Tuesday,
August 5
Wednesday,
August 6
Thursday,
August 7
Friday,
August 8
Saturday,
August 9


Tuesday, August 5
16.30 - 17.00 Opening Ceremony for the BAM and Mycology Congresses HALL 1
Chair: Karl-Heinz Schleifer, Germany
17.00 - 18.00 Opening talk - BAM: Surprises in how bacteria cope with uncertainty
Richard Losick, USA
18.00 - 19.00 Opening talk - Mycology Congress: Fungal diversity: The future of research
Pedro W. Crous, Netherlands
19.00 - 20.00 Welcome Cocktail
Wednesday, August 6
9.00 - 11.00 BP1 / Plenary 1 Omics & Pathogenicity (Pathogenomics) HALL 1
Chair: Carmen Buchrieser, France
9.00 - 9.40 Pathogenomics of Escherichia coli
Joerg Hacker, Germany
9.40 - 10.20 Genome-wide approaches to elucidate mechanisms of Staphylococcus aureus immune evasion & virulence
Frank R. DeLeo, USA
10.20 - 11.00 Functional genomics of Legionella pneumophila pathogenicity
Carmen Buchrieser, France
11.00 - 13.00 Break, Poster Session/Exhibition
13.00 - 15.00 BP 2 / Plenary 2 Regulation of Gene ExpressionHALL 1
Chair: John D. Helmann, USA
13.00 - 13.40 Oxidative stress responses in Gram-positive bacteria
John D. Helmann, USA
13.40 - 14.20 Wide ranging regulatory roles of small, noncoding RNAs in bacteria
Gisela Storz, USA
14.20 - 15.00 mRNA stability and gene regulation in bacteria
Harald Putzer, France
15.00 - 15.30 Coffee Break
15.30 - 18.00 Symposia
15.30 - 17.40 BS1: Pathogenicity and Commensalism HALL 7
Chair: Roland Brosch, France
15.30 - 16.00 Virulence Gene Expression in Staphylococcus aureus
Susanne Engelmann, Germany
16.00 - 16.30 Obligate mycobacterial pathogens and environmental mycobacteria, insights from genome comparisons
Roland Brosch, France
16.30 - 17.00 Between Commensalism and Pathogenicity: E. coli as an Example
Ulrich Dobrindt, Germany
17.00 - 17.20 Comparative and functional genomics of the model emerging human pathogen Photorhabdus asymbiotica (102)
Maria Sanchez-Contreras, UK
17.20 - 17.40 Burkholderia acyl carrier protein (ACP): a potential target to develop new antimicrobials against Burkholderia infections? (541)
Silvia Sousa, Portugal
15.30 - 17.50 BS2: Stress/Starvation Responses/Global Regulatory Networks HALL 4
Chair: Colin Harwood, UK
15.30 - 16.00 Regulatory networks and network conflicts
Colin Harwood, UK
16.00 - 16.30 Translocase malfunction causes Extracellular Protein Translocation Stress (EPTS) in Streptomyces lividans
Rafael Mellado, Spain
16.30 - 17.00 Global stringent control of carbon metabolism in Bacillus subtilis
Yasutaro Fujita, Japan
17.00 - 17.30 Deciphering a complex thiol-stress responsive regulatory network in Bacillus subtilis
Haike Antelmann, Germany
17.30 - 17.50 A new ParE-associated antitoxin belonging to a three-component toxin-antitoxin system (625)
Regiz Hallez, Belgium
15.30 - 17.40 BS3: Plant-Microbe-Interaction HALL 1
Chair: Leo Eberl, Switzerland
15.30 - 16.00 Cell-to-cell communication controls biocontrol activites of members of the genus Burkholderia
Leo Eberl, Switzerland
16.00 - 16.30 Quorum sensing regulation of exopolysaccharide synthesis in Pantoea stewartii and its role in the cause of maize vascular wilt
Susanne von Bodman, USA
16.30 - 17.00 Intercellular signalling (quorum sensing) in rice associated bacteria
Vittorio Venturi, Italy
17.00 - 17.20 Chemotactic transducer proteins for plant-related compounds in Pseudomonas aeruginosa (1072)
Junichi Kato, Japan
15.30 - 17.20 BS4: Life at the Limit HALL 2
Chair: Milton Da Costa, Portugal
15.30 - 16.00 What, if anything, is an Extremophile?
