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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.

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