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Final Program and Abstracts Final Program 5th ASM Conference on Cell-Cell Communication in Bacteria October 18 – 21, 2014 San Antonio, Texas © 2014 American Society for Microbiology 1752 N Street, N.W. Washington, DC 20036-2904 Phone: 202-737-3600 World Wide Web: www.asm.org All Rights Reserved Printed in the United States of America Table of Contents ASM Conferences Information ...................................... 2 Conference Organization ............................................... 3 Acknowledgments .......................................................... 3 General Information ....................................................... 4 Travel Grants .................................................................. 5 Scientific Program .......................................................... 7 Speaker Abstracts ......................................................... 14 Poster Abstracts ............................................................ 35 Index ............................................................................ 99 5th ASM Conference on Cell-Cell Communication in Bacteria 1 ASM Conferences Committee Sean Whelan, Chair Petra Levin Harvard Medical School Washington University in Saint Louis Victor DiRita Gary Procop University of Michigan Cleveland Clinic Joanna Goldberg* Curtis Suttle Emory University University of British Columbia Lora Hooper Theodore White University of Texas Southwestern University of Missouri – Kansas City Medical Center *Indicates Committee Liaison for this Conference ASM Conferences Mission To identify emerging or underrepresented topics of broad scientific significance. To facilitate interactive exchange in meetings of 100 to 500 people. To encourage student and postdoctoral participation. To recruit individuals in disciplines not already involved in ASM to ASM membership. To foster interdisciplinary and international exchange and collaboration with other scientific organizations. 2 ASM Conferences Program Committee Program Chairs Program Committee Marvin Whiteley; Co-chair, University Caroline Harwood; University of of Texas at Austin, Austin, TX Washington, Seattle, WA Eric Stabb; Co-chair, University of Steve Diggle; University of Nottingham, Georgia-Athens, Athens, GA Nottingham, United Kingdom Michael Federle; University of Illinois at Chicago, Chicago, IL George Salmond; University of Cambridge, Cambridge, England Karine Gibbs; Harvard University, Cambridge, MA Kendra Rumbaugh; Texas Tech Health Sciences Center, Odessa, TX Acknowledgments he Conference Program Committee and the American Society for Microbiology Tacknowledge the following for their support of the 5th ASM Conference on Cell- Cell Communication in Bacteria. On behalf of our leadership and members, we thank them for their financial support: Platinum Patrons Gold Patrons Burroughs Wellcome Fund NIAID, National Institutes of Health* Gordon and Betty Moore Foundation National Science Foundation Silver Patron Bronze Patron Society for General Microbiology Cystic Fibrosis Foundation * Research reported in this publication was supported by the National Institute of Allergy And Infectious Diseases of the National Institutes of Health under Award Number R13AI114226. The content is solely the responsibility of the authors and does not necessarily represent the official views of the National Institutes of Health. 5th ASM Conference on Cell-Cell Communication in Bacteria 3 General Information REGISTRATION AND NAME BADGES posters (2,4,6…) will be officially ASM Staff will be available at the presented in Session B on Monday, registration desk in the Grand Ballroom October 20. Foyer on the 3rd Floor at the San Antonio Marriott Rivercenter during Please check your assigned number in the posted registration hours. Participants abstract index. The same number is used may collect name badges and program for the presentation and board number. materials at the registration desk. A NETWORKING MEALS AND SOCIAL name badge is required for entry into all EVENTS sessions and meals. Each participant may register one guest to attend the welcome Registration includes attendance at reception. Guest tickets are $50. Guests the Welcome Reception on Saturday, may not attend sessions, poster sessions, Networking Lunches on Sunday and lunches or coffee breaks. Monday, and Poster Session Mixers on Sunday and Monday. Ample time has GENERAL SESSIONS also been scheduled for participants to All general sessions will be held in the network during coffee breaks. Salon E of the Grand Ballroom at the San certiFicate OF attendance Antonio Marriott Rivercenter. Certificates of Attendance can be found POSTER SESSIONS in the registration packet received at the Poster boards are located in the Grand registration desk. Ballroom at the San Antonio Marriott Note: Certificates of Attendance do not Rivercenter. Posters will be available list session information. for viewing informally throughout the CAMERAS AND RECORDINGS conference, with official poster sessions POLICY scheduled on Sunday and Monday. Audio/video recorders and cameras All posters should be mounted on Sunday are not allowed in session rooms or in morning, October 19, between 7:30 and the exhibit and poster areas. Taking photographs with any device is prohibited. 