Your poster will be identifiable by poster number, which will be on the poster board and listed in the Book of Abstracts CBM2016. ALL posters are to be put up on their respective poster boards on Tuesday, October 18. Do NOT remove your poster until after Closing ceremony ends on Friday, October 21.
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 |