NY/BIG Conference 2017
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The NY/BIG conference is a meeting of Bacillus researchers located in the Northeastern United States. It will be held June 8, 2017 from 10:00AM-6:10PM in the auditorium of NYU's Center for Genomics and Systems Biology, 12 Waverly Place, NYC.
Chair - Patrick Eichenberger (NYU)
| 10:00 | Jeanne Salje (MORU/Oxford & Hang lab, Rockefeller): “The cell biology of the obligate intracellular human pathogen Orientia tsutsugamushi” | |
| 10:20 | Hilary Monaco (Xavier lab, Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center): “Cell-cell communication and metabolic prudence in colonies of P. aeruginosa " | |
| 10:40 | Valerie Carabetta (Dubnau lab, PHRI): " Does HBsu acetylation regulate nucleoid structure in bacteria?" | |
| 11:00 | John Buglino (Glickman lab, Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center): “Control of M. tuberculosis virulence by RIP” | |
| 11:20 | Christopher Thoroughgood (Dworkin lab, Columbia): “IreK: A serine/threonine kinase in Enterococcus faecalis and its relationship with the bacterial cell wall” | |
| 11:40 | Nora Pyenson (Marraffini lab, Rockefeller): "Broad targeting specificity during type III CRISPR-Cas immunity constrains viral escape” | |
| 12:00 | Lunch Break |
Chair - Jonathan Dworkin (Columbia University)
| 1:30 | KEYNOTE: Aimee Shen (Tufts) "To Spores and Back: Spore Formation and Germination in Clostridium difficile” | |
| 2:00 | Bentley Shuster (Eichenberger lab, NYU): “An analysis of spore adhesion properties in Bacillus subtilis” | |
| 2:20 | Sung Cheol Kim (Meyer lab, IBM): “Quantitative modeling of spatio-temporal properties of enzyme clusters” | |
| 2:40 | Peter Setlow (UConn): "Effects of Black Silicon Nanopillars on the Viability of Growing Cells and Dormant Spores of Bacillus Species" | |
| 3:00 | Christine Diethmaier (Dubnau lab, PHRI): "Bacillus subtilis flagella as mechanosensors for the K-state" | |
| 3:20 | Jin Young Kang (Darst lab, Rockefeller): “Structural basis of transcription arrest by coliphage HK022 nun in an Escherichia coli RNA polymerase elongation complex” | |
| 3:40 | Coffee Break |
Chair - Patrick Eichenberger (NYU)
| 4:10 | Mingzhi Lin (Kussell lab, NYU): “Homologous recombination in bacterial genomes” | |
| 4:30 | Natalia Orlova (Jeruzalmi lab, CUNY): " Structural and biochemical studies of the DNA replication initiation mechanism of the second chromosome in Vibrio cholerae.” | |
| 4:50 | Manisha Vaish (Krulwich lab, Mount Sinai): “The Alkaliphilic Side of Staphylococcus aureus” | |
| 5:10 | David Zuckerman (Iona): “Identifying the slime secretion apparatus of Myxococcus xanthus" | |
| 5:30 | Konstanze Schiessl (Dietrich lab, Columbia) “How resource gradients result in resilience - causes and consequences of metabolic heterogeneity in Pseudomonas aeruginosa biofilms” | |
| 5:50 | Jinyuan Yan (Xavier lab, Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center): “Bow-tie signaling in c-di-GMP regulation of biofilm and swarming in Pseudomonas aeruginosa” | |
| 6:10 | Wine & Cheese Reception |
NYU Center For Genomics and Systems Biology, Auditorium
12 Waverly Place
New York, NY 10003
Quick Bite Areas
8th Street (Sandwiches, Pizza, Soup & Salad)
Waverly Area (Wraps, Crepe)
Sit Down Dining Areas
University Pl. (Thai, Mexican, Asian, Italian)
St. Marks Pl. (Mexican, Burgers, Asian)
W. Houston St. (Italian, American)
NY/BIG would like to thank the following groups and organizations for their support of the meeting: New York University, the Department of Biology at NYU, the Center for Genomics and Systems Biology at NYU, Columbia University, and the Department of Microbiology and Immunology at Columbia University.