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Seminars

Archives 2010 - 2024: Seminars and Events

12 January 10:30 D02.1549 Dr. David R. Johnson Swiss Federal Institute of Aquatic Science and Technology (Eawag)
Department of Environmental Microbiology
“Pattern formation, phage predation, and the spread of antibiotic resistance” Kimberly Kline  
11 March 12:15  P. Boymond  

 

     
14 March 12:15 P.Boymond TBA

 

     
19 March 12:15 A.Renold Dr. Marvin Whiteley

Georgia Tech

School of biological science

USA

Building highly accurate preclinical models for infection and antimicrobial studies Kimberly Kline  
25 March 12:15 J-L. Reverdin Philippe Bastin Institut Pasteur Stitching 1,000 pieces together: the challenge of making a flagellum Mathieu Brochet

 

15 April 12:15 J-L. Reverdin Prof. Dr. Markus Seeger Institute of Medical Microbiology
AVƵ of Zurich
The mycobacterial MFS transporter Rv1410 and the periplasmic lipoprotein LprG  play hand in hand to export apolar triacylglycerides Thierry Soldati  
17 April 10:15 P.Boymond  Prof Martha Merrow

The Institute of Medical Psychology,

The AVƵ of Munchen 

“Circadian clocks in prokaryotes: what do they do and why do they do it?”

Patrick Viollier

Co-host Charna Dibner

 
18 April 12:15 S4/S5 Prof Ian Henderson

Institute for Molecular Bioscience

The AVƵ of Queensland
Host lipids define niche specific colonisation of salmonella Kimberly Kline  
22 April 12:15 J-L. Reverdin Dr Molly Ingersoll

Institut Cochin & Institut Pasteur

Mucosal immunity to infection in the bladder Kimberly Kline  
29 April 12:15  P.Boymond Dr Alisa Garaeva Institute of Medical Microbiology
AVƵ of Zurich
Revealing the function and structure of membrane transporters to target cancer and tuberculosis

Amandine Guérin

 

2 May 12:15 P.Boymond Dr. Katy Pastras

Baylor College of Medicine

Houston, Texas, USA

Gestational diabetes disrupts maternal immunity and the vaginal microbiota to promote bacterial infection Kimberly Kline  
13 May 12:15  P.Boymond Dr Lisa Bauer

Erasmus MC, Department of Viroscience

Rotterdam, Netherlands

The neuroinvasive, neurotropic and neurovirulent potential of respiratory viruses Caroline Tapparel  
27 May 12:15  P.Boymond : Prof Partho Ghosh AVƵ of California, San Diego, USA Conserved 3D patterns in M proteins as Strep A vaccine immunogens Kimberly Kline  
3 June 12:15 J-L Reverdin Prof Peter Preiser Nanyang Technological AVƵ (NTU), Singapore Discovering new target space for the development of drugs against malaria parasites Dominique Soldati  
10 June 12:15 P.Boymond Till Voss Head of Malaria Gene Regulation Lab
Deputy Head of Department
Swiss Tropical & Public Health Institute
Department of Medical Parasitology and Infection Biology
"A welcome twist for basic and applied research on malaria transmission stages" Mathieu Brochet  
24 June 12:15

P.Boymond

       
2 September 12:15 D60          
16 September 12:15 A.Renold          
30 September 12:15  P.Boymond

Prof Cristina E. Alvarez-Martinez

30th September

Cristina E. Alvarez-Martinez

Associate Professor

Departamento de Genética, Evolução, Microbiologia e Imunologia

Instituto de Biologia - UNICAMP

Campinas, Brazil

Resistance to amoeba predation mediated by a protein injection nanomachine  in Xanthomonas  citri Soldati  
21 October 12:15 P.Boymond Prof Kathleen Ryan
Seminar 21st October

Associate Professor and Vice-Chair for Instruction

Plant & Microbial Biology

UC Berkeley, USA

Caulobacter adapts to the loss of lipid A using an alternative lipid and envelope stress responses Patrick Viollier  
28 October 12:15 J-L Reverdin

Prof Alexandre Harms
Flyer 28th October

Laboratory of Molecular Phage Biology, ETH Zurich

“Molecular phage biology: the known, the unknown, and the unknown unknown” Thilo Kohler  
11 November 12:15  P.Boymond Dr Kai Thormann
Seminar 11th November
Institute for Microbiology and Molecular Biology, AVƵ of Giessen Phage Tales Patrick Viollier  
25 November 12:15 J-L Reverdin

Tridib Mahata

Seminar 25th November 2024

Prof Udi Qimron Lab

Department of Clinical Microbiology and Immunology

School of Medicine

"A Never Ending War"
Recent publication:
Gamma-Mobile-Trio systems are mobile elements rich in bacterial
 defensive and offensive tools
Tridib M et al  Nat Microbiol  . 2024 Oct 23.
Dominique Soldati  
2 December 11:15 A.Mueller

Dr Eva Frickel

Seminar 2nd December 2024

Institute of Microbiology and Infection

School of Biosciences

AVƵ of Birmingham

Birmingham, UK

«Human GBP1 controls pathogens and is regulated by the kinase PIM1 to ensure uninfected bystander cell survival»

Dominique Soldati  
5 December 11:15 P.Boymond Philipp DK. Walch, Ph.D

Broz lab  |  Department of Immunobiology  |  AVƵ of Lausanne

Systems Approaches in Co-Infections: How viral and bacterial pathogens impact and rewire their hosts innate immune response Dominique Soldati  
9 December 12:15 P.Boymond Professor Carlos Orihuela AVƵ of Alabama Birmingham

There are Holes in my Heart! : Dissecting the Molecular basis of Cardiac Injury and Adverse Cardiac Events during Invasive Pneumococcal Disease

Kimberly Kline

 

16 January 12:00  D60          
30 January 12:00    P. Boymond

Wolfram R.Zückert  

Flyer MIMOL Conf 30.01.23.pdf

AVƵ of Kansas School of Medicine,

KU Medical Center, Kansas City, Kansas, USA

 «An Emerging Dichotomy between Lipoprotein Sorting and Secretion Pathways in Borrelia Spirochetes»

Patrick Viollier   
13 February 12:00   P. Boymond           
27 February  12:00 

CMU – Auditoire Alex-F. Müller (A250)

Dr. Lucie Etienne 

Centre International de Recherche en Infectiologie (CIRI)

INSERM U1111 - CNRS UMR5308 - Université Lyon 

Functional diversification of the antiviral immunity in bats and primates  Mirco Schmolke  
13 March 12:15  S4/S5   Zemer Gitai Department of Molecular Biology, Princeton AVƵ, USA  Combatting bacterial pathogenesis: from single-cell sequencing to novel antibiotics Kimberly Kline   
27 March 12:15   P.BOYMOND   Dr. Axel Innis  Institut Européen de Chimie et Biologie (IECB) AVƵ of Bordeaux The bacterial ribosome as a small molecule sensor Kimberly Kline   
3 April 12:15 J-L. Reverdin Prof Shu-Sin Chng

Department of Chemistry

Faculty of Science

National AVƵ of Singapore

Bacterial lipid trafficking and outer membrane homeostasis

Patrick Viollier  
17 April 12:15   J-L. Reverdin           
30 May 11:00 Alex-F. Müller (A250)

Benjamin Liffner

Flyer MIMOL Conf 30.05.23.pdf

Absalon Lab

Department of Pharmacology and Toxicology

Indiana AVƵ School of Medicine

Investigating development of malaria parasites in the mosquito using expansion microscopy Amandine Guérin  
31 May 11:30   Franceschetti

6 different speakers 

Symposium MIMOL 2023 - finale.pdf

MIMOL DEPARTEMENT  MIMOL-MINI-SYMPOSIUM     
15 May 12:15   P. Boymond           
5 June 12:15    J-L. Reverdin          
19 June 12:15   J-L. Reverdin 

Dr. Raphaël Rachedi

Flyer MIMOL Conf 19.06.23.pdf

Equipe de la Professeure Amel Latifi

Laboratoire de Chimie Bactérienne (LCB) – CNRS – Marseille 

New insights into the regulation of heterocyst formation and patterning in diazotrophic cyanobacteria

