PLENARIES, SYMPOSIA AND WORKSHOPS

PLENARIES, SYMPOSIA AND WORKSHOPS
SUNDAY, JUNE 7, 2015
PLENARIES
Name
Country
Presentation Title
Jean-Michel Claverie
Janet K. Jansson
France
USA
Giant viruses
(human) microbiome
Name
Country
Presentation Title
Pierre de Wit
The Netherlands
Plant-fungal pathogens
Country
Presentation Title
MONDAY, JUNE 8, 2015
PLENARY
SYMPOSIA
Name
Plant microbe interactions Offered by FEMS Microbiology Ecology
Chair/Speaker
Julia Vorholt
Switzerland
Chair/Speaker
Angela Sessitsch
Austria
Speaker
Jos Raaijmakers
The Netherlands
Speaker
Natalia Requena
Germany
Cell polarity and virulence
Chair/Speaker
Xavier de Bolle
Belgium
Chair/Speaker
Clay Fuqua
USA
Speaker
Bree Aldridge
USA
Speaker
Melanie Blokesch
Switzerland
Horizontal gene transfer, evolution
Chair/Speaker
Didier Mazel
France
Chair/Speaker
Charles J. Dorman
Ireland
Speaker
Tal Dagan
Germany
Speaker
Catherine Masson-Boivin
France
Resistome
Chair/Speaker
José L. Martínez
Spain
Chair/Speaker
Morten Sommer
Denmark
Speaker
Rob Willems
The Netherlands
Speaker
Gautam Dantas
USA
Yeast biotechnology Offered by FEMS Yeast Research
Chair/Speaker
Jack T. Pronk
The Netherlands
Chair/Speaker
Uwe Sauer
Switzerland
Speaker
Ed Louis
UK
Speaker
Leonie Raamsdonk
The Netherlands
The phyllosphere microbiota: responses to and impacts on plants
Plant-microbiome interactions in heavy metal polluted environments
Back to the roots: microbiology and chemistry at the root-soil interface
Plant-fungal communication during arbuscular mycorrhizal symbiosis
Brucella abortus cell cycle in culture and inside host cells
Cellular polarity and attachment in the plant pathogen Agrobacterium tumefaciens
The long and the short of it: heterogeneity and asymmetric growth in mycobacteria
It takes two to tango - the interplay between two nanomachines drives horizontal gene transfer in Vibrio cholerae
Horizontal gene transfer, antibiotics and stress response connections
Horizontal gene transfer, microbial evolution and host adaptation
Phylogenomic transduction networks reveal genetic barriers for phage-mediated lateral gene transfer
Co-transfer of hypermutagenesis and symbiotic genes drives the evolution of legume endosymbionts
Ranking risks in resistomes. The intrinsic resistome
Delineating the dissemination of antibiotic resistance genes within microbial communities
Comparative genomics to infer the antibiotic resistance mobilome in clonally related and unrelated strains
Networks of Exchanging Antibiotic Resistance in Human and Environmental Microbiota
Engineering central metabolism in yeast for production of fuels and chemicals
Coordination of yeast metabolism through phosphorylation
Quantitative genetics of industrial and new yeast hybrids
Lignocellulosic bioethanol – from laboratory proof-of-concept to full scale plant
MONDAY, JUNE 8, 2015 (Cont)
SYMPOSIA (Cont)
Name
Country
FEMS-ASM joint symposium: Polymicrobial biofilms
Chair/Speaker
Staffan Kjelleberg
Australia
Chair/Speaker
Mary Ann Jabra-Rizk
USA
Speaker
Brian M. Peters
USA
Speaker
Jean Marc Ghigo
France
Pathogenicity and cell surface
Chair/Speaker
Jan Tommassen
The Netherlands
Chair/Speaker
Jean-François Collet
Belgium
Speaker
Timothy Foster
Ireland
Speaker
Wilbert Bitter
The Netherlands
High throughput screening technologies
Chair/Speaker
Martin Held
Switzerland
Chair/Speaker
Pieter Dorrestein
USA
Speaker
Jean-Luc Wolfender
Switzerland
Speaker
Philippe Marliere
France
Presentation Title
Experimental mixed species biofilms: A novel approach to evaluating interactions at a community level
Clinical Implications of Biofilm-Associated Polymicrobial Infections
