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 | New approaches to study intracellular pathogens |
7:40 pm - 7:45 pm | Discussion Leader: Sam Miller (University of Washington) |
7:45 pm - 8:10 pm | Herve Agaisse (Yale University)
"Mechanisms of bacterial spread from cell to cell" |
8:10 pm - 8:20 pm | Discussion |
8:20 pm - 8:45 pm | Michael Starnbach (Harvard Medical School)
"Bacterial manipulations of host protein stability are required for growth" |
8:45 pm - 8:55 pm | Discussion |
8:55 pm - 9:20 pm | Jost Enninga (Institute Pasteur)
"Visual screens for investigating intracellular infection" |
9:20 pm - 9:30 pm | Discussion |
MONDAY |
7:30 am - 8:30 am | Breakfast |
9:00 am - 12:30 pm | Social interactions between bacteria |
9:00 am - 9:10 am | Discussion Leader: Matthew Parsek (University of Washington) |
9:10 am - 9:35 am | Bonnie Bassler (Princeton University)
"Manipulating Quorum Sensing to Control Bacterial Pathogenicity" |
9:35 am - 9:45 am | Discussion |
9:45 am - 9:55 am | Pascale Beauregard (Harvard Medical School)
"Plant polysaccharides as inducers and carbon source for Bacillus subtilis biofilm formation"
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9:55 am - 10:00 am | Discussion |
10:00 am | Group Photo / Coffee Break |
10:30 am - 10:55 am | Pradeep Singh (University of Washington)
"Evolved P. aeruginosa Diversity and Disease Heterogeneity in the Cystic Fibrosis Lung" |
10:55 am - 11:05 am | Discussion |
11:05 am - 11:15 am | Sigal Ben-Yehuda (The Hebrew University of Jerusalem)
"On the dynamics of bacterial nanotubes"
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11:15 am - 11:20 am | Discussion |
11:20 am - 11:45 am | Regine Hengge (Freie Universität Berlin)
"Ridges, rings & wrinkles - c-di-GMP and E. coli biofilm architecture" |
11:45 am - 11:55 am | Discussion |
11:55 am - 12:05 pm | Lynette Cegelski (Stanford University)
"Sum of the Parts: Composition and architecture of the bacterial extracellular matrix"
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12:05 pm - 12:10 pm | Discussion |
12:10 pm - 12:20 pm | Boo Shan Tseng (University of Washington)
"The extracellular matrix protects Pseudomonas aeruginosa biofilms by limiting the penetration of tobramycin"
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12:20 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 | Bacterial Signal Transduction Pathways |
7:30 pm - 7:45 pm | Discussion Leader: Jörg Vogel (University of Würzburg) |
7:45 pm - 8:10 pm | Melanie Blokesch (Ecole Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne)
"Bacterial 'love' in the time of cholera - the regulatory network driving natural transformation of Vibrio cholerae" |
8:10 pm - 8:20 pm | Discussion |
8:20 pm - 8:45 pm | Eduardo Groisman (Yale University)
"Genetic control of Salmonella virulence" |
8:45 pm - 8:55 pm | Discussion |
8:55 pm - 9:20 pm | Cynthia Sharma (University of Würzburg)
"Regulatory RNAs in the pathogenic Epsilonproteobacteria Helicobacter pylori and Campylobacter jejuni" |
9:20 pm - 9:30 pm | Discussion |
TUESDAY |
7:30 am - 8:30 am | Breakfast |
9:00 am - 12:30 pm | Adherence factors and surface sensors |
9:00 am - 9:10 am | Discussion Leader: Alain Filloux (Imperial College London) |
9:10 am - 9:35 am | Gerard Wong (UCLA)
"Signaling, polysaccharide production, and surface migration during early biofilm development" |
9:35 am - 9:45 am | Discussion |
9:45 am - 9:55 am | Melissa Kendall (University of Virginia)
"Ethanolamine signaling influences enterohemorrhagic Escherichia coli O157:H7 virulence gene expression"
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9:55 am - 10:00 am | Discussion |
10:00 am | Coffee Break |
10:30 am - 10:55 am | Shaynoor Dramsi (Institut Pasteur)
"Streptococcus gallolyticus, a commensal bacterium associated with colon cancer" |
10:55 am - 11:05 am | Discussion |
11:05 am - 11:30 am | Yves Brun (Indiana University)
"Transition from reversible to irreversible attachment at the single cell level" |
11:30 am - 11:40 am | Discussion |
11:40 am - 11:50 am | Makrina Totsika (University of Queensland)
"Anti-adhesion therapeutics can prevent and treat urinary tract infections caused by pandemic multidrug-resistant uropathogenic Escherichia coli ST131" |
11:50 am - 11:55 am | Discussion |
11:55 am - 12:20 pm | Guillaume Duménil (Inserm)
"Vascular colonization by Neisseria meningitidis" |
12:20 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 | Cross kingdom interactions |
7:30 pm - 7:45 pm | Discussion Leader: Michael Gilmore (Harvard Medical School) |
7:45 pm - 8:10 pm | Sheng Yang He (Michigan State University)
"Function of type III effectors and toxins in the Arabidopsis-Pseudomonas syringae pathosystem" |
8:10 pm - 8:20 pm | Discussion |
8:20 pm - 8:45 pm | Heidi Goodrich-Blair (University of Wisconsin)
"Talking to the Animals: Regulation of Xenorhabdus Interactions with its Nematode and Insect Hosts" |