Gaël Panis   
6 September 10:00 A04.3018

Dr. Jessica Kajfasz

Flyer MIMOL Conf 06.09.23.pdf

Research Assistant Professor

AVƵ of Florida, College of Dentistry, USA

«Exploring the role of metal trafficking in the pathophysiology of Streptococcus mutans»  Cristina Colomer Winter   
11 September  12:15    J-L. Reverdin

Dr Abderrahman Hachani  

Flyer MIMOL Conf 11.09.23.pdf

Peter Doherty Institute for Infection and Immunity (AVƵ of Melbourne)

A novel screening platform reveals clinical mutations in Staphylococcus aureus that promote intracellular persistence Martina Valentini   
25 September  12:15     J-L. Reverdin  Free        
 9 October 12:15    P. Boymond  Audrey Reuter

INRAE Centre de Recherche Clermont-Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes

Targeted-antibacterial-plasmids (TAPs) combining conjugation and CRISPR/Cas systems achieve strain-specific antibacterial activity Patrick Viollier   
23 October   12:15   J-L. Reverdin  Pre Leann Tilley  Bio21 Institute (AVƵ of Melbourne)  Malaria parasites: Sexual morphogenesis, mitotic mayhem and metabolic hijacking  Mathieu Brochet   
30 October 14:00 J-L. Reverdin  Dr Jérémie LE PEN The Rockfeller AVƵ, New York, USA From nematodes to humans: a journey through host-virus interactions Dominique Soldati-Favre  
 6 November 12:15     P. Boymond  Free        
 20 November 12:15    P. Boymond

Dr. Luis Miguel RODRIGUEZ-R

Flyer MIMOL CONF 20.11.2023

Department of Microbiology and Digital Science Center (DiSC), AVƵ of Innsbruck, Austria

 A Census-Based Microbial Ecology with Genome-Resolved Metagenomics  Roberto Sierra   
4 December  12:15    P. Boymond

Thibault Mayor

Flyer MIMOL Conf 04.12.23

Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology

AVƵ of British Columbia

Proteins in time: Unravelling the Secrets of Insolubility upon Aging and Chaperone Interactions Martine Collart  
13 December 15:00 Alex-F. Müller (A250)

Dr. Franziska Hentzschel

Flyer MIMOL Conf 13.12.23

Parasitology unit

Universität Heidelberg

A non-canonical Arp2/3 complex is essential for male DNA segregation and Plasmodium development in the mosquito Lorenzo Brusini  
7 February 2:00 PM Mix mode

Prof. Mohamed-ali Hakimi

Seminar_Hakimi.pdf

 
IAB - Institute for Advanced Biosciences
Université Grenoble Alpes
 
Epigenetic reprogramming of Toxoplasma sexual development in vitro, using the MORC/HDAC3 complex as a cornerstone Dominique Soldati-Favre

14 February      free        
28 February  4:00 PM Zoom Asst. Prof. Despoina Mavridou The AVƵ of Texas at Austin (Austin, USA) Extra-cytoplasmic protein folding & antibiotic resistance Valentini Martina
14 March  12:00 Zoom Prof. Rolf Kümmerli AVƵ of Zurich (Zurich, CH)  Evolutionary microbiology: siderophore production & social interactions Thilo Köhler
21 March 12:00 Zoom Dr Emma Hodcroft AVƵ of Bern Two Years In: Phylogenetics, Variant Tracking, & the Future of the Pandemic Caroline Tapparel  
28 March      free        
11 April  4:00 PM Zoom

Asst. Prof. Shaon Sengupta

Seminar_Sengupta.pdf

Children Hospital (Philadelphia, USA) Circadian regulation of lung inflammation: the clock is ticking! Caroline Tapparel
9 May      free        
16 May 4:00 PM   Zoom

Prof David Sibley 

Flyer MIMOL Conf 16.5.22.pdf

Department of Molecular Microbiology

Washington AVƵ School of Medicine, St. Louis, Missouri (US)

Disruption of interferon signaling by Toxoplasma”    Dominique Soldati-Favre / Mathieu Brochet  
23 May      free        
13 June 4:30 PM   J-L. Reverdin  

Martin Bushell

Flyer MIMOL Conf 13.6.22.pdf

AVƵ of Glasgow  "The roles of the eIF4A paralogs in determining mRNA and cellular fate decisions." Martine Collart   
27 June 11:30  Boymond 

Dr. Moritz Treeck

Flyer MIMOL Conf 27.6.22.pdf

Signalling in Apicomplexan Parasites Laboratory

The Francis Crick Institute, London  (United Kingdom)

How intracellular parasites remodel your cells to their needs Dominique Soldati-Favre / Mathieu Brochet  
22 August 10:30 J-L. Reverdin

Prof Chris Tonkin

Flyer MIMOL Conf 22.8.22.pdf

Division of Infectious Disease and Immune Defence

The Walter and Eliza Hall Institute of Medical Research

Mechanisms of Toxoplasma environmental sensing and differentiation into latent stages

Dominique Soldati-Favre  
29 August 12:00 Boymond Dr. Andrea Vettiger

Harvard Medical School | Blavatnik Institute 

Department of Microbiology

Boston, USA

Understanding bacterial cell envelope biogenesis one image at a time’ Patrick Viollier  
12 September      free        
26 September  12:00  Boymond

Kathi Fröhlich 

Flyer MIMOL Conf 26.9.22.pdf

Friedrich Schiller AVƵ Jena Sibling Team Work – Interplay of a family of regulatory RNAs with an RNA sponge in Caulobacter crescentus  Patrick Viollier  
10 October   12:00 A.Renold 

Paola Favuzza

Flyer MIMOL Conf 10.10.22.pdf

Walter and Eliza Hall Institute of Medical Research (WEHI), Melbourne, Australia  Dual Plasmepsin-Targeting Protease Inhibitors Disrupt Multiple Stages of the Malaria Parasite Life Cycle  Oscar Vadas   
24 October      free        
14 November 12:15 J-L. Reverdin  

Prof Simonetta Gribaldo

Flyer MIMOL Conf 14.11.22.pdf

 Head of Unit « Evolutionary Biology of the Microbial Cell»Department of MicrobiologyInstitut Pasteur, Paris Ore or two membranes ? Diderm Firmicutes illuminate the transition between Gram negative and Gram positive Bacteria   Martina Valentini   
28 November 12:15 Boymond  Elisabeth Sonnleitner  Max Perutz Labs AVƵ of Vienna    Impact of carbon catabolite repression on antibiotic resistance in Pseudomonas aeruginosa  Martina Valentini   
12 December 12:00 J-L. Reverdin  

Dr Yibo Wu

Flyer MIMOL Conf 12.12.22.pdf

Head of Proteomics Platform at CHEMBIOMS

AVƵ (Science Faculty)

"Multilayered omics reveal novel mechanisms of metabolism in liver and adipose tissue"   Martina Valentini   

 

DATE SPEAKER TITLE HOST INFORMATIONS
28.01.2019 Glenn Dale, Head of Antibiotic Research & Early Development, Polyphor Ltd, CH  

Murepavadin - Development of a pathogen specific antibiotic targeting P. aeruginosa

PV Dale
Tuesday 29.01.2019, 10-11, room B02.2226 Professor Markus Meissner, AVƵ of Glasgow, Institute of Infection, Immunity & Inflammation ‘The roles of Apicomplexan actin during motility, invasion and organellar development’ DSF  Meissner
04.02.2019        
11.02.2019        
18.02.2019  Paulo Tavares, I2BC, Gif sur Yvette Bacterial Cell Remodelling by Viral Infection PV &PL Tavares
25.02.2019        
04.03.2019        
11.03.2019        
18.03.2019 Juan A. Hermoso, Dept. Crystallography & Structural Biology.
Inst. Quimica-Fisica "Rocasolano". CSIC (Spanish National Research Council), Madrid, Spain
Structural Insights on Regulation of Bacterial Cell-Wall Remodeling PV &PL Hermoso
25.03.2019        
01.04.2019 Eduardo Rocha, Inst. Pasteur, Paris From Gene Transfer to Functional Innovation  PV &PL  Rocha
08.04.2019 Ilaria Piazza, Institute of Biochemistry, Department of Biology, ETH Zurich; Institute of Molecular Systems Biology, Department of Biology, ETH Zurich The microbial protein-metabolite interactome reveals principles of chemical communication  MB Piazza
15.04.2019  

