| Sunday |
| 4:00 pm - 8:00 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 | Chemosensory Systems |
| Discussion Leader: Gerald Hazelbauer (University of Missouri-Columbia, USA) |
| 7:40 pm - 8:10 pm | Introduction by Discussion Leader: A Brief History of the GRC STIM |
| 8:10 pm - 8:30 pm | Brian Crane (Cornell University, USA)
"Structure and Dynamics of the Bacterial Chemotaxis Receptor:Kinase Array" |
| 8:30 pm - 8:40 pm | Discussion |
| 8:40 pm - 9:00 pm | Tino Krell (Estación Experimental del Zaidín, Spain)
"Functional Annotation of Chemoreceptors from Pseudomonas putida KT2440" |
| 9:00 pm - 9:10 pm | Discussion |
| 9:10 pm - 9:25 pm | C. Keith Cassidy (University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, USA)
"Atomic Structure and Dynamics of the Bacterial Chemosensory Array" |
| 9:25 pm - 9:30 pm | Discussion |
| Monday |
| 7:30 am - 8:30 am | Breakfast |
| 9:00 am - 12:30 pm | Community Behavior |
| Discussion Leader: Peggy Cotter (University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, USA) |
| 9:00 am - 9:10 am | Introduction by Discussion Leader |
| 9:10 am - 9:30 am | William Loomis (University of California, San Diego, USA)
"The Molecular Basis for Cellular Memory in Dictyostelium Chemotaxis" |
| 9:30 am - 9:40 am | Discussion |
| 9:40 am - 10:00 am | Christopher Hayes (University of California, Santa Barbara, USA)
"Mechanisms of Contact-Dependent Growth Inhibition (CDI)" |
| 10:00 am - 10:10 am | Discussion |
| 10:10 am - 10:30 am | Caroline Roper (University of California, Riverside, USA)
"Integration of Host-Derived Signals to Coordinate Biofilm Formation in Plant Pathogenic Bacteria" |
| 10:30 am - 10:40 am | Discussion |
| 10:40 am - 11:10 am | Coffee Break |
| 11:10 am - 11:25 am | Jonathan Willett (University of Chicago, USA)
"Defining How the Cellular Signaling Pathways of Brucella abortus and Brucella ovis Integrate Host Signals to Control Tissue Tropism, Infection Biology, and Bacterial Replication" |
| 11:25 am - 11:35 am | Discussion |
| 11:35 am - 11:50 am | Daisuke Nakane (Gakushuin University, Japan)
"Dynamics of Type IV Pili Is Controlled By Directional Light in Unicellular Cyanobacteria" |
| 11:50 am - 12:00 pm | Discussion |
| 12:00 pm - 12:20 pm | Joao Xavier (Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center, USA)
"Integration of Population and Individual Level Information in Bacterial Cooperation" |
| 12:20 pm - 12:30 pm | Discussion |
| 12:30 pm | Lunch |
| 1:30 pm - 4:00 pm | Free Time |
| 3:00 pm - 4:00 pm | Power Hour |
| The GRC Power Hour is an optional informal gathering open to all meeting participants. It is designed to help address the challenges women face in science and support the professional growth of women in our communities by providing an open forum for discussion and mentoring. |
| Organizer: Cynthia Darnell (Duke University, USA) |
| 4:00 pm - 6:00 pm | Poster Session |
| 6:00 pm | Dinner |
| 7:30 pm - 9:30 pm | Biofilms and Pathogens |
| Discussion Leader: Tracy Raivio (University of Alberta, Canada) |
| 7:30 pm - 7:40 pm | Introduction by Discussion Leader |
| 7:40 pm - 8:00 pm | Christine Josenhans (Hannover Medical School, Germany)
"Sensing and Swimming in the Stomach and Intestine: Attractant and Repellent Factors from the Bacterial Perspective" |
| 8:00 pm - 8:10 pm | Discussion |
| 8:10 pm - 8:30 pm | Birgit Scharf (Virginia Tech, USA)
"How Sinorhizobium meliloti Senses Its Host" |
| 8:30 pm - 8:40 pm | Discussion |
| 8:40 pm - 9:00 pm | Zemer Gitai (Princeton University, USA)
"Feel the Force: Mechanosensation in P. aeruginosa" |
| 9:00 pm - 9:10 pm | Discussion |
| 9:10 pm - 9:25 pm | Daniela Keilberg (University of California, Santa Cruz, USA)
"How Motility and Chemotaxis Promote Helicobacter pylori Pathogenesis" |
