2008 Conference Abstracts
Adler B. (2008) Pathogenesis of leptospirosis. Leptospirosis Habana 2008. Havana, Cuba.
Adler B. (2008) Vaccines against leptospirosis. Leptospirosis Habana 2008. Havana, Cuba.
Adler B. (2008). Comparative genomics of Leptospira. Genomes 2008 : Functional Genomics of Microorganisms. Institut Pasteur, Paris, France.
Adler B. (2008). Past Chairs Forum Invited Discussion Leader. Eighth Gordon Research Conference: Biology of Spirochetes. Ventura, USA.
Awad MM, Tan EL, Das T, Cordner L, Emmins J, Lyras D, vanden Hoven R, McEwan A and Rood JI. (2008) FeoB-a virulence-associated determinant that plays a major role in iron acquisition in Clostridium perfringens. Anaerobe 2008, 9th Biennial conference of the Anaerobe Society of the Americas, Long Beach, CA, USA.
Awad MM, Tan EL, Das T, Cordner L, Emmins J, Lyras D, vanden Hoven R, McEwan A and Rood JI. (2008) FeoB is required for virulence and plays a major role in iron acquisition in Clostridium perfringens. Annual Scientific Meeting of Australian Society for Microbiology, Melbourne.
Bannam TL, Parsons JA, Teng WL, Bantwal R and Rood JI. (2008) Protein-Protein interactions between Tcp proteins of the Clostridium perfringens transfer system. International Plasmid Biology Conference 2008, Gdansk, Poland.
Bantwal R, Bannam TL and Rood JI. (2008). TcpC is required for efficient conjugative transfer of pCW3. Annual Scientific Meeting of Australian Society for Microbiology, Melbourne.
Bantwal R, Bannam TL, Adams V, Porter CJ and Rood JI. (2008). Efficient conjugative transfer of pCW3 requires TcpC and TcpG. International Plasmid Biology Conference 2008, Gdansk, Poland.
Bojesen AM, Kristensen BM, Boyce JD, Soriano-Vargas E, Ramirez S, Bisgaard M, Adler B. (2008). Identification and characterization of the capsule biosynthetic locus in Gallibacterium anatis biovar haemolytica. Int Pasteurellaceae Society Coference 008, P303, Sorrento, Italy.
Cheung J, McGowan S, Awad MM and Rood JI. (2008). Functional analysis of the VirR response regulator and VirS sensor histidine kinase from Clostridium perfringens. Annual Scientific Meeting of Australian Society for Microbiology, Melbourne.
Coppel RL. (2008) Using the malaria genome sequence to design a malaria vaccine. European Malaria Vaccine Initiative Tenth Anniversary Symposium Brussels, Belgium.
Coppel RL. (2008) Children’s rational design of malaria vaccines: Criteria For Selection of Components of a Malaria Vaccine. Washington DC.
Coppel RL. (2008) “Omics” and the Design of Modern Vaccines. Wellcome Trust expert input forum for the design of a Tropical Vaccine Institute, London, UK.
Coppel RL. (2008). Mapping Protein-Protein Interactions at The Infected Red Cell Membrane Skeleton: Function And Mechanisms. Molecular approaches to malaria, Lorne, Australia.
Devenish RJ. (2008) Uncovering non-canonical autophagy in yeast using a pH biosensor (Rosella), Gordon Research Conference on “Autophagy in Stress, Development and Disease”, Santa Barbara, USA, 2008.
Devenish RJ (2008). Vacuolar turnover of the nucleus in yeast cells lacking ATG gene products. 33rd FEBS Congress and 11th IUBMB Conference, Athens, Greece, 2008.
Han X, Kennan RM, Davies JK, Reddacliff LA, Dhungyel OP, Whittington RJ, Turnbull L, Whitchurch CB and Rood JI. (2008). The pilT gene of Dichelobacter nodosus is required for protease secretion. Society for General Microbiology, 162nd Meeting, Edinburgh, UK.
Harper M, Cox A, St Michael F, Ford M, Wilkie I, Adler B, Boyce JD. (2008). Let the chickens do the talking: identification of residues essential for function of the Kdo kinase in LPS biosynthesis and virulence of Pasteurella multocida. International Pasteurellaceae Society Coference 2008, P307, Sorrento, Italy.
