IBL Symposium 2022
- Date
- Friday 20 May 2022
- Time
- Address
- Lakenhal Museum
Oude Singel 32
2312 RA Leiden
On Friday 20 May is the annual symposium of the Institute of Biology Leiden.
Programme
Welcome
- 09:00-09:15 Welcome & coffee
- 09:15-09:30 Gilles van Wezel: Welcome
Session I: Bioactive molecules (09:30-10:45)
- 09:30 – 10:00 Tanja Schneider: Tear down the wall: Targeting bactoprenol-bound cell wall precursors
- 10:00 – 10:15 Nadine Ziemert: Secondary Metabolite Transcriptomic Pipeline (SeMa-Trap), an expression-based exploration tool for increased secondary metabolite production in bacteria
- 10:15 – 10:30 Mahmoud Halima: The development of glucocorticoid drugs with reduced side effects
- 10:30 – 10:45 Elma Mons: Preclinical development of novel semisynthetic glycopeptide antibiotics with potent in vitro and in vivo antibacterial activity
Session II: Host-Microbe Interactions (11:00-12:15)
- 11:00 – 11:30 Asaf Levy: Systematic Discovery and Characterization of Microbial Toxins
- 11:30 – 11:45 Xinya Pan: Unlocking the inner power: endophytic bacterial functions activated by pathogen infection
- 11:45-12:00 Noortje Dannenberg: Mycobacteria form viable wall-deficient cells that are undetectable by conventional diagnostics
- 12:00-12:15 Paco Barona: Phylogenomics and functional metagenomics of bacterial specialized metabolism in plant - microbes interactions
Session III: Evolution and Biodiversity (13:15-14:30)
- 13:15 – 13:45 Alexander Kotrschal: The evolution of cognition – an experimental approach.
- 13:45-14:00 Shixiong Cheng: Ecdysone signaling is a main target of selection for fast embryonic development in Tribolium.
- 14:00-14:15 Frederic Lens: The evolution of woodiness in flowering plants.
- 13:15-14:30 Michelle Spierings: The musical animal: Shared cognitive underpinnings of music and language evolution in primates and birds.
Session IV: Development and Disease (14:45-16:00)
- 14:45-15:15 Kirsten ten Tusscher: Distributed decision making in plant roots.
- 15:15-15:30 Remko Offringa: Longevity gene promotes wood formation in Arabidopsis stems
- 15:30-15:45 Ruochen Ouyang: High resolution reconstruction of a Jumbo bacteriophage infecting capsulated bacteria using hyperbranched tail fibers.
- 15:45-16:00 Arwin Groenewoud: Ferroptosis inhibition by melanin promotes metastatic colonization of melanoma cells.
Visit museum and drinks/nibbles (16:00-17:30)
For questions, please send an e-mail to Joyce Blommaart.