PROGRAM
Tuesday, October 18
| Time | Event |
|---|---|
| 14:00 - 17:00 | Registration |
| 17:00 - 17:30 | Opening ceremony Welcome addresses: prof. Lilija Kalėdienė - Chair of Lithuanian Microbiology Society prof. Rimantas Jankauskas - Pro-Rector for Research (Vilnius University) prof. Eugenijus Butkus - Chair of the Life Sciences Center Board (Vilnius University) prof. Osvaldas Rukšėnas - Dean of the Faculty of Natural Sciences (Vilnius University) |
| 17:30 - 18:30 | American Society for Microbiology (ASM) sponsored lecture. Dr. Riikka Ihalin (Turku, Finland) "Biofilm-host interaction in chronic infection" |
| 19:00 - 21:00 | Welcome reception |
Wednesday, October 19
| Time | Event |
|---|---|
| Session ||| Environmental microbiology Chairs: prof. Lilija Kalėdienė (Lithuania) and dr. Olga Muter (Latvia) | |
| 9:00 - 9:40 | Lecture by invited speaker Professor Dr. Hab. Hanna Mazur-Marzec (Gdansk, Poland) "Biochemical ecology of the Baltic cyanobacteria" |
| 9:40 - 10:00 | Olga Gavrilova (Russia) "Towards polyphasic taxonomy of Synechocystis" |
| 10:00 - 10:20 | Anne-Grit Klees (Germany) Sponsor's lecture, BIOTECHA "Methods for environmental monitoring" |
| 10:20 - 10:40 | Olga Muter (Latvia) "Adaptation of bacteria-biodegraders to crude oil" |
| 10:40 - 11:00 | Andrei Novikov (Russia) "Chemotaxonomic lipid analysis of novel taxa of bacteria" |
| 11:00 - 11:30 | Coffee Break |
| 11:30 - 11:50 | Dukas Jurėnas (Belgium) "An acetyltransferase toxin inhibits translation by novel mechanism" |
| 11:50 - 12:10 | Rūta Stanislauskienė (Lithuania) "Investigation and characterization of two cryptic plasmids from Arthrobacter spp." |
| 12:10 - 12:30 | Jaunius Urbonavičius (Lithuania) "Discovery of a novel gene, involved in the conversion of 2-thiouracil into uracil" |
| 12:30 - 12:50 | Andrew Anak Ngadin (Malaysia) "Characterisation of saprophytic fungi isolated from two islands in the east coast of Peninsular Malaysia" |
| 12:50 - 13:30 | Lunch Break |
| Session ||| Applied microbiology and biotechnology Chairs: prof. Rolandas Meškys (Lithuania) and assoc. prof. Tiina Alamäe (Estonia) | |
| 13:30 - 14:10 | Lecture by invited speaker Professor Thomas Alter (Berlin, Germany) "Microbial behavior in the food chain" |
| 14:10 - 14:30 | Hermann Heipieper (Germany) "Bioremediation of organic pollutants in planted systems: the rhizospheric effect" |
| 14:30 - 14:50 | Tiina Alamäe (Estonia) "Novel prebiotic fructooligosaccharides prepared by enzymatic synthesis and degradation of levan" |
| 14:50 - 15:10 | Egils Stalidzans (Latvia) "Impact of number of adjustable parameters on the optimisation potential of kinetic model" |
| 15:10 - 15:40 | Coffee Break |
| 15:40 - 16:00 | Gintarė Zakarienė (Lithuania) "Prevention of cross-contamination between Campylobacter jejuni contaminated poultry products and kitchen environment" |
| 16:00 - 16:20 | Alexander Rapoport (Latvia) "Anhydrobiosis in yeasts: from live nature to modern biotechnologies" |
| 16:20 - 16:40 | Kärt Kontram (Estonia) "Flour origin determines the evolution of bacterial communities in laboratory rye sourdoughs" |
| 16:40 - 17:00 | Ene Viiard (Estonia) "Bacterial communities of fresh and fermented birch sap" |
| 17:00 - 18:00 | Poster Session |
Thursday, October 20
| Time | Event |
|---|---|
| Session ||| Genetics, biochemistry and physiology of microorganisms and bacteriophages Chairs: prof. Rimantas Daugelavičius (Lithuania) and prof. Alexander Rapoport (Latvia) | |
| 9:00 - 9:40 | Lecture by invited speaker Professor Dennis Bamford (Helsinki, Finland) "More order to the viral universe" |
