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=Monday March 14th 2011=
 
  
Registration: 12.30 – 13.45
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= Tuesday 12th June =
  
13.50 - 14.00 Jörg Stülke
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* 8:30 – 8:55 Registration
Welcome and Introduction
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* 8:55 Welcome - Chancellors’ Building, room 1.12
  
==Session I: Signalling, [[motility]] and [[biofilm formation]]==
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== Session 1 Regulation==
Chair: [[Eugenio Ferrari]]
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CHAIR:  David Leak
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* 09:00 [[Ciaran Condon]]
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** Suppression of the essential nature of RNase M16 ([[YqfG]]), required for 3' maturation of ''B. subtilis'' 16S ribosomal RNA, by deletion of [[rnr|RNase R]]
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* 09:15 [[Roland Hartmann]]
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** Function and regulation of two 6S RNAs in Bacillus subtilis
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* 09:30 [[Matthias Mack]]
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** A dual control mechanism synchronizes riboflavin and sulphur metabolism in ''Bacillus subtilis''
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* 09:45 Hermann Rath
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** A [[SigB]]-dependent antisense RNA affects osmotic induction of ''[[opuBA|opuB]]'' expression in ''Bacillus subtilis''
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* 10:00 Laura Teichmann
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** Suppressor analysis illuminates the structure/function relationship of the glycine betaine synthesis repressor [[GbsR]]
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* 10:15 Sylvain Durand
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** sRNA-mediated activation of gene expression by inhibition of 5’-3’exonucleolytic mRNA degradation
  
* 14:00 14:30 [[Daniel Kearns]]: invited speaker
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== 10:30 11:00 Tea and Coffee - Chancellors’ Building, ground floor foyer==
  
* 14:30 – 14:45 Gyanendra P. Dubey, and [[Sigal Ben-Yehuda]] (Hebrew University; Jerusalem, Israel)
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== Session 2 [[Cell division]]==
Intercellular nanotubes mediate bacterial communication
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CHAIR:  TBA
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* 11:00 [[Henrik Strahl]]
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** ''Bacillus subtilis'' does not form microscopically detectable cardiolipin domains
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* 11:15 Jeanine Rismondo
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** Discovery of genes required for lipoteichoic acid glycosylation predicts two distinct mechanism for wall teichoic acid glycosylation
 +
* 11:30 Edward de Koning
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** [[Divisome]] maturation in ''Bacillus subtilis'' single cells
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* 11:45 Seamus Holden
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** Treadmilling by [[FtsZ]] filaments drives ''Bacillus subtilis'' [[cell wall synthesis|peptidoglycan synthesis]] and bacterial [[cell division]]
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* 12:00 [[Dirk-Jan Scheffers]]
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** [[PbpB|PBP2B]] [[PASTA domains]] interact with [[DivIB]] to stabilize [[cell division]]
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* 12:15 Yongqiang Gao
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** [[Cell division]] in the cell wall-less bacterium ''Acholeplasma laidlawii''
  
* 14:45 – 15:00 Akos T. Kovacs, and [[Oscar Kuipers|Oscar P. Kuipers]] (University of Groningen, Netherlands)
 
Regulation of architecturally complex colony development in ''Bacillus subtilis''
 
  
* 15:00 15:15 Noël Molière, Janine Kirstein, and [[Kürsad Turgay|Kürşad Turgay]] (Freie Universität Berlin, Germany; and Northwestern University, Evanston, IL USA)
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== 12:30 14:30 Lunch and Poster Session 1==
Involvement of Hsp100/Clp proteases in the [[motility]] development of ''Bacillus subtilis''
 
