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FEMS 2009 - 3rd Congress of European Microbiologists

 

 

Welcome 
In continuation with the previous FEMS Congresses of European Microbiologists the theme "Microbes and Man - interdependence and future challenges” is designed to provide a forum for interdisciplinary dialogue between the various microbiological specialities as well as providing topical coverage of key disciplines.

Thanks to progress made over recent years, our insight into the world of microbes has deepened enormously. At the same time we realize more fully that future global challenges cannot be met without a profound understanding of our interdependence with microbes. This microbiology congress will provide a forum for European and other international colleagues to appreciate the current state of the art of microbiology and to discuss how our science can contribute to finding solutions to the challenges we face in the future. To this end, we are inviting the most prominent scientists in their field to join us at the FEMS 2009 Microbiology Congress.

 

 

 Scientific Program 
Preliminary List of Symposia and Workshops (as of January 2009)

Confirmed Plenary Speakers
Pascale Cossart, France
Listeria monocytogenes: a multifaceted paradigm

Alfred L. Goldberg, USA

Bo Barker Jørgensen, Germany
Microbial life under extreme energey limitation - the starving majority

Barry Marshall, Australia

Sören Molin, Denmark

Lowff Award Lecture

SYMPOSIA

- Microbial Pathogens, Host Susceptibility and Response
Chairpersons:
Philippe Sansonetti, France
Shigella as a model of subversion of immune responses by bacterial pathogens
Hans-Dieter Klenk, Germany
Mechanisms of pathogenicity and host adaptation of influenza viruses

 

Speakers:
Geoffrey Smith, UK
Vaccinia virus encoded Bcl-2 proteins innate immune signaling
Bruno Lemaitre, Switzerland 

- Cellular Microbiology
Chairpersons:
Ari Helenius, Switzerland
Cell biology of vaccinia virus entry
Staffan Normark, Sweden
Secretion, folding, assembly and surface localization of virulence associated proteins of Gram-positive pathogens 
Speakers:
Ralf Bartenschlager, Germany
Hepatitis C Virus - Host cell interaction: A tale of lipids and proteins
Heiko Herwald, Sweden
The role of contact systems in infectious diseases

- Emerging Diseases
Chairpersons:
Tone Tonjum, Norway
Genome dynamics and meningococcal meningitis
Mats Wahlgren, Sweden
Antigenic variation in Plasmodium falciparum and deadly malaria
Speakers:
Sunetra Gupta, UK
Transmission dynamics and evolution of the influenza virus
Francoise Portaels, Belgium
Buruli ulcer and detection of Mycobacterium ulcerans from the environment

- Metagenomics of the Human Body
Chairpersons:
David Spratt, UK
Oral metagenomics and antibiotic resistance
Julian Marchesi, UK
Exploring gut functions using metagenomics
Speakers:
David Wang, USA
Metagenomic analysis of the human dirrhea virome
Folker Meyer, USA
The MG-RAST server for the analysis of large metagenomes used to analyse and compare 20 US soil metagenomics

- Environmental Metagenomics
Chairpersons:
Christa Schleper, Austria
Ed Delong, USA
Microbial community "omics" in the ocean - beyond the "parts list"
Speakers:
Janet Jansson, USA
Exploring the human environment using a combination of omics approaches
Oded Beja, Israel
Photosystem-I gene cassettes in marine cynophages

- Microbes and Alternative Energy Sources
Chairpersons:
Bärbel Hahn-Hägerdal, Sweden
Can lignocellulose be efficiently fermented to ethanol?
Bernhard Schink, Germany
Limits of biomass utilization via hydrogen and methane formation
Speakers:
Yuri Gorby, USA
The role of microbial nanowires in extracellular electron transfer in microbial communities
Philippe Soucaille, France
Metabolic engineering of Clostridium acetobutylicum for the production of butanol

- Food Microbiology
Chairpersons:
Hanne Ingmer, Denmark
Control of Staphylococcus aureus toxin production
Colin Hill, Ireland
The Listeria conundrum: 4B or not 4B?
Speakers:
Willem de Vos, The Netherlands
Intestinal interactomics
Michiel Kleerebezem, The Netherlands
Post-genomic analyses of probiotic-host interactions

- Gene Evolution
Chairpersons:
Dan Anderson, Sweden
Evolution of new genes
Uri Gophna, Israel
Are protein-protein interactions a barrier to lateral gene transfer?
Speakers:
Alex Mira, Spain
The recombination-divergence trade-off
Eduardo Rocha, France
Evolutionary dynamics of Escherichia coli genomes in ecological context

