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Programma “Cortona Procarioti”
3-5 maggio 2012
Giovedì 3/5/2012
14.00 Keynote Lecture
Vittorio Venturi (ICGEB, Trieste)
Interspecies and inter-kingdom signaling in plant associated
bacteria
15.00 Pathogenic bacteria (Part 1)
M. Letizia Di Martino (Sapienza-Roma) The complex regulation of virF expression in Shigella flexneri
Valentina La Rosa (Pavia)
MmpL3 is the cellular target of the antitubercular drug BM212
Giorgia Mori (Pavia)
Mechanisms of action and resistance of a new antitubercular drug
Francesco Del Villani (Milano)
A genetic approach to thermosensors identification in Pseudomonas
aeruginosa
16.00 Coffee break
16.30 Pathogenic bacteria (Part 2)
Francesco Massai (Roma TRE)
New life for an old drug: identification of an FDA-approved
compound active against Pseudomonas aeruginosa quorum sensing
Chiara Pagliuca (Napoli)
Effect of rpoB mutations conferring rifampicin resistance on fitness of N.
meningitidis
Pamela di Pasquale (Napoli)
Riparo e protezione del DNA: FadE8 da Mycobacterium tuberculosis
Lorenza Tulli (Novartis-Siena)
Identification of a novel surface exposed Clostridium difficile protein
potentially involved in the colonization of intestinal mucosa
Fulvia Amerighi (Novartis-Siena)
Unraveling the mechanism of action of anti-pilus antibodies in reducing
pneumococcal adhesiveness to human epithelial cells
Elisa Viciani (Novartis-Siena)
The ancillary protein 1 of Streptococcus pyogenes FCT-1 pili mediates cell
adhesion and biofilm formation through heterophilic as well as homophilic
interactions
Alice Gerlini (Siena)
Early host defense mechanisms against invasive pneumococcal disease
Leonardo Furi (Siena)
A novel resistance mechanism to triclosan which suggests horizontal gene
transfer and demonstrates selective pressure for reduced biocide
susceptibility in S. aureus
Venerdì 4/5/2012
9.00 Keynote Lecture
Gavin Thomas (University of York, UK) Titolo da definire
10.00 Microbial - omics (part 1)
Marco Fondi (Firenze)
Sequence is not everything: bioinformatic tools for microbial genomes
analysis
Marco Galardini (Firenze)
DuctApe: the missing link between genomics and phenomics
Concetta De Santi (Napoli)
Metagenomic approaches to cold environments: discovery of new
extremozymes
10.45 Coffee break
11.15 Microbial - omics (Part 2)
Giovanni Emiliani (Firenze)
Comparative genomics of Acinetobacter venetianus species
Alessio Mengoni (Firenze)
Dynamics of pangenome evolution and functional diversification in a symbiotic
bacterial species
Elena Perrin (Firenze)
A deep analysis of RND superfamily in the Burkholderia genus
Alessandro Pietrelli (ITB-CNR) A combined method for rRNA removal in Burkholderia thailandensis
Clelia Peano (ITB-CNR Milano) Burkholderia thailandensis whole-transcriptome and membrane-proteome profiling
in conditions mimicking first stress responses in host infections
Mariarita Stirpe (INRAN-Roma) Un approccio metagenomico per lo studio del microbiota alimentare
Francesca Turroni (Parma)
Diversity of bifidobacteria in the infant gut microbiota
Emmanuela Marchi (Firenze)
Molecular and phenomic characterization of Staphylococcus aureus strains bearing
Qac gene
13.15
Lunch break
14.30
Applied and Environmental Microbiology (Part 1)
Michela Gambino (Milano) Effects of endogenously-induced oxidative stress on Azotobacter vinelandii biofilm
genesis
Eleonora Rolli (Milano)
Endophytes from desert plants alleviate water stress in pepper
Luigi Sansonno (Milano)
Microbial symbionts: a resource for health management of insect pollinators
Giuseppe Merlino (Milano) Microbial community structure and dynamics of single and two-stage anaerobic
digestion process treating swine slurry and market bio-waste
Paola Bozzelli (L’Aquila)
Study of the interactions between selected endophytic bacteria and some pathogenic
fungi in Lycopersicon esculentum
Giorgia Marcone (Insubria) Mechanism of self-resistance in the glycopeptide antibiotic producer Nonomuraea sp.
ATCC 39727
16.00
Coffee break
16.30
Applied and Environmental Microbiology (Part 2)
Carmen Rizzo (Messina)
Joostella sp. (Flavobacteriaceae) from the polychete Megalomma claparadei: a new
source of biosurfactancts
Giuseppe Gallo (Palermo)
From gut to pyrite mine drainages: biochemical adaptations to survive high iron
concentrations in the armored strain Klebsiella oxytoca BAS10
Bruna Matturro (Roma)
Cinetiche di biodegradazione ed attività di biomasse decloranti: dallo studio su
arricchimenti microbici in scala di laboratorio all’applicazione su campioni ambientali
Filomena Sannino (Napoli)
Produzione ricombinante dell’α-galattosidasi umana e della sua variante RGD3 a
scopo terapeutico: sviluppo di un processo alternativo nell’ospite psicrofilo
Pseudoalteromonas haloplanktis TAC125
Francesca Bottaccini (Parma)
Genome analysis of Bifidobacterium asteroides PRL2011 reveals respiratory
capabilities among insect-associated members of the genus Bifidobacterium
Sabato 5/5/2012
9.00 Molecular Microbiology (Part 1)
Thomas Carzaniga (Milano)
Polynucleotide phosphorylase controls cell aggregation and poly-Nacetylglucosamine (PNAG) production in Escherichia coli C
Raffaella Garofalo (Camerino)
Translation initiation inhibitor GE81112 causes a severe generalized
distortion of the 30S P-site
Attilio Fabretti (Camerino)
Translation initiation without IF2-dependent GTP hydrolysis
Elio Rossi (Milano)
The pyrimidine nucleotide biosynthetic pathway modulates production of
biofilm determinants in Escherichia coli
Francesca Longo (Roma TRE)
Identification and characterization of a novel quorum sensing repressor in
Pseudomonas aeruginosa
10.15
Coffee break
10.45 Molecular Microbiology (Part 2)
Alessandra Martorana (MI-Bicocca)
New insights into the Lpt machinery for lipopolysaccharide transport to the
cell surface: functional dissection of LptC protein
Riccardo Villa (MI-Bicocca)
Searching for the LPS binding motif: the Escherichia coli LPS transport protein
LptA as a case study
Diego Mora (Milano)
Phenotypic heterogeneity in a genetic homogeneous background in
Streptococcus thermophilus as revealed by single cell analysis and by a singlegrowing unit approach
Riccardo Arrigucci (Siena)
The LytB Lysin of Streptococcus gordonii is involved in daughter cell
separation (De-Chaining)
Elena Foroni (Parma)
Identification of pilus-like structures in members of the genus
Bifidobacterium