Wednesday, 14th February 14th Lorne Infection and Immunity 2024

• How do Gram-negative bacteria deal with hypo-osmotic shocks? - Jean Francois Collett

• Structural and Molecular Biology of Bacterial Conjugation - Gabriel Waksman
• How cell wall targeting antibiotics kill bacteria - Jeff Errington
• Cysteine-dependent antigenic heterogeneity of Shigella flexneri autotransporter IcsA and implications in host immunity evasion - Jilong Qin
• Primate Simplexvirus UL39 proteins inhibit RHIM signalling - Megan Steain
• Molecular structure of the intact bacterial flagellar basal body - Emily Furlong

• T lymphocyte differentiation and function: Lessons learned from patients with inborn errors of immunity - Federica Sallusto
• Divergent cytokine and transcriptional signatures control functional Tfh heterogeneity - Joanna Groom
• A common allele of HLA is associated with asymptomatic SARS-CoV-2 infection - Dimitra SM Chatzileontiadou
• Understanding T cell-mediated immunity of Bacteroides fragilis glycosphingolipids by Natural Killer T cell receptor   - Praveena Thirunavukkarasu
• Covalent TCR-peptide-MHC interactions: A new mechanism for T cell antigen recognition and T cell activation - Pirooz Zareie
• Molecular Determinants of IgG Anti-Inflammatory Activity - Robert Anthony

• Unveiling the immune shield – a dive into epididymal immunology - Andreas Meinhardt

Venue: The Peak Lorne Country Club

Date: Wednesday 14th February 2024
Time: 6:30 PM - 8:00 PM 
Cost: $30 - Additional ticket $40

The ticket includes one drink. Additional drinks are available for purchase separately at the venue.

All special dietary requirements will be accommodated if requested. 

Shuttle Bus will be available from 6:15pm leaving from the Mantra lobby.

Return shuttle will begin at 7:45pm back to Mantra Lorne for the poster session. 

Venue: The Peak Lorne Country Club
Date: Wednesday 14th February 2024
Time: 6:30 PM - 8:00 PM 
Cost: $50 - Additional ticket $65

This ticket includes one drink. Additional drinks are available for purchase separately at the venue.

All special dietary requirements will be accommodated.

Shuttle Bus will be available from 6:15pm leaving from the Mantra lobby.

Return shuttle will begin at 7:45pm back to Mantra Lorne for the poster session. 

• A validated study protocol to compare microbiome and mycobiome profilesof Inflammatory Bowel Disease patients in remission and active flare - Matias Abregu
• A microbiome-focused multi-omic assessment of the impact of intermittent fasting on gut bacteria - Matias Abregu
• Inflammatory profiles of vaginal Gardnerella vaginalis isolates from South African women with and without bacterial vaginosis   - Sarah Amir Hamzah
• The plight of the metabolite- metabolipidomic changes to the ocular surface in ocular allergy sufferers across seasons in Victoria, Australia - Esrin Aydin
• Myeloid derived NLRP3 inflammasomes exacerbate disease in a murine model of Silicosis - Kristian Barry
• Building a macrophage: promoter, enhancer and chromatin remodelling in ipsc-derived myeloid progenitors and their progeny. - Miguel A Berrocal
• Assessment of growth dynamics over time and dispersal responses to nitric oxide by P. aeruginosa biofilms - Xavier Bertran i Forga
• Fluorescent probes derived from antimicrobial peptides: tools for discovery and diagnostics - Mark AT Blaskovich
• Mouse precision-cut lung slices as a novel model of early bacterial infection with Methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus - Jane E Bourke
• Interferon epsilon limits ovarian cancer metastasis via regulation of peritoneal immune cells - Nicole K Campbell
• Differential kinetics of splenic CD169+ macrophage death is one underlying cause of virus infection fate regulation - Paula Cebollada Rica
• The Helicobacter pylori autotransporter ImaA associates with extracellular vesicles to modulate host immune responses - Angus Cramond
• A fluorescence-based system for screening CRISPR-Cas13 efficacy and collateral effects. - Sudip Dhakal
• Longitudinal culturing of the human microbiome reveals site-specific colonisation of bacterial isolates in the respiratory and gastrointestinal tracts - Sara K Di Simone
• Adeno-associated viral vectors encoding nanobodies targeting mouse and human P2X7 reduce graft-versus-host disease in a humanised mouse model - Amal Elhage
• Immune cell infiltration of testicular germ cell tumors – what is known and which questions are unanswered so far? - Daniela Fietz
• Interferon regulatory factors 1 and 2 regulate expression of programmed cell death-ligand 1 in dendritic cells - Ashley M Firth
• The innate immune response of human and mosquito cells to sylvatic dengue infection - Francesca D Frentiu
• Helicobacter pylori cytotoxin, VacA, modulates conventional dendritic cell maturation and hijacks extracellular vesicles to dysregulate immune cell functions - Ruby Gorman-Batt
• CD4⁺ T cell recognition of Haemagglutinin epitopes across different influenza strains - Emma J Grant
• An insect-specific chimeric vaccine protects saltwater crocodiles (Crocodylus porosus) against West Nile virus-induced skin lesions and viremia - Gervais Habarugira
• Defective interfering RNA induce innate immunity and broad pan-antiviral activity - David Harrich
• Investigating antimicrobial activity in the human gastrointestinal microbiome - Jamia Hemphill
• Vaccine development approaches for African Swine fever virus (ASFV) - MD Tanjir Islam
• A key Lactobacillus metabolite reduces HIV internalisation and migration through the cervicovaginal epithelial barrier - Brianna Jesaveluk
• Influenza virus internal proteins as vaccine targets - Zhirong Jia
• Does a leopard change its spots? Pseudomonas aeruginosa in cystic fibrosis after CFTR modulation - Emma L Ledger
• The exploration of HLA-B*18:01 influenza A derived peptides identified from lung infected cells  - Samuel Liwei Leong