8:30 am, and should be removed by 1:00 pm on Tuesday, October 21. Posters CHILD POLICY which are not removed in time will be discarded. Children are not permitted in session rooms, poster sessions, conference meals Odd-numbered posters (1,3,5…) will or social events. Please contact the hotel be officially presented in Session A on concierge to arrange for babysitting Sunday, October 19, and even-numbered services in your hotel room. 4 ASM Conferences Travel Grants ASM TRAVEL GRANTS ASM encourages the participation of graduate students and new postdocs at ASM Conferences. To support the cost of attending the conference, ASM has awarded travel grants of $500 to each of the following individuals: Kyle Asfahl Bassam Elgamoudi Rikky Rai Heiko Babel Eran Even-Tov Rebecca Scholz Pengbo Cao Jake Everett Joe Sexton Brinta Chakraborty James Gurney Pratik Shah Angel Cueva Aiqun Jia Jiayue Yang Arup Dey Zohra Kajee Liqin Zhou Omar El-Halfawy Sabina Leanti La Rosa NIH TRAVEL GRANTS The NIAID – NIH has provided a conference grant to ASM to support travel of junior investigators, postdoctoral fellows and students. The following individuals have received travel grants administered by ASM which are supported by NIH funds: Gilles Brackman Beth Lazazzera Julie Valastyan Daniel Cornforth Charlotte Michelsen Karina Xavier Michael Federle Philip Rather Maria Hadjifrangiskou Lynne Turnbull 5th ASM Conference on Cell-Cell Communication in Bacteria 5 Travel Grants NSF TRAVEL GRANTS The National Science Foundation has provided a conference grant to ASM to support travel of junior investigators, postdoctoral fellows and students. The following individuals have received travel grants administered by ASM which are supported by NSF funds: Arpan Bandyopadhyay Jodi Connell Alice Min Ishay Ben-Zion Sylvie Estrela Matthew Powers Arunima Bhattacharjee Karine Gibbs Amy Schaefer Ilka Bischofs Lisa Hawver Beth Shank Sarah Jung Burkhard Hense Patricia Silva Allie Clinton Lucy McCully SGM TRAVEL GRANTS The Society for General Microbiology (SGM) has sponsored travel grants for the following individuals to support their participation in the conference: Luke McNally Roman Popat Aled Roberts Rita Monson 6 ASM Conferences Scientific Program Saturday, October 18, 2014 6:00 – 7:30 pm Opening Session Grand Ballroom, Salon E 6:00 – 6:15 pm Welcome Remarks Marvin Whiteley, Eric Stabb, Joanna Goldberg 6:15 – 6:30 pm Tribute to Woody Hastings Pete Greenberg, University of Washington, Seattle, WA 6:30 – 7:30 pm Keynote Lecture Bonnie Bassler, Princeton University, Princeton, NJ 7:30 – 9:00 pm Session 1: Signal Generation and Perception Grand Ballroom, Salon E 7:30 – 8:00 pm Title to be announced Steve Winans, Cornell University, Ithaca, NY 8:00 – 8:20 pm Screening and Mutual Information Theory Reveal Single Nucleotides in Qrr4 Important for LuxR Repression Julie Valastyan, Princeton University, Princeton, NJ 8:20 – 8:40 pm Phase Variation Controls Quorum Sensing in Acinetobacter baumanii Philip Rather, Emory University, Atlanta, GA 8:40 – 9:00 pm Quorum Sensing Control of a Lantibiotic Gene Cluster in Streptococcus pneumonia Beth Lazazzera, University of California, Los Angeles, CA 9:00 – 10:00 pm Welcome Reception Sazo’s Latin Grill 5th ASM Conference on Cell-Cell Communication in Bacteria 7 Scientific Program Sunday, October 19, 2014 8:30 – 11:40 am Session 2: Interference of Signaling Grand Ballroom, Salon E 8:30 – 9:00 am Title to be announced Michael Givskov, University of Copenhagen, Copenhagen, DENMARK 9:00 – 9:20 am How Does the Quorum Sensing Inhibitor Hamamelitannin Increase Staphylococcus aureus Biofilm Susceptibility Towards Glycopeptides Gilles Brackman, Ghent University, Gent, BELGIUM 9:20 – 9:40 am Growth Substrate Topography Switches an Interspecies Signaling Pathway in Co-Culture Biofilms Arunima Bhattacharjee, University of California, Irvine, Irvine, CA 9:40 – 10:00 am Combinatorial Quorum Sensing Can Allow Bacteria to Resolve Their Social and Physical Environment Daniel Cornforth, The University of Texas at Austin, Austin, TX 10:00 – 10:30 am Coffee break Grand Ballroom, Salons A & B 10:30 – 11:00 am Synthetic Ligands for the Interception of Bacterial Communication Helen Blackwell, University of Wisconsin, Madison, WI 11:00 – 11:20 am Cell-Cell Communication