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

• Bugs, Bowels and Sunshine: Microbiome, Gut Health, and Vitamin D - Andrea Stringer
• "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
• 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
• Developmental Trajectory of Gut Microbiota during Infancy: The Roles of Solid Food in Shaping Early-Life Microbiota - Yanan Wang

• 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

• 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

• Redefining the TLR4 signalling paradigm - 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
• Intracellular proliferation of non-pathogenic E. coli in UTI model infection systems - Lachlan Chisholm

• 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
• Detection of Common Antimicrobial-Resistant Pathogens and β-Lactamases with Precise Genotyping of KPC and NMD Carbapenemases Using Targeted Next-Generation Sequencing - Xuan Wang
• 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

• 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
•  A Silent Invader: Unusual Central Nervous System Infection of An Immunocompetent Adult - Maneath Pov
• Tissue is the issue (nocardia) - DENIELLE CABRERA

• Using Vitek AST-ST03 Card to Solve Penicillin MIC issue with S pneumoniae - Brian Gorman
• Deployment of next generation sequencing to enhance diagnostic and public health microbiology. - Lex EX Leong
• A 20 year look back (2005  - 2024) of 180 cases of Cryptococcus neoformans and Cryptococcus gattii in South East Queensland and Northern New South Wales.  - Yuliasari Pranata
• A zoophilic fungus masquerading as a bacterial infection  - Trichophyton verrucosum case study - Yuliasari Pranata
• A comparison study of brilliance gbs agar for group b streptococcus screening with and without enrichment - Mariana Souza
• Development and comparison of an ortholog-based genome-scale multi-locus sequence typing scheme for Candidozyma auris against SNP-based typing methods - Herman Tse
• Metal reducing halophilic microorganisms from Australian hypersaline lakes - Luma LA Abdulwahed
• Establishing an in vitro model of Actinobacillus pleuropneumoniae biofilms to assess biofilm dispersal and reversion of antimicrobial resistance by a novel antimicrobial - Sona Alungal Sadique
• Characterisation of the replication genes from Streptomyces coelicolor plasmid SCP2 - Samantha K Anderson
• Development of the breastfed infant oral microbiome over the first two years of life in the BLOSOM Cohort - Roaa Arishi
• Breastfeeding patterns and total volume of human milk consumed influence the development of the infant oral microbiome - Roaa Arishi
• Interaction of uropathogenic Escherichia coli strains carrying type 6 secretion system (T6SS) with renal and gut epithelial cells - Behnoush Asgari
• Evaluation of pneumococcal-specific antibody responses in a combination otitis media vaccine - Jack WR Basso
• Metabolic balancing of carbohydrate and lipid pathways regulates cell type transitioning in the human pathogen Candida albicans - Manasa Bharathwaj
• Bacteriophages for disruption of periodontal biofilms in-vitro - Siti Saleha Binte Mohamed Yakob Adil
• Deciphering the Topology of the Inner Membrane Proteome of Escherichia coli - Daniel Carrillo Baez
• Effect of retorting on pH dynamics and microbial load of ready-to-eat mussels during refrigerated storage - Permal Deo
• Roles of PknB and CslA in cell wall morphogenesis of Streptomyces - Marta Derkacz
• A Scalable Framework for Tracking Mobile bla_KPC Carbapenemase Gene Dissemination from a Gene Perspective - Max Docherty-Kenny
• Bridging the gap: Is Chlamydia trachomatis a risk factor for developing adenomyosis? - Melinda Doyle
• Characterising the unique microbial and biogeochemical processes of Australia’s Burning Mountain: the world's oldest burning coal seam deposit - Ming-Shing Joy Fan
• Bacterial diversity and strain persistence dynamics in the infant respiratory microbiome during the first year of life - Camila Gazolla Volpiano
• Gut carriage of Escherichia coli is linked to incident liver diseases in a population cohort with up to 18-years follow-up health records - Camila Gazolla Volpiano
• Genetic variants associated with antibiotic resistance in Staphylococcus saprophyticus  - Paulina Hall
• Advanced Production of Uroporphyrin I and Its Antimicrobial Activity Without Resistance-Related Side Effects in Corynebacterium glutamicum - Sung Ok Han
• Beyond Human Health: The Need for Environmental AMR Endpoints to Manage Risks in Waters - Claire Hayward
• Nebulised plasma-activated water to treat foodborne pathogens - Shizuku SI Inomata
