Monday, 7th November Australian Microbial Ecology 2022

• Healthy versus dysfunctional microbiomes - Maureen O'Malley

• Protist predation contributes to the development of bacterial antibiotic resistance in soils - Hangwei Hu
• Soil microbiome in blue carbon ecosystems: opportunities and challenges for coastal wetland restoration - Christina Birnbaum
• Discovery of a pleomorphic life cycle in the anaerobic methanotroph ‘Candidatus Methanoperedens nitroreducens’ - Simon J McIlroy
• Atmospheric hydrogen oxidation extends to the domain archaea - Pok Man Leung
• A fork in the metabolic road: mapping methane and carbon dioxide emissions from a microbial community in a thawing permafrost ecosystem - Samuel Aroney
• Denitrification dynamics of N₂O emissions after re-flooding on dry paddy soils - Yijia Tang
• Biocrust cyanobacteria improve the performance of native plants on Pilbara saline soils - Nathali Machado de Lima
• The distribution and metabolic diversity of anaerobic methanotrophic archaea of the family Methanoperedenaceae - Georgina H Joyce
• Three soil types differ in their mechanistic and temporal response of the priming effect to nitrogen addition - Yunyun Zheng
• The Very Hungry Microbes: An investigation into the Antarctic bacterial candidate phylum Eremiobacterota - Dana Z Tribbia
• The great importance of biotic factors in structuring soil protist community across Australian natural soil ecosystems. - Thi Bao Anh Nguyen

Including Poster Pitches (Terrestrial, Symbiosis, Toolbox)

• Samuel Aroney
• Yijia Tang
• Nathali de Lima
• Roshan Regmi
• Carl Kobel
• Ryan Hesse
• Yang Lu
• Yunke Jia
• Vanessa Rossetto Marcelino

• Survey of the insect symbiont Wolbachia sp. in native Australian mosquito populations of the Hunter Estuary - Ella Bromhead
• The echidna microbiome is stable throughout the phases of gestation - Isini S. Buthgamuwa
• A temperate bacteriophage gifts its Klebsiella hosts with a potent interbacterial weapon - Sally Byers
• Cover crops, carbon, and microbial communities - Mark Farrell
• Evidence for a limited and transient gut microbial diversity within the simple gut of a social forager velvet worm Euperipatoides rowelli   - Imelda Forteza
• Wanted alive: viability testing of the coral microbiome - Laura Geissler
• Uncovering the resistome and plasmidome of heavy metal impacted sediment communities - Brodie F Gillieatt
• Surveillance of antimicrobial resistant microorganisms across different reservoirs through culture-based techniques - Thanavit Jirapanjawat
• The role of plant growth promoting hormones in phytoplankton-bacteria interactions - Abeeha Khalil
• My Martian life microbial life in analogous Martian environments - Cameron Lee
• Perchlorate tolerant halophile isolated from analogous Martian environment - Cameron Lee
• Discovery of seaweed disease protective bacteria and analysis of the protective mechanisms - Jiasui Li
• Mobile genetic elements and antimicrobial resistance genes in the equine microbiome - Scott W Mitchell
• Development of a Brachypodium distachyon root associated synthetic bacteria community - Carl Pille
• Bacterial communities of the coral-associated alga Ostreobium are taxonomically diverse and reveal signatures of phylosymbiosis - B.L.D Uthpala Pushpakumara
• Investigating the effects of salinity on wheat plant-soil microbiomes - Dante Romeo
• Genetic data critical to improving inoculant rhizobia strain selection programs and optimising nitrogen fixation in australian agriculture - Georgina Stagg
• Genomic view of what’s beneath the coral tissue - Kshitij Tandon
• Facilitating genome-resolved metagenome analysis with Metaphor - Vinícius Werneck Salazar
• Continental-scale mapping of soil bacteria and fungi compositional heterogeneity - Peipei Xue
• Characterising the specificity of the endosymbiotic microbiome within marine sponge stem cells - Qi Yang
• Conservation treatments: microbial biodeterioration of paintings in southease asia - Seka Seneviratne

• Using MAGs to investigate microbial relationships across shark host phylogenies - Elizabeth Dinsdale
• The arbuscular mycorrhizal symbiosis: fungal diversity and the impacts on plant-herbivore interactions - Adam Frew

• Adaptation to a facultative lifestyle in an algal endosymbiont of corals via whole-genome duplication - Katherine E. Dougan
• The metabolic influence of the core ciliate Entodinium caudatum within the rumen microbiome - Thea O. Andersen
• Biological disease suppression: Rhizosphere microbe assembly and functions influenced by soil amendments - Roshan Regmi
• Holo-omics and host-microbiome interactions in the herbivore rumen - Carl M. Kobel
• Exploring the epidermal virome of carcharhinid sharks - Ryan Hesse
• Identification of reactive oxygen and nitrogen species-scavenging coral probiotic bacteria to increase coral bleaching resilience - Talisa Doering
• Metatranscriptomics captures dynamic shifts in mycorrhizal coordination in boreal forests - Simon R Law
• Diverse populations of nonsymbiotic Mesorhizobium spp. present in Australian soils have a capacity to become legume symbionts following horizontal gene transfer - Elena Colombi
• Diversity, biogeography and plant growth promotion potential of native Australian seed microbiomes - Allison Mertin

• Grazed and confused: the complex feeding habits of our gut microbes - Phil B Pope