Milton Da Costa, Portugal
16.00 - 16.30 Deinococcus - a story of diverse ecotypes, genotypes and phenotypes
Frederick A. Rainey, USA
16.30 - 17.00 The organic solutes of hyperthermophiles: do they play a role in thermoadaptation?
Helena Santos, Portugal
17.00 - 17.20 Copper resistance mechanisms of bacteria and archaea living under extremely high concentrations of metals (318)
Carlos A Jerez, Chile
15.30 - 17.30 BS5: Anaerobic Metabolism HALL 6
Chair: Bernhard Schink, Germany
15.30 - 16.00 Engergy metabolism in syntrophically fermenting bacteria
Bernhard Schink, Germany
16.00 - 16.30 New Visions on Lifestyle and Application of Anammox Bacteria
Boran Kartal, Netherlands
16.30 - 17.00 Biochemistry of reductive dehalogenation
Christof Holliger, Switzerland
17.00 - 17.30 Anaerobic digestion in the biorefinery market economy
Willy Verstraete, Belgium
Thursday, August 7
9.00 - 12.00 BP3 / Plenary 3 Chaperones, Trafficking, Protein Secretion HALL 5
Chair: Juergen Wehland, Germany
9.00 - 9.40 Functional genomics investigations of the heat shock response
Eliora Ron, Israel
9.40 - 10.20 Mechanistic insights into the chaperone network of the E. coli cytosol
Bernd Bukau, Germany
10.20 - 10.40 Break
10.40 - 11.20 Protein secretion in Gram-positive bacteria
Jan Maarten van Dijl, Netherlands
11.20 - 12.00 TAT-Secretion Pathway in Bacteria
Tracy Palmer, UK
9.00 - 12.00 BP4 / Plenary 4 White Biotechnology/ Metabolic Engineering HALL 2
Chair: Hermann Sahm, Germany
9.00 - 9.40 Expression analysis under large-scale pocess condition
Sven Olof Enfors, Sweden
9.40 - 10.20 Microbial Amino Acid Production with Corynebacterium glutamicum
Hermann Sahm, Germany
10.20 - 10.40 Break
10.40 - 11.20 Systems metabolic engineering - strategies and applications
Sang Yup Lee, Korea
11.20 - 12.00 Metabolic engineering of Escherichia coli for the production of bulk chemicals
Philippe Soucaille, France
12.00 - 14.30 Break, Poster Session/Exhibition
14.30 - 16.00 BS6: Nosocomial Infections HALL 6
Chair:Çağrı Büke, Turkey
14.30 - 15.00 Control of multi-drug resistant gram negative bacterial infections
Çağrı Büke, Turkey
15.00 - 15.30 The role of commensal flora in the dynamic of resistance of nosocomial bacteria
Antoine Andremont, France
15.30 - 16.00 Bacterial surgical infections Sydney M Finegold, USA
14.30 - 16.00 BS7: Bacterial signalling networks by the novel secondary messenger cyclic di-GMP HALL 3
Chair: Ute Roemling, Sweden
14.30 - 15.00 Cyclic di-GMP -unravelling the signalling mechanisms of a novel secondary messenger present in bacteria
Ute Roemling, Sweden
15.00 - 15.30 Cyclic di-GMP as a second messenger in the virulence-related cell-cell signalling in the plant pathogen Xanthomonas campestris
Max Dow, Ireland
15.30 - 16.00 c-di-GMP signaling pathways in Vibrio cholerae
Fitnat H. Yildiz, USA
14.30 - 16.00 BS9: Cellular Microbiology HALL 2
Chair: Juergen Wehland, Germany
14.30 - 15.00 Cell biology and microbial pathogenesis
Juergen Wehland, Germany
15.00 - 15.30 Role of type IV secretion in Helicobacter pylori pathogenesis
Steffen Backert, Germany
15.30 - 16.00 Dissection of actin assembly processes induced by bacterial pathogens
