Agenda
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9:00 - 11:20OPENING PLENARY SESSIONWelcome addresss by Prof. Eveline Peeters (VUB)Bacterial biofilms: linking bacterial growth, survival and multicellularity with second messengers as triggers and driversIntroduction by Prof. Laurence Van Melderen (ULB)
Regine HenggeInstitut für Biologie / Mikrobiologie, Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin, Berlin, GermanyEngineering neo-metabolism towards bioproduction of new-to-nature molecules in Pseudomonas putidaIntroduction by Prof. Frank Delvigne (ULiège)
Pablo Ivan NikelThe Novo Nordisk Foundation Center for Biosustainability, Technical University of Denmark, Kgs. Lyngby, DenmarkPredicting antibiotic resistanceIntroduction by Françoise Van Bambeke (UCL)
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13:00 - 14:15PARALLEL SESSIONSSelected Talks
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Section A: General Microbiology - moderated by Prof. Jan Michiels (KULeuven)13:00 - 13:15: Caroline Servais (UNamur) - Position of the LPS translocation system in Brucella abortus
13:15 - 13:30: Renske Vanraaphorst (UCLouvain) - Investigations into the condensation and segregation dynamics of the pneumococcal nucleoid
13:30 - 13:45: Andrea Sass (UGent) - Small RNAs BdhR1 and BrrF and their role in regulating utilization of carbon sources and the TCA cycle in Burkholderia cenocepacia J2315
13:45 - 14:00: Clémence Whiteway (VUB) - A novel phenotypic switch controls the virulence and the resistance of Acinetobacter baumannii
14:00 - 14:15: Dorien Wilmaerts (KULeuven) - Correlating expression dynamics of DNA damage repair genes with persister awakening -
Section B: Applied and Environmental Microbiology - moderated by Prof. Nico Boon (UGent)13:00 - 13:15: Kankana Kundu (UGent) - The struggle of microorganisms to degrade organic pollutants at low concentrations – an insight from proteomics and isotope fractionations
13:15 - 13:30: Jasmine Heyse (UGent) - Rearing water microbiomes in white leg shrimp (Litopenaeus vannamei) larviculture assemble stochastically and are influenced by the microbiomes of live feed products
13:30 - 13:45: Pablo Vargas (KULeuven) - Application of candidate Paenibacillus BCO suppresses hairy root disease infestation down to 6% in hydroponic tomato greenhouses
13:45 - 14:00: Beatrice Roncero Ramos (ULiège) - Physiological performance under high salinity conditions of Nostoc commune from hot and cold deserts
14:00 - 14:15: Janne Spanoghe (UAntwerpen) - Pioneering on purple photohydrogenotrophy for microbial protein production -
Section C: Host-pathogen interactions - moderated by Prof. Paul Cos (UAntwerpen)13:00 - 13:15: Anandi Martin (UCLouvain) - Bacteriocins as potential therapeutic agent to combat drug resistant tuberculosis
13:15 - 13:30: Anke Breine (VUB) - Targeting multidrug-resistant Acinetobacter baumanii to develop next-generation therapeutics
13:30 - 13:45: Albert Ruiz-Sorribas (UCLouvain) - Antibiotic-antifungal combinatory pharmacodynamics against an in-vitro inter-kingdom three-species biofilm model in the context of orthopedic devices infection
13:45 - 14:00: Evelien Vanderlinden (KULeuven) - In depth study of the carbohydrate-binding agents HHA, GNA and UDA as potent inhibitors of influenza A and B virus infection
14:00 - 14:15: Ana Rodriguez (ULB) - Marine sponges Hymeniacidon perlevis and Halichondria panicea are reservoirs of antibiotic-producing bacteria against multi-drug resistant Staphylococcus aureus -
15:15 - 15:25Announcement of prizes and concluding remarksProf. Eveline Peeters (VUB)
