Sunday
2:00 pm - 9:00 pm
Arrival and Check-in
6:00 pm - 7:00 pm
Dinner
7:30 pm - 7:40 pm
Introductory Comments by GRC Staff / Welcome and Introduction from the Chairs
7:40 pm - 9:30 pm
Keynote Session: Signaling and Regulation
Discussion Leader: Peter Chien (University of Massachusetts Amherst, United States)
7:40 pm - 7:50 pm
Introduction by Discussion Leader
7:50 pm - 8:30 pm
Michael Laub (Massachusetts Institute of Technology / Howard Hughes Medical Institute, United States)
"Specificity and Evolution of Viral-Sensing Mechanisms in Bacteria"
8:30 pm - 8:40 pm
Discussion
8:40 pm - 9:20 pm
Marie Elliot (McMaster University, Canada)
"Maverick Microbes and the Need for Speed – Streptomyces Employ Novel Cell Wall Synthesis Strategies to Support Rapid Exploratory Growth"
9:20 pm - 9:30 pm
Discussion
Monday
7:30 am - 8:30 am
Breakfast
9:00 am - 12:30 pm
Cell Division
Discussion Leader: Seamus Holden (University of Warwick, United Kingdom)
9:00 am - 9:25 am
Mariana Pinho (Universidade NOVA de Lisboa, Portugal)
"A New Mechanism for Coordination of Bacterial Chromosome Segregation and Daughter Cell Separation"
9:25 am - 9:30 am
Discussion
9:30 am - 9:40 am
Short Talk Selected from Poster Abstracts
9:40 am - 9:45 am
Discussion
9:45 am - 9:55 am
Short Talk Selected from Poster Abstracts
9:55 am - 10:00 am
Discussion
10:00 am - 10:10 am
Short Talk Selected from Poster Abstracts
10:10 am - 10:15 am
Discussion
10:15 am - 10:45 am
Coffee Break
10:45 am - 11:10 am
Jan Löwe (MRC Laboratory of Molecular Biology, United Kingdom)
"Bacterial Cell Division Machinery at the Cellular, Molecular and Atomic Scales"
11:10 am - 11:15 am
Discussion
11:15 am - 11:25 am
Short Talk Selected from Poster Abstracts
11:25 am - 11:30 am
Discussion
11:30 am - 11:40 am
Short Talk Selected from Poster Abstracts
11:40 am - 11:45 am
Discussion
11:45 am - 11:55 am
Short Talk Selected from Poster Abstracts
11:55 am - 12:00 pm
Discussion
12:00 pm - 12:25 pm
Susan Schlimpert (John Innes Centre, United Kingdom)
"Division Without Binary Fission – Cell Division in Filamentous Actinobacteria"
12:25 pm - 12:30 pm
Discussion
12:30 pm - 1:30 pm
Lunch
1:30 pm - 4:00 pm
Free Time
3:00 pm - 4:00 pm
The GRC Power Hour™
The GRC Power Hour™ is designed to address diversity and inclusion in the scientific workplace by providing a safe environment for informal and meaningful conversations amongst colleagues of all career stages. The program supports the professional growth of all members of our communities, including ethnicity, race and/or gender identity by providing an open forum for discussion and mentoring.
Organizers: Srividya Iyer-Biswas (Purdue University, United States) and Marie Elliot (McMaster University, Canada)
4:00 pm - 6:00 pm
Poster Session
6:00 pm - 7:00 pm
Dinner
7:30 pm - 9:30 pm
Cellular Decision-Making
Discussion Leader: Patrick Viollier (University of Geneva Medical School, Switzerland)
7:30 pm - 7:55 pm
Karine Gibbs (University of California, Berkeley, United States)
"Cell-Cell Communication and Social Dynamics in Swarming Colonies"
7:55 pm - 8:00 pm
Discussion
8:00 pm - 8:10 pm
Short Talk Selected from Poster Abstracts
8:10 pm - 8:15 pm
Discussion
8:15 pm - 8:25 pm
Short Talk Selected from Poster Abstracts
8:25 pm - 8:30 pm
Discussion
8:30 pm - 8:55 pm
Kerwyn Huang (Stanford University, United States)
"It’s Getting Hot in Here: The Bacterial Growth Response to Temperature Shifts"
8:55 pm - 9:00 pm
Discussion
9:00 pm - 9:10 pm
Short Talk Selected from Poster Abstracts