Manlio DI CRISTINA PhD

 

Toxoplasma cysts rely on a lysosomal-like organelle to satisfy their appetite: characterization of nutrient exporters on the parasite VAC

 DSF DICRISTINA
22.04.2019   Lundi de Pâques, EASTER    
29.04.2019 Régis Hallez, Bacterial Cell cycle & Development (BCcD), Biology of Microorganisms Research Unit (URBM), Namur Research Institute for Life Science (NARILIS), AVƵ of Namur, Belgium Metabolic control of cell cycle and development in bacteria: find a nitrogen source or swim away PV Hallez
06.05.2019  François Vandenesch, Lyon Potentiel drivers of demographic fluctuation of community-acquired antibiotic-resistant Staphylococcus aureus JS&PL  Vandenesch
13.05.2019        
20.05.2019        
27.05.2019      PV  
03.06.2019 FORUM of the PhD School of Life Sciences/td>    
10.06.2019   Lundi de ʱԳٱôٱ    
17.06.2019 Benjamin EZRATY, Marseille Oxidized Proteins: Homeostasis of the DNA repair RecA protein is under redox control  PL&PV  Ezraty
24.06.2019 Leendert Hamoen, Faculty of Science, Swammerdam Institute for Life Sciences, Amsterdam A few thoughts on  Division without a cell wall & adder cell-size regulation with a cell wall  PV Hamoen
01.07.2019 Ronald Dijkman, Institute of Virology and Immunology, Vetsuisse, AVƵ of Berne Host-pathogen interactions in the respiratory epithelium  CT Dijkman
09.09.2019 Arnau Domenech, Université de Lausanne Antibiotic resistance in Streptococcus pneumoniae - from epidemiology to fundamental biology PL Domenech
16.09.2019 John McCarthy, AVƵ of Warwick Novel molecular architectures in theLeishmania translation machinery - potential drug targets? PL McCarthy
23.09.2019 Rebecca Corrigan,Department of Molecular Biology and Biotechnology, AVƵ of Sheffield Nucleotide signalling systems: Key players in bacterial stress adaptation PL Corrigan
30.09.2019 Fabien Darfeuille, Bordeaux Functional analysis of type I toxin-antitoxin systems in Helicobacter pylori PV Darfeuille
07.10.2019 Michal Wandel, Division of Protein and Nucleic Acid Chemistry, MRC Laboratory of Molecular Biolog, Cambridge Biomedical Campus,Cambridge Interferon-induced GTPases mediate anti-bacterial immunity PL Wandel
14.10.2019 Alexandra Gruss, Micalis Institute, INRA, AgroParisTech, Université Paris-Saclay, Jouy en Josas, France, Remodelling Staphylococcus aureus membranes with host fatty acids and consequences on antibiotic adaptation VK &PL Gruss
21.10.2019 Marc Graille, Ecole Polytechnique, Palaiseau, France Trm112, a toolbox protein for RNA methyltransferases PL Graille
28.10.2019 Pr Marc Lipsitch, Department of Epidemiolog, Department of Immunology and Infectious Diseases, Harvard T.H. Chan Why haven't antibiotic-resistant bacteria taken over the world? SH Lipsitch
04.11.2019        
11.11.2019 Frederic Allain, Institut fur Molekularbiologie und Biophysik, ETH Zurich Interaction of U1snRNP with drugs and RNA binding proteins in splicing regulation and neuro-muscular diseases PV &PL  
18.11.2019        
25.11.2019 Ilaria Di Resta, M.Sc.;IPMA| Medicines for Malaria Venture Associate Director Translational Medicine Defeating Malaria Together | www.mmv.org Clinical drugs development overview and Malaria challenges and opportunities DSF Di Resta
04.11.2019        
02.12.2019        
09.12.2019        
16.12.2019        
DATE SPEAKER TITLE HOST INFORMATIONS
08.01.2018 Jörg Jores, Vetsuisse Faculty, Univeristy of Bern Deciphering virulence traits of highly pathogenic Mycoplasma mycoides subsp. capri via synthetic genomics-based deletions PV Jores
15.01.2018 Gabriel Waksman, Department of Biological Sciences, Institute of Structural Biology, Birkbeck AVƵ of London Structural and Molecular Biology of Bacterial Secretion Systems PL Waksman
22.01.2018 Pilar Junier, Laboratory of Microbiology, Neuchatel

To spore or not to spore: bacterial survival revisited

PV Junier
29.01.2018 Module bactériologie
05.02.2018 Tracy Palmer, AVƵ Dundee The Staphylococcus aureus Type VII secretion system and interbacterial competition PL Palmer
12.02.2018 Module bactériologie
19.02.2018 Jean-Francois Collet, Université catholique de Louvain How bacteria protect their cell envelope PV Collet
26.02.2018 module bactériologie
05.03.2018 Benjamin Meyer,PEPperPRINT GmbH, Heidelberg, Germany MERS-CoV: Insights into an Emerging Virus PL Meyer
12.03.2018 Maude Guillier, CNRS, "Microbial Gene expression", Group "RNA control of gene expression", Paris Bacterial small regulatory RNAs unravel new modes of gene expression PL Guillier
19.03.2018
26.03.2018
02.04.2018 EASTER
09.04.2018

Sebastian Lourido, Assistant Professor at Massachusetts Institute of Technology Whitehead Institute Cambridge, Massachusetts

A functional-genomics guide to the mysteries of apicomplexans DSF Lourido
16.04.2018
23.04.2018
30.04.2018
07.05.2018 Nicolas Kint, Institut Pasteur, Paris

Role of the alternative sigma factor σB in adaptive strategies of Clostridium difficile during gut infection

PV Kint
14.05.2018
21.05.2018 PENTECOTE
23.05.2018, 13:00, room B02.2526 Geoffrey I. McFadden, Professor, School of Biosciences, AVƵ of Melbourne Can we build a genetic trap for drug resistant malaria DSF Mcfadden
28.05.2018 David R. Johnson, Swiss Federal Institute of Aquatic Science and Technology (Eawag), Dübendorf

The evolutionary and ecological consequences of microbial range expansion

PV Johnson
04.06.2018 Paul Hoskisson,Strathclyde Institute of Pharmacy and Biomedical Sciences,AVƵ of Strathclyde, Glasgow, UK

Generating genetic robustness and coping with life in soil – the Streptomyces way

PV Hoskisson
11.06.2018
18.06.2018 Philippe Glaser, Inst. Pasteur, Paris Genetic basis for the emergence and the global dissemination of antibiotic resistance clones MB Glaser
25.06.2018 Dr. Oliver Billker, Malaria Programme, Wellcome Trust Sanger Institute, Hinxton, Cambridgeshire CB10 1SA, UK Functional Profiling of a Plasmodium Genome DSF Billker
02.07.2018 Dr. Cara Ellison ,MRC Laboratory of Molecular Biology, Francis Crick Avenue, Cambridge,Biomedical Campus Investigating cytosolic defence against bacteria DSF Ellison
30.07.2018 Prof. Steve J. MATTHEWS, Life Sciences, Imperial College, London, Structural basis of specificity in mitochondrial lipid transport and its role in drug resistance” DSF Matthews
3.9.2018 Carmela Gilione, Institut de Biologie Intégrative de la Cellule Institut de Biologie Intégrative de la Cellule, Gif-sur-Yvette, France Function and dynamics of protein N-terminal modifications: from omics to drug discovery DSF GILIONE
10.9.2018 Amel Latifi, Laboratoire de Chimie bactérienne, Marseille