| 9:25 pm - 9:30 pm | Discussion |
| Tuesday |
| 7:30 am - 8:30 am | Breakfast |
| 8:30 am | Group Photo |
| 9:00 am - 12:30 pm | Cell Surfaces |
| Discussion Leader: Tarek Msadek (Institut Pasteur, France) |
| 9:00 am - 9:10 am | Introduction by Discussion Leader |
| 9:10 am - 9:30 am | Cynthia Whitchurch (University of Technology Sydney, Australia)
"Explosive Cell Lysis: A Novel Mechanism for the Production of Bacterial Public Goods" |
| 9:30 am - 9:40 am | Discussion |
| 9:40 am - 10:00 am | Suckjoon Jun (University of California, San Diego, USA)
"Universal Strategy for Cell Size Homeostasis in Microorganisms" |
| 10:00 am - 10:10 am | Discussion |
| 10:10 am - 10:30 am | Nassos Typas (European Molecular Biology Laboratory, Germany)
"A Signal Transduction System as an Internal Cell-Size Controller" |
| 10:30 am - 10:40 am | Discussion |
| 10:40 am - 11:10 am | Coffee Break |
| 11:10 am - 11:25 am | Snezana Djordjevic (University College London, United Kingdom)
"Ion Mobility Mass Spectrometry as a Method for Investigating Conformational Equilibrium of Histidine Kinase ExsG" |
| 11:25 am - 11:30 am | Discussion |
| 11:30 am - 11:45 am | Susanne Brenzinger (Justus Liebig University Giessen, Germany)
"The Role of FlhF and HubP as Polar Landmark Proteins in Shewanella putrefaciens CN-32" |
| 11:45 am - 11:50 am | Discussion |
| 11:50 am - 12:05 pm | Victoria Korolik (Griffith University, Australia)
"Galactose Chemosensory Receptor of Campylobacter jejuni" |
| 12:05 pm - 12:10 pm | Discussion |
| 12:10 pm - 12:25 pm | Davi Ortega (California Institute of Technology, USA)
"Bioinformatics Insights into Complicated Chemotaxis Networks" |
| 12:25 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 | Signaling Networks |
| Discussion Leader: Gladys Alexandre (University of Tennessee, USA) |
| 7:30 pm - 7:40 pm | Introduction by Discussion Leader |
| 7:40 pm - 8:00 pm | Craig Ellermeier (University of Iowa, USA)
"A Bacterial Receptor for Lysozyme Controls Lysozyme Resistance" |
| 8:00 pm - 8:10 pm | Discussion |
| 8:10 pm - 8:30 pm | Sean Crosson (University of Chicago, USA)
"A Two-Component System Required for Intracellular Survival of Brucella abortus" |
| 8:30 pm - 8:40 pm | Discussion |
| 8:40 pm - 9:00 pm | Monica Gerth (University of Otago, New Zealand)
"What Do Plant Pathogens Sense (and What Is the Easiest Way to Figure This Out)?" |
| 9:00 pm - 9:10 pm | Discussion |
| 9:10 pm - 9:25 pm | Abiola Pollard (Max-Planck Institute for Terrestrial Microbiology, Germany)
"Potential Role of Transmembrane Helices in Clustering of the Tar Chemoreceptor" |
| 9:25 pm - 9:30 pm | Discussion |
| Wednesday |
| 7:30 am - 8:30 am | Breakfast |
| 9:00 am - 12:30 pm | Synthetic and Systems Biology of Signaling Networks |
| Discussion Leader: Christopher Rao (University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, USA) |
| 9:00 am - 9:10 am | Introduction by Discussion Leader |
| 9:10 am - 9:30 am | Victor Sourjik (Max Planck Institute for Terrestrial Microbiology / LOEWE Center for Synthetic Microbiology, Germany)
"Understanding and Engineering Ligand Specificity in Bacterial Chemotaxis" |
| 9:30 am - 9:40 am | Discussion |
| 9:40 am - 10:00 am | Judith Armitage (University of Oxford, United Kingdom)
"Balancing Two Pathways to Control One Motor" |
| 10:00 am - 10:10 am | Discussion |
| 10:10 am - 10:30 am | Amy Schmid (Duke University, USA)
"Surviving the Outer Limits: Regulatory Network Dynamics in Response to Extreme Stress in Archaea" |
| 10:30 am - 10:40 am | Discussion |
| 10:40 am - 11:10 am | Coffee Break |
| 11:10 am - 11:30 am | Ann Stock (Rutgers-Robert Wood Johnson Medical School, USA)
"Two-Component System Architecture: Correlating Measurable Parameters with Cellular Response Output" |
| 11:30 am - 11:40 am | Discussion |
