The NY/BIG conference is a meeting of Bacillus researchers located in the Northeastern United States.
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.
| Time | Presenter (Institution) Presentation Title |
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| Deepti Mathur (Xavier Lab, SKI) Diversification and evolution of vancomycin-resistant Enterococcus faecium during intestinal domination |
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| Bryan Wang (Dietrich lab, Columbia) Roles of R-bodies in Pseudomonas aeruginosa biofilm formation and pathogenicity |
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| Thomas Delerue (Ramamurthi lab, NIH) AAA+ chaperone that drives bacterial cell surface morphogenesis |
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| Heather Feaga (Dworkin lab, Columbia) Role of ribosome dimerization in B. subtilis |
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| Simon Diez (Dworkin lab, Columbia) (p)ppGpp inhibits translation initation during stationary phase in Bacillus subtilis |
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| Bentley Shuster (Eichenberger lab, NYU Biology) An analysis of B.subtilis spore surface properties |
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| Lunch Break |
| Time | Presenter (Institution) Presentation Title |
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| KEYNOTE: Rico Rojas (NYU) Physical regulation of bacterial growth, division and survival |
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| Phil Nussenzweig (Marraffini lab, Rockefeller) Cas9 cleavage of viral genomes generates immunological memories during the type II CRISPR-Cas response |
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| Suparat Giengkam (Salje lab, PHRI) Bacterial differentiation in an obligate intracellular pathogen |
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| Alex Jaramillo Cartagena (Darst lab, Rockefeller) Structural and mechanistic studies of Crl: an unconventional bacterial transcription activator |
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| Georgia Isom (Ekiert lab, NYU Med) Deciphering a mechanism of (MCE) ILipid transport for the bacterial outer membrane |
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| Coffee Break | |
| 3:45 pm |
Sam Becker (Darwin lab, NYU Med) The Mycobacterium tuberculosis proteasome regulates nitrate metabolism through an essential protein quality control system |
| Felix Adusei-Danso (Dubnau lab, PHRI) Arrangement and roles of B. subtilis Ric-complex Fe-S clusters |
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| Peter McKenney (Pamer lab, SKI) Intestinal bile acids induce a morphotype switch in vancomycin-resistant Enterococcus that facilitates intestinal colonization |
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| Antun Skanata (Kussell lab, NYU Biology) Benefits of phenotypic memory in fluctuating environments |
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| Stefan Pukatzki (University of Colorado School of Medicine) Cholera's Orphans: A tale of bacterial immunity |
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| Reception (CGSB Lobby) |