Cellular differentiation in Cyanobacteria: How Anabaena count to ten

MB
17.9.2018
24.9.2018
01.10.2018 Nicolas Personnic, Inst of Microbiology, ZH Legionella persistence and community behavior in its amoebal host Acanthamoeba castellanii PV Personnic
08.10.2018
Thursday 11.10.2018 Ross F. Waller, AVƵ of Cambridge, Department of Biochemistry, UK ‘Whole-cell spatial proteomics of apicomplexans: the parasite as we’ve never seen it before’ DSF Waller
15.10.2018
22.10.2018 Francois Trottein Institute Pasteur Lille The immunology of influenza and bacterial superinfection MSch Trottein
29.10.2018
05.11.2018 Mathieu Rougemaille, I2BC, Gif-sur Yvette RNA-binding proteins, protein ubiquitination and lncRNA in the control of sexual differentiation in fission yeast PL Rougemaille
12/13.11.2018

Pierre Genevaux (Toulouse, FR)

Jan-Willem Veening (Lausanne, CH)

Laurence van Melderen (Bruxelles, BE)

Jacques Schrenzel (Geneva, CH)

Thilo Köhler (Geneva, CH)

Sean Murray (Northridge, USA)

Jürg Dreier (Basel, CH)

Lauren Falquet (Fribourg, CH)

Adriana Renzoni (Geneva, CH)

Coralie Fumeaux (Harvard Medical School, USA)

BUGS, DRUGS AND TOXINS: Control With and Without Antibiotics - Do Bacteria Care? PV Bugs_drugs_ and_toxins
19.11.2018 Corina Beerli, AVƵ College London Vaccinia virus hijacks EGFR signalling to enhance virus spread through infected cell Motility MB Beerli
26.11.2018 Nicolas Vita, Laboratoire de Chimie bactérienne CNRS Marseille Cellulosomes and anaerobic plant cell wall degradation: Performant nanomachines and processes GP Vita
03.12.2018
10.12.2018 Catherine Merrick, AVƵ of Cambridge, UK The many cycles of Plasmodium falciparum: DNA replication and cell cycling in an unusual protozoan MB
DATE SPEAKER TITLE HOST INFORMATIONS
09.01.2017 Médéric Diard, ETHZ

Experimental micro-evolution of virulence and cooperative behaviors in pathogenic bacteria

PV & PL
13.01.2017 Neta Regev-Rudzki, Department of Biomolecular Sciences, Weizmann Institute of Science, Rehovot, Israel Malaria parasites regulate secretion of exosomes carrying distinct cargo DSF
16.01.2017 Bruno Lemaitre, EPFL The foreign within: Drosophila-Spiroplasma interaction as a model of insect endosymbiosis PV
23.01.2017 Siegfried Hapfelmeier,Institute for Infectious Diseases, Uni Bern Gut bacterial infection and immunity studied in defined gnotobiotic mouse models PL
30.01.2017 Melanie Blokesch, EPFL Pathoecology and evolution of the cholera-causing pathogen Vibrio cholerae PV
Thursday 02.02.2017 Sabine Brantl, Jena SR1- the first dual-function sRNA from Bacillus subtilis: Base-pairing and peptide functions PV&PL
06.02.2017 Benjamin Marsland The impact of the microbiome and immune maturation on lung diseases MS
13.02.2017 Maisonneuve Etienne, Laboratoire de Chimie Bactérienne, CNRS-Aix Marseille Université, Institut de Microbiologie de la Méditerranée, FR

Control of Bacterial Persistence and Stress Response by the Alarmone Synthetase SpoT

PV
06.03.2017 Grégory Resch, Department de Microbiologie Fondamentale, Université de Lausanne Phage-based therapies PV
13.03.2017 Laurent Poirel, Microbiologie Médicale et Moléculaire, Université de Fribourg Genetics of acquisition of carbapenemases PL
10.04.2017 Christiane Wolz, Institut für Med. Mikrobiologie und Hygiene, Tübingen The stringent response in S. aureus PL
24.04.2017 Kevin M. Devine, Smurfit Institute of Genetics,
Trinity College Dublin, Ireland
Cell wall anionic polymer metabolism in Bacillus subtilis as viewed through the porthole of the PhoPR two-component signal transduction system PL
08.05.2017 Alex Persat, EPFL Bacteria and their mechanical world: surface sensing and colonization PV
15.05.2017 Enrique Flores, Sevilla, Spain Multicellularity in filamentous cyanobacteria PV
22.05.2017 Leo Eberl, Department of Plant and Microbial Biology, AVƵ of Zürich Heretic aspects of quorum sensing and vesicle formation in bacteria PV
29.05.2017 Marc Creus, AVƵ Basel Tales of molecular evolution: exploring the origin of new enzymes and of antibiotic resistance PL
12.06.2017 Federica Briani, Università degli Studi di Milano, Dip. di Bioscienze Temperature-dependent regulation of the lpxT gene by a new RNA thermometer in Escherichia coli PL
19.06.2017 Charlotte Odendall,Faculty of Life Sciences and Medicine,King's College London Interferons: Tug of War between host and pathogen TS
26.06.2017 Katy Jeannot,Laboratory of Bacteriology, AVƵ Hospital Jean Minjoz, Besançon Polymyxins resistance in Gram negative bacteria PV
04.09.2017 Bavesh Kana. Witwatersrand AVƵ (South Africa)

Can peptidoglycan remodeling reveal novel drug targets and probe for phenotypic complexity in sputum-derived mycobacteria?

PL
11.09.2017 Elisa Galli, Institute for Integrative Biology of the Cell (I2BC), Université Paris-Saclay, CEA, Université Paris Sud, Gif sur Yvette,

Cell division licensing in Vibrio cholerae, a bacterium with a divided genome

BF
02.10.2017 Davide Losa, Department of Physiology and Metabolism, CMU Biogenesis of "public goods" and membrane vesicles in biofilm: an explosive “Staph” PV
09.10.2017 Martin Pilhofer, ETHZ, Zürich

Structure, function, and evolution of bacterial contractile injection systems

PV
16.10.2017 Miguel Soares, Instituto Gulbenkian de Ciência, Portugal Evolutionary loss of the α1,3-galactosyltransferase (α1,3GT/GGTA1) Gene Is Associated with Enhanced Resistance to Pathogens David Dubois & PhD students
30.10.2017 Dr. Pietro Alano Dipartimento di Malattie Infettive Istituto Superiore di Sanità 00161 Roma, Italy Low profile and hideouts in the transmission strategy of Plasmodium falciparum DSF & MB
06.11.2017 Laure Weisskopf, Université Fribourg The smell of bacteria and its impact on plant growth and health PV
13.11.2017 Prof. Olivier Vandenberg, MD, PhD
Department of Microbiology, LHUB-ULB, Pôle Hospitalier Universitaire de Bruxelles (PHUB), Université Libre de Bruxelles, Brussels, Belgium
Honorary Senior Research Associate, Division of Infection & Immunity, UCL, London, UK
Control of Infectious Diseases in the Era of European Clinical Microbiology Laboratories Consolidation: From the Patient to the Public Health Perspective JS
20.11.2017 Christian Lesterlin, Molecular Microbiology and Structural Biochemistry, Cell-to-cell DNA transfer in Bacteria, Lyon

Cell-to-cell DNA transfer in Bacteria

PV
27.11.2017 Cécile Morlot, Pneumococcus Group, Institut de Biologie Structurale, Grenoble The new kid on the block: a secretion-like hybrid complex involved in bacterial sporulatio PV
11.12.2017 Prof. Inari Kursula, Academy of Finland, Department of Biomedicine, AVƵ of Bergen, Norway Hybrid structural biology towards a molecular picture of the apicomplexan glideosome DSF
18.12.2017 Shawna McCallin. DMF, Unil Phage therapy for Staphylococcus aureus: who, how, when… and when not. PL