| 11:40 am - 11:55 am | Boyuan Wang (Massachussetts Institute of Technology, USA)
"Variants of a Receptor Histidine Kinase and the Input-Response Property of Their Histidine-Kinase Modules" |
| 11:55 am - 12:05 pm | Discussion |
| 12:05 pm - 12:20 pm | Ariane Briegel (Leiden University, The Netherlands)
"Unraveling the Structure of the Multiple Vibrio cholerae and Pseudomonas aerugionsa Chemoreceptor Arrays" |
| 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 in Conference Evaluation Forms; Discuss Future Site and Scheduling Preferences; Election of the Next Vice Chair |
| 7:30 pm - 9:30 pm | Energy Monitoring |
| Discussion Leader: John Helmann (Cornell University, USA) |
| 7:30 pm - 7:40 pm | Introduction by Discussion Leader |
| 7:40 pm - 8:00 pm | Jacqueline Barton (California Institute of Technology, USA)
"DNA-Mediated Signaling" |
| 8:00 pm - 8:10 pm | Discussion |
| 8:10 pm - 8:30 pm | Rebecca Parales (University of California, Davis, USA)
"Pseudomonas putida Uses Both Energy Taxis and Chemotaxis to Sense a Wide Range of Attractants" |
| 8:30 pm - 8:40 pm | Discussion |
| 8:40 pm - 9:00 pm | Dianne Newman (California Institute of Technology, USA)
"Ferrous Iron Sensing and Responding in Pseudomonas aeruginosa" |
| 9:00 pm - 9:10 pm | Discussion |
| 9:10 pm - 9:25 pm | Alan Wolfe (Loyola University Chicago, USA)
"Ne-Lysine Acetylation Modulates Stability of a One-Component Signal Transduction Protein" |
| 9:25 pm - 9:30 pm | Discussion |
| Thursday |
| 7:30 am - 8:30 am | Breakfast |
| 9:00 am - 12:30 pm | Mechanisms of Motility |
| Discussion Leader: Grant Jensen (California Institute of Technology, USA) |
| 9:00 am - 9:10 am | Introduction by Discussion Leader |
| 9:10 am - 9:30 am | Nicolas Biais (Brooklyn College, USA)
"E Pluribus Unum: Multicellular Motions with Type IV Pili" |
| 9:30 am - 9:40 am | Discussion |
| 9:40 am - 10:00 am | Ken Jarrell (Queen's University, Canada)
"Motility in the Archaeal Domain: The Archaellum" |
| 10:00 am - 10:10 am | Discussion |
| 10:10 am - 10:30 am | Howard Berg (Harvard University, USA)
"The Rotary Motor of E. coli and F. johnsoniae" |
| 10:30 am - 10:40 am | Discussion |
| 10:40 am - 11:10 am | Coffee Break |
| 11:10 am - 11:30 am | Lotte Sogaard-Andersen (Max Planck Institute for Terrestrial Microbiology, Germany)
"Assembly, Architecture and Regulation of Type IV Pili" |
| 11:30 am - 11:40 am | Discussion |
| 11:40 am - 11:55 am | Masahiro Ito (Toyo University, Japan)
"The Discovery of a Novel Divalent Cation-Driven Bacterial Flagellar Motor" |
| 11:55 am - 12:00 pm | Discussion |
| 12:00 pm - 12:20 pm | Douglas Weibel (University of Wisconsin-Madison, USA)
"Motility in Anisotropic Environments" |
| 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 | Small Molecule Signaling |
| Discussion Leader: Fitnat Yildiz (University of California, Santa Cruz, USA) |
| 7:30 pm - 7:40 pm | Introduction by Discussion Leader |
| 7:40 pm - 8:00 pm | Joanne Santini (University College London, United Kingdom)
"Arsenite as a Novel Sensing Molecule for Controlling Gene Expression" |
| 8:00 pm - 8:10 pm | Discussion |
| 8:10 pm - 8:25 pm | Matthew Wargo (University of Vermont, USA)
"An AraC Subfamily that Mediates Detection of Host-Derived Accessory Nitrogen Compounds" |
| 8:25 pm - 8:30 pm | Discussion |
| 8:30 pm - 8:50 pm | Urs Jenal (Biozentrum University of Basel, Switzerland)
"Generating Robust Lifestyle Transitions by Coupling Enzyme Activity to
Transcription Control" |
| 8:50 pm - 9:00 pm | Discussion |
| 9:00 pm - 9:20 pm | Michael Fischbach (University of California, San Francisco, USA)
"Insights from a Global View of Secondary Metabolism: Small Molecules from the Human Microbiota" |
| 9:20 pm - 9:30 pm | Discussion |
| Friday |
| 7:30 am - 8:30 am | Breakfast |
| 9:00 am | Departure |
