Program
Tuesday, April 29, 2014
▪ 8:00 – 9.00 REGISTRATION ▪ 9:00 – 9:10 – Welcome Introduction
Session I Metabolism
CHAIR: Jan Maarten van Dijl
- 9:10 – 9:25 – Ken-ichi Yoshida, Kobe University, Japan
- Inositol dehydrogenases in Geobacillus kaustophilus are regulated by a Crh homolog but not by glucose
- 9:30 – 9:45 – Matthieu Jules, INRA, MICALIS, France
- New regulation and catabolic repression of the uptake of gluconeogenic carbon sources
- 9:50 – 10:05 – Uwe Völker, University Medicine Greifswald, Germany
- Adaptation of Bacillus subtilis carbon core metabolism to simultaneous nutrient limitation and osmotic challenge: a multi-omics perspective.
- 10:10 – 10:25 – Raphael Michna, General Microbiology, Göttingen, Germany
- SubtiWiki and its compagnons: Tools for data integration of Bacillus subtilis
- 10:30 – 10:50 – COFFEE BREAK
Session II Synthetic Biology and Secretion
CHAIR: Nicola Stanley-Wall
- 10:50 – 11:05 – Philippe Noirot,INRA, France
- Streamlining the Bacillus subtilis genome: from proof-of-concept to cell factories
- 11:10 – 11:25 – Iolanda Ferro, University of Potsdam, Germany
- Emerging role of tRNA charging for protein expression in Bacillus licheniformis
- 11:30 – 11:45 – Marcel Hillebrand, DSM, Delft, Netherlands
- Signal sequence fusion libraries for increased enzyme production
- 11:50 – 12:05 – Jolanda Neef, University of Groningen (UMCG), the Netherlands
- A novel expression platform for the production of cell wall-bound and secreted staphylococcal antigens
- 12:10 – 12:25 – Giulia Barbieri, University of Pavia, Italy
- CodY regulates the expression of two proteases in B. subtilis
- 12:30 – 14:00 LUNCH (+ BACIP MEETING)
Session III: Stress response and regulation
CHAIR: Leendert Hamoen
- 14:00 – 14:15 – Thorsten Mascher, Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München, Germany
- Cannibalism Stress Response in Bacillus subtilis
- 14:20 – 14:35 – Sandra Maaß, Ernst-Moritz-Arndt Universität Greifswald, Germany
- Absolute protein quantification of stress and starvation responses in Bacillus subtilis.
- 14:40 – 14:55 – Tamara Hoffmann, Philipps-University Marburg, Germany
- Balancing the osmotic gradient: transcriptional control of opuAA expression in response to osmotic stress and the cytoplasmic compatible solute pool
- 15:00 – 15:15 – Michaela Wenzel, University of Amsterdam, the Netherlands
- Antimicrobial peptides elicit a hypoosmotic shock response in Bacillus subtilis.
- 15:20 – 15:35 – Georg Fritz, LMU Munich, Germany
- Interdependence between different layers of the cell envelope stress response in Bacillus subtilis.
- 15:40 – 15:55 – Niclas Nordholt, VU University Amsterdam, the Netherlands
- How Bacillus subtilis tunes its growth rate when it gets hot
- 16:00 – 16:20 – COFFEE BREAK
Session IV: Sporulation
CHAIR: Jörg Stülke
- 16:20 – 16:35 – Tony Wilkinson, University of York, UK
- Structure function studies of the cell fate determining protein SpoIIE
- 16:40 – 16:55 – Rizlan Bernier-Latmani, EPFL, Lausanne, Switzerland
- Desulfotomaculum: a genus of spore-forming bacteria involved in S and Fe cycling
- 17:00 – 17:15– Jan Jamroskovic, EPFL, Lausanne, Switzerland
- Quantitative study of DPA and calcium transport during sporulation of Bacillus subtilis.