Contact: Patrick.Linder(at)unige.ch

DATE SPEAKER TITLE HOST INFORMATIONS
11.1.2016 Carmen Buchrieser, Inst. Pasteur, Paris, France Epigenetics and infection: Legionella pneumophila SETs the host chromatin landscape PL
25.1.2016
Big answers from small packages: systems and synthetic biology of microbes PV and Beat Christen
1.2.2016 Romain Mercier,Group Tam Mignot, LCB Marseille Biology of cell wall-free (L-form) bacteria and characterisation of an unexpected mode of proliferation in walled bacteria PV
TUESDAY, 9.2.2016; 11:30 Sophie Helaine,Imperial College,London UK Salmonella forms intracellular persisters with TacT PL
15.2.2016 Christoph Dehio, Biozentrum Basel Bacterial pathogenesis: Evolution of diversified host-targeted effectors from a widely-spread bacterial toxin/antitoxin system PV and PL
22.2.2016 David Bikard, Institut Pasteur, Paris Studying and Fighting Bacteria with the Help of CRISPR PV et PL
7.3.2016 Claire Poyart, Service de Bactériologie, Hôpitaux Universitaires Paris Centre Cochin-Broca-Hôtel Dieu, Paris Deciphering the molecular basis of Group B Streptococcus hypervirulence PL
14.3.2016 Tobias Steinfeldt, Freiburg, Germany Coevolution of Toxoplasma gondii virulence effectors and host resistance GTPases DSF
4.4.2016 at 12:00 ! Samuel Chaffron, Applied Biological Sciences, Microbiology and Immunology, VIB Center for the Biology of Disease, Leuven, Belgium An eco-systems view of complex natural microbiomes PL
18.4.2016 Ed Bolt, Life Sciences, AVƵ of Nottingham, Medical School Genome stability and CRISPR immunity: how is immunity built in bacteria and archaea? PL
2.5.2016 Marc Lecuit, Inst. Pasteur, Paris, France New insights in the pathogenesis of Listeria monocytogenes PL
9.5.2016 Nicolas Leulliot Laboratoire de Cristallographie et RMN Biologiques, Université Paris Descartes, Paris Chaperoning ribosome assembly PL
23.5.2016 Thomas Julou, Computational and Systems Biology, Biozentrum – AVƵ of Basel Monitoring Escherichia coli with single cell resolution in changing environments PV and PL
24.5.2016 Kasturi Haldar, The Julius Nieuwland Professor of Biology and Parsons-Quinn Director for the Center for Rare and Neglected Diseases at the AVƵ of Notre Dame. Editor in chief PloS Pathogens A molecular mechanism of artemisinin resistance in Plasmodium falciparum malaria DSF
6.6.2016 Regine Hengge, Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin Physiological stratification and c-di-GMP signaling in the control of E. coli biofilm architecture and morphogenesis PV
27.6.2016 Moritz Treeck, Crick Institute, UK Remote control: How parasites regulate proteins beyond their own boundaries MB
4.7.2016 Jörn Piel, Inst. for Microbiology, ETHZ Metabolically talented bacteria from microbial dark matter PL
29.8.2016 Ashwani Sharma, Paul Scherrer Institut, OFLC/104, Villigen PSI, Switzerland CPAP imparts slow processive microtubule growth to limit centriole length PL
5.9.2016 Sylvie Chevalier-Laurency, Université de Rouen, Laboratoire de Microbiologie Signaux et Microenvironnement Cell wall stress response in Pseudomonas aeruginosa PL
12.9.2016 Josep Casadesús, Departamento de Genética, Facultad de Biología, Universidad de Sevilla, Spain Luria and Delbrück revisited: non mutational preadaptation to lethal selection PV,PL
19.9.2016
26.9.2016
3.10.2016 Tâm Mignot, Laboratoire de Chimie Bactérienne, Université Aix-Marseille Spatial regulation of motility in the social bacterium Myxococcus xanthus PV
Wednesday, 5.10.2016 Prof. Gerold Barth, TU Dresden, Institut für Mikrobiologie, Dresden SBiotechnological production of ω-hydroxy fatty acids and lycopene by metabolically engineered Yarrowia lipolytica strains PL
10.10.2016 Simon Foster, Department of Molecular Biology and Biotechnology, AVƵ of Sheffield Staphylococcus aureus infection dynamics. PL
17.10.2016 Frédéric Barras, Laboratoire de Chimie Bactérienne, Aix Marseille Université Fighting oxidative stress by repairing damaged proteins : the role of Methionine sulfoxide reductases PV
18.10.2016 Dr. Coralie Fumeaux, Department of Microbiology & Immunobiology, Harvard AVƵ Medical School, USA Identification of MupP as a new peptidoglycan recycling factor and antibiotic resistance determinant in Pseudomonas aeruginosa PV
24.10.2016 Marie-Cécile Ploy, Laboratoire de Bactériologie-Virologie-Hygiène,Faculté de médecine, Université de Limoges Intertwined regulation of the expression of gene cassettes and integrase gene in class 1 integrons PL
31.10.2016 Isabelle Tardieux, Institut Cochin, Paris When live imaging and force measurement drive the shift of the Toxoplasma-Host cell invasion paradigm DSF
7.11.2016
14.11.2016 Beat Christen, Institute of Molecular Systems Biology, ETH Zürich Multiplexed transposon sequencing strategies to illuminate complex traits in bacteria PV & PL
21.11.2016 Hubert Hilbi, Uinversity of Zurich Virulence and communication of the
amoeba-resistant pathogen Legionella.
PV
28.11.2016 Magali Frugier, Architecture et Réactivité de l'ARN, Institut de Biologie Moléculaire et Cellulaire du CNRS, Strasbourg tRNAs’ tRip into the malaria parasite PL
5.12.2016 Dominique Schneider, Grenoble Evolutionary Systems Biology: Genomic evolution during a long-term experiment with bacteria YM
12.12.2016 Philipp Olias, vetsuisse, Institut für Tierpathologie, Universität Bern Toxoplasma inhibitor of STAT transcription (TgIST) associates with NuRD complex and blocks interferon signaling pathways SDF
19.12.2016 Bastiaan Ibelings, UniGE The disease triangle operating in lakes: host, parasite and a changing environment PL
DATE SPEAKER TITLE HOST INFORMATIONS
12.1 2015 Fédéric Boccard, CGM-CNRS, Gif sur Yvette Conformation of the bacterial chromosome: the situation in E. coli and in Pseudomonas species PL
19.1.2015 Médéric Diard, ETH Zurich, Institute of Microbiology Evolutionary dynamics of Salmonella cooperative virulence PV+PL
26.1.2015 Marek Basler, Infection Biology, Biozentrum, Basel Type VI Secretion System: structure, function and dynamics of a multicomponent nanomachine PV+PL
2.2.2015 Juan Mata, Biochemistry Department, AVƵ of Cambridge A genome-wide view of translation PL
9. 2. 2015 Karina B. Xavier HHMI International Early Career Scientist, - Universidade Nova de Lisboa Manipulating the interspecies quorum sensing signal AI-2 in the mouse gut PL
16.2.2015 Martin Fraunholz, Lehrstuhl für Mikrobiologie, Biozentrum der Universität Würzburg, Germany Phagosomal escape of intracellular S. aureus PL
23.2.2015 Wesley C. Van Voorhis, Medicines for Malaria Venture Calcium dependent protein kinases and bumped kinase inhibitors: from structural biology to anti-Apicomplexa drugs DSF
2.3.2015 beginning problem oriented teaching, APP no seminar
9.3.2015 Nara Figueroa- Bossi, Institut de Biologie Intégrative de la Cellule, I2BC Gif-sur-Yvette, France Rho factor moonlighting: coupling transcription termination to translational control PL
16.3.2015 Mireille Ansaldi, Institut de Microbiologie de la Méditerranée, Laboratoire de Chimie Bactérienne, Marseille Integration of prophage genes into the host regulatory network GP
23.3.2015 Evgeny Zdobnov, Department of Genetic Medicine and Development Comparative genomics: from animals to viruses PL
20.4.2015 Till Voss, Swiss Tropical and Public Heath Institute, Department of Medical Parasitology and Infection Biology, Basel Heritable gene silencing in malaria blood stage parasites DSF
27.4.2015 Markus Bohnsack, Centre for Biochemistry and Molecular Cell Biology, Medical Faculty (UMG), Georg-August-AVƵ,Göttingen, Germany Regulating the dynamics of RNA-protein complexes: RNA helicases and their friends PL
11.5.2015 Alessandra POLISSI, AVƵ of Milan, Italy The lipopolysaccharide export pathway in Escherichia coli: structure, organization and regulated assembly of the Lpt machinery WK
18.5.2015 Ivo Gomperts Boneca, Institut Pasteur, France Evolution of shape and peptidoglycan metabolism in the Neisseria genus PV
1.6.2015 Agathe Subtil, Institut Pasteur, Paris Exploitation of host resources by the intracellular pathogen Chlamydia trachomatis PV
8.6.2015 F. Ramos-Morales, Departamento de Genética, Facultad de Biología, Universidad de Sevilla Salmonella-host cell interactions: effectors of type III secretion systems TS
