SUNDAY |
2:00 pm - 9:00 pm | Arrival and Check-in |
6:00 pm | Dinner |
7:30 pm - 7:40 pm | Welcome / Introductory Comments by GRC Site Staff |
7:40 pm - 9:30 pm | KEYNOTE address |
| Discussion Leader: Michael Starnbach (Harvard Medical School) |
7:40 pm - 8:25 pm | Christopher Walsh (Harvard University) "Bacterial Iron Wars" |
8:25 pm - 8:35 pm | Discussion |
8:35 pm - 9:20 pm | Margaret McFall-Ngi (University of Wisconsin) "Host-cell responses to symbiont signals: The molecular dialogue of the squid-vibrio partnership" |
9:20 pm - 9:30 pm | Discussion |
MONDAY |
7:30 am - 8:30 am | Breakfast |
9:00 am - 12:30 pm | CELL TO CELL COMMUNICATION |
| Discussion Leader: Alain Filloux (CNRS France) |
9:00 am - 9:25 am | Michael Surette (Calgary University) "Multicellular Behaviors in Salmonella enterica" |
9:25 am - 9:30 am | Discussion |
9:30 am - 9:55 am | Marvin Whiteley (University of Oklahoma) "TBA" |
9:55 am - 10:00 am | Discussion |
10:00 am | Coffee Break / Group Photo |
10:30 am - 10:55 am | Dale Kaiser (Stanford University) "Aggregation by contact signaling" |
10:55 am - 11:00 am | Discussion |
11:00 am - 11:25 am | Roberto Kolter (Harvard Medical School) "Interspecies Interactions" |
11:25 am - 11:30 am | Discussion |
11:30 am - 11:55 am | Lingling Chen (University of Indiana) "Structural basis for anti-activation in bacterial quorum sensing" |
11:55 am - 12:00 pm | 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 | MICROBES AND EVOLUTION |
| Discussion Leader: Arturo Zychlinsky (MPI) |
7:30 pm - 7:55 pm | Joan Strassman (Rice University) "Cell adhesion and mechanisms of cooperation in social amoebae" |
7:55 pm - 8:00 pm | Discussion |
8:00 pm - 8:25 pm | Manfred Milinski (MPI for Limnology) "Is genetic variability in the major histocompatibility complex maintained by infectious diseases?" |
8:25 pm - 8:30 pm | Discussion |
8:30 pm - 8:55 pm | Jeffrey Weiser (U Penn) "Mechanisms of microbial competition" |
8:55 pm - 9:00 pm | Discussion |
9:00 pm - 9:25 pm | Vishva Dixit (Genentech) "The Inflammasome: a dynamic caspase activating apparatus" |
9:25 pm - 9:30 pm | Discussion |
TUESDAY |
7:30 am - 8:30 am | Breakfast |
9:00 am - 12:30 pm | SYMBIOTIC AND PATHOGENIC INFECTIONS |
| Discussion Leader: Roberto Kolter (Harvard Medical School) |
9:00 am - 9:25 am | Lotte Søgaard-Andersen (MPI for Terrestrial Biology) "Contact-dependent signaling in bacteria" |
9:25 am - 9:30 am | Discussion |
9:30 am - 9:55 am | Michael Starnbach (Harvard Medical School) "How bacterial infection influences adaptive immunity" |
9:55 am - 10:00 am | Discussion |
10:00 am | Coffee Break |
10:30 am - 10:55 am | Graham Walker (MIT) "Getting Inside and Living There: Rhizobium Symbiosis and Brucella Pathogenesis" |
10:55 am - 11:00 am | Discussion |
11:00 am - 11:25 am | Roy Gross (University of Wurzburg) "Nutritional upgrading for an omnivore: the endosymbiont Blochmannia in carpenter ants" |
11:25 am - 11:30 am | Discussion |
11:30 am - 11:55 am | Michael Gilmore (Harvard University) "Novel signaling by enterococci at the host/pathogen interface" |
11:55 am - 12:00 pm | 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 | SECRETION |
| Discussion Leader: Staffan Normark (Karolinska Institute) |
7:30 pm - 7:55 pm | Guy Cornelis (Biozentrum University of Basel) "The Yersinia Ysc injectisome" |
7:55 pm - 8:00 pm | Discussion |
8:00 pm - 8:25 pm | Tony Pugsley (Institut Pasteur) "Uncovering the secrets of secretins" |
8:25 pm - 8:30 pm | Discussion |
8:30 pm - 8:55 pm | Jorge Galan (Yale University) "TBA" |
