NYBIG Conference 2023

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Information & Acknowledgments

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. 

NYBIG would like to thank the following groups and organizations for their support of the meeting: New York University, the Department of Biology at NYU, Columbia University, and the Department of Microbiology and Immunology at Columbia University.

Organizers: Patrick Eichenberger, Jonathan Dworkin, Enrique Rojas

Please direct questions to: pe19@nyu.edu

 

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Session I - Chair: Patrick Eichenberger (NYU)
Time Presenter (Institution)
Presentation Title
Taylor Updegrove (Ramamurthi lab, NIH)
Cell-cell communication enhances phenotypic heterogeneity in differentiating bacteria
Brock Nelson (Lupoli Lab, NYU)
C-terminal modification on J-domains leads to attenuated chaperone function
Noam Grunfeld (Libby Lab, Northeastern)
Active learning and synthetic biosensors for studying and predicting kinase targets
Samuel Adeleye (Yadavalli Lab, Rutgers)
Queuosine biosynthetic enzyme (QueE) moonlights as a cell division regulator
Katrina Callan (Feaga Lab, Cornell)
The proteolysis activity of ribosome rescue pathways is required for sporulation in B. subtilis
Tithi Banerjee (Belasco Lab, NYU Langone)
mRNA degradation by RNase E: examining the dynamics of a molecular zipliner one molecule at a time
Paola Bardetti (Rojas Lab, NYU)
A mechanical finger-trap mechanism enables bacterial cell width homeostasis
Lunch Break
Session II - Chair: Rico Rojas (NYU)
Time Presenter (Institution)
Presentation Title
KEYNOTE: Samantha Bell (PHRI, Rutgers)
Macrophages detect phagosome damage to destroy Mycobacterium tuberculosis
Sathya Nagarajan (Dworkin Lab, Columbia)
Gene expression during nutrient limitation
Christian Baca (Marraffini Lab, Rockefeller)
Cam1 mediates membrane depolarization to provide phage defense during the Type III CRISPR-Cas immune response
Franklin Roman Rodriguez (Boyd Lab, Rutgers)
Examining the effects of Pseudomonas aeruginosa secondary metabolites on Staphylococcus aureus transcriptional networks
Joshua Brewer (Darst Lab, Rockefeller)
Structural basis for bacterial RNA polymerase post-termination complexes and their disruption by the Swi2/Snf2 ATPase RapA via a clamp opening mechanism
Coffee Break
Session III - Chair: Jonathan Dworkin (Columbia University)
Time Presenter (Institution)
Presentation Title
Eugenie Dubnau (Dubnau Lab, PHRI)
Formation of a stable RNase Y-RicT (YaaT) complex requires RicA (YmcA) and RicF (YlbF)
Ana Djukovic (Xavier Lab, MSKCC)
The impact of antibiotics and gut microbiome on the host’s kynurenine pathway
Spencer Hobson-Gutierrez (Kussell Lab, NYU)
Evolutionary advantage of cell size control in bacteria
Surya Aggarwal (Weiser Lab, NYU Langone)
BlpC-mediated selfish program leads to rapid loss of Streptococcus pneumoniae clonal diversity during infection
Luke Henry (Ayroles Lab, Princeton, and Bergelson Lab, NYU)
Host evolutionary history and ecological context modulate the adaptive potential of the microbiome in Drosophila melanogaster
Kelly Eckartt (Dietrich Lab, Columbia)
Light affects the interplay between aerobic respiration and denitrification in Pseudomonas aeruginosa biofilms
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