Thursday, 20th February
Lorne Infection and Immunity 2014
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Registration
8:00AM - 6:45PM
Thursday, 20th February
Mantra Lobby
Session 3: Host – Pathogen Interactions
8:30AM - 10:05AM
Thursday, 20th February
CSL Lecture Theatre
Chair: Tania de Koning-Ward
TRIMmunity: Regulators of pathogen restriction and immune responses
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Adolfo García-Sastre
Plasmodium nesting: remaking the erythrocyte from the inside out
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Alan Cowman
Host/pathogen interactions in a zebrafish model of penicilliosis
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Graham J Lieschke
Malaria virulence: a super resolution solution
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Matthew Dixon
Double trouble – why diabetes and infection are a lethal combination
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Natkunam Ketheesan
Morning Tea
10:05AM - 10:35AM
Thursday, 20th February
Exhibition Hall
Session 4: From Microbial Genomes to Structures
10:35AM - 12:10PM
Thursday, 20th February
CSL Lecture Theatre
Chair: Robert Moore
Novel anti-inflammatories derived from hookworm saliva
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Alex Loukas
The Serum Resistome of a Globally Disseminated Multidrug Resistant Uropathogenic
Escherichia coli
Clone
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Mark A Schembri
The mechanisms driving assembly of bacterial cell surfaces.
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Trevor Lithgow
Genomes to Vaccines: Translating Genomic Sequence Data into Effective Public Health Interventions
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Denise L Doolan
Phylogeny and virulence of atypical enteropathogenic
Escherichia coli
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Danielle Ingle
sRNA-mediated repression of P-fimbriae and flagellar synthesis in intracellular uropathogenic
Escherichia coli
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Jakob Møller-Jensen
Lunch
12:10PM - 1:10PM
Thursday, 20th February
Exhibition Hall
Session 5: Emerging and Re-emerging Infectious Diseases
1:10PM - 2:35PM
Thursday, 20th February
CSL Lecture Theatre
Chair: Alexander Khromykh
The Greatest Experiment in Evolution: Viral Biocontrol of Rabbits
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Edward Holmes
Viral inflammatory diseases: New insights into disease mechanisms
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Suresh Mahalingam
A novel Natural Killer Cell population is strongly expanded in chronic HIV disease
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Anthony Jaworowski
Interaction of lyssavirus P-protein with STATs is critical to lethal rabies disease
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Gregory W Moseley
Combination of attenuating mutations in rabies virus nucleoprotein and glycoprotein enhances safety of a live vaccine strain.
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Naoto Ito
Afternoon Tea
2:35PM - 3:05PM
Thursday, 20th February
Exhibition Hall
Session 6: Microbes and the Mucosa
3:05PM - 4:40PM
Thursday, 20th February
CSL Lecture Theatre
Chair: Dena Lyras
Microbiota-Pathogen Interplay in Enteric Infectious Diseases
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B. Brett Finlay
Pulmonary immunity during lung infections
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Phil Hansbro
NOD1 interacts with bacterial OMVs containing peptidoglycan in early endosomes to promote RIP2-dependent autophagy and inflammation.
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Maria Kaparakis-Liaskos
The infant airway microbiome in health and infection and its association with respiratory phenotypes.
