Wednesday, 14th February
Lorne Infection and Immunity 2018
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Wednesday, 14th February
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Registration
12:00PM - 1:00PM
Wednesday, 14th February
Auditorium Foyer
Welcome
1:00PM - 1:10PM
Wednesday, 14th February
CSL Lecture Theatre
SESSION 1: Host-pathogens interactions I
1:10PM - 3:00PM
Wednesday, 14th February
CSL Lecture Theatre
Chair: Jason Mackenzie
Mechanism of TNF-mediated pathogenic macrophage necrosis in tuberculosis
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Lalita Ramakrishnan
Manipulating the myeloid lineage to influence tissue inflammation
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Nicholas King
Outer Membrane Vesicles potentiate bacterial virulence and immune dysregulation
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Neil M O'Brien-Simpson
The molecular mechanism of how Gram-negative bacteria closely adhere to host surfaces
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Jason Paxman
High-throughput transposon mutagenesis of the dengue virus genome reveals regions of genetic flexibility and facilitates reporter virus generation
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Nicholas S Eyre
Nucleomodulin effectors of intracellular pathogen
Legionella pneumophila
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Shivani Pasricha
Afternoon Tea
3:00PM - 3:30PM
Wednesday, 14th February
Trade Area Level 2
SESSION 2: Immunomics
3:30PM - 5:35PM
Wednesday, 14th February
CSL Lecture Theatre
Chairs: Darren Creek & Stephen Kent
Malaria, neutrophils and invasive bacterial disease
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Eleanor Riley
Single-cell genomics and its application to the study of T helper cell differentiation in mouse models of malaria.
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Ashraful Haque
Genetic susceptibility to pulmonary tuberculosis - host, pathogen or both?
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Sarah J Dunstan
Insights into the malaria immunome by combining population genomics and sero-epidemiology
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Alyssa E Barry
Fluidigm analysis of the immune environment of the female reproductive tract, identifying changes through the menstrual cycle.
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Helen E Cumming
The Host Protein Reticulon 3.1A Contributes to Flavivirus Replication Via Interaction and Stabilization of the NS4A Protein
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Turgut Esad Aktepe
Unexpected overlapping roles of multiple caspases and programmed cell death pathways in the response to bacterial infection
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Ranja Salvamoser
The host anti-viral protein viperin positively augments the dsDNA signalling pathway via a direct interaction with STING
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Keaton M Crosse
Elucidating the role of clade C HIV-1 Env in the infection of cells comprising the viral reservoir
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Matthew Gartner
Defining the role of an epigenetic determinant in
Candida
albicans
virulence
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Vinutha K B
Lipid Droplet density alters early innate immune response to viral infection
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Ebony A Monson
Relative and absolute levels of CD64 and neutrophil elastase have potential for the diagnosis of sepsis
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Riya Palchaudhuri
Assessing novel drug candidates for tuberculosis in an
in vitro
three-dimensional spheroid model that mimics the restrictive conditions of the granuloma
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Sherridan S Warner
Break
5:35PM - 6:30PM
Wednesday, 14th February
Dinner - Cumberland
6:30PM - 8:00PM
Wednesday, 14th February
Horizons Room
Poster Session I
8:00PM - 9:30PM
Wednesday, 14th February
Trade Area Level 2
Nfkb1 (p50) prevents fatal vascular leakage during viral infection by maintaining endothelial integrity
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Cody C Allison
A viral immunoevasin controls innate immunity by targeting the prototypical natural killer cell receptor family
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Richard Berry
The role of CzcD in
Streptococcus pneumoniae
metal ion homeostasis
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Erin B. Brazel
Associations between Red Blood Cell Polymorphisms and Maternal and Birth Outcomes in a Malaria Endemic Region of Papua New Guinea: a cohort study
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Eliza E Davidson
MUC1 protects mice against severe
Streptococcus pneumoniae
infection
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Poshmaal Dhar
No Entry! Preventing
Plasmodium falciparum
invasion by targeting the Rh5/RIPr/CyRPA protein complex
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Julie Healer
Alphaviruses and Chondrocytes: New Insights into Disease
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Lara Herrero
Partial efficacy of a broadly neutralizing antibody against cell-associated SHIV infection
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Stephen Kent
A novel glycan deletion mutation in HIV-1 Envelope protein enhances exposure of key broad neutralisation epitopes, including in a Transmitted/Founder Env
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Hannah A. D. King
Ross River virus: does persisting virus and/or genome contribute to chronic disease?
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Elisa Lim
NMR Analysis of the Lyssavirus P protein-STAT1 interface: The Molecular Basis for Immune Evasion
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Gregory Moseley
Characterisation of bacterial effector kinases from enteropathogenic
Escherichia coli
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Georgina L Pollock
From phenotypic screens to mode of action: guiding the development of novel anti-infective drugs
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Anubhav Srivastava
Old drugs, new tricks – repurposing of drugs to treat severe influenza virus infections
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Michelle Tate
Epididymitis due to uropathogenic
E. coli
in mice causes ductal obstruction which cannot be resolved by antibiotic treatment alone
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Rukmali Wijayarathna
Murine cytomegalovirus degrades MHC class II to colonize the salivary glands
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Joseph Yunis
All-In-One-Well AlphaLISA Assays for Direct Biomarker Quantification in Cell Cultures
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Shima Hamidi
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