PLENARIES, SYMPOSIA AND WORKSHOPS
PLENARIES, SYMPOSIA AND WORKSHOPS SUNDAY, JUNE 7, 2015 PLENARIES Name Country Presentation Title Jean-Michel Claverie Janet K. Jansson France USA Giant viruses (human) microbiome Name Country Presentation Title Pierre de Wit The Netherlands Plant-fungal pathogens Country Presentation Title MONDAY, JUNE 8, 2015 PLENARY SYMPOSIA Name Plant microbe interactions Offered by FEMS Microbiology Ecology Chair/Speaker Julia Vorholt Switzerland Chair/Speaker Angela Sessitsch Austria Speaker Jos Raaijmakers The Netherlands Speaker Natalia Requena Germany Cell polarity and virulence Chair/Speaker Xavier de Bolle Belgium Chair/Speaker Clay Fuqua USA Speaker Bree Aldridge USA Speaker Melanie Blokesch Switzerland Horizontal gene transfer, evolution Chair/Speaker Didier Mazel France Chair/Speaker Charles J. Dorman Ireland Speaker Tal Dagan Germany Speaker Catherine Masson-Boivin France Resistome Chair/Speaker José L. Martínez Spain Chair/Speaker Morten Sommer Denmark Speaker Rob Willems The Netherlands Speaker Gautam Dantas USA Yeast biotechnology Offered by FEMS Yeast Research Chair/Speaker Jack T. Pronk The Netherlands Chair/Speaker Uwe Sauer Switzerland Speaker Ed Louis UK Speaker Leonie Raamsdonk The Netherlands The phyllosphere microbiota: responses to and impacts on plants Plant-microbiome interactions in heavy metal polluted environments Back to the roots: microbiology and chemistry at the root-soil interface Plant-fungal communication during arbuscular mycorrhizal symbiosis Brucella abortus cell cycle in culture and inside host cells Cellular polarity and attachment in the plant pathogen Agrobacterium tumefaciens The long and the short of it: heterogeneity and asymmetric growth in mycobacteria It takes two to tango - the interplay between two nanomachines drives horizontal gene transfer in Vibrio cholerae Horizontal gene transfer, antibiotics and stress response connections Horizontal gene transfer, microbial evolution and host adaptation Phylogenomic transduction networks reveal genetic barriers for phage-mediated lateral gene transfer Co-transfer of hypermutagenesis and symbiotic genes drives the evolution of legume endosymbionts Ranking risks in resistomes. The intrinsic resistome Delineating the dissemination of antibiotic resistance genes within microbial communities Comparative genomics to infer the antibiotic resistance mobilome in clonally related and unrelated strains Networks of Exchanging Antibiotic Resistance in Human and Environmental Microbiota Engineering central metabolism in yeast for production of fuels and chemicals Coordination of yeast metabolism through phosphorylation Quantitative genetics of industrial and new yeast hybrids Lignocellulosic bioethanol – from laboratory proof-of-concept to full scale plant MONDAY, JUNE 8, 2015 (Cont) SYMPOSIA (Cont) Name Country FEMS-ASM joint symposium: Polymicrobial biofilms Chair/Speaker Staffan Kjelleberg Australia Chair/Speaker Mary Ann Jabra-Rizk USA Speaker Brian M. Peters USA Speaker Jean Marc Ghigo France Pathogenicity and cell surface Chair/Speaker Jan Tommassen The Netherlands Chair/Speaker Jean-François Collet Belgium Speaker Timothy Foster Ireland Speaker Wilbert Bitter The Netherlands High throughput screening technologies Chair/Speaker Martin Held Switzerland Chair/Speaker Pieter Dorrestein USA Speaker Jean-Luc Wolfender Switzerland Speaker Philippe Marliere France Presentation Title Experimental mixed species biofilms: A novel approach to evaluating interactions at a community level Clinical Implications of Biofilm-Associated Polymicrobial Infections Candida albicans-Staphylococcus aureus intra-abdominal infections: at the crossroads of inter-Kingdom virulence and host response Contribution of bacterial volatile molecules to the dynamics of polymicrobial bacterial biofilm communities Protein secretion and secreted proteins in Neisseria meningitidis How a surface-exposed lipoprotein functions as an envelope stress sensor in enterobacteria Adhesion, invasion, evasion. The many functions of surface proteins of Staphylococcus aureus Role of the ESX-5 protein secretion system in functioning of the mycobacterial cell envelope and in virulence Nano-liter