Program overview

12:05 - 15:30

Posters: Virus host cell interactions, Structure/Function, Viral control of the host

Poster Halls

Poster session

12:05 - 15:30

Poster Day 3-T08-Pos-01

Poster presentation

Optimizing propagation of S. aureus vB_SauM-phiIPLA-RODI phage on S. xylosus

Ana Rodríguez¹, Eva González¹, Antonio Garrido-Fernández², Francisco Noé Arroyo-López², Pilar García¹, Beatriz Martínez¹

¹Instituto de Productos Lácteos de Asturias (IPLA-CSIC), Villaviciosa, Asturias, Spain, ²Departamento de Biotecnología de Alimentos. Instituto de la Grasa (IG_CSIC), Sevilla, Spain

12:05 - 15:30

Poster Day 3-T08-Pos-02

Poster presentation

Campylobacter jejuni flagellin B – A new form of phage defense mechanism?

Lukas Lis^{1, 2}, Ian Connerton²

¹PTC Phage Technology Center GmbH, Bönen, Germany, ²Division of Food Sciences, School of Biosciences, University of Nottingham, Sutton Bonington Campus, Loughborough, United Kingdom

12:05 - 15:30

Poster Day 3-T08-Pos-03

Poster presentation

Molecular mechanism of pac recognition and cleavage by the bacteriophage SPP1 terminase

Karima Djacem, Paulo Tavares, Leonor Oliveira

CNRS, Institute for Integrative Biology of the Cell (I2BC), Department of Virology, Gif-sur-Yvette, France

12:05 - 15:30

Poster Day 3-T08-Pos-04

Poster presentation

Four Phage endolysins that are lytic for Clostridium perfringens.

David M. Donovan¹, D. Treva Rowley¹, Brian Oakley², Steven Swift¹

¹Animal Bioscience and Biotechnology Laboratory, USDA-ARS, Beltsville, MD, United States, ²College of Veterinary Medicine, Western University of Health Sciences, Pomona, CA, United States

12:05 - 15:30

Poster Day 3-T08-Pos-05

Poster presentation

A Vibrio coralliilyticus infecting phage elucidates genome packaging in T4-like bacteriophages

Sean Benler, Shr-Hau Hung, Jeremy Barr, Forest Rohwer

San Diego State University, San Diego, United States

12:05 - 15:30

Poster Day 3-T08-Pos-06

Poster presentation

Host range analysis show a correlation between phage sensitivity and Campylobacter jejuni clonal complex

Martine Sørensen¹, Emre Gencay¹, Jonas Björkman², Eva Møller², Lone Brøndsted¹

¹University of Copenhagen, Frederiksberg C, Denmark, ²Statens Serum Institut, Copenhagen, Denmark

12:05 - 15:30

Poster Day 3-T08-Pos-07

Poster presentation

Differentially expressed stress genes in E.coli strains MG1655 and MG1655(933WΔtox).

Michalina Filipiak, Marcin Łoś, Joanna Łoś

University of Gdansk, Faculty of Biology, Department of Molecular Biology, Gdansk, Poland

12:05 - 15:30

Poster Day 3-T08-Pos-08

Poster presentation

Antibacterial Activity of a Novel AMP-Modified Lysin Against mastitis Staphylococcus in China

Lichang Sun, Yan Zhou, Tao He, Maoda Pang, RAN WANG, et al.

Institute of Food Safety and Monitoring Technology, Jiangsu Academy of Agricultural Sciences, Nanjing, China

12:05 - 15:30

Poster Day 3-T08-Pos-09

Poster presentation

CRISPR-Cas9 for genome editing of virulent lactococcal phage p2

Marie-Laurence Lemay, Sylvain Moineau

Université Laval, Québec, Canada

12:05 - 15:30

Poster Day 3-T08-Pos-10

Poster presentation

Characterization of a Bacteriophage Lysis Protein and Its Possible Host Lysis Mechanism

Jaewoo Bai¹, Sangryeol Ryu^{1, 2}

¹Department of Food and Animal Biotechnology, Department of Agricultural Biotechnology, Research Institute of Agriculture and Life Sciences, and Center for Food and Bioconvergence, Seoul National University, Seoul, Korea, Republic of (South), ²Institute of Food Industrialization, Institutes of Green Bio Science & Technology, Seoul National University, Pyeongchang, Korea, Republic of (South)

12:05 - 15:30

Poster Day 3-T08-Pos-11

Poster presentation

Polar flagella rotation in Vibrio parahaemolyticus confers resistance to bacteriophage infection

Hui Zhang, et al.

