* denotes Chairperson and Speaker
Symposia
Global control in prokaryotes
Speakers:
Claudio Gualerzi, Italy*
Steve Busby, UK*
Anne Francez-Charlot, Switzerland
Paolo Landini, Italy
Environmental prokaryotes shaping global C and N cycles
Speakers:
Antje Boetius, Germany*
Boran Kartal, The Netherlands*
Samantha Joye, USA
Graeme Nicol, UK
Signalling in bacteria
Speakers:
Urs Jenal, Switzerland*
Michael T. Laub, USA*
Lotte Sogaard-Andersen, Germany
Judith Armitage, UK
Secretion in pathogens
Speakers:
Christoph Dehio, Switzerland*
Olaf Schneewind, USA*
Guy Cornelis, Switzerland
Gabriel Waksman, UK
Innate immunity: activation and resistance mechanisms
Speakers:
Friedrich Götz, Germany*
Birgitta Henriques-Normark, Sweden*
Mikael Skurnik, Finland
Jolanta Lukasiewicz, Poland
Microbial communities
Supported by an unrestricted educational grant from Elsevier B.V.
Speakers:
Ian Head, UK*
Tim Urich, Austria*
Lars Peter Nielsen, Denmark
Alban Ramette, Germany
Communication among microorganisms and its biotechnological implications
Speakers:
Leo Eberl, Switzerland*
Axel Brakhage, Germany*
Michael Givskov, Denmark
Mireille van Damme, UK
Lab-on-a chip
Speakers:
Jacques Schrenzel, Switzerland*
Elisabeth Verpoorte, The Netherlands*
Robert Austin, USA
Thomas Laurell, Sweden
Single cell microbiology
Speakers:
Marcel Kuypers, Germany*
Martin Ackermann, Switzerland*
Michael Wagner, Austria
Tanja Woyke, USA
Bacterial chromosome: structure and segregation
Speakers:
Frédéric Boccard, France*
David Z. Rudner, USA*
David Sherratt, UK
Stephen Bell, UK
Horizontal gene transfer
Speakers:
Fernando de la Cruz, Spain*
Jean-Pierre Claverys, France*
Soren J. Sorensen, Denmark
David Dryden, UK
Metagenomics
Speakers:
Jun Wang, China*
Florent Angly, Australia*
Peer Bork, Germany
Christian von Mering, Switzerland
Experimental evolution: deciphering the evolutionary pathways of bacteria
Speakers:
Richard Lenski, USA*
Catherine Masson-Boivin, France*
Soeren Molin, Denmark
Dominique Schneider, France
Synthetic microbiology
Speakers:
Victor De Lorenzo, Spain*
Andres Moya, Spain*
Oscar P. Kuipers, The Netherlands
Sven Panke, Switzerland
Mycobacteria causing human chronic infections
Speakers:
Sebastian Gagneux, Switzerland*
John D. McKinney, Switzerland*
Sabine Ehrt, USA
Christophe Guilhot, France
The gut microbiota: role in health and diseases. Supported by an unrestricted educational grant from Nestle
Speakers:
Wolf-Dieter Hardt, Switzerland*
Nichole Broderick, Switzerland*
Fredrik Bäckhed, Sweden
Gerard Eberl, France
Biogeochemistry
Speakers:
Andreas Kappler, Germany*
Karsten Pedersen, Sweden*
Kirsten Küsel, Germany
Bo Thamdrup, Denmark
Energy limitation
Speakers:
Bernhard Schink, Germany*
Caroline Plugge, The Netherlands*
Heribert Insam, Austria
Diana Sousa, Portugal
Biochemistry of anaerobes
Speakers:
Wolfgang Buckel, Germany*
Alexander Netrusov, Russia*
Matthias Boll, Germany
Ines Pereira, Portugal
Small regulatory RNAs
Speakers:
Pascale Romby, France*
Jörg Vogel, Germany*
Carin K. Vanderpool, USA
Wade Winkler, USA
Autophagy: surviving infection by self-destruction
Speakers:
William Jackson, USA*
Mathias Faure, France*
Felix Randow, UK
Christian Münz, Switzerland
E. coli pathotypes
Speakers:
Erick Denamur, France*
Joerg Hacker, Germany*
Ilan Rosenshine, Israel
Structure-function relationships of viral polymerases
Speakers:
Nuria Verdaguer, Spain*
Bruno Canard, France*
Matthias Gotte, Canada
Juan Ortin, Spain
Viral ecology and evolution
Speakers:
Angus Buckling, UK*
Santiago Elena, Spain*
Oliver Pybus, UK
Simon Wain-Hobson, France
Emerging microbial infections
Speakers:
Alexander Plyusnin, Finland*
Didier Raoult, France*
Noel Tordo, France
Laurent Poirel, France
Human genome and microbial sensitivity
Speakers:
Luiz Quintana-Murci, France*
Amalio Telenti, Switzerland*
Luis Barreiro, USA
Ingileif Jonsdottir, Iceland
Plant-microbe interactions
Speakers:
Pierre de Wit, The Netherlands*
Julia A. Vorholt, Switzerland*
Jens Boch, Germany
Martijn Rep, The Netherlands
The impact of gene sequence data on taxonomy - more confusion or finally a solution?
