10.06.2025 Join us at our Summer Symposium 2025: Nucleotide Switches

This year's symposium will take place on 10 and 11 July in the lecture hall and foyer of the SYNMIKRO building, featuring 11 speakers.

THURSDAY, 10 JULY

 

13:00      Welcome

13:15      Patrick Viollier - Microbiology and Molecular Medicine, University of Geneva
                The sweet spot: specificity of cytidyltransferases in flagellum sialylation and assembly

14:00      Anke Treuner-Lange - Department of Ecophysiology, MPI for Terrestrial Microbiology
               Structure analysis of the Type IVa pilus machine from Myxococcus xanthus reveals a novel component

14:30      Liujuan Zheng - Bange Lab, Marburg University
               A protein adaptor mediating Ap4A-dependent control of protein acetylation

15:00      Coffee break

15:30      Berenike Maier - Institute for Biological Physics, University of Cologne
                Fitness effects of horizontal gene transfer 

16:15      Tomas Pascoa - Schuller Lab, Marburg University
                Flavin-based aromatic degradation by the electron-bifurcating benzoyl-CoA reductase

16:45      Coffee break

17:15      Anna Lena Jung - Institute for Lung Research, Marburg University
                Bacterial extracellular vesicles as protective decoys: a novel mechanism of resistance

17:45      Jörg Vogel - Institute of Molecular Infection Biology, University of Würzburg
                Programmable RNA antibiotics reveal essential genes in phage-host interplay

18:30      Poster session by the doctoral students of GRK 2937

                 Warm buffet, get-together

21:00      End of day 1

FRIDAY, 11 JULY

 

09:00      Claudia Höbartner - Organic and Biomolecular Chemistry, University of Würzburg 
                Posttranscriptional RNA modification using methyltransferase ribozymes

09:45      Torsten Waldminghaus - Molecular Microbiology, Technical University Darmstadt
                From bacterial chromosome biology to plasmid DNA production

10:30      Coffee break

11:00      Michel Brück - GRK 2937, Randau Lab, Marburg University
                Functional characterisation of NUDIX hydrolases and their substrates in Sulfolobus acidocaldarius

11:30      Valérie de Crécy-Lagard - Microbiology and Cell Science, University of Florida
                Navigating paralogs, pathway holes, and functional divergence

12:15      Closing note 

12:30      Poster session by the doctoral students of GRK 2937

                 Snacks, get-together

15:00      End of symposium

REGISTRATION

Attendance is free, but registration required for organisational reasons. Please click here to register using your institute's email address. The registration portal will be open until Thursday, 3 July.

If you have registered and are unable to attend, please make sure to cancel by email to Antje Becker by Monday, 7 July.