Program

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Sunday, June 19, 2011 – Afternoon

Physiology

CHAIR: Josef Deutscher

  • 2:15 – 2:30 T1, Elaine Milohanic, INRA and AgroParis Tech, Thiverval-Grignon, France
    • ManR regulates the expression of the main Listeria monocytogenes glucose/mannose transporter and uses a second glucose transporter as substrate sensor.
  • 2:30 – 2:45 T2, Boris Görke, Institute of Microbiology and Genetics, George-August University of Göttingen, Göttingen, Germany
    • Crh, the homolog of the phosphor-carrier protein HPr, regulates a glycolytic bypass in Bacillus subtilis.
  • 2:45 – 3:00 T3, Jean-Michel Jault, Institut de Biologie Structurale, Grenoble, France
    • The unusual activity of a GTPase from Bacillus subtilis, YphC (or EngA), involved in ribosome biogenesis.
  • 3:00 – 3:15 T4, Yuka Kazo, Laboratory of Molecular Genetics, Department of Life Science, College of Science, Rikkyo University, Tokyo, Japan
    • Analysis of dimerization of 70S ribosome, and yvyD gene during stationary phase in Bacillus subtilis.
  • 3:15 – 3:30 T5, Donald A. Morrison, Department of Biological Sciences, University of Illinois at Chicago, Chicago, Illinois, USA
    • Regulation of the competence regulon in Group A and Group B streptococci: Pyogenic Type II ComR receptors recognize small species-specific peptide pheromones when expressed in a heterologous host.
  • 3:30 – 3:45 T6, Nathalie Campo, Centre national de la Recherche Scientifique, Toulouse, France
    • X-state (competence) development causes transient cell cycle alterations in Streptococcus pneumoniae.
  • 3:45 – 4:00 T7, Maria C. Mansilla, Instituto de Biología Molecular y Celular, Univ. Nac.de Rosario, Rosario, Argentina
    • A novel pathway for lipoic acid synthesis in Gram-positive bacteria.
  • 4:00 – 4:15 T8, Jörg Stülke, Department of General Microbiology, Georg-August- Univeristy Göttingen, Göttingen Germany

Genome Engineering

CHAIR: Mike Rasmussen

  • 4:45 – 5:00 T9, Robert A. Britton, Department of Microbiology and Molecular Genetics, Michigan State University, East Lansing Michigan, USA
    • Recombineering in lactic acid bacteria.
  • 5:00 – 5:15 T10, Ghislain Schyns, DSM Nutritional Products, Ltd., Basel, Switzerland
    • Learning from probiotics to improve biological availability of feed enzymes.
  • 5:15 – 5:30 T11, Sébastien Potot, DSM Nutritional Products, Biotechnology, Basel, Switzerland
    • Mixing bacterial genomes to identify critical mutations in Bacillus subtilis industrial strains.
  • 5:30 – 5:45 T12, Philippe Jacques, Université Lille, France
    • Environmental factors and pleiotropic regulators influence homologous compound pattern of mycosubtilin produced by Bacilius subtilis ATCC 6633.
  • 5:45 – 6:00 T13, Philippe Noirot, INRA, Jouy en Josas, France
    • Systematic identification of dispensable genome parts in Bacillus subtilis coupled with metabolic model reconstruction.

7:00 – 9:00 Welcome Reception – Grand Hotel & La Pace

Monday, June 20, 2011 – Morning

Cell Wall

CHAIR: Kevin Devine

  • 8:15 – 9:00, Jeff Errington, Centre for Bacterial Cell Biology, Newcastle University, Newcastle-upon-Tyne, United Kingdom
    • Keynote Lecture: Emergence and proliferation of B. subtilis L-forms.
  • 9:00 – 9:15 T14, Olaf Schneewind, Department of Microbiology, University of Chicago, Chicago, Illinois, USA
    • LytN, a murein hydrolase in the cross wall compartment of Staphylococcus aureus, is required for bacterial growth and envelope assembly.
  • 9:15 – 9:30 T15, Hèléne Bierne, Institut Pasteur, Unité des interactions bactéries-cellules, Inserm, Paris, France
    • A regulated switch from helical to polar localization of Listeria monocytogenes cell wall-anchored proteins.
  • 9:30 – 9:45 T16 Sven Halbedel, Department of Bacterial Infections, Robert Koch Institute, Wernigerode, Germany
    • A role for the membrane curvature sensor DivIVA in cell separation and virulence of Listeria monocytogenes.
  • 9:45 – 10:00 T17, Teresa Costa, ITQB, Universidade Nova de Lisboa, Oeiras, Portugal
    • Control of Bacillus subtilis cell shape by the novel cytoskeletal element RodZ.
  • 10:00 – 10:15 T18, Julia Domínguez-Escobar, AG Cellular Dynamics and Cell Patterning, Max Planck Institute of Biochemistry, Martinsried, Germany
    • Processive movement of MreB-associated cell wall biosynthetic complexes in bacteria. In vivo visualization of sidewall biosynthetic machineries in Bacillus subtilis.
  • 10:15 – 10:30 T19, Anne Galinier, Université de la Méditerranée, Marseille, France
    • The YvcK protein is required for morphogenesis via localization of PBP1 under gluconeogenic growth conditions in Bacillus subtilis.

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