Program - GMM4
GMM4 program April 26-29, 2013
friday 26th of april 2013 |
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15:00-16:00 |
Registration |
16:00-16:10 |
Welcome to GMM4 by Tone Tønjum |
16:10-16:15 |
FEMS presentation given by Ole Herman Ambur |
16:15-17:00 |
Keynote speaker 1 |
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Graham Walker, MIT US: Antibiotics, DNA repair, mutagenesis and cell death: intimate connections |
17:00-17:30 |
Coffee break |
17:30-18:15 |
Keynote speaker 2 |
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Stewart Shuman, Sloan-Kettering Institute, US: RNAome maintenance: the biology and chemistry of RNA damage and its repair |
18:15 |
Reception in the University of Oslo, Life Science Rotunda & Mezzanine |
saturday 27th of april 2013 |
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Session 1: transformation
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Chair intro: Mike Koomey |
09:00-09:25 |
Berenike Maier, Univerity of Cologne, Germany: Biophysics of bacterial transformation |
09:25-09:50 |
Patrice Polard, Toulouse, France: Genetic transformation in the human pathogen Streptococcus pneumoniae |
09:50-10:10 |
Leiv Sigve Håvarstein, University of Life Science, Norway:Fraticide in the genus Streptococcus |
10:10-10:35 |
Kåre M. Nielsen, University of Tromsø, Norway: New substrates for natural transformation in bacteria |
10:35-11:05 |
Coffee break |
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Session 2: genome instability and microbe-host interactions |
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Chair intro: Marina Aspholm |
11:05-11:25 |
Josep Casadesús, Sevilla, Spain: Salmonella phenotipic heterogeneity, random and programmed |
11:25-11:50 |
Jay Hinton, Liverpool, UK: Environmental shocks reprogramme Salmonella transcription |
11:50-12:10 |
Tone Tønjum, Oslo, Norway: Genome dynamics in meningitidis pathogens |
12:10-12:30 |
Chris Bayliss, Oxford, UK: Determinants of the mutability of simple sequence repeat tracts |
12:30-13:30 |
Lunch and posters |
13:30-13:55 |
Sebastian Suerbaum, Hannover, Germany: Genome variation and host adaptation in Helicobacter pylori |
13:55-14:20 |
Birgitta Henriques, Normark, Stockholm, Sweden: Pneumococcal plasticity in the interaction with the host innate immune system |
14:20-14:40 |
Young investigator: Stephan Frye, Oslo University Hospital, Norway:Functional deconstruction and new dialects of the DNA uptake sequence in Neisseriaceae |
14:40-15:10 |
Coffee break |
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Session 3: evolution |
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Chair intro: Leiv Sigve Håvarstein |
15:10-15:35 |
Eduardo P. Rocha, Paris, France: Recombination, the chromosome and the temperate phage |
15:35-16:00 |
Edo Kussell, New York University, US: Evolutionary dynamics of genomes under global pressures |
16:00-16:25 |
Dan Andersson, Uppsala, Sweden: Evolution of new genes |
16:25-16:45 |
Ole Herman Ambur, Ahus, Norway: On the role and evolution of DNA uptake sequences in the Neisseriaceae |
16:45-17:10 |
Ivan Matic, Paris, France: Subinhibitory concentrations of antibiotics induce mutagenesis by diminishing DNA replication fidelity |
17:10-18:10 |
Poster discussion with refreshments |
18:15 |
Bus transport to Bygdøy |
18:45 |
Exhibition and dinner at the Kon-Tiki Museum in Bygdøy |
sunday 28th of april 2013 |
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Session 4: dna repair I
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Chair intro: Stephan A. Frye |
09:00-09:25 |
Kirsten Skarstad, University of Oslo, Norway: The SeqA protein and replication fork stability in Escherichia coli |
09:25-09:50 |
David Leach, University of Edinburgh, Scotland: DNA double-strand break repair in Escherichia coli |
09:50-10:15 |
Robert Fuchs, Marseille, France: How E. coli replicates damaged DNA: the critical choice between translesion synthesis and damage avoidance? |
10:15-10:40 |
Meindert Lamers, Cambridge University, UK: Polymerase switching at the clamp |
10:40-11:10 |
