Program
March 1st, 2017
8:30 Registration
9:00 - 9:05 Message from the Organisers
9:05 - 9:15 Message from OIST Dean of Research
Session Chair: Kelly Hughes
9:15 - 9:40 Howard Berg - Bacterial Motility: Swimming and Gliding
9:40 - 10:05 Richard Berry - Torque, speed and assembly of the E. coli flagella motor
10:05 - 10:30 Yoshiyuki Sowa - Single-molecule studies of the chemo-mechanical coupling in the bacterial flagellar motor
10:30 - 10:50: Coffee-Tea break
Session Chair: Judith Armitage
10:50 - 11:15 Rasika Harshey - Success in a swarm
11:15 - 11:40 Akihiko Ishijima - The chemotactic response and motor function of a bacterial flagella motor in a single cell
11:40 - 11:55 Akio Kitao - Dynamic structure of bacterial flagellar proteins observed in silico
11:55 - 12:20 Seishi Kudo - A Trial Run of a Bacterium Robot with a Flagellum
12:20 - 12:25 Discussion / Announcement
12:25 - 13:55: Lunch – Break
Session Chair: Seiji Kojima
13:55 - 15:00 Poster talks
15:00 - 16:30 Poster presentation / Coffee-Tea break
Session Chair: Shin-Ichi Aizawa
16:30 - 16:55 David Blair - Dissecting the mechanism of flagellar type-III secretion
16:55 - 17:20 Katsumi Imada - In vitro observation of the bacterial flagellar type III protein export
17:20 - 17:35 Danielle Tullman-Ercek - Engineering high-titer heterologous protein secretion in bacteria
17:35 - 17:40 Discussion / Announcement / Closing
-Dinner-
March 2nd, 2017
Session Chair: Ariel Blocker
9:00 - 9:25 Samuel Wagner - Assembly, structure, and function of the export apparatus of the Salmonella SPI-1 T3SSs
9:25 - 9:50 Linda Kenney - Super-resolution Imaging of Salmonella SPI-2 regulation: A View from 30,000 feet to 20 nm
9:50 - 10:15 Natalie Strynadka - Near-atomic CryoEM Structural Analysis of the Salmonella Type III Injectisome Basal Body
10:15 - 10:30 Neta Sal-Man - Calcium Sensing and Secretion Hierarchy Regulation in EPEC T3SS
10:30 - 10:50: Coffee-Tea break
Session Chair: Keiichi Namba
10:50 - 11-15 Marc Erhardt - Self-Assembly of a Bacterial Nanomachine: Flagella Grow Through an Injection-Diffusion Mechanism
11:15 - 11:30 Chien-Jung Lo - The growth rate of Vibrio alginolyticus polar flagella
11:30 - 11:55 Tohru Minamino - Cooperative remodeling of the FlhA ring structure coordinates flagella type III protein export with assembly
11:55 - 12:00 Discussion / Wrapping up
12:00 - 13:25 Lunch – Break
Session Chair: Tohru Minamino
13:25 - 13:40 Jun Liu - In Situ Structural Analysis of Vibrio Flagellar Motor by Cryo-Electron Tomography and Sub-tomogram Averaging
13:40 - 13:55 Daisuke Nakane - Asymmetric Distribution of Type IV Pili Triggered by Directional Light in Unicellular Cyanobacteria
Session Chair: Marc Erhardt
13:55 - 15:00 Poster talks
15:00 – 16:30 Poster presentation / Coffee-Tea break
Session Chair: Ikuro Kawaghisi
16:30 - 16:55 Sonja Albers - Assembly and Interactions of the Archaellum Motor
16:55 - 17:10 Tomohiro Kimura - AMIS75470 is Essential for Flagellar Assembly in the Rare Actinomycete Actinoplanes missouriensis
17:10 - 17:35 Ariane Briegel - Structure and Function of Chemoreceptor Arrays- the Bacterial Brain that Controls Flagellar Motility
17:35 - 17:40 Discussion / Announcement
-Conference dinner (special dinner)-
March 3rd, 2017
Session Chair: Michio Homma
8:45 - 9:10 Judith Armitage - Exchange of motor proteins measured in living cells
9:10 - 9:35 Keiichi Namba - Insights into the mechanism of bacterial flagella motor rotation from the structure and dynamics
9:35 - 10:00 Seiji Kojima - How to anchor and activate flagellar stator units: assembly-coupled stator activation mechanism revealed by the crystal and solution structures of the stator fragment
10:00 - 10:25 Takayuki Nishizaka - Unitary steps of supermolecular motility machineries in gliding bacteria and swimming archaea
10:25 - 10:40: Coffee-Tea break
Session Chair: Linda Kenney
10:40 - 11:05 Ariel Blocker - Structural and Functional Analysis of Type III Secretion Systems
11:05 - 11:30 Tomoko Yamamoto - Functional dissection of Salmonella SPI-2 injectisome
11:30 - 11:45 Hanh Lam - Synthetic cyclic peptomers as Type III secretion system inhibitors
11:45 - 12:00 Nicholas Dickenson - Spa47 oligomerization drives ATP hydrolysis and Shigella T3SS activation
12:00 - 12:15 Tomoko Kubori - Manipulation of the host Ubiquitin system by legionella Deubiquitinases
12:15- Excursion to Okinawa aquarium (Lunch in Bus)
Free afternoon (for those not going to the aquarium)
18:30 Dinner
March 4th, 2017
Session Chair: Seishi Kudo
9:00 - 9:25 Kelly Hughes - Nano-scale length control of the flagellar drive-shaft requires hitting the protein-tethered outer membrane
9:25 - 9:50 Daniel Kearns - Homeostatic control of the flagellar filament protein in Bacillus subtilis
9:50 - 10:15 Michio Homma - How to determine the number and localization of polar flagellum in Vibrio cells?
10:15 - 10:30 Bin Ni - Evolutionary Remodeling of Bacterial Motility Checkpoint Control
10:30 - 10:50 Coffee-Tea break
Session Chair: Rasika Harshey
10:50 - 11:15 James Fleckenstein - A Secreted Adhesin Bridges Enterotoxigenic E. coli Flagella and A-blood group Host Glycans
11:15 - 11:40 Fadel A. Samatey - Bacterial flagellar hook: similarities and specificities
11:40 - 11:55 Thibaud Renault - A highly conserved methionine loop in FliP controls substrate export across the inner membrane
11:55 - 12:10 Clive Barker - Stability of the bacterial flagellar hook as a universal joint
12:10 - 12:15 Discussion / Announcement / Closing
12:15 - 13:45 Lunch - Break
Session Chair: Ariane Briegel
13:45 - 14:50 Poster talks
14:50 – 16:20 Poster presentation / Coffee-Tea break
Session Chair: Daniel Kearns
16:20 - 16:45 Shin-Ichi Aizawa - Campylobacter jejuni flagella is controlled short for optimal pathogenesis
16:45 - 17:10 Ikuro Kawagishi - Dynamically Regulated Assembly of the Bacterial Xenobiotic Efflux Complex
17:10 - 17:25 Satoshi Shibata - A multi-rail structure in the cell envelope for the bacteroidete gliding machinery
17:25 - 17:35 Conference Closing / Announcement / Dinner