Candida albicans-Staphylococcus aureus intra-abdominal infections: at the crossroads of inter-Kingdom virulence and host response
Contribution of bacterial volatile molecules to the dynamics of polymicrobial bacterial biofilm communities
Protein secretion and secreted proteins in Neisseria meningitidis
How a surface-exposed lipoprotein functions as an envelope stress sensor in enterobacteria
Adhesion, invasion, evasion. The many functions of surface proteins of Staphylococcus aureus
Role of the ESX-5 protein secretion system in functioning of the mycobacterial cell envelope and in virulence
Nano-liter reactor technology for whole cell biocatalyst optimization and discovery
Creating the Facebook for Molecular Microbial Analysis
Searching for de novo induced bioactive metabolites in microbial interactions : a combined MS-based metabolomics and microNMR approach
Accept no limit:Why and how to restart chemical evolution in micro-organisms
WORKSHOPS
Name
Country
Presentation Title
Fungal plant pathogens
Chair/Speaker
Jörg Kämper
Germany
Transcriptional networks controlling pathogenicity and polarized growth in U. maydis
Chair/Speaker
Bart Thomma
The Netherlands
Pathogenomics of Verticillium wilt diseases
Genomics, evolution, phylogeny
Chair/Speaker
Kaare Magne Nielsen
Norway
DNA substrates for horizontal gene transfer by natural transformation
Chair/Speaker
Jodi A. Lindsay
UK
Evolution of a superbug: Real-time transfer of antimicrobial resistance in the host
Antibiotic resistance and environment
Chair/Speaker
Célia M. Manaia
Portugal
Antibiotic resistance in the urban water cycle: origins, fate and risks
Chair/Speaker
Luigi Rizzo
Italy
Disinfection of urban wastewater by conventional and new processes: effect on antibiotic resistance
Food Microbiology
Chair/Speaker
Stanley Brul
The Netherlands
Proteomics, thermal robustness and germination heterogeneity of Bacillus spores
Chair/Speaker
Ana Rute Neves
Denmark
The sweet secrets of industrial strain improvement
Molecular principles of biofilm formation and dispersion
Chair/Speaker
Jean-Marc Ghigo
France
Unmasking cryptic adhesin regulatory networks in Escherichia coli
Chair/Speaker
Karin Sauer
USA
Molecular basis of dispersion and signal transduction
Host manipulation and bacterial survival Offered by Pathogens and Disease
Chair/Speaker
David Holden
UK
Salmonella's intracellular toolkit
Chair/Speaker
Craig Roy
USA
Manipulation of host membrane transport by Type IV effector proteins
TUESDAY, JUNE 9, 2015
PLENARY
Name
Country
Presentation Title
John D. McKinney
Switzerland
Bacterial persistence
Country
Presentation Title
Germany
UK
UK
c-di-GMP signaling and E. coli biofilm architecture
c-di-AMP signalling in Staphylococcus aureus
Chp8, a composite diguanylate cyclase which promotes Pseudomonas syringae pv tomato DC3000 pathogenicity and plant immune evasion
during infection of Arabidopsis thaliana
The role of cyclic di-GMP in Streptomyces development
SYMPOSIA
Name
Cyclic di-nucleotides in bacteria
Chair/Speaker
Regine Hengge
Chair/Speaker
Angelika Gründling
Speaker
Christoph Engl
Speaker
Natalia Tschowri
Germany
Bacterial persistence and toxin – antitoxins
Chair/Speaker
Kenn Gerdes
UK
Chair/Speaker
Christoph Dehio
Switzerland
Speaker
Remy Loris
Belgium
Speaker
Pierre Genevaux
France
CRISPR - biological and technological advances
Chair/Speaker
Emanuella Charpentier
Germany
Chair/Speaker
John van der Oost
The Netherlands
Speaker
Stan Brouns
The Netherlands
Speaker
David Bikard
France
Antibiotics: novel approaches to treat resistant organisms
Chair/Speaker
Kim Lewis
USA
Chair/Speaker
Olga Genilloud
Spain
Speaker
Philippe Villain-Guillot
France
Speaker
John Robinson
Switzerland
Establishment of the fungal mycelium
Chair/Speaker
Han Wösten