Coffee break |
11:10-11:35 |
Martin Marinus, Boston, US: High frequency mutation to chloramplenicol-resistance in enterohemorrhagic E. coli O157:H7 |
11:35-12:00 |
Magnar Bjørås, Oslo University Hospital, Norway: SOS inducible single transmembrane peptides |
12:00-12:25 |
Bjørn Dalhus, Oslo University Hospital, Norway: Structural basis for DNA damage recognition by endonuclease V |
12:25-13:25 |
Lunch and posters |
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Session 5: horizontal gene transfer
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Chair intro: Graham Walker |
13:25-13:50 |
Fernando de la Cruz, University of Cantabria, Spain: Bacterial conjugation as a model of genome rebooting: implications for synthetic biology |
13:50-14:15 |
Didier Mazel, Institut Pasteur, France: Integrons, antibiotics, SOS response and horizontal gene transfers: intimate connections |
14:15-14:40 |
Mireille Ansaldi, CNRS, France: Prophage diversity and maintenance in bacterial genomes |
14:40-15:05 |
Anne-Brit Kolstø, University of Oslo, Norway: Bacillus anthracis and its closest relatives: new dimentions |
15:05-15:35 |
Coffee break |
15:35-16:00 |
Lyle Simmons, University of Michigan, US: Coupling of mismatch repair to DNA replication in Bacillus subtilis |
16:00-16:20 |
Mike Koomey, Oslo, Norway: Novel roles for simple sequence repeat vatiation in bacterial gene expression |
16:20-16:40 |
Young investigator: Morten Kjos, University of Groningen, The Netherlands:Transcription contributes to efficient chromosome segregation in Streptococcus pneumoniae |
16:40-17:40 |
Panel dicussion |
18:00 |
Bus transport to Tøyen |
18:15 |
Exhibition and dinner at the Munch Museum |
monday 29th of april 2013 |
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Session 6: genome instability and dynamics
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Chair intro: Seetha Balasingham |
09:00-09:25 |
Sarah Fortune, Harvard University, US: Mutation in Mycobacterium tuberculosis: determinants of genome stability during infection |
09:25-09:50 |
Lene Juel Rasmussen, University of Copenhagen, Denmark: The role of microbial pathogenesis in genome instability |
09:50-10:15 |
Maia Kivisaar, University of Tartu, Estonia: DNA repair and mutagenic processes in Pseudomonas putida |
10:15-10:40 |
Peter Graumann, University of Marburg, Germany: Dynamics of the bacterial SMC (Structural Maintenance of Chromosomes) complex at the level of single molecules |
10:40-11:10 |
Coffee break |
11:10-11:35 |
Jesús Blázquez, CSIC, Spain: 8-oxo-G:more than a mutagen |
11:35-12:00 |
Charles Dorman, Trinity College, Dublin, Ireland: Bacterial chromatin and genetic switches |
12:00-12:25 |
Rainer Haas, Munich, Germany: Type IV secretion and conjugation in Helicobacter pylori |
12:25-13:25 |
Lunch and posters |
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Session 7: genome instability and dna repair
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Chair intro: Josep Casadesús |
13:30-14:15 |
Keynote speaker 3 |
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Steve Kowalczykowski, University of California, US: Mechanism and visualization of genetic recombination |
14:15-14:40 |
Thierry P. Nouspikel, University of Sheffield Medical School, UK: Genomic instability in human embryonic stem cells |
14:40-15:10 |
Coffee break |
Session 8: transformation and conjugation |
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Chair intro: Chris Bayliss |
15:10-15:35 |
Jeremy Derrick, Manchester University, UK: Type IV pilus biogenesis and DNA competence: a structural perspective |
15:35-16:00 |
Melanie Blokesch, Ecole Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne (EPFL), Switzerland: Dynamics of competence induction and DNA uptake in Vibrio cholerae |
16:00-16:25 |
Beate Averhoff, Frankfurt, Germany: Competence in Thermus thermophilus |
16:25 |
Closing remarks |
17:00 |
Bus transport to the city |
17:45 |
Reception in the Oslo City Hall |
19:30 |
Bus transport from the Oslo City Hall to Ekeberg |
20:00 |
Dinner at Ekeberg Restaurant |