Saturday
2:00 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
Metabolic Conflicts in Infection
Discussion Leader: Tera Levin (Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center, USA)
3:45 pm - 4:00 pm
Zachery Lonergan (Vanderbilt University Medical Center, USA)
"A Zn-Binding Carboxypeptidase Promotes Resistance to Host-Imposed Zinc Starvation and Envelope Stress in Acinetobacter baumannii "
4:00 pm - 4:10 pm
Discussion
4:10 pm - 4:25 pm
Fabian Rivera-Chávez (Harvard Medical School, USA)
"Cholera Toxin Induces Host-Derived Metabolic Changes in the Intestine and Promotes Outgrowth of V. cholerae "
4:25 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
Immune Defense Against Pathogens
Discussion Leader: Lisa Russo (Tufts University, USA)
7:30 pm - 7:50 pm
Thomas Burke (University of California, Berkeley, USA)
"Rickettsia Exploits the Inflammasome to Avoid the Killing Effects of Type I Interferon"
7:50 pm - 8:00 pm
Discussion
8:00 pm - 8:20 pm
Sandhya Ganesan (Yale University School of Medicine, USA)
"IFN-Gamma Signaling Restricts Intracellular Replication of Coxiella burnetii in the Lysosome"
8:20 pm - 8:30 pm
Discussion
8:30 pm - 8:50 pm
Hannah Tabakh (University of Washington, USA)
"The Molecular Mechanisms of Bacterial Response to the Host-Derived Aldehyde 4-Hydroxynonenal"
8:50 pm - 9:00 pm
Discussion
9:00 pm - 9:20 pm
Mariana Byndloss (Vanderbilt University Medical Center, USA)
"You Take My Breath Away: How Healthy Guts Exclude Oxygen"
9:20 pm - 9:30 pm
Discussion
Sunday
7:30 am - 8:30 am
Breakfast
9:00 am - 11:00 am
Interspecies Microbial Competition
Discussion Leader: Aaron Whiteley (Harvard Medical School, USA)
9:00 am - 9:20 am
Amelia McKitterick (University of California, Berkeley, USA)
"Phage Wars: Vibrio cholerae Strikes Back"
9:20 am - 9:30 am
Discussion
9:30 am - 9:50 am
Miles Duncan (Tufts University, USA)
"Vibrio cholerae Uses Flagellar Motility and LPS to Defend Against the Bacterial Predator Bdellovibrio bacteriovorus "
9:50 am - 10:00 am
Discussion
10:00 am - 10:20 am
Joseph Bedree (University of California, Los Angeles, USA)
"Quorum Sensing Modulates the Epibiotic-Parasitic Relationship Between Actinomyces odontolyticus and Its Epibiont"
10:20 am - 10:30 am
Discussion
10:30 am - 10:50 am
Britney Hardy (Uniformed Services University of the Health Sciences, USA)
"Corynebacterium pseudodiphtheriticum Exploits Staphylococcus aureus Virulence Components to Compete for the Human Nasal Colonization Niche"
10:50 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
Novel Biofilm Adaptations
Discussion Leader: Samuel Becker (New York University School of Medicine, USA)
1:30 pm - 1:50 pm
Jason Paxman (La Trobe University, Australia)
"New Insights into Bacterial Non-Fimbrial Adhesins Required for Colonisation and Invasion of Host Epithelium"
1:50 pm - 2:00 pm
Discussion
2:00 pm - 2:20 pm
Ling Ning Kaylie Lam (Singapore Centre for Environmental Life Science Engineering (SCELSE), Singapore)
"Endocarditis- and Biofilm-Associated Pilus Contributes to Iron-Mediated Extracellular Electron Transfer in Enterococcus faecalis "
2:20 pm - 2:30 pm
Discussion
2:30 pm - 3:00 pm
Evaluation Period
Fill in GRS Evaluation Forms
3:00 pm
Seminar Concludes