Monday, June 8th

  • 08:30 – 09:00
    Registration
  • 09:00 – 09:10
    Welcome
  • 09:10 – 10:50
    Session 1 — Molecular Mechanisms & Gene Regulation I
  • 10:50 – 11:30
    Coffee break
  • 11:30 – 13:10
    Session 2 — Antibiotic Resistance & Antimicrobial Mechanisms
  • 13:10 – 14:10
    Lunch break
  • 14:10 – 15:50
    Session 3 — Biofilms, Motility & Microbial Interactions
  • 16:00 – 16:30
    Coffee break
  • 16:30 – 18:30
    Session 4 — Spores: Structure, Function & Biotechnology
  • 18:30 – 19:30
    Poster session

Tuesday, June 9th

  • 09:00 – 09:10
    Announcements
  • 09:10 – 10:50
    Session 5 — Protein Production, Secretion & Synthetic Biology
  • 10:50 – 11:30
    Coffee break
  • 11:30 – 12:50
    Session 6 — Extracellular Vesicles & Phage Biology
  • 13:00 – 14:00
    Lunch break
  • 14:00 – 15:40
    Session 7 — Plant-Microbe Interactions & Agricultural Applications
  • 15:40 – 17:00
    Session 8 — Conceptual and Mechanistic Advances in Bacillus Biology
  • 17:00 – 17:15
    Akos Kovacs — Steering group announcement
  • 17:15 – 18:15
    Poster session and coffee
  • 20:00

Full programme

Monday, June 8th

08:30 – 09:00

Registration

09:00 – 09:10

Welcome

09:10 – 10:50 Session 1

Molecular Mechanisms & Gene Regulation I

Chair: Borja Ferrero Bordera

  • 09:10 – 09:30

    Borja Ferrero Bordera

    A genome-wide circadian program in Bacillus subtilis

  • 09:30 – 09:50

    Romain Avellan

    Deciphering the molecular basis of the circadian clock in Bacillus subtilis

  • 09:50 – 10:10

    Roland K. Hartmann

    Regulation of bacterial transcription by 6S-1 and 6S-2 RNAs in B. subtilis wild-type strains

  • 10:10 – 10:30

    Ciaran Condon

    RNase J2 is a Key Regulator of RNA Stability in Bacillus subtilis

  • 10:30 – 10:50

    Maria Vittoria Cottini

    G-Quadruplexes as Gene Expression Regulators in the Gram-positive bacterium Bacillus subtilis

10:50 – 11:30

Coffee break

11:30 – 13:10 Session 2

Antibiotic Resistance & Antimicrobial Mechanisms

Chair: Libor Krásný

  • 11:30 – 11:50

    Jurian Wijnheijmer

    Decoding Antibiotic Mechanisms at the Threshold of Growth

  • 11:50 – 12:10

    Libor Krásný

    The Sweetest Way to Die: The Mode of Action of Sublancin

  • 12:10 – 12:30

    Matthias Mack

    The Monofunctional FMN Riboswitch-Binding Regulator RibR From Bacillus amyloliquefaciens Promotes Riboflavin Biosynthesis

  • 12:30 – 12:50

    Šárka Bobková

    Bacillus subtilis as a model to study ancestral links between bacterial phosphotransferase system and rifampicin-modifying enzymes

  • 12:50 – 13:10

    Veronika Kočárková

    From transcription factors to antibiotic resistance: How Bacillus subtilis outsmarts D-cycloserine

13:10 – 14:10

Lunch break

14:10 – 15:50 Session 3

Biofilms, Motility & Microbial Interactions

Chair: Akos Kovacs

  • 14:10 – 14:30

    Marc Ongena

    Bacillus adaptation to stressful metabolites from Pseudomonas competitors

  • 14:30 – 14:50

    Heather Hirsch

    Novel roles for Rok as a pleiotropic regulator of biofilm development

  • 14:50 – 15:10

    Polonca Stefanic

    Mechanisms of kin discrimination in Bacillus subtilis

  • 15:10 – 15:30

    Sarah Jane Quillin

    Non-canonical GABA synthesis promotes toxic metabolite clearance in biofilms

  • 15:30 – 15:50

    Avigdor Eldar

    Stringent mRNA cleavage by the MazF endoribonuclease orchestrates stationary transcriptome remodeling and rapid regrowth in Gram-positive bacteria

