| SUNDAY |
| 2:00 pm - 11:00 pm | Arrival and Check-in |
| 6:00 pm | Dinner |
| 7:30 pm - 7:45 pm | Welcome / Introductory Remarks |
| 7:45 pm - 9:30 pm | Membrane proteins and lipid interactions |
| 7:45 pm - 7:55 pm | Discussion Leader: Stephen White (University of California, Irvine) |
| 7:55 pm - 8:15 pm | Gunnar von Heijne (Stockholm)
"The E. coli inner membrane proteome: global trends and quirky case stories" |
| 8:15 pm - 8:25 pm | Discussion |
| 8:25 pm - 8:45 pm | Bill Dowhan (UT Houston)
"Lipid-dependent signals that determine membrane protein topological organization" |
| 8:45 pm - 8:55 pm | Discussion |
| 8:55 pm - 9:15 pm | Doug Rees (Caltech)
"Structural Facets of Membrane Proteins" |
| 9:15 pm - 9:25 pm | Discussion |
| 9:30 pm | Reception |
| MONDAY |
| 7:30 am - 8:30 am | Breakfast |
| 9:00 am - 12:30 pm | Secretion and excretion systems |
| 9:00 am - 9:10 am | Discussion Leader: Tassos Economou (University of Crete) |
| 9:10 am - 9:30 am | Michael Caparon (WUSL)
"The ExPortal in Streptococcus pyogenes" |
| 9:30 am - 9:40 am | Discussion |
| 9:40 am - 10:00 am | Lila Gierasch (U. Mass.)
"How targeting information in signal sequences is structurally 'decoded'" |
| 10:00 am - 10:10 am | Discussion |
| 10:10 am | Coffee Break / Group Photo |
| 10:40 am - 11:00 am | Tony Pugsley (Pasteur)
"How does secretin insert into the outer membrane?" |
| 11:00 am - 11:10 am | Discussion |
| 11:10 am - 11:30 am | Maria Sandkvist (Michigan)
"The inner (membrane) workings of the Type II secretion complex" |
| 11:30 am - 11:40 am | Discussion |
| 11:40 am - 11:55 am | Short Talk: Susan Lea (Oxford)
"Structures at the type three secretion system tip: needles and their points" |
| 11:55 am - 12:05 pm | Discussion |
| 12:05 pm - 12:25 pm | General Discussion |
| 12:30 pm | Lunch |
| 1:30 pm - 4:00 pm | Free Time |
| 4:00 pm - 6:00 pm | Poster Session |
| 6:00 pm | Dinner |
| 7:30 pm - 9:30 pm | Protein folding and localization in the envelope |
| 7:30 pm - 7:40 pm | Discussion Leader: Tom Silhavy (Princeton) |
| 7:40 pm - 8:00 pm | Dan Kahne (Harvard)
"Studies on Outer Membrane Biogenesis" |
| 8:00 pm - 8:10 pm | Discussion |
| 8:10 pm - 8:30 pm | David Thanassi (SUNY)
"Pilus Biogenesis at the Outer Membrane Usher" |
| 8:30 pm - 8:40 pm | Discussion |
| 8:40 pm - 9:00 pm | Jan Tommassen (Utrecht)
"Interactions between assembly factor Omp85 and its substrate outer membrane proteins" |
| 9:00 pm - 9:10 pm | Discussion |
| 9:10 pm - 9:30 pm | General Discussion |
| TUESDAY |
| 7:30 am - 8:30 am | Breakfast |
| 9:00 am - 12:30 pm | Response to the extracellular environment |
| 9:00 am - 9:10 am | Discussion Leader: Eduardo Groisman (WUSL) |
| 9:10 am - 9:30 am | Laurie Comstock (Brigham/Women's/Harvard Med)
"Multiple regulatory mechanisms underlying the dynamic expression of the capsular polysaccharides of Bacteroides fragilis" |
| 9:30 am - 9:40 am | Discussion |
| 9:40 am - 10:00 am | Michael Gilmore (Harvard)
"Cytotoxic Enterococcus faecalis: Probing the environment for targets as a means for cytolysin regulation" |
