| SUNDAY |
| 2:00 pm - 9:00 pm | Arrival and Check-in |
| 6:00 pm | Dinner |
| 7:30 pm - 9:30 pm | Genomics and Proteomics under Relevant Biologic Contexts |
| 7:30 pm - 7:35 pm | Discussion Leader: Paul Dunman |
| 7:35 pm - 8:00 pm | Ken Bayles - Moscow, Idaho
"Global transcriptional changes during S. aureus invasion of host cells" |
| 8:00 pm - 8:10 pm | Discussion |
| 8:10 pm - 8:20 pm | Jodi Lindsay - University of London
"Comparative genomics of Staphylococcus aureus by microarray analysis" |
| 8:20 pm - 8:45 pm | Mark Smeltzer - Little Rock, Arkansas
"Transcriptional profiling in S. aureus biofilms" |
| 8:45 pm - 8:55 pm | Discussion |
| 8:55 pm - 9:20 pm | Susanne Englemann - Greifswald, Germany
"A proteomics approach to understanding physiology and virulence in S. aureus" |
| 9:20 pm - 9:30 pm | Discussion |
| MONDAY |
| 7:30 am - 8:30 am | Breakfast |
| 9:00 am - 12:30 pm | Bacterial Physiology and Metabolism Linked to Pathogenicity |
| 9:00 am - 9:10 am | Discussion Leader: Rich Proctor |
| 9:10 am - 9:45 am | Barry Bochner - Hayward, California
"What we can learn from phenotypic microarrays in staphylococci" |
| 9:45 am - 10:00 am | Discussion |
| 10:00 am - 10:15 am | Knut Ohlsen - University of Wuerzburg
"ClpP protease of Staphylococcus aureus affects regulons involved in virulence, oxidative stress, autolysis and catabolite repression" |
| 10:15 am | Group Photo |
| 10:30 am | Coffee Break |
| 11:00 am - 11:30 am | Greg Somerville - Hamilton, Montana
"Effects of metabolism upon virulence factor production" |
| 11:30 am - 11:45 am | Discussion |
| 11:45 am - 12:15 pm | Simon Foster - Sheffield, England
"Genetics of the stress response in S. aureus - a window into metabolic regulations" |
| 12:15 pm - 12:30 pm | Discussion |
| 12:30 pm | Lunch |
| 1:30 pm - 6:00 pm | Free Time |
| 6:00 pm | Dinner |
| 7:30 pm - 9:30 pm | Regulation of Autolysis |
| 7:30 pm - 7:40 pm | Discussion Leader: Markus Bischoff |
| 7:40 pm - 8:05 pm | Ambrose Cheung - Hanover, New Hampshire
"mgrA and sarV, the yin and yang in control of autolysis" |
| 8:05 pm - 8:15 pm | Discussion |
| 8:15 pm - 8:40 pm | Kelly Rice - Moscow, Idaho
"Metabolic control of cell death in S. aureus" |
| 8:40 pm - 8:50 pm | Discussion |
| 8:50 pm - 9:15 pm | Jan Potempa - Athens, Georgia
"Pleiotropic effects of disruption of control of S. aureus intracellular proteolytic activity" |
| 9:15 pm - 9:30 pm | Discussion |
| TUESDAY |
| 7:30 am - 8:30 am | Breakfast |
| 9:00 am - 12:30 pm | Staphylococcal Interactions with Host Cells |
| 9:00 am - 9:10 am | Discussion Leader: Michael Yeaman |
| 9:10 am - 9:45 am | Banhu Sinha - Muenster, Germany
"Staphylococcal interactions with endothelial and epithelial cells" |
| 9:45 am - 10:00 am | Discussion |
| 10:00 am | Coffee Break |
| 10:30 am - 10:45 am | Ruth Massey - University of Oxford
"The phase variable protein MapW of S. aureus and its interactions with T cells" |
| 10:45 am - 11:20 am | Tim Foster - Dublin, Ireland
"Staphylococcal interactions with platelets" |
| 11:20 am - 11:35 am | Discussion |
| 11:35 am - 12:10 pm | Hattie Gresham - Albuquerque, New Mexico
"Staphylococcal interactions with neutrophils" |
| 12:10 pm - 12:25 pm | Discussion |
| 12:30 pm | Lunch |
| 1:30 pm - 6:00 pm | Free Time |
| 6:00 pm | Dinner |
| 7:30 pm - 9:30 pm | Immune Responses to Staphylococcus aureus |
| 7:30 pm - 7:35 pm | Discussion Leader: Andreas Peschel |
| 7:35 pm - 8:00 pm | Andrej Tarkowski - Göteborg University, Sweden
"Functional interactions between staphylokinase and proteins belonging to host defence and fibrinolytic system" |
| 8:00 pm - 8:10 pm | Discussion |
| 8:10 pm - 8:20 pm | Sergio Filipe - ITQB/UNL
"Requirements of Staphylococcus aureus peptidoglycan structure allowing detection by the Drosophila Toll pathway" |
| 8:20 pm - 8:45 pm | Gabriel Nunez - Ann Arbor, Michigan