9:10 pm - 9:15 pm
Discussion
9:15 pm - 9:25 pm
Short Talk Selected from Poster Abstracts
9:25 pm - 9:30 pm
Discussion
Tuesday
7:30 am - 8:30 am
Breakfast
9:00 am - 12:30 pm
Cell Morphology and Dynamics
Discussion Leader: Srividya Iyer-Biswas (Purdue University, United States)
9:00 am - 9:25 am
Christine Jacobs-Wagner (Stanford University, United States)
"Design Principles Underlying Cellular Replication in Escherichia coli "
9:25 am - 9:30 am
Discussion
9:30 am - 9:40 am
Short Talk Selected from Poster Abstracts
9:40 am - 9:45 am
Discussion
9:45 am - 9:55 am
Short Talk Selected from Poster Abstracts
9:55 am - 10:00 am
Discussion
10:00 am - 10:10 am
Short Talk Selected from Poster Abstracts
10:10 am - 10:15 am
Discussion
10:15 am - 10:45 am
Coffee Break
10:45 am - 11:10 am
Elitza Tocheva (University of British Columbia, Canada)
"Membrane Remodeling and Biogenesis Revealed by Cryo-Electron Tomography"
11:10 am - 11:15 am
Discussion
11:15 am - 11:25 am
Short Talk Selected from Poster Abstracts
11:25 am - 11:30 am
Discussion
11:30 am - 11:40 am
Short Talk Selected from Poster Abstracts
11:40 am - 11:45 am
Discussion
11:45 am - 11:55 am
Short Talk Selected from Poster Abstracts
11:55 am - 12:00 pm
Discussion
12:00 pm - 12:25 pm
Lotte Sogaard-Andersen (Max Planck Institute for Terrestrial Microbiology, Germany)
"Regulation of Bacterial Cell Division by a Phase-Separated Biomolecular Condensate"
12:25 pm - 12:30 pm
Discussion
12:30 pm - 1:30 pm
Lunch
1:30 pm - 4:00 pm
Free Time
4:00 pm - 6:00 pm
Poster Session
6:00 pm - 7:00 pm
Dinner
7:30 pm - 9:30 pm
Structure and Transport of Genetic Material
Discussion Leader: Jan-Willem Veening (University of Lausanne, Switzerland)
7:30 pm - 7:55 pm
Briana Burton (University of Wisconsin - Madison, United States)
"New Insights into Natural Transformation"
7:55 pm - 8:00 pm
Discussion
8:00 pm - 8:10 pm
Short Talk Selected from Poster Abstracts
8:10 pm - 8:15 pm
Discussion
8:15 pm - 8:40 pm
Martin Thanbichler (University of Marburg, Germany)
"Interplay Between the NTPases ParA and ParB During Bacterial Chromosome Segregation"
8:40 pm - 8:45 pm
Discussion
8:45 pm - 8:55 pm
Short Talk Selected from Poster Abstracts
8:55 pm - 9:00 pm
Discussion
9:00 pm - 9:25 pm
Joe Pogliano (University of California, San Diego, United States)
"Assembly of the Phage Nucleus During Phage Replication"
9:25 pm - 9:30 pm
Discussion
Wednesday
7:30 am - 8:30 am
Breakfast
8:30 am - 9:00 am
Group Photo
9:00 am - 12:30 pm
Cell Wall and Cell Envelope
Discussion Leader: Cara Boutte (UT Arlington, United States)
9:00 am - 9:25 am
Thomas Bernhardt (Harvard Medical School, United States)
"Coordination of Outer Membrane and Cell Wall Biogenesis in Gram-Negative Bacteria"
9:25 am - 9:30 am
Discussion
9:30 am - 9:40 am
Short Talk Selected from Poster Abstracts
9:40 am - 9:45 am
Discussion
9:45 am - 9:55 am
Short Talk Selected from Poster Abstracts
9:55 am - 10:00 am
Discussion
10:00 am - 10:10 am
Short Talk Selected from Poster Abstracts
10:10 am - 10:15 am
Discussion
10:15 am - 10:45 am
Coffee Break
10:45 am - 11:10 am
Enrique Rojas (New York University, United States)
"Mechanical Mechanisms of Cell Width Maintenance"
11:10 am - 11:15 am
Discussion
11:15 am - 11:25 am
Short Talk Selected from Poster Abstracts
11:25 am - 11:30 am
Discussion
11:30 am - 11:40 am
Short Talk Selected from Poster Abstracts
11:40 am - 11:45 am
Discussion
11:45 am - 11:55 am
Short Talk Selected from Poster Abstracts
11:55 am - 12:00 pm
Discussion
12:00 pm - 12:25 pm
