Program
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| Sunday, May 11th 2014 | |||
| 10:00-12:50 | Registration and coffee | ||
| 12:50 | Welcome Tom Battin (University of Vienna) | ||
| 13:00-13:40 | Bird's eye view | ||
| 13:00 | Hans-Curt Flemming (University of Duisburg-Essen) | Biofilms – how microbes organize their social life | |
| 13:20 | Farooq Azam (Scripps Institution of Oceanography) | Ocean as microbial biofilm | |
| 13:40-14:45 | Evolution and ecology of biofilms Alan Decho (Chair) | ||
| 13:40 | Kevin Foster (Oxford University) | Cooperation and competition in microbial communities | |
| 14:00 | Knut Drescher (Princeton University) | Solutions to the Public Goods Dilemma in Bacterial Biofilms | |
| 14:15 | Stacy Apollo (The University of Texas at Austin) | Bacterial fight and flight responses enhance virulence in a polymicrobial infection | |
| 14:30 | Osnat Gillor (Ben Gurion University) | Colicins role in Escherichia coli biofilms | |
| 14:45-15:30 | Coffee break | ||
| 15:30-17:05 | New models for biofilm structure and function Hans-Curt Flemming (Chair) | ||
| 15:30 | Jan-Ulrich Kreft (University of Birmingham) | Why develop generic individual-based models? | |
| 15:50 | Phil Stewart (Bozeman, MT) | Reaction-Diffusion Theory Applied to Microbial Biofilms Associated with Chronic Infections | |
| 16:05 | Eberl Hermann (University of Guelph) | Cross-diffusion in biofilms | |
| 16:20 | Li Chunyan (Kalrsruhe Institute of Technology) | Tradeoff between mass transfer and actual biofilm surface area on carriers in moving bed biofilm reactors --Combination of optical coherence tomography imaging with two-dimensional modeling | |
| 16:35 | Liu Li (Technical University of Denmark) | Biofilm model to provide in silico predictions of micropollutant biodegradation | |
| 16:50 | Pechaud Yoan (Université de Toulouse) | Understanding the role of EPS distribution in biofilm and its consequence on cohesiveness and detachment in thick and mature biofilms: an experimental and modelling study | |
| 17:05-17:25 | Bird's eye view | ||
| Paul Stoodley (The Ohio State University) | The mechanical properties of bacterial biofilms as a strategy for survival in ancient and modern environments | ||
| 17:30-20:00 | Welcome Party and Posters | ||
| Monday, May 12th 2014 | |||
| 08:30-09:50 | Omics for the study of biofilm structure and function Jean-Marc Ghigo (Chair) | ||
| 08:30 | Paul Wilmes (University of Luxembourg) | Resolving microbial niche breadths in situ through integrated omics | |
| 08:50 | Marvin Whitely (University of Texas at Austin) | Can't we all just get along: How cooperation and conflict shape polymicrobial infections | |
| 09:05 | Keith Tuner (University of Texas at Austin) | Genetic requirements in spatially organized polymicrobial wound infections | |
| 09:20 | Pascal Cosette (CNRS) | Molecular Evaluation of biofilm influence on neighboring planktonic bacteria | |
| 09:35 | Mia Bengtsson (Univeristy of Vienna) | Impact of shading on the food web structure of phototrophic stream biofilms elucidated by metatranscriptomics | |
| 09:50-10:20 | Coffee break | ||
| 10:20-12:10 | From genes to biofilm dynamics and back Paul Wilmes (Chair) | ||
| 10:20 | Jean-Marc Ghigo (Institut Pasteur) | Sniffing the crowds: airborne volatile molecules produced by bacterial communities | |
| 10:40 | Karin Sauer (Binghamton University) | It's all about taste and sense: Outside-in signaling mechanism of the NicD taste-like receptor required for nutrient-induced dispersion by Pseudomonas aeruginosa | |
| 10:55 | Scott Rice (SCELSE NTU Singapore) | The molecular mechanism and effects of superinfection of Pseudomonas aeruginosa by the filamentous phage Pf4 | |
| 11:10 | Hasmik Hayrapetyan (TI Food and Nutrition) | RpoN plays a pleiotropic role in Bacillus cereus affecting its lifestyle and biofilm formation | |
| 11:25 | Banin Ehud (Bar-Ilan University) | NanoRNase impacts biofilm formation and c-di-gmp signal transduction through its activity on pGpG | |
| 11:40 | Pilar Sanchez-Vizuette (INRA) | Coordinated interplay between submerged biofilm and liquid-air pellicles in Bacillus subtilis | |
| 11:55-14:10 | Lunch and Posters | ||
| 14:10-15:15 | The extracellular space of biofilms Roman Stocker (Chair) | ||
| 14:10 | Thomas Neu (Helmholtz Centre for Environmental Research) | The biofilm matrix — magic or mystic? | |
| 14:30 | Rikke Meyer (Aarhus University) | Differential role of eDNA, proteins, and polysaccharides in cell-cell and cell-substrate adhesion by three Staphylococcus species | |
| 14:45 | David Stopar (University of Ljubljana) | Nanostructure of extracellular space in biofilms | |
| 15:00 | Thomas Brauge (ANSES) | Exolopysaccharide characterization of extracellular matrix of Listeria monocytogenes biofilm. | |
