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)

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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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Click here to see the Flash Presentations Day 2.

Schedule overview (CEST)

  • 3:00 PM                         
  • 3:32 PM                         
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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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Click here to see the Flash Presentations Day 3.

Schedule overview (CEST)

  • 3:00 PM                         
  • 3:32 PM                         
  • 4:04 PM                         
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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
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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                         
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  • 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
Schedule BioMetals 2020

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
Schedule BioMetals 2020