Tuesday, 8th December 8th Australasian Virology Society Meeting and 11th Annual Meeting of the Australian Centre for Hepatitis & HIV Virology Meeting 2015

• INHIBITING HIV-1 BY DESTABILIZING THE REVERSE TRANSCRIPTION COMPLEX - David Harrich
• Molecular basis of the rifampicin inhibition of vaccinia virus assembly. - Damià Garriga
• New drug classes for HIV prevention: fragment-based drug discovery targeting HIV-1 reverse transcriptase     - Catherine F Latham
• INCREASING AUSTRALIA’S PREPAREDNESS TO FOOT AND MOUTH DISEASE INCURSIONS BY TESTING EFFICACY OF VACCINES AGAINST HETEROLOGOUS CHALLENGE IN CATTLE - Nagendrakumar B Singanallur
• Assessing the risk of a newly emerged reovirus, Liao Ning virus to the Australian population - Natalie A Prow

• Not available at time of printing - Alexander Khromykh
• Norovirus replication, stress granules and translational control - Jason Mackenzie
• A novel insect-specific flavivirus replicates only in Aedes-derived cells and persists at high prevalence in wild Aedes vigilax populations in Sydney, Australia. - Breeanna J McLean
• Murine Norovirus Manipulation of the Host Cell Cycle - Colin T.R. Davies
• Abrogation of the interferon response promotes more efficient human cytomegalovirus replication - Brian P McSharry

• Novel RNA-processing pathways for Tat protein expression reveal novel strategy for new HIV latency reversing agents. - Damian Purcell
• Drosophila miRNA star strand modulates viral replication  - Verna M Monsanto-Hearne
• Novel RNA duplex locks HIV-1 in a latent state via chromatin-mediated transcriptional silencing - Chantelle L Ahlenstiel
• Coxsackievirus B5 Infection Induces Dysregulation of MicroRNAs Predicted to Target Known Type 1 Diabetes Risk Genes in Human Pancreatic Islets - Ki Wook Kim
• Transcriptional suppression and reactivation of HIV-1: a novel therapeutic approach - Marco S Weinberg

• Diagnosis and epidemiology of congenital infections – Human cytomegalovirus infection (CMV) - William Rawlinson
• Filling in the knowledge gaps on Australian arboviruses - David Warrilow
• Expression profiling of the microRNA response of ferrets and horses to acute virus infections - Chwan-Hong Foo and Christopher Cowled
• Cancers in Australia in 2010 caused by infectious agents - Annika Antonsson
• Discovery and characterisation of a new non-pathogenic New Zealand rabbit calicivirus strain - Leila Nicholson

5:30 PM                  Tessa Campbell
The Taming of the NK Cell: Manipulation of Human Natural Killer Cell Function and Phenotype by Varicella Zoster Virus Infection                                                                                                                     abs# 116

5:33 PM                  Nadya Urakova
Expression and partial characterisation of rabbit haemorrhagic disease virus non-structural proteins                                                                                                                                                                 abs# 208

5:36 PM                  Mang Shi
Divergent viruses discovered in arthropods and vertebrates revise the evolutionary history of the Flaviviridae and related viruses                                                                                                  abs# 194

5:39 PM                  Natalie Netzler
Non-Nucleoside Polymerase Inhibitors for Caliciviruses                                                  abs# 170

5:42 PM                  Nicholas Eyre
Phosphorylation of NS5A Serine-235 is essential to hepatitis C virus RNA replication and normal replication compartment formation                                                                                                               abs# 134

5:45 PM                  Ashlee Burt
MicroCubes: a Novel Vaccine Platform against Infectious Diseases                            abs# 114

5:48 PM                  Kerrie Sandgren
Developing a non-human primate model for skin vaccination against viruses        abs# 186

5:51 PM                  Kirstie Bertram
HSV infection of human dendritic cells and cross-presentation of HSV antigens   abs# 108

