
Tuesday BBQ Function
6:30PM - 8:00PM
Tuesday, 1st October
Poster Session II/Drinks
8:00PM - 10:00PM
Tuesday, 1st October
A novel method of O-antigen-specific antibody purification
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Joshua N Monteith
The role of lactate metabolism in
Acinetobacter baumannii
pathogenesis
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Faye C Morris
Uncovering the mechanisms of resistance in a multi-drug resistant
Acinetobacter baumannii
isolate
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Varsha Naidu
Exploring the therapeutic potential of phage therapy to treat
Pseudomonas aeruginosa
infection in people with cystic fibrosis
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Renee N Ng
Complex multi-level control of hemolysin production by uropathogenic
Escherichia coli
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Nhu TK Nguyen
VirY, a small regulatory RNA that regulates toxin production in
Clostridium perfringens
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Kaori Ohtani
Characterization of
Escherichia coli
Adhesins
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Tugce Onur
Does quorum-sensing regulated by iron in
Klebsiella pneumoniae
?
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Thaisy Eliza Pacheco dos Santos
Study on the role of O-antigen modifying glucosyltransferase (
gtr
) genes in
Shigella flexneri
serotype 1c virulence
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Pawan Parajuli
Identification and mobilization of the brasiliquinone biosynthesis gene locus from a human-pathogenic isolate of
Nocardia brasiliensis
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Sacha Pidot
Multidrug transporter AceI, plays an important role in virulence of the nosocomial pathogen Acinetobacter baumannii
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Alaska Pokhrel
Characterising the function of the M-related protein in
Streptococcus pyogenes
virulence
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Emma-Jayne Proctor
Regulatory RNA contributing to
Listeria monocytogenes
cold adaptation
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Maria Graciela Pucciarelli
Control of Pseudomonas aeruginosainfections using a biofilm targeting, nitric oxide releasing prodrug
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Scott A Rice
Molecular evolution of imipenem-resistance in clinical isolates of
Klebsiella
spp
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Natalia C Rosas Bastidas
The Application of Whole Genome Sequencing in the Prediction of Phenotypic Antimicrobial Resistance in Non-typhoidal
Salmonella
Circulating Australia
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Cheryll M Sia
Using transposon-directed insertion site sequencing to investigate P. multocida pathogenesis
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Thomas Smallman
Unraveling the function of the non-essential components of the BAM complex using Transposon Directed Insertion Site Sequencing.
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KARA STAUNTON
Phenotypic characterisation of the LirAB two-component system of
Mycobacterium tuberculosis
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Miljan Stupar
Detailed genomic analysis of
Pseudomonas aeruginosa
piliated reference strain PAK
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Geraldine J Sullivan
Flagellin from uropathogenic
E. coli
induces IL-10 during acute urinary tract infection
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Matthew J Sullivan
Characterisation of the binding affinity of a number of outer-membrane proteins of the pathogen
Haemophilus influenzae
biogroup
aegyptius
, the cause of the lethal febrile disease Brazilian Purpuric Fever
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Greg Tram
High-resolution transcriptomes of a methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus clinical strain during antibiotic responses
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Sylvania Wu
Small RNA networks and vancomycin tolerance in
Staphylococcus aureus
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Winton Wu
How isscarce and essential manganese acquired by
Streptococcus Pneumoniae
at the host-pathogen interface?
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Alex R Carey Hulyer
Evolution of improved secretion, function and fitness is driving the emergence of new alleles of the NDM-1 drug resistance gene.
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Yaramah M Zalucki
Multidrug resistance analysis of community acquired urinary tract infections in the coastal region of Bangladesh
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Hassan M. Al-Emran
Class 1 integrons and antibiotic resistance genes in wild and domestic horses.
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Scott W Mitchell
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