Norwich Research Park

Microbes in Norwich

27th November 2009
John Innes Conference Centre

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09.45 - 10.00   Registration

                     Chair: Allan Downie

10:00 - 10:30  Sacha Lucchini (IFR)
                     Transcriptional control of environmentally-responsive genes in Salmonella

10.30 - 11.00   Ane Sesma (JIC)
                      Unravelling post-transcriptional networks essential for fungal plant infection

11.00 - 11.30   Tea/Coffee; posters

11.30 - 12.30   Andy Johnston (UEA)
                     JIC Site seminar: The remarkable diversity of the genes, the pathways and the microbes that make the smell of the seas

12.30 - 13.30   Lunch; posters

                      Chair: Arnoud van Vliet

13.30 - 14.00   Tony Maxwell (JIC)
                     Simocyclinone: a 'double-headed' antibiotic with a novel mode of action

14.00 - 14.30   Nick LeBrun (UEA)                       
                      Making and breaking disulfide bonds in the cell envelope of Gram-positive bacteria

14.30 - 15.00   Mike Peck (IFR)
                      Clostridium botulinum
: biology of a dangerous pathogen

15.00 - 15.30   Martin Howard (JIC)
                      How are low copy number plasmids segregated in bacteria?

15.30 - 16.00   Tea/Coffee; Posters

                      Chair: Andy Johnston

16.00 - 16.30   Matt Hutchings (UEA)
                      Ant pharming: a search for novel antifungals in an unusual niche

16.30 - 17.00   Jonathan Jones (TSL)
                      Using obligate pathogen effectors to investigate host resistance mechanisms



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