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CTW: Biofilms in Infectious Disease: Schedule

Schedule

Monday, March 22
2:00pm Shuttle leaves for MBI
3:00-3:30pm Welcome, overview of workshop, and introductions: Marty Golubitsky
3:30-4:30pm Nick Cogan: What can a model of persister formation tell you?
4:30-6:30pm Reception and poster session
6:30pm Shuttle back to Hotel
Tuesday, March 23
8:00am Shuttle leaves for MBI
8:15-9:00am Breakfast
9:00-10:00am Matt Parsek: The Pel polysaccharide of P. aeruginosa
10:00-10:30am Break
10:30-11:30am Nick Ashbolt: Pipe biofilm pathogens: Are they just a nosocomal risk?
11:30-1:30pm Lunch break
1:30-2:30pm Keynote Speaker: Bill Costerton
2:30-3:00pm Break
3:00-4:00pm Martin Schuster: Communication and cooperation in bacterial populations: Mechanistic and evolutionary perspectives
4:00-5:00pm Kim Lewis: Persister Cells and the Paradox of Relapsing Chronic Infection
5:00-5:20pm Summary and Themes
5:30-6:30pm Poster session
6:30pm Shuttle back to hotel
Wednesday, March 24
8:00am Shuttle leaves for MBI
8:15-9:00am Breakfast
9:00-10:00am Jack Dockery: Quorum Sensing and Biofilm Modeling
10:00-10:30am Break
10:30-11:30am Hermann Eberl: Modeling, Analysis, and Simulation of Inter-colony Communication in Patchy Biofilms
11:30-1:30pm Lunch break
1:30-2:30pm David Davies: Biofilm Dispersion as a Novel Method to Control Chronic Biofilm Infections
2:30-3:00pm Break
3:00-4:00pm Fitnat Yildiz: Biofilm formation in Vibrio cholerae
4:00-5:00pm Karin Sauer: A novel signaling network essential for regulating Pseudomonas aeruginosa biofilm development
5:00-5:20pm Summary Themes
5:30pm Shuttle back to hotel
6:30-7:30pm Cash bar
7:30-9:30pm Banquet dinner
Thursday, March 25
8:00am Shuttle leaves for MBI
8:15-9:00am Breakfast
9:00-10:00am Hal Smith: The Freter Model of Biofilm Formation
10:00-11:00am Robert Palmer: Oral Biofilms: Biology to Models. (and Back Again?)
11:00-11:30am Break
11:30-12:30pm Mahmoud Ghannoum: Candida biofilm: journey from the bench to the patients
12:30-1:00pm Conclusions
1:15pm One Shuttle back to hotel
One Shuttle to Columbus Airport (CMH)