The New York Bacillus Interest Group (NYBIG!) is an annual symposium for students and postdocs from the New York City area and beyond to present their research related to fundamental molecular microbiology and prokaryotic cell biology. This year's meeting will be held virtually.
- Organizers: Patrick Eichenberger, Jonathan Dworkin, Enrique Rojas
- Please direct questions to: pe19@nyu.edu
- Please register online for the Zoom link. See schedule for Thursday and Friday below:
| Time | Presenter (Institution) Presentation Title |
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| 9:00 am | Welcome |
| 9:05 am | Barbara Bosch (Rock lab, Rockefeller)
Genome-wide titration of essential gene expression reveals diverse vulnerabilities of Mycobacterium tuberculosis
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| 9:25 am | Angela DeMarco (Setlow lab, UConn)
Let’s execute the Firmicute (spores)
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| 9:45 am | Thomas Delerue (Ramamurthi lab, NIH)
Post-translational bacterial developmental checkpoint that directly monitors cell surface morphogenesis
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David Zuckerman (Zuckerman lab, Iona)
The bacM gene of Myxococcus xanthus encodes two start codons used independently to generate BacM isoforms
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Hesper Rego (Yale)
Keynote: The single-cell behavior of mycobacteria at short and long timescales
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| 10:50 am | Break |
| 11:05 am | Shakti Ingle (Bechhofer lab, Mount Sinai)
Discovery and characterization of a novel B. subtilis ribonuclease
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| 11:25 am | Guy Mason (Rojas lab, NYU)
Mechanical compression induces persistent bacterial growth during bacteriophage predation |
| 11:45 am | Karla Esquilin-Lebron (Boyd lab, Rutgers)
YlaN functions in Fe homeostasis in Bacillus subtills and Staphylococcus aureus |
| 12:05 pm | Brian Wendel (Helmann lab, Cornell) Bacillus subtilis as a model for osmoadaptation
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| 12:25 pm | Tetsuhiro Harimoto (Danino lab, Columbia)
Engineering bacteria cancer therapy with synthetic biology |
| 12:45 pm | Mark MacRae (Ekiert lab, NYU)
Structural insights into bacterial phospholipid transport for outer membrane maintenance |
| Time | Presenter (Institution) Presentation Title |
|---|---|
| 9:00 am | Welcome |
| 9:05 am | Jeanette Hahn (Dubnau lab, PHRI)
Proteins needed for the uptake of transforming DNA to the periplasm of B. subtilis
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| 9:25 am | Bryan Wang (Dietrich lab, Columbia)
Pseudomonas aeruginosa produces R-bodies, extendable protein polymers with roles in host colonization and virulence
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Hannah Prensky (Lopatkin lab, Barnard)
Conjugation dynamics depend on the plasmid acquisition cost in addition to the fitness cost
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Sherin Kannoly (Dennehy lab, Queens/CUNY)
Effect of lysis time and its noise on lambda phage burst size
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Tania Lupoli (NYU)
Keynote: Exploring new modes of inhibition for bacterial chaperones
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| 10:50 am | Break |
Kevin Sia (Xavier lab, SKI)
Leveraging inter-strain competition to attenuate disease caused by C. difficile
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Mehdi Benmassaoud
(Carabetta lab, Rowan)
Antimicrobial peptide screening to develop Staphylococcal-resistant films |
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Pierre Dupuy (Glickman lab, SKI)
A multilayered repair system protects the mycobacterial chromosome from endogenous and antibiotic-induced oxidative damage
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Simon Diez (Dworkin lab, Columbia)
Mechanistic basis of phenotypic variation during quiescence in B. subtilis
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Glenn Capodagli
(Neiditch lab, Rutgers) Structure–function studies of Rgg binding to pheromones and target promoters reveal a model of transcription factor interplay |