7th International Conference on Model Hosts

Program

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    Registration 
    In completing the online registration form you are not automatically accepted to attend the conference nor are you automatically registered for the conference. Final registration to the conference shall occur after you have been accepted and notified by the conference chair of your acceptance to the conference. If you have been charged the registration fee but your attendance has been declined you will be reimbursed in full.

    Airport
    Please note that Crete has two airports. You want to arrive at the Heraklion International Airport (code: HER) and take a taxi from the airport to the hotel (~60 EUR). You may also rent a car at the airport and drive to the conference center. Alternatively Chania International Airport (CHQ) is a two-hour drive to the Conference Center.

    Accommodation Tax
    An accommodation tax of € 10.00 per room night will apply, and will be charged automatically to the individual guest’s extras accounts. 

    Accommodations
    Accommodations for the conference are at the Aldemar Hotel.  The hotel is located in Hersonissos, 27 km from Heraklion International Airport.  Please take a taxi from the airport to the conference venue. 

    Arrival and Check-in 
    It is expected that attendees will arrive/check-in after 3:00 PM. Anyone arriving after 10:00 pm on the first day should make alternative dinner arrangements.

    Conference Venue
    The Aldemar Conference Center is located at the hotel. 

    Handicapped Accessibility
    The site is fully handicapped accessible.

    Oral Presentations
    Speakers are asked to bring their USB flash drive to the reception desk at least 30 minutes prior to the session.  The allocated time for all presentations, unless otherwise indicated, includes five minutes Q&A.

    Archaeological Site of Knossos and City Tour
    Buses for the city tour will depart from the hotel front lobby at 3:30 pm. Badges are required for participation. 

    Breakfast
    Breakfast for registered participants and registered accompanying persons will be served at the Aldemar Knossos Royal Village main restaurant during the hours scheduled in this program. 

    Lunches/Informal Discussions
    Lunches for registered participants and registered accompanying persons will be served during the times indicated in this program at the main restaurant and only after the session has finished. Badges are required for admission.

    Dinners/Informal Discussions
    Three of the dinners/informal discussion will be served during the times indicated in the program. Vegetarian entrees are available only upon request in advance of the meeting.  Please contact info@aegeanconferences.org. 

    Internet, Phone, & Computer 
    Wireless Internet access is located throughout the conference center free of charge during meeting hours. There are computers available in the hotel’s business center for the use of the attendees. Phone service is available for an additional charge from your hotel room.

    Certificate of Participation
    A Certificate of Participation will be distributed to a participant for those sessions that the participant has attended. A participant must attend an entire session to receive credit for that particular session. Late arrivals and early departures from a session will preclude a participant from receiving credit for that session. 

    Passports and Visa
    Participants are advised to check on their individual requirements before attending any Aegean Conference meeting. Visa applications should be filed at the nearest Greek Embassy in the country in which you are resident, at least three months prior to the anticipated departure date.

    Letters of Invitation
    Letters of invitation to attend an Aegean Conference meeting will be issued only to:

    • Authors of accepted abstracts
    • Fully paid registrants

    Note: Invitations are issued at the discretion of Aegean Conferences, and requests for letters will be accepted only 60 days prior to the conference start date.

    Liability and Insurance
    Neither the organizers, nor the Aegean Conferences will assume any responsibility whatsoever for damage or injury to persons or property during meeting period. Participants are advised to arrange their own personal travel and health insurance.  

    Other Information
    Animals are not permitted on site.
    Badges are required for admission to all events.
    All Aegean Conferences events are no smoking, no e-cigarretes, no vaping, etc. 

    No Photographs and Recording Devices 
    Participants are not allowed to photograph and/or record using cameras, mobile telephones and other recording devices during the slide and poster presentations. 

    Code of Conduct Policy 
    Aegean Conferences is committed to making its meetings an inclusive space for sharing ideas and knowledge. The code of conduct can be viewed here. 