16:00 – 16:30

Coffee break

16:30 – 18:30 Session 4

Spores: Structure, Function & Biotechnology

Chair: Imrich Barak

  • 16:30 – 16:50

    Imrich Barak

    Spore coat protein structures and their use for the development of novel nano-biomaterials

  • 16:50 – 17:10

    Francesca Nicholls

    Flow Cytometry of Spore Recovery Kinetics in G. stearothermophilus

  • 17:10 – 17:30

    Ken-ichi Yoshida

    Development of a Bacillus subtilis spore platform for stable display of artificially modified cellulosomes

  • 17:30 – 17:50

    Rebecca Pearman

    Understanding Bacillus spore interactions with textiles

  • 17:50 – 18:10

    Jeremy Wong

    Modifying B. subtilis surfaces for functional living materials

  • 18:10 – 18:30

    Joaquin Caro Astorga

    The SubtiToolKit and its applications on engineering Bacillus spores

18:30 – 19:30

Poster session

Tuesday, June 9th

09:00 – 09:10

Announcements

09:10 – 10:50 Session 5

Protein Production, Secretion & Synthetic Biology

Chair: Etienne Dervyn

  • 09:10 – 09:30

    Noemi Palombi

    Signal peptide identity shapes carbon allocation and stress trajectories during heterologous enzyme production in genome-reduced Bacillus subtilis

  • 09:30 – 09:50

    Yanting Sun

    Nitrogen Metabolic Reprogramming Enhances Heterologous Protein Secretion in Genome-reduced Bacillus subtilis

  • 09:50 – 10:10

    Mélanie Grégoire

    Development of a fluorescent biosensor for monitoring protein secretion at a single-cell level

  • 10:10 – 10:30

    Jan-Eike Domeyer

    Novel CRISPR-Nuclease for Genome Engineering of Bacillus subtilis

  • 10:30 – 10:50

    Etienne Dervyn

    OSIRIS: Orthogonal Sigma for Internal Resources Implementation towards Synthesis

10:50 – 11:30

Coffee break

11:30 – 12:50 Session 6

Extracellular Vesicles & Phage Biology

Chair: Wilfried Meijer

  • 11:30 – 11:50

    Dicky Pranoto

    Extracellular vesicle biogenesis via cell wall perturbation in protease-deficient Bacillus subtilis strains

  • 11:50 – 12:10

    Astrid Laimer-Digruber

    EVs for Lunch: Bacterial extracellular vesicles as recyclable nutrient reservoirs

  • 12:10 – 12:30

    Leendert Hamoen

    Facilitating Functional Characterization Of Y-Genes in Bacillus subtilis

  • 12:30 – 12:50

    Anna Dragoš

    PHAB: Building the first comprehensive collection of Bacillus subtilis phages for community use

13:00 – 14:00

Lunch break

14:00 – 15:40 Session 7

Plant-Microbe Interactions & Agricultural Applications

Chair: Marc Ongena

  • 14:00 – 14:20

    Ines Mandic Mulec

    Bacillus subtilis Social Interactions Shape Plant Immunity and Colonization Dynamics

  • 14:20 – 14:40

    Marcin Łukaszewicz

    Beyond Legacy Strains: Seasonal Re-Isolation and Multi-Omics Selection Reveal Untapped Functional Diversity in Bacillus sp.

  • 14:40 – 15:00

    David Vela-Corcia

    Life beyond lipopeptides: non-lipopeptide antimicrobial strategies of Bacillus velezensis against fungal pathogens

  • 15:00 – 15:20

    Wiem Abidi

    Another Brick in the Wall: Uncovering Bacillus subtilis root colonization

  • 15:20 – 15:40

    Luisa Carrégalo Ríos

    Early seed priming with closely related Bacillus strains induces divergent physiological and defense responses in melon

15:40 – 17:00 Session 8

Conceptual and Mechanistic Advances in Bacillus Biology

Chair: Leendert Hamoen

  • 15:40 – 16:00

    Wilfried Meijer

    Fine-Tuning to the Extreme: Evolution of Multilayer Control of Gene Expression

  • 16:00 – 16:20

    Juan Carvajal Garcia

    Processing of Reversed Replication Forks is Required for the Resolution of Replication-Transcription Conflicts

  • 16:20 – 16:40

    Tasneem Bareia

    Teaching Bacillus subtilis to fix carbon dioxide

  • 16:40 – 17:00

    Giulia Barbieri

    The role of CodY and the stringent response in aprE transcription

17:00 – 17:15

Akos Kovacs

Steering group announcement

17:15 – 18:15

Poster session and coffee

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