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Chair: [[Ulrike Mäder]]
 
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)
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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)
** Analysis of Rho-dependent termination of the Bacillus subtilis sigX-rsiX operon
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** 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
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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
** Dissecting the mechanism of the DEAD box protein YxiN from Bacillus subtilis  
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** 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)
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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)
** Identification of candidate Hfq targets in Bacillus subtilis
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** 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)
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* 11.45 – 12.00 Sandra Wiegand, Sascha Dietrich, and Heiko Liesegang (Georg-August-University of Göttingen, Germany)
** Regulatory elements of Bacillus licheniformis DSM 13
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** Regulatory elements of ''Bacillus licheniformis'' DSM 13
  
Session V: Tools
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==Session V: Tools==
Chair: Ulrike Mäder (continued)
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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)
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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)
** Bioinformatics tools to decrypt non-ribosomal peptide diversity in bacilli
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** New approach for global absolute protein quantification of ''B. subtilis''
  
12.30 14.00 Lunch (+ BACIP meeting)
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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
  
Session VI: Regulation and Metabolism
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* 12.30 – 14.00 Lunch (+ BACIP meeting)
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)
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==Session VI: Regulation and Metabolism==
** Regulation of a glycolytic bypass by Crh, the homolog of the phospho-carrier protein HPr in Bacillus subtilis
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Chair: [[Sabine Brantl]]
  
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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* 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)
** Arginine phosphorylation modulates ClpC activity in Bacillus subtilis
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** Interaction of the general transcription factor [[TnrA]] with the PII-like protein [[NrgB|GlnK]] and [[GlnA|glutamine synthetase]] in ''Bacillus subtilis''
  
14.45 15.00 Ines Gruner, Anika March, Claudia Frädrich, and Elisabeth Härtig (Technical University of Braunschweig, Germany)
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* 14.15 14.30 Jens Landmann, Ricarda Busse, [[Jörg Stülke]], and [[Boris Görke]] (Georg-August-University of Göttingen, Germany)  
** Regulation of anaerobic adaptation of Bacillus subtilis
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** Regulation of a glycolytic bypass by [[Crh]], the homolog of the phospho-carrier protein [[HPr]] in ''Bacillus subtilis''
  
15.00 15.15  Marcus Miethke, Florian Peuckert, and Mohamed A. Marahiel (Philipps University of Marburg, Germany)
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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)
** Ferric siderophore uptake and intracellular iron release in Bacillus subtilis and Bacillus halodurans
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** Arginine phosphorylation modulates [[ClpC]] activity in ''Bacillus subtilis''
  
15.15 – 15.30  S. Graf, and G. Unden (Universität Mainz, Germany)
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* 14.45 – 15.00 Ines Gruner, Anika March, Claudia Frädrich, and ''Elisabeth Härtig'' (Technical University of Braunschweig, Germany)
** The fumarate sensor DcuS of Geobacillus kaustophilus
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** Regulation of anaerobic adaptation of'' Bacillus subtilis''
  
15.30 – 15.45  Ken-ichi Yoshida (Kobe University, Kobe, Japan)
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* 15.00 – 15.15  Marcus Miethke, Florian Peuckert, and [[Mohamed Marahiel|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)
 
** Natural interconversion of inositol stereoisomers in bacteria?
 
** Natural interconversion of inositol stereoisomers in bacteria?
  
15.45 – 16.15 Coffee/Tea
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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 Devine]] (Trinity College Dublin, Ireland)
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** Cell envelope gene expression in phosphate limited ''Bacillus subtilis'' cells
  
Session VII: Cell wall and Sporulation
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* 16.30 – 16.45 Robyn T. Eijlander, and [[Oscar Kuipers|Oscar P. Kuipers]] (TI Food and Nutrition, Wageningen, the Netherlands; and University of Groningen, the Netherlands)
Chair: Dörte Becher
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** Studying ''Bacillus cereus'' sporulation and germination at the single cell level
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)
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* 16.45 17.00 [[Tony Wilkinson|Anthony J. Wilkinson]] (University of York, UK)
** Studying Bacillus cereus sporulation and germination at the single cell level
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** Structural and interaction studies of an intercellular zipper mediating engulfment during sporulation in ''B. subtilis''
  
16.45 – 17.00 Anthony J. Wilkinson (University of York, UK)
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==Session VIII: Gram-positive pathogens==
** Structural and interaction studies of an intercellular zipper mediating engulfment during sporulation in B. subtilis
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Chair: [[Imrich Barak]]
  
Session VIII: Gram-positive pathogens
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* 17.00 – 17.15  Simen M. Kristoffersen, Nicolas J. Tourasse, Timothy D. Read, Brian Desany, [[Anne-Brit Kolsto|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)  
Chair: Imrich Barak
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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
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)
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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)
** The superoxide oxidative stress response of Bacillus anthracis
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** 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)  
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* 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
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** 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)
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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)
** Profiling of global interactions between human serum proteins and the Staphylococcus aureus cell surface
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** Profiling of global interactions between human serum proteins and the ''Staphylococcus aureus'' cell surface

Revision as of 14:07, 14 February 2011

Monday March 14th 2011

Registration: 12.30 – 13.45

13.50 - 14.00 Jörg Stülke Welcome and Introduction

Session I: Signalling, motility and biofilm formation

Chair: Eugenio Ferrari

  • 14:30 – 14:45 Gyanendra P. Dubey, and Sigal Ben-Yehuda (Hebrew University; Jerusalem, Israel)
    • Intercellular nanotubes mediate bacterial communication
  • 14:45 – 15:00 Akos T. Kovacs, and 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 Kürşad Turgay (Freie Universität Berlin, Germany; and Northwestern University, Evanston, IL USA)
    • 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)
    • Analysis of lantibiotic immunity and regulation in Bacillus subtilis
  • 15:30 – 15:45 Anna Staroń, Sebastian Dintner, Georg Fritz, Ulrich Gerland, Susanne Gebhard, and Thorsten Mascher (Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München, Germany)
    • Peptide Antibiotic Sensing and Detoxification Modules of Bacillus subtilis: Stimulus Specificity, Signalling Interfaces and Regulatory Dynamics
  • 15:45 – 16:15 Coffee Break

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)
    • A bacterial dynamin-like protein mediating nucleotide independent membrane fusion
  • 16:30 – 16:45 Daniel Lopez (Institute for Molecular Infectious Diseases, Würzburg, Germany)
    • 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 Zoltán Prágai (DSM Biotechnology Center, Delft, the Netherlands; DSM Nutritional Products, Basel, Switzerland; and UMCG-University of Groningen, the Netherlands)
    • 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)
    • High-yield intra- and extracellular protein production using Bacillus megaterium
  • 17:15 – 17:30 Krzysztof Gizynski, Susanne Pohl and Colin R. Harwood (Newcastle University, Newcastle upon Tyne, United Kingdom)
    • The secondary protein secretion translocase of Bacillus anthracis

Session III: Replication–Cell cycle

Chair: Thorsten Mascher

  • 17:30 – 17:45 V. Bidnenko, S. McGovern, F. Lecointe, P. Noirot, and M.-F. Noirot-Gros (INRA, Jouy en Josas, France)
    • 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 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)
  • 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)
    • Phosphorylated bacterial recombinase checks chromosome integrity during spore formation
  • 18.15 – 18.30 Imrich Barák, Naďa Pavlendová, Ján Jamoroškovič, 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


18:30 – 19.30 BACELL Steering group meeting

20.00 Dinner

Tuesday March 15th 2011

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)
  • 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)
  • 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 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