James Shapiro, Discussion Leader

7:30 - 7:40 pm Howard Ochman (University of Arizona) - Introduction

7:40 - 7:50 pm James Shapiro (University of Chicago)

7:50 - 8:30 pm Paul Williams (University of Nottingham)
"Quorum sensing and the control of multicellular behaviour in Gram-negative bacteria"

8:30 - 8:50 pm Steve Winans (Cornell University)
Autoinducer binding by the quorum-sensing regulator TraR increases affinity for target promoters in vitro and decreases TraR turnover in whole cells"

8:50 - 9:30 pm. James Hoch (The Scripps Research Institute)
"Kinase-phosphatase competition regulates cell fate"

9:30 pm - 10 pm Open Discussion - moderated by Jim Shapiro

10: 00 pm onwards Very open discussion.

Julian Adams, Discussion Leader

8:45 - 9:15 am Julian Adams (University of Michigan)

9:15 - 9:45 am Francoise Taddei (Institut Jacques Monod)
"Roles of mutators in bacterial evolution"

9:45 - 10:15 am Jan Gottschal (University of Groningen)
"Competition and the role of substrate availability"

10: 15 - 11:00 am - Break and Group Photo

11:00 - 11:30 am Frank Rosenzweig (University of Idaho)
"Systematic changes in gene expression following adaptive evolution in yeast"

11:30 - 12:00 pm Dan Andersson (Swedish Institute for Infectious Disease Control) "Antibiotic resistance and compensatory evolution"

12:00 - 12:30 pm Open Discussion - moderated by Julian Adams

(Presenters whose surnames begin with A through L)

Eduardo Groisman, Discussion Leader

7:30 - 7:45 pm Eduardo Groisman (Washington University)

7:45 - 8:15 pm Rino Rappuoli (Chiron Vaccines)

8:15 - 8:45 pm Barbara Kunkel (Washington University) Molecular genetic analysis of plant-pathogen interactions: How does the pathogen gain the upper hand?"

8:45 - 9:00 pm Break

9:00 - 9:30 pm Jorge Galan (Yale University)
"Interaction of Salmonella with host cells: encounters of the closest kind"

9:30 - 10:00 pm Open Discussion - moderated by Eduardo Groisman

Richard Moxon, Discussion Leader

9:00 - 9:15 am Richard Moxon (Oxford)

9:15 - 9:45 am Herve Tettelin (TIGR)
"Genome sequencing of Neiserria meningitidis serogroup, B strain MC58"

9:45 - 10:15 am Derek Hood (Oxford)
"Insights from the MC5 8 genome sequence: part I"

10: 15 - 10:45 am Nigel Saunders (Oxford)
"Insights from the MC58 genome sequence: part 2"

10:45 - 11:15 am - Break -

11:15 - 11:45 am Doug Berg (Washington University)
"Geographic differences in gene pools of Helicobacterpylori from five continents: Selection vs. Random Genetic Drift"

11:45 - 12:15 pm Fred Blattner (University of Wisconsin)
"The 0157:H7 Genome"

12:15 - 12:30 pm Open Discussion - moderated by Richard Moxon

(Presenters A through M)

David Stahl, Discussion Leader

7:30 - 7:45 pm David Stahl (Northwestern University)

7:45 - 8:15 pm Ena Urbach (Oregon State University)
"Ecological and evolutionary perspectives on environmental sequence clusters"

8:15 - 8:45 pm Patty Sobecky (Georgia Institute of Technology)
Diversity in the ocean: Plasmids in marine bacteria contain replication and incompatibility regions unrelated to those of known plasmid groups"

8:45 - 9:00 pm - Break -

9:00 - 9:30 pm Robert Goodman (University of Wisconsin)
"Archaea on plant roots"

9:30 - 10:00 pm Open Discussion - moderated by David Stahl

Lin Chao, Discussion Leader

9:00 - 9:30 am Lin Chao (UC San Diego)

9:30 - 10:00 am Holly Wichman (University of Idaho)
"Molecular dissection of complex viral adaptation"

10:00 - 10:30 am John McDonald (University of Delaware)
"Asymmetrical amino acid substitution matrices as evidence for protein adaptation"

10:30 - 11:00 am - Break -

11:00 - 11:30 am Ichiro Matsumura (University of Texas at Austin)
"Unnatural selection and the boundary conditions of living systems"

11:30 - 12:00 pm Charles Dorman (Trinity College, Dublin)
"Stress and the regulation and evolution of the spv virulence genes of S. typhimurium"

12:00 - 12:30 pm Open Discussion - moderated by Lin Chao

(Presenters N through Z)

Henry Huang, Discussion Leader

7:30 - 7:45 pm Henry Huang (Washington University)

7:45 - 8:15 pm John Coffin (Tufts Medical School)
"Modeling HIV dynamics and variation in vivo "

8:15 - 8:45 pm Eddy Holmes (Oxford University)
"Sex in a clonal world: Recombination and evolution in RNA viruses"

8:45 - 9:00 pm - Break -

9:00 - 9:30 pm Scott Weaver (University of Texas at Galveston)
"Evolution and emergence of epidemic venezuelan equine encephalitis viruses"

9:30 - 10:00 pm Open Discussion - moderated by Henry Huang

Jeff Lawrence, Discussion Leader

9:00 - 9:20 am Jeff Lawrence (University of Pittsburgh)

9:20 - 10:00 am Charles Delwiche (University of Maryland)
"The tangled web of plastid phylogeny"

10:00 - 10:40 am Siv Andersson (University of Uppsala)
"Rickettsia, Bartonella and the origin of mitochondria"

10:40 - 11: 10 am - Break -

11:10 - 11:30 am Jen Wernegreen (University of Axizona)
"Persistent pseudogenes in endosymbionts: Silencing of biosynthetic genes in Buchnera"

11:30 - 12:10 pm Martijn Huynen (EMBL)
Comparative genome analysis at various levels of resolution: evolution of gene content, the citric acid cycle, and signalling pathways

12:10 - 12:30 pm Open Discussion - moderated by Jeff Lawrence

(Presenters N through Z)

Business Meeting
8:00 pm - Election of Organizers for 2001

Research talks selected from the submitted poster abstracts.

8:20 - 8:40 pm Ute Romling (GBF)
"Genetic analysis of the multicellular morphotype in Salmonella typhimurium"

8:40 - 9:00 pm Brendan Boharman (Oxford University)
"Experimental community ecology with microbial model systems"

9:00 - 9: 10 pm - Break -

9:10 - 9:30 pm Sebastian Suerbaurn (Ruhr-University Bochum)
"Recombination and mutations in Helicobacterpylori strains during long-term colonization"

9:30 - 9:50 pm Greg Velicer (Michigan State University)
"Myxococcus social motility - when sticking together can hurt"