"Role of NOD Proteins in Peptidoglycan Recognition and Disease" |
| 8:45 pm - 8:55 pm | Discussion |
| 8:55 pm - 9:20 pm | Arthur Tzianabos - Boston, Massachusetts
"Interaction of the S. aureus capsule with CD4+ T cells: impact on host response and disease" |
| 9:20 pm - 9:30 pm | Discussion |
| WEDNESDAY |
| 7:30 am - 8:30 am | Breakfast |
| 9:00 am - 12:30 pm | New Concepts of Cell Wall Structure and Function |
| 9:00 am - 9:10 am | Discussion Leader: Alexander Tomasz |
| 9:10 am - 9:45 am | Brigitte Berger-Bachi - Zurich, Switzerland
"Modulation of methicillin and glycopeptide resistance" |
| 9:45 am - 10:00 am | Discussion |
| 10:00 am | Coffee Break |
| 10:30 am - 10:45 am | Tomaz Koprivnjak - University of Iowa
"Cation induced regulation of the dlt operon of Staphylococcus aureus" |
| 10:45 am - 11:20 am | Mariana Pinho - Oeiras, Portugal
"Localization of the cell wall synthetic machinery in S. aureus" |
| 11:20 am - 11:35 am | Discussion |
| 11:35 am - 12:10 pm | Brian Wilkinson - Normal, Illinois
"The S. aureus cell wall stress stimulon and implications in drug discovery" |
| 12:10 pm - 12:25 pm | Discussion |
| 12:30 pm | Lunch |
| 1:30 pm - 6:00 pm | Free Time |
| 6:00 pm | Dinner |
| 7:30 pm - 9:30 pm | Community-Acquired Methicillin-Resistant Staph. aureus (CA-MRSA) -Molecular and Clinical Paradigms |
| 7:30 pm - 7:35 pm | Discussion Leader: Jerome Etienne |
| 7:35 pm - 8:00 pm | Barry Kreiswirth - Newark, New Jersey
"The molecular epidemiology of CA-MRSA" |
| 8:00 pm - 8:10 pm | Discussion |
| 8:10 pm - 8:20 pm | Maria Labandeira-Rey - Texas A&M University HSC, IBT
"The Presence of PVL Enhances the Virulence of CA-MRSA Strains" |
| 8:20 pm - 8:45 pm | Robert Daum - Chicago, IL
"A family of chromosomal cassettes - SCCmec and its relatives" |
| 8:45 pm - 8:55 pm | Discussion |
| 8:55 pm - 9:20 pm | Frank DeLeo - Hamilton, Montana
"Host cell-virulence factor interplay among CA-MRSA" |
| 9:20 pm - 9:30 pm | Discussion |
| THURSDAY |
| 7:30 am - 8:30 am | Breakfast |
| 9:00 am - 12:30 pm | Issues in Staphylococcus epidermidis |
| 9:00 am - 9:10 am | Discussion Leader: Gordon Archer |
| 9:10 am - 9:45 am | Michael Otto - Hamilton, Montana
"S. epidermidis interactions with the host immune system" |
| 9:45 am - 10:00 am | Discussion |
| 10:00 am | Coffee Break |
| 10:30 am - 10:45 am | Bret Sellman - Wyeth Vaccine Research, New York
"Identification of Staphylococcus epidermidis surface proteins tha interact with host serum components and elicit an antibody response during infection" |
| 10:45 am - 11:20 am | Paul Fey - University of Nebraska
"Regulation of ica gene expression in S. epidermidis" |
| 11:20 am - 11:35 am | Discussion |
| 11:35 am - 12:10 pm | Wilma Ziebuhr - Wurzburg, Germany
"Mechanisms of genotypic and phenotypic flexibillity in S. epidermidis" |
| 12:10 pm - 12:25 pm | Discussion |
| 12:30 pm | Lunch |
| 1:30 pm - 6:00 pm | Free Time |
| 6:00 pm | Dinner |
| 7:30 pm - 8:20 pm | Controversies / Hot Topics |
| 7:30 pm - 7:40 pm | Discussion Leader: Benedicte Fournier |
| 7:40 pm - 7:50 pm | Duarte Oliveira - TQB/UNL, Portugal
"Assessment of allelic variation in the ccrAB locus in MRSA strains" |
| 7:50 pm - 8:00 pm | Jacques Schrenzel - Geneva University Hospital, Switzerland
"Flexible oligoarray design for CGH or transcription profiling" |
| 8:00 pm - 8:10 pm | Steve Projan - Wyeth Research, Cambridge, Massachusetts
"Multidrug resistance phenotypes: (Genome) size matters" |
| 8:10 pm - 8:20 pm | Adriana Rosato - Virginia Commonwealth University
"A beta-lactam dependent Methicillin resistance S. aureus (MRSA)" |
| 8:20 pm - 9:30 pm | Poster Reviews |
| 8:20 pm - 8:30 pm | Discussion Leaders: Mathias Herrmann & Harald Labischinksi |
| 8:30 pm - 9:30 pm | Topics chosen from poster presenters |
| FRIDAY |
| 7:30 am - 8:30 am | Breakfast |
| 9:00 am | Depart |
