Conference Description
The 2022 Gordon Research Conference on Bacterial Cell Surfaces will present cutting-edge research on the molecular and cellular aspects of the structure and function of the bacterial cell envelope and surface. The conference will bring together an international group of researchers who are key contributors to the field of cell envelope biology. The sessions will highlight late-breaking discoveries in cell division and morphogenesis, peptidoglycan metabolism, membrane dynamics, surface polymers, protein transport and secretion, signal sensing and stress responses, antimicrobials targeting cell envelope processes, and how the bacterial surface influences polymicrobial and host-microbe interactions. The conference will feature a diverse group of scientists and will include both established and early-stage investigators, who are at the forefront of their fields. Short talks will be selected from submitted abstracts and will primarily feature junior scientists (graduate students and post-docs).
We will continue the well-received Gordon Research Seminar (GRS) that precedes the meeting to be held June 25-26, 2022. The GRS is organized by junior scientists (graduate students and post-docs) and highlights the work of their peers. The Seminar is a unique forum for trainees to present and exchange cutting-edge science among themselves and with leaders of the field. GRS participants will nominate several of their speakers for short talks at the GRC.
The collegial atmosphere at this conference, with programmed discussion sessions and opportunities for informal gatherings in the afternoons and evenings, stimulates open scientific discussions and fosters interdisciplinary collaboration, contributing to future advances on the fundamental understanding of the Bacterial Cell Surface.
The topics, speakers, and discussion leaders for the conference sessions are displayed below. The conference chair is currently developing their detailed program, which will include the complete meeting schedule, as well as the talk titles for all speakers. The detailed program will be available by February 26, 2022. Please check back for updates.
Exploring the Bacterial Cell Envelope
Discussion Leaders
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Rut Carballido-Lopez (National Institute of Agricultural Research, France)
Speakers
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Thomas Silhavy (Princeton University, USA)
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Waldemar Vollmer (Newcastle University, United Kingdom)
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Christine Jacobs-Wagner (Stanford University, USA)
Modifying the Bacterial Cell Surface
Discussion Leaders
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Jean-Francois Collet (UCLouvain, Belgium)
Speakers
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Filippo Mancia (Columbia University, USA)
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Felipe Cava (Umea University, Sweden)
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Chris Whitfield (University of Guelph, Canada)
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Aimee Shen (Tufts University School of Medicine, USA)
Cell Division and Morphogenesis
Discussion Leaders
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Simon Foster (University of Sheffield, United Kingdom)
Speakers
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Thomas Bernhardt (Harvard Medical School, USA)
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Erin Goley (Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, USA)
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Kumaran Ramamurthi (National Cancer Institute, NIH, USA)
Stress Responses and Signaling Across the Cell Envelope
Discussion Leaders
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Marcin Grabowicz (Emory University, USA)
Speakers
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Sonja-Verena Albers (University of Freiburg, Germany)
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Tam Mignot (CNRS-Aix Marseille University, France)
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Alexandre Persat (École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne, Switzerland)
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Anna Konovalova (University of Texas Health Science Center at Houston, USA)
Mechanisms of Surface Recognition
Discussion Leaders
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Daniel Wall (University of Wyoming, USA)
Speakers
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Andrew Lovering (University of Birmingham, United Kingdom)
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Serge Mostowy (London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine, United Kingdom)
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Andrea Wolf (Cedars-Sinai Medical Center, USA)
Transport through the Envelope
Discussion Leaders
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Natividad Ruiz (Ohio State University, USA)
Speakers
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Susan Buchanan (National Institute of Diabetes and Digestive and Kidney Diseases, NIH, USA)
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Lori Burrows (McMaster University, Canada)
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Seok-Yong Lee (Duke University School of Medicine, USA)
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Jorge Galan (Yale School of Medicine, USA)
Protein Secretion and Transport
Discussion Leaders
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Edith Houben (Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam, The Netherlands)
Speakers
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Melanie Blokesch (EPFL, Switzerland)
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Mario Feldman (Washington University School of Medicine, USA)
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Tracy Palmer (Newcastle University, United Kingdom)
How the Surface Influences Bacterial Communities
Discussion Leaders
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Lotte Sogaard-Andersen (Max Planck Institute for Terrestrial Microbiology, Germany)
Speakers
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Peggy Cotter (University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, USA)
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Urs Jenal (University of Basel, Switzerland)
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Nicole Koropatkin (University of Michigan Medical School, USA)
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Cynthia Whitchurch (Quadram Institute, United Kingdom)
Biophysical Methods to Improve Antimicrobial Therapies
Discussion Leaders
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Pamela Brown (University of Missouri, USA)
Speakers
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Kerwyn Huang (Stanford University, USA)
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Steven Rutherford (Genentech, USA)
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Jie Xiao (Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, USA)
The GRC Power Hour™
Organizers:
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Erin Goley (Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, USA)
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Mario Feldman (Washington University School of Medicine, USA)
