Saturday
1:00 pm - 5:00 pm
Arrival and Check-in
3:30 pm - 3:45 pm
Introductory Comments by GRC Staff / Welcome and Introduction from the Chairs
3:45 pm - 4:30 pm
Keynote Session: Cell Shape Determination
Discussion Leader: Shannon Kordus (Vanderbilt University Medical Center, United States)
3:45 pm - 4:15 pm
Martin Pilhofer (ETH Zurich, Switzerland)
"Towards Understanding Cell Shape Determination in Lokiarchaea"
4:15 pm - 4:30 pm
Discussion
4:30 pm - 6:00 pm
Poster Session
6:00 pm - 7:00 pm
Dinner
7:30 pm - 9:30 pm
Synthesis and Structure of The Cell Envelope
Discussion Leaders: Abdelkader MELLOUK (Institut National de Recherche Scientifique , Canada) and Claire-Jing Rouchet (INRAE Antony/Jouy-en-Josas, France)
7:30 pm - 7:35 pm
Introduction by Discussion Leader
7:35 pm - 7:45 pm
Shailab Shrestha (Tufts University School of Medicine, United States)
"Defining the Roles of Putative Lipid II Flippases During Vegetative Growth and Spore Formation in Clostridioides difficile "
7:45 pm - 7:50 pm
Discussion
7:50 pm - 8:00 pm
Adria Sogues Castrejon (SMM VUB-VIB Center for Struct. Biology, Belgium)
"Fortifying the Cell Envelope in Bacillota (Firmicutes): Self-Assembling Proteins Create Paracrystalline Layers for Enhanced Stability in Vegetative Cells and Spores"
8:00 pm - 8:05 pm
Discussion
8:05 pm - 8:15 pm
Ben Cooper (University of Oxford, , United Kingdom)
"An Octameric PqiC Toroid Stabilises the Outer-Membrane Interaction of the PqiABC Transport System."
8:15 pm - 8:20 pm
Discussion
8:20 pm - 8:30 pm
Basile Beaud (Institut Pasteur, France)
"Evolutionary Tinkering and Functional Repurposing of the LPS Transport Machinery in Bacteria"
8:30 pm - 8:35 pm
Discussion
8:35 pm - 8:45 pm
Sinjini Nandy (University of Texas at Dallas, United States)
"Molecular Interactions Between Outer Membrane Lipid Asymmetry and Peptidoglycan Integrity Maintenance in Acinetobacter baumannii "
8:45 pm - 8:50 pm
Discussion
8:50 pm - 9:00 pm
Jonathan Chiu-Chun Chou (Stanford University, United States)
"Rapid Proteome-Wide Prediction of Lipid-Interacting Proteins Through Ligand-Guided Structural Genomics"
9:00 pm - 9:05 pm
Discussion
9:05 pm - 9:15 pm
Ann Deng (Carnegie Institute for Science, United States)
"Characterizing Hopanoid Transporters in Bradyrhizobium diazoefficiens "
9:15 pm - 9:20 pm
Discussion
9:20 pm - 9:30 pm
General Discussion
Sunday
7:30 am - 8:30 am
Breakfast
9:00 am - 11:00 am
Cell Envelope Regulation and Related Behaviors
Discussion Leaders: Yiting Xie (National University of Singapore, Singapore) and Evan Pardue (Washington University in St. Louis, United States)
9:00 am - 9:05 am
Introduction by Discussion Leader
9:05 am - 9:15 am
Coralie Tesseur (de Duve Institute - UCLouvain, Belgium)
"Linking the Subcellular Localization of the Tad Pilus to the Cell Cycle in a Predatory Bacterium"
9:15 am - 9:20 am
Discussion
9:20 am - 9:30 am
Felix Ramos-Leon (National Cancer Institute-National Institutes of Health, United States)
"Protein Coopted From a Phage Restriction System Dictates Orthogonal Cell Division Plane Selection in Staphylococcus aureus "
9:30 am - 9:35 am
Discussion
9:35 am - 9:45 am
Kayleen Lederman (Fred Hutchinson Cancer Center/University of Washington, United States)
"Contributions of Cytoskeleton Polymerization State and Dynamics to Helicobacter pylori Cell Shape"
9:45 am - 9:50 am
Discussion
9:50 am - 10:00 am
Roberto Olea Ozuna (University of Texas at Dallas, United States)
"Acinetobacter baumannii Adapts to Phosphate Starvation by Inducing Ornithine Lipid Synthesis"
10:00 am - 10:05 am
Discussion
10:05 am - 10:15 am
Anushya Petchiappan (National Institutes of Health, United States)
"The Complex Regulatory Mechanisms of the Rcs Phosphorelay in E. coli "
10:15 am - 10:20 am
Discussion
10:20 am - 10:30 am
Quynh Huong Nguyen (University of Toronto, Canada)
"Catch Me if You Can: Insights Into a Novel Immune Evasion Strategy by Pasteurella multocida "
10:30 am - 10:35 am
Discussion
10:35 am - 10:45 am
Irene Lepori (UMass Amherst, United States)
"Mycomembrane Permeation Screen Identifies Chemical Scaffolds That Promote Whole-Cell Anti-Tuberculosis Efficacy"
10:45 am - 10:50 am
Discussion
10:50 am - 11:00 am
General Discussion
11:00 am - 12:30 pm
Poster Session
Coffee will be served in the poster area from 11:00 am - 11:30 am
12:30 pm - 1:30 pm
Lunch
1:30 pm - 2:30 pm
Mentorship Component: Careers in Science
Discussion Leader: Ian Yen (University of Toronto, Canada)
1:30 pm - 2:30 pm
Panel Discussion
Careers in Science
Sharookh Kapadia (Genentech, United States)
Claudia Zampaloni (F. Hoffmann-La Roche Ltd. - Roche Innovation Center Basel, Switzerland)
Tobias Doerr (Cornell University, United States)
Rut Carballido-Lopez (Paris-Saclay University - INRAE - AgroParisTech , France)
2:30 pm - 3:00 pm
Evaluation Period
Complete the GRS Evaluation Forms; Election of Future Chair(s)
3:00 pm
Seminar Concludes