- Bio-nanomachines (Cytoskeletons, Self Assembly and Self Replication)
Chairpersons:
Peter Graumann, Germany
Organization of the bacterial cytoskeleton
Ehud Gazit, Israel
Bionanotechnology: Self-Assembly in Physiology and Pathology
Speaker:
Berenike Maier, Germany
Dynamics of type IV pili

- Microbial Substructures
Chairpersons:
Dirk Schüler, Germany
Cell biology and genetics of magnetosome formation in magnetotactic bacteria 
Laura van Niftrik, The Netherlands
Cell biology of unique anammox bacteria that contain a prokaryotic organelle
Speakers:
Grant Jensen, USA
How electron crytomography is opening a new window into bacterial ultrastructure
Felicitas Pfeifer, Germany
Gas vehicle formation in halophilic archea

 
- Physiology of Extremophiles
Chairpersons:
Helena Santos, Portugal
Osmolyes of hyperthermophiles: Are they involved in thermoadaptation?
David Prangishvili, France
Virus-host interactions in hyperthemophiles
Speakers:
Hans-Peter Klenk, Germany
Lessons from a flood of extremopiles genomes
Haruyuki Atomi, Japan
Novel metabolic enzymes in the hyperthermophilic archaeon, Thermococcus kodakaraensis

- Microbial Diversity
Chairpersons:
Karl Schleifer, Germany
Microbial diversity: The hidden majority
Ramon Rossello-Mora, Spain
Insights into the microdiversity and biogeography of Salinibacter ruber
Speakers:
Michael Schloter, Germany
Steering genetic treasures of microbes - a way of sustainable use of soil
Jakob Pernthaler, Switzerland
Diversity and versatility: Population ecology of planktonic bacteria

- Plant/microbe Interactions
Chairpersons:
Jari Valkonen, Finland
Ulla Bonas, Germany
Speakers:
Steve Whitham, USA
Functional genomic analysis of ribosomal proteins in host-virus interactions
Stephane Genin, France

- ISME-FEMS Symposium - Biofilms in Ecology and Medicine
Chairpersons:
Jean-Marc Ghigo, France
Remote control of antibiotic tolerance in bacterial communities
Inigo Lasa, Spain
Dissecting individual roles of GGDEF proteins within the c-di-GMP signaling network in Salmonella
Speakers:
Staffan Kjelleberg, Australia
Bacteria-protozoa interactions in biofilms
Hillary Lappin-Scott, UK
Gene transfer in biodegradative biofilms

 

- Secretion
Chairpersons:
Joachim Frey, Switzerland
Arnold Driessen, The Netherlands
Speaker:
Maria Sandkvist, USA

- Filamentous and Non-filamentous Fungi in Biotechnology
Chairpersons:
Cesar Nombela, Spain
Johan Thevelein, Belgium
Yeast traits important for bioethanol production
Speakers:
Jürgen J. Heinisch, Germany
Merja Penttilä, Finland

- Molecular Methods for Diagnosis of Infective Agents
Chairpersons:
Peter Vandamme, Belgium
Jacques Schrenzel, Switzerland
Speaker:
Kees Maquelin, The Netherlands

- Global Regulatory Networks
Chairpersons:
Eliora Ron, Israel
Michael Hecker, Germany
Speakers:
Thorsten Mascher, Germany
Cell envelope stress response in Gram-positive bacteria: From signaling principles to regulatory networks
Franz Narberhaus, Germany

- Mycobacterium tuberculosis Persistence, Latency, and Drug Tolerance
Chairpersons:
Brigitte Gicquel, France
John McKinney, Switzerland
Speaker:
Sebastian Gagneux, UK
The cause and consequence of genetic diversity in Mycobacterium tuberculosis

- Population Genomics and Evolution of Human Pathogens
Chairpersons:
Carmen Buchriesser, France
Joerg Hacker, German
Speakers:
Wilma Ziebuhr, Ireland
Philippe Glaser, France

 

- Defining Phyla Within Prokaryotes (The Bergey’s Trust)
Chairpersons:
William Whitman, USA
Paul de Vos, Belgium
Speakers:
Wolfgang Ludwig, Germany
The conserved core of prokaryotic genomes: Is there information for delineating higher taxa?
Kostas Konstantinidis, USA
Assessing the value of the higher ranks of bacterial taxonomy with genomics
Celine Brochier-Armanet, France
How many archaeal phyla? The Crenarchaeota/Euryarchaeota dichotomy makes resistance
Satoshi Hanada, Japan
Gemmatimonadetes, a new bacterial phylum proposed in 2003

