2004 Conference Abstracts

*Parker, D., R. M, Kennan & J I Rood. Identification and Characterisation of a Fimbrial Regulatory System in the Footrot Pathogen, Dichelobacter nodosus, Abstracts of American Society for Microbiology Scientific Meeting, New Orleans, USA (2004).

*Bannam, T. L, D. Bulach, D. Lyras & J.I. Rood. Comparative Analysis of the Conjugative Tetracycline Resistance Plasmid, pCW3, from Clostridium perfringens, Abstracts of American Society for Microbiology Scientific Meeting, New Orleans, USA (2004).

*Adler B. Strategies for identifying virulence factors in Pasteurella multocida, Int. Symp.on Control of Zoonoses. 16. Tsukuba, Japan (2004).

*Adler B. Molecular pathogenesis of Pasteurella multocida infection, 2nd Japan-Australia Symp. Biomed. Sci. Kiroro, Japan (2004).

*Parker,D., R M Kennan & J. I. Rood. PilR and RpoN regulate fimbrial production in Dichelobacter nodosus, Abstracts of Australian Society for Microbiology Scientific Meeting, Sydney, NSW (2004).

*Sheedy, S., A. Keyburn, R.Moore & J.I. Rood. Alpha toxin activity of field isolates of Clostridium perfringens does not correlate with their ability to cause necrotic enteritis in chickens, Abstracts of Australian Society for Microbiology Scientific Meeting, Sydney, NSW (2004).

*Han, X., R Kennan, J Davies & J Rood. Isolation and characterisation of pilt and pilU mutants of Dichelobacter nodosus, Abstracts of Australian Society for Microbiology Scientific Meeting, Sydney, NSW (2004).

*M.L.R. Lim, B. Chen, P.M. Beart & P. Nagley, Release of death-signalling proteins from mitochondria during neuronal apoptosis, Abstracts of 5th International Cell Death Society Symposium, Dublin, Ireland (2004).

*T.M. Hansen & P. Nagley, Impaired release of death-signalling proteins from mitochondria in mouse cells null for cytochrome c, Abstracts of 5th International Cell Death Society Symposium, Dublin, Ireland (2004).

*S. Diwakarla, M.L.R. Lim, B. Chen, Smith, D.J., P. Nagley & P.M. Beart, Patterns of release of mitochondrial apoptogenic proteins during cerebellar granule cell death, Abstracts of Annual Meeting of the Society for Neuroscience, San Diego, California, USA (2004).

*Prescott, M., Rosado, C., Mijaljica D., Samara, L. & Devenish, R.J. Fluorescent protein biosensors for monitoring autophagy in live cells, Australian Conference on Microscopy and Microanalysis, Geelong, Victoria, February 2-6 (2004).

*Varatharajah, J., Prescott, M., Stephens, A. & Devenish, R.J. Investigating the molecular neighbourhood of yeast mitochondrial subunit d using chemical cross-linking, Abstracts of the 29th Annual Lorne Conference on Protein Structure and Function, Lorne, Victoria, 276(2004).

*Mijaljica D., Rosado, C., Devenish, R.J. & Prescott, M. Studying turnover of cellular organelles in Saccharomyces cerevisiae, Abstracts of the 29th Annual Lorne Conference on Protein Structure and Function, Lorne, Victoria, 281 (2004).

*Rosado, C., Mijaljica D., Devenish, R.J. & Prescott, M. Cellular turnover by autophagy in the mammalian cell, Abstracts of the 29th Annual Lorne Conference on Protein Structure and Function, Lorne, Victoria. 282 (2004).

*Mijaljica, D., Rosado, C., Devenish, R.J. & Prescott, M. Studying Turnover of Cellular Organelles in Saccharomyces cerevisiae, Melbourne Protein Group Third Symposium, July 29th, La Trobe University, VIC (2004).

*Gavin, P.D., Devenish, R.J. & Prescott, M. The association of yeast mitochondrial f1fo-atp synthase complexes influences the generation of mitochondrial cristae and mitochondrial morphology, Abstracts COMBIO2004, Perth, WA, Sym-15-04 (2004).

*Mijaljica D., Rosado, C., Devenish, R.J. & Prescott, M. Mitochondrial turnover by autophagy in Saccharomyces cervisiae, Abstracts COMBIO2004, Perth, WA, Pos-Tues-59 (2004).

*M.L.R. Lim, B. Chen, P.M. Beart & P. Nagley. Release of apoptogenic proteins from mitochondria during neuronal injury, Proc. Aust. Neurosci. Soc. 15, POS-WED-339, Melbourne (2004).

*S. Diwakarla, M.L.R. Lim, P. Nagley & P.M. Beart. Hierarchical release of mitochondrial proteins in neuronal apoptosis: studies in cultured cerebellar granule cells, Proc. Aust. Neurosci. Soc. 15, POS- WED-393, Melbourne (2004).

