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Saturday, September 28 |
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7:00 PM |
Conference Registration |
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8:00 PM |
Welcome Dinner / Reception |
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Sunday, September 29 |
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8:00 AM |
Breakfast |
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8:55 AM |
Welcome and Opening Remarks - Nathalie Pujol |
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SESSION I |
Keynote Speaker Chair: Arturo Casadevall |
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9:10 AM |
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Evolution of Fungal Pathogens Joseph Heitman |
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SESSION II |
Molecular traits at the host/microbe interface Chair: Michael Gilmore |
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9:40 AM |
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Metabolic regulation of surface penetration by the non-motile pathogen Enterococcus faecalis Diana Morales |
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10:00 AM |
3 |
CRISPR-Cas defense against conjugative antibiotic resistance plasmids in enterococci Breck Duerkop and Kelli Palmer |
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10:20 AM |
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Identifying and developing antimicrobial compounds that target IMPDH Shen Yu, Terence Moy, Rhonda Feinbaum, Laurence Rahme, Nathanial Sherden, Brent Cezairliyan, and Frederick Ausubel |
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10:40 AM |
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Using S. aureus gene expression data from human infections to inform experimental models Marvin Whiteley |
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11:00 AM |
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Probing host-pathogen interactions with defined mucus models Kelsey Wheeler, Gerardo Carcamo-Oyarce, Bradley Turner, Julia Co, Sylvain Lehoux, Sheri Dellos-Nolan, Richard Cummings, Daniel Wozniak, and Katharina Ribbeck |
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11:20 AM |
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Diversification of Enterococci as Host Habitats Evolve Michael Gilmore and Ashlee Earl |
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11:40 AM |
8 |
Galleria mellonella as a novel in vivo immune modulation platform Vanessa Francis, Richard Titball, Olivia Champion, and Amy Housden |
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12:00 PM |
Coffee Break |
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SESSION III |
In vivo imaging of host response to infection Chair: Nathalie Pujol |
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12:20 PM |
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Imaging different routes of pathogen neuroinvasion in zebrafish Valerio Laghi, Emma Colucci, and Jean-Pierre Levraud |
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12:40 PM |
10 |
C. elegans as a tractable host to study natural infections by oomycetes Michael Fasseas, Manish Grover, Florence Drury, and Michalis Barkoulas |
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1:00 PM |
11 |
Sensing damage in the C. elegans epidermis Nathalie Pujol |
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1:20 PM |
12 |
A toxin-antitoxin system modulates the virulence of Pseudomonas aeruginosa in its Drosophila host in distinct models of infection Jing Chen, Guiying Lin, Zi Li, Xiaoxue Wang, Samuel Liegeois, and Dominique Ferrandon |
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1:40 PM |
13 |
C. elegans microbiota-mediated protection from pathogen infection Kohar Kissoyan and Katja Dierking |
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2:00 PM |
14 |
The role of the bZIP transcription factor ZIP-1 in the intracellular pathogen response of C. elegans Vladimir Lazetic, Fengting Wu, Lianne Cohen, Kirthi Reddy, and Emily Troemel |
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2:20 PM |
Lunch and Informal Discussions |
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7:30 PM |
Dinner and Informal Discussions |
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Monday, September 30 |
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8:00 AM |
Breakfast |
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SESSION IV |
Insect Biotechnology Chair: Andreas Vilcinskas |
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9:00 AM |
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Antimicrobial peptides of Galleria mellonella Agnieszka Zdybicka-Barabas, Aneta Sowa-Jasilek, Sylwia Staczek, Katarzyna Grygorczuk-Planeta, Pawel Mak, Bożena Pawlikowska-Pawlega, Rafal Luchowski, Wieslaw Gruszecki, and Malgorzata Cytrynska |
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9:20 AM |
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Epigenetic mechanisms mediate the experimental evolution of resistance against parasitic fungi in the greater wax moth Galleria mellonella Ivan Dubovskiy, Krishnendu Mukherjee, Ekaterina Grizanova, Rüdiger Lehmann, and Andreas Vilcinskas |
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9:40 AM |
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Biological pest control with insect pathogens Kwang-Zin Lee, Tessa Carrau, Nils Hiebert, and Andreas Vilcinskas |
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10:00 AM |
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Galleria model for UPEC pathogenesis Miriam Kalsy, André Billion, Ulrich Dobrindt, Andreas Vilcinskas, and Krishnendu Mukherjee |
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10:20 AM |
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Drosophila melanogaster as a model to study host-pathogen interactions in the context of nutrition Anika Wagner |
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10:40 AM |
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Pathogens associated with invasive or introduced insects threaten the health and diversity of native species Andreas Vilcinskas |
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11:00 AM |
Coffee Break |
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SESSION V |
Model hosts in drug and probiotic discovery and development Chairs: Frederick M. Ausubel and Eleftherios Mylonakis |
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11:30 AM |
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Chemical screening for anti-infectives in zebrafish reveals a novel role for iGluRs in innate immunity Anne Clatworthy, Margarita Parada-Kusz, Senya Combs, Jenny Lee, Susumu Tomita, and Deborah Hung |
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11:50 AM |
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Chemical dissection of host-microbe interactions Howard Hang |
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12:10 PM |
23 |
Neuronal OLRN-1 promotes intestinal immune homeostasis to ensure evolutionary fitness Read Pukkila-Worley |
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12:30 PM |
24 |
Membrane-targeting antimicrobial compounds with activity against persistent methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus identified using a Caenorhabditis elegans infection screen Eleftherios Mylonakis |
