Tuesday March 3rd

11:00 AM Opening Remarks

11:05 AM Keynote: Yves Brun

12:05 PM Sourav Bhattacharyya

Chromosome architecture shapes bacterial homology search and recombination

12:20 PM Joel Hallgren

Convergent loss of dimorphism among close relatives of Caulobacter

12:35 PM Vishnu Narayanan Madhavan

Signal jamming the ChvIG two-component system in Caulobacter

12:50 PM Brandon Sit

Host cyclophilin-mediated maturation of an obligate intracellular alphaproteobacterial surface virulence factor

1:05 PM   10-Minute Break

1:15 PM Richa Priyadarshini

Peptidoglycan recycling and its role in cell wall biogenesis and antibiotic tolerance in Caulobacter crescentus

1:30 PM   Amelia Randich

Reproductive plasticity within the alphaproteobacterial genus Henriciella

1:45 PM   Tannaz Mohammadi

Broad-host-range giant episomal pseudolysogen bacteriophages have a remarkable ability to infect both gram-positive and gram-negative bacteria

2:00 PM   Jodi Ogle

Competing regulators control omp25d expression in Brucella ovis

2:15 PM   Julian von Hofe

Holographic microscopy reveals temperature-dependent behavior of PopZ biomolecular condensates

Wednesday March 4th

11:00 AM Patrick Viollier

Breaking the antibiotic permeability barrier of the outer membrane

11:15 AM Surbhi Yadav

A starvation-triggered AAA+ ATPase halts chromosome replication progression by disassembling the bacterial DNA sliding clamp

11:30 AM Pia Ritcher

Peptidoglycan recycling is critical for cell division, cell wall integrity and β-lactam resistance in Caulobacter crescentus

11:45 AM Keynote: Becky Lamason

Life on the inside: how Rickettsia parkeri navigates the complex host cell landscape

12:45 PM 15-Minute Break

1:00 PM   Jürgen Tomasch

Genome-guided insights into the lifecycle of the photoheterotrophic, multi-cellular mat-forming Hyphomicrobiaceae bacterium Filomicrobium fusiforme

1:15 PM   Kathrin Fröhlich

Annotation of small RNA function using the CauloSOEP library

1:30 PM   Graham Bitzer

Defining the extent of BabR regulation on the genes encoding the Type 4 secretion system in Brucella abortus

1:45 PM   Rui Zeng

Stepping Back to Move Forward: How bacteria navigate complex 3D environments

2:00 PM   Sébastien Zappa

Sticky Business: Rhodobacter’s unique take on polar adhesion

2:15 PM   Isaac Payne

Coordination of constriction and chromosome segregation in Alphaproteobacteria

Thursday March 5th

11:00 AM Keynote: Martin Thanbichler

12:00 PM   Wade E. Schnorr

Bacterial Ribonucleoprotein bodies maintain an acidic pH environment as a mechanism of enzyme regulation

12:15 PM Hadiya Shamim

The Search Complex: RecA, RecN and RadA together drive homology search and repair

12:30 PM Corentin Jaboulay

Cross-regulation of (p)ppGpp and c-di-GMP pathways controls a cell-cycle transition

12:45 PM 15-Minute Break

1:00 PM   Katsuya Fuchino

O-acetylation of peptidoglycan is important for resilience against environmental stress in Zymomonas mobilis

1:15 PM   Tanisha Dhakephalkar

Synthesis of a novel anionic bacterial sphingolipid- ceramide diphosphoglycerate

1:30 PM   Joshua Chamberlain

Characterizing the effects of Caulobacter crescentus-derived sphingolipids on liposomal biophysical properties

1:45 PM   Trung Nguyen

Cell polarity of the obligate intracellular human pathogen Rickettsia parkeri

2:00 PM   Sukanya Chakraborty

5D single-cell microscopy reveals how Caulobacter crescentus commits to irreversible surface adhesion

2:15 PM   Closing Remarks