Schedule
Please find below an overview of the Biometals 2020 schedule.
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MTM: Metal trafficking in bacteria
MHR: Metal homeostasis and regulation
MPB: Metalloproteins and biogenesis
SM: Siderophores and metallophones
MHD: Metals in health and disease
MD: Metals and drugs
ME: Metals and environment
VQ: Visualization and quantification
Click here to see the Flash Presentations Day 1.
Schedule overview (CEST)
- 3:00 PM
- 3:10 PM
- 4:02 PM
- 4:34 PM
- 4:50 PM
- 5:20 PM
- 5:40 PM
- 6:12 PM
- 6:29 PM
- 6:46 PM
- 7:03 PM
- 7:35 PM
Monday, July 6th
- Welcome and Introduction - Chairman and IBS
Main Room - Session Chair: Hans Vogel
Plenary Speech by Elizabeth Nolan
Metal Sequestration by Calprotectin and Consequences on Microbial Physiology
Main Room - Session Topic: BM
Session Chair: David Giedroc
Main Room - Invited Speaker: Nigel J. Robinson
How cells help proteins to acquire the correct metals: Free energies of metalation - Oral Speech: Anna Kocyla
Specificity factors that govern zinc-dependent assembly of CD4 coreceptor and Lck tyrosine kinase - Break: Discussion Rooms
Networking & Break Area - Session Topic: MHP
Session Chair: John Helmann
Main Room - Invited Speaker: Maria Llamas
Sensing the environment and the host: Iron transport and signalling in Pseudomonas - Oral Speech: Agnès Rodrigue
Necrotrophic phytopathogens are protected from reactive oxygen species by a secreted metal-binding protein - Oral Speech: Andrea Monteagudo-Mera
Effect of Iron on the Composition and Activity of the Gut Microbiota using in vitro Models - Oral Speech: Jordi Zamarreño Beas
Haem biosynthesis in Campylobacter jejuni - Invited Speaker: Olivier Neyrolles
Metallobiology at the host-pathogen interface: the case of tuberculosis - Break: Discussion Rooms
Networking & Break Area
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Schedule overview (CEST)
- 3:00 PM
- 3:32 PM
- 4:04 PM
- 4:21 PM
- 4:40 PM
- 5:10 PM
- 5:30 PM
- 6:02 PM
- 6:34 PM
- 6:51 PM
- 7:08 PM
- 7:25 PM
Tuesday, July 7th
- Session Topic: MTM
Session Chair: Nigel Robinson
Main Room - Invited Speaker: Aixin Yan
Zinc excess increases cellular demand for iron and decreases tolerance to copper in Escherichia coli - Invited Speaker: Dietrich Nies
The three pillars of bacterial zinc homeostasis - Oral Speech: Oded Lewinson
The Bacillus anthracis virulence-determinant ABC transporter MntBC-A: transport specificity and trans-membrane metal recognition - Oral Speech: Shelley Payne
Characterization of the Vibrio cholerae Feo Iron Transport System - Break: Discussion Rooms
Networking & Break Area - Session Topic: MTM
Session Chair: Dietrich Nies
Main Room - Invited Speaker: Katharina Fromm
How bacteria cope with silver ions - Session Topic: SM
Session Chair: Debbie Crans
Main Room - Invited Speaker: Pascal Arnoux
The ancient roots of nicotianamine:diversity, role, regulation and evolution of nicotanamine-like metallophores - Oral Speech: Clémentine Laffont
Simple rules govern the diversity of bacterial nicotianamine-like metallophores - Oral Speech: Quentin Perraud
Phenotypic adaptation of Pseudomonas aeruginosa in the presence of exosiderophores - Oral Speech: Katherine A. Edmonds & Yifan Zhang
Iron acquisition by Streptococcus pneumoniae: PiuA specifically recognizes tetradentate catechol FeIII complexes - Break: Discussion Rooms
Networking & Break Area
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Schedule overview (CEST)
- 3:00 PM
- 3:32 PM
- 4:04 PM
- 4:21 PM
- 4:38 PM
- 4:55 PM
- 5:05 PM
- 5:20 PM
- 5:52 PM
- 6:24 PM
- 6:41 PM
- 6:58 PM
- 7:30 PM
Wednesday, July 8th
- Session Topic: ME
Session Chair: Richard Ortega
Main Room - Invited Speaker: Jacques Bourguignon
The fate of uranium in plants – Physiological and cellular effects - Oral Speech: Warren John
Elucidating the mechanism of uranium uptake and processing in tobacco BY-2 cells - Oral Speech: Anissa Dieudonné
A highly sensitive magnetic whole-cell biosensor for arsenic detection - Oral Speech: Maria Rosa BECCIA
In vivo speciation and uptake mechanisms of Uranium in Paracentrotus lividus sea urchin and Laminaria digitata seaweed
Main Room - Group picture - on screens
Main Room - Break: Discussion Rooms
Networking & Break Area - Session Topic: MHR
Session Chair: Claudia Blindauer
Main Room - Invited Speaker: John D. Helmann
Manganese homeostasis in Bacillus subtilis - Invited Speaker: María F. Fillat
Metalloregulation of cyanobacterial physiology operated by FUR (ferric uptake regulator) proteins - Oral Speech: Nicolaas Arjan DE GROOT
Characterization of the stress-induced molecular signal that activates IrrE, a metalloprotease essential for extreme radiation resistance in Deinococcus bacteria - Oral Speech:Martin Herzberg
Zinc and iron homeostasis adjust a core metalloproteome and is reflected by the cellular metal composition, the metallome. - Invited Speaker: Claudia Blindauer
A single zinc sensor mediates the response of an oligotrophic marine cyanobacterium to zinc excess and starvation - Break: Discussion Rooms
Networking & Break Area
Click here to see the Flash Presentations Day 4.