- 17:20 – 17:35 – Robyn Eijlander, University of Groningen, NL
- The role of SpoVT in sporulation of Bacilli – two sides of the same coin
- 17.40 – 17.55– Liesbet Thijs, Kemin Europa NV, Belgium
- The beneficial effects of Bacillus subtilis PB6 on performance of laying hens
- 18.00 – 19.00 BACELL STEERING GROUP MEETING
19:00 – DINNER AT THE FALKENSTEINER HOTEL BRATISLAVA
Wednesday, April 30, 2014
Session V: Sporulation and other spore formers
CHAIR: Kevin Devine
- 9:00 – 9:15 – Didier Lereclus, INRA, France
- A bifunctional quorum sensor couples necrotrophism and sporulation in Bacillus thuringiensis
- 9:20 – 9:35 – Sylvie Nessler, University Paris, France
- Structure-function analysis of the bifunctional quorum sensor NprR from Bacillus thuringiensis
- 9:40 – 9:55 – Emilie Verplaetse, INRA MICALIS, France
- Dynamics of virulence, necrotrophism and sporulation states in a Bacillus thuringiensis population at the cell-level
- 10:00 – 10:15 – Monika Ehling-Schulz, University of Veterinary Medicine Vienna, Austria
- Pathometabolism of emetic Bacillus cereus
- 10:20 – 10:40 – COFFEE BREAK
Session VI: Regulation
CHAIR: Philippe Noirot
- 10:40 – 10:55 – Kevin Devine, Trinity College Dublin, Ireland
- 11:00 – 11:15 – Marie-Françoise Noirot-Gros, INRA, Jouy-en-Josas, France
- Tyrosine Kinase Interaction Network in Bacillus subtilis Reveals New Substrates, Kinase Activators and Extensive Functional Cross-talk Among Kinases.
- 11:20 – 11:35 – Susanne Gebhard, Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München, Germany
- Communication between ABC transporters and histidine kinases in antimicrobial peptide resistance modules
- 11:40 – 11:55 – Libor Krásný, MBU AVČR, Praha, Czech Republic
- Characterization of HelD, a new interacting partner of RNA polymerase from Bacillus subtilis
- 12:00 – 12:15 – Ruben Mars, University of Groningen (UMCG), the Netherlands
- Noise promotion of autorepressed AbrB by a small regulatory RNA generates heterogeneity in growth rate of Bacillus subtilis
- 12:20 – 12:35 – Ulrike Mäder, University Medicine Greifswald, Germany
- AureoWiki - the repository of the Staphylococcus aureus research and annotation community
- 12:40 – 13:40 – LUNCH
Session VII: Regulation & Replication
CHAIR: Henrik Strahl
- 13:40 – 13:55 – Sara Kesel, Ludwig-Maximilians-University, DE
- Immediate and heterogeneous response of the LiaF-LiaS-LiaR two-component system of Bacillus subtilis to the peptide antibiotic bacitracin
- 14:00 – 14:15 –Jakob Engman, Lund University, SE
- 14:20 – 14:35 – Fabian Commichau, University of Göttingen, DE
- Essential genes in Bacillus subtilis: a re-evaluation after 10 years
- 14:40 – 14:55– Thorsten Mascher, Ludwig-Maximilians-University, DE
- (Tools for studying the) Regulatory dynamics of peptide antibiotic detoxification modules in Bacillus subtilis
- 15:00 – 15:15 – Vladimir Bidnenko, INRA, Jouy en Josas, FR
- Distinct activities of co-essential Bacillus subtilis flap-endonucleases, Pol I and YpcP, in DNA replication and repair
- 15:20 – 15:35 – Panos Soultanas, University of Nottingham, UK
- Functional interplay of DnaE polymerase, DnaG primase and DnaC helicase within a ternary complex during lagging strand DNA replication in Bacillus subtilis
- 15:40 – 16:00 – COFFEE BREAK
Session VIII: Division
CHAIR: Alan Nielson
- 16:00 – 16:15 – Peter Graumann, Universitat Freiburg, DE
- Movement of up to 3.4mm long MreB filaments at various angles underneath the cell membrane and their intrinsic membrane affinity
- 16:20 – 16:35 – Hiraku Takada, Tokyo University of Agriculture, Japan
- Involvement of essential lipid synthetic enzyme, PlsX, in the cell division machinery
- 16:40 – 16:55 – Ilkay Celik, Newcastle University, UK
- Bacillus minimal divisome
- 17:00 – 17:15 – Robert Cleverley, Newcastle University, UK
- 17:20 – 17:35 – Alex Dajkovic, University of California Irvine, USA
- Organization of FtsZ polymers in living Bacillus subtilis cells
- 17:40 – 17:55 – Romain Mercier, Newcastle University, UK
- Excess membrane synthesis drives a primitive mode of cell proliferation
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