PROGRAM of 2024 Symposium is still to be determined!
Below is program from the 2022 symposium:
Download the 2022 program in PDF format here.
program start: 3 pm London, 4 pm Berlin, 5 pm Tel Aviv, 11 pm Seoul, 9 am Chicago, 10 am Boston
Day 1 : 6th September 2022
| Time (UTC+1) | Title | Presenter (Type) | Chair |
| 3:00 – 3:10 pm | Welcome address | Organising Committee (Andy, Simona, Laura H.) | – |
| 3:10 – 3:30 pm | Bdellovibrio: 60 years of discoveries about the bacterial “lone wolf” predator | Dr. Laura Hobley (Anniversary talk) | – |
| 3:30 – 3:45 pm | A view to a kill: Using 3D holographic microscopy to study predatory bacteria Bdellovibrio bacteriovorus | Emma Brock (Short talk) | Dr. Laura Hobley |
| 3:45 – 4:00pm | Developing new tools to uncover Bdellovibrio bacteriovorus cell biology | Thomas Lamot (Short talk) | Dr. Laura Hobley |
| 4:00 – 4:15 pm | Break | ||
| 4:15 – 4:45 pm | A predator a day may keep the doctor away | Prof. Daniel Kadouri (Keynote talk) | Prof. Laura Williams |
| 4:45 – 5:00 pm | Predation strategies of the bacterium Bdellovibrio bacteriovorus result in overexploitation and bottlenecks | Dr. Kim Summers (Short talk) | Prof. Laura Williams |
| 5:00 – 5:15 pm | Bdellovibrio chemoreceptors lack the HAMP domain | Marissa A Berry (Short talk) | Prof. Laura Williams |
| 5:15 – 5:30 pm | Break | ||
| 5:30 – 5:45 pm | Chromosome compaction and decompaction during the life cycle of Bdellovibrio bacteriovorus | Dr. Renske van Raaphorst (Short talk) | Prof. Andy Lovering |
| 5:45 – 6:00 pm | Histone-based chromatin organization in Bdellovibrio | Dr. Antoine Hocher & Shawn P Laursen (Short talk) | Prof. Andy Lovering |
| 6:00 – 6:30 pm | Dynamic structural adaptations enable the endobiotic predation of Bdellovibrio bacteriovorus | Dr. Mohammed Kaplan (Late breaking talk) | Prof. Andy Lovering |
| 6:30 – 6:35 pm | Short break (& transfer to break out rooms) | ||
| 6:35 – 6:55 pm | Break out room 1: meet the speaker session | Prof. Daniel Kadouri | – |
| 6:35 – 6:55 pm | Break out room 2: meet the speaker session | Dr. Mohammed Kaplan | – |
| 6:35 – 6:55 pm | Break out room 3: topic: Bdellovibrio and Microbiota | – | Janna Wülbern |
| 6:35 – 6:55 pm | Break out room 4: topic: Industry/Innovation meeting room | – | Dr. Simona Huwiler |
Day 2 : 7th September 2022
| Time (UTC+1) | Title | Presenter (Type) | Chair |
| 3:00 – 3:30 pm | Bdellovibrio bacteriovorus– our tutor in how to interact with bacteria for your own gains! | Prof. Liz Sockett (Keynote talk) | Dr. Simona Huwiler |
| 3:30 – 3:45 pm | Getting a grip: Identifying potential adhesins of Bdellovibrio bacteriovorus | Dr. Simon Caulton (Short talk) | Dr. Simona Huwiler |
| 3:45 – 4:00pm | A point mutation shifts the obligate Bdellovibrio bacteriovorus predator to facultative, with biofilm-initiation abilities | Dr. Abhirup Mookherjee (Short talk) | Dr. Simona Huwiler |
| 4:00 – 4:15 pm | Break | ||
| 4:15 – 4:45 pm | Bdellovibrio and like organisms, and the wolves in Yellowstone | Prof. Edouard Jurkevitch (Keynote talk) | Prof. Andy Lovering |
| 4:45 – 5:00 pm | Parallel evolution in Bdellovibrio sp. NC01 during long-term Co-culture with a single prey strain | Prof. Laura Williams (Short talk) | Prof. Mark Martin |
| 5:00 – 5:15 pm | Bdellovibrio-microbiota interactions | Janna Wülbern (Short talk) | Prof. Mark Martin |
| 5:15 – 5:30 pm | Break (& transfer to break out rooms) | ||
| 5:30 – 5:50 pm | Break out room 1: meet the speaker session | Prof. Liz Sockett | – |
| 5:30 – 5:50 pm | Break out room 2: meet the speaker session | Prof. Edouard Jurkevitch | – |
| 5:30 – 5:50 pm | Break out room 3: topic: Methods in Bdellovibrio research | – | Dr. Simona Huwiler |
| 5:50 pm | End of break out rooms | ||
| 5:50 – 6:05 pm | For the love of salt – The halophilic BALO: Historical and ecological perspectives | Prof. Henry Neal Williams (Short talk) | Prof. Andy Lovering |
| 6:05 – 6:20 pm | Closing remark (early career talk winner, poll) | Organising Committee (Simona, Laura H., Andy) | – |
Keynote speakers
Prof. Dr. Daniel Kadouri,
School of Dental Medicine,
Rutgers, US
Prof. Dr. Liz Sockett,
School of Life Sciences,
University of Nottingham, UK
Prof. Dr. Edouard Jurkevitch,
Department of Plant Pathology and Microbiology,
Hebrew University of Jerusalem, IL
Late breaking invited speaker
Dr. Mohammed Kaplan,
Division of Biology and Biological Engineering,
California Institute of Technology, USA
Organising committee
Dr. Laura Hobley,
School of Biosciences,
University of Nottingham, UK
Prof. Dr. Andrew L. Lovering,
School of Biosciences,
University of Birmingham, UK
Dr. Simona G. Huwiler,
Institute of Plant and Microbial Biology,
University of Zurich, CH