  
* 15:15 15:30 Sophie Bochmann, Benedikt Sattler, Sebastian W. Fuchs, Peter Kötter, and Karl-Dieter Entian (Goethe University, Frankfurt am Main, Germany)
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== Session 3 – Interesting Biology ==
Analysis of lantibiotic immunity and regulation in ''Bacillus subtilis''
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CHAIR:  [[Colin Harwood]]
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* 14:30 [[Jörg Stülke]]
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** DNA topoisomerases in ''Bacillus subtilis'': A tale on mutants and suppressors
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* 14:45 Hannah Gaimster
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** Lethal depletion of essential cell envelope proteins can be rescued by slowing [[DNA replication]] in ''Bacillus subtilis''
 +
* 15:00 Alexandre Deloupy
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** Stochastic gene expression in Bacillus subtilis
 +
* 15:15 Sabine Schneider
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** Development of a reporter gene system to characterise [[riboswitch]] function and to identify [[riboswitch]] modulators by high-throughput screening
 +
* 15:30 [[Ken-ichi Yoshida]]
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** Rapid conjugative mobilization of a 100 kb segment of ''Bacillus subtilis'' chromosomal DNA is mediated by a helper plasmid with no ability for self-transfer
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* 15:45 Anna A. Toymentseva
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** Mobilization and transfer of plasmids and chromosomal DNA mediated by optimized ICEBs1 conjugative element
  
* 15:30 – 15:45 Anna Staroń, Sebastian Dintner, Georg Fritz, Ulrich Gerland, Susanne Gebhard, and [[Thorsten Mascher]] (Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München, Germany)
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==16:00 – 16:30 Tea and Coffee ==
Peptide Antibiotic Sensing and Detoxification Modules of [[Bacillus subtilis]]: Stimulus Specificity, Signalling Interfaces and Regulatory Dynamics
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==Session 4 Antibiotics 1 ==
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CHAIR:  [[Ulrike Mäder]]
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* 16:30 Carolin Kobras
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** Exploring the substrate specificity of the antimicrobial peptide resistance transporter [[BceA]]-[[BceB]] in ''Bacillus subtilis''
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* 16:45 Luiza P. Morawska
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** Preadaptation of ''Bacillus subtilis'' to mild osmostress contributes to increased antibiotic resistance
 +
* 17:00 Mary K. Phillips-Jones
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** Characterisation of the VanA-type VanS histidine kinase involved in glycopeptide resistance in Gram-positive bacteria and its ligand interactions
 +
* 17:15 Gabriela Henriques
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** Towards the understanding of the regulation of [[SppA]] by [[YteJ]] in Bacillus subtilis.
  
* 15:45 – 16:15 Coffee Break
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== Free evening in Bath ==
==Session II: Localisation and secretion==
 
Chair: Thomas Wiegert
 
  
* 16:15 – 16:30 Frank Bürmann, Nina Ebert, Suey van Baarle, and [[Marc Bramkamp]] (University of Cologne, Germany)
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= Wednesday 13th June =
A bacterial dynamin-like protein mediating nucleotide independent membrane fusion
 
  
* 16:30 – 16:45 [[Daniel Lopez]] (Institute for Molecular Infectious Diseases, Würzburg, Germany)
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== Session 5 Biotechnology ==
Targeting Lipid Rafts in Bacteria
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CHAIR:  Anne Breüner
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* 9:00 Andreas Knapp
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** The spacer region in the 5´-UTR strongly affects recombinant protein production in ''Bacillus subtilis''
 +
* 9:15 Alexandria Holland
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** Investigating protein secretion in ''Geobacillus thermoglucosidasius''
 +
* 9:30 Matthew Styles
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** Engineering ''Parageobacillus'' for the Production of Terpenes: Building Better Chassis Organisms for Industrial Biotechnology
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* 9:45 Luca Longanesi
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** γ-PGA production through Consolidated Bioprocessing in engineered ''B. subtilis'' lab strains
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* 10:00 Matteo Cavaletti
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** Optimization of γ-PGA biosynthesis supported by synthetic biology and metabolic engineering strategies
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* 10:15 Ioannis Mougiakos
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** Characterizing a thermostable Cas9 for bacterial genome editing and silencing
  
