Monday, 11th February Australian Microbial Ecology 2019

Housekeeping, Dr Deirdre Gleeson

Conference Opening, Prof Tony O’Donnell

• Through the eye of the needle: Microbes, carbon, water, and their connection through soil pores - Vanessa Bailey

• Atmospheric trace gases: fuelling the dormant microbial majority - Chris Greening

• Genome-resolved metagenomics of an autotrophic thiocyanate-degrading microbiome enriched from mine tailings - John W Moreau

• Acid Saline Lakes as a Source of New Biomining Organisms. - Katelyn Boase
• Environmental and microbiome-driven factors influencing the efficiency of thiocyanate bioremediation - Farhad Shafiei
• Microbial iron cycling in the field and harnessed for a pilot-scale attempt at iron duricrust re-formation. - Emma J Gagen

• Whole-community sequencing to identify new indicator bacteria for a tropical waste stabilisation pond   - Karen Gibb
• A snapshot of diversity and function of microbes from a sugarcane bagasse pile - Robert Speight
• Title: Archaea community composition of an acidic mine Pit lake in the semi-arid tropics. - Wajid Javed
• Biofilm Ecology in the Premise Plumbing of Drinking Water Distribution Systems - Casey K Huang
• Unusual DPANN Archaea from a radioactive legacy site - Xabier Vázquez-Campos

