Thursday, September 17 |
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6:00 PM |
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Conference Registration |
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8:00 PM |
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Welcome Reception / Dinner |
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Friday, September 18 |
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7:30 AM |
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Breakfast |
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9:00 AM |
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Welcome and Opening Remarks |
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Session I |
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Modeling of microbial pathogenesis and virulence 1 Chairs: Michael Gilmore and Kimberly Kline |
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9:05 AM |
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Probing bacterial social behaviors during polymicrobial infection Marvin Whiteley |
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9:35 AM |
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Host defense through symbiosis: Ants, agriculture, and antibiotics Cameron Currie |
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10:05 AM |
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Modeling polymicrobial wound infections Kendra Rumbaugh |
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10:35 AM |
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Bacterial fight-and-flight responses enhance virulence in a polymicrobial infection Apollo Stacy |
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11:05 AM |
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Modulation of cellular processes of macrophages and amoeba by the AnkB effector of Legionella pneumophila Yousef Abu Kwaik |
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11:35 AM |
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Coffee Break |
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Session II |
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Modeling of microbial pathogenesis and virulence 2 Chairs: Marvin Whiteley and Gary Dunny |
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12:00 PM |
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Fungal interactions with soil phagocytic predators could facilitate mammalian virulence Arturo Casadevall |
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12:30 PM |
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“Smart TnSeq” and other new tools for assessing competitive fitness and virulence of Enterococcus faecalis in model hosts. Gary Dunny, Jennifer Dale, Aaron Barnes, Kerryl Greenwood-Quaintance, Kenneth Beckman, Robin Patel and Purna Kashyap |
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1:00 PM |
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Reverse Koch's postulates indicate Escherichia coli alleviates Pseudomonas aeruginosa intestinal colonisation and disease Theodoulakis Christofi and Yiorgos Apidianakis |
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1:30 PM |
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In-host evolution of antibiotic resistant Enterococcus faecalis during an extended hospital outbreak Daria Van Tyne, Abigail McGuire, Mark Huycke, Jose Saavedra, Jenna Wurster, Ashlee Earl and Michael Gilmore |
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2:00 PM |
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Lunch and Informal Discussions |
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7:30 PM |
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Dinner and Informal Discussion |
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Saturday, September 19 |
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7:30 AM |
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Breakfast |
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Session III |
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The C. elegans immune response Chairs: Danielle Garsin and Alejandro Aballay |
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9:00 AM |
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Organismal control of defense responses and recovery from infections in C. elegans Alejandro Aballay |
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9:30 AM |
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Sesamin prolongs lifespan of Caenorhabditis elegans through regulation of genes related to caloric restriction Yumiko Nakatani, Yukie Yaguchi, Noriko Kashima, Tomomi Komura, Eriko Kage-Nakadai, Keiji Terao and Yoshikazu Nisikawa |
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10:00 AM |
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Aversion response of Caenorhabditis elegans to Gram negative and Gram Positive bacteria is driven by odor and chemosensory neural circuits Varsha Singh, Shravani Prakhya, Madhumanti Dasgupta and Anjali Gupta |
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10:30 AM |
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How C. elegans fights fungal infection Nathalie Pujol |
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11:00 AM |
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Modeling interactions between Enterococcus faecalis and Candida albicans in C. elegans Danielle A Garsin, Carrie E Graham, Melissa R Cruz and Michael C Lorenz |
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11:30 AM |
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Coffee Break |
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Session IV |
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The plant immune response Chairs: Frederick Ausubel and Xinnian Dong |
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12:00 PM |
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Pathogen-encoded Proteases activate an immune response in plants Frederick Ausubel and Zhenyu Cheng |
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12:30 PM |
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Redox rhythm reinforces the circadian clock to gate immune response Mian Zhou, Wei Wang, Sargis Karapetyan, Musoki Mwimba, Jorge Marques, Nicolas Buchler and Xinnian Dong |
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1:00 PM |
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Mechanisms of pathogenesis and the evolution of virulence in Mycosphaerella fungal plant pathogens: New models for fungal host-microbe interactions? Ioannis Stergiopoulos |
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1:30 PM |
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Signaling mediated by cell-wall derived damage-associated molecular patterns in Arabidopsis thaliana Giulia De Lorenzo, Felice Cervone, Manuel Benedetti, Daniela Pontiggia, Ilaria Verrascina, Benedetta Mattei and Simone Ferrari |
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2:00 PM |
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Lunch and Informal Discussions |