* 16:45 – 17:00 Tjeerd van Rij, Isabelle Maillet, Thomas Lapointe, Marcel Hillebrand, Sabrina Rodriguez, [[Jan-Maarten van Dijl]], and [[Zoltan Pragai|Zoltán Prágai]] (DSM Biotechnology Center, Delft, the Netherlands; DSM Nutritional Products, Basel, Switzerland; and UMCG-University of Groningen, the Netherlands)
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== 10:15 - 10:45 Tea and Coffee ==
Secretome of the industrial ''Bacillus amyloliquefaciens'' strain BZ9
 
  
* 17:00 – 17:15 Simon Stammen, Claudia Korneli, Britta K. Müller, Tobias Knuuti, Constanze Finger, Ezequiel Franco-Lara, Dieter Jahn, and Rebekka Biedendieck (Technische Universität Braunschweig, Germany)
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== Session 6 - [[Sporulation]] and development ==
High-yield intra- and extracellular protein production using ''Bacillus megaterium''
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CHAIR:  TBC
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* 10:45 [[Imrich Barák]]
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** What we (don’t) know about the asymmetric septum in ''Bacillus subtilis''
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* 11:00 Munehiro Asally
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** Quality monitoring during [[sporulation]] in ''B. subtilis''
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* 11:15 [[Ilka Bischofs]]
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** Phenotypic memory links different stages of the ''B. subtilis'' life cycle
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* 11:30 [[Akos Kovacs]]
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** Cheating promotes evolution of hyper-cooperators by shifting phenotypic heterogeneity in biofilms
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* 11:45 [[Sven Halbedel]]
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** Novel ''[[gpsB]]'' suppressor genes contributing to regulatory proteolysis and ''cell division''
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* 12:00 Sofia Arnaouteli
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** Exploring the role of pulcherrimin in ''Bacillus subtilis'' [[biofilm formation]]
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* 12:15 Karin Bjerre
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** Investigating of ''Bacillus subtilis'' and ''Bacillus amyloliquefaciens'' spores and vegetative cells in fecal samples from pigs
  
* 17:15 17:30 Krzysztof Gizynski, Susanne Pohl and [[Colin Harwood|Colin R. Harwood]] (Newcastle University, Newcastle upon Tyne, United Kingdom)
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==12:30 14:30 Lunch and Poster Session 2 ==
The secondary protein secretion translocase of'' Bacillus anthracis''
 
  
==Session III: Replication–Cell cycle==
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==Session 7 – Antibiotics 2 ==
Chair: Thorsten Mascher
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CHAIR:  [[Kevin Devine]]
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* 14:30 Auke J. van Heel
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** BAGEL4: A user-friendly web server to mine RiPPs and bacteriocins
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* 14:45 Amanda Y. van Tilburg
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** ''Bacillus subtilis'' as heterologous production host for lantibiotics
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* 15:00 Nina Lautenschlaeger
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** A novel heterologous whole-cell biosensor in ''Bacillus subtilis'' for the comprehensive detection of b-lactam antibiotics
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* 15:15 Marjorie Gibbon
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** Towards understanding signalling between the bacitracin resistance transporter [[BceA]]-[[BceB]] and histidine kinase [[BceS]] of ''Bacillus subtilis''
  
* 17:30 – 17:45 V. Bidnenko, S. McGovern, F. Lecointe, [[Philippe Noirot|P. Noirot]], and M.-F. Noirot-Gros (INRA, Jouy en Josas, France)
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== 15:30 – 16:00 Tea and Coffee ==
The ''B. subtilis'' negative controller of replication initiation [[YabA]] acts as a replication checkpoint
 
