Poster Session II — ASN Events

Poster Session II — ASN Events

Poster Session II

Design and construction of protein chimeras to create a multi-component protein vaccine for the prevention of all forms of pneumococcal disease (#102)

Greiciely Andre de Oliveira

Exploiting bacterial lifestyles: a combined strategy for the treatment of Pseudomonas aeruginosa infections (#104)

Giulia Ballerin

The Function of the cedA gene of Uropathogenic Escherichia coli and its importance in Urinary Tract Infections (#106)

Small RNA-mediated regulation in Acinetobacter baumannii (#108)

Michael A Burch

The role of Treponema denticola motility in polymicrobial biofilm formation (#110)

Cell division as a target for the development of novel antimicrobial agents (#112)

A subset of patients with urosepsis and Escherichia coli infection have specific antibodies that inhibit serum-mediated bactericidal killing. (#114)

Carrie F Coggon

Global proteomic analysis of the early host response to Burkholderia pseudomallei infection (#116)

Deanna Deveson Lucas

Plasmid mobilisation in Staphylococcus aureus; is everybody doin’ it? (#118)

PorV is an outer membrane surface shuttle protein for the Type IX Secretion System (#120)

Michelle D Glew

The role of the IS26 ends in conservative targeted cointegrate or transposon formation (#122)

Christopher J Harmer

The use of φBT1 based integrative vectors in the genus nocardia (#124)

Clostridium difficile toxins mediate thymic atrophy during infection (#126)

Melanie L Hutton

Identification of mortise-tenon joints in outer membrane proteins and their influence on β-barrel stability (#128)

Matthew D Johnson

Whole-genome Sequencing Reveals a New Cluster of Penicillin-resistant Serogroup W Neisseria meningitidis in Western Australia (#130)

Charlene M Kahler

Characterization of Treponema denticola and Porphyromonas gingivalis cross-feeding (#132)

Functional and structural analysis of the zinc efflux protein CzcD (#134)

Daniel M La Porta

Emergence of pathogenic Klebsiella pneumoniae lineages through frequent acquisitions of iron-scavenging siderophores. (#136)

The specificity of the wzx translocase in O antigen biosynthesis (#138)

Developing a vaccine against Buruli ulcer using bioluminescent Mycobacterium ulcerans and a low-dose murine challenge model (#140)

Kirstie M Mangas

Development of high throughput assays to identify compounds that exploit cell wall deficient (CWD) Pseudomonas aeruginosa (#142)

Identification of Pasteurella multocida small RNAs: unravelling the regulatory network (#144)

Marianne Mégroz

Sugar transporter may dictate disease progression in Streptococcus pneumoniae serotype 14 (#146)

Investigating glycan based interactions of Neisseria meningitidis (#148)

The Sequence of the Mature Region of Secreted Proteins Impacts Signal Peptidase 1 Processing (#150)

Zinc nutritional immunity and toxicity both play a role in control of Group A Streptococcus (#152)

Cheryl-Lynn Y. Ong

The role of Pht proteins in pneumococcal zinc acquisition (#154)

Victoria G Pederick

TB under the sea: re-thinking the origins of Mycobacterium tuberculosis (#156)

Investigation of the interaction between a Shigella adhesin and the host cell surface (#158)

Origins of the 7^th cholera pandemic strain – A phylogenetic tree that can be updated (#160)

Coxiella burnetii metabolism and pathogenesis – how are they linked? (#162)

Lectin activity is a common feature of the cholesterol-dependent cytolysins (CDCs) (#164)

The role of polysaccharide capsule in Acinetobacter baumannii virulence (#166)

Interaction of disease-causing Group A Streptococcus with innate immune pathways (#168)

Amelia Soderholm

Elucidation of redox folding pathways in Salmonella and their contribution to copper resistance (#170)

Molecular analysis of the transcriptional regulation of fedA and fedR operons by virulence regulatory protein FedR of the pig enterotoxigenic Escherichia coli (#172)

Lost without translation: ribosome maturation by YbeY stabilises mRNAs encoding the type 3 secretion machine (#174)

Unravelling the mystery of sticky velcro-like proteins from pathogenic Escherichia coli (#176)

Targeting a major facilitator of bacterial virulence using a fragment-based drug discovery approach (#178)

Genomic characterisation of Escherichia coli ST1193: an emerging fluoroquinolone-resistant variant of an O75-associated extra-intestinal pathogenic clonal group (#180)

Contribution of the linker region in autotransporter assembly (#182)