Sunday
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2:00 pm - 9:00 pm |
Arrival and Check-in
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6:00 pm - 7:00 pm |
Dinner
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7:30 pm - 7:40 pm |
Introductory Comments by GRC Site Staff / Welcome from the GRC Chair
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7:40 pm - 9:30 pm |
Keynote Session: Bacteriophage Related Stress: Killers or Masterminds?
Discussion Leader: Daniel Haeusser (Canisius College, USA)
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7:40 pm - 8:20 pm |
Ry Young (Texas A&M University, USA)
"Phage Lysis: The Timing of Acute Stresses on the Cell Envelope"
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8:20 pm - 8:30 pm |
Discussion
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8:30 pm - 8:50 pm |
Karen Maxwell (University of Toronto, Canada)
"Streptomyces Secondary Metabolites as an Anti-Phage Defense System"
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8:50 pm - 9:00 pm |
Discussion
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9:00 pm - 9:20 pm |
Blake Wiedenheft (Montana State University, USA)
"Evolutionary Outcomes of CRISPR-Anti-CRISPR Conflict"
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9:20 pm - 9:30 pm |
Discussion
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Monday
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7:30 am - 8:30 am |
Breakfast
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8:30 am - 9:00 am |
Group Photo
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9:00 am - 12:30 pm |
Stress and the Cell Envelope
Discussion Leader: Natividad Ruiz (Ohio State University, USA)
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9:00 am - 9:25 am |
Angelika Grundling (Imperial College London, United Kingdom)
"Osmotic Stress and Its Impact on the Staphylococcal Cell Envelope"
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9:25 am - 9:35 am |
Discussion
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9:35 am - 10:00 am |
Gemma Reguera (Michigan State University, USA)
"Wiring the Cell Envelope to Metals"
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10:00 am - 10:10 am |
Discussion
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10:10 am - 10:20 am |
Angela Mitchell (Princeton University, USA)
"What Does Enterobacterial Common Antigen Do? A Phenotype for Cyclic ECA"
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10:20 am - 10:25 am |
Discussion
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10:25 am - 10:50 am |
Coffee Break
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10:50 am - 11:15 am |
Kevin Young (University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences, USA)
"Competition for Polyisoprenoids During Cell Wall Synthesis in E. coli"
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11:15 am - 11:25 am |
Discussion
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11:25 am - 11:50 am |
Dennis Claessen (Leiden University, The Netherlands)
"Stress-Induced Release of Cell Wall-Deficient Cells in Filamentous Actinomycetes"
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11:50 am - 12:00 pm |
Discussion
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12:00 pm - 12:10 pm |
Michael Guzman (Washington University in St. Louis, USA)
"RuBisCO and Redox Stress in Bacteria"
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12:10 pm - 12:15 pm |
Discussion
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12:15 pm - 12:25 pm |
Jennifer Herman (Texas A&M University, USA)
"Mbl-Dependent Localization of a Stationary Phase Enzyme"
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12:25 pm - 12:30 pm |
Discussion
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12:30 pm - 1:30 pm |
Lunch
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1:30 pm - 4:00 pm |
Free Time
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4:00 pm - 6:00 pm |
Poster Session
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6:00 pm - 7:00 pm |
Dinner
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7:30 pm - 9:30 pm |
Microbial Survival in Host and Non-Host Environments
Discussion Leader: Amy Schmid (Duke University, USA)
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7:30 pm - 7:55 pm |
Christopher Yost (University of Regina, Canada)
"Using Functional Genomics to Study Rhizobium leguminosarum Fitness During Colonization of a Germinating Host Plant Seed"
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7:55 pm - 8:05 pm |
Discussion
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8:05 pm - 8:30 pm |
Barbara Kunkel (Washington University in St. Louis, USA)
"Auxin Synthesis by P. syringae DC3000 Contributes to Pathogenesis on Arabidopsis"
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8:30 pm - 8:40 pm |
Discussion
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8:40 pm - 9:05 pm |
Kornelia Smalla (Julius Kühn-Institut - Bundesforschungsinstitut für Kulturpflanzen, Germany)
"Plasmid Mediated Adaptation of Soil Bacteria to Stress"
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9:05 pm - 9:15 pm |
Discussion
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9:15 pm - 9:30 pm |
General Discussion
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Tuesday
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7:30 am - 8:30 am |
Breakfast
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9:00 am - 12:30 pm |
Stress and Metabolism
Discussion Leader: Daniel Stoebel (Harvey Mudd College, USA)
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9:00 am - 9:25 am |
Kim Lewis (Northeastern University, USA)
"Determenistic and Stochastic Mechanisms for Producing Persister Cells"
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9:25 am - 9:35 am |
Discussion
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9:35 am - 10:00 am |
John Kirby (Medical College of Wisconsin, USA)
"Xenobiotic Disruption of Host Metabolism via Gut Bacteria and Phages"
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10:00 am - 10:10 am |