The Netherlands
Chair/Speaker
Reinhard Fischer
Germany
Speaker
Stephan Seiler
Germany
Speaker
Unai Ugalde
Spain
Thermodynamics in ecology and systems biology
Chair/Speaker
Thomas Maskow
Germany
Chair/Speaker
Robbert Kleerebezem
The Netherlands
Speaker
Rudolf Thauer
Germany
Speaker
Théodore Bouchez
France
White biotechnology
Chair/Speaker
Dick B. Janssen
The Netherlands
Chair/Speaker
Bernhard Hauer
Germany
Speaker
Anthony Green
UK
Speaker
Patrik R. Jones
UK
Computational modelling
Chair/Speaker
Martin Howard
UK
Chair/Speaker
Erik van Nimwegen
Switzerland
Speaker
Sander Tans
The Netherlands
Speaker
Frank Bruggeman
The Netherlands
Magic Spot Controls Bacterial Persister Cell Formation by Activating Toxin - Antitoxins
TBA
Novel regulatory mechanisms in toxin-antitoxin modules
Chaperone-mediated control of toxin-antitoxins
Type II CRISPR-Cas9 systems: mechanisms, evolution and applications
TBA
Memory formation in E. coli CRISPR-Cas systems
Studying and fighting bacteria with the help of CRISPR
Compounds for Overcoming Antibiotic Tolerance and Resistance
Exploring microbial natural products as sources for novel antibiotics
Xenorhabdus & Photorhabdus: a Promising Bioresource for the Discovery of Novel Antibiotics
ß-Hairpin peptidomimetic antibiotics targeting outer membrane proteins in Gram-negative bacteria
Heterogeneity of the fungal mycelium
The microtubule cytoskeleton in Aspergillus nidulans
Signaling cascades associated with fungal cell-cell communication and trophic growth
Insights into the early regulation of conidiospore development in Aspergillus nidulans
231 years after Lavoisier, in times of systems ecology – what tells us biological calorimetry?
Thermodynamic state analysis for microbial ecosystems
A novel biochemical trick of anaerobic microorganisms to deal with complicated thermodynamic situations
A thermodynamic theory of microbial growth and its perspectives for a better understanding of community dynamics
Computation-supported discovery and engineering of microbial enzymes for synthetic biology
Bio-synthetic routes based on new enzymatic reactions
Biocatalytic Retrosynthesis: Redesigning Synthetic Routes to High-Value Chemicals
Microbial biosynthesis and separation of alkanes and alcohols
Mechanistic basis of equal plasmid spacing by the parABC system
The role of gene expression noise in the evolution of gene regulation
TBA
How bacteria can maximise their growth rate under stress conditions
TUESDAY, JUNE 9, 2015 (Cont)
WORKSHOPS
Name
Country
Microbial transformations of metals and metalloids
Chair/Speaker
Andreas Kappler
Germany
Chair/Speaker
Nurgul Balci
Turkey
Toxin-antitoxin systems in bacteria: clinical implications
Chair/Speaker
Sophie Helaine
UK
Chair/Speaker
Laurence van Melderen
Belgium
New diagnostic approaches
Chair/Speaker
Jacques Schrenzel
Switzerland
Chair/Speaker
Henrik Hasman
Denmark
Antibiotic resistance: human and veterinary medicine
Chair/Speaker
Patrick Plésiat
France
Chair/Speaker
Béla Nagy
Hungary
Fungal bacterial interactions
Chair/Speaker
Lukas Wick
Germany
Chair/Speaker
Pilar Junier
Switzerland
Archaea and life in extreme environments
Chair/Speaker
Sonja-Verena Albers
Germany
Chair/Speaker
Lyle Whyte
Canada
White biotechnology
Chair/Speaker
Uwe Bonscheuer
Germany
Chair/Speaker
Bruce Neil
UK
Natural products including secondary metabolites
Chair/Speaker
Joern Piel
Switzerland
Chair/Speaker
Manuel Banzhaf
Germany
Presentation Title
Ecology and mechanisms of microbial Fe(II) oxidation
Microbial oxidation of metal sulfur minerals
Role of TA modules in Salmonella persisters during infection
TBA
Rapid antimicrobial susceptibility testing : will it be genotypic or phenotypic?
