13:30-17:00 POSTERS II
Chair: Anne-Laure Moyne
1. Sharik R. Khan, S. Su, and Stephen K. Farrand
“Degradation of acyl-HSLs by AttM lactonase and its role in controlling the conjugative transfer of Ti-plasmids in Agrobacterium tumefaciens”
2. Shengchang Su and Stephen K. Farrand
“How does the Ti plasmid stop conjugative transfer?”
3. Yinping Qin, Shengchang Su and Stephen K Farrand
“Structural model of the antiactivation complex formed between TraM
And the quorum-sensing activator TraR”
4. Karsten Arends, Cem Soellue, Ertugrul-Kaan Celik, Jolanta Kopec, Katarzyna Schiwon, Yaser Mohammed Abajy, and Elisabeth Grohmann.
“ORF7 – a specialized lytic transglycosylase (SLT) from gram-positive bacteria, encoded by the type IV secretion like system from the broad-host-range plasmid pIP501”
5. Rembrandt Haft*, Eliora Gachelet, and Beth Traxler
“Molecular mechanisms of bacterial conjugation”
6. Jennifer A. Parsons, Trudi L. Bannam, Rodney J. Devenish and Julian I. Rood “The tcpA gene is required for the conjugative transfer of pCW3 in C. perfringens”
7. Wee L. Teng, Trudi L. Bannam and Julian I. Rood.
“Conjugative plasmid transfer in Clostridium perfringens: functional characterization and localization of the pCW3-encoded TcpH protein, a homologue of ORF15 from Tn916”
8. Susana Brom*, Alejandro García-de los Santos, Laura Cervantes, and David Romero “Conjugative transfer of Rhizobium plasmids”
9. Edgardo Sepúlveda, Daniel Pérez-Mendoza, Socorro Muñoz, Miguel A. Ramirez-Romero, Maria José Soto, Laura Cervantes, José A. Herrera-Cervera, Isabel López-Lara, Otto Geiger, Juan Sanjuán, Susana Brom* and David Romero “Regulation of conjugal transfer of the Rhizobium etli Sym plasmid”
10. Mario Juhas*, Derrick W. Crook, Ioanna D. Dimopoulou, Gerton Lunter, Rosalind M. Harding, David J.P. Ferguson, Derek W. Hood “Novel type IV secretion system involved in propagation of genomic islands”
11. Hortensia G. Rolán* and Renée M. Tsolis
“How does the Brucella abortus Type IV Secretion System influence the immune response during infection?”
12. Laura E. Williams*, Valerie Hilliard, and Anne O. Summers
“Large and small plasmids are abundant in Salmonella and Escherichia coli
reference collections”
13. Randal E. Fox and Eva M. Top “Invasion of a plasmid free population of E. coli by the IncP-1β plsmid pB10”
14. Masahiro Sota**, Leen De Gelder, Eva M. Top “Stability of an IncP-1β mini-replicon and its adaptation to various hosts”
15. Masahiro Sota and Eva Top “Transposition of Tn21 to a cryptic IncP-1β plasmid pBP136 helps to explain the structural similarity of IncP-1β plasmids”
16. Hirokazu Yano, Christine Garruto, Masahiro Sota, Yoshiyuki Ohtsubo, Yuji Nagata, Gerben J. Zylsra, Peter A Williams and Masataka Tsuda “Genetic organization of IncP-7 TOL plasmid pWW53 and the movement of its residing transposons”
17. Duyen Bui, Nohemy Sorto*, Sonia Trigueros, Jason S. Newmark, David J. Sherratt, and Marcelo E. Tolmasky “Role of replicative transposons in plasmids’ host range expansion: implications in dissemination of antibiotic resistance”
18. Lukasz Dziewit, Magdalena Jazurek, Lukasz Drewniak, Jadwiga Baj, and Dariusz Bartosik “Identification of a novel family of addiction systems”
19. Ichizo Kobayashi “Genetic addiction: theme and variation”
20. Virginia S. Lioy, Oscar Rey, Teresa Pellicer, Dolors Balsa, Haike Antelmann, Jerry M. Wells and Juan C. Alonso “Streptococcus pyogenes PSM19035-encoded toxin ξ induces stasis without selectively affecting protein translation”
21. Ryo Miyazaki, Yukari Sato, Michihiro Ito, Yoshiyuki Ohtsubo, Yuji Nagata, and Masataka Tsuda “Exogenous isolation of a plasmid involved in the degradation of γ-hexachlorocyclohexane from its contaminated soil”
22. Yoriko Sakai, Naoto Ogawa, Sho Morimoto and Takeshi Fujii
“Analysis of degrading genes and plasmids of 3CB degrading bacteria isolated from soil”
23. Hiroaki Naka*, and Jorge H. Crosa
“A plasmid acquisition event during evolution resulted in the hegemony of the ferric siderophore anguibactin uptake system in the fish pathogen Vibrio anguillarum”
24. Gonnet, Mathieu, Gael. Erauso, Marc Le Romancer, and Daniel Prieur
“Unexpected abundance and diversity of plasmids in deep-sea hyperthermophiles: a reservoir for novel gene families?”