*H. Ng, D. Smith & P. Nagley. A novel approach to studying the release of apoptogenic proteins from mitochondria by dimerisation of intermembrane space proteins, Abstracts of 29th Annual Conference on Protein Structure and Function, Lorne, Victoria (2004).

*M.L.R. Lim, B. Chen, P.M. Beart & P. Nagley, Mitochondrial death signalling in primary cortical neurones from embryonic mice, Abstracts of International Brain Research Organisation Symposium on Neural Plasticity, Development and Repair, Hong Kong (2004).

Adler B. Comparative genomics of the Leptospira borgpetersenii serovar Hardjobovis genome and its application to vaccine development, Leptospirosis 2004, Havana, Cuba (2004).

Adler B. Factores de virulencia de Leptospira y patogenia de leptospirosis, Simposio International sobre Leptospira y Leptospirosis en las Americas. Mexico City, Mexico (2004).

Adler B. Lo mas novedos en tecnicas para el diagnostico de leptospirosis y su appliocacion, Simposio International sobre Leptospira y Leptospirosis en las Americas. Mexico City, Mexico (2004).

Adler B. The genome of Leptospira: some key features, Proc. 6th Gordon Res. Conf. Biology of Spirochaetes. Ventura, USA (2004).

Cullen PA & Adler B. The birth of surfaceomics, Proc. 6th Gordon Res. Conf. Biology of Spirochaetes. Ventura, USA (2004).

Adler B, Bulach D, Cullen P, Davies J, Rood J, Coppel R, Seemann T, Zuerner R, Alt D, McGrath A, Wilson P & Kuczek E What can we learn from comparative genomics of Leptospira?, Aust. Soc. Microbiol. SY 11.1 Sydney, Australia (2004).

Davies JK, Snyder L, Kahler C, Stohl EA, Gunesekere I, Apicella M, Ducey T, Dyer D, Entz D, Powell D, Seifert HS, Shafer W, Williams D & Saunders NJ, A multicentre microarray-based study of the effects of pilin production in Neisseria gonorrhoeae strain FA1090, 14th IPNC Milwaukee, Wisconsin USA (2004).

Friedlander, M.L.R. Lim, T. Waterhouse, E. Powney, J. Drago & P. Nagley, Oxidative stress impedes proliferation and differentiation of neural stem cells, Proc. Aust. Neurosci. Soc. 15, POS-THU-438, Melbourne (2004).

V.W.S. Liu, P. Nagley & H.Y.S. Ngan, Microsatellite instability in mitochondrial genome of common female cancers, Abstracts of Second Scientific Meeting of the Asian Society for Mitochondrial Research and Medicine, Taipei, Taiwan, (2004).

L.D. Mercer, M.L.R. Lim, M.H. Horne, P. Nagley & P.M. Beart, Mitochondria, apoptosis and mesencephalic dopamine neurones, Federation of European Neuroscience Societies Forum 2004, Lisbon, Portugal (2004).

Rood, J.I. Macrolide resistance, Abstracts of Australian Society for Antimicrobials Scientific Meeting, Sydney, NSW (2004).

Rood, J.I., Lyras, D., O’Connor, J.R., Farrow,K.A., Carter, G., Davis, I. and Minton, N.P. Development of systems for the genetic manipulation of Clostridium difficile, Abstracts of First International C. difficile Symposium, Kranska Gora, Slovenia (2004).

Kennedy, C.L., S. Krejany, L. Young, R. Boyd, J. Emmins, D. Lyras & J. I. Rood. The alpha-toxin of Clostridium septicum is essential for virulence, Abstracts of Gordon Conference on Microbial Toxons and Pathogenesis, Andover, USA (2004).

Rood, J, Awad, M, Lyras, D, Kennedy, C, Krejany, S, O’Connor, J, Farrow, K, Young, L, Boyd, R & Emmins, J. Application of genetic methods for the analysis of the pathogenic clostridia, Abstracts of Australian Society for Microbiology Scientific Meeting, Sydney, NSW (2004).

C. Satzke, S. Garland, E. Moses, S. Brennecke, J. Rood & R. Robins-Browne. Novel virulence determinants of Group B streptococcus, Abstracts of Australian Society for Microbiology Scientific Meeting, Sydney, NSW (2004).

Young, L., J. Porter, M. Awad, R. Boyd, J. Emmins, M. Hickey & J. Rood. Examination of the impaired inflammatory response in Clostridium perfringens-mediated gas gangrene by intravital microscopy, Twelfth Annual Conference of the Immunology Group of Victoria, Beechworth, VIC (2004).

Cheung, J.K., M.M. Awad, H. Newton & J. I. Rood. Functional analysis of the VirS sensor histidine kinase from Clostridium perfringens, The 8th Asian Conference on Transcription. Bangkok, Thailand (2004).