SUNDAY |
2:00 pm - 9:00 pm | Arrival and Check-in (Office Closed 6:00 pm - 7:00 pm) |
6:00 pm | Dinner |
7:30 pm - 7:40 pm | Welcome / Introductory Comments by GRC Site Staff |
7:40 pm - 9:30 pm | The Emergence of Pathogens: Genome Dynamics |
7:40 pm - 7:50 pm | Discussion Leader: Michael S. Gilmore (Harvard University) |
7:50 pm - 8:15 pm | Kelli Palmer (Harvard Medical School) "Genomic insights into enterococcal evolution" |
8:15 pm - 8:25 pm | Discussion |
8:25 pm - 8:50 pm | Trevor Lawley (Wellcome Trust Sanger Institute) "Clostridium difficile evolution and transmission" |
8:50 pm - 9:00 pm | Discussion |
9:00 pm - 9:25 pm | Tal Dagan (Heinrich-Heine Univeritaet Duesseldorf) "Barriers and bypasses to lateral gene transfer in prokaryotes" |
9:25 pm - 9:30 pm | Discussion |
MONDAY |
7:30 am - 8:30 am | Breakfast |
9:00 am - 12:30 pm | Bacterial Cell Envelope, Surface Structures, Secretion Systems and Virulence |
9:00 am - 9:10 am | Discussion Leader: Alain Filloux (Centre for Molecular and Microbiology and Infection) |
9:10 am - 9:35 am | Judy Armitage (University of Oxford) "Why are the two Rhodobacter chemosensory pathways physically separate in the cell" |
9:35 am - 9:45 am | Discussion |
9:45 am - 9:55 am | Stephen Matthews (Imperial College, London)
"Structural studies of the secretion and assembly of bacterial 'curli' fibres" |
9:55 am - 10:00 am | Discussion |
10:00 am | Coffee Break / Group photo |
10:30 am - 10:55 am | Colin Hughes (University of Cambridge) "Crossing the periplasm and outer membrane through the TolC exit duct" |
10:55 am - 11:05 am | Discussion |
11:05 am - 11:30 am | Peter J. Christie (University of Texas Medical School at Houston) "Substrate Transfer through Bacterial Type IV Secretion Systems" |
11:30 am - 11:40 am | Discussion |
11:40 am - 11:50 am | Anna Konovalova (MPI Marburg)
"Regulated proteolysis activates secretion of a signaling protease" |
11:50 am - 11:55 am | Discussion |
11:55 am - 12:05 pm | Jon N. Penterman (MIT)
"Biofilm-driven evolution of a fitness tradeoff and unculturable bacteria" |
12:05 pm - 12:10 pm | Discussion |
12:10 pm - 12:20 pm | Gilles Phan (Birkbeck College, London)
"Crystal Structure of the Usher:Chaperone:Adhesin Subunit Complex - Insights into Pilus Assembly" |
12:20 pm - 12:25 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 | Nanotechnology in Microbiology |
7:30 pm - 7:40 pm | Discussion Leader: Marvin Whiteley (University of Texas at Austin) |
7:40 pm - 8:05 pm | Joanna Aizenberg (Harvard University) "Patterning microbial adhesion in and on nanoforests" |
8:05 pm - 8:15 pm | Discussion |
8:15 pm - 8:40 pm | Deborah Hung (Broad Institute) "New Technologies for studying microbial behavior" |
8:40 pm - 8:50 pm | Discussion |
8:50 pm - 9:15 pm | Virginia A. Davis (Auburn University) "Properties from Self Assembly of Synthetic Nanocylinders with DNA and Enzymes" |
9:15 pm - 9:25 pm | Discussion |
9:25 pm - 9:30 pm | General discussion |
TUESDAY |
7:30 am - 8:30 am | Breakfast |
9:00 am - 12:30 pm | Cell-cell Communication and Regulatory Networks |
9:00 am - 9:10 am | Discussion Leader: Jean-Marc Ghigo (Institut Pasteur) |
9:10 am - 9:35 am | Aimee Wessel (University of Texas at Austin) "Probing Prokaryotic Social Behaviors with Bacterial 'Lobster Traps'" |
9:35 am - 9:45 am | Discussion |
9:45 am - 9:55 am | Maria Hadjifrangiskou (Washington University School of Medicine)
"Regulatory mechanisms influencing biofilm formation in uropathogenic Escherichia coli" |
9:55 am - 10:00 am | Discussion |
10:00 am | Coffee Break |
10:30 am - 10:55 am | Jörg Vogel (Institut für Molekulare Infektionsbiologie) "Graduating regulatory small RNAs" |
10:55 am - 11:05 am | Discussion |
11:05 am - 11:30 am | Roberto Kolter (Harvard Medical School) "Intra- and inter-species signaling molecules that alter microbial development" |
11:30 am - 11:40 am | Discussion |
11:40 am - 12:05 pm | Pascale Cossart (Institut Pasteur) "Infections by intracytosolic pathogens: from cell biology to epigenetics" |
12:05 pm - 12:15 pm | Discussion |
12:15 pm - 12:25 pm | Shaunak Sen (Caltech)
"Dynamical Consequences of Bandpass Feedback Loops in a Bacterial Phosphorelay" |
12:25 pm - 12:30 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 | Cellular Organization |
7:30 pm - 7:40 pm | Discussion Leader: Judy Armitage (University of Oxford) |
7:40 pm - 8:05 pm | Susan Golden (University of California-San Diego) "How bacteria tell time" |
8:05 pm - 8:15 pm | Discussion |
8:15 pm - 8:40 pm | Tam Mignot (Institut de Microbiologie de la Méditerranée) "Mysterious mechanisms of bacterial motility on surfaces: Motors, slime and evolution" |
8:40 pm - 8:50 pm | Discussion |
8:50 pm - 9:15 pm | Kit Pogliano (University of California-San Diego) The cellular effects of toxins that mediate cannibalistic and predatory interactions of Bacillus subtilis |