Sponsored by the Bergey's Manual Trust
Speakers:
Peter Kämpfer, Germany*
Paul De Vos, Belgium*
Ramon Rossello-Mora, Spain
Herve Tettelin, USA
New trends in yeast biotechnology
Speakers:
Danilo Porro, Italy*
Andriy Sibirny, Ukraine*
Anastasia Krivoruchko, Sweden
Dietchard Mattanovich, Austria
Fungi and responses to medically important environments
Speakers:
Alistair Brown, UK*
Stanley Brul, The Netherlands*
Jean-Paul Latge, France
Christoph Schuller, Austria
Workshops
Metals and microbes
Speakers:
Nigel Robinson, UK*
Pierre Cornelis, Belgium*
Interactions of bacteria with protozoans and macrophages
Speakers:
Gilbert Greub, Switzerland*
Michelle Swanson, USA*
Fungal development
Speakers:
Gerhard Braus, Germany*
Luis Corrochano, Spain*
Secondary metabolites and metabolomics
Speakers:
Gregory L. Challis, UK*
Carsten Paul, Germany*
Extreme environments
Speakers:
Kjeld Ingvorsen, Denmark*
Dimitri Y. Sorokin, Russia*
Antibiotic resistance and resistome
Speakers:
Jose Luis Martínez, Spain*
Gerard D. Wright, Canada*
Bacterial biofilms
Speakers:
Tim Tolker-Nielsen, Denmark*
Iñigo Lasa, Spain*
Pollutant degradation: hidden microbial potential in nature to combat pollutants
Speakers:
Jiri Damborsky, Czechia*
Juan Luis Ramos, Spain*
CRISPR-Based Immunity in Prokaryotes and Microbial Cell Biology
Speakers:
Philippe Horvath, France*
John van der Oost, The Netherlands*
Toxin / antitoxin: activities and functions
Speakers:
Kenn Gerdes, UK*
Laurence Van Melderen, Belgium*
High-throughput approaches
Speakers:
Eliora Ron, Israel*
Dirk Bumann, Switzerland*
Bacterial population genetics
Speakers:
Igor Mokrousov, Russia*
Martin C. Maiden, UK*
Microbial cell structure
Speakers:
Leendert W. Hamoen, UK*
Tâm Mignot, France*
Mobile genetic elements
Speakers:
Michael Chandler, France*
Didier Mazel, France*
Metagenomics in the environment
Speakers:
Helmut Buergmann, Switzerland*
Francisco Rodriguez-Valera, Spain*
New vaccine design
Speakers:
Marco Vignuzzi, France*
Hans Wolf, Germany*
Intracellular survival
Speakers:
Frank Lafont, France*
Pascale Cossart, France*
Applied metagenomics
Speakers:
Wolfgang Liebl, Germany*
Sara Sjöling, Sweden*
Microbial persistence and chronic infections
Speakers:
Eshwar Mahenthiralingam, UK*
Gerd Döring, Germany*
Food microbiology
Speakers:
Martin Loessner, Switzerland*
Siegfried Scherer, Germany*