Thursday, 21st February Lorne Infection and Immunity 2013
Breakfast
7:00AM - 8:30AM
Thursday, 21st February
Mantra Dining Room
Session 3: Dynamic host – pathogen interaction
8:30AM - 10:00AM
Thursday, 21st February
Lecture Theatre
Chair: Trevor Lithgow
- Obtaining High-resolution, 3-D Views of Host – Pathogen Interactions with Soft X-ray Tomography - Carolyn Larabell
- Killing of perivascular macrophages by a pore-forming toxin mediates immuno-evasion of Staphylococcus aureus - Wolfgang Weninger
- Understanding the Dynamics of the Adaptive Immune Response by Next-Generation Sequencing - Rachael Bashford-Rogers
- Secreted scabies mite complement inhibitors promote staphylococcal evasion from phagocytosis - Pearl M Swe
Morning tea
10:00AM - 10:30AM
Thursday, 21st February
Exhibition Hall
Session 4: Adaptive immunity to infection
10:30AM - 12:00PM
Thursday, 21st February
Lecture Theatre
Chair: Richard Ferrero
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- The generation of parasite-specific CD4+ T cell responses that promote immunity without causing disease by modulating type I interferon signalling. - Christian Engwerda
- Memory B Cell and Plasma Cell Development in Response to Vaccination - David Tarlinton
- The tetraspanins CD37 and CD53 are critical for plasma cell survival and B cell homing - Mark Wright
- B cell extrinsic MyD88 and FcR common gamma chain control contraction of the autoreactive extrafollicular B cell response - Rebecca A. Sweet
Lunch
12:00PM - 1:00PM
Thursday, 21st February
Exhibition Hall
Session 5: Emerging/re-emerging infectious diseases
1:00PM - 2:30PM
Thursday, 21st February
Lecture Theatre
Chair: Tania de Koning-Ward
- SAMHD1 Alters HIV-1 Sensitivity to Nucleoside Reverse Transcriptase Inhibitors via Modulation of Cellular dNTP Concentrations - Baek Kim
- Does Mycobacterium tuberculosis utilise host plasmin(ogen) for full virulence? - Nick West
- Henipavirus infection dynamics in a captive population of African straw-coloured fruit bats - Kate S Baker
- VAGO, A NOVEL CULEX MOSQUITO CYTOKINE, RESTRICTS WEST NILE VIRUS REPLICATION - Prasad N Paradkar
Afternoon tea
2:30PM - 3:00PM
Thursday, 21st February
Exhibition Hall
Session 6: Genomics in infection and immunity
3:00PM - 4:50PM
Thursday, 21st February
Lecture Theatre
Chair: Richard Strugnell
- Using genomics to investigate host/microbe interactions. - Gordon Dougan
- infectious laryngotracheitis virus vaccines and vaccine recombination in poultry - Joanne Devlin
- Molecular characterization of the 2011 Hong Kong scarlet fever outbreak: contribution of horizontally acquired genes to human disease. - Mark J. Walker
- Identifying recombination hotspots in the HIV genome - Johnson Mak
- Dense fine-mapping genetic association studies of immune-mediated liver disorders - Jimmy Z Liu
Break
4:30PM - 5:30PM
Thursday, 21st February
Plenary
5:30PM - 6:45PM
Thursday, 21st February
Lecture Theatre
Dinner
6:45PM - 8:00PM
Thursday, 21st February
Mantra Dining Room
Poster Session 2
8:00PM - 9:30PM
Thursday, 21st February
Exhibition Hall
- A role for Wnt proteins in the lipopolysaccharide-induced systemic cytokine response - Marcela Gatica-Andrades
- Dimeric immunoglobulin A: a novel biomarker for TB serodiagnostics - Khayriyyah Mohd Hanafiah
- An Engineered Type-I interferon variant with enhanced biological activities - Daniel Harari
- Molecular insight into the evolution of pandemic Streptococcus pyogenes M1T1 - Mark J Walker
- Inhibition of Streptococcus pneumoniae colonisation by the probiotic Streptococcus salivarius - Jayne Manning
- Investigation of the relationship between pneumococcal vaccination, immunity and carriage in Fijian children - Laura K Boelsen
- Examining the role of different cellular sources of IP-10 in the pathogenesis of cerebral malaria - Lisa J Ioannidis
- Getting nosey: Hendra virus neuroinvasion in a new mouse model. - Johanna Dups
- Distinct roles of the membrane proximal ectodomain region (MPER) of HIV-1 gp41 in cell-free and cell-to-cell virus transmission. - Vani Geetha S Narasimhulu
- PlpA, a protein critical for correct biogenesis of the Gram negative Outer Membrane and virulence in-vivo - Faye C Morris
- Structural basis of viral escape in Influenza - Stephanie Gras
- Plasmacytoid dendritic cells coordinate an innate immune response against the intracellular bacterial pathogen, Legionella pneumophila. - Andrew S Brown
- Highly divergent T-cell receptor recognition modes to a bulged viral peptide bound to a human leukocyte antigen class I molecule - Yu-Chih Liu
- Modulating host molecules impacts H5N1 replication in human cells - Celine Deffrasnes
- Identification and functional validation of regulatory T cell specific marker using genetic analysis. - JiSeung Ko
- Development of a genome-wide RNAi screen for use in identifying host factors involved in Legionella pneumophila virulence. - Sze Ying Ong
- LETHAL IMPACT OF ANTENATAL NICOTINE AND LIPOPOLYSACCARIDE ON MOUSE PUPS - Thilini Samarasinghe
- Glucocorticosteroids Inhibit Anti-viral Responses and Enhance the Replication of Respiratory Virus - Belinda J Thomas
- Never say die: NleB antagonises death receptor signaling during bacterial gut infection - Jaclyn S Pearson
- Comparison of invasive and non-invasive animal models for determining antibiotic efficacy against Staphylococcus aureus - Alberto B Silva
- Genome Wide RNAi screening at bio-safety level 4 - Christina Rootes
- Charecterization of the type III effector NleE/OspZ from enteropathogenic Escherichia coli and Shigella - Ying Zhang
- Combined TLR activating and siRNA therapy for treatment of viral infections. - Daniel Clarke
- Characterisation of a second ecto-nucleoside triphosphate diphosphohydrolase from Legionella pneumophila - Patrice Riedmaier
- Identification of substrate recognition sites for type III effector NleC of enteropathogenic E. coli - Cristina Giogha
- Role of Fas signalling in immune defense against the intestinal pathogen, Citrobacter rodentium. - Catherine L Kennedy
- The type IV secretion system of Helicobacter pylori activates proinflammatory and angiogenic responses in primary human endothelial cells - Mona Tafreshi
- Helicobacter pylori outer membrane vesicles enter host cells and are processed into exosomes that interact with immune cells - Lorinda Turner
- Investigating the Role of HIV Driven IFIT Proteins in Macrophages - Anthony Cunningham
- Global Transcriptional Response of miRNA to IFNB - Samuel Forster
- Association between naturally acquired antibodies to the Plasmodium falciparum merozoite surface proteins DBL1 and DBL2 and protection from Malaria clinical episodes - Chris YH Chiu
- Identification and prioritization of merozoite antigens as targets of protective human immunity to Plasmodium falciparum malaria for vaccine and biomarker development - James Beeson