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: Benefits and Costs of Living an Aerobic Lifestyle
Discussion Leader: Verena Fritsch (Freie Universität Berlin, Institute for Microbiology, Germany)
3:45 pm - 4:15 pm
James Imlay (University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, United States)
"Molecular Explanations for the Toxicity of Oxygen"
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
Stress Signaling
Discussion Leaders: Reid Oshiro (University of California - Berkeley, United States) and Divya Choudhary (University of Oxford, United Kingdom)
7:30 pm - 7:45 pm
Sophie Bouillet (NIH, United States)
"Modulating the Sigma Factor RpoS Response and Recovery from Stress in Escherichia coli "
7:45 pm - 7:50 pm
Discussion
7:50 pm - 8:05 pm
Vincent de Bakker (University of Lausanne, Switzerland)
"Multiomics Profiling of Pneumococcal Stress Responses"
8:05 pm - 8:10 pm
Discussion
8:10 pm - 8:25 pm
Maia Baskerville (Yale University, United States)
"Understanding the Mechanism of Host Glutathione Depletion by Helicobacter pylori "
8:25 pm - 8:30 pm
Discussion
8:30 pm - 8:45 pm
Anthony Martini (National Cancer Institute, United States)
"Development and Mechanisms of Pyocyanin Resistance in Staphylococcus aureus "
8:45 pm - 8:50 pm
Discussion
8:50 pm - 9:05 pm
Sadia Sultana (Illinois State University, United States)
"Characterization of the Uropathogenic Escherichia coli 's Increased Resistance to the Neutrophilic Oxidant Hypochlorous Acid"
9:05 pm - 9:10 pm
Discussion
9:10 pm - 9:25 pm
Pengbo Cao (Georgia Institute of Technology, United States)
"A Novel Small RNA Governs Chronic or Acute Infection in Pseudomonas aeruginosa "
9:25 pm - 9:30 pm
Discussion
Sunday
7:30 am - 8:30 am
Breakfast
9:00 am - 11:00 am
Stress Resistance Mechanisms
Discussion Leaders: Matthew Flores (Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University, United States) and Hualiang Pi (Vanderbilt University Medical Center, United States)
9:00 am - 9:15 am
Tomas Bermudez (Vanderbilt University Medical Center, United States)
"Discovering New Pathways Towards Fosfomycin Resistance in Uropathogenic E. coli and How They Affect Pathogen Fitness"
9:15 am - 9:20 am
Discussion
9:20 am - 9:35 am
Razan Alnahhas (Boston University, United States)
"Relating Single Cell Heterogeneity in Expression of Stress-Response Genes to Antibiotic Tolerance in Escherichia coli "
9:35 am - 9:40 am
Discussion
9:40 am - 9:55 am
Sarah Beagle (Washington University in St. Louis, United States)
"Klebsiella pneumoniae Exhibits a Spontaneous Resistance to the Beta-Lactam Mecillinam"
9:55 am - 10:00 am
Discussion
10:00 am - 10:15 am
Ravi Chawla (The Scripps Research Institute/Postdoc, United States)
"The Histone H1-Like Protein AlgP Facilitates Even Spacing of Polyphosphate Granules in Pseudomonas aeruginosa "
10:15 am - 10:20 am
Discussion
10:20 am - 10:35 am
Stefan Katharios-Lanwermeyer (National Institutes of Health (NIH), United States)
"Pseudomonas aeruginosa Induces Aggregation in the Co-Infecting Pathogen Stenotrophomonas maltophilia "
10:35 am - 10:40 am
Discussion
10:40 am - 10:55 am
Falk Ponath (Helmholtz Institute for RNA-based Infection Research (HIRI), Germany)
"Uncovering a Global Stress Response in the Early-Branching Species Fusobacterium nucleatum "
10:55 am - 11:00 am
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
Stress Responses
Discussion Leaders: Dalton Banh (The Rockefeller University, United States) and Aoshu Zhong (National Institute of Child Health and Human Development, NIH, USA, United States)
1:30 pm - 1:45 pm
Barry Li (Rutgers-New Jersey Medical School, United States)
"Target-Independent “Fight-or-Flight” Mechanisms of Antimicrobial Resistance"
1:45 pm - 1:50 pm
Discussion
1:50 pm - 2:05 pm
Patricia Hare (UCONN Health, United States)
"Leveraging Probiotic Escherichia coli Nissle 1917 to Hinder Levofloxacin Persister Resuscitation"
2:05 pm - 2:10 pm
Discussion
2:10 pm - 2:25 pm
Dan Pollack (New York University, United States)
"Phenotypic Memory is Selected for in Fluctuating Stress"
2:25 pm - 2:30 pm
Discussion
2:30 pm - 3:00 pm
Evaluation Period
Complete the GRS Evaluation Forms; Election of Future Chair(s)
3:00 pm
Seminar Concludes