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Tuesday 29th April 2014

▪ 8:00 – 9.00 REGISTRATION ▪ 9:00 – 9:10 – Welcome Introduction

Session I Metabolism

CHAIR: Jan Maarten van Dijl

  • 9:10 – 9:25 – Ken-ichi Yoshida, Kobe University, Japan
    • Inositol dehydrogenases in Geobacillus kaustophilus are regulated by a Crh homolog but not by glucose
  • 9:30 – 9:45 – Matthieu Jules, INRA, MICALIS, France
    • New regulation and catabolic repression of the uptake of gluconeogenic carbon sources
  • 9:50 – 10:05 – Uwe Völker, University Medicine Greifswald, Germany
    • Adaptation of Bacillus subtilis carbon core metabolism to simultaneous nutrient limitation and osmotic challenge: a multi-omics perspective.
  • 10:10 – 10:25 – Raphael Michna, General Microbiology, Göttingen, Germany
    • SubtiWiki and its compagnons: Tools for data integration of Bacillus subtilis
  • 10:30 – 10:50 – COFFEE BREAK

Session II Synthetic Biology and Secretion

CHAIR: Nicola Stanley-Wall

  • 10:50 – 11:05 – Phillippe Noirot,INRA, France
    • Streamlining the Bacillus subtilis genome: from proof-of-concept to cell factories
  • 11:10 – 11:25 – Iolanda Ferro, University of Potsdam, Germany
    • Emerging role of tRNA charging for protein expression in Bacillus licheniformis
  • 11:30 – 11:45 – Marcel Hillebrand, DSM, Delft, Netherlands
    • Signal sequence fusion libraries for increased enzyme production
  • 11:50 – 12:05 – Jolanda Neef, University of Groningen (UMCG), the Netherlands
    • A novel expression platform for the production of cell wall-bound and secreted staphylococcal antigens
  • 12:10 – 12:25 – Giulia Barbieri, University of Pavia, Italy
    • CodY regulates the expression of two proteases in B. subtilis
  • 12:30 – 14:00 LUNCH (+ BACIP MEETING)

Session III: Stress response and regulation

CHAIR: Leendert Hamoen

  • 14:00 – 14:15 – Thorsten Mascher, Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München, Germany
    • Cannibalism Stress Response in Bacillus subtilis
  • 14:20 – 14:35 – Sandra Maaß, Ernst-Moritz-Arndt Universität Greifswald, Germany
    • Absolute protein quantification of stress and starvation responses in Bacillus subtilis.
  • 14:40 – 14:55 – Tamara Hoffmann, Philipps-University Marburg, Germany
    • Balancing the osmotic gradient: transcriptional control of opuAA expression in response to osmotic stress and the cytoplasmic compatible solute pool
  • 15:00 – 15:15 –Mette Dines-Cantor, Chr. Hansen A/S, Hørsholm, DK
    • Screening for new Bacillus-based probiotic feed additives for the pig industry.
  • 15:20 – 15:35 – Jurgen Seppen, Amsterdam Medical Centre, NL
    • The utility Bacillus subtilis for intestinal gene transfer.
  • 13:40 – 13:55 – Anne-Brit Kolstø, University of Oslo, NO
    • TBA
  • 15:40 – 16:00 – COFFEE BREAK

Session IV: Spores/sporulation

CHAIR: Nicola Stanley-Wall

  • 16:00 – 16:15 – Stanley Brul, University of Amsterdam, NL
    • Functional genomics for food preservation: inhibiting bacterial spore germination
  • 16:20 – 16:35 – Ewa Bukowska-Faniband, University of Lund, SE
    • Cortex synthesis during Bacillus subtilis sporulation depends on the transpeptidase activity of SpoVD
  • 16:40 – 16:55 – Robyn Eijlander, University of Groningen, NL
    • SporeWeb: Interactive visualization of gene regulatory networks during the complete sporulation cycle of Bacillus subtilis
  • 17:00 – 17:15– Katie Jameson, University of York, UK
  • 17:20 – 17:35 – Katja Nagler, German Aerospace Centre, Cologne, DE
    • High salinity has negative effects on Bacillus subtilis spore germination and outgrowth
  • 17.40 – 17.55– Patrik Florek, Slovak Academy of Sciences, SK
  • 18.00 – 19.30 BACELL STEERING GROUP MEETING