  
* 17.45 18.00 Hamid Nouri, Anne-Françoise Monnier, Olivier Rannou, Monika Maciag, Solveig Fossum, Armelle Cabin-Flaman, Gregorz Wegrzyn, Vic Norris, Agnieszka Szalewska-Palasz, Panos Soultanas, Kirsten Skarstad, and [[Laurent Janniere|Laurent Jannière]] (INRA, Jouy en Josas, France;  Génopole Campus I, Evry, France; University of Nottingham, UK; University of Gdansk, Poland; Rikshospitalet, University of Oslo, Norway; and Faculté des Sciences de Rouen, Mont-Saint-Aignan, France) 
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== Session 8 Cereus Group ==
Does glycolysis gate [[DNA replication]] in the ''Bacillus subtilis'' cell cycle?
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CHAIR: [[Cinzia Calvio]]
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* 16:00 Monika Ehling-Schulz
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** ''Bacillus cereus'', a multifaceted pathogen: The challenge of discriminating high and low enteropathogenic strains
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* 16:15 Nick Waterfield
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** ''Bacillus cereus'' G9241 – to anthrax and back again
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* 16:30 Ludivine Rousset
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** Oligotrophy induces phenotypic diversification of ''Bacillus cereus'' AH187
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* 16:45 Jan Maarten van Dijl
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** Can ''Bacillus thuringiensis'' and other microorganisms isolated from chronic wounds ‘pacify’ ''Staphylococcus aureus''?
  
* 18.00 – 18.15 Vladimir Bidnenko, Lei Shi, Ahasanul Kobir, Magali Rault-Ventroux, Alain Trubuil, Marie-Françoise Noirot-Gros, and [[Ivan Mijakovic]] (INRA- AgroParisTech, and INRA, Jouy-en-Josas, France)
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== 17:00 Closing Remarks==
Phosphorylated bacterial recombinase checks chromosome integrity during spore formation
 
  
* 18.15 18.30 [[Imrich Barak|Imrich Barák]], Naďa Pavlendová, Ján Jamoroškovič, [[Tony Wilkinson|Anthony J. Wilkinson]], and Katarína Muchová (Slovak Academy of Sciences, Bratislava, Slovakia; and University of York, UK)
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== 19:00 23:00 Social event at The Terrace, The Roman Baths, generously supported by BACIP – to include the prize giving for best posters and talks from PhD/Postdocs ==
Min system oscillation is adverse for asymmetric cell division during ''Bacillus subtilis'' sporulation
 
  
  
==18:30 – 19.30 BACELL Steering group meeting==
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= END OF MEETING =
  
==20.00 Dinner==
 
  
=Tuesday March 15th 2011=
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=Back to [[Main Page|SubtiWiki]]=
 
 
* 8.40 – 8.45    Jörg Stülke
 
Welcome to session: RNA biology of ''Bacillus''
 
 
 
==Session IV: RNA biology of  ''Bacillus''==
 
Chair: Tony Wilkinson
 
 
 
* 8.45 – 9.00    Pierre Nicolas, [[Ulrike Mäder]], Etienne Dervyn, Tatiana Rochat, Aurélie Leduc, Nathalie Pigeonneau, Elena Bidnenko, Elodie Marchadier, the BaSysBio consortium,  [[Michael Hecker]], [[Uwe Völker]], [[Philippe Bessières]], and [[Philippe Noirot]] (INRA, Jouy-en-Josas, France; Ernst-Moritz-Arndt-Universität Greifswald, Germany; and INRA-AgroParisTech, Jouy-en-Josas, France)
 
Quantitative and qualitative analysis of the ''Bacillus subtilis'' whole-transcriptome across [[lifestyles]]
 
 
 
* 9.00 – 9.15    Marc Schaffer, Anja Wiechert, Hanna Daniel, Claudia Schurmann, Georg Homuth, [[Michael Hecker]], Volkmar Liebscher, and [[Ulrike Mäder]] (Ernst- Moritz-Arndt-University Greifswald, Germany)
 
Genome-wide analysis of mRNA half-lives in ''Bacillus subtilis''
 
 
 
9.15 - 9.30  Ruben A. T. Mars, Emma L. Denham, Pierre Nicolas, Philippe Noirot, Ulrike Mäder, Jan Maarten van Dijl  and the BaSysBio and BACELL SysMo consortia (UMCG-University of Groningen, the Netherlands;  INRA, Jouy-en-Josas, France; INRA-AgroParisTech, Jouy-en-Josas , France; and Ernst-Moritz-Arndt-University Greifswald, Germany)
 