| 10:00 am - 10:10 am | Discussion |
| 10:10 am | Coffee Break |
| 10:40 am - 11:00 am | Carrie Harwood (University of Washington)
"Signal transduction complex locations in Pseudomonas aeruginosa" |
| 11:00 am - 11:10 am | Discussion |
| 11:10 am - 11:30 am | David Low (UCSB)
"Growth regulation by direct cell-to-cell contact mediated by the cdiBAI gene cluster in Escherichia coli" |
| 11:30 am - 11:40 am | Discussion |
| 11:40 am - 11:50 am | Poster Talk: Wilfred Bitter (Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam Medical Center)
"A specific secretion system mediates PPE transport in Mycobacteria and is required for virulence" (poster #14) |
| 11:50 am - 11:55 am | Discussion |
| 11:55 am - 12:05 pm | Poster Talk: Roger Draheim (Texas A&M University)
"Tuning a bacterial chemoreceptor with protein-membrane interactions" (poster #49) |
| 12:05 pm - 12:10 pm | General Discussion |
| 12:10 pm - 12:30 pm | General Discussion |
| 12:30 pm | Lunch |
| 1:30 pm - 4:00 pm | Free Time |
| 4:00 pm - 6:00 pm | Poster Session |
| 6:00 pm | Dinner |
| 7:30 pm - 9:30 pm | Communication, motility and chemotaxis |
| 7:30 pm - 7:40 pm | Discussion Leader: Michael Manson (Texas A&M) |
| 7:40 pm - 8:00 pm | Howard Berg (Harvard)
"Using fluorescence to study bacterial chemotaxis" |
| 8:00 pm - 8:10 pm | Discussion |
| 8:10 pm - 8:30 pm | Tohru Minamino (Osaka)
"Structure and Function of FliI, the ATPase component of the Salmonella type III flagellar protein export apparatus" |
| 8:30 pm - 8:40 pm | Discussion |
| 8:40 pm - 9:00 pm | Wenyuan Shi (UCLA)
"Cell surface apparatus for gliding motility of Myxococcus xanthus" |
| 9:00 pm - 9:10 pm | Discussion |
| 9:10 pm - 9:30 pm | General Discussion |
| WEDNESDAY |
| 7:30 am - 8:30 am | Breakfast |
| 9:00 am - 12:30 pm | Cell division and sporulation |
| 9:00 am - 9:10 am | Discussion Leader: Joe Lutkenhaus (Kansas University Medical Center) |
| 9:10 am - 9:30 am | Tom Bernhardt (Case Western)
"Spatial regulation of cell division in Escherichia coli" |
| 9:30 am - 9:40 am | Discussion |
| 9:40 am - 10:00 am | Petra Levin (Washington University)
"Insights into the mechanism coupling cell size to division in Bacillus subtilis" |
| 10:00 am - 10:10 am | Discussion |
| 10:10 am | Coffee Break |
| 10:40 am - 11:00 am | Bill Margolin (UT Houston)
"What does it take to divide an E. coli cell?" |
| 11:00 am - 11:10 am | Discussion |
| 11:10 am - 11:30 am | Kit Pogliano (UCSD)
"Always have a backup plan: compensatory systems for engulfment and protein localization during Bacillus subtilis sporulation" |
| 11:30 am - 11:40 am | Discussion |
| 11:40 am - 11:55 am | Short Talk: David Rudner (Harvard Medical School)
"A branched pathway governs the activation of a developmental transcription factor by Regulated Intramembrane Proteolysis" |
| 11:55 am - 12:05 pm | Discussion |
| 12:05 pm - 12:25 pm | General Discussion |
| 12:30 pm | Lunch |
| 1:30 pm - 4:00 pm | Free Time |
| 4:00 pm - 6:00 pm | Poster Session |
| 6:00 pm | Dinner |
| 7:00 pm - 7:30 pm | Business Meeting |
