PROGRAMME OUTLINE
KEYNOTE LECTURE:
Rodolphe Barrangou (North Carolina State University) Functions and applications of CRISPR-Cas systems in lactic acid bacteria
MICROBIAL COMMUNITIES
Danilo Ercolini (University of Naples) Lactic acid bacteria from foods and from probiotic preparations: current knowledge on their link to the gut microbiome
Nico Boon (Ghent University) Experimental tools in microbial communities
Rachel J Dutton (UCSD) Genetics, microbial communities and metabolism
FERMENTATION AND METABOLISM
Luc de Vuyst (Brussels University) Microbial communities in food fermentations
Frank Bruggeman (VU Amsterdam) Quantitative biology and resource allocation
Michiel Kleerebezem (Wageningen University) Growth rate and physiology of Lactococcus lactis
GENETICS AND GENOMICS
Lynette Cigelske (Stanford) Solid state NMR for macromolecular assemblies (e.g. cell wall)
Jörn Piel (ETH Zurich) Ribosomally synthesised peptides biodiversity
Jinzhong Xiao (Morinaga Milk Industry Co. Ltd) Genomics and physiology of bifidobacteria
HOST-MICROBE INTERACTIONS
Dennis Nielsen (University of Copenhagen) Probiotics
Catherine Stanton (APC, Ireland) Gut microbiome, diet and mood
Beatriz Martinez (Dairy Research Institute IPLA-CSIC, Spain) Cell wall homeostasis in LAB: insults and defenses
BACTERIOPHAGE AND ANTIMICROBIALS
Christophe Fremaux (DuPont Nutrition and Health) Dairy lactococcal and streptococcal phage-host interactions: industrial perspective in an evolving phage landscape
Karen Maxwell (Toronto) Chemical warfare in the phage-host evolutionary arms race