566th WE-Heraeus-Seminar

Mechanisms, Strategies and Evolution of Microbial Systems

 

Programme

 

SUNDAY evening: Dinner

 

MONDAY: Mechanisms

08:30 - 08:40	Berenike Maier Michael Lässig	Welcome
08:40 - 09:00	Ernst Dreisigacker	About the Wilhelm and Else Heraeus Foundation
09:00 - 10:00	David Dubnau	"Temporal gates for the onset of competence; decision-making depends on regulated properties"
10:00 - 10:45	Leendert Hamoen	"How membrane charge, fluidity, and curvature determine protein localization"
10:45 - 11:25	Break
11:25 - 11:45	Raphael Laurenceau	"A type IV pilus mediates DNA binding during natural transformation in Streptococcus pneumoniae"
11:45 - 12:05	Christof Hepp	"Concerted spatio-temporal dynamics of imported DNA and ComE DNA uptake protein during gonococcal transformation"
12:05 - 12:50	Nicolas Biais	"Mechanomicrobiology across Neisseria genus"
13:00 - 14:30	Lunch
14:30 - 15:30	Sander Tans	"Experimental evolution and epistasis in variable environments"
15:30 - 16:15	Martin Loose	"Self-organization of the bacterial cell"
16:15 - 16:35	Break
16:35 - 17:20	Gerard Wong	"How bacteria use motility appendages and exopolysaccharides in early biofilm formation"
17:20 -17:50	Poster Talks
17:50 - 18:10	Break
18:10 - 18:40	Poster Talks
18:40 - 19:00	Juan Carlos Garcia Betancour	"Diversification of cell fate in staphylococcal multicellular aggregates"
19:00	Dinner
20:00	Poster Session

 

TUESDAY: Strategies 

08:50 - 09:50	Terence Hwa	"From Physiology to Molecules: a Top-Down Approach to Systems Biology"
09:50 - 10:35	Frank Bruggemann	"How biochemical constraints and evolution shape microbial metabolism"
10:35 - 11:00	Break
11:00 - 11:45	Jeff Gore	"Phenotypic heterogeneity implements an evolutionarily stable mixed strategy in yeast"
11:45 - 12:15	Tobias Bollenbach	"Elucidating the mechanisms of drug interactions"
12:15 - 13:00	Ilka Bischofs	"How Physics governs Bacterial Quorum Sensing"
13:00 - 14:30	Lunch
14:30 - 15:15	Martin Ackermann	"Collective functionality through microbial individuality"
15:15 - 16:00	Justin Kinney	"Using DNA sequencing to characterize the biophysics of transcriptional regulation"
16:00 - 16:20	Break
16:20 - 17:05	Stefan Klumpp	"Motility and magnetism in magnetotactic bacteria"
17:05 - 17:35	Poster Talks
17:35 - 17:45	Break
17:45 - 18:15	Poster Talks
18:15 - 18:00	Viola Vogel	"Nanomechanics by which macrophages fight bacterial infections"
19:00	Dinner

 

 WEDNESDAY: Evolution

09:00 - 10:00	Michael Desai	"Adaptation and Epistasis in Laboratory Yeast Populations"
10:00 - 10:20	Noah Ribeck	"Theoretical model of long-term asexual adaptation is consistent with pervasive diminishing returns epistasis"
10:20 - 10:50	Break
10:50 - 11:20	Lilia Perfeito	"Forces driving the evolution of genome structure"
11:20 - 12:05	Daniel Weinreich	"The causes and consequences of mutational interactions in enzyme evolution"
12:05 - 14:30	Lunch
14:30 - 15:15	Joachim Krug	"Clonal interference and recombination on epistatic fitness landscapes"
15:15 - 16:00	Oskar Hallatschek	"Standing genetic diversity in microbal communities"
16:00 - 16:20	Break
16:20 - 16:40	Enno Oldewurtel	"Spatio-temporal dynamics of demixing in gonococcal populations"
16:40 - 17:00	Felix Goldschmidt	"Mutualistic interactions maintain diversity in expanding microbial communities"
17:00 - 17:20	Markus Weber	"Chemical Warface and Survival Strategies in Bacterial Range Expansions"
17:20 - 19:50	Excursion
20:00	Conference Dinner

 

THURSDAY: Evolution 

09:00 - 09:45	Arjan de Visser	"Exploring the evolvability of an antibiotic resistance enzyme"
09:45 - 10:15	Martha Luksza	"A predictive fitness model for influenza"
10:15 - 10:45	Break
10:45 - 11:30	Richard Neher	"Genetic diversity and adapation in virus populations"
11:30 - 12:15	Oliver Tenaillon	"Epistasis and continuity in experimental adaptive landscape"
12:30 - 13:30	Lunch