Wissenschaftliches Symposium

LIFE Mini-Symposium

Date and time

Location

Online

Mini-Symposium of the profile LIFE of Friedrich Schiller University Jena. Everyone is cordially invited to join the symposium (or parts of it)!

https://uni-jena-de.zoom.us/j/68215877820

Meeting ID: 682 1587 7820

Passcode: 245148

Time Speaker Title
09:00 – 09:40 Dr. A. Barber, Leibniz-HKI Jena, Germany “Drug resistance and the genetic basis of virulence in a human fungal pathogen”
09:40 – 10:20 Dr. S. Jurburg, iDiv Leipzig, Germany
“Community assembly and microbiome management”
10:20 – 10:40 -- Coffee break --
10:40 – 11:20 Dr. S. Shitut, Universiteit Leiden, Netherlands “Unity leads to diversity: cell fusion in wall-deficient Streptomyces”
11:20 – 12:00 Dr. B. Schimmel, University of Bern, Switzerland “The molecular genetic basis of host immune suppression by a specialist herbivore”
12:00 – 13:00 -- Lunch break --
13:00 – 13:40 Dr. G. D’Souza, ETH Zurich, Switzerland “Cooperation and competition in microbial ecosystems”
13:40 – 14:20 Dr. E. Mhatre, University of Pittsburgh, PA, USA “Reciprocal effects of adaptive diversification and species interaction in pathogenic biofilm communities”
14:20 – 15:00 Dr. L. van Giesen, Harvard University, MA, USA “Molecular basis of chemotactic perception in Octopus”
15:00 – 15:30 -- Coffee break --
15:30 – 16:10 Dr. M. Lakemeyer, Stanford University, CA, USA “Functional profiling of bacterial proteases that modulate host-microbe interactions in the gut”