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Wednesday November 28th, 2007
5.00pm - 7.00pm |
Registration of participants |
6:55pm
7.00pm - 8.15pm
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Welcome Speech
John J. Mekalanos, Harvard Medical School, Boston, USA
Rita Colwell, University of Maryland, College Park, USA
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8.15pm |
Welcome Cocktails (hall of the conference centre) |
Thursday November 29th, 2007
8.00am - 8.30am |
Opening Welcome desk |
8.30am - 12.20 |
Session 1: Biodiversity
Chairmans: Fabiano Thompson and Martin Polz |
8.30: David W. Ussery, Technical University of Denmark, Lyngby, Denmark
On the origins of a bacterial species
9.10: Fabiano Thompson, Federal University of Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
Online electronic taxonomy of vibrios: problems and solutions for discriminating the fuzzy species V. harveyi and V. campbellii
9.30: Michele Nishiguchi, New Mexico State University, Las Cruces, USA
Evolutionary consequences of an environmentally transmitted squid/vibrio mutualism: does selection favor host specificity or ecological specialization?
9.50 - 10.20: Coffee-break
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10.20: Douglas Bartlett, Scripps Institution of Oceanography, La Jolla, USA
Cholix toxin and indole-mediated cell-cell communication in environmental strains
of Vibrio cholerae
11.00: Angelo DePaola, Food and Drug Administration, Dauphin Island, USA
Molecular phylogenetics of Vibrio parahaemolyticus strains by Multilocus Sequence
11.20: Yechezkel Kashi, Technion - Israel Institute of Technology, Haifa, Israel
Chironomids-Vibrio cholerae connection
Session 2: Genetics and Genomics
Chairmans: David Ussery and Gary Schoolnik
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11.40: Tetsuya Iida, Osaka University, Japan
Pathogenic mechanism and comparative genomics of Vibrio parahaemolyticus
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| 12.20 - 1.50pm |
Group photo + Lunch |
| 1.50pm - 3.20pm |
Poster Session #1
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| 3.20pm - 5.50pm |
Session 2: Genetics and Genomics (continuation)
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3.20: Matthew K. Waldor, Howard Hughes Medical Institute, Chevy Chase, USA
Title to be announced
4.00: François-Xavier Barre, CNRS, Centre de Génétique Moléculaire, Gif-sur-Yvette, France
Importance of the Xer/FtsK system of terminal segregation for virulence and pathogenicity in vibrios
4.20 - 4.50: Coffee-break |
4.50: Erik Hjerde, University of Tromso, Norway
The complete genome sequence of the fish pathogen Vibrio salmonicida strain LFI1238
5.10: Brian Hammer, Princeton University, EU
Regulatory small RNAs circumvent the conventional quorum sensing pathway in pandemic Vibrio cholarae
5.30: Claudia Reich, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign, USA
Comparative genomics of Vibrio |
| 7.00pm |
Departure for the dinner-cruise (by bus in front of the Institut Pasteur) |
Friday November 30th, 2007
8.15am - 8.50am |
Opening Welcome desk |
8.50am - 12.30 |
Session 2: Genetics and Genomics (continuation and end) |
8.50: Edward G. Ruby, University of Wisconsin, Madison, USA
Genome-wide approaches to understanding specificity and persistence in Vibrio
light-organ symbioses
9.30: Didier Mazel, Institut Pasteur, Paris, France
DNA single strand and integron cassette dynamics in Vibrio species
| 10.10 - 10.40: Coffee-break |
Session 3: Ecology and Application
Chairmans: Diane McDougald and Eugene Rosenberg
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10.40: Debra Milton, Umea University, Umea, Sweden
Colonization of Rainbow Trout Skin by Vibrio anguillarum
11.20: Dean-A. Rowe-Magnus, Sunnybrook Research Institute, Toronto, Canada
The Vibrio vulnificus diguanylate cyclase, GcpA, regulates biofilm formation by inducing the biosynthesis of a novel exopolysaccharide.
11.40: Dirk Gevers, Massachusetts Institue of Technology, Cambridge, USA
Estimation of bounds of gene flow by homologous recombination among coastal Vibrio isolates
12.00: Gunnar Sandström, Karolinska Institutet and Swedish Institute for Infectious Disease Control, Sweden
Vibrio cholerae-acanthamoeba castellanii interaction showing endosymbiont-host relation
12.20: Maria del Mar Lleo, University of Verona, Italy
VibrioSea Project: a satellite-based early warning system to monitor and prevent vibrios-related diseases in the Mediterranean basin
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12.40 - 2.00pm |
Lunch |
| 2.00pm - 3.30pm |
Poster Session #2 |
| 3.30pm - 6.40pm |
Session 4: Disease and Epidemiology (human)
Chairmans: Shah Faruque and Karl Klose |
3.30: G. Balakrish Nair, National Institute of Cholera and Enteric Diseases, Kolkata, India
Molecular basis of the emergence of a new more severe form of cholera
4.10: M. Stephen Trent, Medical College of Georgia, Augusta, USA
Vibrio cholerae modify their cell surface in response to environmental stimuli
4.30 - 5.00: Coffee-break |
5.00: Gary K. Schoolnik, Stanford University, USA
Vibrio cholerae virulence gene expression is controlled by a bistable switch
5.40: Thandavarayan Ramamurthy, National Institute of Cholera and Enteric Diseases, Kolkata, India
Vibrio fluvialis: an emerging pathogen in causing acute diarrhea in Kolkata, India
6.00: Joon Haeng Rhee, Chonnam National University Medical School, Jeonnam, South Korea
Vibrio vulnificus RTX toxin kills host cells only after contact of the bacteria and host cells
6.20: James D. Oliver, University of North Carolina at Charlotte, USA
Why does the C-genotype of vibrio vulnificus cause human infection and why does the E-genotype predominate in oysters?
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Saturday December 1st, 2007
8.00pm - 8.30pm |
Opening Welcome desk |
| 8.30pm-12.00 |
Session 5: Disease and Epidemiology (non human)
Chairmans: Brian Austin and Jorge Crosa |
8.30: Eugene Rosenberg, Tel-Aviv University, Israel
From bacterial bleaching to the hologenome theory of evolution
9.10: Brian Austin, Heriot-Watt University, Edinburgh, Scotland
Vibrio harveyi: a significant pathogen of marine vertebrates and invertebrates (and humans)
9.50: Colin B. Munn, University of Plymouth, UK
Quorum sensing in vibrios associated with corals
10.10: James M. Cervino, Pace University & Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution, USA
Identification of a consortium of closely related Vibrio species and the links between thermal stress, coral reef and shell-fish diseases
10.30 - 11.00: Coffee-break |
11.00: Jorge H. Crosa, Oregon Health and Science University, Portland, EU
Reactivation of the vanchrobactin siderophore system of Vibrio anguillarum by removal of a chromosomal insertion sequence originated in plasmid pJM1 encoding the anguibactin siderophore system
11.20: Cynthia T. Hedreyda, National Institute of Molecular Biology and Biotechnology, Diliman, Philippines
Mutation in the periplasmic domain of ToxR produced truncated protein implicated in producing non-pathogenic strains of Vibrio harveyi.
11.40: Conclusion and next meeting discussion |
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