Thursday, 16th February Lorne Infection and Immunity 2023
Session 4: Plenary II and Hartland Oration
8:30AM - 9:30AM
Thursday, 16th February
Heritage Ballroom
Chairs: Eugene Maraskovsky & Justine Mintern
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Session 5: Hertzog Oration
9:30AM - 10:00AM
Thursday, 16th February
Heritage Ballroom
Chair: Richard Ferrero
Morning Tea
10:00AM - 10:30AM
Thursday, 16th February
Convention Centre
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Session 6: Pandemic Preparedness I
10:30AM - 11:50AM
Thursday, 16th February
Heritage Ballroom
Chairs: Begoña Heras & Vinod Sundaramoorthy
- Preparing for disease X - Glenn Marsh
- Deploying Wolbachia-infected mosquitoes to control - and potentially eliminate? - dengue and other Aedes-borne diseases - Katie Anders
- Robust and prototypical immune responses towards COVID-19 BNT162b2 vaccine in First Nations Australian people are impacted by co-morbidities - Katherine Kedzierska
- Integrated systems immunology approach identifies impaired effector T cell memory responses as a key feature of progression to severe dengue haemorrhagic fever - Diana S Hansen
Lunch
11:50AM - 1:00PM
Thursday, 16th February
Convention Centre
Student and ECR Networking Lunch
11:50AM - 1:00PM
Thursday, 16th February
Mantra Lawn Area
Break
1:00PM - 2:20PM
Thursday, 16th February
Afternoon Tea
2:20PM - 2:50PM
Thursday, 16th February
Convention Centre
Session 7: Science Bites I
2:50PM - 3:15PM
Thursday, 16th February
Heritage Ballroom
Chairs: Danny Wilson & Thomas Schultz
- Otitis-Prone children have reduced Haemophilus influenzae protein D-specific memory B-cells compared to non-otitis-prone children but no reduction in overall T follicular helper cell proportions. - Sharon L Clark
- Using single-cell RNA sequencing to understand tissue- and drug- specific CD4+ T cell responses in experimental visceral leishmaniasis - Jessica Engel
- Monocytes as effectors of antibody-mediated functions in malaria infection - Jessica Horton
- Identifying the mechanism of action of a novel invasion-blocking compound in Plasmodium falciparum - Dawson Ling
- Assessing the feasibility, specificity and sensitivity of a serological testing and treatment approach to eradicate P. vivax in Cambodia - Costanza Tacoli
- A novel recombinant Lactococcus lactis mucosal vaccine platform based on group A streptococcus pili - Catherine Tsai
- Salmonella Typhimurium induces cIAP1 degradation to promote death in macrophages - Madeleine Wemyss
Session 8: Science Bites II
2:50PM - 3:15PM
Thursday, 16th February
Heritage Dining Room
Chairs: Gregory Moseley & Matt Johansen
- Doxycycline inhibits both apicoplast and mitochondrial translation in Plasmodium falciparum - Michaela S Bulloch
- The Human Dendritic Cell Atlas: An integrated transcriptional tool to study human dendritic cell biology - Zahra Elahi
- GPR183 antagonism reduces macrophage infiltration in SARS-CoV-2 infection - Cheng Xiang Foo
- A novel chimeric virus for vaccine and diagnostic application for the Japanese encephalitis outbreak in Australia - Jessica J Harrison
- Safety and immunogenicity of a 2+1 DTPa infant vaccination schedule in Australian infants. - Sonia McAlister
- TREML4 receptor regulates inflammation and innate immune cell death during polymicrobial sepsis - Joseph Menassa
- MDA5 guards against infection by surveying cellular RNA homeostasis - Natalia Sampaio
Mini-break
3:15PM - 3:20PM
Thursday, 16th February
Session 9: Microbiomes
3:20PM - 5:15PM
Thursday, 16th February
Heritage Dining Room
Chairs: Philip Hansbro & Lindi Masson
- Microbiome manipulation in the treatment of ulcerative colitis - Nadeem O Kaakoush
- Key commensal species breakdown phenolic compounds to support community stability within the gastrointestinal microbiome - Remy B Young
- Investigating antimicrobial activity by bacterial members of the human gastrointestinal microbiome - Jamia Hemphill
