Preliminary Programme

Monday 14 October
Time	Speaker	Title
11:00-13:00	Registration and Lunch
13:00-13:15	Opening remarks
13:15-18:30	Session 1 - Bacterial Systems Biology
13:15-13:40	Carol Gross, University of California, San Francisco, USA
13:40-14:05	Nassos Typas, EMBL Heidelberg, Germany
14:05-14:30	Uwe Sauer, Swiss Federal Institute of Technology Zürich (ETH), Switzerland
14:30-14:45	Selected speaker
14:45-15:00	Selected speaker
15:00-17:00	Coffee break and Poster Session
17:00-17:25	Roy Kishony, Harvard Medical School, USA
17:25-17:50	Eric Brown, McMaster University, Canada
17:50-18:15	Nathalie Balaban, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Israel
18:15-18:30	Selected speaker
18:30-20:00	DINNER
20:00-23:00	Drinks at ATC Roof Top Lounge

Tuesday 15 October
Time
09:00-12:00	Session 2 - Single-cell approaches and Cell Biology
09:00-09:25	John McKinney, Swiss Federal Institute of Technology Lausanne (EPFL), Switzerland
09:25-09:50	Tam Mignot, CNRS - Marseille, France
09:50-10:05	Selected speaker
10:05-10:20	Selected speaker
10:20-10:50	Coffee break
10:50-11:15	Jeff Errington, Newcastle University, United Kingdom
11:15-11:40	KC Huang, Stanford University, USA	Mapping bacterial growth across spatial and temporal scales
11:40-11:55	Selected speaker
11:55-12:10	Selected speaker
12:10-14:30	Poster Session and Lunch
14:30-18:10	Session 3 - Bacterial communities
14:30-14:55	Roberto Kolter, Harvard Medical School, USA
14:55-15:20	Sigal Ben-Yehuda, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Israel
15:20-15:55	Pieter Dorrestein, University of California, San Diego, USA
15:55-16:10	Selected speaker
16:10-16:40	Coffee break
16:40-17:05	Brett Finlay, The University of British Columbia, Canada
17:05-17:30	Andrew Goodman, Yale School of Medicine, USA
17:30-17:55	Debbie Lindell, Technion - Israel Institute of Technology, Israel
17:55-18:10	Selected speaker
18:30-20:00	DINNER
20:00-23:00	Drinks in Town

Wednesday 16 October
Time	Topic
09:00-12:30	Session 4 - Pathogenesis and Infection
09:00-09:25	Pascale Cossart, Institut Pasteur, France
09:25-09:50	Wolf Dietrich Hardt, Swiss Federal Institute of Technology Zürich (ETH), Switzerland
09:50-10:05	Selected speaker
10:05-10:20	Selected speaker
10:20-10:50	Coffee break
10:50-11:15	Sam Miller, University of Washington, USA
11:15-11:40	Matthew Waldor, Harvard Medical School, USA
11:40-11:55	Selected speaker
11:55-12:10	Selected speaker
12:10-13:30	Lunch
13:30-17:00	Session 5 - Regulation, Signaling and Transcriptional Networks
13:30-13:55	Michael Laub, MIT, USA
13:55-14:20	Jörg Vogel, IMIB - University of Würzburg, Germany
14:20-14.55	Michael Elowitz, California Institute of Technology, USA
14:55-15:10	Selected speaker
15:10-15:40	Coffee break
15:40-16:05	Regine Hengge, FU Berlin, Germany	Cyclic-di-GMP signalling and high resolution spatial order in macrocolony biofilms of Escherichia coli
16:05-16:30	Angelika Gründling, Imperial College London, United Kingdom
16:30-16:45	Selected Speaker
16:45-17:00	Selected speaker
17:00-00:00	CONCLUDING REMARKS and TOUR/DINNER

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