Program Interacademy Conference
Microbiology 2023: from single cell to microbiome and host
Würzburg (September 20-22, 2023)
Venue: Institute for Molecular Infection Biology, Main Lecture Hall
Conference Schedule
Wednesday, September 20th, 2023
13:00 – 16:00 Arrival, registration, coffee & cake
16:00 – 16:30 Welcome by the organisers
16:30 – 19:00 Session: Infection biology, microbiome
Chairs: Jörg Vogel & Thomas Rudel
16:30 – 17:00 Sophie Helaine
Internal conflicts in Salmonella persisters
17:00 – 17:30 Susan Bullman
The Role of Intratumoral Microbiota Within the Tumor Microenvironment: from microniches to single cells
17:30 – 18:00 Break
18:00 – 18:30 Andreas Bäumler
Host-Microbe Interactions Underlying Colonization Resistance
18:30 – 19:00 Andrew Goodman
Microbiome dynamics during infection
19:00 Light dinner, drinks, poster session
Thursday, September 21st, 2023
9:00 – 12:30 Session: Phage biology and defense
Chairs: Pascale Cossart & Chase Beisel
9:00 – 9:30 Rotem Sorek
Deciphering the immune system of bacteria
9:30 – 10:00 Joe Bondy-Denomy
What to do when CRISPR fails? Back-up plans for phage defense
10:00 – 10:30 Karen Maxwell
Inhibition of virion assembly in antiviral defence
10:30 – 11:00 Coffee break
11:00 – 11:30 Nassos Typas
Enormous diversity anti-retron proteins in phages
11:30 – 12:00 Melanie Blokesch
Molecular secrets of 7th pandemic Vibrio cholerae
12:00 – 12:30 Elizabeth Villa
Opening Windows into the Cell: Bringing structure into cell biology using cryo-electron tomography
12:30 – 14:00 Lunch
13:00 - 14:00 Editor Session - Working Lunch (room 2.016, second floor)
Panel Chair: Anke Sparmann, Helmholtz Institute for RNA-based Infection Research
Panel participants
Nonia Pariente, PLOS Biology
Carmen Buchrieser, microLife
Jessica Thompson, Nature Microbiology
14:00 - 14:30 Roundtable discussion - The importance of microbiology and infectious disease research in the year 2023
Panel participants:
Eliora Ron, Tel Aviv University
Seyed E. Hasnain, Indian Institute of Technology Delhi
Carmen Buchrieser, Institut Pasteur
Feng Shao, Beijing, China
14:30 – 17:30 Session: Molecular microbiology, bacterial cell biology
Chairs: Cynthia Sharma & Franz Narberhaus
14:30 – 15:00 Mariana Gomes de Pinho
Dynamics of the peptidoglycan synthesis machinery during Staphylococcus aureus cell division
15:00 – 15:30 Christine Jacobs-Wagner
Chromosome Segregation: How bacteria do more with less
15:30 – 16:00 Coffee break
16:00 – 16:30 Tracy Palmer
Novel effector proteins of the Staphylococcus aureus Type VII secretion system
16:30 – 17:00 Jean-François Collet
Mechanical Interplay of the Outer Membrane and Peptidoglycan Layer in Gram-Negative Bacteria: A Key to Resisting Turgor Pressure and Cell Bursting
17:00 – 17:30 Davide Sassera
Intramitochondrial localization of Midichloria bacteria: where, when and how
19:00 Conference dinner at Würzburg Residence
Friday, September 22, 2023
9:00 – 12:30 Session: Molecular infection biology
Chairs: Birgitta Henriques-Normark & David Holden
9:00 - 9:30 Feng Shao
The cytosolic LPS-sensing noncanonical inflammasome pathway in bacterial infection
9:30 – 10:00 Elizabeth Hartland
Legionella and the host epitranscriptome
10:00 – 10:30 Anat Herskovits
Pathogen phage cooperation during mammalian infection
10:30 – 11:00 Coffee break
11:00 – 11:30 Jan-Willem Veening
Uncovering mechanisms of pneumococcal-host interactions with synthetic gene regulatory networks
11:30 – 12:00 Petra Dersch
Shaping Yersinia virulence for acute and persistent infections
12:00 – 12:30 Christina Stallings
Inflammation as a driver of Mycobacterium tuberculosis pathogenesis
12:30 – 12:45 Concluding remarks
Coffee and end of the meeting