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=Monday March 14th 2011=
 
  
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Registration: 12.30 – 13.45
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= Tuesday 12th June =
  
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13.50 - 14.00 [[Jörg Stülke]]
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* 8:30 – 8:55 Registration
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Welcome and Introduction
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* 8:55 Welcome - Chancellors’ Building, room 1.12
  
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==Session I: Signalling, motility and [[biofilm formation]]==
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== Session 1 Regulation==
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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
  
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* 14:00 – 14:30 [[Daniel Kearns]]: invited speaker
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== 10:30 – 11:00 Tea and Coffee - Chancellors’ Building, ground floor foyer==
  
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* 14:30 – 14:45 Gyanendra P. Dubey, and [[Sigal Ben-Yehuda]] (Hebrew University; Jerusalem, Israel)
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== Session 2 [[Cell division]]==
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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
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* 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''
  
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* 14:45 – 15:00 Akos T. Kovacs, and [[Oscar Kuipers|Oscar P. Kuipers]] (University of Groningen, Netherlands)
 
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Regulation of architecturally complex colony development in ''Bacillus subtilis''
 
  
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* 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==
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Involvement of Hsp100/Clp proteases in the motility development of ''Bacillus subtilis''
 
  
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* 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 ==
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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''
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* 15:00 Alexandre Deloupy
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** Stochastic gene expression in Bacillus subtilis
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* 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
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* 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
  
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* 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 ==
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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
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* 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
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* 17:15 Gabriela Henriques
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** Towards the understanding of the regulation of [[SppA]] by [[YteJ]] in Bacillus subtilis.
  
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* 15:45 – 16:15 Coffee Break
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== Free evening in Bath ==
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==Session II: Localisation and secretion==
 
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Chair: [[Thomas Wiegert]]
 
  
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* 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 =
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A bacterial dynamin-like protein mediating nucleotide independent membrane fusion
 
  
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* 16:30 – 16:45 [[Daniel Lopez]] (Institute for Molecular Infectious Diseases, Würzburg, Germany)
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== Session 5 Biotechnology ==
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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''
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* 9:15 Alexandria Holland
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** Investigating protein secretion in ''Geobacillus thermoglucosidasius''
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* 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
  
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* 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 ==
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Secretome of the industrial ''Bacillus amyloliquefaciens'' strain BZ9
 
  
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* 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 ==
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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
  
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* 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 ==
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The secondary protein secretion translocase of'' Bacillus anthracis''
 
  
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==Session III: Replication–Cell cycle==
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==Session 7 – Antibiotics 2 ==
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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''
  
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* 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 ==
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The ''B. subtilis'' negative controller of replication initiation [[YabA]] acts as a replication checkpoint
 
  
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* 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 ==
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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''?
  
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* 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==
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Phosphorylated bacterial recombinase checks chromosome integrity during spore formation
 
  
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* 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 ==
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Min system oscillation is adverse for asymmetric cell division during ''Bacillus subtilis'' sporulation
 
  
  
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==18:30 – 19.30 BACELL Steering group meeting==
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= END OF MEETING =
  
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==20.00 Dinner==
 
  
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=Tuesday March 15th 2011=
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=Back to [[Main Page|SubtiWiki]]=
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* 8.40 – 8.45    [[Jörg Stülke]]
 
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Welcome to session: RNA biology of ''Bacillus''
 
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==Session IV: RNA biology of  ''Bacillus''==
 
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Chair: Tony Wilkinson
 
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* 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)
 
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<nowiki>              </nowiki>Quantitative and qualitative analysis of the ''Bacillus subtilis'' whole-transcriptome across [[lifestyles]]
 
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* 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)
 
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Genome-wide analysis of mRNA half-lives in ''Bacillus subtilis''
 
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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)
 
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The non-coding RNAs of Bacillus subtilis
 
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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)
 
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Two sRNA regulated systems from the Bacillus subtilis chromosome
 
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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)
 
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Structural and functional association of RNases in Bacillus subtilis
 
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10.00 – 10.15 Karen Shahbabian, Ailar Jamalli, Léna Zig, and Harald Putzer (CNRS Paris, France)
 
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RNase Y and RNase J, the two major players in mRNA metabolism in Bacillus subtilis
 
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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.)
 
