Thursday, 29th September BACPATH 2022

• Glycomics: Generating new opportunities to understand, diagnose, prevent and cure infectious disease - Michael Jennings

•  Targeting the initiation step of fatty acid synthesis sensitises multi-drug-resistant Escherichia coli to previously ineffective antibiotics - Yaoqin Hong
• The molecular basis of how different strains and pathotypes of diarrhoeagenic and uropathogenic E.coli form biofilms on host surfaces. - Jason J Paxman
• The multifunctional roles of membrane-integrated phosphatases in A. baumannii envelope biology - Maoge Zang

• Rescuing Tetracycline Class Antibiotics for the Treatment of Multidrug-Resistant Acinetobacter baumannii Pulmonary Infection - David De Oliveira
• An unexpected link between Clostridioides difficile sporulation and antibiotic resistance - Yogitha N Srikhanta
• Uncovering the role of the functional small RNA interactome in antibiotic tolerance in Staphylococcus aureus - Winton Wu
• Daptomycin resistance in Staphylococcus aureus mediated by multiple peptide resistance factor mprF - Jhih-Hang Jiang
• Adding to the family of resistance factors against last resort antibiotics: Identification and characterization of a novel carbapenemase, CIM-1. - Yu Wang

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• Treatment of nosocomial infections of multidrug-resistant Enterobacter cloacae complex using intelligent phage cocktail - Dinesh Subedi
• The forgotten common antigen: A novel target for cloaking antibodies to P. aeruginosa in chronic infection - Joshua N Monteith
• A multiplex PCR pipeline for antimicrobial resistance typing in Neisseria gonorrhoeae in Queensland - Olivia A.K Jessop
• Novel vaccine candidates protect against Salmonella challenge - Rochelle Da Costa
• Treponema pallidum nucleic acid detection in blood from donors seropositive for syphilis - Lina Rustanti

• Novel approaches to the detection, prevention, and control of bacterial sexually transmitted pathogens - Deborah Williamson

• Identification of the donor molecule for phosphorylcholine modification of pilin in Neisseria meningitidis - Yuan Zhang
• Purine and carbohydrate availability drive Enterococcus faecalis fitness during wound infections - Casandra Tan
• Eating fats to stay alive: elucidating the mechanism of Salmonella enterica chronic infections. - Jessica L Rooke

Even numbered posters are presented in this session.

• The search for the next silver bullet – phage, antibiotics and EDTA - Renee N Ng
• Gene transfer by bacterial conjugation is modulated by the recipient cell surface - Galain Williams
• Unravelling the regulatory pathway of cellulose biosynthesis in uropathogenic Escherichia coli - Chitra Ravi
• Genetic basis of I-complex plasmid replication, maintenance and conjugation - Zheng Jie Lian
• Additional physiological roles of the DmsABC sulfoxide reductase beyond mediating anaerobic energy generations in pathogenic bacteria - Qifeng (Nathan) Zhong
• A paradoxical role of antibodies to Pseudomonas aeruginosa in cystic fibrosis chronic pulmonary infections - Emma L Ledger
• Inhibiting Clostridioides difficile SpoCR-mediated resistance to sporulation inhibition - Desirel Ng
• How Sweet! Uncovering the importance of GalR in Streptococcus pneumoniae sugar metabolism - Kimberley T McLean
• Vaccination with a multi-valent fusion protein protects chickens against necrotic enteritis lesions caused by Clostridium perfringens - Megha M Manohar
• Manipulating the PAAR proteins of Acinetobacter baumannii - Irene Alevizos
• Do anti-LPS antibodies to patient microbiota associate with worse outcomes in Crohn’s disease? - Wenkang Feng
• Hyper-sialylation of meningococcal lipooligosaccharide in an outbreak of clonal complex 11 Neisseria meningitidis - August G Mikucki
• Phage defence and Shiga toxin production in enterohaemorrhagic E. coli - Pranita Poudyal
• Lipid homeostasis at the host-pathogen interface - Jack K Waters
• Secretion of a unique lipoprotein through a TolC-like channel - Freya J Hodges
• Streptolysins are the primary inflammasome activators in macrophages during Streptococcus pyogenes infection - Johanna Richter
• The RNA-binding proteome of pathogenic E. coli reveals a T6SS immunity protein that has been co-opted for small RNA regulation.   - Thomas Zammit
• A 3D human cell-based in vitro model for chronic Pseudomonas aeruginosa lung infections - Sven Cleeves
• Characterization of the Role of the OmpC-Mla System in Bile Salt Resistance - Feifan Zhu
• Diverse sensory repertoire of paralogous chemoreceptors Tlp2, Tlp3 and Tlp4 in Campylobacter jejuni - Bassam Elgamoudi
• Discovery and development of novel treatment options for multi-drug resistant gonorrhoea - Evgeny A Semchenko
• Streptococcus pyogenes hijacks host glutathione for growth and innate immune evasion - Stephan Brouwer
• Understanding how mature side residues influence processing of signal peptides by LepB – A model for designing new inhibitors - Yaramah Zalucki
• Coxiella effector CBU2016 supresses DAB2 to facilitate CCV expansion - David R Thomas
• Transcriptome profiling of uropathogenic Escherichia coli in response to infection-relevant stress - Minh-Duy Phan
• Tracing zinc flux in pathogenic Klebsiella pneumoniae - Aimee Tan
• Modified defence peptides enhance zinc toxicity and macrophage killing of intracellular uropathogenic E. coli - Nicole Lawrence
• Cysteine-dependent conformation heterogeneity of Shigella flexneri autotransporter IcsA and implications in its function - Jilong Qin
• Neisseria meningitidis macrophage infectivity potentiator proteins are essential for aggregation, biofilm formation and virulence - Nicole M Bzdyl
• The cargo proteins secreted by the Type IX Secretion System in Porphyromonas gingivalis are conjugated to a modified O-polysaccharide - Paul D Veith
• Campylobacter concisus flagellin: In silico modelling, structural analysis, and motility - Taghrid Istivan
• Host-dependent resistance of Group A Streptococcus to antifolate antibiotics - Kalindu D Rodrigo