| 15:15 | Kim Se Yeon (INRA) | Vascularisation of the biofilm matrix by hyper-motile bacteria | |
| 15:30-16:00 | Coffee break | ||
| 16:00-17:35 | Unveiling the unseen: new and emerging technologies in biofilm research Paul Stoodley (Chair) | ||
| 16:00 | Roman Stocker (Massachusetts Institute of Technology) | Biofilms in flow: A reductionist, microfluidic approach | |
| 16:20 | Julia Bruchmann (Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (KIT)) | Novel microfluidic biosensor for online monitoring of biofilm formation | |
| 16:35 | Alexander Rickard (University of Michigan) | A high-throughput microfluidic dental plaque biofilm system | |
| 16:50 | Matthew Marshall (Pacific Northwest National Laboratory) | Chemical Imaging of Biofilms: The Integration of Synchrotron Imaging, Electron Microscopy and Nuclear Magnetic Resonance (NMR) Technologies | |
| 17:05 | Jodi Connell (University of Texas at Austin) | Micro-3D Printing of Bacterial Communities | |
| 17:20 | Holger Daims (University of Vienna) | Picking them one by one: Raman-based sorting and single-microcolony genomics of uncultured microdiverse nitrifiers in activated sludge flocs | |
| 19:00 | Conference Dinner | ||
| Tuesday, May 13th 2014 | |||
| 08:30-10:05 | Biophysics and environmental consequences of microbial biofilms Jan-Ulrich Kreft (Chair) | ||
| 08:30 | William Sloan (University of Glasgow) | Modelling interactions between hydrodynamics and dispersal that help shape biofilm community composition across a range of scales | |
| 08:50 | Regina Viduthalai (Aarhus University) | Surface physicochemistry and ionic strength affects eDNA's role in bacterial adhesion to abiotic surfaces | |
| 09:05 | Neda Davoudi (University of Kaiserslautern) | Adsorption of Sugars, Proteins, and Bacteria: A Multimethod Study for a Better Understanding of Biofilm Formation | |
| 09:20 | Florian Blauert (Karlsruhe Institute of Technology) | A new attempt to measure biofilm rheology by optical coherence tomography | |
| 09:35 | Patrick de Martino (Université de Cergy-Pontoise) | Amyloids modify the viscoelastic properties of biofilm model matrices | |
| 09:50 | Thibaut Saur (Laboratoire de Biotechnologie de l'Environnement) | Impact of the shear stress on initial bacterial adhesion | |
| 10:05-10:40 | Coffee break | ||
| 10:40-11:55 | Applied water systems Thomas Neu (Chair) | ||
| 10:40 | Edo Bar-Zeev (Yale University) | Life under Hydraulic Pressure: Biofouling Development and Architecture | |
| 10:55 | Arda Gülay (Denmark Technical university) | Mineral coating creates internal porosity and supports microbial activity in rapid sand filters treating groundwaters | |
| 11:10 | Silvia Cervero (University of Barcelona) | The association with Acanthamoeba spp. affects the UV-sensitivity of Legionella pneumophila | |
| 11:25 | Wim Hijnen (KWR Watercycle Research Institute) | Hardness of water and Calcium affects biofilm formation on PVC, glass and a thin-composite membrane | |
| 11:40 | Olivier Habimana (University College Dublin) | Trapped in the matrix: the impact of Natural Organic Matter fouling on bacterial adhesion under full-scale Nanofiltration processes | |
| 11:55-14:00 | Posters and Lunch | ||
| 14:00-15:05 | Biofilms remixed: Microbial mats, stromatolites and soils William Sloan (Chair) | ||
| 14:00 | Alan Decho (University of South Carolina) | Biofilms Remixed: Microbial mats and stromatolites | |
| 14:20 | Dagmar Woebken (University of Vienna) | Investigating N2 fixation activity in photosynthetic microbial mats at the single-cell level | |
| 14:35 | Clemens Karwautz (Helmholtz Zentrum München) | Massive microbial biofilms in a mineral spring cavern dominated by methane and iodine | |
| 14:50 | Pedro Rodrigues Frade (University of Vienna) | Linking the composition of coral surface mucus to the structure and function of its associated microbial biofilm community | |
| 15:05-15:30 | Young Investigator Awards | Regina Sommer (Medical University of Vienna) | |
| 15:30-15:40 | Biofilms7 | Nuno Azevedo (University of Porto) | |
| 15:40 | Closing | ||
RECENT CHANGES
| Author | Title Abstract | Change |
|---|---|---|
| Xueqing WU | 14323 - Cadmium stimulates biofilm formation by Staphylococcus epidermidis | last paragraph: Up-regulation of atlE (10.5 folds), embp (5.4 folds), icaA (22.1 folds), icaB (26.8 folds) and agrB (3.9 folds) after exposure to 3.13 µM cadmium was observed in planktonic bacteria. No gene dysregulation was observed in biofilm bacteria. In conclusion, at concentrations of 1.56 or 3.13 µM, cadmium stimulates S. epidermidis biofilm formation and adversely affects cell viability. Modification in gene expression was observed in planktonic bacteria but not in those enclosed in the biofilm. |
Biofilm 6 | Universitätsring 1
| 1010 Wien