Klemens Rottner, Germany
16.00 - 16.30 Coffee Break
16.30 - 18.00 BS8: Bacterial protein secretion related to health and disease HALL 3
Chair: Jan Maarten van Dijl, Netherlands
16.30 - 17.00 Membrane protein biogenesis in bacteria
Stephen Gordon, Ireland
17.00 - 17.30 Pseudomonas aeruginosa as a model organism to study protein secretion in Gram-negative bacteria
Romé Voulhoux, France
17.30 - 18.00 Increasing Protease Expression by Mutagenesis in the Pro-region
Eugenio Ferrari, USA
16.30 - 18.00 BS10: Functional Genomics/Pathogenomics HALL 2
Chair: Carmen Buchrieser, France
16.30 - 17.00 Functional genomics of the Mycobacterium tuberculosis complex
Ross Dalbey, USA
17.00 - 17.30 Comparative and functional genomic analysis of Bartonella identifies type IV secretion systems as host adaptability factors
Christoph Dehio, Switzerland
17.30 - 18.00 A Matter of Life and Death: Cell Wall Homostasis and the WalKR Regulon of Staphylococcus aureus
Tarek Msadek, France
15.00 - 16.00 BS11: The Evolving Global Landscape of Biosafety and Pathogen Security Practices HALL 6
Chair: Gregory J. Stewart, USA
15.00 - 15.30 WHO Guidelines for Biosafety and Biosecurity and the Associated International Training Effort
Nicoletta Previsani, Switzerland
15.30 - 16.00 OECD Best Practices for Pathogen Security
Iain Gillespie, France
16.00 - 16.30 Coffee Break
16.30 - 17.00 International Biorisk Management Standard – A CEN Workshop Agreement – 2008
Patricia Olinger, USA
17.00 - 17.30 A Brief Overview of the 5th. Edition of Biosafety in Microbiological and Biomedical Laboratories with a focus on Biosecurity
L. Casey Choosewood, USA
17.30 - 18.00 ABSA Efforts for Enhancing Biosafety and Pathogen Security
Robert Hawley, USA
Friday, August 8
9.00 - 12.30 BP5 / Plenary 5 Antibiotics/Pathogenicity HALL 1
Chair: Julian Davies, Canada
9.00 - 9.30 Introduction - Where have all the antibiotics gone?
Julian Davies, Canada
9.30 - 10.10 Pot-pourri de résistance
Patrice Courvalin, France
10.10 - 10.30 Break
10.30 - 11.10 Bacterial Cell Wall, Its Regulation and Involvement in Antibiotic Resistance
Shahriar Mobashery, USA
11.10 - 11.50 Resistance to ribosome-targeting antibiotics conferred by changes in rRNA methylation
Stephen Douthwaite, Denmark
11.50 - 12.30 Critical involvement of bacterial virulence factor in the host immune response to Listeria monocytogenes
Masao Mitsuyama, Japan
9.00 - 12.40 BP 6 / Plenary 6 Bergey Plenary Session:Taxonomy of Prokaryotes HALL 2
Chair: James T. Staley, USA/ Karl-Heinz Schleifer, Germany
9.00 - 9.40 The Phylogeny of Prokaryotes
Wolfgang Ludwig, Germany
9.40 - 10.20 Phenotypic Identification in the Era of a Sequence-Based Taxonomy
Peter Kämpfer, Germany
10.20 - 10.40 Break
10.40 - 11.20 Using Population Genomics to Delineate Species Boundaries in Sulfolobus islandicus
Rachel Whitaker, USA
11.20 - 12.00 Unifying Biology: The Genomic-Phylogenetic Species Concept
James T. Staley, USA
12.00 - 12.40 The All-Species Tree Project
Ramon Rossello-Mora, Spain
12.40 - 15.00 Break, Poster Session/Exhibition
15.00 - 15.30 Coffee Break
15.30 - 17.50 BS12: Antibiotic Resistance: An update HALL 6
Chair: Patrice Courvalin, France
