Program
Contents
- 1 Tuesday 12th June
- 2 Wednesday 13th June
- 2.1 Session 5 Biotechnology
- 2.2 10:15 - 10:45 Tea and Coffee
- 2.3 Session 6 - Sporulation and development
- 2.4 12:30 – 14:30 Lunch and Poster Session 2
- 2.5 Session 7 – Antibiotics 2
- 2.6 15:30 – 16:00 Tea and Coffee
- 2.7 Session 8 – Cereus Group
- 2.8 17:00 Closing Remarks
- 2.9 19:00 – 23:00 Social event at The Terrace, The Roman Baths, generously supported by BACIP – to include the prize giving for best posters and talks from PhD/Postdocs
- 3 END OF MEETING
- 4 Back to SubtiWiki
Tuesday 12th June
- 8:30 – 8:55 Registration
- 8:55 Welcome - Chancellors’ Building, room 1.12
Session 1 Regulation
CHAIR: David Leak
- 09:00 Ciaran Condon
- 09:15 Roland Hartmann
- Function and regulation of two 6S RNAs in Bacillus subtilis
- 09:30 Matthias Mack
- A dual control mechanism synchronizes riboflavin and sulphur metabolism in Bacillus subtilis
- 09:45 Hermann Rath
- 10:00 Laura Teichmann
- Suppressor analysis illuminates the structure/function relationship of the glycine betaine synthesis repressor GbsR
- 10:15 Sylvain Durand
- sRNA-mediated activation of gene expression by inhibition of 5’-3’exonucleolytic mRNA degradation
10:30 – 11:00 Tea and Coffee - Chancellors’ Building, ground floor foyer
Session 2 Cell division
CHAIR: TBA
- 11:00 Henrik Strahl
- Bacillus subtilis does not form microscopically detectable cardiolipin domains
- 11:15 Jeanine Rismondo
- Discovery of genes required for lipoteichoic acid glycosylation predicts two distinct mechanism for wall teichoic acid glycosylation
- 11:30 Edward de Koning
- Divisome maturation in Bacillus subtilis single cells
- 11:45 Seamus Holden
- Treadmilling by FtsZ filaments drives Bacillus subtilis peptidoglycan synthesis and bacterial cell division
- 12:00 Dirk-Jan Scheffers
- PBP2B PASTA domains interact with DivIB to stabilize cell division
- 12:15 Yongqiang Gao
- Cell division in the cell wall-less bacterium Acholeplasma laidlawii
12:30 – 14:30 Lunch and Poster Session 1
Session 3 – Interesting Biology
CHAIR: Colin Harwood
- 14:30 Jörg Stülke
- DNA topoisomerases in Bacillus subtilis: A tale on mutants and suppressors
- 14:45 Hannah Gaimster
- Lethal depletion of essential cell envelope proteins can be rescued by slowing DNA replication in Bacillus subtilis
- 15:00 Alexandre Deloupy
- Stochastic gene expression in Bacillus subtilis
- 15:15 Sabine Schneider
- Development of a reporter gene system to characterise riboswitch function and to identify riboswitch modulators by high-throughput screening
- 15:30 Ken-ichi Yoshida
- Rapid conjugative mobilization of a 100 kb segment of Bacillus subtilis chromosomal DNA is mediated by a helper plasmid with no ability for self-transfer
- 15:45 Anna A. Toymentseva
- Mobilization and transfer of plasmids and chromosomal DNA mediated by optimized ICEBs1 conjugative element
16:00 – 16:30 Tea and Coffee
Session 4 – Antibiotics 1
CHAIR: Ulrike Mäder
- 16:30 Carolin Kobras
- 16:45 Luiza P. Morawska
- Preadaptation of Bacillus subtilis to mild osmostress contributes to increased antibiotic resistance
- 17:00 Mary K. Phillips-Jones
- Characterisation of the VanA-type VanS histidine kinase involved in glycopeptide resistance in Gram-positive bacteria and its ligand interactions
- 17:15 Gabriela Henriques
Free evening in Bath
Wednesday 13th June
Session 5 Biotechnology
CHAIR: Anne Breüner
- 9:00 Andreas Knapp
- The spacer region in the 5´-UTR strongly affects recombinant protein production in Bacillus subtilis
- 9:15 Alexandria Holland
- Investigating protein secretion in Geobacillus thermoglucosidasius
- 9:30 Matthew Styles
- Engineering Parageobacillus for the Production of Terpenes: Building Better Chassis Organisms for Industrial Biotechnology
- 9:45 Luca Longanesi
- γ-PGA production through Consolidated Bioprocessing in engineered B. subtilis lab strains
- 10:00 Matteo Cavaletti
- Optimization of γ-PGA biosynthesis supported by synthetic biology and metabolic engineering strategies
- 10:15 Ioannis Mougiakos
- Characterizing a thermostable Cas9 for bacterial genome editing and silencing
10:15 - 10:45 Tea and Coffee
Session 6 - Sporulation and development
CHAIR: TBC
- 10:45 Imrich Barák
- What we (don’t) know about the asymmetric septum in Bacillus subtilis
- 11:00 Munehiro Asally
- Quality monitoring during sporulation in B. subtilis
- 11:15 Ilka Bischofs
- Phenotypic memory links different stages of the B. subtilis life cycle
- 11:30 Akos Kovacs
- Cheating promotes evolution of hyper-cooperators by shifting phenotypic heterogeneity in biofilms
- 11:45 Sven Halbedel
- Novel gpsB suppressor genes contributing to regulatory proteolysis and cell division
- 12:00 Sofia Arnaouteli
- Exploring the role of pulcherrimin in Bacillus subtilis biofilm formation
- 12:15 Karin Bjerre
- Investigating of Bacillus subtilis and Bacillus amyloliquefaciens spores and vegetative cells in fecal samples from pigs
12:30 – 14:30 Lunch and Poster Session 2
Session 7 – Antibiotics 2
CHAIR: Kevin Devine
- 14:30 Auke J. van Heel
- BAGEL4: A user-friendly web server to mine RiPPs and bacteriocins
- 14:45 Amanda Y. van Tilburg
- Bacillus subtilis as heterologous production host for lantibiotics
- 15:00 Nina Lautenschlaeger
- A novel heterologous whole-cell biosensor in Bacillus subtilis for the comprehensive detection of b-lactam antibiotics
- 15:15 Marjorie Gibbon
15:30 – 16:00 Tea and Coffee
Session 8 – Cereus Group
CHAIR: Cinzia Calvio
- 16:00 Monika Ehling-Schulz
- Bacillus cereus, a multifaceted pathogen: The challenge of discriminating high and low enteropathogenic strains
- 16:15 Nick Waterfield
- Bacillus cereus G9241 – to anthrax and back again
- 16:30 Ludivine Rousset
- Oligotrophy induces phenotypic diversification of Bacillus cereus AH187
- 16:45 Jan Maarten van Dijl
- Can Bacillus thuringiensis and other microorganisms isolated from chronic wounds ‘pacify’ Staphylococcus aureus?