Harper M, John M, Cox A, St Michael F, Parnas H, Adler B, Boyce JD. (2008). Assembly of Heddleston serotype 2 and 5 LPS structures in a serotype 1 Pasteurella multocida background: identification of the residues required for recognition by serotype 2-specific anti-LPS. International Pasteurellaceae Society Conference 2008, P306, Sorrento, Italy.
Harper M, Cox A, St Michael F, John M, Parnas H, Aubry A, Logan S, Wilkie I, Ford M, Adler B, Boyce JD. (2008). Pasteurella multocida A:1 strain VP161 LPS: assembly and role in virulence. International Pasteurellaceae Society Coference 2008, P504, Sorrento, Italy.
Hatfaludi T, Al-Hasani K, Hoke D, Dunstone M, Boyce J, Adler B. (2008). The Pasteurella multocida methionine-binding protein, PlpB, is essential for virulence. International Pasteurellaceae Society Coference 2008, P511, Sorrento, Italy.
Hickey MJ, Kwan RYQ, Awad MM, Kennedy CL, Young L, Cordner LM, Lyras D, Emmins JJ, Rood JI. (2008). Role of Toxins in Microvascular Perfusion Deficits Mediated by Clostridium perfringens and Clostridium septicum. 108th General Meeting, American Society for Microbiology, Boston, USA.
Kennan RM, Lovitt C, Whitchurch CB, Turnbull L, Han X and Rood JI. (2008). A two-component system modulates twitching motility in Dichelobacter nodosus. Annual Scientific Meeting of Australian Society for Microbiology, Melbourne.
Keyburn AL, Boyce JD, Vaz P, Bannam TL, Ford ME, Parker D, Di Rubbo A, Rood JI and Moore RJ. (2008). A new toxin associated with avian necrotic enteritis caused by Clostridium perfringens. World Poultry Congress, Brisbane.
Keyburn AL, Boyce JD, Vaz P, Bannam TL, Ford ME, Parker D, Di Rubbo A, Rood JI, and Moore RJ. (2008). NetB: a new toxin associated with avian necrotic enteritis caused by Clostridium perfringens and its use as a vaccine candidate. World Poultry Congress, Brisbane.
Lyras D, Sambol S, Howarth P, O’Connor J, Carter G, Phumoonna T, Vendantam G, Johnson S, Gerding D and Rood JI. (2008). Are TcdA and TcdB essential virulence factors of Clostridium difficile? Anaerobe 2008, 9th Biennial conference of the Anaerobe Society of the Americas, Long Beach, USA.
Lyras D, Carter GP, O’Connor JR, Adams V, Awad MM, Poon R, Howarth PM and Rood JI. (2008). Application of genetic methods for the analysis of the pathogenic clostridia, including epidemic strains of Clostridium difficile. Annual Scientific Meeting of Australian Society for Microbiology, Melbourne.
Moore RJ, Boyce JD, Seemann T, Keyburn AL, Bannam TL and Rood JI. (2008). Pathogen sequencing reveals key virulence determinant. Next Generation Sequencing Platforms, Applications and Case Studies. San Diego, USA.
Moore RJ, Boyce JD, Seemann T, Harrison PF, Bannam TL, Vaz P, Keyburn AL and Rood JI. (2008) Putting the Clostridium perfringens genome to work: vaccine antigens and the discovery of a new virulence determinant. Annual Scientific Meeting of Australian Society for Microbiology, Melbourne.
Nagley P. (2008). Mitochondrial death signalling associated with neuronal stress: aspects of neuroprotection and interfaces with autophagy. APSN2008 Symposium, Shanghai 2008, published in J Neurochem 106 (Suppl. 1), 7-8 (2008).
Nagley P. Cheng L, Smith D, and Anderson R. (2008), HSP72 confers resistance to apoptotic insults in neuronal cells by blocking mitochondrial engagement in death signalling. Abstracts of 33rd FEBS congress-11th IUBMB Conference, Athens published in FEBS J. 275, Supplement 1, p. 82 (2008).
Nagley P. (2008) Engagement of undergraduate students with research can be much more than laboratory work”. Proceedings Australian Society for Biochemistry and Molecular Biology. 40, SYM-33-04, Canberra.
Parsons JA, Bannam TL, Devenish RJ and Rood JI. (2008). Protein-protein interactions involving TcpA- an integral component of the unique C. perfringens conjugative transfer system. Annual Scientific Meeting of Australian Society for Microbiology, Melbourne.