15.30 - 16.00 Drug Resistance in Mycobacterium tuberculosis
John Blanchard, USA
16.00 - 16.30 Nothing succeeds like success - Antibiotic resistance in Gram-negative bacteria
Peter Hawkey, UK
16.30 - 16.50 Drug Interactions Modulate the Potential for Evolution of Resistance (1663)
Jean-Baptiste Michel, USA
15.30 - 17.40 BS14: Prokayrote systematics - is it relevant to modern science? HALL 3
Chair: Brian J. Tindall, Germany
15.30 - 16.00 Systematics: The objects and objectives of classification
Brian J. Tindall, Germany
16.00 - 16.30 Future proofing the past
George M. Garrity
16.30 - 17.00 Discovering natural groups in the genus Vibrio - a genomics perspective
David W. Ussery, Denmark
17.00 - 17.20 Isolation and characterization of novel, aerobic, mesophilic, heterotrophic members within the phylum Chloroflexi from the environment (870)
Natuschka Lee, Germany
17.20 - 17.40 The use of MALDI-TOF mass spectrometry whole cell protein/peptide profiles for identification of aeromonas species (1367)
17.40 Van Niel International Prize for Studies in Bacterial Systematics 2008
15.30 - 17.00 BS15: Bacterial multicellular behavior and biofilm formation HALL 2
Chair: Tim Tolker-Nielsen, Denmark
15.30 - 16.00 Structural development and physiological differentiation in Pseudomonas eruginosa biofilms
Tim Tolker-Nielsen, Denmark
16.00 - 16.30 Intercellular signaling and social behaviors of Myxococcus xanthus
Wenyuan Shi, USA
16.30 - 17.00 A new role for the Staphylococcus aureus fibronectin-binding proteins, FnBPA and FnBPB, in promoting biofilm development
James P. O'Gara, Ireland
17.20 - 18.40 BS13 Food-born Bacterial Pathogens/ Food Microbiology/Probiotics HALL 6
Chair: Glenn M. Young, USA
17.20 - 17.50 Proteomic and functional analysis of proteins secreted by the foodborne pathogen Yersinia enterocolitica
Glenn M. Young, USA
17.50 - 18.20 Foodborne Pathogens: Vibrio genomics
Fitnat H. Yildiz, USA
18.20 -18.40 Culturable and unculturable psychrotrophic bacterial communities in raw milk and their proteolytic and lipolytic traits (1398)
Malka Halpern, Israel
17.30 -19.00 BS16: Metagenomics HALL 2
Chair: Wolfgang Liebl, Germany
17.30 - 18.00 The Quest for New Biocatalysts by Applied Meta-omics
Wolfgang Liebl, Germany
18.00 - 18.30 The Remarkable Biodiversity of Microbial Production of the Climate-Changing Gas Dimethyl Sulphide - a Case History of "Scimonegatem"
Andrew Johnston, UK
18.30 - 19.00 Population genomics of bacteria as revealed by Metagenomics
Francisco Rodriguez-Valera, Spain
Saturday, August 9
9.00 - 12.40 BP7 / Plenary 7 From Metabolism to Metabolic Networks (VAAM Session) HALL 5
Chair: Richard A. Proctor, USA
9.00 - 9.40 How methanogenic archaea activate H2: Function and structure of the (Fe)-hydrogenase Hmd
Rudolf Thauer, Germany
9.40 - 10.20 Metabolism and Pathogenicity
Richard A. Proctor, USA
10.20 - 10.40 Break
10.40 - 11.20 Metabolic profiling during transition from heterotrophic to hydrogen-dependent lithoautotrophic growth of Ralstonia europha H16
Bärbel Friedrich, Germany
11.20 - 12.00 Bacterial ribonucleotide reductases and their regulation
Yair Aharonowitz, Israel
12.00 - 12.40 How complicated is central metabolism?
