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Upcoming events:

• The 8th International Conference on Gram-positive Microorganisms (18th International Conference on Bacilli) in Montecatini Terme, organized by Marta Perego will take place from June 21 to 25. Conference website
• The 7th European Spores Conference, organized by Simon Cutting and Imrich Barak, will take place from April 18 to 20, 2016, at Royal Holloway, University of London. Conference website
• Past conferences

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Now online: A new description of SubtiWiki and its acompanying modules in the 2014 Database issue of Nucleic Acids Research

Paper of the month: August 2015

• The cells in a biofilm experience very different conditions: While the inner cells are well protected from any harm from the environment, they have on the other hand only poor access to nutrients. For the cells on the edge of the biofilm, it is just the other way round. Now, Liu et al. from the lab of Gürol M. Süel have discovered oscillation in the growth of the biofilm. These oscillations serve to provide the inner cells with access to nutrients. These oscillations are caused by metabolic co-dependence between cells in the biofilm periphery and interior that is driven by glutamate consumption and ammonium production, respectively.
• Relevant SubtiWiki pages: Gürol M. Süel, glutamate consumption and ammonium production, biofilm formation
• see a blog presenting this paper

Jintao Liu, Arthur Prindle, Jacqueline Humphries, Marçal Gabalda-Sagarra, Munehiro Asally, Dong-yeon D Lee, San Ly, Jordi Garcia-Ojalvo, Gürol M Süel
Metabolic co-dependence gives rise to collective oscillations within biofilms.
Nature: 2015, 523(7562);550-4
[PubMed:26200335] [WorldCat.org] [DOI] (I p)

• Previous papers of the month

New procedure for account creation:

• Due to massive spam attacks, we had to change our policy for the creation of accounts. If you want to create an account, just send me a mail. We will create the account for you as quickly as possible, then you can change your password. This does not affect existing accounts, which remain active.
  
• Please remember that all members of the Bacillus community are invited to create accounts and to contribute to SubtiWiki!

News in SubtiWiki:

• August 2014: The first mobile application for SubtiWiki is now available for users of Android phones: Go for SubtiWiki in Google Play! IPhone users, please be patient! You will be served next! Click here to install!
• April 2013: SubtiWiki uses a new, faster Mediawiki platform! The times for page access are significantly reduced. Enjoy!
• March 2013: updated Excel files that map all genes to categories and regulons as well as the general updated identity mapping of all genes were uploaded.
• October 2012: the essential genes have been categorized
• September 2012: 300 mutant strains available at the BGSC were added to the corresponding gene pages
• August 2012: SubtiExpress, the new compagnon of SubtiWiki devoted to gene expression is online! Try it out!
• April 2012: Links for expression data under 104 different conditions (based on Nicolas et al., 2012) have been added to the expression section of the individual gene pages
• April 2011: SubtInteract, a presentation of protein-protein interactions in B. subtilis, is online!
• December 2010: SubtiCellPublisher allows the conversion of CellDesigner diagrams to navigatable presentations in the style of SubtiPathways

Genes (examples)	Additional pages
spo0A	template
glnA	the people behind SubtiWiki
rny	labs working on Bacillus
psdA	Regulons
pckA	methods
dnaA	metabolism
rnpA	categories
sigB	genome-wide analyses
ptkA	list of plasmids
mreC	labs working on Bacillus

Publications describing SubtiWiki and SubtiPathways: