Programme
Errington Anniversary Conference
Friday 6 May
9.00 Registration
9.20 Welcome (Jeff Errington)
9.30-9.50 Marc Bramkamp, LMU, Munich, Germany Corynbacterineae as emerging models for studying apical cell growth in bacteria
9.50-10.10 Dennis Claessen University of Leiden, The Netherlands Transitions between L-form cells and filamentous growth
10.10-10.30 Meriem El Karoui, University of Edinburgh DNA repair at the single molecule level in E.coli
10.30-10.50 Henrique Ferreira, UNESP, Brazil Antimicrobials to fight Xanthomonas citri/citrus canker
10.50-11.20 Coffee
11.20- 11.40 Philippe Glaser, Institut Pasteur, Paris, France Reconstructing the history of pathogens by genome sequencing analysis
11.40-12.00 Stephan Gruber, Max Planck Institute, Martinsreid, Germany (SMC proteins: from local loading to global action)
12.00-12.20 Leendert Hamoen, University of Amsterdam, The Netherlands Use of bacterial cell biology to find the mode of action of antimicrobial compounds
12.20-12.40 Nicola Illing, University of Cape Town, South Africa Evo-devo and bat wing development
12.40-13.50 Lunch (by invitation)
13.50-14.10 Mark Leaver, Max Planck Institute, Dresden, Germany Towards a molecular understanding of how nematodes adapt to survive at higher temperatures
14.10-14.30 Thomas Leung, The Hong Kong Polytechnic University, Development of engineered bacterial enzymes for drug discovery
14.30 - 14.50 Adele Marston, University of Edinburgh, Spatial control of meiotic recombination ny the kinetochore
14.50-15.10 Wilfried Meijer, CBM Severo OChoa, Madrid, Spain (title to be confirmed)
15.10-15.40 Tea
15.40-16.00 Romain Mercier, CNRS, Marseilles (title to be confirmed)
16.00-16.20 Dirk-Jan Scheffers, University of Groningen, The Netherlands A 1MDa protein complex containing essential E.coli divisome components
16.20-16.40 Graham Scholefield, Catenion Transitioning from academia to consulting
16.40-17.00 Jan-Willem Veening, University of Groningen, The Netherlands Streptococcus pneumoniae: issues of life and death
17.00-17.30 Round-up (Jeff Errington)
17.30 Drinks reception
18.15 Light buffet dinner (by invitation)
Reminiscences!
We would love to have fun pictures from the lab, lab outings, parties, etc. Please send them in, perhaps with a few lines of text to Bernadette Shaw. We’ll select a few of the best and print them out for display and embarrassment, perhaps with a proze for the best one.
Saturday 7 May
Open House at the Errington place in Northumberland
11.00am Coach leaves Newcastle - reservation required
