Thursday, 9th October The 3rd Prato Conference on the Pathogenesis of Bacterial Diseases of Animals 2014

• Staphylococcus aureus at the human-livestock interface - Ross Fitzgerald
• Virulence of avian pathogenic Escherichia coli (APEC) isolated from distinct pathological manifestations demonstrated by the use of a new in vivo infection model of the oviduct - Jens Peter Christensen
• Mutants in the Mycoplasma hyopneumoniae strain 232 mnuA gene generated by targeted disruption and transposon mutagenesis exhibit significant reductions in nuclease activity - Gareth A Maglennon

• Changes in phase variable genes of Campylobacter jejuni strain 11168 during long-term colonisation of chickens - Michael A Jones
• The Capsular Polysaccharide of Haemophilus parasuis is Regulated and Involved in Serotype Specificity and Virulence - Thomas J Inzana
• Escherichia coli obtained from salpingitis and peritonitis in layers are suggested to represent a new pathotype (SPEC) - Rikke Olsen
• PUPPIES MORTALITY INDUCED BY EXTRAINTESTINAL HEMOLYTIC CNF POSITIVE ESCHERICHIA COLI - Sara Turchetto
• Effect of various water and feed treatments on necrotic enteritis and gut microflora of broiler chickens - Martine Boulianne

• Animal models for the study of pathogenesis of intestinal diseases produced by Clostridium perfringens - Francisco Uzal
• A Novel Pore-forming Toxin in Type A Clostridium perfringens is Associated with both Fatal Canine Hemorrhagic Gastroenteritis and Fatal Foal Necrotizing Enterocolitis - John Prescott
• Functional biology of conjugative toxin plasmids from Clostridium perfringens - Julian I Rood

• Type III Secretion and the exo-proteome of Aeromonas salmonicida in virulence and vaccination against disease. - Joachim Frey
• How does UDP-glucose 4'-epimerase mutation contribute to vaccine escape by fish-pathogenic Streptococcus iniae? - Candice Millard
• Screening for zoonotic pathogens in East African camels - Anne Jores-Fischer
• Proteolytic processing of members of the P97 and P102 adhesin families reveals their remarkable capacity to bind a diverse array of host molecules. - Steven Djordjevic

Dinner location: Reffetorio di San Niccolo
Piazza Niccolo Cardinale, 6, Prato, Italy

Approximately 800 meter walk (10 mins) from Monash University.

The dinner will include a three course meal, drinks and tour of the Reffetorio di San Niccolo