Wednesday, 30th October
Australian Microbial Ecology Conference 2024
Days
Wednesday, 30th October
Thursday, 31st October
Friday, 1st November
Tracks
Microbial Interactions
Terrestrial Microbiology
Human Microbiology
Methods and Approaches to Microbial Ecology
Aquatic Microbiology
Microbes in Extreme Environments
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Speakers
Registration Open
7:30AM - 5:00PM
Wednesday, 30th October
PC - Building 1, Level 9 Foyer
Welcome
9:00AM - 9:15AM
Wednesday, 30th October
PC - Building 1, Level 9 Conference Rooms 3 & 4
Plenary 1 - Vaughn Cooper
9:15AM - 10:15AM
Wednesday, 30th October
PC - Building 1, Level 9 Conference Rooms 3 & 4
Chair: Thomas Jeffries
Evolutionary genetics of opportunistic bacteria growing on surfaces or in hosts
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Vaughn Cooper
Morning Tea
10:15AM - 10:45AM
Wednesday, 30th October
PC - Building 1, Level 9 Foyer
Keynote 1 - Michael A Kertesz
10:45AM - 11:05AM
Wednesday, 30th October
PC - Building 1, Level 9 Conference Rooms 3 & 4
Chair: Verlaine Timms
Microbial interactions in mushroom compost
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Michael A Kertesz
Microbial Interactions
11:05AM - 12:45PM
Wednesday, 30th October
PC - Building 1, Level 9 Conference Rooms 3 & 4
Chair: Verlaine Timms
Australian indigenous
Mesorhizobium
populations comprise diverse nonsymbiotic genospecies capable of nitrogen-fixing symbioses via horizontal gene transfer
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Elena Colombi
In situ behaviour of a promising biocontrol agent
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Lachlan Dow
Metatranscriptomics provide insights into the role of the symbiont
Midichloria mitochondrii
in
Ixodes
ticks
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Laurene Leclerc
Experimental evolution of a mixed species biofilm community
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Sanaa Harrass
Genetic and transcriptional signatures associated with enhanced intra-cellular survival of prey bacteria inside a protozoan host
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Md Mozammel Hoque
Bridging the gap: optimized CLEM techniques reveal interactions between a bacterial eukaryotic-like protein and a sponge lectin in
Cymbastela concentrica
holobiont
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Yunke Jia
Lunch
12:45PM - 1:45PM
Wednesday, 30th October
PC - Building 1, Level 9 Foyer
Keynote 2 - Jonathon Plett
1:45PM - 2:05PM
Wednesday, 30th October
PC - Building 1, Level 9 Conference Rooms 3 & 4
Chair: Nathali Maria Machado de Lima
Signalling for Success: how basic scientific understanding of mycorrhizal signalling proteins is informing sustainable forestry and agriculture management practices
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Jonathan M Plett
Terrestrial Microbiology
2:05PM - 3:45PM
Wednesday, 30th October
PC - Building 1, Level 9 Conference Rooms 3 & 4
Chair: Nathali Maria Machado de Lima
Bacterial succession in
Pleurotus eryngii
(King Oyster mushroom) substrate made from coffee waste
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Meghann Thai
The beneficial relationship between fungi and Australian stingless bees
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Jasmin Li
Deciphering the omics of soil disease suppression
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Roshan Regmi
Microbial biofilm: a Study of the Bioleaching Mechanism of Phosphate Solubilising Bacteria on Rare Earth Phosphate Minerals.
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Elizabeth Watkin
A genetic basis for the low methane economy observed in marsupial gut microbiomes
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Kate L Bowerman
A Fungal Approach To Post-Fire Ecosystem Recovery
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Solomon Maerowitz-McMahan
Afternoon Tea
3:45PM - 4:00PM
Wednesday, 30th October
PC - Building 1, Level 9 Foyer
Poster Session - Even Numbers
4:00PM - 4:30PM
Wednesday, 30th October
PC - Building 1, Level 9 Conference Rooms 1 & 2
Regulation of a novel soluble di-iron monooxygenase gene cluster in the soil bacterium
Solimonas soli
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Sui Nin Nicholas Yang
The gut microbiome of australian spiders as a bioindicator of anthropogenic disturbance
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Aliza J Lynch
The impact of chemicals on wetland sedimentary microbial structure using an eDNA metabarcoding approach
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Anna Flynn
In-vivo
Imaging of
89
Zr-Labeled Bacteria Using PET/MRI
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Jeremy P Burton
Building User-friendly, Web-based Research Infrastructure for Microbiome Data Analysis
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Tiffanie M Nelson
Extensive
Klebsiella
diversity in synanthropic wildlife
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Kira Lowe
Ecological insight into
Clostridioides
(
Clostridium
)
difficile
isolated from Australian native animals.
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Karla Cautivo-Reyes
A global perspective on the risk ranks and ecological genesis of antibiotic resistance genes in biofilters for drinking water treatment plants.
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Zhen-Zhen Yan
AusAMF a database of arbuscular mycorrhizal fungal diversity and composition across Australia
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Adam Frew
Understanding the ecological and evolutionary genomics of microbial communities in palm wine fermentation
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I Nyoman Sumerta
Can sustainable farming systems assist with mitigating Antimicrobial Resistance?
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Zakaria Solaiman
Poster Session - Odd Numbers
4:30PM - 5:00PM
Wednesday, 30th October
PC - Building 1, Level 9 Conference Rooms 1 & 2
The unknown bacteriophage community of mushroom compost
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Rebecca Martin
Microbial blueprints: Tales from the nursery and beyond
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Syaliny Ganasamurthy
Measuring and modelling microbially mediated nitrogen dynamics in Australian grain-growing soils
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Mark Farrell
Characterising and manipulating soil and plant-associated microbiomes for improved native grass revegetation.
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Matthew Alfonzetti
Enhancing soil microbiome functions: The impact of crop diversity and farming intensity
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Qi Yang
Bridging the gap: optimized CLEM techniques reveal interactions between a bacterial eukaryotic-like protein and a sponge lectin in
Cymbastela concentrica
holobiont
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Yunke Jia
Assessing the microbial diversity and antibiotic resistance build-up in soils within dog parks.
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Muhammad Nouman Riaz
A Fungal Approach To Post-Fire Ecosystem Recovery
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Solomon Maerowitz-McMahan
Marine
Vibrio
species response to bacteriophages
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Phoebe Targett
Microbial Dynamics Following Long-Term Revegetation in a Mediterranean Quarry
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Nathali Maria Machado de Lima
Unravelling hidden alliances: functional and evolutionary dynamics between the coral skeleton algal symbiont
ostreobium
and its bacterial symbionts
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B.L.D Uthpala Pushpakumara
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