Schedule overview (CEST)
- 3:00 PM
- 3:30 PM
- 3:47 PM
- 4:19 PM
- 4:51 PM
- 5:10 PM
- 5:30 PM
- 6:02 PM
- 6:19 PM
- 6:36 PM
- 6:53 PM
- 7:25 PM
Thursday, July 9th
Session Topic: MHR
Session Chair: John Helmann
Main Room- Oral Speech: Koichiro Ishimori
Structural and Functional Characterization of Heme-Regulated Proteins in Iron Metabolism - Session Topic: MHD
Session Chair: Liz Nolan
Main Room - Invited Speaker: Stephanie Blockhuys
New role of copper protein in cancer - Invited Speaker: Liliana Quintanar
Metal-induced aggregation of gamma-crystallins: Insights into the bioinorganic chemistry of cataract disease - Oral Speech: Alan J. Stewart
Metal ion dyshomeostasis and coagulatory defects in type-1 and type-2 diabetes - Break: Discussion Rooms
Networking & Break Area - Session Topic: MHD
Session Chair: Liz Nolan
Main Room - Invited Speaker: Svetlana Lutsenko
Intestinal copper regulates fat absorption - Session Topic: MD
Session Chair: Katharina Frömm
Main Room - Oral Speech: Sandrine Ollagnier
New inhibitors against the [4Fe-4S] quinolinate synthase - Oral Speech: Lukas Roth
Modifiable metal affinity chromatography as a metalloenzyme surrogate - Oral Speech: Debbie Crans
Vanadium compounds activate cell signaling: the importance of speciation - Invited Speaker: Clotilde Policar
Imaging metal complexes in cells - Break: Discussion Rooms
Networking & Break Area
Click here to see the Flash Presentations Day 5.
Schedule overview (CEST)
- 3:00 PM
- 3:32 PM
- 4:04 PM
- 4:21 PM
- 4:40 PM
- 5:10 PM
- 5:30 PM
- 6:02 PM
- 6:19 PM
- 6:50 PM
- 7:05 PM
Friday, July 10th
- Session Topic: MPB
Session Chair: Aixin Yan
Main Room - Invited Speaker: Stefano Ciurli
Nickel trafficking in the urease system - Invited Speaker: Robert P. Hausinger
Lactate Racemase and its Novel Nickel-Pincer Nucleotide Cofactor - Oral Speech: Kam Bo Wong
A structural view of the nickel delivery pathway in urease maturation - Oral Speech: Liliana Silva
Escherichia coli Repair of Iron Centres YtfE Protein Interacts with the DNA-Binding Protein from Starved cells Dps Protein - Break: Discussion Rooms
Networking & Break Area - Session Topic: VQ
Session Chair: Clotilde Policar
Main Room - Invited Speaker: Michael Sperling
Visualization and quantification of metals
Main Room - Oral Speech: Alma Isabel Santos-Díaz
Maternal-developmental undernourishment alters copper homeostasis in the rat kidney and liver - Invited Speaker: Richard Ortega
Metals and morphological synaptic plasticity: insights from correlative super resolution and synchrotron imaging - Break: Discussion Rooms
Networking & Break Area - Closing and awards - Chairman and IBS
Main Room