Sloan Siegrist (University of Massachusetts Amherst, United States)
"Engineering the Mycobacterial Cell Envelope"
12:25 pm - 12:30 pm
Discussion
12:30 pm - 1:30 pm
Lunch
1:30 pm - 4:00 pm
Free Time
4:00 pm - 6:00 pm
Poster Session
6:00 pm - 7:00 pm
Dinner
7:30 pm - 9:30 pm
Motility
Discussion Leader: Daniel Kearns (Indiana University Bloomington, United States)
7:30 pm - 7:55 pm
Tam Mignot (Aix-Marseille Université / CNRS, France)
"Linking Scales in Myxococcus xanthus : Molecular Basis of Multicellular Transitions during Predation"
7:55 pm - 8:00 pm
Discussion
8:00 pm - 8:10 pm
Short Talk Selected from Poster Abstracts
8:10 pm - 8:15 pm
Discussion
8:15 pm - 8:25 pm
Short Talk Selected from Poster Abstracts
8:25 pm - 8:30 pm
Discussion
8:30 pm - 8:55 pm
Gladys Alexandre (University of Tennessee, United States)
"Chemotaxis Signaling Regulates Metabolism in Alphaproteobacteria"
8:55 pm - 9:00 pm
Discussion
9:00 pm - 9:10 pm
Short Talk Selected from Poster Abstracts
9:10 pm - 9:15 pm
Discussion
9:15 pm - 9:25 pm
Short Talk Selected from Poster Abstracts
9:25 pm - 9:30 pm
Discussion
Thursday
7:30 am - 8:30 am
Breakfast
8:30 am - 9:00 am
Business Meeting
Nominations for the Next Vice Chair(s); Complete the GRC Evaluation Forms; Discuss Future Dates and Venue; Election of the Next Vice Chair(s)
9:00 am - 12:30 pm
Cellular Organization and Structure
Discussion Leader: Jennifer Herman (Texas A&M University, United States)
9:00 am - 9:25 am
Silvia Bulgheresi (University of Vienna, Austria)
"A Mouthful of Symbionts - Cell Biology of Multicellular Neisseriaceae"
9:25 am - 9:30 am
Discussion
9:30 am - 9:40 am
Short Talk Selected from Poster Abstracts
9:40 am - 9:45 am
Discussion
9:45 am - 9:55 am
Short Talk Selected from Poster Abstracts
9:55 am - 10:00 am
Discussion
10:00 am - 10:10 am
Short Talk Selected from Poster Abstracts
10:10 am - 10:15 am
Discussion
10:15 am - 10:45 am
Coffee Break
10:45 am - 11:10 am
Anthony Vecchiarelli (University of Michigan, United States)
"Mechanisms of Organelle Trafficking in Bacteria"
11:10 am - 11:15 am
Discussion
11:15 am - 11:25 am
Short Talk Selected from Poster Abstracts
11:25 am - 11:30 am
Discussion
11:30 am - 11:40 am
Short Talk Selected from Poster Abstracts
11:40 am - 11:45 am
Discussion
11:45 am - 11:55 am
Short Talk Selected from Poster Abstracts
11:55 am - 12:00 pm
Discussion
12:00 pm - 12:25 pm
Arash Komeili (University of California, Berkeley, United States)
"Discovery and Characterization of Lipid-Bounded Organelles in Bacteria"
12:25 pm - 12:30 pm
Discussion
12:30 pm - 1:30 pm
Lunch
1:30 pm - 4:00 pm
Free Time
4:00 pm - 6:00 pm
Poster Session
6:00 pm - 7:00 pm
Dinner
7:30 pm - 9:30 pm
Cell Biology and Interspecies Interactions
Discussion Leader: Kristina Jonas (Stockholm University, Sweden)
7:30 pm - 7:55 pm
Andrew Lovering (University of Birmingham, United Kingdom)
"The Molecular Mechanisms Underpinning Bacterial Predation by Bdellovibrio"
7:55 pm - 8:00 pm
Discussion
8:00 pm - 8:10 pm
Short Talk Selected from Poster Abstracts
8:10 pm - 8:15 pm
Discussion
8:15 pm - 8:40 pm
Jeanne Salje (Cambridge University, United Kingdom)
"Orientia tsutsugamushi : Bacterial Growth and Division in the Eukaryotic Cytoplasm"
8:40 pm - 8:45 pm
Discussion
8:45 pm - 8:55 pm
Short Talk Selected from Poster Abstracts
8:55 pm - 9:00 pm
Discussion
9:00 pm - 9:25 pm
Urs Jenal (University of Basel, Switzerland)
"Surface Colonization of a Human Pathogen Revisited"
9:25 pm - 9:30 pm
Discussion
Friday
7:30 am - 8:30 am
Breakfast
9:00 am
Departure