The non-coding RNAs of Bacillus subtilis
 
 
 
9.30 – 9.45  Matthias Gimpel, Heike Preis, Natalie Jahn, Nadja Heidrich, Andreas Licht, Ulrike Mäder, and Sabine Brantl (Friedrich-Schiller-Universität, Jena, Germany; Universität Würzburg, Germany; Jena Bioscience GmbH, Jena, Germany; Ernst-Moritz-Arndt-Universität Greifswald, Germany)
 
Two sRNA regulated systems from the Bacillus subtilis chromosome
 
 
 
9.45 – 10.00  Martin Lehnik, Christina Herzberg, Marc Schaffer, Ulrike Mäder, Christine Diethmaier, and Jörg Stülke (Georg-August-Universität Göttingen, Germany; Ernst-Moritz-Arndt-University Greifswald, Germany)
 
Structural and functional association of RNases in Bacillus subtilis
 
 
 
10.00 – 10.15 Karen Shahbabian, Ailar Jamalli, Léna Zig, and Harald Putzer (CNRS Paris, France)
 
RNase Y and RNase J, the two major players in mRNA metabolism in Bacillus subtilis
 
 
 
10.15 – 10.30 Joseph A. Newman, Lorraine Hewitt, Cecilia Rodrigues, Alexandra Solovyova, Colin R. Harwood, and Richard J. Lewis (Newcastle University, Newcastle-upon-Tyne, U.K.)
 
Unusual, dual endo- and exo-nuclease activity in the degradosome explained by crystal structure analysis of RNase J1
 
 
 
10.30 – 11.00 Coffee/Tea
 
 
 
Session IV; RNA biology of Bacillus; continued
 
Chair: Ulrike Mäder
 
11.00 – 11.15 Katharina Schäfer, Ulrike Mäder, Georg Homuth, and Thomas Wiegert (University of Bayreuth, Germany; Ernst-Moritz-Arndt-University Greifswald, Germany; and University of Applied Sciences, Zittau/Görlitz, Germany)
 
Analysis of Rho-dependent termination of the Bacillus subtilis sigX-rsiX operon
 
 
 
11.15 – 11.30 Anne R. Karow, Regula Aregger, and Dagmar Klostermeier (University of Basel, Biozentrum, Switzerland; and University of Muenster, Germany)
 
Dissecting the mechanism of the DEAD box protein YxiN from Bacillus subtilis
 
 
 
11.30 – 11.45 Hermann Hämmerle, Branislav Večerek, Ivo Hofacker, and Udo Bläsi (Max F. Perutz Laboratories, University of Vienna, Austria; Czech Academy of Sciences, Prague, Czech Republic; and Institute for Theoretical Chemistry, University of Vienna, Austria)
 
Identification of candidate Hfq targets in Bacillus subtilis
 
 
 
11.45 – 12.00 Sandra Wiegand, Sascha Dietrich, and Heiko Liesegang (Georg-August-University of Göttingen, Germany)
 
Regulatory elements of Bacillus licheniformis DSM 13
 
 
 
Session V: Tools
 
Chair: Ulrike Mäder (continued)
 
12.00 – 12.15 Jan Muntel, Vincent Fromion, Michael Hecker and Dörte Becher (Ernst-Moritz-Arndt-University of Greifswald, Germany; and INRA, Jouy-en-Josas, France)
 
New approach for global absolute protein quantification of B. subtilis
 
 
 
12.15 – 12.30 Valérie Leclère, Maude Pupin; Walaa Hussein, Max Béchet, Frédérique Gancel, Marlène Chollet, Ségolène Caboche, and Philippe Jacques (Université de Lille Nord de France, Sciences et Technologies, Villeneuve d'Ascq, France)
 
Bioinformatics tools to decrypt non-ribosomal peptide diversity in bacilli
 
 
 
