Programme
08:30 - 09:00 | Registration and coffee |
09:00 - 09:10 | Welcome - Professor Mohan Balasubramanian, WQBP Director |
09:10 - 10:40 |
Session 1 - Community dynamics chair: Emma Denham |
09:10 - 09:40 Munehiro Asally - University of Warwick. Signalling through membrane potential dynamics |
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09:40 - 10:10 Knut Drescher - Max Planck Institute. Biofilm-phage interaction dynamics and cell-cell interaction mechanics |
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10:10 - 10:40 Avigdor Eldar - Tel-Aviv University. Regaining cooperation in quorum-sensing suppressed mutants of Pseudomonas Aeruginosa | |
10:40 - 11:00 | Refreshments |
11:00 - 12:30 |
Session 2 - Evolutionary routes towards communities chair: Irene Stefanini |
11:00 - 11:30 Duccio Cavalieri - University of Florence. Yeast as a model in evolutionary systems biology | |
11:30 - 12:00 Pauline Scanlan - University College Cork. Towards developing a model system to study bacteria-bacteriophage coevolution in the human gut microbiome | |
12:00 - 12:30 Philipp Engel - University of Lausanne. Honey bee gut microbiota – versatile model for microbial symbiosis | |
12:30 -14:00 | Lunch and poster presentation |
14:00 - 15:30 | Session 3 - Modelling microbial communities chair: Nick Waterfield |
14:00 - 14:30 Jan-Ulrich Kreft - University of Birmingham. Persistence of Resistance: (co)existence of plasmids going complex | |
14:30 - 15:00 Kiran Patil - EMBL. Uncovering metabolic and drug interaction landscape of the human gut microbiome | |
15:00 - 15:30 Orkun Soyer - University of Warwick. Understanding/engineering cell and community metabolism |
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15:30 - 15:50 | Refreshments |
15:50 - 17:20 | Session 4 - Microbial interactions in infection chair: Freya Harrison |
15:50 - 16:20 Alain Filloux - Imperial College London. The type VI secretion system: an antibacterial nano-weapon | |
16:20 - 16:50 Kendra Rumbaugh - Texas Tech University. Microbial interactions in wound infections | |
16:50 - 17:20 Meera Unnikrishnan - University of Warwick. Probing interactions at the gut microbial interface | |
17:20 - 17:35 | Concluding remarks - Professor Andrew McAinsh, WQBP Director |
17:35 - onwards | Farewell party |