9:15 pm - 9:25 pm | Discussion |
9:25 pm - 9:30 pm | General Discussion |
WEDNESDAY |
7:30 am - 8:30 am | Breakfast |
9:00 am - 12:30 pm | Symbiotic and Pathogenic Interactions: Interacting with Others |
9:00 am - 9:10 am | Discussion Leader: Ned Ruby (University of Wisconsin-Madison) |
9:10 am - 9:35 am | Eric Pamer (Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center) "The role of the intestinal microbiota in the development of antibiotic-resistant infections" |
9:35 am - 9:45 am | Discussion |
9:45 am - 9:55 am | Jessica V. Pierce (Tufts University)
"Regulation of colonization by Candida albicans in the gastrointestinal tract of healthy and immunocompromised hosts" |
9:55 am - 10:00 am | Discussion |
10:00 am | Coffee Break |
10:30 am - 10:55 am | Arturo Casadevall (Albert Einstein College of Medicine) "Parallels in fungal interactions with protozoal and mammalian cells provide insight into the origin of virulence of pathogenic fungi" |
10:55 am - 11:05 am | Discussion |
11:05 am - 11:30 am | Elisabeth Hussa (University of Wisconsin-Madison) "Beneficial Plasticity: the importance of adaptability in the Xenorhabdus nematophila symbiotic lifestyle" |
11:30 am - 11:40 am | Discussion |
11:40 am - 12:05 pm | Eric Skaar (Vanderbilt University School of Medicine) "Bacterial hemoglobin capture: The molecular evolution of microbial vampires" |
12:05 pm - 12:15 pm | Discussion |
12:15 pm - 12:25 pm | Matthew F. Traxler (Harvard University)
"A siderophore-mediated interspecies interaction reveals a critical role for iron in the development of Streptomyces coelicolor" |
12:25 pm - 12:30 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 |
7:00 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 | Biofilms and Microbial Communities: Interacting Through the Matrix |
7:30 pm - 7:40 pm | Discussion Leader: Roberto Kolter (Harvard Medical School) |
7:40 pm - 8:05 pm | Natacha Kremer (University of Wisconsin-Madison)
"Maximizing signal-to-noise: Molecular events underlying host recognition of the specific partner during initiation of the squid-vibrio symbiosis" |
8:05 pm - 8:15 pm | Discussion |
8:15 pm - 8:40 pm | Matthew Parsek (University of Washington, School of Medicine) "Signaling as a new function for the Pseudomonas aeruginosa biofilm matrix" |
8:40 pm - 8:50 pm | Discussion |
8:50 pm - 9:15 pm | Joseph Mougous (University of Washington)
"Type VI secretion effectors that target peptidoglycan" |
9:15 pm - 9:25 pm | Discussion |
9:25 pm - 9:30 pm | General discussion |
THURSDAY |
7:30 am - 8:30 am | Breakfast |
9:00 am - 12:30 pm | Intracellular Survival: The Unique Intracellular Environment |
9:00 am - 9:10 am | Discussion Leader: Elaine Tuomanen (St. Jude Children's Research Hospital) |
9:10 am - 9:35 am | Craig Roy (Yale University School of Medicine) "An important role for the Dot/Icm system in Coxiella burnetii intracellular replication revealed through genetic analysis" |
9:35 am - 9:45 am | Discussion |
9:45 am - 9:55 am | Matthias P. Machner (NIH)
"De-AMPylation of the small GTPase Rab1 by the pathogen Legionella pneumophila" |
9:55 am - 10:00 am | Discussion |
10:00 am | Coffee Break |
10:30 am - 10:55 am | Suzanne Fleiszig (University of California, Berkeley) "The role of type III secreted effectors in intracellular trafficking by P. aeruginosa" |
10:55 am - 11:05 am | Discussion |
11:05 am - 11:30 am | Alain Filloux (Imperial College London) "Regulatory networks involved in the switch between T3SS and T6SS in P. aeruginosa" |
11:30 am - 11:40 am | Discussion |
11:40 am - 12:05 am | Vassilis Koronakis (University of Cambridge) "The cytoskeleton WAVE regulation; you don't know the half of it" |
12:05 pm - 12:15 pm | Discussion |
12:15 pm - 12:25 pm | Indira U. Mysorekar (Washington University School of Medicine)
"Autophagy deficiency confers protection from persistent uropathogenic Escherichia coli infection in vivo" |
12:25 pm - 12:30 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 | Innate Immune Response |
7:30 pm - 7:40 pm | Discussion Leader: Michael Starnbach (Harvard Medical School) |
7:40 pm - 8:05 pm | Lynda Stuart (Harvard Medical School) "The Role of Effector-triggered Immunity in Defense Against Pathogenic Microbes" |
8:05 pm - 8:15 pm | Discussion |
8:15 pm - 8:40 pm | Denise Monack (Stanford University School of Medicine) "To Die or not to Die: Detection of Intracellular Bacterial Pathogens by Inflammasome NLRs" |
8:40 pm - 8:50 pm | Discussion |
8:50 pm - 9:15 pm | Elaine Tuomanen (St. Jude Children's Research Hospital) "Pros and cons of leukocytes" |
9:15 pm - 9:25 pm | Discussion |
9:25 pm - 9:30 pm | General discussion |
FRIDAY |
7:30 am - 8:30 am | Breakfast |
9:00 am | Departure |