Uni-Tübingen

Program Spotlight Microbiology Meeting 2018

 

Monday, 19th November 2018

until 13:45 Arrival of participants and reception with coffee and lunch snacks
13:45 14:00 Welcoming (Org. Committee)
14:00 14:30

W. Wohlleben, Tübingen, Germany | “The bacterial cell envelope: a 12-year Journey“

Lecture session I: Specialized mechanisms for bacterial survival

14:30 15:00

Leo Eberl, Zurich, Switzerland | "Membrane vesicle biogenesis - an often deadly mistake"

15:00 15:30

Julia Bandow, Bochum, Germany | "Calcimycin - a sophisticated tool in iron acquisition”

Poster session I
15:30 17:00 Poster session with coffe break
Lecture session II: Microbial Networks
17:00 17:30

Dörte Becher, Greifswald, Germany | “New trends in microbial proteomics – methods and application”

17:30 18:00 Erik van Nimwegen, Basel, Switzerland | "Quantitatively tracking gene regulation in single cells"
18:00 18:30

Hannes Link, Marburg, Germany | “Two are better than one: why E. coli controls enzyme abundance and activity”

Social evening
from 19:00 Dinner with social evening at Mike's Pub
 

Tuesday, 20th November 2018

 

Lecture session III: Transport accross the cell surface
08:30 09:00 Hendrik Van Veen, Cambridge, UK | "ABC transporters in bacterial drug resistance"
09:00 09:30 Chris Whitfield, Guelph, Canada | “Assembly of capsular glycolipids in Gram-negative bacteria“
09:30 10:00

Olivier Lambert, Bordeaux, France | “CryoEM structure of  a bacterial multidrug efflux pump involved in antibiotic resistance”

Poster session II
10:00 11:30 Poster session with coffee break
Industry session
11:30 12:00

Sonja Mayer, BASF, Germany | "From academia to industry: Life and death of microorganisms"

12:00 12:30 Stefan Pelzer, Evonik, Germany | “Experiences in Biotechnological Research & Development: A balancing act between Industry and Academia”
Lunch Break
12:30 13:30 Lunch at Prinz Karl Mensa
Lecture session IV: Interaction and signaling
13:30 14:00 Volodymyr Korkhov, Zürich, Switzerland | “Structure and function of membrane adenylyl cyclases”
14:00 14:30 Knut Drescher, Marburg, Germany | “Bacterial Biofilm Dynamics“
14:30 15:00

Karl Forchhammer, Tübingen, Germany | “Cyanobacterial Septal Junctions: Gated Cell-Cell Connections, the Prokaryotic Analogue of Gap Junctions“

Concluding remarks
15:00 15:15 Org. Committee