ESF Research Conferences

ESF-EMBO Symposium

Bacterial Networks (bacnet13)

16-21 March 2013

Polonia Castle in Pultusk, Poland

Chaired by: Prof. Regine Hengge, Freie Universität Berlin

Co-chaired by: Prof. Victor Sourjik, University of Heidelberg

Programme

By bringing together experimentalists and theoreticians from different disciplines, BacNet13 will give an overview of the most recent advances of the field and provide a discussion platform that will create new synergies in research and foster new collaborations.

Session topics will include signaltransduction networks in stress responses, chemotaxis, biofilm formation and development, cell-cell communication, visualization of dynamic cellular processes, network analysis by whole-cell –omics, high-throughput and mathematical modelling approaches as well as rewiring of regulatory networks in synthetic biology.
For the first time in BacNet history, BacNet2013 will also include a "Science&Society" session.

Saturday 16 March
17:00 Registration at the ESF Desk  
19:00
Welcome Drink
20:00
Dinner
Sunday 17 March
Session 1. Networks in Bacterial Stress Responses and Environmental Adaptation
Discussion Leader: Mark Buttner, John Innes Centre, Norwich, UK
09:00-09:30

Julia Vorholt, ETH Zürich, CH
General stress response in alpha-proteobacteria

09:30-10:00Kirsten Jung, LMU München, DE
Elongation factor EF-P regulates translation of bacterial receptors
10:00-10:15

Johannes Geiselmann, Université Joseph Fourier, Grenoble, FR

Shared control of gene expression in bacteria by transcription factors and the global physiology of the cell

10:15:10:30

Kürsad Turgay, Leibniz Universität Hannover, DE

Thermotolerance in Bacillus subtilis: Spx mediated oxidative thiol stress response prevents heat induced protein aggregation and protects against cell death

10:30-11:00
Coffee break
11:00-11:30
Jörgen Johansen, Umea University, SE
Light and Dark oscillations control Listeria multicellular behaviour

11:30-12:00

Cynthia Sharma, University of Würzburg, DE
Small Regulatory RNAs in the pathogenic Epsilonproteobacteria, Helicobacter pylori and Campylobacter jejuni
12:00-12:15

Kristina Jonas, MIT, Cambridge, USA

Stress-induced protein unfolding arrests the Caulobacter crescentus cell cycle

12:30-14:00
Lunch
Session 2.  Networks in Bacterial Biofilm Formation
Discussion Leader: Urs Jenal, Biozentrum Basel, CH
15:00-15:30Regine Hengge, Freie Universität Berlin,DE
Ridges, rings & wrinkles - c-di-GMP signaling and E. coli biofilm architecture
15:30-16:00

George O'Toole, Dartmouth University,US
To build a biofilm

16:00-16:15

Nicola Stanley-Wall, University of Dundee, UK

Bacillus subtilis biofilm formation: Single cells and Macromolecules

16:15-16:30

Delphine Caly, University College Cork, IR

Signalling pathways involving a variant HD-GYP domain protein that regulate virulence, biofilm formation and antibiotic resistance in the human pathogen Pseudomonas aeruginosa

16:00-16:30
Coffee Break
Session 3. Networks in Bacterial Motility and Chemotaxis
Discussion Leader: Julia Vorholt, ETH Zürich, DE
17:00-17:30
Tam Mignot, CNRS Marseille, FR
Evolution and specialization of surface motility machines in bacteria
17:30-18:00
Judy Armitage, Oxford University, UK
Spatio-temporal dynamics of chemosensory protein localisation in Rhodobacter sphaeroides
18:00-18:30Victor Sourjik, ZMBH, DE
Temperature sensing and thermal robustness in bacterial chemotaxis
18:30-18:45

Daniel Koster, Weizmann Institute, IS

Bacterial growth in space and time

19:00    
Dinner
20:30-22:00
Poster Session 1
Monday 18 March
Session 4. Networks in Bacterial Development
Discussion Leader: Patrick Viollier, University of Geneva, CH
09:00–09:30Urs Jenal, Biozentrum Basel, CH
Small molecule signaling in bacterial cell proliferation and differentiation
09:30–09:45

Liz Sockett, Nottingham University, UK

Understanding the invasion and deconstruction of bacteria by predatory Bdellovibrio bacteriovorus

09:45-10:15
Kenn Gerdes, Newcastle University, UK
Bacterial Persistence, (p)ppGpp and Toxin – Antitoxins
10:15-10:30

Anton Meinhart, MPI for Medical Research, Heidelberg, DE

The killer within – the mechanisms of bacterial suicide

10:30-11:00
Coffee Break
11:00-11:30
Mark Buttner, John Innes Institute Norwich, UK
Response regulator heterodimer formation controls a key stage in Streptomyces development
11:30-12:00
Lotte Sogaard-Andersen, MPI Marburg, DE
Modular design of a regulatory circuit for dynamic polarity
12:00-12:15