     

Saturday, October 12

06:30 PM - 07:30 PM
Conference Registration
07:30 PM - 10:00 PM
Welcome Reception and Dinner

Sunday, October 13

07:30 AM - 08:25 AM
Breakfast
08:25 AM - 08:30 AM
Welcome and Opening Remarks - Eleftherios Mylonakis
Session I - What if Fungi Win?
Chair: Michael Gilmore
08:30 AM - 08:50 AM
1
Comparative genomics of the closely related fungal genera Cryptococcus and Kwoniella reveals karyotype dynamics and suggests evolutionary mechanisms of pathogenesis
Joseph Heitman
08:50 AM - 09:10 AM
2
Can we infer host adaptation from pathogen genomes? Cryptic specialization in the ‘generalist’ pathogen Pseudomonas aeruginosa
Sam Brown and Eli Mehlferber
09:10 AM - 09:30 AM
3
Travel, colonization resistance, and acquisition of AMR pathogens
Ashlee Earl
09:30 AM - 09:50 AM
4
The genetic basis of divergence in immune defense between species
Robert L Unckless
09:50 AM - 10:10 AM
5
Evolutionarily conserved mechanisms of fungal phagosome biogenesis: from Drosophila to humans
Georgios Chamilos
10:10 AM - 10:25 AM
6
Engineering E. coli for an efficient protein secretion via the T3 secretion system.
Antonia Areali
10:25 AM - 10:40 AM
7
Dissecting a novel regulatory role of Toll signaling pathway on cellular immunity in Drosophila melanogaster
Electra Nenedaki1, Georgios Chamilos1, Zoe Veneti1, Agostinho Carvalho3, and Pantelis Hatzis2
10:40 AM - 11:00 AM
Coffee Break
Session II - Of Mice and Worms
Chair: Danielle Garsin
11:00 AM - 11:20 AM
8
Mechanisms of Vaginal Colonization by Group B Streptococcus: Impact of Commensal Fungi on Bacterial Virulence Potential
Shirli Cohen1, Michael C Lorenz2, Kyla S Ost1, and Kelly S Doran1
11:20 AM - 11:40 AM
9
Metabolic exchanges between pathogens and the intestinal microbiota
Vanessa Sperandio
11:40 AM - 12:00 PM
10
Maternal-embryonic molecular interactions during pathogen attack
Laura Bahr1, Francis RG Amrit1, Danny Bui1, Bella Wayhs1, Carissa Perez Olsen2, and Arjumand Ghazi1
12:00 PM - 12:20 PM
11
The impact of Pseudomonas aeruginosa rhamnolipids and siderophores on host cell death and inflammation
Natalia V Kirienko
12:20 PM - 12:40 PM
12
Impact of fluid flow and quorum sensing on biofilm formation and antibiotic tolerance in enterococcal infective endocarditis
Kimberly Ann Kline
12:40 PM - 01:00 PM
13
TBA
Mary O'Riordan
01:00 PM - 01:15 PM
14
Stenotrophomonas indicatrix promotes innate immune response against obligate intracellular pathogens in Caenorhabditis elegans
Jordan D West, Samuel Li, and Vladimir Lažetić
01:15 PM - 02:30 PM
Lunch and Informal Discussions
02:30 PM - 07:00 PM
Informal Discussions
07:30 PM - 11:00 PM
Dinner and Informal Discussions (Buses Depart from Hotel Lobby)