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Shu Mei Teo
Interleukin 1 receptor antagonist prevents murine bronchopulmonary dysplasia induced by perinatal inflammation and hyperoxia
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Claudia A Nold
Break
4:40PM - 5:30PM
Thursday, 20th February
Session 7: Plenary
5:30PM - 6:45PM
Thursday, 20th February
CSL Lecture Theatre
Chair: Elizabeth Hartland
A type III effector antagonises death receptor signaling during bacterial gut infection
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Jaclyn Pearson
Mediators of inflammatory responses
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Thirumala-Devi Kanneganti
Dinner
6:45PM - 8:00PM
Thursday, 20th February
Seagrass Lawn
Poster Session II
8:00PM - 9:30PM
Thursday, 20th February
Exhibition Hall
A simple and inexpensive device for biofilm analysis that mimics Calgary biofilm device
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Hala Saied Almshawit
Activation of monocytes in the elderly is associated with a pro-atherogenic phenotype
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Thomas A Angelovich
Quantitative mapping of polymyxin in rat and human kidney cells using X-ray fluorescence microscopy
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Mohammad A. K. Azad
Recombination plays a major role in the evolution of multidrug resistant uropathogenic
Escherichia coli
ST131
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Nouri L Ben Zakour
Roles for Wnt signalling in inflammatory cytokine responses and pathogen control
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Antje Blumenthal
Long-term impact of 23vPPS on carriage in children following a reduced dose PCV primary series in infancy
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Laura K Boelsen
The RNA-binding protein Hfq plays a role in regulating capsule expression and virulence in
Pasteurella multocida
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John D Boyce
A Novel Mouse Model for Gametocytocidal Antimalarial Assessment and Discovery.
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Alice S Butterworth
Antimicrobial activity of CD hydrogels: effect of free aldehydes
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Maggie Chan
Why does
Plasmodium falciparum
malaria have an extra exported Hsp70 chaperone compared to other species?
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Sarah C Charnaud
INFLAMMASOME-DEPENDENT ANTIMICROBIAL DEFENCES IN VIVO
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Kaiwen Chen
MICROPARTICLE MIRNA CONTENT AND FATE IN THE PATHOGENESIS OF EXPERIMENTAL CEREBRAL MALARIA
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Amy Cohen
The therapeutic use of colostrum-derived antibodies against vegetative cells of
Clostridium difficile
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Bliss A Cunningham
Marked changes in toll-like receptor expression & function in a cohort of patients with active tuberculosis in Melbourne, Australia
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Sabine De Silva
Identification of a signaling axis mediated by IFNβ through IFNAR1 that contributes to lethality in sepsis
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Nicole A De Weerd
Placental mTOR signalling and foetal growth restriction in placental malaria
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Genelyn Dimasuay
A fully caninised anti-NGF monoclonal antibody for pain relief in dogs
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Alexander C Drew
Investigating antigen-specific B cell responses to
Plasmodium
sporozoites
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Johanna Dups
Introducing RedDog; a mapping-based genome comparison pipeline for high-throughput bacterial sequence data.
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David J Edwards
Characterisation of the Malaria Parasite Export Complex
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Brendan Elsworth
Antibodies promote phagocytosis of merozoites in human immunity against malaria
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Gaoqian Feng
MicroRNA Regulation in the Interferon Mediated Innate Immune Response
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Sam Forster
Activation of the unfolded protein response by Fenretinide abrogates dengue virus replication and provides protection in a lethal mouse model.
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Johanna E Fraser
Detection and phylogenetic analysis of IncA/C plasmids in Gram-negative bacteria using high-throughput sequencing data
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Partha S. Gope
Antigen presentation by CD8α DC is important for anti-viral CD4
+
T cell responses.
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Chris Harpur
Whole genome analysis of a microevolution in a globally distributed multidrug resistant clone of
Salmonella
Kentucky
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Jane Hawkey
The IFITM protein family exhibit anti-HCV activity
in vitro
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Karla J Helbig
An inhibitor of colonisation factor production in Enterotoxigenic Escherichia coli
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Carla Hodson
A genetic screen for host factors involved in the enterohemorrhagic
E. coli
-induced microvillar actin rearrangement in
C. elegans
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Cheng-Rung Huang
The role of binding inhibitory antibodies for
Plasmodium falciparum
erythrocyte binding antigen (EBA175) in protecting children from symptomatic malaria
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Vashti Irani
Dual targeted tRNA synthetases: decoding
Plasmodium
alternative translation initiation.
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Katherine E Jackson
Down-regulation of IFN-γ expression and IL-18 mediated cell signalling by hepatitis B virus.
