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Programme
9.00-9.15 Welcome coffee
9.15-9.20 Welcome
Ole Andreas Økstad and Ida K. Hegna, School of Pharmacy, UiO
9.20-9.30 Introduction
Henrik Schultz, Head of Department, School of Pharmacy, UiO
9.30-10.15 Quorum sensing controls virulence, necrotrophism and
sporulation in Bacillus thuringiensis
Didier Lereclus, INRA-Micalis, Paris, France
10.15-10.45 A genomic journey from Anthrax forensics to the
human microbiome
Jacques Ravel, Institute for Genome Sciences, University of
Maryland School of Medicine, USA
10.45-11.00 Coffee break
11.00-11.30 From monomorphic Bacillus anthracis - a Bacillus cereus clone -
to polymorphic Streptococcus pyogenes
Agnes Fouet, INSERM, Institut Cochin, Paris, France
11.30-12.00 Bacterial genetic diversity and disease control
Dominique Caugant, Norwegian Institute of Public Health
12.00-12.30 TBA
Mike Koomey, Department of Biosciences, UiO
12.30-13.00 Chimeric IStrons: molecular symbiosis between RNA and
DNA genetic elements
Nicolas J. Tourasse, INSERM, Université Bordeaux, France
13.00-14.15 Lunch
14.15-14.45 Learning from the embryo
Paula Murphy, Trinity College, Dublin, Ireland
14.45-15.05 From complex bacteria to complex diseases and genetic
epidemiology
Kirsti Kvaløy, Norwegian University of Science and
Technology
15.05-15.25 Coffee break
15.25-15.40 Seeing the unseen
Ida K. Hegna, School of Pharmacy, UiO
15.40-16.00 Gram-positive biofilm regulation - sinners and messengers
Ole Andreas Økstad, School of Pharmacy, UiO
16.00-16.20 Mission possible
Astrid Lægreid, Norwegian University of Science and Technology
16.20-16.50 Curiosity or focus?
Anne-Brit Kolstø, School of Pharmacy, UiO
16.50-17.00 Conclusion of symposium