A one-day workshop on Streptomycetes was held at the Mathematics Institute, University of Warwick on Tuesday 22nd November 2005.

Program

12.00 Lunch

1.00 Alan Ward (Newcastle, UK) Lumpy evolution of streptomycete species - Streptomyces violaceoruber ("S. coelicolor")

2.00 Jan Kormanec (Bratislava, Slovakia) The role of sigma factors of RNA polymerase in differentiation of streptomyces

3.00 Tea

3.30 Klas Flardh (Lund, Sweden) Cytoskeletal proteins involved in growth and differentiation of Streptomyces

4.30 Eriko Takano (Tuebingen, Germany) Small signalling molecules which regulate antibiotic production in Streptomyces coelicolor

5.30 Wine and mince pies