- The Challenge of Antibiotic Resistance (ASM-FEMS Symposium)
Chairpersons:
Keith Klugman, USA
Impact of vaccination versus antibiotic use on the evolution of resistance in Streptococcus pmeumoniae
Henning Sørum, Norway
Fish pathogens develop antibiotic resistance in collaboration with aquatic environment
Speakers:
Fernando Baquero, Spain
Units of selection in antibiotic resistance
Didier Mazel, France
The integrons and their cassettes form a general stress response component

- ECCO - European Culture Collection Organization Special Event: Microbial Diversity, Genomics, Methods and Microbial Commons for Interaction Within the Research Community
Chairpersons:
Dagmar Fritze, Germany
Edward Moore, Sweden
Speakers:
Nikos Kyrpides, USA
Genomics and relevance for culture collections and researchers
Brian Tindall, Germany
Typification of biological materials
Edward Moore, Sweden
Authentication of biological material: Relevance for research
Tom Dedeurwaeredere, Belgium
Microbial commons and legal considerations for researchers and their deposited materials

 

- Small RNAs
Chairpersons:
Gerhart Wagner, Sweden
Joerg Vogel, Germany
Post-transcriptional regulons controlled by small noncoding RNAs

- Chemolithotrophy
Chairpersons:
Svetlana N. Dedysh, Russia
Choosing the best lifestyle: Obligate methanotrophy versus facultative methanotrophy
Paul Bodelier, The Netherlands
Ecological factors regulating methanotrophy in solis and sediments

- Secondary Metabolites, Antibiotics and Molecular Signals
Chairpersons:
Stefano Donadio, Italy
Dieter Haas, Switzerland
Links between primary and secondary metabolism in Pseudomonas

- Endosymbionts
Chairpersons:
Matthias Horn, Austria
Siv Andersson, Sweden

- Advances in Pollutant Degradation
Chairpersons:
Juan Ramos, Spain
Solvent tolerance and degradation of aromatic hydrocarbons
Jan Roelof van der Meer, Switzerland

- Microbiology of Marine Ecosystems
Chairpersons:
Michail Yakimov, Italy
Heide Schulz-Vogt, Germany

- Microbial Infections of Aquatic Animals
Chairpersons:
Bjarnheiður Guðmundsdóttir, Iceland
Eann Munro, UK

- Viral Infections and Host Genetics
Chairpersons:
Lennart Svensson, Sweden
To be announced

- Pathogenicity Islands
Chairpersons:
Eric Oswald, France
Functional analysis of genomic islands in Enterobacteriacae: from septicemia to cancer
Ulrich Dobrindt, Germany
Genes in motion: impact of genomic islands on genome plasticity of Escherichia coli

- Helicobacter and Campylobacter
Chairpersons:
Arnoud van Vliet, UK
Thomas Boren, Sweden
Adaptation of adhesin-receptor interactions: Lessons from Helicobacter pylori

- Pathogenomics
Chairpersons:
Bernt Eric Uhlin, Sweden
Francisco Garcia-del Portillo, Spain                       

- Differential Gene Expression in Bacterial Populations
Chairpersons:
Oscar Kuipers, The Netherlands
Bistable networks and bet deging in Bacillus subtilis
Alexander van Oudenaarden, USA

- Waterbourne Pathogens
Chairpersons:
Victor DiRita, USA
Shah Faruque, Bangladesh

- Filamentous and Non-filamentous Fungi in Disease
Chairpersons:
David Andes, USA
Regine Kahmann, Germany
 
- Vaccines
Chairpersons:
Jeffrey Almond, France
Alex Von Gabain, Austria

 

 

 Venue
Gothenburg Convention Centre
Mässans Gata 20
SE-402 26 Göteborg
Sweden
www.gcc.se

Language
English is the official language of the Congress.

Dates
June 28 - July 2, 2009

 

Climate
The weather in Gothenburg varies in the summer and is moderately warm. The average temperature in June varies between 10 to 17°C. Gothenburg enjoys 21 hours of daylight in June.  

Personal Insurance
We recommend that all participants take out a personal travel and health insurance for their trip.

 

Visas
Please check with your local Swedish Embassy if you require a visa for entry to Sweden.

 

Letter of Invitation
Participants requiring a formal letter of invitation to enable them to make their arrangements to participate in the Congress, may receive a letter via the website. Please note that this letter cannot be regarded as a commitment regarding scheduling or financial support from the organizers.

 

Exhibition and Sponsorship
A professional exhibition will be held concurrently with the Congress. For details please contact: dnuriel@kenes.com

 

Congress Organizers
Please do not hesitate to contact the Organizers if you require any additional information or assistance. Please address all correspondence to:

 

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