| 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 |
| 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 |