Whole genome sequencing as a tool for clinical diagnostics
Parallel but distinct evolution of Pseudomonas aeruginosa and Acinetobacter baumannii toward pan-drug resistance
Antimicrobial resistance: a touchy interface between human and veterinary medicine
Microbial logistics - Mycelia as networks for functional transport of bacteria and chemicals
Fungi-bacteria interactions: from soil functioning to complex behavior
The archaellum: how archaea swim
Archaea in Cryoenvironments
Protein Engineering and Enzyme Cascade Reactions
Discovery and engineering of enzyme systems for the transformation and degradation of explosives
Metabolically talented bacteria from microbial dark matter
High-throughput chemotyping and phenotyping using Pseudomonas aeruginosa deletion libraries
WEDNESDAY, JUNE 10, 2015
PLENARY
Name
Country
Presentation Title
Nicole Dubilier
Germany
How to eat without a mouth or gut: symbioses between chemosynthetic bacteria and gutless marine worms
Country
Presentation Title
SYMPOSIA
Name
Anaerobic physiology and biochemistry Offered by FEMS Letters
Chair
Mike Jetten
The Netherlands
Chair/Speaker
Inês Cardoso Pereira
Portugal
Speaker
Cornelia Welte
The Netherlands
Speaker
Volker Mueller
Germany
Speaker
Tom Clarke
UK
Imaging of macromolecular structures
Chair/Speaker
Morgan Beeby
UK
Chair/Speaker
Peter Peters
The Netherlands
Speaker
Luisi Ben
UK
Speaker
Martin Pilhofer
Switzerland
Energy Metabolism of Sulfate Reducing Prokaryotes
New insights in the nitrate driven Anaerobic Oxidation of Methane
Microbial life at the thermodynamic limit: how to make a living by producing acetate from hydrogen and carbon dioxide
Metal reduction in bacteria
Structure and evolution of rotary motors
Cryo-EM of the Type VII secretion system in Mycobacterium tuberculosis
The assembly and mechanism of a bacterial drug efflux pump
Structure and function of type 6 secretion and related assemblies
WEDNESDAY, JUNE 10, 2015 (Cont)
SYMPOSIA (Cont)
Name
Country
Presentation Title
Fungal cell biology
Chair/Speaker
Gero Steinberg
UK
Molecular motors in spatially organizing the fungal cell
Chair/Speaker
Ida van der Klei
The Netherlands
Peroxisome biogenesis and proliferation in yeast
Speaker
Brenda Andrews
Canada
Genetic Networks in Budding Yeast
Speaker
Miguel A. Penalva
Spain
Traffic returns gold to a mold: Golgi biogenesis by cisternal maturation
Cell-cell communication / Quorum sensing: basic aspects
Chair/Speaker
Paul Williams
UK
Unravelling autoinducing peptide biosynthesis and recognition in staphylococci
Chair/Speaker
Vittorio Venturi
Italy
Interspecies and interkingdom signaling in plant associated bacteria
Speaker
Max Dow
Ireland
The DSF family of bacterial cell-cell signal molecules
Speaker
J. Allan Downie
UK
Quorum sensign in rhizobia: getting attached to their roots
Bacterial phosphorylation networks
Chair/Speaker
Urs Jenal
Switzerland
Phosphorylation networks in Caulobacter crescentus
Chair/Speaker
Steven Porter
UK
New insights into the GacS multikinase network controlling virulence in Pseudomonas aeruginosa
Speaker
Judy Armitage
UK
How do you Coordinate signals from two chemosensory pathways to control one flagellar motor?