29.6.2015 Alexander Maier, Biomedical Sciences and Biochemistry, Research School of Biology, The Australian National AVƵ, Acton-Canberra, Australia Dissecting the virulence complex of the malaria parasite Plasmodium falciparum DSF
SUMMER 2015
14.9.2015 Romé Voulhoux, Laboratoire d'Ingenierie des Systemes Macromoleculaires, Marseille Towards a better understanding of the bacterial type II secretion pathway PV
21.9.2015 Beatrice Clouet d'Orval, Laboratoire de Microbiologie et Génétique Moléculaires CNRS-UMR 5100, UNIVERSITE PAUL SABATIER, TOULOUSE Archaeal β-CASP Ribonucleases: Universal RNA-degrading enzymes VK
28.9.2015 Alan Tartakoff,Department of Pathology, Case Western Reserve AVƵ, Cleveland, Ohio Cell biology of yeast genome management PV
5.10.2015 Marc Solioz, Laboratory of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology Tomsk State AVƵ, Tomsk, Russian Federation Bacterial heavy metal resistance - and death on metallic copper KP
12.10.2015 Olivier Neyrolles,Institute of Pharmacology and Structural Biology (IPBS) CNRS AVƵ of Toulouse, France Nutritional immunity and virulence in tuberculosis TS
19.10.2015 Dirk Schüler,Lehrstuhl f. Mikrobiologie, Universität Bayreuth,Bayreuth Molecular genetics and cell biology of magnetosome biosynthesis in magnetotactic bacteria PL
26.10.2015 Nathalie Campo, Toulouse Competence-Programmed Cell Division Delay in Streptococcus pneumoniae: Genetic Control and Biological Role MB
2.11.2015 Andrea Ablasser, Global Health Institute, EPFL, Lausanne Intracellular DNA sensing mechanisms PL
9.11.2015 Stefan KEMMLER, LimmaTech Biologics AG, Zürich A Novel Bioconjugate Vaccine to Prevent Staphylococcus aureus Infection VG and PMH and PhD students
16.11.2015 Xavier de Bolle, Namur Genetic analysis of cell cycle control and intracellular trafficking of the Brucella abortus pathogen PV
23.11.2015 Grégoire COURTINE,International Paraplegic Foundation Chair in Spinal Cord Repair Center for Neuroprosthetics and Brain Mind Institute, EPFL Neuroprosthetic technologies to restore motor function Vanessa, Sunil, Lisa, Ezgi, Soner and Michael
30.11.2015 Fabio Martinon, Lausanne AVƵ and Center of Infection and Immunity Lausanne, Department of Biochemistry, Epalinges Stress pathways that promote inflammation MS
7.12.2015 Jeanne Salje, AVƵ of Oxford/Mahidol Oxford Tropical Medicine Research Unit (MORU)Bangkok, Thailand Dissecting the cell biology of the neglected human pathogen Orientia tsutsugamushi PV, PL
14.12.2015 Théophile Ohlmann, Human Virology Department,ENS, Lyon Translational control of HIV PL
DATE SPEAKER TITLE HOST INFORMATIONS
13.01.2014 Cyrille Botté, ApicoLipid Team. Laboratoire Adaptation et Pathogenie des Microorganismes, Grenoble, FRANCE A novel apicoplast phosphatidic acid synthesis pathway responsible for the bulk of phospholipid synthesis in Apicomplexa DSF
20.01.2014 Matthieu Berge, MIMOL Localization of the membrane-associated DNA entry pore for pneumococcal transformation PV
27.01.2014 Professor Nigel Savery, AVƵ of Bristol, UK Coupling transcription to DNA repair through molecular motors PL
03.02.2014 Martin J. Loessner, ETH Zurich, Institute of Food, Nutrition and Health The Cell Wall of Listeria monocytogenes - Structure, Interactions, and Life as an L-Form PL and PV
10.02.2014 Cynthia M. Sharma, Research Centre for Infectious Diseases (ZINF) AVƵ of Würzburg Regulatory RNAs in the pathogenic Epsilonproteobacteria Helicobacter pylori and Campylobacter jejuni PL
17.02.2014
24.02.2014 George Salmond, Department of Biochemistry, AVƵ of Cambridge, UK Bacterial gang culture: phenotypes, faith, flotation and phages PL
03.03.2014 Start of APP teaching no seminar
10.03.2014
17.03.2014 Steven Sinkins, Division of Biomedical and Life Sciences, Lancaster AVƵ, UK Interactions between Wolbachia inherited bacteria, mosquitoes and transmitted pathogens PL
24.03.2014 Angelika Gründling,Imperial College London A study on Staphylococcus aureus that starts at the cell wall and ends in nucleotide signalling PV
25.03.2014 Pierre-Yves Mantel,Dept of Immunology and Infectious Diseases, Harvard School of Public Health, Boston, USA Mechanisms of cellular communication in Plasmodium falciparum by parasite-derived micro vesicles DSF
31.03.2014 Patrick TRIEU-CUOT, Biology of Gram-Positive Pathogens, Institut Pasteur, Paris Complex regulation of virulence gene expression in streptococci PL
7.04.2014 Christine Citti, UMR1225 IHAP Interactions hôtes-agents pathogènes et Ecole Nationale Vétérinaire, Toulouse Pathogenic mycoplasmas: Molecular tricks and tips of minimal bacteria PL
14.4.2014 Norbert Polacek, Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry, AVƵ of Bern The ribosome as novel target for small regulatory RNAs PL
21.04.2014 Pâques - Easter no seminar
28.4.2014 Student retreat
5.5.2014
12.05.2014 Mark Buttner, John Innes Center, Norwich, UK c-di-GMP Signalling in Streptomyces Development PV
19.5.2014
26.5.2014 Marie Soulière, Journal Manager, Frontiers, Parc scientifique EPFL, Switzerland EMBO and Lise-Meitner Post-doctoral fellowship, AVƵ of Innsbruck, Austria Gene regulation by bacterial riboswitches PV
2.06.2014 Matthias Horn, AVƵ of Vienna,Department of Microbiology and Ecosystem Science, Austria Chlamydiae in the environment - How the analysis of non-model organisms can challenge long-standing knowledge PV
5.6.2014 THURSDAY Professor Alain Filloux Imperial College London, MRC, Centre for Molecular Bacteriology and Infection, London The Pseudomonas aeruginosa Type VI Secretion System: a Weapon for Bacterial Warfare PL
09.06.2014 ʱԳٱôٱ no seminar
16.6.2014
23.6.2014 50th anniversay of Molecular Biology Department,Faculty of Sciences
30.6.2014 Soren Molin, Danemark, Department of Systems Biology, Infection Microbiology, Technical AVƵ of Denmark, Lyngby, Danemark Microbial life-style changes in relation to chronic airway infections in humans PhD students, Stéphanie Anchisi
15.9 Seamus Holden, EPFL One (patchy) ring to rule them all: studying the physical mechanisms of bacterial cell division using 3D super-resolution microscopy PV
22.9 James MacRae, Division of Parasitology, MRC National Institute for Medical Research, Mill Hill, LONDON Energy and lipid metabolism in apicomplexan parasites –routes for drug therapy? DSF
29.9 Peter Graumann, AVƵ of Marburg Cell cycle control in a bacterium at single molecule level PV
6.10
13.10 Dr. Ross WALLER, Department of Biochemistry, AVƵ of Cambridge Evolution and devolution in Alveolates: parasite invasion, organelle loss and chromatin reinvention DSF
20.10 Andreas Diepold, Department of Biochemistry, AVƵ of Oxford Translocation in Motion - In vivo Dynamics and Regulation of the Type III Secretion System PL
27.10 Nicolai Siegel, Biozentrum Würzburg Deciphering the Epigenome of African Trypanosomes PL
30.10 Thursday ! Yves Brun Mechanisms and regulation of bacterial surface attachment and biofilm formation PV
3.11 David Horn, Dundee AVƵ, Scotland High-throughput decoding of drug-resistance and virulence mechanisms in African trypanosomes PhD Students, Christina Mueller
5.11 Dr. Ruben Hartkoorn, Natural products to probe the vulnerability of microbes: the story of pyridomycins DSF
10.11 Beate Henrichfreise AVƵ of Bonn Institute for Medical Microbiology, Immunology and Parasitology (IMMIP) Pharmaceutical Microbiology Section Mechanistic insights into the chlamydial anomaly - cell wall biosynthesis and cell division in chlamydiae PV
17.11 Jan-Willem Veening, Molecular Genetics Department,AVƵ of Groningen Origins of Antibiotic Resistance” PV
24.11 Daniel Huber, CMU Optical dissection of cortical circuits underlying goal directed action PhD students, Stéphanie Anchisi
1.12 Philipp Engel,Department of Fundamental Microbiology, AVƵ of Lausanne Honey bee gut microbiota - a versatile model for microbial symbiosis PV
8.12 Martha Clokie, Department of Infection, Immunity and Inflammation, AVƵ of Leicester The ecology, evolution and applications of Clostridium difficile bacteriophages PL
15.12 Patrice Nordmann, MD, PhD Professor and Chair of Microbiology Medical and Molecular Microbiology Unit Emerging Antibiotic Resistance; 2014. PL