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7:30 PM |
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Dinner and Informal Discussion |
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Sunday, September 20 |
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7:30 AM |
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Breakfast |
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Session V |
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Yellow biotechnology 1 Chairs: Andreas Vilcinskas and Dominique Ferrandon |
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9:00 AM |
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Insects as models to study host-pathogen-coevolution Andreas Vilcinskas |
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9:30 AM |
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Galleria mellonella – a model for infection studies, toxicity testing and drug development Olivia Champion, Richard Titball and Sariqa Wagley |
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10:00 AM |
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The role of Drosophila melanogaster gut microbiota in host health and disease Nichole Broderick |
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10:30 AM |
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Enterocyte purge and rapid recovery is a fast resilience reaction of the Gut Epithelium to Toxin or Xenobiotics exposure Kwang-Zin Lee, Matthieu Lestradet, Stefanie Schirmeier, Antonin Schmitz, Caroline Spenle, Olivier Lefebvre, Céline Keime, Samuel Liegeois, Wennida Yamba, Richard Bou Aoun, Yannick Schwab, Frédéric Dalle, Patricia Simon-Assmann and Dominique Ferrandon |
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11:00 AM |
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Coffee Break |
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Session VI |
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Yellow biotechnology 2 Chairs: Nichole Broderick and Yiorgos Apidianakis |
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11:30 AM |
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High baseline of intestinal stem cell mitosis associates with extreme regenerative inflammatory signaling and tumorigenesis in Drosophila Yiorgos Apidianakis, Chrysoula Pitsouli, Myrofora Panagi, Vasileia Tamamouna, Antria Theophanous, Maria Demosthenous, Maria Michail and Markella Papadopoulou |
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12:00 PM |
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Cell culture of Drosophila melanogaster as an experimental model for studying of recombination in Wolbachia pipientis Irina Goryacheva, Boris Andrianov, Tatiana Gorelova and Ilia Zakharov |
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12:30 PM |
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Lunch and Informal Discussions |
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3:30 PM |
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City Tour |
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7:30 PM |
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Dinner and Informal Discussion |
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Monday, September 21 |
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7:30 AM |
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Breakfast |
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Session VII |
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Hosts, models, and resistance in guiding drug discovery Chairs: Nathalie Pujol and Elisa Borghi |
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9:00 AM |
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Characterizing novel small molecule inhibitors of M tuberculosis Samantha Wellington, Partha Nag, Raymond Nietupski, Michael Fitzgerald, Stewart Fisher, Stuart Schreiber and Deborah Hung |
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9:30 AM |
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Potential effects of Acetylcholine in the pathogenesis, biofilm formation and outcome of Candida Albicans experimental infections Monica Falleni, Ranjith Rajendran, Delfina Tosi, Federica Perdoni, Giulia Morace, Gordon Ramage, Christopher Nile and Elisa Borghi |
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10:00 AM |
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Virulence strategies of Enterococcus faecalis Kimberly Kline |
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10:30 AM |
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Coffee Break |
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Session VIII |
Mammals and model hosts: from evolution to the lines of juxtaposition Chairs: Arturo Casadevall and Daniel Kalman |
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11:00 AM |
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A multi-host approach for the systematic analysis of virulence factors of 1201 signature-tagged deletion mutants of Cryptococcus neoformans A Desalermos, X Tan, R Rajamuthiah, M Arvanitis, Y Wang, D Li , TK Kourkoumpetis, BB Fuchs and Elefterios Mylonakis |
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11:30 AM |
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A family of commensal-derived molecules regulates damage tolerance in worms flies and mammals Daniel Kalman, Robert Sonowal and Alyson Swimm |
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12:00 PM |
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Use of the wax moth, Galleria mellonella, as a model to investigate the co-evolutionary arms race between insects and microbial pathogens. Ivan Dubovskiy, Vadim Kryukov, Ekaterina Grizanova, Miranda Whitten, Krishnendu Mukherjee, Andreas Vilcinskas, Viktor Glupov and Tariq Butt |
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12:30 PM |
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Chemokine-dependent protection against systemic candidiasis: from the bench to the bedside Michail Lionakis |
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1:00 PM |
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Screening in Planarians identifies MORN2 as a key component in LC3-associated Phagocytosis and resistance to bacterial infection Eric Ghigo |
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1:30 PM |
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Closing Remarks |
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1:40 PM |
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Lunch and Informal Discussions |
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8:00 PM |
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Farewell Dinner |
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Tuesday, September 22 |
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7:30 AM |
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Breakfast |
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9:00 AM |
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Departure |
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