Doyen 31 auditorium + Hall
Place des Doyens, 1348 Louvain-la-Neuve
Belgium
9.10 a.m. - 9.20 a.m.
Welcome note - Géraldine Laloux & Benoît Desguin (UCLouvain)
9.20 a.m.–10.20 a.m.
Susan Schlimpert, John Innes Centre, Norwich (UK)
Chair: Géraldine Laloux (UCLouvain)
Session 1 "Envelope biogenesis"
Chair: Marlène Birk (University Hospital Aachen)
10.20 a.m.–10.40 a.m.
Ombeline Verstraete (Collet team, UCLouvain)
"Identification of a widespread family of enzymes involved in envelope polysaccharide regulation"
10.40 a.m.–11.00 a.m.
Audrey Verhaeghe (De Bolle team, UNamur)
"Spatial constraints for the lipopolysaccharide biogenesis in Brucella abortus"
Coffee break 11.00 a.m.–11.30 a.m.
Hall of the Doyen 31 auditorium
Session 2 "Stress responses and physiological adaptations"
Chair : Dries Vaneynde (KULeuven)
11.30 a.m.–11.50 a.m.
Bart Steemans (Govers lab, KULeuven)
"Genomewide image-based profiling to identify genetic determinants of spatial organization in stationary phase Escherichia coli cells"
11.50 a.m.–12.10 a.m.
Marine Ote (Matroule lab, UNamur)
"Upregulation of the AcrAB2NodT efflux pump confers antibiotic resistance at the cost of collateral metal sensitivity"
12.10 a.m.–12.30 p.m.
Petra Manja (Hallez lab, UNamur)
"SpoT regulation upon iron starvation in E. coli"
Lunch 12.30 p.m.–1.50 p.m.
Hall of the Doyen 31 auditorium
1.50 p.m.–2.50 p.m.
Christian Lesterlin, MMSB-IBCP, Lyon (FR)
Chair: Laurence Van Melderen (ULB)
Session 4 " Genome dynamics and regulation"
Chair: Alix Meunier (KULeuven)
2.50 p.m.–3.10 p.m.
Loïc Codemo (Hallet team, UCLouvain)
"Tn3-family transposons hijack host replication by transposing into positively supercoiling ahead of replication forks"
3.10 p.m.–3.30 p.m.
Frédéric Goormaghtigh (van Melderen team, ULB)
"tRNA modifications enable codon usage signatures to coordinate bacterial virulence"
Session 5 "Molecular nanomachines & bacterial killing"
Chair: Corentin Blanchais (ULB)
3.30 p.m.–3.50 p.m.
Coralie Tesseur (Laloux team, UCLouvain)
"From localization to function: molecular insights into the essential tight adherence pilus of a predatory bacterium"
3.50 p.m.–4.10 p.m.
Marie Grandjean (Jurenas team, ULB)
"Deciphering the secretion pathway of novel family of T9-secreted Rhs toxins in Chryseobacterium"
4.10 p.m
Forward-looking address + social event (hall)