- Association of Fecal DNA Virome with the Development of Colorectal Neoplasia - Howard C H Yim
- Functional differences between cervicovaginal Lactobacillus species that protect against HIV infection - Jenna Wilson
- Understanding the molecular recognition of Bacteroides fragilis glycosphingolipids by Natural Killer T-cell receptor - Praveena Thirunavukkarasu
- Culturing the neonatal microbiome has revealed similarities between bacteria colonising the respiratory tract and gut - Sara K Di Simone
- Phylogeny-based metagenomic analyses increases the resolution of investigations of the human microbiome - Sean Solari
Session 10: Bugs, Viruses and Parasites
3:20PM - 5:15PM
Thursday, 16th February
Heritage Ballroom
Chairs: Darren Creek & Elinor Hortle
- Reverse genetics of SARS-CoV-2 - Alexander A Khromykh
- Identifying critical E3 ubiquitin ligases in human malaria parasites - Danushka Marapana
- PCRCR complex is essential for invasion of human erythrocytes by Plasmodium falciparum - Stephen W Scally
- Imaging host-cell invasion by Toxoplasma gondii: What is the role of the host membrane and cytoskeleton? - Aurelie ATD Tsee Dawson
- Identification of targets of protective antibody responses against Plasmodium vivax malaria using a multifunctional antibody profiling approach - D. Herbert Opi
Mini-break
5:15PM - 5:20PM
Thursday, 16th February
Session 11: Pandemic Preparedness II
5:20PM - 5:45PM
Thursday, 16th February
Heritage Ballroom
Chairs: Begoña Heras & Vinod Sundaramoorthy
Conference Dinner
6:00PM - 8:00PM
Thursday, 16th February
Lorne Common (Footy Oval)
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Poster Session II
8:00PM - 9:30PM
Thursday, 16th February
Convention Centre
- Characterising macrophage proteomic signatures of tuberculosis infection - George Ashdown
- Characterization of a novel Transcriptional Start Site in human myeloid cells that generates unique NRG1 isoforms - Miguel MAB Berrocal
- Title: Understanding CD4+ T cell mediated immune regulation in malaria: Assessing the immunomodulatory potential of Ruxolitinib during controlled human malaria infection. - Luzia Bukali
- Identification of sulfone-containing compounds that impair dengue virus infectious particle production - Thomas D Burton
- Development of a multiplex bead-based assay with novel autoantigens to investigate autoantibodies in Acute Rheumatic Fever - Lauren Carlton
- Functional antibody responses to P. falciparum transmission stage antigens following experimental malaria infection - Jo-Anne Chan
- Neutrophils show distinct functional phenotypes in response to malaria infection - Sandra Chishimba
- Functional and immunological characterisation of merozoite surface proteins 4 and 5 in Plasmodium knowlesi - Jill Chmielewski
- Understanding how Autotransporter Proteins Promote Bacterial Disease - Kaitlin Clarke
- Investigating and inhibiting DsbD, an essential enzyme in Neisserial pathogens - Taylor Cunliffe
- Chlamydia pneumoniae can infect human glial cells and modulate metabolism-related gene expressions - Ali Delbaz
- Novel strategy to identify monocytes subsets contributing to increased COVID-19 disease severity in older individuals - Salimeh Ebrahimnezhaddarzi
- RIPK1/3 regulates T cell responses in mucosal defence against bacterial gut infection - Vik Ven Eng
- Identification of key residues in dengue virus NS1 protein that are essential for its secretion - Brandon E.K. Tan
- The m6A Writer in Plasmodium falciparum regulates the expression of specific genes by targeted degradation of mRNA - Lakvin Fernando
- Murine double hit model for neonatal cardiopulmonary diseases: bronchopulmonary dysplasia (BPD) and pulmonary hypertension associated with BPD - Steven P Garrick
- Does type I interferon blockade improve B cell immunity in malaria? - Julianne Hamelink
- Investigating the role of PlpD in Pseudomonas aeruginosa infections - Johannes K. Hoehensteiger