Jiangsu Key Laboratory of Food Quality and Safety-State Key Laboratory Cultivation Base of MOST, Jiangsu Academy of Agricultural Sciences, Nanjing 210014, China, Department of Pathobiology & Veterinary Science, The University of Connecticut, 61 N. Eagleville Road, Storrs, CT 06269-3089, USA, Center of Excellence for Vaccine Research, The University of Connecticut, 61 N. Eagleville Road, Storrs, CT 06269-3089, USA

12:05 - 15:30

Poster Day 3-T08-Pos-12

Poster presentation

Ribosomal Proteins in Viruses

Carolina Megumi MIZUNO, Patrick FORTERRE, Mart KRUPOVIC

Unit of Molecular Biology of the Gene in Extremophiles, Department of Microbiology, Institut Pasteur, Paris, France

12:05 - 15:30

Poster Day 3-T08-Pos-13

Poster presentation

The Evolution Machine: Using droplet-based microfluidics to investigate phage-host interactions

Steven D. Quistad, Jerome Bibette, Paul B. Rainey

EPSCI ParisTech, Paris, France

12:05 - 15:30

Poster Day 3-T08-Pos-14

Poster presentation

De-repression by dUTPases: pirating conserved phage mechanisms for staphylococcal pathogenicity island transfer

Janine Z. Bowring¹, Maan Al-Naqeeb¹, J. Rafael Ciges-Tomas², Jorge Donderis², Nuria Quiles-Puchalt¹, Elisa Maiques², Alberto Marina², José R. Penades¹

¹University of Glasgow, Glasgow, United Kingdom, ²Instituto de Biomedicina de Valencia (IBV-CSIC) and CIBER de Enfermedades Raras (CIBERER),, Valencia, Spain

12:05 - 15:30

Poster Day 3-T08-Pos-15

Poster presentation

Promiscuos SaPI2 induction by unrelated phage-coded recombinases

Maan Al-Naqeeb^{1, 2}, Jose Penades¹

¹Infection, Immunity & Inflammation/ University of Glasgow, Glasgow, United Kingdom, ²Department of Microbiology/ Faculty of Veterinary Medicine/ University of Kufa, Iraq

12:05 - 15:30

Poster Day 3-T08-Pos-16

Poster presentation

Elucidation of the pathway for the synthesis of 2’-deoxyarchaeosine, a complex modification of phage 9g DNA

Geoffrey Hutinet¹, Stefanie M. Kellner², Alla K. Golomidova³, Eugene K. Kulikov³, Andrey V. Letarov³, Richard J. Roberts⁴, Peter C. Dedon², Valérie de Crécy-Lagard¹

¹University of Florida, Microbiology and Cell Science Department, Gainesville, United States, ²Department of Biological Engineering, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, United States, ³Winogradsky Institute of Microbiology, Research Center of Biotechnology of Russian Academy of Sciences, Moscow, Russia, ⁴New England Biolabs, Ipswich, Massachusetts, United States

12:05 - 15:30

Poster Day 3-T08-Pos-17

Poster presentation

A eukaryotic-like Serine/Threonine kinase protects Bacteria against viruses

Florence Depardieu¹, Jean-Philippe Didier², Aude Bernheim^{1, 3}, Andrew Sherlock⁴, Henrik Molina⁵, Bertrand Duclos², David Bikard¹

¹Synthetic Biology Group, Microbiology Department, Institut Pasteur, Paris, France, ²Institute of Biology and Chemistry of proteins, University of Lyon-CNRS, Lyon, France, ³AgroParisTech, Paris, France, ⁴Laboratory of Bacteriology, The Rockefeller University, New-York, France, ⁵Proteomics Resource Center, The Rockefeller University, New-York, France

