Programma “Cortona Procarioti” 15-17 maggio 2014 Giovedì 15/5/2014 14.00 Applied and environmental Microbiology Filomena Sannino (Univ Federico II) Volatile organic compounds from a marine Antarctic bacterium: development of a novel capture and identification strategy Gennaro Apuzzo (Univ Federico II) New alkaline lipase from cold adapted bacteria Lucia Cimarelli (Univ Camerino) Detection of potentially toxic Amphora coffeaeformis Francesca Mapelli (Univ Milano) Unravelling geosphere-biosphere interactions in volcanic lakes Carolina Chiellini (CRA-ABP Firenze) Genomic and high-throughput phenotypical characterization of the electroactive bacteria Enterobacter sp. EAN3 15.30 Coffee break 16.00 Environmental Microbiology and cross-species interactions Giulia Spini (Univ Firenze) Phenomics of the symbiotic nitrogen-fixing bacterium Sinorhizobium meliloti in response to plant flavonoid luteolin Claudia Colzi (CRA-ABP Firenze) Biofumigation against the Meloidogyne incognita infestation of tomato: impacts on the structure of soil microbial communities Elena Crotti (Univ Milano) The potential of bacterial contribution to the physiology of a woodboring insect Sarah Zecchin (Univ Milano) Microbial arsenic cycle in rice rhizosphere in relation to water management Stefania Arioli (Univ Milano) Cooperation between species in the consortium yogurt is affected by modulation of intracellular pH driven by urease of Streptococcus thermophilus Giovanni Emiliani (Univ Firenze) Living inside plants: structure and functions of endophytic bacterial communities from medicinal herbs in the search for novel bioactive compounds 17.45 Keynote Lecture 1: Lenie Dijkshoorn (Leiden University Medical Center, The Netherlands) Developments in the study of Acinetobacter, a multifaceted group of organisms 1 Venerdì 16/5/2014 9.00 Keynote Lecture 2: Iñigo Lasa (University of Navarra, Pamplona, Spain) Transcription overlapping mediated gene regulation in Staphylococcus aureus 10.00 Functional genomics (Part 1) Marco Fondi (Univ Firenze) Reconstruction and modelling of Pseudoalteromonas haloplanktis TAC125's metabolism: insights into metabolic adaptation to low temperature Stefano Mocali (CRA-ABP Firenze) The metabolic profile of Antarctic Pseudoalteromonas TAC125 and TB41 strains at different temperatures through phenotype microarray analysis Fabio Battini (Univ Pisa) Molecular diversity of bacterial communities associated with spores of Glomeromycota isolated from different geographic areas Matteo Prayer Galletti (LENS-Firenze) Fluorescence in Situ Hybridization (FISH) with single molecule sensitivity in bacteria 11.00 Coffee break 11.30 Functional genomics (Part 2) Elena Perrin (Univ Firenze) From genome to phenome and back: understanding the high metabolic versatility of Burkholderia cepacia complex Giovanni Bacci (Univ Firenze) Composition and dynamics of the soil pan-bacteriome in mesocosms treated with cadmium Simone Puccio (ITB-CNR, Milano) Comparison of two different computational methods for the prediction of new E. coli ncRNAs from directional RNA sequencing data Francesco Santoro (Univ Siena) Transposon Attachment site (attTn) and Bacterial Attachment Site (attB) of ICE Tn5253 Emanuele Bosi (Univ Firenze) Comparative metabolic reconstruction and modeling of multiple Staphylococcus aureus strains: putative novel drug targets and evolutionary insights. 13.00 Lunch break 2 14.00 Molecular microbiology of bacterial pathogens Andrea Vannini (Univ Bologna) Blueprinting the Helicobacter pylori transcriptional regulatory network Sara Carloni (Univ Milano) Involvement of small RNAs in the regulation of virulence traits in Pseudomonas aeruginosa Silvia Ferrara (Univ Milano) Post-transcriptional regulation of the virulence-associated enzyme AlgC by the novel σ22 (AlgU/T)-dependent small RNA ErsA of Pseudomonas aeruginosa Roslen Bondi (Univ Roma Tre) Characterization of the incoherent feedforward loop governing quorum sensing in Pseudomonas aeruginosa Barbara Sciandrone (Univ Milano) Identification of new RNA Thermometers in Pseudomonas aeruginosa. Pamela di Pasquale (Univ Napoli) Mycobacterium tuberculosis: investigation of the adaptive response Andrea Castagnetti (Novartis Vaccines) Involvement of a type IV secretion system in bacterial conjugation among streptococci 16.00 Coffee break 16.30 Biology and genetics of antibiotic producers Giuseppe Gallo (Univ Palermo) Unravelling molecular physiology of the lantibiotic producer Microbispora sp. ATCC‐PTA‐5024 by differential proteomics Elisa Binda (Univ Insubria) Mechanism of self-resistance in the glycopeptide antibiotic producer Nonomuraea sp. ATCC 39727 Pietro Tedesco (Univ Napoli) Microorganisms from Tibetan Glaciers as source of novel drugs Carla Palumbo (Univ Salento) Comparative genomics revealed key molecular targets to rapidly convert a reference rifamycin-producing bacterial strain into an overproducer by genetic engineering Daniela Pasanisi (Univ Salento) Molecular mechanisms underlying the metabolic and morphological differentiation in Nonomuraea sp. ATCC 39727 Annalisa Pisciotta(Univ Palermo) Streptomyces coelicolor: DNA methylation and differentiation Emilia Palazzotto (Univ Palermo/Camerino) A small protein modulates tryptophan metabolism in Streptomyces coelicolor 3 Sabato 17/5/2014 9.00 Bacterial pathogenicity and antimicrobials Serafina Guadagnolo (Univ Siena) Native Outer Membrane Vesicles as powerful vaccine platform Stefano Travaglino (Univ Pavia) Studies on the antitubercular drug target MmpL3 and its gene locus Isabel Maida (Univ Firenze) Fighting Burkholderia cepacia complex strains using essential oils from medicinal plants Gabiria Pastore (Univ Sannio) Characterization of Rifampicin-resistant mutants in Neisseria meningitidis clinical isolate Marco Messina (Univ Roma Tre) Development of a biosensor for the high‐throughput screening of anti‐biofilm drugs Adelfia Talà (Univ Salento) Serogroup-specific interaction of Neisseria meningitidis capsular polysaccharide with host cell microtubules and effects on tubulin polymerization 10.30 Coffee break 11.00 Molecular Microbiology and Microbial Genetics Giulia Sbarufatti (Univ Milano) Involvement of E. coli PNPase in recombination and DNA damage repair Francesca De Maria (Univ Napoli) Analyses of methylation stress in Escherichia coli Giuditta Annibaldis (Univ MI-Bicocca) Understanding the role of AsmA and YfgC proteins in the outer membrane biogenesis in Escherichia coli Elio Rossi (Univ Milano) Effects of mutations in genes belonging to the sulphate assimilation pathway on production of extracellular structures in E. coli Mattia Benedet (Univ Milano) Characterization of the lipopolysaccharide transport machinery using an Escherichia coli/Pseudomonas aeruginosa hybrid system 4