reactor technology for whole cell biocatalyst optimization and discovery Creating the Facebook for Molecular Microbial Analysis Searching for de novo induced bioactive metabolites in microbial interactions : a combined MS-based metabolomics and microNMR approach Accept no limit:Why and how to restart chemical evolution in micro-organisms WORKSHOPS Name Country Presentation Title Fungal plant pathogens Chair/Speaker Jörg Kämper Germany Transcriptional networks controlling pathogenicity and polarized growth in U. maydis Chair/Speaker Bart Thomma The Netherlands Pathogenomics of Verticillium wilt diseases Genomics, evolution, phylogeny Chair/Speaker Kaare Magne Nielsen Norway DNA substrates for horizontal gene transfer by natural transformation Chair/Speaker Jodi A. Lindsay UK Evolution of a superbug: Real-time transfer of antimicrobial resistance in the host Antibiotic resistance and environment Chair/Speaker Célia M. Manaia Portugal Antibiotic resistance in the urban water cycle: origins, fate and risks Chair/Speaker Luigi Rizzo Italy Disinfection of urban wastewater by conventional and new processes: effect on antibiotic resistance Food Microbiology Chair/Speaker Stanley Brul The Netherlands Proteomics, thermal robustness and germination heterogeneity of Bacillus spores Chair/Speaker Ana Rute Neves Denmark The sweet secrets of industrial strain improvement Molecular principles of biofilm formation and dispersion Chair/Speaker Jean-Marc Ghigo France Unmasking cryptic adhesin regulatory networks in Escherichia coli Chair/Speaker Karin Sauer USA Molecular basis of dispersion and signal transduction Host manipulation and bacterial survival Offered by Pathogens and Disease Chair/Speaker David Holden UK Salmonella's intracellular toolkit Chair/Speaker Craig Roy USA Manipulation of host membrane transport by Type IV effector proteins TUESDAY, JUNE 9, 2015 PLENARY Name Country Presentation Title John D. McKinney Switzerland Bacterial persistence Country Presentation Title Germany UK UK c-di-GMP signaling and E. coli biofilm architecture c-di-AMP signalling in Staphylococcus aureus Chp8, a composite diguanylate cyclase which promotes Pseudomonas syringae pv tomato DC3000 pathogenicity and plant immune evasion during infection of Arabidopsis thaliana The role of cyclic di-GMP in Streptomyces development SYMPOSIA Name Cyclic di-nucleotides in bacteria Chair/Speaker Regine Hengge Chair/Speaker Angelika Gründling Speaker Christoph Engl Speaker Natalia Tschowri Germany Bacterial persistence and toxin – antitoxins Chair/Speaker Kenn Gerdes UK Chair/Speaker Christoph Dehio Switzerland Speaker Remy Loris Belgium Speaker Pierre Genevaux France CRISPR - biological and technological advances Chair/Speaker Emanuella Charpentier Germany Chair/Speaker John van der Oost The Netherlands Speaker Stan Brouns The Netherlands Speaker David Bikard France Antibiotics: novel approaches to treat resistant organisms Chair/Speaker Kim Lewis USA Chair/Speaker Olga Genilloud Spain Speaker Philippe Villain-Guillot France Speaker John Robinson Switzerland Establishment of the fungal mycelium Chair/Speaker Han Wösten The Netherlands Chair/Speaker Reinhard Fischer Germany Speaker Stephan Seiler Germany Speaker Unai Ugalde Spain Thermodynamics in ecology and systems biology Chair/Speaker Thomas Maskow Germany Chair/Speaker Robbert Kleerebezem The Netherlands Speaker Rudolf Thauer Germany Speaker Théodore Bouchez France White biotechnology Chair/Speaker Dick B. Janssen The Netherlands Chair/Speaker Bernhard Hauer Germany Speaker Anthony Green UK Speaker Patrik R. Jones UK Computational modelling Chair/Speaker Martin Howard UK Chair/Speaker Erik van Nimwegen Switzerland Speaker Sander Tans The Netherlands Speaker Frank Bruggeman The Netherlands Magic Spot Controls Bacterial Persister Cell Formation by Activating Toxin - Antitoxins TBA Novel regulatory mechanisms in toxin-antitoxin modules Chaperone-mediated control of toxin-antitoxins Type II CRISPR-Cas9 systems: mechanisms, evolution and applications TBA Memory formation in E. coli CRISPR-Cas systems Studying and fighting bacteria with the help of CRISPR Compounds for Overcoming Antibiotic Tolerance and Resistance Exploring microbial