Wednesday, 27th September BACPATH 2017

• The role of cardiolipin in the intracellular lifestyle of Shigella flexneri - Shelley Payne

• The Protein Tyrosine Phosphatase Spd1837 Interacts with the Pyruvate Oxidase SpxB to Modulate Capsular Polysaccharide Production in Streptococcus pneumoniae - Zuleeza Ahmad
• Inhibition of Antigen 43-mediated aggregation and biofilm formation   - Alvin W Lo
• Discovery of new genes involved in curli production by Uropathogenic Escherichia coli - Nhu Nguyen
• The Glycointeractome of Neisseria gonorrhoeae – a bittersweet story - Evgeny A Semchenko

• Porins, Antimicrobial Resistance and Fitness in Klebsiella pneumoniae - Alicia Fajardo-Lubian
• Colistin resistance in Klebsiella pneumoniae promotes virulence and attenuates host defence responses   - Timothy J Kidd
• E. coli ST10: commensal or pathogen? - Cameron Reid
• Association between pathogenic factors and antibiotic resistance in Pseudomonas aeruginosa - Dinesh Subedi
• Small RNAs regulate antibiotic resistance in multidrug-resistant Staphylococcus aureus (MRSA)   - Julia L Wong

Poster Express

Sacha Pidot
TB under the sea: re-thinking the origins of Mycobacterium tuberculosis [abs# 156]

Jennifer Singh
The role of polysaccharide capsule in Acinetobacter baumannii virulence [abs# 166]

Giulia Ballerin
Exploiting bacterial lifestyles: a combined strategy for the treatment of Pseudomonas aeruginosa infections [abs# 104]

Julieanne L Vo
Unravelling the mystery of sticky velcro-like proteins from pathogenic Escherichia coli 
[abs# 176]

Kirstie M Mangas
Developing a vaccine against Buruli ulcer using bioluminescent Mycobacterium ulcerans and a low-dose murine challenge model [abs# 140]

• A unique and extra sequence (N917-P927) is essential for efficient multidrug efflux function of the MtrD protein of Neisseria gonorrhoeae - Mohsen Chitsaz
• MmpL3 is the flippase for mycolic acids in mycobacteria - Shu Sin Chng
• Structural and functional characterisation of the Type IX secretion system in Porphyromonas gingivalis - Dhana G Gorasia
• A Type III-like conduit connects the mother cell and spore during sporulation - Christopher Rodrigues
• Molecular basis for the folding of β-helical autotransporter passenger domains - Xiaojun Yuan

• Design and construction of protein chimeras to create a multi-component protein vaccine for the prevention of all forms of pneumococcal disease - Greiciely Andre de Oliveira
• Exploiting bacterial lifestyles: a combined strategy for the treatment of Pseudomonas aeruginosa infections - Giulia Ballerin
• The Function of the cedA gene of Uropathogenic Escherichia coli and its importance in Urinary Tract Infections - Tamika A Blair
• Small RNA-mediated regulation in Acinetobacter baumannii - Michael A Burch
• The role of Treponema denticola motility in polymicrobial biofilm formation - Deanne Catmull
• Cell division as a target for the development of novel antimicrobial agents - Wern Chai
• A subset of patients with urosepsis and Escherichia coli infection have specific antibodies that inhibit serum-mediated bactericidal killing. - Carrie F Coggon
• Global proteomic analysis of the early host response to Burkholderia pseudomallei infection - Deanna Deveson Lucas
• Plasmid mobilisation in Staphylococcus aureus; is everybody doin’ it? - Neville Firth
• PorV is an outer membrane surface shuttle protein for the Type IX Secretion System - Michelle D Glew
• The role of the IS26 ends in conservative targeted cointegrate or transposon formation - Christopher J Harmer
• The use of φBT1 based integrative vectors in the genus nocardia - Marion Herisse
• Clostridium difficile toxins mediate thymic atrophy during infection - Melanie L Hutton
• Identification of mortise-tenon joints in outer membrane proteins and their influence on β-barrel stability - Matthew D Johnson
• Whole-genome Sequencing Reveals a New Cluster of Penicillin-resistant Serogroup W Neisseria meningitidis in Western Australia - Charlene M Kahler
• Characterization of Treponema denticola and Porphyromonas gingivalis cross-feeding - Lin Xin Kin
• Functional and structural analysis of the zinc efflux protein CzcD - Daniel M La Porta
• Emergence of pathogenic Klebsiella pneumoniae lineages through frequent acquisitions of iron-scavenging siderophores. - Margaret Lam
• The specificity of the wzx translocase in O antigen biosynthesis - Jason Lee
• Developing a vaccine against Buruli ulcer using bioluminescent Mycobacterium ulcerans and a low-dose murine challenge model - Kirstie M Mangas
• Development of high throughput assays to identify compounds that exploit cell wall deficient (CWD) Pseudomonas aeruginosa - David O Max
• Identification of Pasteurella multocida small RNAs: unravelling the regulatory network - Marianne Mégroz
• Sugar transporter may dictate disease progression in Streptococcus pneumoniae serotype 14 - Vikrant Minhas
• Investigating glycan based interactions of Neisseria meningitidis - Tsitsi Mubaiwa
• The Sequence of the Mature Region of Secreted Proteins Impacts Signal Peptidase 1 Processing - Joanna Musik
• Zinc nutritional immunity and toxicity both play a role in control of Group A Streptococcus - Cheryl-Lynn Y. Ong
• The role of Pht proteins in pneumococcal zinc acquisition - Victoria G Pederick
• TB under the sea: re-thinking the origins of Mycobacterium tuberculosis - Sacha Pidot
• Investigation of the interaction between a Shigella adhesin and the host cell surface - Jilong Qin
• Origins of the 7^th cholera pandemic strain – A phylogenetic tree that can be updated - Peter Reeves
• Coxiella burnetii metabolism and pathogenesis – how are they linked? - Fiona M Sansom
• Lectin activity is a common feature of the cholesterol-dependent cytolysins (CDCs) - Lucy K Shewell
• The role of polysaccharide capsule in Acinetobacter baumannii virulence - Jennifer Singh
• Interaction of disease-causing Group A Streptococcus with innate immune pathways - Amelia Soderholm
• Elucidation of redox folding pathways in Salmonella and their contribution to copper resistance - Pramod Subedi
• Molecular analysis of the transcriptional regulation of fedA and fedR operons by virulence regulatory protein FedR of the pig enterotoxigenic Escherichia coli - Sher Maine Tan
• Lost without translation: ribosome maturation by YbeY stabilises mRNAs encoding the type 3 secretion machine - Jai Tree
• Unravelling the mystery of sticky velcro-like proteins from pathogenic Escherichia coli - Julieanne L Vo
• Targeting a major facilitator of bacterial virulence using a fragment-based drug discovery approach - Tony Wang
• Genomic characterisation of Escherichia coli ST1193: an emerging fluoroquinolone-resistant variant of an O75-associated extra-intestinal pathogenic clonal group - Rhys T White
• Contribution of the linker region in autotransporter assembly - Jing Zhang