Speaker
Alberto Marina
Spain
Signallig by two-component systems. A structural view
Food biotechnology
Chair/Speaker
Paul Ross
Ireland
Lost in a crowd? Probiotics in a microbiota context
Chair/Speaker
Jan Kok
The Netherlands
The transcriptome landscape of Lactococcus lactis: regulatory RNAs uncovered
Speaker
Amparo Querol
Spain
Understanding the mechanisms of yeast adaptation to wine fermentations
Speaker
Anne S. Meyer
Denmark
Biocatalytic production of prebiotics from agroindustrial sidestreams
Small RNAs and regulation: basic aspects Offered by FEMS Microbiology Reviews
Chair/Speaker
Udo Bläsi
Austria
Hfq- and RNA-mediated regulation in Pseudomonas aeruginosa metabolism and pathogenicity
Chair/Speaker
Sabine Brantl
Germany
Small regulatory RNAs in type I toxin-antitoxin systems
Speaker
Eric Massé
Canada
New players in the field of small regulatory RNAs
Speaker
Cynthia Sharma
Germany
Regulatory RNAs in the pathogenic Epsilonproteobacteria, Helicobacter pylori and Campylobacter jejuni
Jorgen Lehmann and Gerhard Domagk symposium on Mycobacterium tuberculosis Supported by FEMS
Chair/Speaker
Hazel M. Dockrell
UK
Towards new TB vaccines - what are the challenges?
Chair/Speaker
Carlos Martin
Spain
Steps ahead in the development of new vaccines against Tuberculosis, searching for new attenuated vaccines
WORKSHOPS
Name
Country
Presentation Title
Syntrophic interactions in anaerobic communities
Chair/Speaker
Caroline Plugge
The Netherlands
New insights in syntrophy in methanogenic communities
Chair/Speaker
Korneel Rabaey
Belgium
Studying microbial interactions using electrochemical tools
The diversity of bacterial nanomachines
Chair/Speaker
Thomas Marlovits
Austria
Unfolded protein transport across membranes: The Injectisome in Action
Chair/Speaker
Tâm Mignot
France
A new class of rotary complexes promote motility and sporulation in bacteria
Fungal human pathogens
Chair/Speaker
Neil Gow
UK
Components of the fungal cell wall that turn on and turn off the immune inflammatory response
Chair/Speaker
Axel Brakhage
Germany
Pathogenicity and immune evasion of the human-pathogenic fungus Aspergillus fumigatus
Cell-cell communication / Quorum sensing: inhibition as novel therapeutic tool
Chair/Speaker
Wim Quax
The Netherlands
Quorum quenching acylases for reducing bacterial virulence
Chair/Speaker
Helen Blackwell
USA
Chemical Interception of Bacterial Quorum Sensing: New Languages, New Outcomes
Food biotechnology
Chair/Speaker
Michael Peck
UK
Clostridium botulinum and the safety of modern foods
Chair/Speaker
María Fernández
Spain
New insight into biogenic amines: towards solution and biotechnological applications
Signalling, small RNAs and regulation: virulence aspects
Chair/Speaker
Pascale Romby
France
RNA-mediated regulatory circuits link stress response, adaptation and virulence in Staphylococcus aureus
Chair/Speaker
Carmen Buchrieser
France
RNA-mediated regulation of Legionella virulence
Jorgen Lehmann and Gerhard Domagk symposium on Mycobacterium tuberculosis Supported by FEMS
Chair/Speaker
Ulrich Schaible
Germany
Overview of recent progress in understanding pathogenesis of MTB and its impact on the immune response
Chair/Speaker
Peter Lawætz Andersen
Denmark
TB vaccines; on the role of Th1, memory and immunity in the lung?