natural products as sources for novel antibiotics Xenorhabdus & Photorhabdus: a Promising Bioresource for the Discovery of Novel Antibiotics ß-Hairpin peptidomimetic antibiotics targeting outer membrane proteins in Gram-negative bacteria Heterogeneity of the fungal mycelium The microtubule cytoskeleton in Aspergillus nidulans Signaling cascades associated with fungal cell-cell communication and trophic growth Insights into the early regulation of conidiospore development in Aspergillus nidulans 231 years after Lavoisier, in times of systems ecology – what tells us biological calorimetry? Thermodynamic state analysis for microbial ecosystems A novel biochemical trick of anaerobic microorganisms to deal with complicated thermodynamic situations A thermodynamic theory of microbial growth and its perspectives for a better understanding of community dynamics Computation-supported discovery and engineering of microbial enzymes for synthetic biology Bio-synthetic routes based on new enzymatic reactions Biocatalytic Retrosynthesis: Redesigning Synthetic Routes to High-Value Chemicals Microbial biosynthesis and separation of alkanes and alcohols Mechanistic basis of equal plasmid spacing by the parABC system The role of gene expression noise in the evolution of gene regulation TBA How bacteria can maximise their growth rate under stress conditions TUESDAY, JUNE 9, 2015 (Cont) WORKSHOPS Name Country Microbial transformations of metals and metalloids Chair/Speaker Andreas Kappler Germany Chair/Speaker Nurgul Balci Turkey Toxin-antitoxin systems in bacteria: clinical implications Chair/Speaker Sophie Helaine UK Chair/Speaker Laurence van Melderen Belgium New diagnostic approaches Chair/Speaker Jacques Schrenzel Switzerland Chair/Speaker Henrik Hasman Denmark Antibiotic resistance: human and veterinary medicine Chair/Speaker Patrick Plésiat France Chair/Speaker Béla Nagy Hungary Fungal bacterial interactions Chair/Speaker Lukas Wick Germany Chair/Speaker Pilar Junier Switzerland Archaea and life in extreme environments Chair/Speaker Sonja-Verena Albers Germany Chair/Speaker Lyle Whyte Canada White biotechnology Chair/Speaker Uwe Bonscheuer Germany Chair/Speaker Bruce Neil UK Natural products including secondary metabolites Chair/Speaker Joern Piel Switzerland Chair/Speaker Manuel Banzhaf Germany Presentation Title Ecology and mechanisms of microbial Fe(II) oxidation Microbial oxidation of metal sulfur minerals Role of TA modules in Salmonella persisters during infection TBA Rapid antimicrobial susceptibility testing : will it be genotypic or phenotypic? Whole genome sequencing as a tool for clinical diagnostics Parallel but distinct evolution of Pseudomonas aeruginosa and Acinetobacter baumannii toward pan-drug resistance Antimicrobial resistance: a touchy interface between human and veterinary medicine Microbial logistics - Mycelia as networks for functional transport of bacteria and chemicals Fungi-bacteria interactions: from soil functioning to complex behavior The archaellum: how archaea swim Archaea in Cryoenvironments Protein Engineering and Enzyme Cascade Reactions Discovery and engineering of enzyme systems for the transformation and degradation of explosives Metabolically talented bacteria from microbial dark matter High-throughput chemotyping and phenotyping using Pseudomonas aeruginosa deletion libraries WEDNESDAY, JUNE 10, 2015 PLENARY Name Country Presentation Title Nicole Dubilier Germany How to eat without a mouth or gut: symbioses between chemosynthetic bacteria and gutless marine worms Country Presentation Title SYMPOSIA Name Anaerobic physiology and biochemistry Offered by FEMS Letters Chair Mike Jetten The Netherlands Chair/Speaker Inês Cardoso Pereira Portugal Speaker Cornelia Welte The Netherlands Speaker Volker Mueller Germany Speaker Tom Clarke UK Imaging of macromolecular structures Chair/Speaker Morgan Beeby UK Chair/Speaker Peter Peters The Netherlands Speaker Luisi Ben UK Speaker Martin Pilhofer Switzerland Energy Metabolism of Sulfate Reducing Prokaryotes New insights in the nitrate driven Anaerobic Oxidation of Methane Microbial life at the thermodynamic limit: how to make a living by producing acetate from hydrogen and carbon