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12:50 PM |
25 |
Targeting pyoverdine-dependent virulence in multidrug resistant clinical isolates of pseudomonas aeruginosa Natalia Kirienko |
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1:10 PM |
26 |
Indoles from commensal microbiota regulate healthspan Daniel Kalman |
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1:30 PM |
Lunch and Informal discussions |
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7:30 PM |
Dinner and Informal Discussions |
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Tuesday, October 1 |
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8:00 AM |
Breakfast |
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SESSION VI |
The diversity of host systems Chair: Arturo Casadevall |
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9:00 AM |
27 |
Accidental and paradoxical macrophage response to an amoeba host-adapted Legionella effector Yousef Abu-Kwaik |
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9:20 AM |
28 |
Microbiome as modulator: exploring virulence in the Drosophila melanogaster model Nichole Broderick |
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9:40 AM |
29 |
Low virulence Candida species induce trained innate immunity against polymicrobial sepsis with a diverse spectrum of activity Paul Fidel and Mairi Noverr |
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10:00 AM |
30 |
High fat diet induces microbiota-dependent silencing of enteroendocrine cells in zebrafish John Rawls, Lihua Ye, Rodger Liddle, and Olaf Mueller |
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10:20 AM |
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Taking a Pythagorean View of Host-Microbe interactions. Arturo Casadevall |
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10:40 AM |
Coffee Break |
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SESSION VII |
Roles of ROS in Host Response Chairs: Danielle A. Garsin and Ransome van der Hoeven |
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11:10 AM |
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Nucleolar function in innate immunity Adam Antebi |
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11:30 AM |
33 |
NOX-ROS networks and intestinal disease Ulla Knaus |
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11:50 AM |
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EntV, a bacteriocin, is a novel inhibitor of fungal virulence in multiple models Michael Lorenz, Armand Brown, Carrie Graham, Yasmin Chebaro, Melissa Cruz, and Danielle Garsin |
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12:10 PM |
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Activation of immune and stress responses by mitis group streptococci Ali Naji, Caroline Rog, Ali Al Hatem, Patrick Scholl, and Ransome van der Hoeven |
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12:30 PM |
36 |
New Regulators of SKN-1/Nrf Identified in the Caenorhabditis elegans Infection Model Ozgur Karakuzu and Danielle Garsin |
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12:40 PM |
Lunch and Informal discussions |
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3:00 PM |
City Tour |
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7:30 PM |
Dinner and Informal Discussions |
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Wednesday, October 2 |
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8:00 AM |
Breakfast |
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SESSION VIII |
Whole animal responses to microbial infections Chair: Alejandro Aballay |
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9:00 AM |
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Neuronal control of epithelial host defense against enteric infection Javier Irazoqui |
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9:20 AM |
38 |
Cultivating relationships: host genetics shape microbiome form and function in C. elegans Adrien Assié, Fan Zhang, Jessica L Weckhorst, and Buck S Samuel |
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9:40 AM |
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the octopaminergic immunoinhibitory pathway in C. elegans Durai Sellegounder, Chung-Hsiang Yuan, Phillip Wibisono, Yiyong Liu, and Jingru Sun |
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10:00 AM |
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Bacteria from the human microbiome differentially regulate neurodegeneration in C. elegans Lesley MacNeil |
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10:20 AM |
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A novel role for CXCR2 in the mucosal response to microbes Manuela Raffatellu |
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10:40 AM |
42 |
Intestinal infection regulates behavior and learning via neuroendocrine signaling Jogender Singh and Alejandro Aballay |
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11:00 AM |
Coffee Break |
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SESSION IX |
Novel insights from Model-Host Systems-II Chair: Javier Irazoqui |
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11:20 AM |
42 |
Resources and funding support provided by the US National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (NIAID/NIH) Kentner Singleton |
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11:40 AM |
43 |
A computational framework to evaluate bacterial infection models using transcriptomic data Daniel Cornforth and Marvin Whiteley |
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12:00 PM |
44 |
Importance of molecular motors in Salmonella virulence Ziyan Fang, Stéphane Meresse, and Jean-Pierre Gorvel |
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12:20 PM |
45 |
Insects as models to study the impact of antibiotics and microbiota therapies on the human gut microbiome: reducing the use of mammals in research Harriet Gooch, Marjorie Labédan, Anthony Maxwell, and Lindsay Hall |
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12:40 PM |
46 |
Exploring fungal virulence using C. elegans Xing Zhang, Benjamin Harding, Shizue Omi, Jérôme Belougne, Nathalie Pujol, and Jonathan Ewbank |
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1:00 PM |
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Dystrophic changes in chronic inflammatory type IV collagen col4a1 Drosophila mutants Nikoletta Somlyai-Popovics, Andras A. Kiss, Zsolt Boldogkoi, Matyas Mink |
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1:20 PM |
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Drosophila melanogaster-based evaluation of phage therapy against Pseudomonas aeruginosa You-Hee Cho |
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1:40 PM |
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Primary innate immune system activation in temperature-sensitive col4a1 Drosophila melanogaster mutants A. A. Kiss Institute of Medical Biology, University of Szeged, Somogyi B. u. 4, H-6720 Szeged, Hungary András Kiss |
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2:00 PM |
Closing Remarks |
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2:05 PM |
Lunch and Informal discussions |
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8:00 PM |
Farewell Dinner |
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Thursday, October 3 |
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8:00 AM |
Breakfast |
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Departure |