12:05 - 15:30

Poster Day 3-T08-Pos-18

Poster presentation

crAssphage: the ongoing hunt for a host using a carbohydrate-binding domain

P.A. de Jonge^{1, 2}, F.L. Nobrega², S.J.J. Brouns², R.A. Edwards³, B.E. Dutilh^{1, 4, 5}

¹Theoretical Biology and Bioinformatics, Department of Biology, Utrecht University, Utrecht, Netherlands, ²Laboratory for Microbiology, Department of Agrotechnology and Food Sciences, Wageningen University, Wageningen, Netherlands, ³Bioinformatics Lab, Department of Computer Science, San Diego State University, San Diego, United States, ⁴Centre for Molecular and Biomolecular Informatics, Radboud University, Medical Centre, Nijmegen, Netherlands, ⁵Instituto de Biologia, Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil

12:05 - 15:30

Poster Day 3-T08-Pos-19

Poster presentation

The impact of high variability in genes coding for tail fibers on the adsorption of phage T4 to its host.

Zachary Storms, Dominic Sauvageau

Dept. of Chemical and Materials Engineering, University of Alberta, Edmonton, Canada

12:05 - 15:30

Poster Day 3-T08-Pos-20

Poster presentation

Characterising Stx-phage adsorption to determine the cause of broader host-range than expected.

Stuart McEwen, Alan McCarthy, Heather Allison

University of Liverpool, Liverpool, United Kingdom

12:05 - 15:30

Poster Day 3-T08-Pos-21

Poster presentation

The study of novel chimeric endolysins with antimicrobial activity against paenibacilli and corynebacteria

Gabriela Bukovska¹, Jana Ugorcakova¹, Lenka Balusiková¹, Katarina Martikanova^{1, 2}

¹Laboratory of Genomics, Institute of Molecular Biology Slovak Academy of Sciences, Bratislava, Slovakia, ²Comenius University Bratislava, Faculty of Natural Sciences, Bratislava, Slovakia

12:05 - 15:30

Poster Day 3-T08-Pos-22

Poster presentation

Insights into the pre-early proteins of bacteriophage T5

Léo Zangelmi, Pascale Boulanger, Madalena Renouard

Institute for Integrative Biology of the Cell, Gif sur Yvette, France

12:05 - 15:30

Poster Day 3-T08-Pos-23

Poster presentation

Retracted

Maria Eugenia Dieterle^{1, 2}, Silvia Spinelli², Mariana Piuri¹, Christian Cambillau²

¹Dept. of Biological Chemistry, School of Exact and Natural Sciences, University of Buenos Aires, IQUIBICEN-CONICET, Buenos Aires, Argentina, ²Architecture et Fonction des Macromolécules Biologiques, UMR 7257 Aix-Marseille Université, Marseille, France

12:05 - 15:30

Poster Day 3-T08-Pos-24

Poster presentation

The role of overexpression of rIII gene in development of phage T4 and it’s mutants T4rI and T4rIII

Patrycja Pniewska, Lidia Boss, Katarzyna Kosznik-Kwaśnicka, Marcin Łoś

Department of Molecular Biology, University of Gdansk, Wita Stwosza 59, 80-308 Gdansk, Poland., Gdansk, Poland

12:05 - 15:30

Poster Day 3-T08-Pos-25

Poster presentation

Functional analysis of the Tail Tape Measure Protein of the lactococcal phage TP901-1

Mona Alqarni¹, Silvia Spinelli², Jennifer Mahony¹, et al.