dioxide Metal reduction in bacteria Structure and evolution of rotary motors Cryo-EM of the Type VII secretion system in Mycobacterium tuberculosis The assembly and mechanism of a bacterial drug efflux pump Structure and function of type 6 secretion and related assemblies WEDNESDAY, JUNE 10, 2015 (Cont) SYMPOSIA (Cont) Name Country Presentation Title Fungal cell biology Chair/Speaker Gero Steinberg UK Molecular motors in spatially organizing the fungal cell Chair/Speaker Ida van der Klei The Netherlands Peroxisome biogenesis and proliferation in yeast Speaker Brenda Andrews Canada Genetic Networks in Budding Yeast Speaker Miguel A. Penalva Spain Traffic returns gold to a mold: Golgi biogenesis by cisternal maturation Cell-cell communication / Quorum sensing: basic aspects Chair/Speaker Paul Williams UK Unravelling autoinducing peptide biosynthesis and recognition in staphylococci Chair/Speaker Vittorio Venturi Italy Interspecies and interkingdom signaling in plant associated bacteria Speaker Max Dow Ireland The DSF family of bacterial cell-cell signal molecules Speaker J. Allan Downie UK Quorum sensign in rhizobia: getting attached to their roots Bacterial phosphorylation networks Chair/Speaker Urs Jenal Switzerland Phosphorylation networks in Caulobacter crescentus Chair/Speaker Steven Porter UK New insights into the GacS multikinase network controlling virulence in Pseudomonas aeruginosa Speaker Judy Armitage UK How do you Coordinate signals from two chemosensory pathways to control one flagellar motor? Speaker Alberto Marina Spain Signallig by two-component systems. A structural view Food biotechnology Chair/Speaker Paul Ross Ireland Lost in a crowd? Probiotics in a microbiota context Chair/Speaker Jan Kok The Netherlands The transcriptome landscape of Lactococcus lactis: regulatory RNAs uncovered Speaker Amparo Querol Spain Understanding the mechanisms of yeast adaptation to wine fermentations Speaker Anne S. Meyer Denmark Biocatalytic production of prebiotics from agroindustrial sidestreams Small RNAs and regulation: basic aspects Offered by FEMS Microbiology Reviews Chair/Speaker Udo Bläsi Austria Hfq- and RNA-mediated regulation in Pseudomonas aeruginosa metabolism and pathogenicity Chair/Speaker Sabine Brantl Germany Small regulatory RNAs in type I toxin-antitoxin systems Speaker Eric Massé Canada New players in the field of small regulatory RNAs Speaker Cynthia Sharma Germany Regulatory RNAs in the pathogenic Epsilonproteobacteria, Helicobacter pylori and Campylobacter jejuni Jorgen Lehmann and Gerhard Domagk symposium on Mycobacterium tuberculosis Supported by FEMS Chair/Speaker Hazel M. Dockrell UK Towards new TB vaccines - what are the challenges? Chair/Speaker Carlos Martin Spain Steps ahead in the development of new vaccines against Tuberculosis, searching for new attenuated vaccines WORKSHOPS Name Country Presentation Title Syntrophic interactions in anaerobic communities Chair/Speaker Caroline Plugge The Netherlands New insights in syntrophy in methanogenic communities Chair/Speaker Korneel Rabaey Belgium Studying microbial interactions using electrochemical tools The diversity of bacterial nanomachines Chair/Speaker Thomas Marlovits Austria Unfolded protein transport across membranes: The Injectisome in Action Chair/Speaker Tâm Mignot France A new class of rotary complexes promote motility and sporulation in bacteria Fungal human pathogens Chair/Speaker Neil Gow UK Components of the fungal cell wall that turn on and turn off the immune inflammatory response Chair/Speaker Axel Brakhage Germany Pathogenicity and immune evasion of the human-pathogenic fungus Aspergillus fumigatus Cell-cell communication / Quorum sensing: inhibition as novel therapeutic tool Chair/Speaker Wim Quax The Netherlands Quorum quenching acylases for reducing bacterial virulence Chair/Speaker Helen Blackwell USA Chemical Interception of Bacterial Quorum Sensing: New Languages, New Outcomes Food biotechnology Chair/Speaker Michael Peck UK Clostridium botulinum and the safety of modern foods Chair/Speaker María Fernández Spain New insight into biogenic amines: towards solution and biotechnological applications Signalling, small RNAs and regulation: virulence