Program
Contents
Sunday, June 19, 2011 – Afternoon
- 2:00 Welcome remarks – Jim Hoch
Physiology
CHAIR: Josef Deutscher
- 2:15 – 2:30 T1, Elaine Milohanic, INRA and AgroParis Tech, Thiverval-Grignon, France
- ManR regulates the expression of the main Listeria monocytogenes glucose/mannose transporter and uses a second glucose transporter as substrate sensor.
- 2:30 – 2:45 T2, Boris Görke, Institute of Microbiology and Genetics, George-August University of Göttingen, Göttingen, Germany
- Crh, the homolog of the phosphor-carrier protein HPr, regulates a glycolytic bypass in Bacillus subtilis.
- 2:45 – 3:00 T3, Jean-Michel Jault, Institut de Biologie Structurale, Grenoble, France
- 3:00 – 3:15 T4, Yuka Kazo, Laboratory of Molecular Genetics, Department of Life Science, College of Science, Rikkyo University, Tokyo, Japan
- Analysis of dimerization of 70S ribosome, and yvyD gene during stationary phase in Bacillus subtilis.
- 3:15 – 3:30 T5, Donald A. Morrison, Department of Biological Sciences, University of Illinois at Chicago, Chicago, Illinois, USA
- Regulation of the competence regulon in Group A and Group B streptococci: Pyogenic Type II ComR receptors recognize small species-specific peptide pheromones when expressed in a heterologous host.
- 3:30 – 3:45 T6, Nathalie Campo, Centre national de la Recherche Scientifique, Toulouse, France
- X-state (competence) development causes transient cell cycle alterations in Streptococcus pneumoniae.
- 3:45 – 4:00 T7, Maria C. Mansilla, Instituto de Biología Molecular y Celular, Univ. Nac.de Rosario, Rosario, Argentina
- A novel pathway for lipoic acid synthesis in Gram-positive bacteria.
- 4:00 – 4:15 T8, Jörg Stülke, Department of General Microbiology, Georg-August- Univeristy Göttingen, Göttingen Germany
- A novel factor controlling bistability in Bacillus subtilis: The YmdB protein affects biofilm formation and motility.
Genome Engineering
CHAIR: Mike Rasmussen
- 4:45 – 5:00 T9, Robert A. Britton, Department of Microbiology and Molecular Genetics, Michigan State University, East Lansing Michigan, USA
- Recombineering in lactic acid bacteria.
- 5:00 – 5:15 T10, Ghislain Schyns, DSM Nutritional Products, Ltd., Basel, Switzerland
- Learning from probiotics to improve biological availability of feed enzymes.
- 5:15 – 5:30 T11, Sébastien Potot, DSM Nutritional Products, Biotechnology, Basel, Switzerland
- Mixing bacterial genomes to identify critical mutations in Bacillus subtilis industrial strains.
- 5:30 – 5:45 T12, Philippe Jacques, Université Lille, France
- Environmental factors and pleiotropic regulators influence homologous compound pattern of mycosubtilin produced by Bacilius subtilis ATCC 6633.
- 5:45 – 6:00 T13, Philippe Noirot, INRA, Jouy en Josas, France
- Systematic identification of dispensable genome parts in Bacillus subtilis coupled with metabolic model reconstruction.
Welcome Reception - 7:00 – 9:00 – Grand Hotel & La Pace
Monday, June 20, 2011 – Morning
Cell Wall
CHAIR: Kevin Devine
- 8:15 – 9:00, Jeff Errington, Centre for Bacterial Cell Biology, Newcastle University, Newcastle-upon-Tyne, United Kingdom
- Keynote Lecture: Emergence and proliferation of B. subtilis L-forms.
- 9:00 – 9:15 T14, Olaf Schneewind, Department of Microbiology, University of Chicago, Chicago, Illinois, USA
- LytN, a murein hydrolase in the cross wall compartment of Staphylococcus aureus, is required for bacterial growth and envelope assembly.
- 9:15 – 9:30 T15, Hèléne Bierne, Institut Pasteur, Unité des interactions bactéries-cellules, Inserm, Paris, France
- A regulated switch from helical to polar localization of Listeria monocytogenes cell wall-anchored proteins.
- 9:30 – 9:45 T16 Sven Halbedel, Department of Bacterial Infections, Robert Koch Institute, Wernigerode, Germany
- A role for the membrane curvature sensor DivIVA in cell separation and virulence of Listeria monocytogenes.
- 9:45 – 10:00 T17, Teresa Costa, ITQB, Universidade Nova de Lisboa, Oeiras, Portugal
- Control of Bacillus subtilis cell shape by the novel cytoskeletal element RodZ.
- 10:00 – 10:15 T18, Julia Domínguez-Escobar, AG Cellular Dynamics and Cell Patterning, Max Planck Institute of Biochemistry, Martinsried, Germany
- Processive movement of MreB-associated cell wall biosynthetic complexes in bacteria. In vivo visualization of sidewall biosynthetic machineries in Bacillus subtilis.
- 10:15 – 10:30 T19, Anne Galinier, Université de la Méditerranée, Marseille, France
Cell Wall, continued
CHAIR: Jeff Errington
- 11:00 – 11:15 T20, Letal Salzberg, Smurfit Institute of Genetics, Trintiy College Dublin, Dublin, Ireland
- 11:15 – 11:30 T21, Hiraku Takada, Tokyo University of Agriculture, Tokyo, Japan
- Involvement of essential lipid synthetic enzyme, PlsX, in the cell division machinery.
- 11:30 – 11:45 T22, Maria-Halima Laaberki, Department of Microbiology and Immunology, Columbia University, New York, New York, USA
- The unexpected role of O-acetylation of peptidoglycan in cell separation and S-layer anchoring in Bacillus anthracis.
- 11:45 – 12:00 T23, Michel-Yves Mistou, INRA, Institut Micalis, Jouy-en-Josas, France
- Outer polysaccharide pellicle: a structural component of Gram positive bacteria cell wall.
- 12:00 – 12:15 T24, Rick Lewis, Institute for Cell and Molecular Biosciences, Newcastle University, Newcastle-upon-Tyne, United Kingdom
- The decoration of peptidoglycan by teichoic acids: the missing enzymatic step revealed by X-ray crystallography?
Monday, June 20, 2011 – Afternoon
Structure
CHAIR: Jim Hoch
- 2:00 – 2:15 T25, Wayne F. Anderson, Northwestern University CSGID, Chicago, Illinois USA
- Applying structural genomics – revealing the bacterial surface one protein structure at a time.
- 2:15 – 2:30 T26, Catarina G. Fernandes, ITQB, Universidade Nova de Lisboa, Oeiras, Portugal
- From the crystal structure of the Tgl transglutaminase to the cross-linking of the spore surface layers.
- 2:30 – 2:45 T27, Claes von Wachenfeldt, Department of Biology, Lund University, Lund, Sweden
- Redox sensing by Rex family repressors.
- 2:45 – 3:00 T28, Marion Boudes, IBBMC, Université Paris-Sud, Orsay, France
- Structural and functional study of ComE, a key actor in S. pneumoniae competence.
- 3:00 – 3:15 T29, Hendrik Szurmant, Department of Molecular and Experimental Medicine, The Scripps Research Institute, La Jolla, California, USA
- Sensor histidine kinase signaling: An active conformation deduced from integrating genomics, molecular dynamics and mutagenesis.