¹University College Cork, Microbiology Department, Cork, Ireland, ²The Architecture et Fonction des Macromolécules Biologiques (AFMB), Marseilles, France

12:05 - 15:30

Poster Day 3-T08-Pos-26

Poster presentation

CHARACTERISING THE REPLICATION MODULE OF THE STAPHYLOCOCCUS AUREUS BACTERIOPHAGE 12

Ibrahim Alotibi^{1, 2}, Nuria Quiles-Puchalt¹, Jose R Peandés¹

¹Institute of Infection, Immunity and Inflammation College of Medical, Veterinary and Life Sciences University of Glasgow, Glasgow, United Kingdom, ²Department of Biology King Abdulaziz University, Jeddah, Saudi Arabia

12:05 - 15:30

Poster Day 3-T08-Pos-27

Poster presentation

Genome sequences and comparative genomics of bacteriophages infecting Campylobacter jejuni

Martine Sørensen¹, Witold Kot², Amira Vitt¹, Lars Hansen², Lone Brøndsted¹

¹Department of Veterinary Disease Biology, University of Copenhagen, Copenhagen, Denmark, ²Department of Environmental Science, Aarhus University, Roskilde, Denmark

12:05 - 15:30

Poster Day 3-T08-Pos-28

Poster presentation

Pseudolysogeny and sequential mutations build multiresistance to virulent bacteriophages in Pseudomonas aeruginosa

Libera Latino, Cédric Midoux, Yolande Hauck, Gilles Vergnaud, Christine Pourcel

Institute for Integrative Biology (I2BC), CEA, CNRS, Univ. Paris-Sud, Université Paris-Saclay, Gif-sur-Yvette, France

12:05 - 15:30

Poster Day 3-T08-Pos-29

Poster presentation

Development of a random mutagenesis protocol for functional analysis of cyanophage AMGs.

Tamsin Redgwell¹, Fran Pitt¹, Rich Puxty¹, David Evans², Andy Millard¹, Dave Scanlan¹

¹School of Life Sciences, University of Warwick, Coventry, United Kingdom, ²Biomedical Sciences Research Complex, University of St. Andrews, Edinburgh, United Kingdom

12:05 - 15:30

Poster Day 3-T08-Pos-30

Poster presentation

Phage-borne depolymerase degrading Pseudomonas aeruginosa LPS polysaccharides

Agnieszka Latka¹, Barbara Maciejewska¹, Anneleen Cornelissen², Tomasz Olszak¹, Grzegorz Gula¹, Michal Arabski³, Rob Lavigne², Zuzanna Drulis-Kawa¹

¹Institute of Genetics and Microbiology, University of Wroclaw, Wroclaw, Poland, ²Laboratory of Gene Technology, KULeuven, Leuven, Belgium, ³Institute of Biology, The Jan Kochanowski University in Kielce, Kielce, Poland

12:05 - 15:30

Poster Day 3-T08-Pos-31

Poster presentation

The effect of phase variation induced bacteriophage receptor expression heterogeneity on survival of Haemophilus influenzae to challenge by bacteriophage HP1c1

Christopher J.R. Turkington^{1, 2}, Martha R.J. Clokie², Chris D. Bayliss¹

¹Department of Infection, Immunity, and Inflammation, University of Leicester, Leicester, United Kingdom, ²Department of Genetics, University of Leicester, Leicester, United Kingdom

12:05 - 15:30

Poster Day 3-T08-Pos-32

Poster presentation

Silencing of cryptic prophages in Corynebacterium glutamicum populations

Eugen Pfeifer¹, Max Hünnefeld¹, Ovidiu Popa², Meike Bauumgart¹, Tino Polen¹, Dietrich Kohlheyer¹, Julia Frunzke¹

¹Forschungszentrum Juelich GmbH / Institute for Bio- and Geosciences (IBG-) 1, Jülich, Germany, ²Quantitative and Theoretical Biology, Heinrich-Heine-Universitaet Duesseldorf, Duesseldorf, Germany

12:05 - 15:30

Poster Day 3-T08-Pos-33

Poster presentation

On-site detection of bacterial pathogens using phage-based light-emitting biosensors

Nicolas Ginet¹, Manon Vinay¹, David Pignol², Mireille Ansaldi¹

¹Laboratoire de Chimie Bactérienne, CNRS, Marseille, France, ²2CEA, DSV, IBEB, Laboratoire Bioénergétique Cellulaire, Saint-Paul-lez-Durance, France

12:05 - 15:30

Poster Day 3-T08-Pos-34

Poster presentation

Molecular characterization of the activity and requirements of a novel and promiscuous bacteriophage integrase

Mohammed R. Mohaisen, Alan J. McCarthy, Heather E. Allison

Institute of Integrative Biology/ University of Liverpool, Liverpool, United Kingdom

12:05 - 15:30

Poster Day 3-T08-Pos-35

Poster presentation

Bacteriophage CHOED selects for bacteriophage-resistant strains of V. anguillarum with diverse mutant phenotypes.