aspects Chair/Speaker Pascale Romby France RNA-mediated regulatory circuits link stress response, adaptation and virulence in Staphylococcus aureus Chair/Speaker Carmen Buchrieser France RNA-mediated regulation of Legionella virulence Jorgen Lehmann and Gerhard Domagk symposium on Mycobacterium tuberculosis Supported by FEMS Chair/Speaker Ulrich Schaible Germany Overview of recent progress in understanding pathogenesis of MTB and its impact on the immune response Chair/Speaker Peter Lawætz Andersen Denmark TB vaccines; on the role of Th1, memory and immunity in the lung? THURSDAY, JUNE 11, 2015 PLENARY Name Country Presentation Title Gabriel Waksman UK Mechanisms of Bacterial Secretion Country Presentation Title The Netherlands USA France USA TBA TBA Photoprotection in cyanobacteria and the photoactive Orange Carotenoid Protein Signaling by Phytochrome, A Knotted Bacterial Photoreceptor UK Ireland UK Belgium Bdellovibrio bacteriovorus- biology of invasive bacterial predation When cheese gets the flue: how dairy lactic acid bacteria succumb to bacteriophage attack Structural Biology as a Tool to Study Predatory Bacteria Pseudomonas Predators: A systems’ biology perspective of the phage infection process USA UK France Switzerland TBA The Pseudomonas aeruginosa T6SS: a weapon for bacterial warfare Assembly of the Type VI secretion system Structure, function and dynamics of Type VI secretion system sheath USA UK Germany France Mechanisms and evolution of bacterial morphology Bacterial chromosome segregation at the single-molecule resolution Regulation of cell division in bacteria The PALM nanostructure of FtsZ along the cell cycle of a pathogenic coccus France USA USA USA Increasing the knowledge of the human virome at homeostasis and disease by deep sequencing of clinical samples How to study phages in natural communities: tools, concepts and challenges Human and animal viruses identified through metagenomics: pathogens, commensals, or contaminants? TBA The Netherlands Switzerland USA Germany Small RNA-based antiviral immunity in insects: defense and counter-defense The Drosophila-Spiroplasma interaction as a model to dissect the molecular mechanisms underlying insect endosymbiosis How gut microbes interact with animals: insights from Drosophila Digesting the diversity: Ecology and evolution of the termite gut microbiota USA Germination of spores of bacillus subtilis: nothing but surprises SYMPOSIA Name Microbial responses to illumination Chair/Speaker Klaas Hellingwerf Chair/Speaker Matthew Posewitz Speaker Diana Kirilovsky Speaker Katrina Forest Bacterial predators Chair/Speaker Liz Sockett Chair/Speaker Douwe van Sinderen Speaker Andrew Lovering Speaker Rob Lavigne The Type VI secretion system Chair/Speaker Joseph Mougous Chair/Speaker Alain Filloux Speaker Eric Cascales Speaker Marek Basler Bacterial cell biology Chair/Speaker Yves Brun Chair/Speaker David Sherrat Speaker Lotte Søgaard-Andersen Speaker Cécile Morlot The human virome: new tools and concepts Chair/Speaker Marc Eloit Chair/Speaker Matthew B. Sullivan Speaker Eric Delwart Speaker Stephen Quake Insect-microbes interactions Chair/Speaker Ronald van Rij Chair/Speaker Bruno Lemaître Speaker Angela E Douglas Speaker Andreas Brune Bacterial spores Chair/Speaker Peter Setlow Chair/Speaker Speaker Speaker Imrich Barak Simon Cutting Graham Christie Slovakia UK UK The polar septum - the way how to set up asymmetry during sporulation in Bacilli and Clostridia The role of spores in C. difficile infection Structural analysis of proteins involved in peptidoglycan hydrolysis during spore germination Why we need to worry about bacterial infections? Chair/Speaker Victor Nizet USA Chair/Speaker Xavier Nassif France Speaker Priscille Brodin France Speaker Jan-Willem Veening The Netherlands Collaborating with the innate immune system to combat multidrug-resistant bacterial pathogens Type IV pili, the meningococcal key to open the blood brain barrier Buruli ulcer: from disease to pain control The use of antibiotics drive the evolution of resistance by activating competence for DNA uptake: Molecular mechanisms involved in Streptococcus pneumoniae
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