5:54 PM                  Ali Zaid
Intravital multiphoton imaging of Herpes Simplex virus clearance mediated by skin-resident memory CD8+ T cells                                                                                                                                                     abs# 218

For the full list of poster presenters, please visit the Poster Session I

• Identification of Dengue virus serotypes with a DNA microarray platform - Victor H Aquino
• Human Cytomegalovirus (HCMV) Infection Upregulates Components of Nuclear Domain 10 (ND10) via Induction of Interferon - Caroline L Ashley
• Determining the contribution of the dengue virus genome to Wolbachia-mediated inhibition in mosquito cells - Michelle D. Audsley
• HSV infection of human dendritic cells and cross-presentation of HSV antigens - Kirstie M Bertram
• VACCINE MATCHING AND GENETIC CHARACTERISATION OF FOOT-AND-MOUTH DISEASE VIRUS SEROTYPES CIRCULATING IN SOUTH-EAST ASIA - Timothy Bowden
• Antibiotics for a cold? The role of co-infecting bacteria during respiratory syncytial virus infections in young children - Jaelle C Brealey
• MicroCubes: a Novel Vaccine Platform against Infectious Diseases - Ashlee M Burt
• The Taming of the NK Cell: Manipulation of Human Natural Killer Cell Function and Phenotype by Varicella Zoster Virus Infection - Tessa M Campbell
• Improving therapeutic outcomes of Respiratory Syncytial virus treatment via intravenous liposomal delivery of siRNA to the lung. - Daniel Clarke
• Two new flaviviruses exhibit growth restriction for mosquito hosts and represent unique models of flavivirus evolution and biology - Agathe Colmant
• DIVERSITY AND FLEXIBILITY OF GLYCAN RECEPTOR USAGE BY ROTAVIRUSES - Barbara S Coulson
• Fluid spatial dynamics of West Nile virus in the USA: rapid spread in a permissive host environment - Francesca Di Giallonardo
• Experimental induction of wobbly possum disease. - Magdalena Dunowska
• Equid herpesvirus 1 in New Zealand - Magdalena Dunowska
• Investigating henipavirus neuroinvasion using the mouse model - Sarah Edwards
• The Norovirus RNA-dependent RNA polymerase motif B is a potential new binding site for non-nucleoside inhibitors - Daniel Enosi Tuipulotu
• Phosphorylation of NS5A Serine-235 is essential to hepatitis C virus RNA replication and normal replication compartment formation - Nicholas Eyre
• Characterisation of a recombinant human cytomegalovirus encoding interferon beta - Simone Forbes
• Genomic characterisation of novel nairoviruses Vinegar Hill and Taggert viruses - Penny Gauci
• Influenza virus PB1 and NA gene segments can cosegregate during reassortment driven by interactions in the PB1 coding region - Brad Gilbertson
• RHD-Accelerator: a pipeline for directed evolution of Rabbit haemorrhagic disease virus to generate antigenic variants. - Robyn N Hall
• VARICELLA-ZOSTER VIRUS MODULATES EXPRESSION OF CELL DEATH RECEPTORS DURING PRODUCTIVE INFECTION - Luke Hatchwell
• Discovery of a highly divergent bunyavirus in Culex mosquitoes from Papua New Guinea and Australia - Jody Hobson-Peters
• NULLBASIC INHIBITS HIV REPLICATION THROUGH A LATENCY-LIKE SUPPRESSION OF HIV-1 GENE EXPRESSION IN JURKAT CELLS - Hongping Jin
• Dietary cholesterol mediates DENV replication in Wolbachia infected Drosophila melanogaster and Aedes aegypti. - Albert Joubert
• Characterisation of Reston virus disease in a ferret model. - Reuben Klein
• Assessment of RNASound RNA Sampling Card for the preservation of influenza virus RNA  - Hilda Lau
• Rabies virus targeting of STAT proteins and regulation of IFN signalling - Kim G Lieu