Marcela León¹, Constantina Kokkari², Pantelis Katharios², Roberto Bastías¹

¹Laboratory of Microbiology, Institute of Biology, Pontificia Universidad Católica de Valparaíso, Valparaíso, Chile, ²Institute of Marine Biology, Biotechnology and Aquaculture, Hellenic Centre for Marine Research, Crete, Greece

12:05 - 15:30

Poster Day 3-T08-Pos-36

Poster presentation

Spontaneous prophage induction in bacterial populations

Julia Frunzke, et al.

Forschungszentrum Jülich, Jülich, Germany

12:05 - 15:30

Poster Day 3-T08-Pos-37

Poster presentation

Functional & structural elucidation of a ssDNA-binding protein encoded by the N4-like, Pseudomonas phage LUZ7

Maarten Boon¹, Jeroen De Smet¹, Elke De Zitter², Marc De Maeyer³, Luc Van Meervelt², Rob Lavigne¹

¹Laboratory of Gene Technology, Department of Biosystems, KU Leuven, Leuven, Belgium, ²Biomolecular Architecture group, Department of Chemistry, KU Leuven, Leuven, Belgium, ³Laboratory for Biomolecular Modelling, Department of Chemistry, KU Leuven, Leuven, Belgium

12:05 - 15:30

Poster Day 3-T08-Pos-38

Poster presentation

Identification of Host Receptors for Clostridium difficile Bacteriophage

Ahmed Dowah, Martha Clokie, Russell Wallis

Department of Infection, Immunity and Inflammation; Medical Sciences Building; University of Leicester., Leicester, United Kingdom

12:05 - 15:30

Poster Day 3-T08-Pos-39

Poster presentation

Broadening the host range of bacteriophages

Franklin L. Nobrega^{1, 2}, Natalie M. Edner², Yue Liu², Boris A. Estrada², Stan J.J. Brouns²

¹Department of Microbiology, Wageningen University and Research Centre, Dreijenplein 10, 6703HB, Wageningen, Netherlands, ²CEB – Centre of Biological Engineering, University of Minho, Campus de Gualtar, 4710-057, Braga, Portugal

12:05 - 15:30

Poster Day 3-T08-Pos-40

Poster presentation

Elucidation of phage-mediated PLE induction in Vibrio cholerae

Amelia McKitterick, Brendan O'Hara, Kimberley Seed

Department of Molecular, Cellular, and Developmental Biology, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, United States

12:05 - 15:30

Poster Day 3-T08-Pos-41

Poster presentation

Characterisation of Pseudomonas aeruginosa PA01 phage-resistant mutants

Tomasz Olszak¹, Agnieszka Latka¹, Grzegorz Gula¹, Miguel Valvano², Zuzanna Drulis-Kawa¹

¹Department of Pathogen Biology and Immunology, Institute of Genetics and Microbiology, University of Wroclaw, Wroclaw, Poland, ²Centre for Infection and Immunity, Queen’s University Belfast, Belfast, United Kingdom

12:05 - 15:30

Poster Day 3-T08-Pos-42

Poster presentation

CHARACTERISING A NOVEL FAMILY OF MOBILE GENETIC ELEMENTS ON THE MOVE: THE PHAGE-INDUCIBLE CHROMOSOMAL ISLANDS

Nuria Quiles Puchalt¹, Roser Martínez-Rubio², Miguel Martí³, Geeta Ram⁴, John Chen⁴, Richard Novick⁴, José R. Penadés¹

