ESF Research Conference
Bacterial Networks 2010
4-9 September 2010 - Hotel Eden Roc, Sant Feliu de Guixols, Spain
EMBO - New England BioLabs
Swiss Society for Microbiology
| SATURDAY 4 September |
16.00 Onwards Registration at the ESF-RC desk
19.30 - 21.00 Dinner
21.00 Drinks Reception
| SUNDAY 5 September |
SESSION 1: Global regulation
Discussion Leader: Julia Vorholt, ETH Zürich, CH
09.00 – 09.30 Steve Busby, University of Birmingham, UK
Regulation at simple and complex bacterial promoters
09.30 – 10.00 Regine Hengge, Freie Universität, Berlin, DE
The CsgD/RprA system operates as an RNA-based switch for stationary phase and biofilm gene expression in Escherichia coli
SHORT TALK
10.00 – 10.15 Max Dow, University College Cork, IE
Intermolecular interactions between HD-GYP and GGDEF domain proteins mediate virulence-related signal transduction in Xanthomonas campestris
10.15 – 10.45 Coffee Break
10.45 – 11.15 Tina Henkin, Ohio State University, US
Regulation of gene expression by riboswitch RNAs
11.15 – 11.45 John van der Oost, Wageningen University, NL
CRISPR RNA-guided interference in prokaryotes
SHORT TALK
11.45 – 12.00 Tilman Schirmer, University of Basel, CH
C-di-GMP signaling: mechanistic models of diguanylate cyclase and phosphodiesterase regulation
12.30: Lunch
SESSION 2: Network Modelling and Engineering I
Discussion Leader: Martin Howard, John Innes Center, UK
16.00 – 16.30 Martin Howard, John Innes Center, UK
Unravelling the dynamics of hyphal branching in filamentous bacteria
16.30 – 17.00 Jeff Hasty, UCSD, San Diego, US
Genetic clocks from engineered oscillators
SHORT TALK
17.00 – 17.15 Stefan Klumpp, MPI, Potsdam, DE
Growth-rate dependent global effects on gene expression in bacteria
17.15 – 17.45 Coffee Break
17.45 – 18.15 Sven Panke, ETH, Zürich, CH
From understanding to designing enzyme networks
18.15 - 18.45 Vahid Shahrezaei, Imperial College, London, UK
Modelling intrinsic and extrinsic noise in biochemical networks
SHORT TALK
18.45 – 19.00 Michael Galperin, NIH, Bethesda, USA
Using comparative genomics to understand bacterial signal transduction networks
19.30 Dinner
21.00 – 22:30 Poster session 1
| MONDAY 6 September |
Session 3: Development
Discussion Leader: Mark Buttner, John Innes Centre, UK
09.00 – 09.30 David Rudner, Harvard University, US
Remodeling the cell envelope during sporulation in B. subtilis
09.30 – 10.00 Tâm Mignot, CNRS Marseille, FR
New angles on old mysteries: studying how bacteria crawl across solid surfaces
SHORT TALK
10.00 – 10.15 Patrick Viollier, University of Geneva, CH
Unmasking the regulatory landscape of a developmental bacterium using transcription factors that control cell cycle progression and polar morphogenesis
10.15 – 10.45 Coffee Break
10.45 – 11.15 Susan Golden, UCSD, San Diego, US
How bacteria tell time
11.15 – 11.45 Marie Elliot, McMaster University, CA
Cell wall remodelling in Streptomyces coelicolor
SHORT TALK
11.45 - 12.00 Leendert Hamoen, Newcastle University, UK
Membrane potential is important for bacterial cell division
12.30 Lunch
Session 4: Microbial Cell Biology
Discussion Leader: Patrick Viollier, University of Geneva, CH
16.00 – 16.30 Christine Jacobs‐Wagner, Yale University, US
Chromosome segregation and cell cycle coordination in Caulobacter crescentus
16.30 – 17.00 Jeff Errington, Newcastle University, UK
How to live without peptidoglycan
SHORT TALK
17.00 – 17.15 Daniel López, Harvard University, US
Lipid rafts in bacteria
17.15 – 17.45 Coffee Break
17:45 – 18.15 Richard Losick, Harvard University, US
Life and death of a microbial community
18.15 – 18:45 Dirk Schüler, LMU, München, DE
Cell biology and molecular genetics of magnetosome formation in magnetotactic bacteria
SHORT TALK
18:45 – 19.00 Yves Brun, Indiana University, US
