Organized by:
Kenya Honda,RIKEN Keio University, Japan
Sam Miller, University of Washington, USA
Craig Roy, Yale University School of Medicine, USA
Feng Shao, National Institute of Biological Sciences, China
Jörg Vogel, University of Würzburg, Germany
Abstract Deadline extended to: September 18, 2015
Major Topics:
1. Bacterial effectors and host defense signaling
2. Genetic regulation of bacterial virulence
3. Trafficking of intracellular bacterial pathogens
4. Structural biology of bacteria-host interaction
5. Pore forming toxins and large exotoxins
6. Autophagy in host defense against infection
7. Inflammasome and Innate immune sensing of bacterial infection
8. Commensals and Microbiota
Keynote Speakers:
Jorge Galan, Yale University, USA
Invited Speakers:
Carmen Buchrieser, Institut Pasteur, FRANCE
Abstract title:Legionella host pathogen interactions and evolution of virulence
Xinchun Chen, Shenzhen Third People's Hospital, CHINA
Christoph Dehio, University of Basel, SWITZERLAND
Abstract title:FIC domains in Bartonella: Evolution of diversified host effectors from a widely-spread bacterial toxin/antitoxin system
Richard Ferrero, Monash University, AUSTRALIA
Abstract title:"Pathogen subversion of the NOD1 signalling pathway promotes cell survival and bacterial persistence"
Andrew Goodman, Yale University School of Medicine, USA
Emanuel Hanski, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem Hadassah Medical School, ISRAEL
Abstract title:Group A streptococcus exploits host unfolded protein response to control its virulence
Wolf-Dietrich Hardt, ETH Zürich, SWITZERLAND
Abstract title:Salmonella diarrhea, a fine balance between colonization resistance, pathogen invasion and mucosal immune defense
Elizabeth Hartland, University of Melbourne, AUSTRALIA
Abstract title:Necroptosis and gut infection
Masanori Hatakeyama, Graduate School of Medicine, The University of Tokyo, JAPAN
Kenya Honda, Keio University / RIKEN Center for Integrative Medical Sciences, JAPAN
Li-Chung Hsu, National Taiwan University, TAIWAN
Abstract title:Novel regulatory mechanisms of TLR4-driven inflammatory responses
Rongsheng Jin, University of California, Irvine, USA
Abstract title:Botulinum neurotoxin complexes and oral toxicity
Dennis Kasper, Brigham and Women's Hospital/Harvard Medical School, USA
Myung Hee, Kim Korea Research Institute of Bioscience and Biotech, SOUTH KOREA
Abstract title:The role of aminoacyl-tRNA synthetases against infection
Zhihua Liu, Institute of Biophysics, CAS, CHINA
Abstract title:Commensal bacteria direct selective cargo sorting to promote symbiosis
Stephen Lory, Harvard Medical School, USA
Zhao-Qing Luo, Purdue University, usa
Abstract title:Roles of Fic proteins in bacterial response to stresses
Edward Miao, School of Medicine, University of Carolina-Chapel Hill, USA
Abstract title:Inflammasomes coordinate pyroptosis and NK cytotoxicity to prevent the purple death
Samuel Miller, University of Washington, USA
Felix Randow, MRC Laboratory of Molecular Biology, UNITED KINGDOM
Abstract title:How cells defend their cytosol against bacterial invasion
Craig Roy, Yale University School of Medicine, USA
Thomas Rudel, University of Würzburg, Germany
Abstract title:Telomer repair in Chlamydia-infected host cell
Chihiro Sasakawa, Chiba University, JAPAN
Abstract title:Shigella deploy multiple systems to modulate host innate immune responses
Feng Shao, National Institute of Biological Sciences, CHINA
Abstract title:Inflammatory caspases-mediated anti-bacterial immunity: sensing and execution
Man-Wah Tan, Genentech Inc, USA
Christoph Tang, Unviersity of Oxford, UNITED KINGDOM
Jörg Vogel, University of Würzburg, GERMANY
Wensheng Wei, Peking University, CHINA
Abstract title:High-throughput identification of host receptors for Clostridium difficiletoxins TcdA and TcdB
Frank Yang, Indiana University School of Medicine, USA
Abstract title:Cyclic Di-Nucleotides and Diverse Host Adaptation of Vector-Borne Pathogens
Jing-Ren Zhang, Tsinghua University, CHINA
Abstract title:Site-specific recombinations promote epigenetic and phenotypic diversification within the strains of Streptococcus pneumoniae
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