Fall meeting 2023
Registration link: https://webforms.ru.nl/27c124bd-964c-ee11-be6e-000d3a2e4562
Registration costs: 20 Euro, including coffee, lunch and borrel
Location: Huygens Building of the Radboud University (Heyendaalseweg 135 in Nijmegen)
Program
9:45-10:15 Registration & coffee
10:15-10:30 Welcome
10:30-11:15 Keynote: Akos Kovacs, Leiden University: Frenemies of the soil: understanding the molecular genetic details of Bacillus-Pseudomonas interactions
11:15-11:45 Robert Jansen, Radboud University: Elucidating metabolic dark matter - Finding the function of microbial genes and metabolites
11:45-12:15 Andras Spaan, UMC Utrecht: Human genetic and immunological determinants of staphylococcal host-pathogen interactions
12:15-13:30 Lunch
13:30-14:00 Sandy Schmidt, Rijksuniversiteit Groningen: Turning pollution into value: Engineering carbon-hungry microbes
14:00-14:30 Lennart Schada von Borzyskowski, Leiden University: Natural and synthetic biochemistry of Paracoccus denitrificans for sustainable applications
14:30-15:00 Rebeca Gonzalez Cabaleiro, TU Delft: Crunching numbers and growing cultures: how to quantify in microbial ecology
15:00-15:30 Coffee
15:30-16:00 Tessa Quax, Rijskuniversiteit Groningen: Infection mechanism of the archaeal virus HFTV1
16:00-16:30 Raymond Staals, Wageningen University & Research: Type III-B CRISPR-Cas signaling-based cascade of proteolytic cleavages
16:30-18:00 Goodbye & borrel
The venue is easily reachable by public transport (train station Nijmegen-Heyendaal or bus station Huygensgebouw). Registration is in the central hall on the ground floor, the scientific sessions will take place in the vicinity (HG00.304). Paid parking options are available underneath and near the building.