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Microbial Adhesion & Signal Transduction
July 21-26, 2013
Salve Regina University
Newport, RI
Chairs:
Craig R. Roy & Jean-Marc Ghigo

Vice Chairs:
Matthew R. Parsek & Joerg Vogel
Application Deadline
Applications for this meeting must be submitted by June 23, 2013. Please apply early, as some meetings become oversubscribed (full) before this deadline. If the meeting is oversubscribed, it will be stated here. Note: Applications for oversubscribed meetings will only be considered by the Conference Chair if more seats become available due to cancellations.

The Gordon Research Conference on Microbial Adhesion and Signal Transduction is an international meeting that brings together researchers with a shared interest in understanding the diverse mechanisms bacteria have evolved to interact with each other and animal hosts. This meeting provides a forum where cutting-edge research will be presented on the mechanisms of bacterial adherence and signal transduction in an environment that enables networking among investigators, and gives post-doctoral researchers and graduate students access to influential leaders in the field of microbial adherence and signal transduction. The 2013 meeting will focus on novel approaches being used to understand how microbes sense, respond, colonize, and eventually spread in both the environment and in host organisms. Molecular, genetic, biochemical, immunological and structural approaches will all be represented. The program will reflect the multi-disciplinary approaches being used to address questions of seminal importance in the field. Multiple slots have been reserved in the program for oral presentations will be selected from the submitted abstracts. Junior investigators, postdoctoral fellows and graduate students, and minority attendees are encouraged to submit abstracts for consideration.