12.30 – 14.00 Lunch (+ BACIP meeting)
 
 
 
Session VI: Regulation and Metabolism
 
Chair: Sabine Brantl
 
14.00 – 14.15 Airat Kayumov, Annette Heinrich, Kseniya Fedorova, Olga Ilinskaya, and Karl Forchhammer (Kazan State University of Architecture and Engineering, Kazan, Russia; and Eberhard-Karls-Universität Tübingen, Germany)
 
Interaction of the general transcription factor TnrA with the PII-like protein GlnK and glutamine synthetase in Bacillus subtilis
 
 
 
14.15 – 14.30 Jens Landmann, Ricarda Busse, Jörg Stülke, and Boris Görke (Georg-August-University of Göttingen, Germany)
 
Regulation of a glycolytic bypass by Crh, the homolog of the phospho-carrier protein HPr in Bacillus subtilis
 
 
 
14.30 – 14.45 Alexander K.W. Elsholz, Dan Oertel, Katrin Gronau, Dörte Becher, Kürsad Turgay, Michael Hecker, and Ulf Gerth (Ernst-Moritz-Arndt-University of Greifswald, Germany; and Freie Universität Berlin, Germany)
 
Arginine phosphorylation modulates ClpC activity in Bacillus subtilis
 
 
 
14.45 – 15.00 Ines Gruner, Anika March, Claudia Frädrich, and Elisabeth Härtig (Technical University of Braunschweig, Germany)
 
Regulation of anaerobic adaptation of Bacillus subtilis
 
 
 
15.00 – 15.15  Marcus Miethke, Florian Peuckert, and Mohamed A. Marahiel (Philipps University of Marburg, Germany)
 
Ferric siderophore uptake and intracellular iron release in Bacillus subtilis and Bacillus halodurans
 
 
 
15.15 – 15.30  S. Graf, and G. Unden (Universität Mainz, Germany)
 
The fumarate sensor DcuS of Geobacillus kaustophilus
 
 
 
15.30 – 15.45  Ken-ichi Yoshida (Kobe University, Kobe, Japan)
 
Natural interconversion of inositol stereoisomers in bacteria?
 
 
 
15.45 – 16.15 Coffee/Tea
 
 
 
Session VII: Cell wall and Sporulation
 
Chair: Dörte Becher
 
16.15 – 16.30 Eric Botella, Sebastian Hübner, and Kevin M Devine (Trinity College Dublin, Ireland)
 
Cell envelope gene expression in phosphate limited Bacillus subtilis cells
 
 
 
16.30 – 16.45 Robyn T. Eijlander, and Oscar P. Kuipers (TI Food and Nutrition, Wageningen, the Netherlands; and University of Groningen, the Netherlands)
 
Studying Bacillus cereus sporulation and germination at the single cell level
 
 
 
16.45 – 17.00 Anthony J. Wilkinson (University of York, UK)
 
Structural and interaction studies of an intercellular zipper mediating engulfment during sporulation in B. subtilis
 
 
 
Session VIII: Gram-positive pathogens
 
Chair: Imrich Barak
 
17.00 – 17.15  Simen M. Kristoffersen, Nicolas J. Tourasse, Timothy D. Read, Brian Desany, Anne-Brit Kolstø, and Ole Andreas Økstad (School of Pharmacy, University of Oslo, Norway;  Emory University School of Medicine, Atlanta, GA, USA; and Life Sciences, A Roche Company, Branford, USA)
 
Eighteen interspersed DNA repeat elements in the Bacillus cereus group promote genome dynamics and plasticity, and may confer global and local effects on neighbour gene transcription
 
 
 
17.15 – 17.30 Susanne Pohl, Wang Yung Tu, Nigel Robinson, Kevin Waldron, and Colin Harwood (Newcastle University, Newcastle upon Tyne, United Kingdom)
 
The superoxide oxidative stress response of Bacillus anthracis
 
 
 