Assymetry of Agrobacterium tumefaciens cells results from unipolar growth
19.30 Dinner
21.00 – 22:30 Poster session 2
| TUESDAY 7 September |
Session 5: Networks and switches
Discussion Leader: Victor Sourjik, EMBL Heidelberg, DE
09.00 – 09.30 Tom Silhavy, Princeton University, US
Cell envelop biogenesis in Gram-negative bacteria
09.30 – 10.00 Judy Armitage, University of Oxford, UK
Protein localisation and bacterial behaviour
SHORT TALK
10:00 – 10:15 Ariane Briegel, Caltech, US
Electron Cryotomography of bacterial chemotaxis arrays
10.15 – 10.45 Coffee Break
10.45 – 11.15 Michael Laub, MIT, US
Specificity and Evolution of Two-Component Signaling
11.15 – 11.45 John Parkinson, University of Utah, US
Mechanisms of HAMP domain signaling in chemoreceptors
11.45 – 12.15 Venessa Sperandio, University of Texas, Dallas, US
Inter-kingdom chemical signaling in host and bacterial associations
12.30 Lunch
Session 6: Network Modelling and Engineering II
Discussion Leader: Judy Armitage, Oxford University, UK
16.00 – 16.30 Luis Serrano, EMBL Barcelona, ES
Transcriptional regulation in a small bacterium
16.30 – 17.00 Victor Sourjik, ZMBH Heidelberg, DE
EMBO Young Investigator Lecture
Robustness of Escherichial coli chemotaxis network
SHORT TALK
17:00 – 17:15 Thomas Shimizu, FOM Institute, AMOLF, NL
Response rescaling in bacterial chemotaxis
17.15 – 17.45 Coffee Break
17.45 – 18.15 Dirk Bumann, University of Basel, CH
EMBO Young Investigator Lecture
Salmonella metabolism during infection
18.15 – 18.45 Kelly Hughes, University of Fribourg, CH
Gene regulation through tRNA pairing: implications for evolution of mechanisms of gene expression
18.45 – 19.15 Forward looking plenary discussion
CHAIR: Regine Hengge, Freie Universität, Berlin, DE
19.30 Dinner
21.00 – 22:30 Poster session 3
| WEDNESDAY 8 September |
Session 7: Stress response
Discussion Leader: Regine Hengge, Freie Univesität, Berlin, DE
09.00 ‐ 09.30 Gisela Storz, NIH Bethesda, US
Small proteins--yet another level of regulation
09.30 – 10.00 Julia Vorholt, ETH Zürich, CH
An original system regulates stress responses in Alphaproteobacteria
SHORT TALK
10.00 – 10.15 Sean Crosson, University of Chicago, US
A structural model of anti-anti-sigma inhibition by a two-component receiver domain
10.15 – 10.45 Coffee Break
10:45 – 11.15 Athanasios Typas, UC San Francisco, US
The Phenotypic Landscape of a bacterial cell
SHORT TALK
11.15 – 11:35 Klaas Hellingwerf, University of Amsterdam, NL
On the mechanism of signal transduction in the light-activated General Stress Response in Bacillus subtilis
11.35 – 12.05 Erhard Bremer, University of Marburg, DE
GbsR: a choline-sensing repressor controlling the osmoregulatory synthesis of the compatible solute glycine betaine in Bacillus subtilis
12.30 Lunch
Session 8: Cell‐Cell Communication
Discussion Leader: Ned Ruby, University of Wisconsin, US
16.00 – 16.30 Ned Ruby, University of Wisconsin, US
The many faces of NO in a beneficial bacteria-host association
16.30 – 17.00 Steve Winans, Cornell University, US
Cell-cell communication during the colonization of host plants
SHORT TALK
17.00 – 17:15 Karina Xavier, Gulbenkian Institute, PT
The LsrB family of receptors for the inter-species quorum sensing signal AI-2
17.15 – 17.45 Coffee Break
17.45 – 18.15 Peter Greenberg, University of Washington, US
The social life of bacteria: Pseudomonas aeruginosa quorum control networks
18.15 – 18.45 Mark Buttner, John Innes Center, Norwich, UK
Streptomyces venezuelae as a genetic and developmental system
SHORT TALK
18.45 – 19.00 Sigal Ben‐Yehuda, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem, IL
Intercellular nanotubes mediate bacterial communication
19.30: Conference Dinner
| THURSDAY 9 September |
Breakfast and departure
