Monday, 14th July Australian Society for Microbiology Annual Scientific Meeting 2025
Welcome and Awards Ceremony
3:30PM - 4:00PM
Monday, 14th July
Hall C
Chair: Mark Schembri
Distinguished Award Oration
4:00PM - 4:45PM
Monday, 14th July
Hall C
Chair: Mark Schembri
Comfort Break
4:45PM - 5:00PM
Monday, 14th July
Foyer E
Frank Fenner Awards
5:00PM - 6:20PM
Monday, 14th July
Hall C
Chair: Hayley Newton
- Exploring the emergence and spread of drug-resistant enteric bacterial pathogens - Danielle J Ingle
- Bioactive metabolite discovery from human pathogenic Nocardia species - Sacha J Pidot
- Genomic surveillance to inform anti-Klebsiella pneumoniae vaccines - Kelly Wyres
- Solve the Puzzle of Antimicrobial Resistance of Staphylococcal Biofilms - Yue Qu
Welcome Function and Poster Session 1
6:30PM - 8:30PM
Monday, 14th July
Hall G
Sponsored by:
- Application of artificial intelligence in assisting X-ray diagnosis of pediatric pulmonary infections - Jingwen AI
- Synthetic bacterial secretion system for efficient cytosolic delivery of anti-tumor proteins into tumor cells - SEOKHYEON BAE
- In vitro activity of NCL195 analogs against Methicillin-Resistant Staphylococcus pseudintermedius (MRSP) - Sayara Bista
- Differences in co-selection and localization of antimicrobial resistance and virulence genes among Acinetobacter isolates from patients, pig waste, and the environment - Kenneth Bongulto
- Rescuing frontline antibiotics for community-acquired bacterial pneumonia - Rachel Cass
- Providing insight into the role of non-antibiotic medicines in promoting antimicrobial resistance development - Hanbiao Chen
- Exploring Topical Formulations from Wine Industry Byproducts for Enhanced Animal Skin Repair and Health - Wanting Chen
- Genetic Characterization of Influenza A Viruses Circulating in Hong Kong, 2023: The first influenza epidemic after the lifting of 2.5 years of COVID-19 control measures - Franklin Wang Ngai CHOW
- Far-UV laser light as a novel treatment for combatting superbugs - Harriet Cooling
- Efficacy of novel disinfectants again Legionella spp. for use in evaporating cooling water systems - Sonali Deshmukh
- The impact of cigarette smoke condensate on the post-antifungal effect of oral Candida albicans and Candida dubliniensis isolates following exposure to nystatin. - Arjuna N Ellepola
- Mitigating Mycobacteria in the zoo environment using plasma activated water - Luke Godly
- A rapid, cost-effective, and fully automated whole genome sequencing solution for microbial genomics and clinical diagnostics - Richard Harrison
- Innovative Management of Severe Disseminated Methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus Infection in a Paediatric Patient - Saskia Holmes-McNab
- Verification of the BioRad Geenius HIV 1/2 Confirmatory Assay as a Rapid and Cost Effective HIV Confirmatory Assay - Azalea Jolly-Byrne
- csrB promoter-driven gene expression links acetate metabolism to tumor-selective immunotoxin production - Seyeon Hong
- Influence of environmental growth factors on the expression of the CheY gene and chemotaxis responses in Campylobacter concisus - Taghrid Istivan
- Development of an engineered salmonella delivery platform for enhanced cytosolic release of therapeutic proteins - jihyeon kim
- Caveats and considerations for constructing bacterial transposon mutant libraries - Weine Kok
- Incidence of Clostridium difficile infection detected by Premier Toxin A and B enzyme-linked immunosorbent assay and underlying risk factors in patients admitted to a university hospital in Northern India - Awadhesh Kumar
- Bioluminescence-based in vitro assay for antimicrobial drug screening - Amy Lalruatdiki
- The aspA promoter as a tumor-microenvironment-responsive auto-switch for anti-cancer agent expression in Escherichia coli - Dogeun Lee
- Characterisation of Antimicrobial Resistance Genes and Mobile Genetic Elements in Pasteurella multocida - Guan Xue Lee
- Transcription as a Target for Antimicrobial Drug Development: Peptide Nucleic Acids Against Acinetobacter baumannii - Mohammadreza M Mahzounieh
- Combating Drug-resistant Yeasts: Synergistic Interactions of Peptidomimetics or Colistin Sulphate with Conventional Antifungals - Shyam Mishra (Baishnab)
