EMBO-FEBS Lecture Course

European Molecular Biology Organization

 

Host- Microbes Interactions

 

 

 

 

 



1 - 9 Sept | 2010 |Spetses| Greece

Programme

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Wednesday 1 September: 
Arrival and welcome reception 
Welcome and Introduction : Pascale Cossart and Roberto Kolter 
Thursday 2 September 
Welcome and Introduction : Pascale Cossart and Roberto Kolter 
Morning Chairperson: Pascale Cossart 
General Lectures 
 

Philippe Sansonetti (Institut Pasteur, France)
What makes a pathogen, what makes a commensal, at mucosals surfaces 

Roberto Kolter (Harvard Medical School, USA)
Exploring microbial diversity 

 
Afternoon Chairperson: Philippe Sansonetti 
Methods 
Joel Doré (INRA, France)
Metagenomics
 

David Holden (Imperial College, England)
Methods to study bacterial virulence 

Poster Session I 
 
Friday 3 September 
 
Morning Chairperson: Roberto Kolter 
  New concepts in bacterial regulation 

Inigo Lasa (Instituto de Agrobiotecnologia, Spain)
GGDEF proteins and c-di-GMP signal transduction system

Pascale Cossart (Institut Pasteur, France)
RNA-mediated regulation 

 
Afternoon Chairperson David Holden 
Contribution of Genomics and post genomics to our understanding of pathogenesis 

Carmen Buchrieser (Institut Pasteur, France)
Legionella 

Christophe Dehio (Biozentrum, Switzerland)
Bartonella: Role of type IV secretion systems in host adaptation

Philippe Sansonetti (Institut Pasteur, France)
Shigella effectors at work 

Saturday 4 September 
 
Morning Chairperson Carmen Buchrieser 
Bacterial communities/ Biofilms/ differentiation 

Inigo Lasa (Instituto de Agrobiotecnologia, Spain)
Biofilm development in Staphylococcus aureus

Bonnie Bassler (Princeton, USA)
How Bacteria Talk To Each Other
 

Julian Davies (University of British Columbia, Canada )
The EMBO Lecture : Antibiotics, Resistance, and the Universe of Small  Molecules

Afternoon Chairperson Julian Davies 
 

Bruno Lemaître (EPFL,Switzerland)
Drosophila, insect vectors and disease 

Maxime Schwartz (Institut Pasteur, France)
EMBO Science and Society Lecture : Microbes or men?  Who will win?
Poster session II 
Sunday 5 September 
 
Free day for discussions and for excursion to Mycenae, Epidavros, Nauplion or Hydra 
Monday 6 September 
 
Morning Chairperson Christophe Dehio 
Cell Biology of infections 

Gisou Van der Goot (EPFL, Switzerland)
Pore-forming Toxins

David Holden (Imperial College, England)
Intracellular activites of Salmonella 

Jean-Pierre Gorvel (Centre d’Immunologie, France)
Brucella pathogenesis

Afternoon Chairperson: Bonnie Bassler 
Host response to infections 

Christophe Dehio (Biozentrum, Switzerland)
Cellular response to infection: autophagy and apoptosis

Pascale Cossart (Institut Pasteur, France)

Post translational modifications during infections 

Poster Session III 
Tuesday 7 September 
 
   
Morning Chairperson: Gisou Van der goot 
Bacterial communities 
Joel Doré (INRA, France)
The intestinal flora : European and other projects
Bonnie Bassler (Princeton, USA)
Manipulating Quorum Sensing to Control Bacterial Pathogenicity

Carmen Buchrieser (Institut Pasteur, France)
Tutorial/discussion on next generation sequencing, genomic, metagenomic and post genomics 

Afternoon Chairperson : Javier Pizarro-Cerda 
 

Bruno Lemaître (EPFL,Switzerland)
How Drosophila has helped understanding innate immunity 

Gunnar Lindhal (Lund University, Sweden)
Bacterial evasion of host immunity

Maria Rescigno (European Institute of Oncology , Italy)

EMBO Young Investigator Lecture :Dendritic cells in bacterial handling in the gut

 
Wednesday 8 September 
Morning Chairperson : Inigo Lasa 
  Gisou Van der Goot (EPFL, Switzerland)
Entry pathway of AB toxins, with a special emphasis on anthrax toxin
Roberto Kolter (Harvard Medical School, USA)
Ecology of Polymicrobial Infections
Javier Pizarro-Cerda (Institut Pasteur, France)
Tutorial/discussion on imaging and various microscopy techniques 
Afternoon Chairperson : Gunnar Lindhal 
Short talks selected from the posters
Poster Prizes
  Farewell dinner 
Thursday 9 September 
  Departure

 

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