¹Institute of Infection, Immunity and Inflammation College of Medical, Veterinary and Life Sciences University of Glasgow, Glasgow, United Kingdom, ²Departamento de Ciencias Biomédicas, Universidad CEU Cardenal Herrera, Moncada, Spain, ³Centro de Investigación y Tecnología Animal, Instituto Valenciano de Investigaciones Agrarias (CITA-IVIA), Segorbe, Spain, ⁴Skirball Institute Program in Molecular Pathogenesis and Departments of Microbiology and Medicine, New York University Medical Center, New York, United States

12:05 - 15:30

Poster Day 3-T08-Pos-43

Poster presentation

Crossed regulation between prophage and bacteria

AURELIA BATTESTI, MIREILLE ANSALDI

Laboratoire de Chimie Bactérienne, UMR7283, Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique, Aix Marseille Université, MARSEILLE, France

12:05 - 15:30

Poster Day 3-T08-Pos-44

Poster presentation

Transfer and Expression of Shiga Toxin Genes of Bacteriophage to Nonpathogenic E. coli

Won Jung Park¹, Jae Hyung Park¹, Yong Duck Lee², Jong Hyun Park¹

¹Gachon University, Bokjeong-dong, Korea, Republic of (South), ²Seowon University, Cheong Ju, Korea, Republic of (South)

12:05 - 15:30

Poster Day 3-T08-Pos-45

Poster presentation

The study of corynephage BFK20 replisome using bacterial two-hybrid system (BACTH)

Adela Tkáčová, Gabriela Bukovská

Laboratory of Genomics, Institute of Molecular Biology, Slovak Academy of Sciences, Bratislava, Slovakia

12:05 - 15:30

Poster Day 3-T08-Pos-46

Poster presentation

Bacteriophage ɸ24B and its ability to modulate microbial physiology and antimicrobial tolerance by hiijacking the fatty acid synthesis pathway

Giles Holt¹, Alan McCarthy², Ashleigh Graham¹, John Lodge¹, Simon Bridge¹, Alistair Brown⁴, Marta Veses-Garcia², Clare Lanyon¹, Andy Sails³, Heather Allison², Darren Smith¹

¹Faculty of Health and Life Sciences, University of Northumbria at Newcastle, Newcastle upon tyne, United Kingdom, ²Microbiology Research Group, Institute of Integrative Biology, University of Liverpool, Liverpool, United Kingdom, ³Public Health England, Royal Victoria Hospital, Newcastle upon tyne, United Kingdom, ⁴School of Medicine, Pharmacy and Health, Durham University, Durham, United Kingdom

12:05 - 15:30

Poster Day 3-T08-Pos-47

Poster presentation

Host and prophages intertangled regulatory networks in Enterobacteria

Maëlle Delannoy¹, Alice Boulanger^{1, 2}, Stéphanie Champ¹, Aurélia Battesti¹, Mireille Ansaldi¹

¹Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique - Aix-Marseille Université, Marseille, France, ²Laboratoire des Interactions Plantes Microorganismes, INRA, CNRS, Université Paul Sabatier, Castanet Tolosan, France

12:05 - 15:30

Poster Day 3-T08-Pos-48

Poster presentation

Cell wall associated changes in Vancomycin Intermediate Resistant Staphylococcus aureus (VISA) confer phage insensitivity

Shawna McCallin, Carmen Menzi, Frank Oechslin, Jose Entenza, Philippe Moreillon, Grégory Resch

University of Lausanne, Lausanne, Switzerland

12:05 - 15:30

Poster Day 3-T08-Pos-49

Poster presentation

Influence of Escherichia coli oxyR gene function on λ prophage induction under oxidative stress

Katarzyna Kosznik-Kwaśnicka, Michał Miętus, Piotr Kosznik, Monika Glinkowska, Joanna M Łoś, Marcin Łoś

Department of Molecular Biology, University of Gdansk, Wita Stwosza 59, 80-308 Gdansk, Poland., Gdansk, Poland

12:05 - 15:30

Poster Day 3-T08-Pos-50

Poster presentation

Identification of phage receptors of bacteriophages TG1 and phiR1-RT infecting Yersinia enterocolitica

Maria Pajunen¹, Carlos Leon-Velarde², Lotta Happonen³, Katarzyna Leskinen¹, Darren Smith⁴, Andrew Kropinksi², Shu Chen², Roger Johnson⁵, Mansel Griffiths², Joseph Odumeru², Mikael Skurnik¹, et al.