17.30 – 17.45 Vahid Farshchi Andisi, Anne de Jong, Oscar P. Kuipers, and Jetta J.E. Bijlsma (UMCG-University of Groningen, the Netherlands; and University of Groningen, the Netherlands)
 
Identification of a Streptococcus pneumoniae protein involved in resistance to oxidative stress
 
 
 
17.45 – 18.00 Annette Dreisbach, Magdalena M. van der Kooi-Pol, Andreas Otto, Katrin Gronau, Hendrik P. J. Bonarius, Hans Westra, Herman Groen, Dörte Becher, Michael Hecker, and Jan Maarten van Dijl (UMCG-University of Groningen, the Netherlands; Ernst-Moritz-Arndt-Universität, Greifswald, Germany; and IQ Therapeutics, Groningen, the Netherlands)
 
Profiling of global interactions between human serum proteins and the Staphylococcus aureus cell surface
 

Latest revision as of 15:38, 4 June 2018

Tuesday 12th June

  • 8:30 – 8:55 Registration
  • 8:55 Welcome - Chancellors’ Building, room 1.12

Session 1 Regulation

CHAIR: David Leak

  • 09:00 Ciaran Condon
    • Suppression of the essential nature of RNase M16 (YqfG), required for 3' maturation of B. subtilis 16S ribosomal RNA, by deletion of RNase R
  • 09:15 Roland Hartmann
    • Function and regulation of two 6S RNAs in Bacillus subtilis
  • 09:30 Matthias Mack
    • A dual control mechanism synchronizes riboflavin and sulphur metabolism in Bacillus subtilis
  • 09:45 Hermann Rath
    • A SigB-dependent antisense RNA affects osmotic induction of opuB expression in Bacillus subtilis
  • 10:00 Laura Teichmann
    • Suppressor analysis illuminates the structure/function relationship of the glycine betaine synthesis repressor GbsR
  • 10:15 Sylvain Durand
    • sRNA-mediated activation of gene expression by inhibition of 5’-3’exonucleolytic mRNA degradation

10:30 – 11:00 Tea and Coffee - Chancellors’ Building, ground floor foyer

Session 2 Cell division

CHAIR: TBA

  • 11:00 Henrik Strahl
    • Bacillus subtilis does not form microscopically detectable cardiolipin domains
  • 11:15 Jeanine Rismondo
    • Discovery of genes required for lipoteichoic acid glycosylation predicts two distinct mechanism for wall teichoic acid glycosylation
  • 11:30 Edward de Koning
    • Divisome maturation in Bacillus subtilis single cells
  • 11:45 Seamus Holden
  • 12:00 Dirk-Jan Scheffers
  • 12:15 Yongqiang Gao
    • Cell division in the cell wall-less bacterium Acholeplasma laidlawii


12:30 – 14:30 Lunch and Poster Session 1

Session 3 – Interesting Biology

CHAIR: Colin Harwood

  • 14:30 Jörg Stülke
    • DNA topoisomerases in Bacillus subtilis: A tale on mutants and suppressors
  • 14:45 Hannah Gaimster
    • Lethal depletion of essential cell envelope proteins can be rescued by slowing DNA replication in Bacillus subtilis
  • 15:00 Alexandre Deloupy
    • Stochastic gene expression in Bacillus subtilis
  • 15:15 Sabine Schneider
    • Development of a reporter gene system to characterise riboswitch function and to identify riboswitch modulators by high-throughput screening
  • 15:30 Ken-ichi Yoshida
    • Rapid conjugative mobilization of a 100 kb segment of Bacillus subtilis chromosomal DNA is mediated by a helper plasmid with no ability for self-transfer
  • 15:45 Anna A. Toymentseva
    • Mobilization and transfer of plasmids and chromosomal DNA mediated by optimized ICEBs1 conjugative element

16:00 – 16:30 Tea and Coffee

Session 4 – Antibiotics 1

CHAIR: Ulrike Mäder

  • 16:30 Carolin Kobras
    • Exploring the substrate specificity of the antimicrobial peptide resistance transporter BceA-BceB in Bacillus subtilis
  • 16:45 Luiza P. Morawska
    • Preadaptation of Bacillus subtilis to mild osmostress contributes to increased antibiotic resistance
  • 17:00 Mary K. Phillips-Jones
    • Characterisation of the VanA-type VanS histidine kinase involved in glycopeptide resistance in Gram-positive bacteria and its ligand interactions
  • 17:15 Gabriela Henriques
    • Towards the understanding of the regulation of SppA by YteJ in Bacillus subtilis.