8:55 pm - 9:00 pm | Discussion |
9:00 pm - 9:25 pm | Olaf Schneewind (University of Chicago) "Yersinia type III secretion - lessons learned while trying to jam the machine" |
9:25 pm - 9:30 pm | Discussion |
WEDNESDAY |
7:30 am - 8:30 am | Breakfast |
9:00 am - 12:30 pm | SIGNALING: THE HOST SIDE |
| Discussion Leader: Margaret McFall-Ngi (University of Wisconsin) |
9:00 am - 9:25 am | Denise Monack (Stanford University) "The inflammasome in bacterial infections" |
9:25 am - 9:30 am | Discussion |
9:30 am - 9:55 am | Joan Mecsas (Tufts Univ) "Yersinia infections in lymph nodes and lungs" |
9:55 am - 10:00 am | Discussion |
10:00 am | Coffee Break |
10:30 am - 10:55 am | Michael Boutros (German Cancer Research Center) "Innate Immune Responses in Drosophila" |
10:55 am - 11:00 am | Discussion |
11:00 am - 11:25 am | Emmanuel Caron (Imperial College) "Signal transduction of mammalian phagocytosis and modulation by microbial pathogens" |
11:25 am - 11:30 am | Discussion |
11:30 am - 11:55 am | Philippe Sansonetti (Institut Pasteur) "Shigella regulation of the host innate response, the art of pressing the brake and gas pedals at once" |
11:55 am - 12:00 pm | 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 | SIGNALING: THE MICROBE SIDE |
| Discussion Leader: Joan Mecsas (Tufts Univ) |
7:30 pm - 7:55 pm | David Dubnau (Public Health Research Institute) "Noise in gene expression determines cell fate in Bacillus subtilis" |
7:55 pm - 8:00 pm | Discussion |
8:00 pm - 8:25 pm | Tom Silhavy (Princeton University) "Outer membrane biogenesis in E. Coli" |
8:25 pm - 8:30 pm | Discussion |
8:30 pm - 8:55 pm | Susan Gottesman (NIH) "Small RNAs responding to and regulated by the cell surface" |
8:55 pm - 9:00 pm | Discussion |
9:00 pm - 9:25 pm | Jean-Marc Ghigo (Institut Pasteur) "Inhibition of bacterial adhesion within mixed biofilms" |
9:25 pm - 9:30 pm | Discussion |
THURSDAY |
7:30 am - 8:30 am | Breakfast |
9:00 am - 12:30 pm | ADHESION, ADHESINS, APPENDAGES |
| Discussion Leader: TBA |
9:00 am - 9:25 am | Wolf-Dieter Schubert (Helmholtz Center) "Listeriosis - from Structural Biology to Mouse Model" |
9:25 am - 9:30 am | Discussion |
9:30 am - 9:55 am | Jorge Giron (University of Arizona) "A novel multi-purpose type IV pilus of E. coli O157:H7" |
9:55 am - 10:00 am | Discussion |
10:00 am | Coffee Break |
10:30 am - 10:55 am | John Telford (Chiron) "Adhesive Pili in Pathogenic Streptococci" |
10:55 am - 11:00 am | Discussion |
11:00 am - 11:25 am | Alain Filloux (CNRS) "The numerous Pseudomonas aeruginosa adhesins and appendages" |
11:25 am - 11:30 am | Discussion |
11:30 am - 11:55 am | Staffan Normark (Karolinska Institut) "TBA" |
11:55 am - 12:00 pm | Discussion |
12:00 pm - 12:30 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) |
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 | BACTERIAL CELL BIOLOGY |
| Discussion Leader: Jorge Galan (Harvard University) |
7:30 pm - 7:55 pm | Zemer Gitai (Princeton University) "Cell Biology of the Bacterial Actin Cytoskeleton" |
7:55 pm - 8:00 pm | Discussion |
8:00 pm - 8:25 pm | Michael Laub (Harvard university) "Two-component signal transduction in bacteria" |
8:25 pm - 8:30 pm | Discussion |
8:30 pm - 8:55 pm | Piet DeBoer (Case Western Reserve) "Positioning and assembly of the cell constriction apparatus in E. coli" |
8:55 pm - 9:00 pm | Discussion |
9:00 pm - 9:25 pm | Kit Pogliano (UCSD) "TBA" |
9:25 pm - 9:30 pm | Discussion |
FRIDAY |
7:30 am - 8:30 am | Breakfast |
9:00 am | Departure |