• Infection of macrophages by seasonal influenza viruses is restricted at the level of virus entry and at late stage in the virus life cycle - Sarah L Londrigan
• Molecular epidemiology of Norovirus in NSW, Australia; incorporating a bacteriophage BioSphere process control - Jennifer Lun
• Next-generation arbovirus and vector surveillance - Stacey E Lynch
• Cryo-electron microscopy and single molecule fluorescent microscopy detect CD4 receptor induced HIV size expansion prior to cell entry - Johnson Mak
• SIRT4 is a host mitochondrial lipoamidase that restricts human cytomegalovirus  - Rommel A Mathias
• Seroprevalence of a group 2 coronavirus in New Zealand dogs - Gauri More
• Non-Nucleoside Polymerase Inhibitors for Caliciviruses - Natalie Netzler
• Cullin4 ubiquitin ligase is pro-viral during West Nile virus infection of Culex mosquitoes - Prasad N Paradkar
• Elevated temperature alleviates chikungunya virus disease by enhancing the anti-viral effects of type I interferons. - Natalie A Prow
• Host cellular nucleolin: does it limit the Influenza A viral replication through its interaction with viral nucleoprotein?  - Syamala Maitreyi Rajala
• Attachment factors, entry receptors and pathways for internalization of respiratory viruses - Patrick Reading
• Characterisation of STAT antiviral genes regulated by Vago in Culex mosquitoes - Julio Rodriguez
• 'Viral Sovereignty' Will See You Paying for Virus Samples - Michelle F Rourke
• It’s what’s on the inside that counts: biomolecular engineering virus-like particles for bionanotechnology. - Frank Sainsbury
• Developing a non-human primate model for skin vaccination against viruses. - Kerrie Sandgren
• Prevalence of RotaTeq® vaccine viruses in routine faecal specimens - Sonia Schepetiuk
• Prevalence of Human papillomavirus in Head and Neck Cancer in Bangladesh - Mushfiq H Shaikh
• FUNCTIONAL ANALYSIS OF THREE DISTINCT CHEMOKINE-BINDING PROTEINS ENCODED BY THE PARAPOXVIRUS OF RED DEER IN NEW ZEALAND - Saeed Sharif
• Divergent viruses discovered in arthropods and vertebrates revise the evolutionary history of the Flaviviridae and related viruses - Mang Shi
• Oyster viperin retains direct antiviral activity and its transcription occurs via a signalling pathway involving a heat-stable hemolymph protein - Peter Speck
• Absence of seasonal peaks in human rhinovirus and asthma exacerbations in a cohort of children with asthma contrasts to community incidence of disease exacerbations - Sacha Stelzer-Braid
• Ross River virus (RRV) is an arthritogenic Alphavirus endemic to Australia. - Aroon Supramaniam
• Increasing Prevalence of Silent Mutations K65K and K66K in HIV-1 Subtype B RT That Confer a Fitness Advantage to a Multi-Drug Resistant Clinical Isolate     - Sushama Telwatte
• Achimota Virus 1 & 2: Confirmed Zoonotic Potential - Shawn Todd
• The Dynamics of Influenza A virus Reassortment  - Sanja Trifkovic
• Expression and partial characterisation of rabbit haemorrhagic disease virus non-structural proteins - Nadya Urakova
• Role of immune evasion in HSV-1 latency - Thilaga Velusamy
• Transcriptomic analysis of human norovirus NS1-2 protein - Vernon Ward
• A streamlined methodology for the generation of antibody fragments (Fabs) that enables one-step pufication of Fab-antigen complexes - Daniel Watterson
• Characterisation of a novel retrovirus and a dsDNA virus infecting the coral algal endosymbiont, Symbiodinium sp. - Karen D Weynberg
• Intravital multiphoton imaging of Herpes Simplex virus clearance mediated by skin-resident memory CD8⁺ T cells - Ali Zaid
• Interactions between Japanese encephalitis virus and the blood-brain barrier: inflammation and a role for steroids? - Adjanie Patabendige