25. Grazyna Rudzicz, Ewa Piechucka, Lukasz Dziewit, Dariusz Bartosik and Miroslawa Wlodarczyk “Mobile genetic elements in carotenoids producer- Paracoccus marcusii DSM11574”
26. Tuong Tran, Beltran Rodriguez Brito, and Forest Rohwer “Uncultured microbial plasamid communities: isolation, purification, characterization, and horizontal gene transfer”
27. Anna Kulinska, Magda Ochocka, Patrycja Dołowy, Finbarr Hayes and Grażyna Jagura-Burdzy “Complete nucleotide sequence of the RA3 plasmid from IncU group. Analysis of the backbone functions”
28. Sletvold, H., P. J. Johnsen, G. S., Simonsen, A. Sundsfjord, and K.M. Nielsen. “Complete DNA sequence of the Enterococcus faecium vanA plasmid pIP816, and comparative analyses to vanA plasmids isolated from poultry and poultry farmer E. facecium strains”
29. Aspa Chatziefthimiou*, Jonna Coombs, and Tamar Barkay “The design, optimization, and testing of a hybridization array for the characterization of broad Host range metal resistance plasmids”
30. Indra Sandal, Mohamed N. Seleem, Shaadi Elswaifi, Nammalwar Sriranganathan, and Thomas J. Inzana “Construction of high efficiency “construction of high efficiency expression vectors for Histophilus somni”
31. Monika Knoppová, Mongkol Phensaijai, Martina Zemanová, Jan Nešvera and Miroslav Pátek “Novel plasmid vectors for testing in vivo promoter activities In Corynebacteria and Rhodococci”
32. M. Kunnimalaiyaan, M.S. Scholle, C. A. White, G. Baisa, Y.-S. Zhou, V. Lukyanchuk, and P.S. Vary “The seven compatible plasmids of Bacillus megaterium QM B1551. Sequencing and replication”
33. Andrew J. Spiers, Adrian Tett, Dawn Field and Mark J. Bailey “The complete genome of the environmental plasmid pQBR103, its role in bacterial adaptation and the pan-microbial sugar beet phytosphere community genome”
34. William Klimke, Stacy Ciufo, Boris Fedorov, Yuri Kapustin, Boris Kiryutin, Andrey Kochergin, Kathleen O’Neill, Sergei Resenchuk, Igor Tolstoy, and Tatiana Tatusova ‘NCBI entrez resources for genomes and plasmids”
35. Joanna Andrzejewska, Sae Kyung Lee, Patrick Olbermann, Nina Lotzing, Elena Katzowitsch, Bodo Linz, Mark Achtman, Clarence I. Kado, Sebastian Suerbaum, and Christine Josenhans
“Characterization of the pilin ortholog of the Helicobacter pylori type IV cag pathogenicity apparatus, a surface-associated protein expressed during infection”
36. Lisa K. Nolan, Timothy J. Johnson, Yvonne Wannemuehler, and Jerod A. Skyberg “Plasmids in APEC Virulence and Antimicrobial Resistance: An Overview”
37. T. J. Johnson, Y. Wannemuehler, S. J. Johnson, and L. K. Nolan
“Analysis of Three Virulence Plasmids Provides Insight into the Evolution and Dissemination of F-Type Plasmids among Avian Escherichia coli”