THURSDAY, JUNE 11, 2015
PLENARY
Name
Country
Presentation Title
Gabriel Waksman
UK
Mechanisms of Bacterial Secretion
Country
Presentation Title
The Netherlands
USA
France
USA
TBA
TBA
Photoprotection in cyanobacteria and the photoactive Orange Carotenoid Protein
Signaling by Phytochrome, A Knotted Bacterial Photoreceptor
UK
Ireland
UK
Belgium
Bdellovibrio bacteriovorus- biology of invasive bacterial predation
When cheese gets the flue: how dairy lactic acid bacteria succumb to bacteriophage attack
Structural Biology as a Tool to Study Predatory Bacteria
Pseudomonas Predators: A systems’ biology perspective of the phage infection process
USA
UK
France
Switzerland
TBA
The Pseudomonas aeruginosa T6SS: a weapon for bacterial warfare
Assembly of the Type VI secretion system
Structure, function and dynamics of Type VI secretion system sheath
USA
UK
Germany
France
Mechanisms and evolution of bacterial morphology
Bacterial chromosome segregation at the single-molecule resolution
Regulation of cell division in bacteria
The PALM nanostructure of FtsZ along the cell cycle of a pathogenic coccus
France
USA
USA
USA
Increasing the knowledge of the human virome at homeostasis and disease by deep sequencing of clinical samples
How to study phages in natural communities: tools, concepts and challenges
Human and animal viruses identified through metagenomics: pathogens, commensals, or contaminants?
TBA
The Netherlands
Switzerland
USA
Germany
Small RNA-based antiviral immunity in insects: defense and counter-defense
The Drosophila-Spiroplasma interaction as a model to dissect the molecular mechanisms underlying insect endosymbiosis
How gut microbes interact with animals: insights from Drosophila
Digesting the diversity: Ecology and evolution of the termite gut microbiota
USA
Germination of spores of bacillus subtilis: nothing but surprises
SYMPOSIA
Name
Microbial responses to illumination
Chair/Speaker
Klaas Hellingwerf
Chair/Speaker
Matthew Posewitz
Speaker
Diana Kirilovsky
Speaker
Katrina Forest
Bacterial predators
Chair/Speaker
Liz Sockett
Chair/Speaker
Douwe van Sinderen
Speaker
Andrew Lovering
Speaker
Rob Lavigne
The Type VI secretion system
Chair/Speaker
Joseph Mougous
Chair/Speaker
Alain Filloux
Speaker
Eric Cascales
Speaker
Marek Basler
Bacterial cell biology
Chair/Speaker
Yves Brun
Chair/Speaker
David Sherrat
Speaker
Lotte Søgaard-Andersen
Speaker
Cécile Morlot
The human virome: new tools and concepts
Chair/Speaker
Marc Eloit
Chair/Speaker
Matthew B. Sullivan
Speaker
Eric Delwart
Speaker
Stephen Quake
Insect-microbes interactions
Chair/Speaker
Ronald van Rij
Chair/Speaker
Bruno Lemaître
Speaker
Angela E Douglas
Speaker
Andreas Brune
Bacterial spores
Chair/Speaker
Peter Setlow
Chair/Speaker
Speaker
Speaker
Imrich Barak
Simon Cutting
Graham Christie
Slovakia
UK
UK
The polar septum - the way how to set up asymmetry during sporulation in Bacilli and Clostridia
The role of spores in C. difficile infection
Structural analysis of proteins involved in peptidoglycan hydrolysis during spore germination
Why we need to worry about bacterial infections?
Chair/Speaker
Victor Nizet
USA
Chair/Speaker
Xavier Nassif
France
Speaker
Priscille Brodin
France
Speaker
Jan-Willem Veening
The Netherlands
Collaborating with the innate immune system to combat multidrug-resistant bacterial pathogens
Type IV pili, the meningococcal key to open the blood brain barrier
Buruli ulcer: from disease to pain control
The use of antibiotics drive the evolution of resistance by activating competence for DNA uptake: Molecular mechanisms involved in
Streptococcus pneumoniae