Saturday
1:00 pm - 5:00 pm
Arrival and Check-in
3:30 pm - 3:45 pm
Introductory Comments by GRC Site Staff / Welcome from the GRS Chair
3:45 pm - 4:30 pm
Keynote Session: Feeling the Need for Speed: Lipoprotein Trafficking to the Outer Membrane
Discussion Leaders: Hannah Smith (Emory University, United States)
3:45 pm - 4:15 pm
Marcin Grabowicz (Emory University, United States)
"Feeling the Need for Speed: Lipoprotein Trafficking to the Outer Membrane"
4:15 pm - 4:30 pm
Discussion
4:30 pm - 6:00 pm
Poster Session
6:00 pm - 7:00 pm
Dinner
7:30 pm - 9:30 pm
Cell Envelope Synthesis, Structure and Function
Discussion Leaders: Neetika Jaisinghani (State University of New York, Stony Brook, United States) and Christopher Graham (University of Warwick, UK, United Kingdom)
7:30 pm - 7:40 pm
Caroline Servais (URBM, Belgium)
"LPS Synthesis and Traffic in the Envelope of the Pathogen Brucella abortus "
7:40 pm - 7:45 pm
Discussion
7:45 pm - 7:55 pm
Yuki Kitahara (Montreal University, Canada)
"The Role of Cell-envelope Synthesis for Cell-surface Growth and Cytoplasmic Density in Bacillus subtilis "
7:55 pm - 8:00 pm
Discussion
8:00 pm - 8:10 pm
Michael Deghelt (de Duve Institute, UCLouvain, Welbio, Belgium)
"The Outer Membrane is Essential to Preserve Turgor Pressure"
8:10 pm - 8:15 pm
Discussion
8:15 pm - 8:25 pm
Augustinas Silale (Newcastle University, United Kingdom)
"The Structure of a Porin Required for Outer Membrane Attachment in Terrabacteria"
8:25 pm - 8:30 pm
Discussion
8:30 pm - 8:40 pm
Krista Armbruster (University of Michigan Medical School, United States)
"Identification and Characterization of the Lipoprotein N -Acyltransferase Gene in Bacteroides"
8:40 pm - 8:45 pm
Discussion
8:45 pm - 8:55 pm
Sophie Sichel (Fred Hutchinson Cancer Center / University of Washington, United States)
"Distinct Regions of H. pylori ’s Bactofilin CcmA Regulate Protein-Protein Interactions to Control Helical Cell Shape"
8:55 pm - 9:00 pm
Discussion
9:00 pm - 9:10 pm
Elizabeth Hart (Harvard Medical School, United States)
"Characterizing the Corynebacterial Sigma D Cell Envelope Stress Response"
9:10 pm - 9:15 pm
Discussion
9:15 pm - 9:30 pm
General Discussion
Sunday
7:30 am - 8:30 am
Breakfast
9:00 am - 11:00 am
Secretion, Surface Attachment and Environmental Interactions
Discussion Leaders: Abhinav Koyamangalath Vadakkepat (ISMB, University College London and Birkbeck, London, UK, United Kingdom) and Eleanor Boardman (Newcastle University, United Kingdom)
9:00 am - 9:10 am
Timothy Klein (McMaster University, Canada)
"A Conserved Chaperone Pair are Required for LXG Toxin Export by the Bacterial Type VIIb Secretion System"
9:10 am - 9:15 am
Discussion
9:15 am - 9:25 am
Memduha Muratoglu (Max Planck institute for terrestrial microbiology, Germany)
"Stability & Dynamics of the TypeIVa Pilus Machine"
9:25 am - 9:30 am
Discussion
9:30 am - 9:40 am
Himani Amin (Imperial College London, United Kingdom)
"Architecture of the Outer-membrane Core Complex from a Conjugative Type IV Secretion System"
9:40 am - 9:45 am
Discussion
9:45 am - 9:55 am
Hyejin Shin (University of Toronto, Canada)
"Heme Acquisition by Slam-dependent Hemophores in Gram-negative Bacteria"
9:55 am - 10:00 am
Discussion
10:00 am - 10:10 am
Caroline Dunn (Indiana University, United States)
"Flagellar Patterning Proteins, FlhF and FlhG, Affect Movement of Bacillus subtilis Flagellar Basal Bodies Prior to Rod Assembly"
10:10 am - 10:15 am
Discussion
10:15 am - 10:25 am
Anke Breine (Vrije Universiteit Brussel (VUB), Belgium)
"Targeting Multidrug-resistant A. baumannii to Develop Next-generation Antibiotics"
10:25 am - 10:30 am
Discussion
10:30 am - 10:40 am
Nadia Herrera (University of California San Francisco, United States)
"The Type VII Secretion System, ESX-1, Exhibits Bi-Modular Function in Mycobacteria in Response to Nitrogen"
10:40 am - 10:45 am
Discussion
10:45 am - 11:00 am
General 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 - 1:30 pm
Lunch
1:30 pm - 2:30 pm
Mentorship Component: Careers in Science
Discussion Leader: M. Stephen Trent (University of Georgia, United States)
1:30 pm - 2:30 pm
Panel Discussion
Careers in Science
Marcin Grabowicz (Emory University, United States)
Edith Houben (Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam, The Netherlands)
Holly Sutterlin (Prokaryotics Inc., United States)
2:30 pm - 3:00 pm
Evaluation Period
Complete the GRS Evaluation Forms; Election of Future Chair(s)
3:00 pm
Seminar Concludes