• Effect of organic material on the physicochemical and bactericidal properties of plasma activated water - Siyuan Jia
• Metabolism to the rescue - Unveiling the Role of Pyrimidine Salvage in Haemophilus influenzae     - Riya Joshi
• Genomic and morphological characterisation of  novel Fusobacterium nucleatum bacteriophages - Mwila Kabwe
• Validation of the Culture method and the Real-time PCR method for detection of Yersinia enterocolitica in food - HAE JI KIM
• CHARACTERISTICS OF GUT MICROBIOME IN JAPANESE BREAST CANCER PATIENTS - Hiromi Kitamura
• Lightning in a bottle: Plasma-activated water to combat foodborne pathogens - Bjoern Hendrik Kolbe
• Australian Native Fruits and Probiotic Bacteria: Interactions and Potentials for Functional Food Development  - Thomas Leadbetter
• Phenotypic and genomic insights into the survival of Salmonella Hessarek and Salmonella Typhimurium in eggs at different storage temperatures - Lingyun Li
• Transcriptional regulation by zinc uptake regulator (Zur) in Klebsiella pneumoniae pathogenesis - Ching-Ting Lin
• Roles of GacSA and DJ41_1407 in Acinetobacter baumannii ATCC19606 - Guang-Huey Lin
• Characterization of zinc-containing alcohol dehydrogenase in Acinetobacter baumannii - Meng-Hua Lin
• Evaluation of the diasorin direct kit for the detection of herpes simplex virus and varicella zoster virus - Nur Luthfiah Mohammed Khaer
• Unveiling the Metabolic Secrets of Haemophilus influenzae: Does Ribose Utilization Fuel its Virulence and Persistence? - Saurab Kishore Munshi
• Transcriptomic analysis of Enterocloster bolteae AHG0001 highlights molecular mechanisms potentially linked to its anti-inflammatory properties. - Nida Dr. Murtaza
• Plasma-activated water as a novel antimicrobial agent against mono- and dual-species biofilms - Georgina Neville
• Enhanced Reduction of Salmonella Typhimurium on Poultry Meat Using Combined Bacteriophage and Epsilon-Poly-L-Lysine Treatment - Lyman Ngiam
• Dietary fibre recategorization for targeted effects. - Christo Opperman
• Investigating the impact of Saccharomyces boulardii in improving probiotic Lacticaseibacillus spp. viability during gastrointestinal tract transit - Joanna Valanie Pereira
• The latent catastrophe in making bacterial cell envelope - Jilong Qin
• Unveiling rare microbial communities and their novel metabolic potentials in extreme environments - Zhiguang Qiu
• Effects of Apple Juice Processing Methods on Product Quality and Gut-Microbiome Modulating Properties - Senaka Ranadheera
• Food has a diverse and plentiful microbiome, with foodborne bacteria a potential colonisation source for the host gut microbiome - Emma T Saltzman
• Investigating outer domain redundancy of the bacterial flagellar filament - Jacob Scadden
• Co-anchorage of antibiotic resistance genes and mobile genetic elements on bacterial plasmids boosts horizontal gene transfer across sewage interfaces - Muhammad Shafiq
• The potential mechanisms underlying the influence of human tear metabolites on P. aeruginosa and S. aureus - Jiawei Shen
• Development of combination therapy against biofilm-forming UPEC from companion animals - Fern Techaskul
• Analysis of the genes and mechanisms responsible for the cytotoxicity of the Legionella Ofk308 strain and in the Tetrahymena host   - Istiana Nur Vidayanti
• A novel peptidoglycan deacetylase modulates daughter cell separation in E. coli - Waldemar Vollmer
• "A closer look at the newly discovered TCS – SitKR as a potential player in Streptomyces coelicolor differentation"   - Patrycja Wadach
• Isolation and characterisation of Faecalibacterium prausnitzii lytic phage FP01 - Mikaela M Whitty
• Ear-Resistible Insights: Genomic Assembly and Variant Analysis of S. pneumoniae Serotype 3 Isolates Responsible for Paediatric Ear Infections - Kate P Whyte
• MicroToons – Autistic talents shine on global stage through inclusive STEAM project and Australian animated story about cells and microbes - Rina P. M. Wong (Fu)
• Sustainable utilisation of soymilk by-products for probiotic food applications. - Cher Xu
• Common bacterial pathogens and antimicrobial resistance patterns in pet rabbits in New South Wales. - Kandarp Patel
• Field scale spatial structure of microbial catabolic properties and necrotrophic fungal pathogens in agricultural soils - Stasia Kroker
• Volatile Organic Compounds as Potential Biomarkers for Rapid Detection of Antibiotic Resistance Escherichia coli in Urinary Tract Infections - Oluseye Chris Olusegun
• The bactericidal and virucidal activities of a nano-formulation of Australian Melaleuca alternifolia (tea tree) oil against human and bovine respiratory pathogens - Rina PM Wong (Fu)