== 19:30 – WINE RECEPTION AND DINNER AT THE Great North Museum, Barras Bridge == Biofilms

Thursday April 11th 2013

Session V: Synthetic Biology

CHAIR: Thomas Wiegert

  • 9:00 – 9:15 – Elbrich Hendricks, University of Groningen, NL
    • iGEM team Groningen 2012: Food Wardens – Grand Prize Winners
  • 9:20 – 9:35 – Francois Coutte, University of Lille, FR
    • Genetic engineering of Bacillus subtilis assisted by computational modelling to overproduce lipopeptide biosurfactants
  • 9:40 – 9:55 – Maarten Mols, University of Groningen, NL
    • Improving the Bacilllus cell factory by cell envelope engineering
  • 10:00 – 10:15 – Tjeerd van Ris, DSM, Delft, NL
    • Improved enzyme production by codon pair optimization
  • 10:20 – 10:35 – Alexander Webb, Imperial College London, UK
    • Parasight
  • 10:40 – 11:00 – COFFEE BREAK

Session VI: Cell walls and secretion

CHAIR: Ole Økstad

  • 11:00 – 11:15 – Patricia Dominguez-Cuevas, Newcastle University, UK
    • Actin cytoskeleton Mbl homologue coordinates cell wall hydrolases and LytE activity during cell elongation.
  • 11:20 – 11:35 – David Noone, Trinity College Dublin, IE
    • Several regulatory mechanisms combine to make expression and cell association of the CwlO D,L-endopeptidase-type autolysin responsive to growth conditions in Bacillus subtilis
  • 11:40 – 11:55 – Dirk-Jan Scheffers, University of Groningen, NL
    • Substrate availability guides peptidoglycan synthesis
  • 12:00 – 12:15 – Thomas Wiegert, University of Applied Sciences Zittau, DE
  • 12:20 – 12:35 – Vivianne Goosens, University Medical Centre Groningen, NL
    • A role for TatAC in Bacillus subtilis twin-arginine protein translocation
  • 12:40 – 13:40 – LUNCH

Session VII: Regulation & Replication

CHAIR: Henrik Strahl

  • 13:40 – 13:55 – Sara Kesel, Ludwig-Maximilians-University, DE
  • 14:00 – 14:15 –Jakob Engman, Lund University, SE
    • Aggregation of the YjbH adaptor protein as a mechanism of Spx regulation.
  • 14:20 – 14:35 – Fabian Commichau, University of Göttingen, DE
  • 14:40 – 14:55– Thorsten Mascher, Ludwig-Maximilians-University, DE
    • (Tools for studying the) Regulatory dynamics of peptide antibiotic detoxification modules in Bacillus subtilis
  • 15:00 – 15:15 – Vladimir Bidnenko, INRA, Jouy en Josas, FR
    • Distinct activities of co-essential Bacillus subtilis flap-endonucleases, Pol I and YpcP, in DNA replication and repair
  • 15:20 – 15:35 – Panos Soultanas, University of Nottingham, UK
    • Functional interplay of DnaE polymerase, DnaG primase and DnaC helicase within a ternary complex during lagging strand DNA replication in Bacillus subtilis
  • 15:40 – 16:00 – COFFEE BREAK

Session VIII: Division

CHAIR: Alan Nielson

  • 16:00 – 16:15 – Peter Graumann, Universitat Freiburg, DE
    • Movement of up to 3.4mm long MreB filaments at various angles underneath the cell membrane and their intrinsic membrane affinity
  • 16:20 – 16:35 – Hiraku Takada, Tokyo University of Agriculture, Japan
    • Involvement of essential lipid synthetic enzyme, PlsX, in the cell division machinery
  • 16:40 – 16:55 – Ilkay Celik, Newcastle University, UK
  • 17:00 – 17:15 – Robert Cleverley, Newcastle University, UK
  • 17:20 – 17:35 – Alex Dajkovic, University of California Irvine, USA
    • Organization of FtsZ polymers in living Bacillus subtilis cells
  • 17:40 – 17:55 – Romain Mercier, Newcastle University, UK
    • Excess membrane synthesis drives a primitive mode of cell proliferation

END OF MEETING

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