Tuesday, 8th November Australian Microbial Ecology 2022

• Signaling and eavesdropping in the rhizosphere of legumes - Ulrike Mathesius
• The weird and wonderful world of bark-dwelling microbial communities - Damien T Maher

• Impact of the Roseobacter group on marine health and microbiome assembly - Suhelen Egan
• Not available at time of printing - Torsten Thomas
• Exploring microbial community dynamics and their ecological functions in a subtropical estuary - bay ecosystem - Apoorva Prabhu
• The resistome, mobilome, and virulome of waterbodies in Australia and the Pacific Islands - Barbara Drigo
• Antibiotics disrupt ecosystem processes in aquatic biofilms - Ruby Comte
• Isolation of marine bacteria regulating N₂O emissions from permeable sediments - Thanh NGUYEN
• Metagenomic insights of benthic seeding in recurrent toxigenic Microcystis bloom development - Caitlin Romanis
• Methanogenesis in coastal sandy sediments linked to seaweed-derived methylated substrates - Ning Hall
• Isotopologues of ¹³C labelled glucose reveal organic carbon is oxidised through distinct pathways in permeable and cohesive sediments - Perran Cook

Including Poster Pitches (Marine, Human, Industrial)

• Meghann Thai
• Abolghasem Hedayatkhah
• Xinwei Ruan
• Azhar Sindi
• Jadzia Livingston
• Ruby Comte
• Ning Hall
• Christian Rinke

• Which bacteria mediate Fe²⁺ driven DNRA in iron rich marine sediments? - Maha MA Alharbi
• Influence of cocoa powder in encapsulating probiotic Escherichia coli Nissle 1917 for food use - Wenan W. Cai
• Genome wide transcriptome analysis reveals the diversity and role of non coding RNAs in dinoflagellates - Yibi Chen
• In vitro simulated gastrointestinal digestion and colonic fermentation of a fixed combination of Euphorbia hirta L. extract and probiotic bacteria - Phil Aidan C. Cruz
• Metal ionophores break macrolide resistance in streptococcus pneumoniae   - Chloe L. Estoque
• Methanogens limited to lower rhizosphere and atypical salt marsh niche along a pristine mangrove community continuum - Sebastian Euler
• Beggars can't be choosers: the mixotrophic Mycobacterium smegmatis uses both hydrogen fermentation and nitrate respiration to support persistence during hypoxia - David Gillett
• Spatial Resolution and Function of Bacterial Aggregates Within Tissues of the Coral Acropora loripes - Cecilie R Gotze
• Identifying mannitol biosynthesis in anemone-associated bacteria   - Shiqi Guo
• The fate of organic fermentation products in facultative anaerobes of dynamic sandy sediments - Tess Hutchinson
• Temporal changes of microbial community composition in Yan Yean drinking water reservoir   - Rania Ismail
• Insights into Cr (VI) bioremediation mechanisms of an efficient novel metal resistant bacterium isolated from effluent water - Harpreet Kaur
• Body-site specific microbiome of Myliobatis tenuicaudatus  - Emma Kerr
• Why resource dynamics matter in the optimization of microbial communities - Andrew D Letten
• Exploring the utility of museum specimens for characterising fish microbiome dynamics - Geetika Nambiar
• Identifying molecular trends in a seasonal toxic cyanobacterial bloom through metaproteomics - Daniel D Nebauer
• Quantification and VOC delineation of SARS-CoV-2 virus from municipal wastewater - Gaofeng Ni
• Life, death or dormancy? Ciprofloxacin induces persistence in aquatic microbiota   - Cami Plum
• Shelf-life extension of vacuum-packed lamb through manipulation of the microbial community by elevated glucose - Laura Rood
• Whale shark epidermal microbiome are stable across size and sex but vary over days - Amber Skye
• Defining microbial community dynamics in spontaneous fermentation of palm wine and association with metabolomic profile. - I Nyoman Sumerta
• Developing probiotics for aquaculture production of corals  - Callaway Thatcher
• Metabolic diversity of the Klebsiella pnuemoniae Species Complex - Ben Vezina
• The microbial ecology of acidic saline lakes of the Yilgarn Craton - Elizabeth Watkin
• Carbohydrate assimilation profiles and enzyme secretion of Kazachstania yeasts - Anna Wittwer
• Bacterial community in tropical wetlands soils - Julieta Nazareth Gamboa Cutz

• Understanding microbial communities in inflammatory bowel disease - Samuel Forster
• The Human Gut Microbiome, Mental Health, and Diet   - Hajara Aslam

• Identification of diet-linked gut microbial ecosystem features associated with cancer immunotherapy outcomes - Erin R Shanahan
• A previously uncharacterised hydrogenase dominates fermentation in the human gastrointestinal tract - Caitlin Welsh
• The salivary microbiome shows a high prevalence of core bacterial members yet variability across human population - Xinwei Ruan
• Effect of a maternal dietary intervention during lactation on the infant gut microbiome - Azhar S Sindi
• Visualization of mRNA expression in Pseudomonas aeruginosa aggregates reveals spatial patterns of fermentative and denitrifying metabolism - Jadzia Livingston
• Prevalence of prophages in the microbiome of healthy vs unhealthy humans  - Laura K Inglis
• Chicken or the plasmid? ColV plasmids in E. coli and their relationships with hosts and lineages - Cameron Reid
• In vitro oral microbiome transplantation - Don Ketagoda
• Assessing the Role of Pharyngeal Cell Surface Glycans in Group A Streptococcus Biofilm Formation - Heema Vyas

• Talking to the neighbours, communication and interactions in microbial communities - Scott Rice

This function will be held at the Inner North Brewery.

10A Russell Street Brunswick, VIC 3056 (accessible via the number 19 tram)

The event is ticketed, please ensure you have purchased a ticket. We also ask that you wear your conference name tag.