Wednesday, 19th February Lorne Infection and Immunity 2014
Registration
12:00PM - 5:30PM
Wednesday, 19th February
Mantra Lobby
Session 1: Pathogenesis of Infection
1:00PM - 3:00PM
Wednesday, 19th February
CSL Lecture Theatre
Chair: Peter Revill
Sponsored by:
- The impact of the host environment in tuberculosis and in tuberculosis/HIV co-infection - David G Russell
- Cryptococcal invasins, their regulation and role in pathogenesis - Tania Sorrell
- Structure-Function Analysis Reveals that Toxoplasma Gliding Motility is Regulated by Two Myosin Essential Light Chains. - Christopher J Tonkin
- A unique pathogenic mechanism of the Mycobacterium ulcerans virulence factor, mycolactone, underlies the pathology of Buruli ulcer - Belinda S Hall
- Surprising roles for nucleoside triphosphate diphosphohydrolases (NTPDases) in the pathogenesis of leishmaniasis. - Fiona M Sansom
- A Proteomic View of the Suppression of Host Cell Antiviral Responses by Respiratory Syncytial Virus - Jeff Gorman
Afternoon Tea
3:00PM - 3:30PM
Wednesday, 19th February
Exhibition Hall
Session 2: Innate Immunity to Infection
3:30PM - 5:00PM
Wednesday, 19th February
CSL Lecture Theatre
Chair: Matt Sweet
- Molecular mechanisms of Toll receptor signalling in innate immunity, neurogenesis and neurodegeneration - Nick Gay
- AIM2 and NLRP3 inflammasomes recruit procaspase-8 and initiate apoptosis - Katryn J Stacey
- Inhibitory role of Protein Kinase R in inflammasome activation - Howard CH Yim
- The Impact of Plasminogen Aquisition on the Early Immune Response to Group A Streptococcal Infection - Martina Sanderson-Smith
- Both viral and host factors determine innate immune responses in airway epithelial cells - Kirsten M Spann
Dinner
6:30PM - 8:00PM
Wednesday, 19th February
Seagrass Lawn
Poster Session I
8:00PM - 9:30PM
Wednesday, 19th February
Exhibition Hall
- The role of HCV variable regions in infectivity of cell-culture derived HCV - Yousef Alhammad
- Metabolomic and proteomic responses of Staphylococcus aureus to combined stressors - Mousa Alreshidi
- Characterization of human-restricted TLR4 responses identifies a novel ubiquitin ligase required for NLRP3 inflammasome responses in human macrophages - Juliana K Ariffin
- Characterising the role of a parasite-encoded HSP40 in the export of P. falciparum virulence proteins - Steven Batinovic
- Transport and innate immune properties of bacterial outer membrane vesicles - Natalie J Bitto
- A Plasmepsin V inhibitor blocks export of malarial effector proteins to the human erythrocyte and kills the parasite - Justin A Boddey
- Caspase 7 uses an exosite to promote poly(ADP-ribose) polymerase 1 proteolysis. - Dave Boucher
- Super-resolution microscopy reveals important roles for microtubule bundling by rabies virus P3 protein in immune evasion and disease. - Aaron Brice
- Targets of antibodies to the surface of P. falciparum-infected erythrocytes in human immunity to malaria - Jo-Anne Chan
- Influence of nutrient supplementation on naturally acquired antibody responses to malaria during pregnancy and association with pregnancy outcomes - Upeksha Chandrasiri
- Identification of potential virulence factors of Enterohemorrhagic Escherichia coli in Caenorhabditis elegans - Chang-Shi Chen
- Anti-inflammatory Strategies Against Necrotising Enterocolitis (NEC) - Steven Cho
- A Rab GTPase Cascade for Pathogen Entry - Nicholas D Condon
- Genomic examination of the 2011 Group A Streptococcal Scarlet Fever Outbreak in Hong Kong - Mark R Davies
- The lymphatic response to vaccination. - Michael de Veer
- Muc1 is a novel suppressor of the NLRP3 inflammasome that protects against Helicobacter pylori pathogenesis - Poshmaal Dhar
- The role and regulation of the BH3-only protein Bim in immune homeostasis during sepsis - Marcel Doerflinger
- Naturally-acquired allele-specific human antibodiesto Plasmodium falciparum apical membrane antigen 1 (AMA1) inhibit parasite growth - Damien Drew
- Indole Negatively Impacts Predation by Bdellovibrio bacteriovorus HD100 and Its Release from the Bdelloplast - Mohammed Dwidar
- A re-examination of the E. coli O104:H4 outbreak using the RedDog comparative genomics pipeline - David J Edwards
- Analysis of inflammasome related molecules in the response to H5N1 Avian Influenza - Sarah Fardy
- The Type VI Secretion System of Acinetobacter baumannii Plays a Role in Interbacterial Competition and Invasion of Human Lung Epithelial Cells - Timothy C Fitzsimons
- Immunity to malaria and the assessment of emerging artemisinin resistance - Freya Fowkes
- Real time imaging reveals a receptor-ligand hierarchy and an unexpected host parasite connection during Plasmodium falciparum erythrocyte invasion - Paul Gilson
- Impact of positive selection on the number, TCR repertoire and functionality of naïve MHCI-restricted CD8+ T cell populations - Jing Guan