Contact: Patrick.Linder(at)unige.ch

DATE SPEAKER TITLE HOST INFORMATIONS
13.01.2014 Cyrille Botté, ApicoLipid Team. Laboratoire Adaptation et Pathogenie des Microorganismes, Grenoble, FRANCE A novel apicoplast phosphatidic acid synthesis pathway responsible for the bulk of phospholipid synthesis in Apicomplexa DSF
20.01.2014 Matthieu Berge, MIMOL Localization of the membrane-associated DNA entry pore for pneumococcal transformation PV
27.01.2014 Professor Nigel Savery, AVƵ of Bristol, UK Coupling transcription to DNA repair through molecular motors PL
03.02.2014 Martin J. Loessner, ETH Zurich, Institute of Food, Nutrition and Health The Cell Wall of Listeria monocytogenes - Structure, Interactions, and Life as an L-Form PL and PV
10.02.2014 Cynthia M. Sharma, Research Centre for Infectious Diseases (ZINF) AVƵ of Würzburg Regulatory RNAs in the pathogenic Epsilonproteobacteria Helicobacter pylori and Campylobacter jejuni PL
17.02.2014
24.02.2014 George Salmond, Department of Biochemistry, AVƵ of Cambridge, UK Bacterial gang culture: phenotypes, faith, flotation and phages PL
03.03.2014 Start of APP teaching no seminar
10.03.2014
17.03.2014 Steven Sinkins, Division of Biomedical and Life Sciences, Lancaster AVƵ, UK Interactions between Wolbachia inherited bacteria, mosquitoes and transmitted pathogens PL
24.03.2014 Angelika Gründling,Imperial College London A study on Staphylococcus aureus that starts at the cell wall and ends in nucleotide signalling PV
25.03.2014 Pierre-Yves Mantel,Dept of Immunology and Infectious Diseases, Harvard School of Public Health, Boston, USA Mechanisms of cellular communication in Plasmodium falciparum by parasite-derived micro vesicles DSF
31.03.2014 Patrick TRIEU-CUOT, Biology of Gram-Positive Pathogens, Institut Pasteur, Paris Complex regulation of virulence gene expression in streptococci PL
7.04.2014 Christine Citti, UMR1225 IHAP Interactions hôtes-agents pathogènes et Ecole Nationale Vétérinaire, Toulouse Pathogenic mycoplasmas: Molecular tricks and tips of minimal bacteria PL
14.4.2014 Norbert Polacek, Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry, AVƵ of Bern The ribosome as novel target for small regulatory RNAs PL
21.04.2014 Pâques - Easter no seminar
28.4.2014 Student retreat
5.5.2014
12.05.2014 Mark Buttner, John Innes Center, Norwich, UK c-di-GMP Signalling in Streptomyces Development PV
19.5.2014
26.5.2014 Marie Soulière, Journal Manager, Frontiers, Parc scientifique EPFL, Switzerland EMBO and Lise-Meitner Post-doctoral fellowship, AVƵ of Innsbruck, Austria Gene regulation by bacterial riboswitches PV
2.06.2014 Matthias Horn, AVƵ of Vienna,Department of Microbiology and Ecosystem Science, Austria Chlamydiae in the environment - How the analysis of non-model organisms can challenge long-standing knowledge PV
5.6.2014 THURSDAY Professor Alain Filloux Imperial College London, MRC, Centre for Molecular Bacteriology and Infection, London The Pseudomonas aeruginosa Type VI Secretion System: a Weapon for Bacterial Warfare PL Frontiers in Biomedicine Seminars
09.06.2014 ʱԳٱôٱ no seminar
16.6.2014
23.6.2014 50th anniversay of Molecular Biology Department,Faculty of Sciences
30.6.2014 Soren Molin, Danemark, Department of Systems Biology, Infection Microbiology, Technical AVƵ of Denmark, Lyngby, Danemark Microbial life-style changes in relation to chronic airway infections in humans PhD students, Stéphanie Anchisi
15.9 Seamus Holden, EPFL One (patchy) ring to rule them all: studying the physical mechanisms of bacterial cell division using 3D super-resolution microscopy PV
22.9 James MacRae, Division of Parasitology, MRC National Institute for Medical Research, Mill Hill, LONDON Energy and lipid metabolism in apicomplexan parasites –routes for drug therapy? DSF
29.9 Peter Graumann, AVƵ of Marburg Cell cycle control in a bacterium at single molecule level PV
6.10
13.10 Dr. Ross WALLER, Department of Biochemistry, AVƵ of Cambridge Evolution and devolution in Alveolates: parasite invasion, organelle loss and chromatin reinvention DSF
20.10 Andreas Diepold, Department of Biochemistry, AVƵ of Oxford Translocation in Motion - In vivo Dynamics and Regulation of the Type III Secretion System PL
27.10 Nicolai Siegel, Biozentrum Würzburg Deciphering the Epigenome of African Trypanosomes PL
30.10 Thursday ! Yves Brun Mechanisms and regulation of bacterial surface attachment and biofilm formation PV
3.11 David Horn, Dundee AVƵ, Scotland High-throughput decoding of drug-resistance and virulence mechanisms in African trypanosomes PhD Students, Christina Mueller
5.11 Dr. Ruben Hartkoorn, Natural products to probe the vulnerability of microbes: the story of pyridomycins DSF
10.11 Beate Henrichfreise AVƵ of Bonn Institute for Medical Microbiology, Immunology and Parasitology (IMMIP) Pharmaceutical Microbiology Section Mechanistic insights into the chlamydial anomaly - cell wall biosynthesis and cell division in chlamydiae PV
17.11 Jan-Willem Veening, Molecular Genetics Department,AVƵ of Groningen Origins of Antibiotic Resistance” PV
24.11 Daniel Huber, CMU Optical dissection of cortical circuits underlying goal directed action PhD students, Stéphanie Anchisi
1.12 Philipp Engel,Department of Fundamental Microbiology, AVƵ of Lausanne Honey bee gut microbiota - a versatile model for microbial symbiosis PV
8.12 Martha Clokie, Department of Infection, Immunity and Inflammation, AVƵ of Leicester The ecology, evolution and applications of Clostridium difficile bacteriophages PL
15.12 Patrice Nordmann, MD, PhD Professor and Chair of Microbiology Medical and Molecular Microbiology Unit Emerging Antibiotic Resistance; 2014. PL