Uwe Sauer, Switzerland
9.00 - 12.00 BP8 / Plenary 8 - Interactions in the Microbial World (ISME-Plenary Session) HALL 2
Chair: Staffan Kjelleberg, Australia
9.00 - 9.40 Biofilm communities on marine sessile organisms: Specificity and function
Staffan Kjelleberg, Australia
9.40 - 10.20 Microbial attachment and biofilm formation on terrestrial plants
Clay Fuqua, USA
10.20 - 10.40 Break
10.40 - 11.20 Intestinal Host-Microbe Interactions
Willem de Vos, Netherlands
11.20 - 12.00 Protozoa as evolutionary playground for intracellular bacteria
Matthias Horn, Austria
13:30-16:00 BS17: Physiological Proteomics: From Blueprint to Real Life HALL 7
Chair: Gülay Ozcengiz, Turkey
13.30 - 14.00 Proteomics of stress response in microbes: A brief overview
Gülay Ozcengiz, Turkey
14.00 - 14.30 Exploring and exploiting the proteome of Burkholderia sp
Kathrin Riedel, Switzerland
14.30 - 15.00 Towards the entire proteome of the model bacteria Bacillus subtilis and Staphylococcus aureus by gel-based and gel-free approaches
Dörte Becher, Germany
15.00 - 15.30 Comparative surface proteomics and glycoproteomics of virulent Campylobacter jejuni
Stuart J. Cordwell, Australia
15.30 - 16.00 The answer of Corynebacterium glutamicum to salt stress- A quantitative analysis using proteomics (1521)
Ansgar Poetsch, Germany
14:00-16:00 BS18: Biotechnology/Applied Microbiology HALL 2
Chair: Sven Olof Enfors, Sweden
14.00 - 14.30 Metabolic engineering of yeast for ethanol production from lignocellulose
Bärbel Hahn-Hägerdal, Sweden
14.30 - 15.00 Engineering yeast cell surfaces for fuels and chemicals production
Akihiko Kondo, Japan
15.00 - 15.30 Bacillus licheniformis - an important host for white biotechnology
Thomas Schweder, Germany
15.30 - 16.00 NIR-spectroscopy ‘at-line’ and ‘on-line’ model development of indicator metabolites in Fed-batch fermentation processes (945)
Parveen Kousar, UK
14:00-16:10 BS19: Infection Biology/Medical Microbiology HALL 1
Chair: Mine Ang Küçüker, Turkey
14.00 - 14.30 Mine Ang Kuçuker, Turkey
14.30 - 15.00 Newly Emerging Resistance in Salmonella
E. John Threlfall, UK
15.00 - 15.30 Ticking Time Bomb: Emerging Borrelioses
Ece Şen, Turkey
15.30 - 15.50 Indentification of Nontuberculous Mycobacteria from the Eye by Sequence Analysis of 16S rRNA and hsp65 Genes (1433)
Maria Luisa Daroy, Philippines
15.50 - 16.10 Obligate anaerobes proliferate in sputum of patients with cystic fibrosis (525)
Dieter Worlitzsch, Germany
14:00-16:00 BS20: Introductory overview on the contributions of Actinobacteria to Biodiscovery, Biotechnology and Biobusiness
Chair: Ipek Kurtboke, Australia
14.00 - 14.30 Actinobacteria: an unexhausted source for biodiscovery, biotechnology and biobusiness
Ipek Kurtboke, Australia
14.30 - 15.00 Playing around with lantibiotics: surprises abound with cinnamycin biosynthesis in Streptomyces cinnamoneus
Mervyn Bibb, UK
15.00 - 15.30 Biosynthesis of b-lactams and the antitumor agent holomycin in Streptomyces clavuligerus: Transcriptional analysis
Paloma Liras, Spain
15.30 - 16.00 Application of genotype and phenotype screening for new secondary metabolites producers’ retrieval in Streptomycetes (811)
Alica Chroňáková, Czech Republic
14:00-16:00 BS21: Systems Microbiology HALL 3
Chair: Uwe Sauer, Switzerland
14.00 - 14.30 Single cell vs population behaviours - why single cell experiments still matter
Judith P. Armitage, UK
14.30 - 15.00 Microbial systems biology applied to metabolism: what can be done and how
Bas Teusink, Netherlands
15.00 - 15.30 Different biochemical mechanisms ensure network-wide balancing of reducing equivalents in microbial metabolism (1104)
Tobias Fuhrer, Switzerland
15.30 - 16.00 Phenotypic bistability in Escherichia coli's central carbon metabolism (1032)
Matthias Heinemann, Switzerland
16.00 - 16.30 Coffee Break
16.30 - 18.00 Closing Session Closing Lecture: Subverting innate immune defenses: the survival strategy of Shigella
Philippe Sansonetti, France