Monday, October 14

07:30 AM - 08:30 AM
Breakfast
Session III - Lord of the Flies
Chair: Dominique Ferrandon
08:30 AM - 08:50 AM
15
cGAS-like receptors drive a systemic STING-dependent host response in Drosophila
Xianlong Ai1, Huimin Deng1, Xiaoyan Li1, Ziming Wei1, Yuqiang Chen1, Ting Yin1, Junhui Zhang1, Jingxian Huang1, Haoming Li1, Xiaoqing Lin1, Di Chen1, Carine Meignin2, Jean-Luc Imler1,2, and Hua Cai1
08:50 AM - 09:10 AM
16
Pathogen-host interactions and interorgan communications in model animals
Lei Pan
09:10 AM - 09:30 AM
17
Adult flies mount an early immune response to injected oncogenic cells different from antimicrobial defenses and suggestive of parallels with innate defenses in mice
Di Chen, Xiao Lan, Xiaoming Huang, Jieqing Huang, Xiaojing Zhou, and Jiyong Liu
09:30 AM - 09:50 AM
18
A humoral stress response protects Drosophila tissues from antimicrobial peptides
Samuel Rommelaere and Bruno Lemaitre
09:50 AM - 10:10 AM
19
The role of Malpighian tubules on insect immunity
Zhonggeng Liu1, Hongyu Zhang1, Bruno Lemaitre2, and Xiaoxue Li1
10:10 AM - 10:25 AM
20
Pathobiont and symbiont coordination maintains microbiota homeostasis through Malpighian tubules-gut countercurrent flow in Bactrocera dorsalis.
Yanning Liu
10:25 AM - 10:40 AM
21
Activation of the innate immune system in Drosophila airway stem cells leads to both apoptosis and proliferation via the Foxo/AP-1 and Ets21C axes, respectively
Leizhi Shi, Judith Bossen, and Thomas Roeder
10:40 AM - 11:00 AM
Coffee Break
Session IV - One Fish, Two Fish, Red Fish, Blue Fish
Chair: Irene Salinas Remiro
11:00 AM - 11:20 AM
22
Molecular mechanisms of skin remodeling during water-land-water cycles in African lungfish
Irene Salinas, Daphne Siciliani, and Marijan Posavi
11:20 AM - 11:40 AM
23
Ancestral mechanisms for the induction and control of immunity through fever
Daniel Barreda
11:40 AM - 12:00 PM
24
Discovering viruses and studying immunity in a zebrafish RNAquarium
Keir Balla
12:00 PM - 12:20 PM
25
A molecular understanding of microbiome bacterial adherence to gut epithelial cells
Robert Luallen
12:20 PM - 12:40 PM
26
Primary tuberculous granulomas provide a niche for superinfecting nontuberculous mycobacteria
Denise Wee and Stefan Oehlers
12:40 PM - 01:00 PM
27
Spatial dynamics of host-microbiome interactions in the human oral niche
Hyun (Michel) Koo1,2 and Zhi Ren1
01:00 PM - 01:15 PM
28
Selenomonas sputigena: how a motile bacterium influences a childhood oral disease
Zhi Ren, Kathleen J. Stebe, and Hyun (Michel) Koo
01:15 PM - 01:30 PM
29
The tobacco hornworm Mandua sexta as a powerful Model Host
Andreas Vilcinskas1, Gabriele A. Krombach2, and Anton G. Windfelder1
01:30 PM - 03:00 PM
Lunch and Informal Discussions
03:00 PM - 07:00 PM
Informal Discussions
07:30 PM - 11:00 PM
Dinner and Informal Discussions (Buses Depart from Hotel Lobby)

Tuesday, October 15

07:30 AM - 08:30 AM
Breakfast
Session V - If You Give a Mouse a Cookie . . .
Chair: Marvin Whiteley
08:30 AM - 08:50 AM
30
Dual oxic-anoxic co-culture reveals reciprocal host-pathogen interactions under hypoxia
Ryan C Hunter
08:50 AM - 09:10 AM
31
Unraveling the complex interkingdom crosstalk between fungi and bacteria during infection
Stephen Dolan
09:10 AM - 09:30 AM
32
Antiphage defense and counter-defense during enterococcal-phage interactions
Breck A Duerkop
09:30 AM - 09:50 AM
33
Improved mouse model better mimics bacterial behavior in chronic lung infections in cystic fibrosis
Joanna B. Goldberg
09:50 AM - 10:10 AM
34
Staphylococcus hominis bacteriocins protect against skin pathogens
Alexander R Horswill
10:10 AM - 10:30 AM
35
Bacterial and host response to biofilm dispersal in wound infections
Kendra Rumbaugh
10:30 AM - 11:00 AM
Coffee Break
Session VI - The Mosquito Coast
Chair: Nichole Broderick
11:00 AM - 11:20 AM
36
Innovating antibiotic-independent therapies with a marine symbiosis
Lauren Speare
11:20 AM - 11:40 AM
37
Bacterial analogs of cholesterol promote soybean-Bradyrhizobium symbiosis
Brittany Belin
11:40 AM - 12:00 PM
38
Cultivated relationships: genetic regulation of the gut microbiome in C. elegans
Buck Samuel, Ciara Hosea, and Adrien Assie
12:00 PM - 12:20 PM
39
Neuroprotection from the microbiome: Multiple mechanisms at play
Lesley MacNeil
12:20 PM - 12:40 PM
40
Mosquito immune cells: Immunophenotyping and contributions to mosquito-borne pathogen transmission
Ryan C Smith
12:40 PM - 12:55 PM
41
Dynamics of host-microbe systems
Arturo Casadevall
12:55 PM - 01:10 PM
42
A Drosophila model for infection-induced loss of intestinal barrier function and homeostasis
Nichole Broderick
01:20 PM - 02:45 PM
Lunch and Informal Discussions
03:00 PM - 08:00 PM
Tour of Archaeological Site of Knossos / Museum / City of Heraklion (Buses Depart Hotel Lobby)
08:00 PM - 11:00 PM
Dinner and Informal Discussions (Buses do not return or pickup from the hotel prior to dinner)