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Unusual, dual endo- and exo-nuclease activity in the degradosome explained by crystal structure analysis of RNase J1
 
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10.30 – 11.00 Coffee/Tea
 
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Session IV; RNA biology of Bacillus; continued
 
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Chair: Ulrike Mäder
 
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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)
 
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Analysis of Rho-dependent termination of the Bacillus subtilis sigX-rsiX operon
 
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11.15 – 11.30 Anne R. Karow, Regula Aregger, and Dagmar Klostermeier (University of Basel, Biozentrum, Switzerland; and University of Muenster, Germany)
 
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Dissecting the mechanism of the DEAD box protein YxiN from Bacillus subtilis
 
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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)
 
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Identification of candidate Hfq targets in Bacillus subtilis
 
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11.45 – 12.00 Sandra Wiegand, Sascha Dietrich, and Heiko Liesegang (Georg-August-University of Göttingen, Germany)
 
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Regulatory elements of Bacillus licheniformis DSM 13
 
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Session V: Tools
 
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Chair: Ulrike Mäder (continued)
 
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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)
 
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New approach for global absolute protein quantification of B. subtilis
 
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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)
 
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Bioinformatics tools to decrypt non-ribosomal peptide diversity in bacilli
 
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12.30 – 14.00 Lunch (+ BACIP meeting)
 
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Session VI: Regulation and Metabolism
 
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Chair: Sabine Brantl
 
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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)
 
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Interaction of the general transcription factor TnrA with the PII-like protein GlnK and glutamine synthetase in Bacillus subtilis
 
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14.15 – 14.30 Jens Landmann, Ricarda Busse, Jörg Stülke, and Boris Görke (Georg-August-University of Göttingen, Germany)
 
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Regulation of a glycolytic bypass by Crh, the homolog of the phospho-carrier protein HPr in Bacillus subtilis
 
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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)
 
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Arginine phosphorylation modulates ClpC activity in Bacillus subtilis
 
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14.45 – 15.00 Ines Gruner, Anika March, Claudia Frädrich, and Elisabeth Härtig (Technical University of Braunschweig, Germany)
 
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Regulation of anaerobic adaptation of Bacillus subtilis
 
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15.00 – 15.15  Marcus Miethke, Florian Peuckert, and Mohamed A. Marahiel (Philipps University of Marburg, Germany)
 
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Ferric siderophore uptake and intracellular iron release in Bacillus subtilis and Bacillus halodurans
 
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15.15 – 15.30  S. Graf, and G. Unden (Universität Mainz, Germany)
 
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The fumarate sensor DcuS of Geobacillus kaustophilus
 
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15.30 – 15.45  Ken-ichi Yoshida (Kobe University, Kobe, Japan)
 
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Natural interconversion of inositol stereoisomers in bacteria?
 
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15.45 – 16.15 Coffee/Tea
 
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Session VII: Cell wall and Sporulation
 
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Chair: Dörte Becher
 
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16.15 – 16.30 Eric Botella, Sebastian Hübner, and Kevin M Devine (Trinity College Dublin, Ireland)
 
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Cell envelope gene expression in phosphate limited Bacillus subtilis cells
 
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16.30 – 16.45 Robyn T. Eijlander, and Oscar P. Kuipers (TI Food and Nutrition, Wageningen, the Netherlands; and University of Groningen, the Netherlands)
 
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Studying Bacillus cereus sporulation and germination at the single cell level
 
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16.45 – 17.00 Anthony J. Wilkinson (University of York, UK)
 
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Structural and interaction studies of an intercellular zipper mediating engulfment during sporulation in B. subtilis
 
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Session VIII: Gram-positive pathogens
 
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Chair: Imrich Barak
 
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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)
 
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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
 
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17.15 – 17.30 Susanne Pohl, Wang Yung Tu, Nigel Robinson, Kevin Waldron, and Colin Harwood (Newcastle University, Newcastle upon Tyne, United Kingdom)
 
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The superoxide oxidative stress response of Bacillus anthracis
 
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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)
 
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Identification of a Streptococcus pneumoniae protein involved in resistance to oxidative stress
 
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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)
 
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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

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