Session 1: Sunday evening
Signaling in Host Cells I
- Jorge Galan, SUNY, Chair of Session - "Salmonella signalling"
- Guy Cornelis, University of Louvaine Medical School - "Type III-secretion mediated signaling"
- Barbara Baker, USDA - PGEC - "N-locus for TMV resistance"
- Brett Finlay, U. British Columbia - "EPEC signaling"
Session 2: Monday am
Symbiosis
- Graham Walker, MIT, Chair of Session - "Rhizobium bacA in exopolysaccharides: Signalling during invasion of nodules"
- Allan Downie, John Innes Center - "NodO, a secreted Rhizobium signal protein"
- Edward G. Ruby, University of Hawaii - "Signal exchange by Vibrio and host"
- POSTER TALK
POSTER SESSION #1 : 4-6pm - Odd Number Posters
Session 3: Monday pm
Bacterial Cell-Cell Signals
- Peter Greenberg, University of Iowa, Chair of Session - "Homoserine lactones in Pseudomonas and other systems"
- Barbara Iglewski, University of Rochester Medical Center - "Pseudomonas aeruginosa homoserine lactones"
- Staffan Kjelleberg, University of New South Wales - "Homeserine lactone antagonists in marine systems"
- Heidi Kaplan, University of Texas/Health Sciences - "Myxococcus signals and differentiation"
Session 4: Tuesday am
Signaling in Host Cells II
- Elaine Tuomanen, Rockefeller University, Chair of Session - "Pneumococcal signaling to target cells"
- Chihiro Sasakawa, University of Tokyo - "Shigella-host cell interactions"
- Karla Fullner, University of Pittsburgh - "Agrobacterium pilus assembly and T-DNA transfer to host cells"
- Hans Wolf-Watz, University of Umea - "Intracellular targets of surface-delivered Yersinia Yop-proteins"
POSTER SESSION #2 : 4-6pm - Even Number Posters
Session 5: Tuesday pm
Interactions with Host Cells
- Virginia Clark, University of Rochester, Chair of Session- "Cell interaction and signaling in Neisseria pathogenesis"
- Emanuel Hanski, Hebrew University - "Streptococcal proteins interacting with extracellular matrix, and with host cells"
- Vincent Fishetti, Rockefeller University - "Streptococcus host cell signaling"
- POSTER TALK
Session 6: Wednesday am
PILI -- Assembly, Structure, and Unexpected Functions
- Scott Hultgren, Washington University School of Medicine, Chair of Session - "Structure and assembly of the Type I, and P-pili"
- Michael Koomey, University of Michigan Medical School - "Type 4 pilus biogenesis and adherence functions of gonococcal RIC"
- John Tainer, Scripps Research Institute - "TypeIV pili: structure and function"
- POSTER TALK
Session 7: Wednesday pm
Biofilms and Surface Sensing
- John Costerton, Montana State University, Chair of Session - "Biofilm formation and bacterial interactions"
- John Smit, University of British Columbia - "The S-layer of Caulobacter crescentans"
- Roberto Kolter, Harvard Medical School - "Genetic analysis of biofilm formation"
- POSTER TALK
Session 8: Thursday am
Microbial Factors and Pathogenicity
- Frederick Ausubel, Massachusetts General Hospital, Chair of Session - "Virulence and avirulence in plant/animal pathogens"
- Thomas Boren, University of Umea - "Biochemical approach to Leb-binding adhesin of Helicobabacter pylori"
- Reinhard Haas, Max Planck Institute for Biology - "Genetic approach to Helicobacter pylori adhesin"
- POSTER TALK
Session 9: Thursday pm
Applied Technical Aspects of Adhesion and Signaling
- Trevor Trust , Astra Corporation, Chair of Session - "Helicobacter adhesion and vaccine development"
- Sol Langerman, Med Immune, Inc - "Adhesins as targets for vaccine development"
- D.W. Holden, Royal postgraduate Medical School - "Method of tagged mutagenesis to find invasion and signaling genes"
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