Project Description
Arrival/Registration with light refreshments
9.00 – 9.15
Opening remarks
Grzegorz Węgrzyn, Head of Scientific Committee
Jerzy Piotr Gwizdała, Rector of the University of Gdańsk
Andrey Sibirny, Director of FEMS
“American Society for Microbiology (ASM) – science, diplomacy, international relations, and beyond”
Joanna Karczewska-Golec, ASM Country Ambassador to Poland
9.15 – 10.00
Keynote lecture
“Bacterial amyloids in materials sciences and biomedicine”
Antonio Villaverde
Session I Microbial Biotechnology
Professor Andrey Sibirny, Chair
10.00 - 10.30
Session opening lecture
“Metabolic engineering of the thermotolerant yeast Ogataea polymorpha for efficient conversion of lignocellulosics and by-product glycerol to ethanol”
Andrey Sibirny
10.30 - 11.00
Session opening lecture
“The yeast Yarrowia lipolytica as a cell factory”
Patrick Fickers
11.00 – 11.45
Oral presentations:
“Synthesis of raffinose-derived potential prebiotics by bacterial levansucrase and their effects on composition and metabolism of fecal microbiota of normal- and overweight children”
Triinu Visnapuu
“Microbial community structure and resistome during anaerobic co-digestion of food waste and commercial organic waste”
Kärt Kanger
“Capsular exopolymer obtained from Rhodococcus opacus FCL1069 cells”
Magdalena Czemierska
11.45 – 12.00
Coffee break
Session II Molecular Microbiology
Professor Volkmar Passoth, Chair
12.00 – 12.30
Session opening lecture
“Lipids from non-conventional feedstocks by oleaginous yeasts for sustainable biodiesel and fish feed”
Volkmar Passoth
12.30 – 14.00
Oral presentations
“Sequence and phylogenetic analyses of Dobrava-Belgrade virus in Apodemus agrarius from southwestern Poland”
Richard Yanagihara
“Transcriptome analysis of cells carrying Type II Csp231I restrictionmodification system reveals the unexpected link between its C regulatory protein and rac prophage”
Alessandro Negri
“Dual role of TonB3-PocAB system of Pseudomonas putida”
Kadi Ainsaar
“Discovery of novel bacterial genes encoding the enzymes acting on modified uracil/uridine derivatives and their use for gene therapy in cancer treatment”
Jaunius Urbonavičius
“A strange case of GreA protein and GraL sRNA”
Maciej Dylewski
“A β-N-acetylhexosaminidase PhNah20A of the marine bacterium Paraglaciecola hydrolytica degrades chito-oligosaccharides and transfers GlcNAc to acceptors”
Triinu Visnapuu
14.00 – 15.45
Lunch, ASM mentoring luncheon
Session III Virology and phages
Professor Rimantas Daugelavičius, Chair
15.45 - 16.15
Session opening lecture
“Express-analysis of bacteria-phage interaction”
Rimantas Daugelavičius
16.15 - 18.00
Oral presentations
“Bacteriophages in fight against Salmonella enterica – does it work? Evaluation of phage effectiveness in eradication of S. enterica in liquid cultures and biofilm”
Katarzyna Kosznik-Kwaśnicka
“Three bacteriophage-originated rod-shaped structures in yeast: a new tools for nanotechnology?”
Aliona Špakova
“Raman spectroscopy as a method of HPV infection identification and cervical cancer diagnosis”
Katarzyna Sitarz
“Double antiviral combinations applied by consecutive alternating administration against Coxsackievirus B1 infection in mice”
Adelina Stoyanova
“Partial Characterization of a Highly Divergent Hantavirus Isolated from the European mole (Talpa europaea) in Poland”
Richard Yanagihara
“Giant viruses and virophages – how tiny „giants” revolutionized the view of the world of microbes”
Paulina Niedźwiedzka-Rystwej
18.00
Conference Party