| (Nominations for the next Vice Chair; Fill out Conference Evaluation Forms; Discuss future Site & Scheduling preferences; Election of the next Vice Chair) |
| 7:30 pm - 9:30 pm | Bacterial cell biology |
| 7:30 pm - 7:40 pm | Discussion Leader: Kenn Gerdes (University of Southern Denmark) |
| 7:40 pm - 8:00 pm | Rut Carballido-Lopez (Paris)
"Cell shape, cell walls and the actin cytoskeleton of Bacillus subitilis" |
| 8:00 pm - 8:10 pm | Discussion |
| 8:10 pm - 8:30 pm | David Dubnau (Newark PHRI)
"Cellular localization of DNA transport and competence proteins in Bacillus subtilis" |
| 8:30 pm - 8:40 pm | Discussion |
| 8:40 pm - 9:00 pm | Christine Jacobs-Wagner (Yale)
"Cell shape determination in Caulobacter crescentus" |
| 9:00 pm - 9:10 pm | Discussion |
| 9:10 pm - 9:30 pm | General Discussion |
| THURSDAY |
| 7:30 am - 8:30 am | Breakfast |
| 9:00 am - 12:30 pm | Envelope biochemistry and transactions |
| 9:00 am - 9:10 am | Discussion Leader: Chris Whitfield (Guelph) |
| 9:10 am - 9:30 am | Bill Doerrler (LSU)
"A genetic approach to the study of LPS export in E. coli" |
| 9:30 am - 9:40 am | Discussion |
| 9:40 am - 10:00 am | Michael Glickman (Sloan-Kettering)
"The M. tuberculosis Cell Surface: Chemistry to Pathogenesis" |
| 10:00 am - 10:10 am | Discussion |
| 10:10 am | Coffee Break |
| 10:40 am - 11:00 am | Derek Lovley (U. Mass)
"Bug juice: outer-membrane proteins involved in microbial electricity production" |
| 11:00 am - 11:10 am | Discussion |
| 11:10 am - 11:30 am | Marvin Whiteley (OU HSC)
"Vesicle-mediated communication in Pseudomonas aeruginosa" |
| 11:30 am - 11:40 am | Discussion |
| 11:40 am - 11:50 am | Poster Talk: Susan S. Black (Institute of Medical Sciences, Aberdeen)
"Mutational analysis of MscS, the mechanosensitive channel of small conductance in Escherichia coli" (poster #85) |
| 11:50 am - 11:55 am | Discussion |
| 11:55 am - 12:05 pm | Poster Talk: Jeffrey M. Skerker (Harvard University)
"Regulation of cell envelope and stalk biogenesis by two component signal transduction in Caulobacter crescentus" (poster #62) |
| 12:05 pm - 12:10 pm | General Discussion |
| 12:10 pm - 12:30 pm | General Discussion |
| 12:30 pm | Lunch |
| 1:30 pm - 4:00 pm | Free Time |
| 4:00 pm - 6:00 pm | Poster Session |
| 6:00 pm | Dinner |
| 7:30 pm - 9:30 pm | Transporters and channels |
| 7:30 pm - 7:40 pm | Discussion Leader: Amy Davidson (Purdue University) |
| 7:40 pm - 8:00 pm | Ching Kung (Wisconsin)
"Microbial Ion Channels" |
| 8:00 pm - 8:10 pm | Discussion |
| 8:10 pm - 8:30 pm | Etana Padan (Jerusalem)
"Structure of the NhaA Na+/H+ antiporter: insights into mechanism of action and regulation by pH" |
| 8:30 pm - 8:40 pm | Discussion |
| 8:40 pm - 9:00 pm | Bert Poolman (Groningen)
"A sensor for intracellular ionic strength" |
| 9:00 pm - 9:10 pm | Discussion |
| 9:10 pm - 9:25 pm | Short Talk: Mike Maguire (Case-Western Reserve)
"The Structure of the CorA Mg2+ Channel" |
| 9:25 pm - 9:30 pm | Discussion |
| FRIDAY |
| 7:30 am - 8:30 am | Breakfast |
| 9:00 am | Depart |
