Thursday, 31st 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
Thursday, 31st October
PC - Building 1, Level 9 Foyer
Plenary 2 - Elizabeth Hartland
9:00AM - 10:00AM
Thursday, 31st October
PC - Building 1, Level 9 Conference Rooms 3 & 4
Targeting of the host epitranscriptome by
Legionella pneumophila
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Elizabeth Hartland
Morning Tea
10:00AM - 10:30AM
Thursday, 31st October
PC - Building 1, Level 9 Foyer
Keynote 3 - Kate Howell
10:30AM - 10:50AM
Thursday, 31st October
PC - Building 1, Level 9 Conference Rooms 3 & 4
Chairs: Kenya Fernandes & Scott Rice
Incidence and variation of bacteria in human saliva to understand flavour release
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Kate Howell
Human Microbiology
10:50AM - 12:40PM
Thursday, 31st October
PC - Building 1, Level 9 Conference Rooms 3 & 4
Chair: Scott Rice
The phageome of patients with ulcerative colitis treated with donor fecal microbiota reveals a novel determinant of efficacy
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Marwan E Majzoub
Raw plant foods: a link in the environment-to-gut microbiome continuum?
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Penny PG Galbraith
Tumour microbiomes of two transmissible cancers and its involvement in Tasmanian devils
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Jeremy JJ Jeanjean
A model, mixed-species urinary catheter biofilm derived from spinal cord patients
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Parisa Noorian
Marine sponge microbe provides insights into evolution and virulence of the Tubercle bacillus
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Sacha J Pidot
Investigating the effectiveness of host depletion methods to recover microbial genomes from mucosal-associated microbiomes
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Camila Ayala
The effectiveness of multispecies biofilms in preventing invasive bacterial colonisation of urinary catheters
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Kailey Hamann
Stimulation of saliva affects the release of aroma in wine; a study of microbiota, biochemistry and participant origin
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Xinwei Ruan
Lunch
12:40PM - 2:00PM
Thursday, 31st October
PC - Building 1, Level 9 Foyer
Microbes in Extreme Environments
2:00PM - 3:30PM
Thursday, 31st October
PC - Building 1, Level 9 Conference Rooms 3 & 4
Chair: Brodie Gillieatt
Digging Deep; A metaproteomic analysis of soil bioremediation
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Kristopher Abdullah
Microbial aerotrophy enables continuous primary production in diverse cave ecosystems
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Sean K Bay
Revealing hidden soil fungal diversity from Robinson Ridge in East Antarctica
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Priyanka Rani Majumdar
Resilient Antarctic soil bacteria sustain trace gas oxidation across wide temperature ranges
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Tess Hutchinson
Investigating the impact of artificial snow production using ice-nucleating bacteria on Australian Alpine plant and soil microbiomes
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Vaheesan Rajabal
Proximity-ligation-based (Hi-C) sequencing unveils novel viruses and validates diversity of asgard archaeal virome
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Julia Meltzer
Afternoon Tea
3:30PM - 3:45PM
Thursday, 31st October
PC - Building 1, Level 9 Foyer
Poster Session - Even Numbers
3:45PM - 4:15PM
Thursday, 31st October
PC - Building 1, Level 9 Conference Rooms 1 & 2
Investigating the effectiveness of host depletion methods to recover microbial genomes from mucosal-associated microbiomes
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Camila Ayala
Soil microbial community response to biosolids application
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Cameron J Reid
Fungal diversity and antifungal activity in the foliar microbiome of myrtle rust-resistant and susceptible
Myrtaceae
hosts
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Ashish Kumar Sarker
Atmospheric, lithic and solar energy sources, drive microbial mat formation in a hypersaline lake ecosystem
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M Nayeli Luis-Vargas
Understanding the impact of resource fluctuations in shaping community assembly - using the gut microbial community of
Drosophila melanogaster
as a model system
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Yu-Pei Tseng
Fungal antagonists and agonists of
Austropuccinia psidii
isolated from leaves of
Rhodamnia rubescens
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Karishma D. Kuar
The effectiveness of multispecies biofilms in preventing invasive bacterial colonisation of urinary catheters
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Kailey Hamann
Predicting natural rifampicin resistance in human microbiota
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Negin Bolourchi
Stimulation of saliva affects the release of aroma in wine; a study of microbiota, biochemistry and participant origin
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Xinwei Ruan
Assessing the effect of yeast cell metabolites on the viability of probiotic
Lacticaseibacillus
spp.
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Joanna Valanie Pereira
The interaction between sourdough-derived
Maudiozyma humilis
and
Fructilactobacillus sanfranciscensis
strains is not mutualistic
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Anna E Wittwer
Charting metabolic pathways in ocean ecosystems
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Laura Burchill
Sowing the seeds of evolution: Agriculture alters protein evolution of nitrogen cycling genes in soil bacteria globally
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Timothy Ghaly
Isolation, and characterization of drought- and salt-tolerant plant growth-promoting bacteria from vineyard soils
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ERANDI HERATH
Seed banking alters native seed microbiome composition and function
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Sasha G Tetu
Predicting the worst-case timing of multiple pulse perturbations on microbial communities
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James Orr
Poster Session - Odd Numbers
4:15PM - 4:45PM
Thursday, 31st October
PC - Building 1, Level 9 Conference Rooms 1 & 2
Elevated CO
2
rather than AM fungi inoculation limits plant growth by intensifying fungal competition
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Yuxiong Zheng
Assessing the impact of zinc supplementation on the gut microbiome of children in Bangladesh
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Imadh Abdul Azeez
Evaluating the role of microbial diversity in supporting soil ecosystem functions under drought stress
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Keren Wu
Assessing the survivability of candidate phylum radiation (CPR) bacteria within activated sludge systems
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Jed Chafer
The Fungi Present in Australian Stingless Bee Brood Food and Pollen
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Jasmin Li
Mutations within the mycolic acid biosynthetic pathway confer resistance to attachment and subsequent infection of
Saccharibacterium
Ca.
Mycosynbacter amalyticus
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Jayson JA Rose
The role of antibiotic-resource covariance in shaping evolutionary outcomes in microbial systems.
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Vishwa Patel
Microbial Carbonation Potential: A Genomic Survey of Carbonic Anhydrase Genes in Bacterial and Archaeal Species
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Azadeh Safarchi
Proximity-ligation-based (Hi-C) sequencing unveils novel viruses and validates diversity of asgard archaeal virome
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Julia Meltzer
Enhancing seed used in restoration: identification and inoculation of potential plant growth promoting endophytes from native Australian seed
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Allison Mertin
Identification of biotic and abiotic factors associated with general disease suppression in organically managed soils of the himalayan foothills
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Priya Chaudhary
Increasing temperature and aridity potentially enhance human fungal opportunists in the next century at global scale
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Claudia Coleine
ASM AusME Oration Award
5:00PM - 6:00PM
Thursday, 31st October
PC - Building 1, Level 9 Conference Rooms 3 & 4
You cannot B cereus; the necessity and absurdity of microbial taxonomy
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Philip Hugenholtz
Social Dinner @ Ruse
6:00PM - 10:00PM
Thursday, 31st October
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