DMF Impromptu Symposium: The Bacterial Cell Across Scales

The annual DMF Impromptu Symposium will take place at UNIL, Biophore Auditorium, in Lausanne on November 22^nd, 2024. The accompanying workshop on November 21^st is an excellent chance to talk to the speakers and exchange ideas with your colleagues in a relaxes setting.

The theme of this year symposium is ‘The Bacterial Cell Across Scales’.  We have a top-notch speaker line up that will bring together molecular and cellular microbiology with state-of-the-art imaging to enable biological discoveries. Please, join us for this unique event!

PROGRAM SYMPOSIUM - November 22, 2024

8:30: Registration & Coffee
8:50: Welcome

9:00: Gregor Weiss (ETH-Z, Switzerland)
Imaging bacterial cell-cell interactions across scales - from in vitro to patient samples
9:45: Gira Bhabha (Johns Hopkins University, USA)
Tunnels for lipid transport across the bacterial cell envelope
10:30: Coffee Break
11:00: Cecile Morlot (IBS Grenoble, France)
The bacterial spore assembles its amor: ultrastructure of macro-molecular assemblies contributing to spore resistance
11:45: Nassos Typas (EMBL-Heidelberg, Germany)
High-throughput approaches to understand microbial functions and interactions

12:30: Lunch

14:00: Susan Schlimpert (John Innes Center, UK)
Zooming in on bacterial multicellular development
14:45: Alejandro Couce (Universidad Politécnica de Madrid, Spain)
Darwin's loaded dice: how mutation bias shapes rapid microbial adaptation
15:30: Coffee Break
16:00: Kimberly Kline (University of Geneva, Switzerland)
Go with the Flow: How Fluid Flow and Quorum Sensing Shape Enterococcal Virulence in Infective Endocarditis
16:45: Apero


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CUSO-Event: The Do's and Don'ts in Scientific Collarborations
Information and program here