PROGRAM
INFECTION RESEARCH TO MEET CURRENT
AND FUTURE CHALLENGES
A SYMPOSIUM TO CELEBRATE THE KNUT AND ALICE
WALLENBERG FOUNDATION’S 100-YEAR ANNIVERSARY
Monday, June 19, 2017, Aula Nordica, Universums gränd 4, Umeå
09:30–09:35
INTRODUCTION
Bernt Eric Uhlin, Chairman of the Program Committee
09:35–09:40
WELCOME REMARKS
Hans Adolfsson, Vice-Chancellor, Umeå University and
Peter Högberg, Vice-Chancellor, Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences
09:40–09:50
PRESENTATION OF THE KNUT AND ALICE WALLENBERG FOUNDATION
Peter Wallenberg Jr and Göran Sandberg, the Knut and Alice Wallenberg Foundation
09:50–09:55
THE ROYAL SWEDISH ACADEMY OF SCIENCES
Göran K. Hansson, Secretary General, the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences
SESSION 1
Chairs: Sun Nyunt Wai, Umeå University & Hans Wolf-Watz, Umeå University
09:55–10:30
PATHOGENS, COMMENSALS AND THE HOST MUCOSAL SURFACE:
THE DISCREET CHARM OF THE «MÉNAGE À TROIS»
Philippe Sansonetti, Institut Pasteur, Paris, France
10:30–11:05
BACTERIAL QUORUM SENSING AND ITS CONTROL
Bonnie Bassler, Princeton University, New Jersey, USA
11:05–11:40
30 YEARS OF LISTERIA MONCYTOGENES RESEARCH:
FROM BACTERIAL PATHOGENESIS TO CANCER IMMUNOTHERAPY
Daniel Portnoy, University of California, Berkeley, USA
11:45–13:00
LUNCH + POSTERS
SESSION 2
Chairs: Birgitta Henriques-Normark, Karolinska Institutet & Sven Bergström, Umeå University
13:00–13:35
LEPROSY – ZOONOSIS AND ANTHROPONOSIS
Stewart Cole, École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne, Switzerland
13:35–14:05
EXPANDING BACTERIAL SIGNALING VOCABULARY FROM INFLAMMATION
TO NEUROPROLIFERATION AND BRAIN REPAIR
Elaine Tuomanen, St. Jude Children’s Research Hospital, Memphis, USA
14:05–14:40
UTI COMPLEXITY DEFINED BY A DIVERSE BACTERIAL-HOST INTERFACE
Scott Hultgren, Washington University School of Medicine, St Louis, USA
14:40–15:15
COFFEE + POSTERS
SESSION 3
Chairs: Maria Fällman, Umeå University & Bernt Eric Uhlin, Umeå University
15:15–15:50
IDENTIFICATION OF VIRAL ACHILLES’ HEELS DURING FLAVIVIRUS INFECTION
Peter Sarnow, Stanford University School of Medicine, USA
15:50–16:25
CRISPR-CAS9: A BACTERIAL IMMUNE SYSTEM REPURPOSED AS
A TRANSFORMATIVE GENOME ENGINEERING TECHNOLOGY
Emmanuelle Charpentier, Max Planck Institute for Infection Biology, Berlin, Germany
16:25–17:10
PANEL DISCUSSION WITH SPEAKERS
Introduction: Staffan Normark, Karolinska Institutet
17:10–17:20
CLOSING REMARKS
17:20–18:30
POSTERS + REFRESHMENTS