Free evening in Bath

Wednesday 13th June

Session 5 Biotechnology

CHAIR: Anne Breüner

  • 9:00 Andreas Knapp
    • The spacer region in the 5´-UTR strongly affects recombinant protein production in Bacillus subtilis
  • 9:15 Alexandria Holland
    • Investigating protein secretion in Geobacillus thermoglucosidasius
  • 9:30 Matthew Styles
    • Engineering Parageobacillus for the Production of Terpenes: Building Better Chassis Organisms for Industrial Biotechnology
  • 9:45 Luca Longanesi
    • γ-PGA production through Consolidated Bioprocessing in engineered B. subtilis lab strains
  • 10:00 Matteo Cavaletti
    • Optimization of γ-PGA biosynthesis supported by synthetic biology and metabolic engineering strategies
  • 10:15 Ioannis Mougiakos
    • Characterizing a thermostable Cas9 for bacterial genome editing and silencing

10:15 - 10:45 Tea and Coffee

Session 6 - Sporulation and development

CHAIR: TBC

  • 10:45 Imrich Barák
    • What we (don’t) know about the asymmetric septum in Bacillus subtilis
  • 11:00 Munehiro Asally
  • 11:15 Ilka Bischofs
    • Phenotypic memory links different stages of the B. subtilis life cycle
  • 11:30 Akos Kovacs
    • Cheating promotes evolution of hyper-cooperators by shifting phenotypic heterogeneity in biofilms
  • 11:45 Sven Halbedel
    • Novel gpsB suppressor genes contributing to regulatory proteolysis and cell division
  • 12:00 Sofia Arnaouteli
  • 12:15 Karin Bjerre
    • Investigating of Bacillus subtilis and Bacillus amyloliquefaciens spores and vegetative cells in fecal samples from pigs

12:30 – 14:30 Lunch and Poster Session 2

Session 7 – Antibiotics 2

CHAIR: Kevin Devine

  • 14:30 Auke J. van Heel
    • BAGEL4: A user-friendly web server to mine RiPPs and bacteriocins
  • 14:45 Amanda Y. van Tilburg
    • Bacillus subtilis as heterologous production host for lantibiotics
  • 15:00 Nina Lautenschlaeger
    • A novel heterologous whole-cell biosensor in Bacillus subtilis for the comprehensive detection of b-lactam antibiotics
  • 15:15 Marjorie Gibbon
    • Towards understanding signalling between the bacitracin resistance transporter BceA-BceB and histidine kinase BceS of Bacillus subtilis

15:30 – 16:00 Tea and Coffee

Session 8 – Cereus Group

CHAIR: Cinzia Calvio

  • 16:00 Monika Ehling-Schulz
    • Bacillus cereus, a multifaceted pathogen: The challenge of discriminating high and low enteropathogenic strains
  • 16:15 Nick Waterfield
    • Bacillus cereus G9241 – to anthrax and back again
  • 16:30 Ludivine Rousset
    • Oligotrophy induces phenotypic diversification of Bacillus cereus AH187
  • 16:45 Jan Maarten van Dijl
    • Can Bacillus thuringiensis and other microorganisms isolated from chronic wounds ‘pacify’ Staphylococcus aureus?

17:00 Closing Remarks

19:00 – 23:00 Social event at The Terrace, The Roman Baths, generously supported by BACIP – to include the prize giving for best posters and talks from PhD/Postdocs

END OF MEETING

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