Tuesday, 15th July Australian Society for Microbiology Annual Scientific Meeting 2025

• Title to follow - Geraint Rogers
• "Understanding how the gut microbiota mediates optimal immune response to vaccination".  - David Lynn
• Ecological diversity and clinical associations of gut archaea in large human population cohorts - Camila Gazolla Volpiano
• Impact of Four Nutritional Interventions on Host and Gut Microbiome Recovery Post-Antibiotics - Azadeh Safarchi
• Probing metabolomic and microbiomic perturbations driven by antimicrobial exposure to infant and adult gut microbial consortia via phenotypic array - David Garcia Mendez
• The association between early-life nasopharyngeal microbiome and childhood asthma development - Xinyuan Zhu
• Metagenomic insights into antimicrobial resistance (AMR) in the Australian IBD Microbiome (AIM) cohort - Yashar Houshyar

• Evolution of Multidrug-Resistant Tuberculosis Strains and challenges for future treatments - Wenhong Zhang
• Towards Tuberculosis Elimination in Australia, a Northern Territory Perspective - Chris Lowbridge
• Understanding susceptibility to group A streptococcus in priority populations to prevent rheumatic heart disease - Janessa Pickering
• Bridging high-throughput genomic analysis with versatile yet accessible reports using SCIFR - Budi Permana
• Streptococcus pneumoniae carriage, serotype distribution and antimicrobial resistance among unvaccinated children in Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam - Fernanda Marincek
• Can Gut Microbiome Metrics Predict Safer and More Effective Diets? - Mirei Okada
• Genomic surveillance of Shiga Toxin-producing Escherichia coli (STEC): prevalent serotypes, and virulence gene patterns with disease outcomes - Arshdeep Kaur

• Is the Staphylococcal QacA multidrug efflux pump a lipid flippase? - Megan O'Mara
•  Group A Streptococcus associated with recurrent tonsillitis form antibiotic-resistant intracellular communities - Tim Barnett
• Daptomycin resistance and immune evasion in Staphylococcus aureus mediated by multiple peptide resistance factor mprF - Jhih-Hang Jiang
• Assessment of parameters influencing plasmid transfer assays in Acinetobacter baumannii – insights from epigenetics, strain and test variability - Jonathan Koong
• Contribution of tir genes in IncL and IncM plasmids conjugation and beyond - Muhammad Kamruzzaman
• Distribution of phenotypic antimicrobial resistance in the gastrointestinal microbiome. - Emily L Gulliver
• Machine learning uncovers potential resistance-guided diagnostic targets for Neisseria gonorrhoeae - Andrey Verich

• Using e-Diagnosis for parasitic zoonotic infections - Harshvardhan (Harsha) Sheorey
• Schistosoma diagnostics and challenges - Lucy Crawford
• Ending the neglect: setting the platform for strongyloidiasis elimination - Darren Gray

Nancy Millis Student & ECR Lunch
River Room 7+8
Note: Lunch will be served in the room for registered attendees

MGI Sponsored Workshop
Room E3
Note: Lunch will be served in the room for registered attendees

• Towards smarter diagnostics: AI-assisted technology for routine urine cultures - Lisa Brenton
• Detection and evolution of the SARS CoV-2 coronavirus using advanced mass spectrometry based diagnostics in the aftermath of the pandemic - Henry Lanyon
• Using External Quality Assurance (EQA) in Enhancing the Accuracy of White Powder Analysis in Microbiology Laboratories - Alexa Kaufer
• Serotyping unculturable Streptococcus pneumoniae using amplicon-based next-generation sequencing - Penelope J Adamson

• Title to follow - Antje Blumenthal
• Elevated rearing temperature reduces the protection of Wolbachia strain wMel against dengue virus in Aedes aegypti. - Johanna Fraser
• Deciphering Bordetella pertussis epidemiology through culture-independent multiplex amplicon and metagenomic sequencing - Laurence Don Wai Luu
• We're all individuals! The impact of pathogen specificity on lipid mobilisation during infection - Brynley J Davies
• Trigger Factor in Burkholderia pseudomallei is essential for key virulence determinants including host cell internalisation, cytotoxicity, motility and stress resistance. - Aleksandra W Debowski
• Simple sequence repeats power Staphylococcus aureus adaptation - Romain Guérillot
• Next Generation Malaria Imaging: AI-guided functional analysis of invasion and proliferation of malaria parasite, Plasmodium falciparum - Sonja Frolich

• Macrolide resistance on therRise: lessons from Mycoplasma, H. pylori and beyond. - Morgyn Warner
• Changes in the Streptococcus pneumoniae population following vaccine introduction in Mongolia - Sam Manna
• Genomic surveillance of macrolide resistance markers in clinically important pathogens - Lex EX Leong
• Dysregulated Microbial Trimethylamine Metabolism in PD Patients and Its Contribution to Disease Progression In Experimental Models - Divya miss Mondhe
• Emergence of invasive Streptococcus dysgalactiae subsp. equisimilis in Australia is associated with the expansion of a globally dominant lineage - Mark R Davies
• Discovering mechanisms behind the bacterial interactions between health-associated bacterial commensals of the human nasopharynx - Kan Yu

• Potential Viral Influence on Sulfur Metabolism in Acid Sulfate Soils - Hangwei Hu
• Diagnosing Sick Mine Rock: Applying microbial Analysis to Acid and metalliferous drainage (AMD) - Nicholas Falk
• "Harnessing Soil Microbial-Based Strategies and Seed Enhancement Technologies for Biodiversity Restoration"   - Nathali Maria Machado de Lima
• Metagenomics insights into blind-causing Acanthamoeba and its impact on bacterial communities at popular beaches on the east coast of Sydney - Binod Rayamajhee
• Dynamics of Virus Adsorption on Electronegative Membrane Filters: Implications for Passive Wastewater Surveillance of Pathogens - Andreana G Shakallis
• Soil Microbiome Responses to Crop Intensification and Diversity - Qi Yang
• Diversity and Dysbiosis: Microbial Solutions for Climate change Impacts in agricultural systems - Gupta Vadakattu

•  A Silent Invader: Unusual Central Nervous System Infection of An Immunocompetent Adult - Maneath Pov
• Brucella Exposed: An Overlooked Zoonosis and Hidden Laboratory Danger - Cameron J Lee
• Candida auris PCR for high throughput infection control screening - Lucy Crawford
• Reducing peripherally inserted central venous catheter (PICC) associated blood stream infection (BSI) in patients with haematological malignancies - Diana Lagana
• Tissue is the issue (nocardia) - Diana Cabrera