- The Plasmodium apicoplast is essential for the construction of glycophosphatidylinositol anchors needed for egress and invasion - Long K Huynh
- Investigating the role of serotonin in inflammatory responses induced by Helicobacter pylori infection - Sulaimon Idowu
- Lasting first impression: Ancestral imprinting restricts salivary antibody responses during Omicron breakthroughs - Kevin John Selva
- An unbiased analysis of neonatal immune cell characteristics to discover novel biomarkers that predict the risk of neonatal sepsis - Srushti M Kasare
- HIV-Infected Macrophages Modulate Cell-Surface Ligands Relevant to NK Killing Over Time - Hans HK Kek
- COVID-19 vaccine humoral responses in lymphopenic platelet donors - Annemarie Laumaea
- The characterisation of cytolethal distending toxin associated with Campylobacter jejuni extracellular vesicles. - Lena Hoang My Le
- Investigating the mechanisms of action of the dengue virus inhibitor JNJ-A07 - Roman V Lenchine
- The molecular definition of potent Plasmodium falciparum invasion inhibitory epitopes against PTRAMP-CSS - Pailene S Lim
- Investigating the role of human γδ T cells in cytomegalovirus infection - Ellen J Mann
- Tuft cells regulate inflammation in the lung during influenza A virus infection - Jacqueline Marshall
- PhiP-Seq reveals a global increase in autoantibodies in Acute Rheumatic Fever patients - Reuben McGregor
- Immune cell profiling of acute rheumatic fever - Francis M Middleton
- Lipid droplets contribute to an antiviral bystander effect during infection - Ebony A Monson
- Exploring the molecular signatures of Staphylococcus aureus transition into human serum using multi-omics analysis - Warasinee Mujchariyakul
- Elucidating Influenza Infections from the Nose to the Brain - Lynn Nazareth
- Robust SARS-CoV-2 T cell immunity towards COVID-19 vaccines in haematology patients of varying malignancies and immunosuppressive treatment - Oanh Nguyen
- Development of an in vivo infection model for Genotype 4 Japanese encephalitis virus - Caitlin A O'Brien
- Investigating the molecular basis underlying death of human intestinal epithelial cells in the inflammatory environment - Jiyi Pang
- Defining the mechanisms of action of antibodies against Plasmodium vivax malaria - Kaitlin Pekin
- TREML4 ablation in mice leads to the development of innate immune memory following polymicrobial sepsis - Corey Pollock
- Adipose tissue-resident eosinophils are transcriptionally distinct from blood eosinophils: harnessing this knowledge to uncover anti-obesity targets - Kate Quinlan
- Full length Immune Repertoire Sequencing enables Accurate Clonality Determination - Tiffany Pang
- Regulation of tissue-specific TRM cell responses - Grace Rodrigues
- Investigating host-pathogen interactions in Toxoplasma gondii infection - Ushma Ruparel
- Role of urokinase plasminogen activator (uPA) in Helicobacter pylori-mediated host responses - Modhusudon Shaha
- BET inhibitors are therapeutic candidates in inflammasome-driven autoinflammatory diseases - Farzaneh Shojaee
- Role of socs3b in zebrafish innate immunity - Mohamed Luban Sobah
- Investigating the mechanism and function of IFNb-induced 3’-UTR transcript isoform switching in macrophages - Sarah Straub
- LAT8881 and other naturally derived cytokine peptides limit influenza virus replication and the development of severe disease - Michelle D Tate
- Divergence in immune evasion capacity between different genotypes of Hendra and Nipah virus - Melanie Tripp
- Novel bacterial mediators of neutrophil chemotaxis to Acinetobacter baumannii - Muhammad Ikhtear MIU Uddin
- Repeat immunisations to SARS-CoV-2 progressively increase recognition of Spike RBD-specific memory B cells to Omicron subvariants - Menno C. van Zelm
- A novel role for interferon epsilon in preventing Zika virus induced testicular damage - Rukmali Wijayarathna
- Differentiation of human induced pluripotent stem cells to tissue-resident-like macrophages using a serum-free protocol - Le (Christy) Ying