Rood JI, Bannam TL, Teng WL, Parsons JA, Bantwal R, Wisniewski JA and Devenish RJ. (2008). Functional Analysis of the Conjugation Region of pCW3 from Clostridium perfringens. International Plasmid Biology Conference 2008, Gdansk, Poland.
Rood JI, Kennan RM, Han X, Parker D, Dhungyel O and Whittington RJ. (2008). Molecular pathogenesis of ovine footrot. 2nd Footrot Research Symposium, University of Sydney, Camden, NSW.
Rood JI, Lyras D, Cheung JK, Bannam TL and Awad MM. (2008). Genetic analysis of Clostridium perfringens. Marie Curie Workshop on Clostridium perfringens. Torquay, UK.
Rood JI, Wong W, Kennan RM, Porter C, Dhungyel O, Han X, Wong D, Parker D, Buckle A, McGowan S, Law R, Marsh I, Whittington RJ and Whisstock J. (2008) Dichelobacter Proteases and Virulence. Annual Scientific Meeting of Australian Society for Microbiology, Melbourne.
Rosenkrantz JT, Olsen JE, Pors SE, Boyce JD, Harper M, Adler B. (2008). The importance of specific stress proteins in the virulence of Pasteurella multocida VP161. International Pasteurellaceae Society Coference 2008, P523, Sorrento, Italy.
Rossjohn J. (2008). Antigen ligation leads to a conformational change within the constant domain of the T cell receptor. Cantoblanco Workshops on Biology, Initiation of Antigen Receptor signalling, Madrid, Spain.
Rossjohn J, Wun, K, Wilce, M, Borg, N, Tynan, F, Kjer-Nielsen L, Godfrey, D and McCluskey, J. (2008). Immune recognition and the Atkins diet. 1st International Singapore Symposium of Immunology, Singapore.
Steen J, Harper M, Wilkie I, Adler B, Boyce J. (2008). Spontaneous Pasteurella multocida capsule mutants provide insights into regulation of virulence. International Pasteurellaceae Society Coference 2008, P505, Sorrento, Italy.
Smith AI. (2008) Down Proteomics: New approaches for the discovery of cardiovascular disease biomarkers, American Association of Clinical Chemists annual meeting, Seattle, USA.
Smith AI. (2008) Quenched fluorescent peptide substrates for biomarker discovery, Tenth International Chinese Peptide Symposium, Xian, China.
Soo KY, Atkin JD, Horne MK and Nagley P. (2008) Multiple roles of SOD1 proteins in a cellular model of motor neuron disease (MND): neuroprotective and cytotoxic outcomes. Proceedings Australian Neuroscience Society. 18, Oral-07-02, Hobart.
Teng WL, Bannam TL, Parsons JA and Rood JI. (2008). TcpH, an essential protein from the unique plasmid transfer system of Clostridium perfringens. Annual Scientific Meeting of Australian Society for Microbiology, Melbourne.
Van Immerseel F, Rood JI, Moore RJ and Titball RW (2008). Molecular pathogenesis of necrotic enteritis in broiler chickens. Marie Curie Workshop on Clostridium perfringens. Torquay, UK.
Whisstock JC. (2008) Proteases from Dichelobacter nodosus. Gordon Research Conference on “Proteolytic Enzymes & Their Inhibitors”, New London, NH, USA.
Wong W, Porter CJ, Kennan RM, Parker D, Rood JI and Whisstock JC. (2008). Structural characterization of secreted proteases from the ovine footrot pathogen, Dichelobacter nodosus. International Union of Crystallograhy, Japan.
Wun KS, Borg NA, Kjer-Nielsen LK, Beddoe T, Koh R, Richardson SK, Thakur M, Howell AR Scott-Browne JP, Gapin L, Godfrey DI, McCluskey J and Rossjohn J. (2008) A minimal binding footprint on Cd1d-glycolipid is a basis for selection of the unique human NKT TCR. Fifth International Conference on Innate Immunity, Chania, Crete, Greece.
Whisstock JC. (2008) Serpin structure, function and evolution. The Fifth International Symposium on Serpin Biology, Structure and Function, Leuven Belgium.
Whisstock JC. (2008) Serpin structure, function and evolution. Thirteenth Conference on Proteases and Inhibitors in Pathophysiology and Therapeutics (CPIPT), Osaka, Japan.