- Utilising novel compounds to study cyclic AMP-dependent phosphorylation of Apical Membrane Antigen 1: a key event in red blood cell invasion by Plasmodium falciparum - Katherine L Harvey
- The antiviral ISG, Viperin also plays a role in innate immune signaling. - Karla J Helbig
- Dissection of invasion events in malaria parasites using nanoscale imaging techniques - Susann Herrmann
- Excessive immune response in association with severity of H7N9 influenza virus infection - Yunwen Hu
- Diverse cellular sources of CXCL10 modulate different processes involved in the development of severe malaria - Lisa Ioannidis
- The diagnostic utility of fibroindex in patients with chronic hepatitis C - Randa Issa
- Standard trivalent influenza vaccination does not prime antibody-dependent cellular cytotoxicity (ADCC) in macaques - Sinthujan Jegaskanda
- Red blood cell proteins as targets for anti-malarial drug development - Simona S John von Freyend
- Role of Fas signalling in intestinal immune defense against an attaching/effacing pathogen. - Catherine L Kennedy
- Plasmodium methionyl-tRNA synthetase as potential antimalarial target - Erin E Lim
- Dissecting the interaction between Clostridium perfringens and the host in a murine myonecrosis infection using RNA-seq - Lee-Yean Low
- HOW DOES THE PROBIOTIC STREPTOCOCCUS SALIVARIUS INHIBIT PNEUMOCOCCAL ADHERENCE IN VITRO? - Jayne Manning
- Development of protein antibiotics for the treatment of chronic Pseudomonas aeruginosa lung infection in cystic fibrosis patients - Laura McCaughey
- Application of Predatory Bacteria to Remove Multidrug Resistant Staphylococcus aureus Biofilms - Robert J. Mitchell
- Candida albicans induces pyroptosis in macrophages for immune evasion - Thomas Naderer
- An effector protein of Coxiella burnetii modulates clathrin-coated vesicles to facilitate intracellular replication. - Hayley J Newton
- Novel rotavirus A detected in sugar gliders (Petaurus breviceps) - Kota Okadera
- Transcriptome profiling after West Nile virus infection in Culex mosquito cells. - Prasad N Paradkar
- Potential drugs of a dual-targeted cysteinyl-tRNA synthetase in Plasmodium falciparum - James S Pham
- Nanomagnets for the development of DNA blood-stage malaria vaccines - Magdalena Plebanski
- Role of Plasmepsin V in protein export during blood and liver infection by Plasmodium berghei - Pravin Rajasekaran
- Elucidating the Chemotactic Signalling Factors driving Neutrophil Swarming through Computational Simulation - Mark Read
- Starving the superbug: Novel antimicrobial therapy to target selenium metabolism to treat C. difficile infection. - Christine Roder
- Interleukin-22 induces the cancer-associated genes carcinoembryonic antigen-related cell adhesion molecule (CEACAM)5 and nicotinamide N-methyltransferase (NNMT) in malignant, but not healthy intestinal cells - Ina Rudloff
- CSL324, A HUMANISED ANTI G-CSFR ANTIBODY, CAN INHIBIT NEUTROPHIL MIGRATION WHILE NOT IMPACTING ON NEUTROPHIL NUMBER OR EFFECTOR FUNCTIONS - Karen Scalzo-Inguanti
- Orthosteric and allosteric ligands for the free fatty acid receptor 2 (FFA2) protect the intestine during mesenteric ischemia reperfusion injury (IRI). - Zoe V Schofield
- Investigation by PCR and immunoblot of Australians diagnosed with a Lyme-like illness. - William Shirvington
- The Rho GTPase Rac1 is required for recycling endosome-mediated secretion of TNF in macrophages. - Amanda C Stanley
- PRELIMINARY INVESTIGATION OF BABESIA SPECIES IN AUSTRALIANS WITH SYMPTOMS OF TICK-BORNE ILLNESS - Brooke Storey-Lewis
- The impact of insecticide-treated nets and intermittent preventive treatment on the acquisition of malaria immunity in pregnancy - Andrew Teo
- Gastric Helicobacter infection causes extra-gastric modulation of host iron metabolism genes independently of Cag PAI - Melanie J Thomson
- The Ag43 structure reveals a molecular Velcro-like mechanism of autotransporter-mediated bacterial clumping - Makrina Totsika
- Manganese - Friend or Foe? - Andrew G. Turner
- Analysis of blaNDM plasmid acquisition of plasmids in the Enterobacteriaceae family by Next Generation Sequencing - Alexander M Wailan
- Modelling the dynamic interplay amongst immune and infection phenotypes using time-varying Bayesian network models of a childhood asthma cohort - Michael L Walker
- Structure-Function Analyses of the Toxoplasma Glideosome Reveals the Molecular Mechanisms of Gliding Motility - Melanie Williams
- Maintenance of immunity during pregnancy to surface antigens of P. falciparum-parasitized red blood cells - Xi Zen Yap
- The Toll-like receptor RP105 promotes TNF trafficking in macrophages via PI3Kδ signalling during mycobacterial infection - Chien-Hsiung Yu
- Characterization of the type III effector NleE from enteropathogenic Escherichia coli - Ying Zhang
- Type I interferon in bats: is it special? - Peng Zhou