Tuesday, 12th November BacPath 2024
Registration
7:45AM - 6:00PM
Tuesday, 12th November
Convention Centre Foyer
Keynote Speaker - Kimberley Kline
8:30AM - 9:15AM
Tuesday, 12th November
Sugarloaf and Bimbadeen
Chair: Martina Sanderson-Smith
Session 2 - Bacterial Communities
9:15AM - 10:35AM
Tuesday, 12th November
Sugarloaf and Bimbadeen
Chairs: Cynthia Whitchurch & Francesca Short
Sponsored by:
- The persistent presence of intracellular UPEC in a paediatric chronic UTI patient and its associated inflammatory profiling: Leads for the Future - Arthika Manoharan
- Quorum sensing and DNA methylation play an active role in clinical Burkholderia ambifaria phase variation - Pauline M.L. Coulon
- Teaming up two ESKAPE: cross-feeding between Klebsiella pneumoniae and Acinetobacter baumannii promotes their co-existence - Catherine J Dawson
- High-throughput Phenotyping of Biofilm Production in Acinetobacter baumannii Using Microfluidic Droplets - Siyuan S Zhuang
- Group A Streptococcous biofilm phenotype changes in response to different host stressors - Georgia McCorkell
Morning Break
10:35AM - 11:00AM
Tuesday, 12th November
Brokenback and Wattagan
Session 3 - Host-Pathogen Interactions
11:00AM - 12:30PM
Tuesday, 12th November
Sugarloaf and Bimbadeen
Chairs: Kimberly Kline & Emma-Jayne Proctor
- Clostridioides difficile infection disrupts colonic repair and function - Ashleigh P Rogers
- Staphylococcus aureus leukotoxin LukAB is a directly-acting neutrophil chemoattractant - Jhih-Hang Jiang
- Investigating survival blueprints of Mycobacterium abscessus during granulomatous infection. - Manitosh Pandey
- Genomic epidemiology and phenotypic characterisation of Salmonella enterica serovar Panama in Victoria, Australia - Samriddhi Thakur
- FhaB and FhaC from Bordetella function as a two-partner toxin delivery system - Richard M Johnson
- Model urinary tract infections and multi-species bacterial invasion of human epithelial bladder cells - Alaska Pokhrel
Lunch Break
12:30PM - 1:30PM
Tuesday, 12th November
Brokenback and Wattagan
BioCyc Workshop
12:45PM - 1:25PM
Tuesday, 12th November
Sugarloaf and Bimbadeen
Sponsored by:
Session 4 - The Outermembrane and Beyond
1:30PM - 3:00PM
Tuesday, 12th November
Sugarloaf and Bimbadeen
Chairs: Matthew Doyle & Johanna Kenyon
- Beta-barrel membrane protein assembly under L-form growth condition. - Takuya Shiota
- Investigating the role of outer-membrane proteins in non-typeable Haemophilus influenzae to better understand host-pathogen interactions - Ashley J Fraser
- Silence is Golden: How is quiescence regulated in Klebsiella and what is the significance of quiescent porins in AMR? - Kwok Jian Goh
- Assembly and near-atomic structure of the PorKN rings of type IX secretion system - Dhana Gorasia
- Helicobacter pylori Tipa is a novel nucleomodulin that is secreted on extracellular vesicles that target the nucleus - Jack K Emery
- A conserved membrane protein negatively regulates Mce1 complexes in mycobacteria - Shu-Sin Chng
Afternoon Break
3:00PM - 3:30PM
Tuesday, 12th November
Brokenback and Wattagan
Session 5 - The Cell Envelope
3:30PM - 5:00PM
Tuesday, 12th November
Sugarloaf and Bimbadeen
Chairs: Waldemar Vollmer & Ashleigh Paparella
- Defining polymerases: improving prediction of capsular polysaccharide topology - Johanna J Kenyon
- Altered peptidoglycan cross-linking in the absence of FemB causes gross cell division and envelope defects in Enterococcus faecalis - Pei Yi Choo
- Assessing How Blocking Late-stage O-linked Glycosylation Biosynthesis May Be Used to Combat Burkholderia Infections - Leila Jebeli
- Understanding how proximal, non-signal sequence residues influence processing of signal peptides by LepB – A model for designing new secretion inhibitors - Yaramah Zalucki
- Harnessing human plasminogen: A moonlighting role for Ag85B during tuberculosis - Emily J Strong
Free Time
5:00PM - 6:00PM
Tuesday, 12th November
Tuesday Dinner
6:00PM - 8:00PM
Tuesday, 12th November
Lagoon Marquee & Pool
Poster Session 2
8:00PM - 10:00PM
Tuesday, 12th November
Brokenback and Wattagan
- Exploring the role of capsule in Klebsiella pneumoniae environmental survival - Gareth Howells
- Predicting Trimethoprim-Sulfamethoxazole Interactions in Acinetobacter baumannii - Natasha N Delgado
- Bacterial self-defence – S-oxide reductases as determinants of successful host-pathogen interactions in Haemophilus influenzae and Escherichia coli - Ulrike Kappler
- Protein abundance of uropathogenic E. coli during model urinary tract infection - Ciara Walsham
- Uncovering a novel multi-drug efflux pump potentially mediating colistin tolerance in Acinetobacter baumannii - Farzana T Prity
- The role of FruA in Streptococcus pneumoniae carbohydrate metabolism. - Nicholas T Maczuga
- Behaviour of an asymptomatic UPEC isolate during in vitro multi-strain model UTIs - Lachlan Chisholm
- Topological dynamics of BamC the lipoprotein of the Gram-negative bacteria - Yuki Maruno
- Investigation Antibacterial Activity of Medicinal Plant Infusions Against Pathogenic Bacteria - Tesleem Ibrahim
- Molecular characterisation and RT-PCR based diagnosis of the pandemic Streptococcus pyogenes M1UK lineage - Stephan Brouwer
- Decoding neutrophil-bacterial interactions: a dual-omics exploration of the neutrophil response to emm1 Group A Streptococcus - Jarrad Pritchard
- Microevolution associated with clonal expansion of a hypervirulent, penicillin resistant lineage of Neisseria meningitidis in rural Western Australia - Charlene M Kahler
- Outsmarting the bladder: How the biofilm matrix of P. aeruginosa is more than just a protective mechanism in the urinary tract environment - Arthika Manoharan
- Exploring the use of alternative hosts for improved production and identification of novel pleuromutilins - Evangeline Clay
- Transition state analysis of enzyme catalysed reactions: Applications in antibacterial development - Ashleigh Paparella