Jörg Stülke, Universität Göttingen, DE

c-di-AMP, an emerging essential second signaling nucleotide in Bacillus subtilis

12:30 Lunch
Session 5. Networks in Bacterial Communication, Sociality and Competition
Discussion Leader: Lotte Sogaard-Andersen, MPI Marburg, DE
15:00-15:30Kevin Foster, Oxford University, UK
Social evolution in bacterial communities
15:30-16:00Sine Lo Svenningsen, Copenhagen University, DK
A quorum-sensing-induced bacteriophage defense mechanism
16:00-16:15

Melanie Blokesch, Swiss Federal Institute of Technology Lausanne, CH

Environmental cues foster natural competence induction in Vibrio cholerae

16:15-16:30

Karina Xavier, Instituto Gulbenkian de Ciencia, Oeiras, PT

Adaptation of Escherichia coli in the mouse gut

16:30-17:00
Coffee Break
Session 6. Science&Society – Creative Experiments at the Interface of Science and the Arts
Discussion Leader: Regine Hengge, Freie Universität Berlin, DE
17:00-17:15
Introduction by the Chair
17:15-17:45

Horst Bredekamp, Humboldt University Berlin, DE

Into the depth. The microscope´s principle of disjunction

17:45-18:15

Ursula Damm, Bauhaus-Universität Weimar, DE

Engineering the future

18:15-18:45

Paul Vanouse, University of Buffalo, US

DNA as material and medium

19:00
Dinner
20:30-22:00
Poster Session 2
Tuesday 19 March
Session 7.  Bacterial Cell Biology: Networks Controlling Cell Shape, Polarity and Division
Discussion Leader, Judy Armitage, Oxford University, UK

09:00-09:30
Athanasios Typas, EMBL,DE
High-throughput interaction profiling feeds into mechanistic insights of the bacterial cell envelope
09:30-10:00Rut Carballido-Lopez, INRA Jouy-en-Josas, FR
MreB dynamics and morphogenetic function in Bacillus subtilis
10:00-10:15

Christophe Grangeasse, Université de Lyon, FR

Regulation of Streptococcus pneumoniae morphogenesis by the serine/threonine-kinase StkP

10:15-10:30

Berenike Maier, University of Cologne, DE

The gonococcal type IV pilus: a motor with two speeds

10:30-11:00
Coffee Break
11:00-11:30

Peter Graumann, Universität Marburg, DE
Chromosome segregation proteins at work at the single molecule level

11:30-12:00
Patrick Viollier, University of Geneva, CH
Polarized sensory pathways regulating motility in Caulobacter
12:00-12:15

Seamus Holden, Swiss Federal Institute of Technology Lausanne, CH

High-throughput super-resolution microscopy of the Caulobacter crescentus Z-ring

12:30
Lunch
14:30-18:30
Excursion
19:00
Dinner
20:30-22:00
Poster Session 3
Wedneseday 20 March
Session 8. Bacterial systems biology: Quantitative Network Analysis and Modelling
Discussion Leader: Victor Sourjik, ZMBH, DE
09:00-09:30

Uri Alon, Weizmann Institut, IS
Design principles of biological systems

09:30-10:00Sven Panke, ETH Zürich, CH
From analysis to manipulation of multi-enzyme networks

10:00-10:15

Kathleen Marchal, Ghent University, BE

Network-based dataintegration for microbial systems biology

10:15:10:30

Tobias Bollenbach, IST Austria

Bacterial responses to antibiotic combinations

10:30-11:00
Coffee break
11:00-11:30
James Locke, University of Cambridge, UK
Sigma factor dynamics at the single cells

11:30-12:00

Terence Hwa, University of California at San Diego, USA
Growth laws, catabolite repression, and metabolic coordination
12:00-12:15

Karen Lipkow, University of Cambridge, UK

Chemotactic Signalling in 3D

12:30-14:00
Lunch
Session 9.  Synthetic biology and microevolution: Rewiring bacterial regulatory networks
Discussion Leader: Peter Graumann, Universität Marburg, DE
15:00-15:30Sander Tans, FOM Institute for Atomic and Molecular Physics, NL
Evolution of synthetic networks in variable environments
15:30-16:00

Victor de Lorenzo, CSIC Madrid, ES
Rewiring regulatory parts of soil bacteria for enhancing responses to environmental pollutants

16:00-16:15

Ilka Bischofs, Universität Heidelberg, DE

Form-follows-function-based optimal design principles for quorum sensing networks

16:15-16:30
Martin Loose (Harvard Medical School, Cambridge, USA): Geometry sensing by self-organized protein patterns
16:30-17:00
Coffee Break
17:00-18:00
Forward looking plenary discussion (chaired by Victor Sourjik, ZMBH)
18:00-18:30
Short movies on Synthetic Biology from the BioFiction Film Festival Competition (Vienna Museum of Natural History, 2011)
20:00
Get-together&Conference Dinner
Thursday 21 March
Breakfast and Departure

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