Contributors
SUNDAY
2:00 pm - 9:00 pmArrival and Check-in (Office Closed 6:00 pm - 7:00 pm)
6:00 pmDinner
7:30 pm - 7:40 pmWelcome / Introductory Comments by GRC Site Staff
7:40 pm - 9:30 pmNew approaches to study intracellular pathogens
7:40 pm - 7:45 pm Discussion Leader: Craig Roy (Yale University)
7:45 pm - 8:10 pm Pascale Cossart (Institut Pasteur)
"SUMO: a critical post-translational modification during bacterial Infections"
8:10 pm - 8:20 pm Discussion
8:20 pm - 8:45 pm Michael Starnbach (Harvard Medical School)
"Bacterial manipulations of host protein stability are required for growth"
8:45 pm - 8:55 pm Discussion
8:55 pm - 9:20 pm Jost Enninga (Institute Pasteur)
"Visual screens for investigating intracellular infection"
9:20 pm - 9:30 pm Discussion
MONDAY
7:30 am - 8:30 amBreakfast
9:00 am - 12:30 pmSocial interactions between bacteria
9:00 am - 9:10 am Discussion Leader: Matthew Parsek (University of Washington)
9:10 am - 9:35 am Bonnie Bassler (Princeton University)v "Manipulating Quorum Sensing to Control Bacterial Pathogenicty"
9:35 am - 9:45 am Discussion
9:45 am - 9:55 am TBA (Short Abstract Talk)
9:55 am - 10:00 am Discussion
10:00 am Group Photo / Coffee Break
10:30 am - 10:55 am Pradeep Singh (University of Washington)
"Evolved P. aeruginosa Diversity and Disease Heterogeneity in the Cystic Fibrosis Lung"
10:55 am - 11:05 am Discussion
11:05 am - 11:15 am TBA (Short Abstract Talk)
11:15 am - 11:20 am Discussion
11:20 am - 11:45 am Regine Hengge (Freie Universität Berlin)
"Ridges, rings & wrinkles - c-di-GMP and E. coli biofilm architecture"
11:45 am - 11:55 am Discussion
11:55 am - 12:05 pm TBA (Short Abstract Talk)
12:05 pm - 12:10 pm Discussion
12:10 pm - 12:20 pm TBA (Short Abstract Talk)
12:20 pm - 12:30 pm Discussion
12:30 pmLunch
1:30 pm - 4:00 pmFree Time
4:00 pm - 6:00 pmPoster Session
6:00 pmDinner
7:30 pm - 9:30 pmBacterial Signal Transduction Pathways
7:30 pm - 7:45 pm Discussion Leader: Jörg Vogel (University of Würzburg)
7:45 pm - 8:10 pm Melanie Blokesch (Ecole Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne)
"Bacterial 'love' in the time of cholera - the regulatory network driving natural transformation of Vibrio cholerae"
8:10 pm - 8:20 pm Discussion
8:20 pm - 8:45 pm Eduardo Groisman (Yale University)
8:45 pm - 8:55 pm Discussion
8:55 pm - 9:20 pm Cynthia Sharma (University of Würzburg)
"Regulatory RNAs in the pathogenic Epsilonproteobacteria Helicobacter pylori and Campylobacter jejuni"
9:20 pm - 9:30 pm Discussion
TUESDAY
7:30 am - 8:30 amBreakfast
9:00 am - 12:30 pmAdherence factors and surface sensors
9:00 am - 9:10 am Discussion Leader: Jean-Marc Ghigo (Institute Pasteur)
9:10 am - 9:35 am Gerald Wong (UCLA)
9:35 am - 9:45 am Discussion
9:45 am - 9:55 am TBA (Short Abstract Talk)
9:55 am - 10:00 am Discussion
10:00 am Coffee Break
10:30 am - 10:55 am Shaynoor Dramsi (Institute Pasteur)
"Streptococcus gallolyticus, a commensal bacterium associated with colon cancer"
10:55 am - 11:05 am Discussion
11:05 am - 11:30 am Yves Brun (Indiana University)
"Transition from reversible to irreversible attachment at the single cell level"
11:30 am - 11:35 am Discussion
11:35 am - 11:45 am TBA (Short Abstract Talk)
11:45 am - 11:50 am Discussion
11:50 am - 12:15 pm Guillaume Duménil (Inserm)
"Vascular colonization by Neisseria meningitidis"
12:15 pm - 12:30 pm Discussion
12:30 pmLunch
1:30 pm - 4:00 pmFree Time
4:00 pm - 6:00 pmPoster Session
6:00 pmDinner
7:30 pm - 9:30 pmCross kingdom interactions
7:30 pm - 7:45 pm Discussion Leader: Michael Gilmore (Harvard Medical School)
7:45 pm - 8:10 pm Sheng Yang He (Michigan State University)
"Function of type III effectors and toxins in the Arabidopsis-Pseudomonas syringae pathosystem"
8:10 pm - 8:20 pm Discussion
8:20 pm - 8:45 pm Heidi Goodrich-Blair (University of Wisconsin)
"Talking to the Animals: Regulation of Xenorhabdus Interactions with its Nematode and Insect Hosts"
8:45 pm - 8:55 pm Discussion
8:55 pm - 9:20 pm Bruno Lemaitre (Ecole Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne)
"Interactions between immune and stress pathways, epithelium renewal and gut pathogens of Drosophila"
9:20 pm - 9:30 pm Discussion
WEDNESDAY
7:30 am - 8:30 amBreakfast
9:00 am - 12:30 pmBacterial colonization and survival in the gut
9:00 am - 9:10 am Discussion Leader: Elizabeth Hartland (University of Melbourne)
9:10 am - 9:35 am Laurie Comstock (Harvard Medical School)
"Survival mechanisms of abundant gut Bacteroidales species"
9:35 am - 9:45 am Discussion
9:45 am - 9:55 am TBA (Short Abstract Talk)
9:55 am - 10:00 am Discussion
10:00 am Coffee Break
10:30 am - 10:55 am Paul O'Toole (University College Cork)
10:55 am - 11:05 am Discussion
11:05 am - 11:30 am Manuela Raffatellu (UC Irvine)
"Metals from the fire: host-microbe competition for metal nutrients in the inflamed gut"
11:30 am - 11:35 am Discussion
11:35 am - 11:45 am TBA (Short Abstract Talk)
11:45 am - 11:50 am Discussion
11:50 am - 12:15 pm Nina Salama (Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center)
"Bacterial adaptations for life in the stomach"
12:15 pm - 12:30 pm Discussion
12:30 pmLunch
1:30 pm - 4:00 pmFree Time
4:00 pm - 6:00 pmPoster Session
6:00 pmDinner
7:00 pm - 7:30 pmBusiness Meeting
Nominations for the next Vice Chair; Fill out Conference Evaluation Forms; Discuss future Site & Scheduling preferences; Election of the next Vice Chair
7:30 pm - 9:30 pmProbing the function of membrane-bound protein secretion machines
7:30 pm - 7:45 pm Discussion Leader: Christoph Dehio (Biozentrum, University of Basel)
7:45 pm - 8:10 pm John Mekalanos (Harvard Medical School)
"Signals and structures stimulating Type six secretion systems"
8:10 pm - 8:20 pm Discussion
8:20 pm - 8:45 pm Jorge Galan (Yale University)
"The type III secretion system of Salmonella"
8:45 pm - 8:55 pm Discussion
8:55 pm - 9:20 pm Gabriel Waksman (University College London)
"Structural and molecular biology of bacterial secretion systems"
9:20 pm - 9:30 pm Discussion
THURSDAY
7:30 am - 8:30 amBreakfast
9:00 am - 12:30 pmBacterial cell biology
9:00 am - 9:10 am Discussion Leader: Lotte Sogaard-Anderson (Max Planck Institute for Terrestrial Biology)
9:10 am - 9:35 am David Rudner (Harvard Medical School)
"Remodeling the Cell Envelope during Growth and Differentiation"
9:35 am - 9:45 am Discussion
9:45 am - 9:55 am TBA (Short Abstract Talk)
9:55 am - 10:00 am Discussion
10:00 am Coffee Break
10:30 am - 10:40 am TBA (Short Abstract Talk)
10:40 am - 10:45 am Discussion
10:45 am - 11:10 am Petra Levin (Washington University St. Louis)
"Zombie invasion: The dire consequences of an extended block in cell division"
11:10 am - 11:20 am Discussion
11:20 am - 11:40 am TBA (Short Abstract Talk)
11:40 am - 11:45 am Discussion
11:45 am - 12:10 pm William Margolin (University of Texas-Houston Medical School)
"Splitsville: Regulating the E. coli cell division machine"
12:10 pm - 12:30 pm Discussion
12:30 pmLunch
1:30 pm - 4:00 pmFree Time
4:00 pm - 6:00 pmPoster Session
6:00 pmDinner
7:30 pm - 9:30 pmModifying surface structures
7:30 pm - 7:45 pm Discussion Leader: Aimee Shen (University of Vermont)
7:45 pm - 8:10 pm M. Stephen Trent (UT Austin)
"It's what's on the outside that counts: The impact of remodeling the Gram-negative bacterial surface"
8:10 pm - 8:20 pm Discussion
8:20 pm - 8:30 pm TBA (Short Abstract Talk)
8:30 pm - 8:40 pm Discussion
8:40 pm - 8:55 pm Michael Koomey (University of Oslo)
"Post translational modification of pili"
8:55 pm - 9:05 pm Discussion
9:05 pm - 9:15 pm TBA (Short Abstract Talk)
9:15 pm - 9:30 pm Discussion
FRIDAY
7:30 am - 8:30 amBreakfast
9:00 amDeparture
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