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Tuesday 05 September

Registration

Welcome and introductory remarks

Keynote lecture: Multi-tasking Pseudomonas – a challenge in biotechnology and biomedicine

Welcome reception

Wednesday 06 September

EMBO Keynote Lecture - Deciphering transcriptional noise of the TOL promoters of Pseudomonas putida

At the crossroads of alkylquinolone biosynthesis

Offered oral - A dying call to arms, the PQS signal functions as a conserved system for defence against phage infection

Offered oral - Reduced membrane fluidity of a SigX deficient strain results in altered carbon catabolic repression response in Pseudomonas aeruginosa

Refreshments

Post-transcriptional control of Pseudomonas niche colonisation by specific ribosomal modification

Virulence of P. aeruginosa strains of the PA7 clade

Offered oral - RsmA and AmrZ orchestrate the assembly of all three type VI secretion systems in Pseudomonas aeruginosa

Offered oral - The story of a competition: three enzymes–one substrate, regulation of carbon flux through a "non-canonical" metabolic branchpoint

Lunch

The mechanism of the type IV pilus motor

Dissecting and exploiting the pqs quorum sensing system in Pseudomonas aeruginosa

Offered oral - Identification of the CvsSR regulon in Pseudomonas syringae pv. tomato DC3000 reveals overlap with the type III secretion and AlgU regulons

Offered oral - Novel signalling interactions critical for virulence between sensor kinases of the GacS network

Poster session and refreshments

Thursday 07 September

Microbial evolution: Taking a dip in the mobile gene pool

Pseudomonas aeruginosa microevolution in cystic fibrosis lungs

Offered oral - Patho-metabolic adaptation of Pseudomonas aeruginosa during long term infection

Offered oral - Probing the evolutionary robustness of anti-virulence treatments against Pseudomonas aeruginosa

Refreshments

Exploring the social lives of soil microbes

The behavioural ecology of Pseudomonas aeruginosa in the cystic fibrosis lung

Offered oral - Defining the calling distance of quorum signals using micro-3D-printed P. aeruginosa communities

Offered oral - Characterisation of Pseudomonas aeruginosa phage-resistant clones obtained by controlled phage infection

Lunch

Origin and evolution of the kiwifruit pathogen pandemic

Offered oral - High-resolution analysis of Pseudomonas aeruginosa gene expression in cystic fibrosis expectorates documents phenotypic convergence towards a common end-point

Offered oral - Recombination enables rapid genetic adaptation of pathogenic elements in P. aeruginosa

Capitalising on Pseudomonas genomics: From Broad Studies to the Broad Street

Refreshments

Genomics Forum - The International Pseudomonas Consortium (IPC): update and future perspectives

Genomics Forum - flash presentations

Genomics Forum - panel discussions

Poster session and refreshments

Friday 08 September

Contact lens wear enables P. aeruginosa to subvert an intact epithelial barrier involving multiple processes

Entropically driven bacterial aggregation induces SOS-mediated antibiotic tolerance

Offered oral - A live biotherapeutic to treat chronic Pseudomonas aeruginosa infections in cystic fibrosis patients

Offered oral - Pseudomonas aeruginosa elastase cleaves a C-terminal peptide from human thrombin that inhibits host inflammatory responses

Refreshments

Pseudomonas aeruginosa infection in the cystic fibrosis lung: limitations of current management and possible future directions

Strategies for treating Pseudomonas aeruginosa wound infections

Offered oral - The atypical response regulator AtvR is a new player in Pseudomonas aeruginosa response to hypoxia and virulence

Offered oral - Immune sensing of lipopolysaccharide in animals and plants: same but different

Lunch

Molecular hijacking of Pseudomonas

The T6SS of Pseudomonas aeruginosa, an anti-eukaryotic and antibacterial weapon

Offered oral - The effect of Pseudomonas protegens CHA0 on the development of different Lepidoptera and Diptera species

Offered oral - Stealthy chemical probes reveal the bacterial receptor of a host signalling peptide

Refreshments

Multiple holins contribute to explosive cell lysis in Pseudomonas aeruginosa biofilms

The Society for Applied Microbiology Lecture - Stress-inducible determinants of antibiotic resistance in Pseudomonas aeruginosa

Offered oral - New insights in the acquisition of iron via the siderophore Enterobactin in Pseudomonas aeruginosa: strengths and challenges for antibiotic vectorisation

Offered oral - Nitric oxide-mediated biofilm dispersal in Pseudomonas aeruginosa is inhibited by flavohemoglobin and enhanced by imidazole

Conference supper

Conference supper

Saturday 09 September

Targeting and killing of Pseudomonas aeruginosa by protein antibiotics

Pseudomonas aeruginosa transcriptome during human infection

Offered oral - Network analysis of differential metabolic profiles exhibited by antibiotic resistant Pseudomonas aeruginosa

Offered oral - The role of Psts in Pseudomonas aeruginosa biofilm formation

Closing remarks