• The application of 3D printing and nutrient biomaterial microhabitats in microbial capture culture - Morten Andersen
• Comparing cats and dogs: Exploring 16S rRNA amplicon sequencing and metagenomic shotgun sequencing using a SKG mouse model - Alana L Butler
• Development of new enzymes and microbial cells for lignin degradation and the enhancement of livestock feeds based on sugarcane fibre - Tu Dam
• Preferential accelerated weathering of Rare Earth Element hosting apatite and precipitation of REE minerals through bacterially mediated acid production. - Thomas R Jones
• Growth Response of wheat to chemical and mineral fertiliser application influenced by multispecies microbial inoculant. - salmabi Mrs kayakkeelassainar
• Constraint based metabolic flux analysis of Acidithiobacillus ferrooxidans under extreme environmental stresses - Himel N Khaleque
• Batch Effect Adjusting Methods for Microbiome Data - Kim-Anh Le Cao
• Developing microbial indicators for the health of aquatic systems  - Jen A Middleton
• Accurately estimating a core community and using it as a tool to tease apart vertically and environmentally acquired components of the gut community of termites - Ghislaine Platell
• Improving DNA extractions from corrosion products  - LINA SILVA
• Circulation of tick-borne severe fever with thrombocytopenia syndrome (SFTS) Phlebovirus in the natural environments - Joon-seok Chae
• Community structure and dynamics of petroleum-degrading microbes in subsurface environments of the North West Shelf, WA  - Darren Cheah
• Distinct arabinoxylan degradative processes and fermentation end-products are exhibited by faecal bacterial communities with different cell-wall structures - Guangli Feng
• Molecular mechanisms of bacterial virulence in phylogenetically diverse macroalgal pathogens - Jennifer Hudson
• Kocuria marina CE7 is salt tolerant, and alkali-producer - Kyoung Lee
• In vitro fermentation of purified cereal and vegetable dietary carbohydrates using a human faecal inoculum promote distinct microbial communities - Deirdre Mikkelsen
• The mechanisms and impacts of superinfection by a filamentous phage in Pseudomonas aeruginosa - Scott A. Rice
• Phylogenomic analysis of two recently recognised Firmicutes classes, TC1 and Dehalobacteriia - Young C Song
• Genetic Diversity and Biotechnological Potential of Symbiotic Microbiome in Indonesian Marine Sponges revealed by Metagenomic Illumina Sequencing - Agustinus R. Uria
• The role of phototrophy and heterotrophy in a laboratory model of Heron Island (southern Great Barrier Reef) beachrock formation through microbial carbonate precipitation - Nikole Arrieta
• The microbiome of Australian abalone from aquaculture - Nathan Danckert
• Potential Mechanism of Subsurface Life Fuelled by Extracellular Electron Uptake - Xiao Deng
• Investigating the viral diversity in a western boundary current - Amaranta Focardi
• Diversity dynamics and metabolic interactions of microbes living at the limits of life - Noor-ul-Huda Ghori
• Cyanothece sp.CCY110, a promising bioremediation agent for potassium dichromate contaminated sites - Abolghasem Hedayatkhah
• Shark bay microbial mat community responses to oil contamination a long-term lab-controlled experiment - Yalimay Jimenez de Duarte
• Investigating the phylogenetic potential for bacterial mercury methylation - Heyu Lin
• Isolation and detection of free living amoebae and associated bacteria from water storage tanks around Western Australia - Natalia Malinowski
• A wolf in sheep’s clothing: Protozoan expelled food vacuoles are a protective transmission vector for pathogens - Diane McDougald
• Assessing the efficacy of continuous electrochlorination on the disinfection of drinking water - Ratish Permala
• The influence of microbial biofilms and substrate materials on the settlement of marine invertebrates - Stephen Summers
• Secondary mineral formation during bioleaching of Merensky Reef materials: Implications for PGE migration - Ling Tan
• Biodegradation  of  detergent  parameter on  Bojongsoang  Waste  Stabilization Pond - Betty Wediawati
• Determination of phage host-range by culture-independent viral-tagging method - Maria Dzunkova
• The role of bacteriophage in structuring microbial communities in wastewater treatment systems - Muhammad Hafiz Ismail
• Comparison of DNA- and RNA-based 16S rRNA diversity profiling of the microbial community recovered from a Western Australian oilfield production facility - Silvia J. Salgar Chaparro
• An integrated biohydrometallurgical process for metal recovery from electronic wastes   - Jonovan Van Yken
• Efficiency and microbial ecology of a sulfate-reducing fluidized bed reactor treating mine water after hydrotalcite precipitation - Su Yan
• Application of plant-immune biosensors for screening and discovery of Actinobacteria biocontrol candidates against necrotrophic fungal pathogens  - Katharina Belt
• Phosphate precipitate formation during bioleaching of secondary copper sulfides - Heike Bostelmann
• Understanding soil microbial community shifts in response to fire and weed invasions in urban Banksia woodlands - Aaron J Brace
• Bacterial communities on Black Perigord Truffles (Tuber melanosporum) during storage - Kenny Sing Ong Choo
• Microbial variations: Relationships between biogeochemistry, community composition and function across a 900 km aridity gradient - Mark Farrell
• Diversity and function of phosphate solubilizing bacteria isolated from Mount Weld rare-earth mine Australia - Homayoun Fathollahzadeh
• Microbially catalysed iron mobility within the critical zone at Salobo, Brazil - Anicia Henne
• Urban bandicoots - a vector for ectomycorrhizal dispersal - Anna J.M. Hopkins
• Manure application promotes transmission of antibiotic resistance genes to vegetables - Hangwei Hu
• Screening of potassium solubilizing strains to develop different microbial consortium for wheat production - Simranjit Kaur
• Assessing the microbial diversity and ecotoxicity in co-contaminated soil with aged Heavy Metals and Total Petroleum Hydrocarbons - Leadin KHUDUR
• Canga lake-edge field characterisation: inspiration for iron ore mine remediation - Alan Levett
• Responses of comammox Nitrospira to four nitrification inhibitors in two agricultural soils - Chaoyu Li
• The vineyard soil microbiome distinguish wine producing regions - Di Liu
• How can we better manage soil and plant microbiomes to increase crop production? - Falko Mathes
• Evidence of primary surface colonizers on iron duricrust (canga) in Carajás, Brazil - Anat Paz
• Arbuscular mycorrhizal fungal diversity response to fertiliser, tilling, and crop rotation in wheat rhizospheres over multiple years - Yolanda Plowman
• Microbial interactions between representative skin microbiome members in a mixed species microbial biofilm community - Viduthalai Rasheedkhan Regina
• Environmental drivers of microbial community composition in shale-derived soils spanning a global climosequence - Talitha Santini
• Bio-mineral fertilizer shows potential in wheat production - Paul J Storer
• Mining the genomes of soil and endophytic Actinobacteria for new biopesticides   - Louise F Thatcher
• Microbial community dynamics under concrete environments in search for novel alkalophiles for potential application of Biocement - Sakshi Tiwari
• Microbial lanthanide remobilisation in highly weathered Australian soils - Marcos Voutsinos
• Distribution patterns of antibiotic resistance genes in urban greenspaces - Zhenzhen Yan