ESF Research Conferences

Julia Vorholt, ETH Zürich, CH
General stress response in alpha-proteobacteria

Johannes Geiselmann, Université Joseph Fourier, Grenoble, FR

Shared control of gene expression in bacteria by transcription factors and the global physiology of the cell

Kürsad Turgay, Leibniz Universität Hannover, DE

Thermotolerance in Bacillus subtilis: Spx mediated oxidative thiol stress response prevents heat induced protein aggregation and protects against cell death

11:30-12:00

Kristina Jonas, MIT, Cambridge, USA

Stress-induced protein unfolding arrests the Caulobacter crescentus cell cycle

George O'Toole, Dartmouth University,US
To build a biofilm

Nicola Stanley-Wall, University of Dundee, UK

Bacillus subtilis biofilm formation: Single cells and Macromolecules

Delphine Caly, University College Cork, IR

Signalling pathways involving a variant HD-GYP domain protein that regulate virulence, biofilm formation and antibiotic resistance in the human pathogen Pseudomonas aeruginosa

Daniel Koster, Weizmann Institute, IS

Bacterial growth in space and time

Liz Sockett, Nottingham University, UK

Understanding the invasion and deconstruction of bacteria by predatory Bdellovibrio bacteriovorus

Anton Meinhart, MPI for Medical Research, Heidelberg, DE

The killer within – the mechanisms of bacterial suicide

Jörg Stülke, Universität Göttingen, DE

c-di-AMP, an emerging essential second signaling nucleotide in Bacillus subtilis

Melanie Blokesch, Swiss Federal Institute of Technology Lausanne, CH

Environmental cues foster natural competence induction in Vibrio cholerae

Karina Xavier, Instituto Gulbenkian de Ciencia, Oeiras, PT

Adaptation of Escherichia coli in the mouse gut

Horst Bredekamp, Humboldt University Berlin, DE

Into the depth. The microscope´s principle of disjunction

Ursula Damm, Bauhaus-Universität Weimar, DE

Engineering the future

Paul Vanouse, University of Buffalo, US

DNA as material and medium

Christophe Grangeasse, Université de Lyon, FR

Regulation of Streptococcus pneumoniae morphogenesis by the serine/threonine-kinase StkP

10:15-10:30

Berenike Maier, University of Cologne, DE

The gonococcal type IV pilus: a motor with two speeds

Peter Graumann, Universität Marburg, DE
Chromosome segregation proteins at work at the single molecule level

Seamus Holden, Swiss Federal Institute of Technology Lausanne, CH

High-throughput super-resolution microscopy of the Caulobacter crescentus Z-ring

Uri Alon, Weizmann Institut, IS
Design principles of biological systems

Kathleen Marchal, Ghent University, BE

Network-based dataintegration for microbial systems biology

Tobias Bollenbach, IST Austria

Bacterial responses to antibiotic combinations

11:30-12:00

Karen Lipkow, University of Cambridge, UK

Chemotactic Signalling in 3D

Victor de Lorenzo, CSIC Madrid, ES
Rewiring regulatory parts of soil bacteria for enhancing responses to environmental pollutants

Ilka Bischofs, Universität Heidelberg, DE

Form-follows-function-based optimal design principles for quorum sensing networks