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Sinthujan Jegaskanda
Outzincing host defence:
Salmonella
employs multiple mechanisms to subvert zinc-mediated antimicrobial responses in macrophages
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Ronan Kapetanovic
Shedding Light on Preterm Immunity
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Chun Wang Jason Lao
Impaired clearance of influenza virus leads to an IFNAR-triggered chemokine circuit of CCR2+ inflammatory monocytes
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Sue-Jane Lin
The Role of Interferon Epsilon in the Female Reproductive Tract
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Niamh Mangan
Run for the hills: stressing malaria parasites in vivo promotes transmission to mosquitos
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James McCarthy
Acquisition and maintenance of IgG responses to
Plasmodium falciparum
and
P. vivax
during pregnancy and post-partum
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A McLean
Novel antibody biomarkers for the diagnosis of active tuberculosis in high-prevalence settings
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Khayriyyah Mohd Hanafiah
Transcriptional Networks driving Tissue Resident Memory T Cell Differentiation
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Artika P Nath
Rabies virus P protein isoforms (P3-P5) are important for viral pathogenicity.
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Kazuma Okada
A quantitative method for measuring innate phagocytosis by CD16
+
CD14
+
human monocytes using real-time flow cytometry
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Amber Wensi Ou
Plasmodium falciparum
tryptophanyl-tRNA synthetase and identification of potential inhibitors
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Charisse Flerida A. Pasaje
IDENTIFYING STRAIN SPECIFIC MOTIFS WITHIN PANDEMIC INFLUENZA PROTEIN PB1-F2 WHICH ACTIVATE THE INFLAMMASOME
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Anita Pinar
Role of Eomesodermin in memory CD8+ T cell development and cellular localisation
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Julia E Prier
Chondroitin sulphate A modulates the monocyte response to
Plasmodium falciparum
-infected erythrocytes and pathogen products.
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Louise M Randall
Characterisation of a second ecto-nucleoside triphosphate diphosphohydrolase from
Legionella pneumophila.
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Patrice Riedmaier
A standardised bacterial expression platform to deliver multivalent, recombinant antigens into a vaccinated host
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Amanda Rossiter
THE LETHAL IMPACT OF PRENATAL MATERNAL NICOTINE AND INFLAMMATION ON NEWBORN MICE
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Thilini Samarasinghe
The complexity of interactions between uropathogenic
E. coli
and innate immunity: Strain- and species-specific inflammasome responses in macrophages
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Kolja Schaale
Phylogenomic investigation of the origins and evolution of
Acinetobacter baumannii
outbreak clones
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Mark Schultz
A new paradigm for the systematic and functional classification of
Streptococcus pyogenes
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Pierre Smeesters
The nucleolar protein Fibrillarin is associated with henipavirus replication.
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Cameron Stewart
Recombinant Influenza-HIV Vaccine
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Hyon Xhi Tan
Glucocorticosteroids dampen anti-viral defences and enhance the replication of respiratory viruses
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Belinda J Thomas
A flow cytometric assay for ASC speck formation in inflammasome responses
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Sara J Thygesen
Role of RON kinase in Epstein Barr virus-associated malignancies
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Ching-Hwa Tsai
THP-1 Derived Macrophage miRNA Response to
Coxiella burnetii
Infection
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Nathan B Unsworth
An antimicrobial role for zinc in innate immune defense against Group A
Streptococcus
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Mark J. Walker
Development of a SNP TaqMan real-time RT-PCR assay to detect the NA R292K oseltamivir-resistance mutation of the novel H7N9 influenza A virus
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Wei Wang
Tetraspanins CD37 and CD82 differentially regulate antigen presentation and migration innate immune cells
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Mark D Wright
High-throughput analysis of the regulation of alternative splicing in
Toxoplasma gondii
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Lee M Yeoh
Exploring NLRP12 – an emerging member of NOD-like receptor family
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Alina Zamoshnikova
Pandemic A/H1N1 2009 influenza virus-like particles elicited higher and broader immune responses than the commercial Panenza vaccine
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Bojian Zheng
New Emerging Avian Influenza (H7N9) Virus Extra-pulmonary Distribution in Shanghai, China
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Zhaoqin Zhu
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