Discussion
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10:10 am - 10:20 am |
Christina Savage (University of Kentucky, USA)
"How Did I Get Here, and Where Am I Going? The Tale of a Bacterium Trying to Survive"
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10:20 am - 10:25 am |
Discussion
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10:25 am - 10:50 am |
Coffee Break
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10:50 am - 11:15 am |
Anthony Richardson (University of Pittsburgh, USA)
"The Metabolic Adaptations of Staphylococcus aureus to Host Immune Radicals"
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11:15 am - 11:25 am |
Discussion
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11:25 am - 11:50 am |
Gilles van Wezel (Leiden University, The Netherlands)
"The Deadly Lure of the Soil: Characterization and Mode of Action of Volatile Antibiotic Compounds"
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11:50 am - 12:00 pm |
Discussion
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12:00 pm - 12:10 pm |
Maryam Khademian (University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, USA)
"The Cytochrome c Peroxidase Allows Escherichia coli to Exploit Environmental H2O2 as a Terminal Oxidant for Anaerobic Respiration"
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12:10 pm - 12:15 pm |
Discussion
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12:15 pm - 12:25 pm |
Stavroula Hatzios (Yale University, USA)
"Chemically Dissecting Oxidative Crosstalk at the Host-Microbe Interface"
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12:25 pm - 12:30 pm |
Discussion
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12:30 pm - 1:30 pm |
Lunch
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1:30 pm - 4:00 pm |
Free Time
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4:00 pm - 6:00 pm |
Poster Session
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6:00 pm - 7:00 pm |
Dinner
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7:30 pm - 9:30 pm |
Antimicrobial Stress
Discussion Leader: Joan Slonczewski (Kenyon College, USA)
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7:30 pm - 7:55 pm |
Michael Baym (Harvard Medical School, USA)
"Antibiotic Resistance Evolution"
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7:55 pm - 8:05 pm |
Discussion
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8:05 pm - 8:30 pm |
Elizabeth Harry (ithree institute, University of Technology Sydney, Australia)
"Antibiotics from Nature"
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8:30 pm - 8:40 pm |
Discussion
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8:40 pm - 8:50 pm |
Dao Nguyen (McGill University, Canada)
"Membrane Permeability and Cyclopropane Fatty Acids in Stringent Response Mediated Multidrug Tolerance in Pseudomonas aeruginosa"
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8:50 pm - 8:55 pm |
Discussion
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8:55 pm - 9:20 pm |
Eduardo Groisman (Yale School of Medicine, USA)
"Stress-Specific Responses Mediating Antimicrobial Resistance"
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9:20 pm - 9:30 pm |
Discussion
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Wednesday
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7:30 am - 8:30 am |
Breakfast
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9:00 am - 12:30 pm |
Intermicrobial Interactions: The Stress of Living Together
Discussion Leader: Steven Finkel (University of Southern California, USA)
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9:00 am - 9:25 am |
John Whitney (McMaster University, Canada)
"Stress Caused by Antagonistic Neighbours"
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9:25 am - 9:35 am |
Discussion
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9:35 am - 10:00 am |
Jie Xiao (The Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, USA)
"New Cell Fate Potentials and Switching Kinetics Uncovered from the Classic Lambda Phage Genetic Circuit"
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10:00 am - 10:10 am |
Discussion
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10:10 am - 10:20 am |
Kristina Jonas (Stockholm University, Sweden)
"An Essential Regulatory Function of the DnaK Chaperone Dictates the Decision Between Proliferation and Maintenance in Caulobacter crescentus"
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10:20 am - 10:25 am |
Discussion
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10:25 am - 10:50 am |
Coffee Break
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10:50 am - 11:15 am |
Carl Johnson (Vanderbilt University, USA)
"Circadian Rhythms in Bacteria: Evolution and Mechanism"
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11:15 am - 11:25 am |
Discussion
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11:25 am - 11:35 am |
Yael Litvak (University of California, Davis, USA)
"Shiga Toxin-Mediated Bacterial Growth in the Gut"
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11:35 am - 11:40 am |
Discussion
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11:40 am - 11:50 am |
Ivan Matic (INSERM U1001 / Universite Paris Descartes, France)
"Impact of the Escherichia coli Ribosomal RNA Operon Copy Number Variations on Genome Stability"
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11:50 am - 11:55 am |
Discussion
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11:55 am - 12:05 pm |
Kevin Lang (University of Washington, USA)
"Gene Orientation-Specific R-Loop Formation Orchestrates Bacterial Stress Survival and Pathogenesis"
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12:05 pm - 12:10 pm |
Discussion
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12:10 pm - 12:20 pm |
Gleb Pishchany (Harvard Medical School, USA)
"Amycomicin: An Antibiotic that Isn't"
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12:20 pm - 12:25 pm |
Discussion
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12:25 pm - 12:30 pm |
