10 – 11 September 2024, Online
program start: 2 pm London, 3 pm Berlin, 4 pm Tel Aviv, 10 pm Seoul, 8 am Chicago, 9 am Boston
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Day 1 – Tuesday, 10 September 2024
| Time (UTC +1) | Title | Presenter | Chair |
| 14:00-14:10 | Welcome Address | Organizing Committee | |
| 14:10-14:40 | Keynote Talk | Dr. Robert Mitchell | Janna Wülbern |
| 14:40-14:55 | Halobacteriovorax halts disease progression in critically endangered Caribbean coral | Dr. Lauren Speare | Janna Wülbern |
| 14:55-15:10 | Encapsulated predatory bacteria as bio-control agents against plant soft-rot diseases: from the lab to the field | Dr. Edouard Jurkevitch | Janna Wülbern |
| 15:10-15:25 | Break | ||
| 15:25-15:40 | Growth on chitin alters Vibrio cholerae biofilm architecture and susceptibility to Bdellovibrio bacteriovorus predation | Jacob Holt | Dr. Lauren Speare |
| 15:40-15:55 | Changes in E. coli susceptibility to predation by predatory bacteria | Dr. Laura Williams | Dr. Lauren Speare |
| 15:55-16:10 | Resistance evolution in Escherichia coli to repeated attacks of bacterial predator Bdellovibrio bacteriovorus and genetic determinants thereof | Dr. Subham Mridha | Dr. Lauren Speare |
| 16:10-16:25 | Break | ||
| 16:25-16:55 | Keynote Talk | Dr. Henry Williams | Dr. Lauren Speare |
| 16:55-17:10 | Presence of Bdellovibrio MYbb2 increases lifespan in C. elegans nematodes by driving microbiota diversity | Janna Wülbern | Dr. Lauren Speare |
| 17:10-17:25 | Order in the classes – relations between Bdellovibrionota species | Dr. Shmuel Pietrokovski | Dr. Lauren Speare |
| 17:25-17:40 | Break | ||
| 17:40-18:00 | Breakout Sessions (Academic Career with Prof. Liz Sockett or Omics & Genetics with Dr. Renske van Raaphorst) | ||
| 18:00-18:10 | Day 1 Closing Address | Organising Committee |
Day 2 – Wednesday, 11 September 2024
| Time (UTC +1) | Title | Presenter | Chair |
| 14:00-14:10 | Welcome Address | Organizing Committee | – |
| 14:10-14:40 | Keynote Talk | Dr. Géraldine Laloux | Stella Sultan |
| 14:40-14:55 | In search of prey: polyamine usage by Bdellovibrio as a chemosensory ligand and regulator of bacterial predation | Dr. Laura Hobley | Stella Sultan |
| 14:55-15:10 | Elucidating the mechanisms of epibiotic predation by Bdellovibrio exovorus | Dr. Yoann Santin | Stella Sultan |
| 15:10-15:25 | Localizing Type IV Pili during the cell cycle of Bdellovibrio bacteriovorus | Coralie Tesseur | Stella Sultan |
| 15:25-15:40 | Break | ||
| 15:40-15:55 | Functional amyloid proteins confer defense against predatory bacteria | Dr. Hannah Ledvina | Dr. Kim Summers |
| 15:55-16:10 | Developing Lotka Volterra based models to describe Bdellovibrio predation in a batch and chemostat experimental system | Dr. Ayo Ogundero | Dr. Kim Summers |
| 16:10-16:25 | Unraveling the chromosome of a predator: a dramatic shift in chromosome organization goes hand in hand with transcriptional changes in Bdellovibrio bacteriovorus | Dr. Renske van Raaphorst | Dr. Kim Summers |
| 16:25-16:40 | Break | ||
| 16:40-16:45 | Poster Introductions | Organizing Committee | |
| 16:45-17:00 | Poster session | ||
| 17:00-17:15 | Day 2 Closing Address | Organizing Committee |
Keynote speakers:
Géraldine Laloux
de Duve Institute, UCLouvain, Belgium
Henry Williams
School of the Environment, Florida A&M University, USA
Robert Mitchell
School of Biological Sciences, Ulsan National Institute of Science and Technology, South Korea
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