Contact: Patrick.Linder(at)unige.ch

DATE SPEAKER TITLE HOST INFORMATIONS
16.01.2012 Mariana Pinho, Universidade Nova de Lisboa,Oeiras, Portugal Mechanisms for localization of the cell wall synthetic enzymes in Staphylococcus aureus WK, AJ
23.01.2012 Ian Monk, Department of Microbiology,Trinity College Dublin Advances in the genetic manipulation of Staphylococci PL
06.02.2012 USGEB, 2012, Lausanne - -
13.02.2012 Cecile Arrieumerlou, Infection Biology, Biozentrum Basel Towards a systems-level understanding of Shigella flexneri-infected epithelial cells DS-F
20.02.2012 Matteo Brilli,INRIA Rhone-Alpes,Laboratoire de Biométrie et Biologie Evolutive, Lyon Mathematical modeling and statistical inference for the analysis of genome organization stability in Prokaryotes PV
27.02.2012 Jean-Pierre Gorvel, Centre d'Immunologie de Marseille-Luminy, Marseille, France Cell biology and Immunology issues on Brucella virulence factors PL
2.03.2012 Emanuel Busch, Breathless worms running a marathon - The neurobiology of oxygen sensing C. elegans DS-F
5.03.2012 no seminar problem oriented teaching PL
12.03.2012 Ben Luisi, Cambridge, UK The machinery of RNA processing and degradation in E. coli PL
26.03.2012 Philipp Bouloc, Institut de Génétique et Microbiologie, Université Paris-Sud, Orsay, France Coordinate regulation of genes involved in metabolism and transport by a non-coding RNA in Staphylococcus aureus PL
02.04.2012 Dan Kearns, Indiana AVƵ, USA Flagellin homeostasis and the regulation of flagellar assembly inBacillussubtilis PV
07.05.2012 Yok-Ai Que, CHUV, Lausanne Alteration of DNA topology by a bacterial volatile excreted small molecule promotes antibiotic tolerance in Pseudomonas aeruginosa KP
21.05.2012 Pierre Genevaux, Toulouse, France Chaperone-mediated control of stress-responsive toxin-antitoxin systems in Mycobacterium tuberculosis PL
18.06.2012 Matteo Bonazzi, Cell Biology of Bacterial Infections UMR 5236 CPBS, Montpellier, France Tackling the Coxiella intracellular cycle by high throughput screenings CG
3.09.2012 Michael Hall, Biozentrum, Basel TOR signaling in growth and metabolism DSF
6-7.09.2012 Swiss Moelcular Microbiology Meeting, SWIMM 2012 Villars-sur-Ollon PL,MB
10.09.2012 Laurent Roux, Faculté de Médecine, Genève 5èmes journées de microbiologie: Virus de la grippe : « CENSURÉ» KP,PL,JS (Auditoire A250, 18:30)
11.09.2012 Philippe Sansonetti, Institut Pasteur, Collège de France, Paris 5èmes journées de microbiologie; Pathogènes et symbiontes: Guerre et Paix aux surfaces muqueuses KP,PL,JS (Auditoire A250, 18:30)
17.9.2012 Liz Sockett, School of Biology, Medical School, Nottingham Understanding the molecular processes by which Bdellovibrio invade other Gram-negative bacteria PL
1.10.2012 Anke Becker, Marburg, Germany Bacterial regulatory networks in establishment of the root nodule symbiosis PV
8.10.2012 Ken Keiler,Pennsylvania State AVƵ, USA Life and death when ribosomes reach the end of the line PV
15.10.2012 Urs Jenal, Infection Biology, Biozentrum Basel Cyclic di-GMP Signaling in Bacterial Persistence PL
5.11.2012 Felipe Bendezu, Department of Fundamental Microbiology, Unil Polarized growth and mate selection in fission yeast PV
12.11.2012 Isabella Moll, Max F. Perutz Laboratories, AVƵ of Vienna Toxin-Antitoxin-Systems: A means to establish heterogeneity in bacterial populations? PL
19.11.2012 Georg Peters, Institut für Medizinische Mikrobiologie, Münster Staphylococcus aureus – news from an old friend and enemy PL
26.11.2012 Patrice Cani, LDRI, Louvain Drug Research Institute; UCL, Université catholique de Louvain Crosstalks between Akkermansia muciniphila and intestinal epithelium controls diet-induced obesity JS
3.12.2012 Elena CARDENAL MUNOZ, Department of Genetics, AVƵ of Seville, Spain SteA, a type III secretion effector of Salmonella enterica TS
10.12.2012 Dagmar Heuer, Robert Koch Institut, Berlin Chlamydia trachomatis and the Golgi apparatus - players and consequences PL
19.12.2012 CUSO workshop on cell division mechanisms in different bacterial and eukaryotic model systems PV wednesday
DATE SPEAKER TITLE HOST INFORMATIONS
17.01. Tam Mignot, CNRS Marseille Motility and multicellular behaviors in bacteria PV -
24.01. Julio Ortiz, Max-Planck-Institute of Biochemistry, Martinsried/Germany From isolated molecules to intact cells - Structure of ribosomal arrangements in vitro and in situ PL -
21.02. Jörg Stülke, Göttingen, Germany The RNA degradosome of Bacillus subtilis, a complex of RNases, helicases and metabolic enzymes PL -
21.03 Sophie de Bentzmann, Marseille, France How Pseudomonas aeruginosa makes biofilm? from molecular aspects to patient biofilm signature PL -
28.03 Harald Putzer, IBPC, Paris mRNA stability and gene expression in bacteria PL -
04.04. Ulrich Göringer, Darmstadt, Germany RNA editing in African trypanosomes - A first glance at the machinery PL
11.04. Soraya AIT-BARA, Toulouse, France Characterization of the RNA degradosome of the marine gammaproteobacterium Pseudoalteromonas haloplanktis PL
2.05 Christophe Grangeasse, IBCP, Lyon Bacterial tyrosine-kinases and extracellular polysaccharide export and biosynthesis JPD
9.05 Hans Geiselmann, Grenoble, France The Escherichia coli regulatory network mediating adaption to growth on poor nutrient sources PL
16.05 Virginijus Siksnys, Vilnius, Lithuania Molecular machinery of CRISPR/Cas antiviral defense systems PL
26.05 Michael Otto The many faces of phenol soluble modulin peptides, PSMs, in bacterial virulence PL Frontiers in Biology Seminar on Thursday
30.5 Yves Brun, Indiana AVƵ The evolution of growth, shape, and development in bacteria PV
6.6 Ivan Mijakovic, Paris Phosphorylated recombinase RecA checks chromosome integrity during Bacillus subtilis spore development JPD
27.6 Celia Garcia, Sao Paulo Dissecting signaling transduction pathways at Plasmodium-host interaction DS-F
26-30.06 FEMS 2011 4th congress of european microbiologists JS
18.08 Nichole Broderick, EPFL, Lausanne Impacts and interactions of benign and pathogenic microbes in the gut of Drosophila KW and JS
29.08 Wolf-Dietrich Hardt, ETH Zürich Salmonella typhimurium: A pathogen triggering diarrhea in order to invade the intestinal eco-system PL
8.9 - 9.9 Annual Retreat, Doctoral Program in Microbial Sciences not communicated PL
19.09 Nomination Seminars Basic Research section see separate announcement PL
26.09 Nomination Seminars Basic Research section see separate announcement PL
24.10 Caroline Giraud, Microbiologie et Médecine Moléculaire, CMU, Genève The CupE system of the Chaperone-Usher Pathway of Pseudomonas aeruginosa : assembly, function and regulation PL
31.10 Dirk Bumann, Biozentrum, AVƵ Basel Salmonella biology in infected tissues: metabolism, stress defense, and heterogeneity PL
7.11 Justine Collier, Department of Fundamental Microbiology, AVƵ Lausanne Control of chromosomal replication in Caulobacter crescentus PV
14.11 Véronique Broussolle, INRA, Université d'Avignon, France The role of RNA helicases in the adaptation of Bacillus cereus PL
21.11 Daniel Lopez, AVƵ of Würzburg, Germany Cell Differentiation Signals in Biofilms PV
28.11 Marc Boudvillain, Centre de Biophysique Moléculaire CNRS, Orléans, France Some insights into the mechanism and regulation of the bacterial transcription termination factor Rho JPD, PL
5.12 Olivier Lucas, Florida Center for Drug Discovery and Innovation Identifying novel and conserved cell division cycle genes in Apicomplexa DS-F
19.12 Markus Aebi, Inst. für Mikrobiologie, ETHZ Mechanisms in N-linked protein glycosylation PL
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