General Discussion
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12:30 pm - 1:30 pm |
Lunch
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1:30 pm - 4:00 pm |
Free Time
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4:00 pm - 6:00 pm |
Poster Session
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6:00 pm - 7:00 pm |
Dinner
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7:00 pm - 7:30 pm |
Business Meeting
Nominations for the Next Vice Chair; Fill in Conference Evaluation Forms; Discuss Future Site and Scheduling Preferences; Election of the Next Vice Chair
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7:30 pm - 9:30 pm |
Symbiosis: A Community Approach to Dealing with Stress
Discussion Leader: Paul Price (Eastern Michigan University, USA)
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7:30 pm - 7:55 pm |
Joel Griffitts (Brigham Young University, USA)
"The Illusion of Cooperation in the Legume-Rhizobium Symbiosis"
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7:55 pm - 8:05 pm |
Discussion
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8:05 pm - 8:30 pm |
Aniek Ivens (Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam, The Netherlands)
"Knowing What to Expect: Reducing Stress by Partner Specificity in an Ant-Trophobiont-Microbe Symbiosis"
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8:30 pm - 8:40 pm |
Discussion
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8:40 pm - 9:05 pm |
Silvia Bulgheresi (University of Vienna, Austria)
"Together We Stand: The Extreme Life of Marine Nematode Symbionts"
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9:05 pm - 9:15 pm |
Discussion
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9:15 pm - 9:25 pm |
Michael Gray (University of Alabama at Birmingham, USA)
"Stringent Alleles of RNA Polymerase Inhibit Inorganic Polyphosphate Synthesis"
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9:25 pm - 9:30 pm |
Discussion
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Thursday
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7:30 am - 8:30 am |
Breakfast
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9:00 am - 12:30 pm |
Developmental Responses to Stress
Discussion Leader: Michael Laub (Massachusetts Institute of Technology / Howard Hughes Medical Institute, USA)
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9:00 am - 9:25 am |
Pamela Brown (University of Missouri, USA)
"Morphological Changes Induced by Cell Division Blocks in Agrobacterium tumefaciens"
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9:25 am - 9:35 am |
Discussion
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9:35 am - 10:00 am |
Amy Gehring (Williams College, USA)
"Role of a Phosphodiesterase in the Secondary Metabolism of Streptomyces coelicolor"
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10:00 am - 10:10 am |
Discussion
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10:10 am - 10:20 am |
Scarlet Shell (Worcester Polytechnic Institute, USA)
"Mechanisms of mRNA Stabilization in Growth-Arrested Mycobacteria"
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10:20 am - 10:25 am |
Discussion
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10:25 am - 10:50 am |
Coffee Break
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10:50 am - 11:15 am |
Kumaran Ramamurthi (National Cancer Institute, NIH, USA)
"Quality Control Pathways that Govern Progression Through Sporulation"
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11:15 am - 11:25 am |
Discussion
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11:25 am - 11:50 am |
Marie Elliot (McMaster University, Canada)
"Streptomyces Exploration: New Tricks from an Old Microbe"
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11:50 am - 12:00 pm |
Discussion
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12:00 pm - 12:20 pm |
Amy Camp (Mount Holyoke College, USA)
"A Role for the ClpCP Protease in Directed Metabolic Shutdown of the Developing Bacillus subtilis Spore"
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12:20 pm - 12:30 pm |
Discussion
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12:30 pm - 1:30 pm |
Lunch
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1:30 pm - 4:00 pm |
Free Time
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4:00 pm - 6:00 pm |
Poster Session
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6:00 pm - 7:00 pm |
Dinner
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7:30 pm - 9:30 pm |
Using "Big Data" to Understand Microbial Stress Response
Discussion Leader: Michael Ibba (The Ohio State University, USA)
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7:30 pm - 7:55 pm |
Jay Hinton (Institute of Integrative Biology, University of Liverpool, United Kingdom)
"Using Multi-Omics to Identify a Single SNP that Controls Serum Resistance of Salmonella"
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7:55 pm - 8:05 pm |
Discussion
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8:05 pm - 8:30 pm |
Paul Wiggins (University of Washington, USA)
"Physics, Bioengineering and Microbiology"
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8:30 pm - 8:40 pm |
Discussion
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8:40 pm - 8:50 pm |
Michael Patnode (Washington University in St. Louis, USA)
"Selective Expansion of Targeted Human Gut Microbes In Vivo Using Plant Polysaccharides Mined from Waste Streams of Food Production"
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8:50 pm - 8:55 pm |
Discussion
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8:55 pm - 9:20 pm |
Kerwyn Huang (Stanford University, USA)
"Integrating Stress Responses with Morphogenesis"
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9:20 pm - 9:30 pm |
Discussion
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Friday
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7:30 am - 8:30 am |
Breakfast
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9:00 am |
Departure
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