Conference Opening
08:45 - 09:00
Introduction of the Chair, Victor Sourjik, Max Planck Institute for Terrestrial Microbiology, DE
Session I - Signal transduction and behaviour
09:00 - 10.30
Discussion leader: Urs Jenal, Biozentrum Basel, CH
09.00 – 09.30 Eduardo Groisman, Yale University, US
Differential control of bacterial gene expression
09.30 – 10.00 Judy Armitage, Oxford University, UK
In vivo analysis of the structure of the flagellar motor and T3SS
10.00 – 10.15 Ulrich Gerland, TU Munich, DE
Dual sensing of a bifunctional receptor
10.15 – 10.30 Tino Krell, CSIC Granada, ES
Sensor proteins with bimodular ligand binding domain: do multiple signals define the regulatory output?
10.30 - 11.00 Coffee break
(Continued) session I
11.00 - 12.15
11.00 – 11.30 Lotte Sogaard-Andersen, MPI Marburg, DE
Type IV pili: Regulation, architecture and function
11.30 – 11.45 Cécile Jourlin-Castelli, CNRS Marseille, FR
Pellicle biogenesis and chemotaxis in Shewanella oneidensis
11.45 – 12.00 Yigal Meir, Ben Gourion University, IL
Modeling thermotaxis in E.coli
12.00 – 12.15 Stefan Klumpp, MPI Potsdam, DE
Motility and magnetism in magnetotactic bacteria
12:30 Lunch
Session II: Stress response and gene regulation
15:00 - 16:30
Discussion leader: Lotte Sogaard-Andersen, MPI Marburg, Germany
15.00 – 15.30 Natalia Tschowri, Humboldt Universität zu Berlin, DE
The role of cyclic di-GMP in Streptomyces development
15.30 – 16.00 Julia Vorholt, ETH Zurich, CH
Multiple stress sensing in Alphaproteobacteria
16.00 – 16.15 Tobias Bollenbach, IST Austria, AT
Systematic discovery of cellular functions that control drug interactions
16.15 – 16.30 Kristina Jonas, Philipps-Universität Marburg, DE
Nutritional control of DNA replication initiation through the proteolysis and regulated translation of DnaA
16:30 - 17:00 Coffee break
(Continued) Session II
17:00 - 18:15
17.00 – 17.30 Kirsten Jung, LMU Munich, DE
New insights into translation elongation factor P and its relation to stress response
17.30 – 17.45 Ita Gruic-Sovulj, University of Zagreb, HR
Translational quality control mechanisms that eliminate the non-canonical norvaline from the genetic code in Escherichia coli.
17.45– 18.00 Morgan Anne Feeney, John Innes Centre, UK
A novel mechanism of translational regulation: de-repression of non-canonical start codons in response to oxidative stress
18.00– 18.15 David Grainger, University of Birmingham, UK
Protecting genes from pervasive transcription: implications for bacterial genome evolution