As well as her European marks, Millward, who missed out on medals at last year's Paralympics in Beijing, also set new British records in the S9 50 and 100m butterfly.
Returning veteran Geoff Huegill had earlier set the tone for Australia as he swam a new Games record, in a time of 51.69, to win the Commonwealth 100m butterfly gold for the third time in his career - the first coming 12 years ago.
To find out if the new compounds can alter the course of infection in an animal, Dr Blackwell's group infected some cabbage white butterfly caterpillars with P. aeruginosa.