- Extracellular vesicle-mediated neutrophil immunomodulation by Staphylococcus aureus in diabetic and non-diabetic conditions - Thokur Sreepathy Murali
- Engineered bacteriophage as novel diagnostic tool for detection of bacteria - Lyman Ngiam
- BIOLUMINESCENT MOUSE MODELS OF BACTERIAL PATHOGENESIS TO ASSESS THE EFFICACY OF NEW DRUG CLASSES AGAINST MULTIDRUG-RESISTANT BACTERIAL PATHOGENS - Hang Nguyen
- Antimicrobial mechanism of action of magnesium oxide products - Charlotte O'Grady
- The Metagenomics Core Control Set: A Synthetic Spike-In Standard for Robust, Per-Sample Evaluation of NGS Performance - Sophie Octavia
- Role of elevated procalcitonin levels on prognosis of scrub typhus patients at a university hospital in North India – a retrospective observational analysis - Sangram Singh Dr Patel
- Fighting the wicked problem of crop stubble with microbes - Leela LR Rizal
- Mutations within the mycolic acid biosynthetic pathway confer resistance to attachment and subsequent infection of Saccharibacterium Ca. Mycosynbacter amalyticus - Jayson Rose
- Minocycline and Omadacycline resistance with molecular characterization among carbapenem resistant Gram-negative bacteria - Chinmoy Dr Sahu
- Enhancing antimicrobial efficacy: The role of otic cleanser in canine otitis externa therapy - Bhumikaben Savaliya
- Do all otic cleansers work alike? A comparative study on antibiofilm effects in canine otitis externa management. - Bhumikaben Savaliya
- Biosynthesis of silver nanoparticles and their antimicrobial potential (a preliminary study) - Hanadi Sawalha
- A case series of Herbaspirillum infection in rural Australia. - Aideanna Seenarain
- Evaluation of patterns of susceptibility of clinical isolates of Acinetobacter spp towards polymyxins and different cationic antimicrobials - Mark Willcox
- A Multi-Center Evaluation of The Target Capture Sequencing Assay for Pathogens Detection, AMR Profiling and Strain Typing from Common Respiratory Specimens - Gilman Kit Hang SIU
- Evaluating the performance of KPC/IMP/NDM/VIM/OXA-48 combo test kit (LFIA) using known carbapenemase producing-carbapenem resistant enterobacterales (CP-CRE) strains - Wen Xing Soon
- Mechanistic insights into the function of the quaternary ammonium compound efflux pump A (QacA) in methicillin resistant Staphylococcus aureus - Patrick Sutton
- Biosynthesis of L-Xylose from Xylitol Using a Dual Enzyme Cascade System in Escherichia Coli - Mesfin Angaw Tesfay
- Novel inhibitors targeting lipid A phosphoethanolamine transferase (EptA) to break β-lactam resistance in extensively drug-resistant Neisseria gonorrhoeae - Van Chi Thai
- Biophysical Characterization of Anthranilamide Peptide Mimics Interactions with Virus Envelope Models: DOPC and DOPC: POPS Lipid Layers - Mst Umme Laila Urmi
- Plasma-Activated Water: A Promising Solution for Egg Decontamination - Heema K N Vyas
- Characterisation of Pseudomonas aeruginosa phage G101 and its interaction with IncP plasmids - Mikaela M Whitty
- Developing a computational tool for characterising insertion site preferences in bacterial transposable elements - Oliver Williams
- Analysis of gut microbes from piglets with scours - Maheshika Kumudunie Wirittamulla Gamage
- Tracing Cryptic Transmission Routes of Burkholderia pseudomallei ST-1996 From Contaminated Soils to Urban Communities in an Expanding Urban Melioidosis Hotspot in Hong Kong China - Tak Fai Wong
- Arginine remodels lipid A modification to potentiate polymyxin killing in multidrug-resistant Gram-negative bacteria - Yimin Wu
- Identifying biocides with a low risk to cause antimicrobial resistance - Zifan Xiang
- Comparative analysis of Salmonella serovars for their invasion abilities in-vitro in cell culture models - milad yaghoubi
- Development of sequencing-based approach for surveillance monitoring of antimicrobial resistance in the urban wastewater treatment plant - Lu Zheng
- Effective delivery of Magnesium Oxide for improving its antimicrobial potential - Haochu Zhu
- Poly(trisulfides) as new fungicides - Jasmine Pople
- Virulence plasmids of extra-intestinal pathogenic Escherichia coli - Zheng Jie Lian