8:45 pm - 8:55 pm | Discussion |
8:55 pm - 9:20 pm | Bruno Lemaitre (Ecole Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne)
"Interactions between immune and stress pathways, epithelium renewal and gut pathogens of Drosophila" |
9:20 pm - 9:30 pm | Discussion |
WEDNESDAY |
7:30 am - 8:30 am | Breakfast |
9:00 am - 12:30 pm | Bacterial colonization and survival in the gut |
9:00 am - 9:10 am | Discussion Leader: Elizabeth Hartland (University of Melbourne) |
9:10 am - 9:35 am | Laurie Comstock (Harvard Medical School)
"Survival mechanisms of abundant gut Bacteroidales species" |
9:35 am - 9:45 am | Discussion |
9:45 am - 9:55 am | Sebastian Winter (UC Davis)
"Host-derived nitrate boosts growth of E. coli in the inflamed gut" |
9:55 am - 10:00 am | Discussion |
10:00 am | Coffee Break |
10:30 am - 10:55 am | Paul O'Toole (University College Cork)
"Gut microbiota: core composition and function in health and aging" |
10:55 am - 11:05 am | Discussion |
11:05 am - 11:30 am | Manuela Raffatellu (UC Irvine)
"Metals from the fire: host-microbe competition for metal nutrients in the inflamed gut" |
11:30 am - 11:40 am | Discussion |
11:40 am - 11:50 am | Stan Ivanov (Yale University)
"Pathogen discrimination modulates host inflammation by controlling mTOR activity"
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11:50 am - 11:55 am | Discussion |
11:55 am - 12:20 pm | Nina Salama (Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center)
"Bacterial adaptations for life in the stomach" |
12:20 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 | Probing the function of membrane-bound protein secretion machines |
7:30 pm - 7:45 pm | Discussion Leader: Christoph Dehio (Biozentrum, University of Basel) |
7:45 pm - 8:10 pm | John Mekalanos (Harvard Medical School)
"Signals and structures stimulating Type six secretion systems" |
8:10 pm - 8:20 pm | Discussion |
8:20 pm - 8:45 pm | Jorge Galan (Yale University)
"The type III secretion system of Salmonella" |
8:45 pm - 8:55 pm | Discussion |
8:55 pm - 9:20 pm | Gabriel Waksman (University College London)
"Structural and molecular biology of bacterial secretion systems" |
9:20 pm - 9:30 pm | Discussion |
THURSDAY |
7:30 am - 8:30 am | Breakfast |
9:00 am - 12:30 pm | Bacterial cell biology |
9:00 am - 9:10 am | Discussion Leader: Ian Henderson (University of Birmingham) |
9:10 am - 9:35 am | David Rudner (Harvard Medical School)
"Remodeling the Cell Envelope during Growth and Differentiation" |
9:35 am - 9:45 am | Discussion |
9:45 am - 9:55 am | Christophe Grangreasse (CNRS Lyon 1 University)
"Regulation of Streptococcus pneumoniae morphogenesis by the serine/threonine-kinase StkP"
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9:55 am - 10:00 am | Discussion |
10:00 am | Coffee Break |
10:30 am - 10:40 am | Rebecca Corrigan (Imperial College London)
"Systematic identification of conserved bacterial c-di-AMP receptor proteins"
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10:40 am - 10:45 am | Discussion |
10:45 am - 11:10 am | Petra Levin (Washington University St. Louis)
"Zombie invasion: The dire consequences of an extended block in cell division" |
11:10 am - 11:20 am | Discussion |
11:20 am - 11:30 am | Melanie Hamon (Institut Pasteur)
"A role for SIRT2-dependent histone H3K18 deacetylation in bacterial infection"
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11:30 am - 11:35 am | Discussion |
11:35 am - 12:00 pm | William Margolin (University of Texas-Houston Medical School)
"Splitsville: Regulating the E. coli cell division machine" |
12:00 pm - 12:10 pm | Discussion |
12:10 pm - 12:20 pm | Benoit Marteyn (Institut Pasteur)
"Loopin 1 is an essential ATPase for growth without oxygen that triggers Z-ring constriction in Gram-negative bacteria"
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12:20 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 | Modifying surface structures |
7:30 pm - 7:45 pm | Discussion Leader: Aimee Shen (University of Vermont) |
7:45 pm - 8:10 pm | M. Stephen Trent (UT Austin)
"It's what's on the outside that counts: The impact of remodeling the Gram-negative bacterial surface" |
8:10 pm - 8:20 pm | Discussion |
8:20 pm - 8:30 pm | Christophe Beloin (Institut Pasteur)
"Biofilm formation is associated with a specific LPS modification increasing in vivo bacterial survival"
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8:30 pm - 8:35 pm | Discussion |
8:35 pm - 9:00 pm | Thomas Rudel (University of Würzburg)
"Chlamydia pulls the strings: Manipulation of host metabolism and survival" |
9:00 pm - 9:10 pm | Discussion |
9:10 pm - 9:20 pm | Zachary Dalebroux (University of Washington)
"Control of the outer membrane glycerophospholipid barrier by a bacterial virulence regulon"
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9:20 pm - 9:30 pm | Discussion |
FRIDAY |
7:30 am - 8:30 am | Breakfast |
9:00 am | Departure |