eSI workshop on stochastic effects in microbial infection
Preliminary programme
Monday 27th September
4pm Public lecture for opening of eSI theme: “Bacteria: an unseen world” (Rosalind Allen)
5pm Drinks and snacks
Tuesday 28th September
9.15-9.30
Introduction
9.30-10.00
Marjan van der Woude
10.00-10.30 Mustafa Khammash
10.30-11.00 Tea / coffee
11.00-11.30 Edo Kussell
11.30-12.00 Rosalind Allen
12.00-12.30 Paolo Visco
12.30-2.00
Lunch
2.00-2.30
Chris Bayliss Towards an understanding of global patterns of simple sequence
repeat-mediated phase variation during host persistence of Campylobacter jejuni and Neisseria
meningitidis
2.30-3.00
Johannes Berg
Quasiclassical analysis of rare events in stochastic gene
expression
3.00-3.30
Tea / coffee
3.30-4.00
Leendert Hamoen heterogenic and bistable expression in Bacillus
subtilis
4.00-4.30
JanWillem Veening
Development of new tools to study the origins of phenotypic
variation in the human pathogen Streptococcus pneumoniae: An overview of recently started
projects and future directions
4.30-5.00
Jamie Wood
Wednesday 29th September
9.00-9.30
Martin Ackermann
Individuality in bacteria, including some pathogens
9.30-10.00
Paul Hoskisson Modeling model organisms in model systems? The case for Diptheria
10.00-10.30 Peter Swain Three levels of cellular decision making – sensing and inference,
decision theory and cost-benefit analysis, and decisions in populations and evolutionary theory
10.30-11.00 Tea / coffee
11.00-11.30 Tibor Antal Competition-colonization dynamics in an RNA virus
11.30-12.00 Roland Regoes
12.00-12.30 Garry Blakely Genome plasticity in the opportunistic pathogen
Bacteroides fragilis
12.30-2.00
Lunch
2.00-2.30
Ian Blomfield and Najl Valeev
Regulation of the fim switch in E. coli in
response to glutathione
2.30-3.00
Dominique Chu
3.00-3.30
Tea / coffee
3.30-4.30
Discussion
4.30-about 5 Summary of outcomes (Rosalind and Marjan)