Wednesday, October 16

07:30 AM - 08:30 AM
Breakfast
Session VII - Animal Farm
Chair: Katja Dierking
08:30 AM - 08:50 AM
43
Identifying core gene networks involved in host gut bacterium interactions using a multiomics approach.
Alejandra Zarate-Potes1,2, Irtiqa Ali2, Jack Martin2, Leah Catchpole3, Karim Gharbi3, Barbara Shih2, and Alexandre Benedetto2
08:50 AM - 09:10 AM
44
Pathogen-microbiota interactions in Drosophila model
Aranzazu Arias-Rojas, Dagmar Frahm, and Igor Iatsenko
09:10 AM - 09:30 AM
45
Microbiota-derived natural products determine protection against pathogens in C. elegans
Katja Dierking
09:30 AM - 09:50 AM
46
Intracellular Legionella within amoeba as a Trojan horse for infection of macrophages
Yousef Abu Kwaik
09:50 AM - 10:05 AM
47
Impact of the plant bioactive compound allyl-isothiocyanate on the survival and defense of bacteria-infected Drosophila melanogaster
Christian Zimmermann, Sonja Dähn, and Anika E Wagner
10:05 AM - 10:20 AM
48
The Caenorhabditis elegans bacterial microbiome influences microsporidia infection through nutrient limitation and inhibiting parasite invasion
Aaron W Reinke
10:20 AM - 10:50 AM
Coffee Break
Session VIII - Worm and Fly are Friends
Chair: Alejandro Aballay
10:50 AM - 11:10 AM
49
TBA - Ghobrial
Mark R Ghobrial
11:10 AM - 11:30 AM
50
Iron-deplete diet enhances C. elegans lifespan via HLH-30/TFEB and AMPK signaling
Priyanka Das, Ravi ., and Jogender Singh
11:30 AM - 11:50 AM
51
Olfactory receptors modulate host-microbe interactions
Varsha Singh
11:50 AM - 12:10 PM
52
Neuronal GPCR NPR-8 controls innate immunity by regulating DNA metabolism
Nguyen K Nguyen1, Bradley A Nicholas1, Daniel Beck2, Durai Sellegounder1, Archer J Wang2, Blake M Geppert2, and Yiyong Liu1,2
12:10 PM - 12:30 PM
53
Dissecting the interactions between bacteria and the fly nervous system
Julien Royet
12:30 PM - 12:45 PM
54
G protein-coupled receptor NMUR-1 regulates energy homeostasis in response to pathogen infections
Phillip Wibisono1, Yiyong Liu1,2, Kenneth P Roberts1, Dodge Baluya3, and Jingru Sun1
12:45 PM - 01:00 PM
55
Nuclear Hormone Receptor NHR-68 Controls Immunometabolism during Intestinal Dysfunction in C. elegans
Jie Ren and Alejandro Aballay
01:00 PM - 01:15 PM
56
Probiotic-Mediated Protection against Motor Neuron Degeneration during Oxidative Stress
Yu Sang and Alejandro Aballay
01:15 PM - 01:25 PM
Closing Remarks
01:25 PM - 02:30 PM
Lunch and Informal Discussions
02:30 PM - 07:00 PM
Informal Discussions
07:30 PM - 11:00 PM
Farewell Dinner

Thursday, October 17

08:00 AM - 10:00 AM
Breakfast
10:00 AM - 12:00 PM
Departure