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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]] (Indiana University; Bloomington, USA): invited speaker
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== 10:30 11:00 Tea and Coffee - Chancellors’ Building, ground floor foyer==
** Flagellin homeostasis and morphogenic regulation of flagellar filament assembly in ''Bacillus subtilis''
 
  
* 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
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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''
  
* 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''
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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
  
* 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
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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.
  
* 15:45 – 16:15 Coffee Break
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== Free evening in Bath ==
  
==Session II: Localisation and secretion==
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= Wednesday 13th June =
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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== Session 5 Biotechnology ==
** A bacterial dynamin-like protein mediating nucleotide independent membrane fusion
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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
  
* 16:30 – 16:45 [[Daniel Lopez]] (Institute for Molecular Infectious Diseases, Würzburg, Germany)
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== 10:15 - 10:45 Tea and Coffee ==
** Targeting Lipid Rafts in Bacteria
 
  
* 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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== Session 6 - [[Sporulation]] and development ==
** Secretome of the industrial ''Bacillus amyloliquefaciens'' strain BZ9
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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
  
* 17:00 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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==12:30 14:30 Lunch and Poster Session 2 ==
** High-yield intra- and extracellular protein production using ''Bacillus megaterium''
 
  
* 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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==Session 7 – Antibiotics 2 ==
** The secondary protein secretion translocase of'' Bacillus anthracis''
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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''
  
==Session III: Replication–Cell cycle==
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== 15:30 – 16:00 Tea and Coffee ==
Chair: [[Thorsten Mascher]]
 
  
* 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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== Session 8 Cereus Group ==
** The ''B. subtilis'' negative controller of replication initiation [[YabA]] acts as a replication checkpoint
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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''?
  
* 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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== 17:00 Closing Remarks==
** Does glycolysis gate [[DNA replication]] in the ''Bacillus subtilis'' cell cycle?
 
  
* 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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== 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 ==
** 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)
 
** Min system oscillation is adverse for asymmetric cell division during ''Bacillus subtilis'' sporulation
 
  
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= END OF MEETING =
  
==18:30 – 19.30 BACELL Steering group meeting==
 
  
==20.00 Dinner==
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=Tuesday March 15th 2011=
 
 
 
* 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 [[ncRNA|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 [[ncRNA|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)
 
** [[rny|RNase Y]] and [[rnjA|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 Harwood|Colin R. Harwood]], and [[Rick Lewis|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 [[rnjA|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 [[NrgB|GlnK]] and [[GlnA|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 Marahiel|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 Robyn T. Eijlander, and [[Oscar Kuipers|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
 
 
 
* 16.30 – 16.45 Eric Botella, Sebastian Hübner, and [[Kevin Devine]] (Trinity College Dublin, Ireland)
 
** Cell envelope gene expression in phosphate limited ''Bacillus subtilis'' cells
 
 
 
* 16.45 – 17.00 [[Tony Wilkinson|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 Kolsto|Anne-Brit Kolstø]], and [[Ole Økstad|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 Kuipers|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
 
 
 
 
 
=Back to [[BACELL meeting]]=
 

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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