Saturday |
1:30 pm - 4:30 pm | Arrival and Check-in |
3:00 pm - 3:15 pm | Introductory Comments by GRC Site Staff / Welcome by the GRS Conference Chair |
3:15 pm - 4:00 pm | Keynote Session: AMPSs - Membranes and More |
| Discussion Leader: Catherine James (University College London, Institute for Women's Health, United Kingdom) |
3:15 pm - 3:45 pm | Charles Bevins (University of California, Davis, USA) "Evolving Perceptions of Antimicrobial Peptides" |
3:45 pm - 4:00 pm | Discussion |
4:00 pm - 5:30 pm | Poster Session |
5:30 pm - 7:30 pm | Mechanism of Action of AMPs |
| Discussion Leaders: Henrik Strahl (Newcastle University, United Kingdom) and Biljana Mojsoska (Roskilde University, Denmark) |
5:30 pm - 5:50 pm | Soraya Omardien (University of Amsterdam, The Netherlands) "Determining the Mode of Action of Three Cationic Antimicrobial Peptides Against Bacillus subtilis" |
5:50 pm - 6:00 pm | Discussion |
6:00 pm - 6:20 pm | Haritha Reddy Chileveru (Massachusetts Institute of Technology, USA) "Visualizing the Attack of Escherichia coli by the Antimicrobial Peptide Human Defensin 5" |
6:20 pm - 6:30 pm | Discussion |
6:30 pm - 6:50 pm | Lorenzo Menzel (University of Florida, USA) "Mechanism of Action by a Peptidomimetic on Candida albicans " |
6:50 pm - 7:00 pm | Discussion |
7:00 pm - 7:20 pm | Joseph Boll (University of Texas at Austin, USA) "Reinforcing the Cell Surface: Lipid A Acylation in Acinetobacter baumannii Promotes CAMP Resistance and Desiccation Survival" |
7:20 pm - 7:30 pm | Discussion |
8:00 pm | Dinner |
Sunday |
7:30 am - 8:30 am | Breakfast |
9:00 am - 11:00 am | AMPs in Pathogen-Host Interactions |
| Discussion Leaders: Kathi Scheinpflug (Leibniz-Institute for Molecular Pharmacology, Germany) and Rikeshwer Prasad Dewangan (CSIR-Institute of Genomics and Integrative Biology, India) |
9:00 am - 9:20 am | Eduardo Cobo (University of Calgary, Canada) "MUC2 Mucin Regulates Cathelicidin in the Colon Under Normal and Disease Conditions" |
9:20 am - 9:30 am | Discussion |
9:30 am - 9:50 am | Michaela Eisenhardt (University of Applied Sciences Giessen, Germany) "IMPI: A Novel Therapeutic for Chronic Wound Infections" |
9:50 am - 10:00 am | Discussion |
10:00 am - 10:20 am | Maarten Coorens (Utrecht University, The Netherlands) "The Ability of Cathelicidins to Inhibit Bacterial-Induced Immune Activation Is Dependent on Bacterial Viability" |
10:20 am - 10:30 am | Discussion |
10:30 am - 10:50 am | Lioba Courth (University Hospital Tuebingen, Germany) "Human Alpha-Defensins 5 and 6 Are Regulated by Inflammatory Cells via Wnt Ligands" |
10:50 am - 11:00 am | Discussion |
11:00 am - 12:30 pm | Poster Session |
| Coffee will be served in the poster area from 11:00 am - 11:30 am |
12:30 pm | Lunch |
1:30 pm - 2:30 pm | Mentorship Component: Planning a Scientific Career |
| Discussion Leader: Gimano Amatngalim (Leiden University Medical Center, The Netherlands) |
1:30 pm - 2:10 pm | Robert Hancock (University of British Columbia, Canada) "Managing a Scientific Career" |
2:10 pm - 2:30 pm | Discussion |
2:30 pm - 3:00 pm | Evaluation Period |
| Fill in GRS Evaluation Forms |
3:00 pm | Seminar Concludes |