| 9:40 - 10:00 | Anne-Grit Klees (Germany) Sponsor's lecture, BIOTECHA "Requirements for culture media used in environmental monitoring" |
| 10:00 - 10:20 | Maia Kivisaar (Estonia) "Recombinational processes and evolution of Pseudomonas putida under stress" |
| 10:20 - 10:40 | Riho Teras (Estonia) "Fis affects biofilm formation of Pseudomonas putida through regulation of lapA and lapF expression" |
| 10:40 - 11:10 | Coffee Break |
| 11:10 - 11:30 | Hermann Heipieper (Germany) "Outer membrane vesicle secretion in Gram-negative bacteria: from cell envelope stress adaptation to biofilm formation" |
| 11:30 - 11:50 | Jekaterina Martynova (Latvia) "Effects of acetate on Kluyveromyces marxianus growth and metabolism" |
| 11:50 - 12:10 | Diana Kulikova (Latvia) "The role of aquaporins during Saccharomyces cerevisiae dehydration-rehydration" |
| 12:10 - 12:30 | Agnese Kokina (Latvia) "General stress resistance phenotype is not cell cycle dependent in budding yeast Saccharomyces cerevisiae" |
| 12:30 - 13:30 | Lunch Break |
| Session ||| Omic approaches and bioinformatics in microbiology Chairs: assoc. prof. Jaunius Urbonavičius (Lithuania) and prof. Jaak Truu (Estonia) | |
| 13:30 - 14:10 | Lecture by invited speaker Dr. Jean Armengaud (France) "Amazing perspectives of microbial proteogenomics and metaproteomics" |
| 14:10 - 14:30 | Thomas Kuri (Germany) Sponsor's lecture, Nanodiagnostika "Standardizing microbiomics – removing bias in collection, purification and analyses" |
| 14:30 - 14:50 | Mikk Espenberg (Estonia) "Metagenomic analysis of nitrogen cycling potential in natural and drained tropical peatlands of French Guiana" |
| 14:50 - 15:10 | Denis Kainov (Finland) "Multi-omics studies towards novel modulators of influenza A virus-host interaction " |
| 15:10 - 15:40 | Coffee Break |
| 15:40 - 16:20 | Rita Demidenko (Lithuania) Sponsor's lecture, Linea libera "Genetic analysis solutions in microbiology and infectious disease research" |
| 16:20 - 16:40 | Lidija Truncaitė (Lithuania) "Genomic comparison of FELIXO1VIRUS bacteriophages" |
| 16:40 - 17:00 | Eugenijus Šimoliūnas (Lithuania) "Investigation of tail-forming proteins of Escherichia phage vB_EcoM_NBD2" |
| 17:00 - 18:00 | Poster Session |
| 19:00 - 22:00 | Gala dinner ||| Neringa Hotel Vilnius, Gedimino Ave. 23 |
Friday, October 21
| Time | Event |
|---|---|
| Session ||| Medical and health aspects of microbiology Chairs: prof. Mindaugas Malakauskas (Lithuania) and dr. Milda Plečkaitytė (Lithuania) | |
| 9:00 - 9:40 | Lecture by invited speaker Professor Hanne Ingmer (Copenhagen, Denmark) "Bacterial resistance to antibiotics" |
| 9:40 - 10:00 | Karlis Shvirksts (Latvia) "FTIR spectroscopy and Raman microsscopy of cancer cells grown under hypoxic conditions" |
| 10:00 - 10:20 | Eglė Lastauskienė (Lithuania) "Membrane permeabilisation and growth inhibition of the skin infections causative microorganisms by using electro-magnetoporation" |
| 10:20 - 10:40 | Jelena Beljantseva (Estonia) "Biochemical characterization of the small alarmone synthetase of Enterococcus faecalis" |
| 10:40 - 11:10 | Coffee Break |
| 11:10 - 11:30 | Miglė Janulaitienė (Lithuania) "Distribution of Gardnerella vaginalis subtypes in characterized vaginal samples of Lithuanian women" |
| 11:30 - 11:50 | Joana Šalomskienė (Lithuania) "Antimicrobial compounds produced by selected lactic acid bacteria" |
| 11:50 - 12:20 | Closing ceremony Best poster award (Sponsored by JSC Linea Libera) Best students-microbiologists awards (Sponsored by Public agency Soil Remediation Technologies) prof. Nomeda Kuisienė - Chair of CBM2016 Organizing Committee |