¹Department of Bacteriology and Immunology, University of Helsinki, Helsinki, Finland, ²University of Guelph, Ontario, Guelph, Canada, ³Institute of Biotechnology, University of Helsinki, Helsinki, Finland, ⁴University of Northumbria at Newcastle, Newcastle, United Kingdom, ⁵Public Health Agency of Canada, Guelph Ontario, Guelph, Canada

12:05 - 15:30

Poster Day 3-T08-Pos-51

Poster presentation

Global transcriptome analysis of phiCDHS1 bacteriophage during lytic infection on Clostridium difficile R20291

Thekra Al-Tayawi, Janet Nale, Martha Clokie, Shaun Heaphy

Infection, Immunity and Inflammation Medical science bulding University of Leicester, Leicester, United Kingdom

12:05 - 15:30

Poster Day 3-T08-Pos-52

Poster presentation

What are the determinants influencing the replication of virulent bacteriophages in the gastrointestinal tract?

Marta Lourenço, Matthieu Galtier, Damien Maura, Laurent Debarbieux

Groupe Interactions Bactériophages Bactéries chez l’Animal Unité BMGE, Département de Microbiologie, Institut Pasteur, Paris, France

12:05 - 15:30

Poster Day 3-T08-Pos-53

Poster presentation

Genomic analysis of the evolutive relationship between Salmonella Enteritidis and its phage ΦSan23

Martha Vives, Angela Holguin

Universidad de los Andes, Bogotá, Colombia

12:05 - 15:30

Poster Day 3-T08-Pos-54

Poster presentation

Loss of Plaque Formation in a Phage

Alexander Wilcox, Benjamin Dickins

Nottingham Trent University, Nottingham, United Kingdom

12:05 - 15:30

Poster Day 3-T08-Pos-55

Poster presentation

EXPANDING Staphylococcus aureus BACTERIOPHAGE Sb-1 HOST RANGE BY PASSAGE THROUGH INSENSITIVE STRAINS

Kirill Sergueev¹, Andrey Filippov¹, Jason Farlow¹, Akhil Reddy¹, Mzia Kutateladze², Leila Kvachadze², Nana Balarjishvili², Mikeljon Nikolich²

¹Walter Reed Army Institute of Research, Silver Spring, United States, ²G. Eliava Institute of Bacteriophages, Microbiology and Virology, Tbilisi, Georgia

12:05 - 15:30

Poster Day 3-T08-Pos-56

Poster presentation

Next-Generation “-omics” approaches reveal a massive alteration of host RNA metabolism during bacteriophage infection of Pseudomonas aeruginosa.

Anne Chevallereau^{1, 2}, Bob Blasdel³, De Smet Jeroen³, Marc Monot⁴, Michael Zimmermann⁵, Maria Kogadeeva⁵, Uwe Sauer⁵, Peter Jorth⁶, Marvin Whiteley⁶, Laurent Debarbieux¹, Rob Lavigne³

¹Institut Pasteur, Molecular Biology of the Gene in Extremophiles Unit, Department of Microbiology, Paris, France, ²Université Paris Diderot, Sorbonne Paris Cité, Cellule Pasteur, Paris, France, ³Laboratory of Gene Technology, Kasteelpark Arenberg 21, box 2462, Department of Biosystems, KULeuven, Leuven, Belgium, ⁴Institut Pasteur, Laboratoire Pathogenèse des bactéries anaérobies, Département de Microbiologie, Paris, France, ⁵Institute of Molecular Systems Biology, Eidgenössische Technische Hochschule (ETH), Zurich, Switzerland, ⁶Department of Molecular Biosciences, Institute for Cellular and Molecular Biology, Center for Infectious Disease, University of Texas, Austin, United States

12:05 - 15:30

Poster Day 3-T08-Pos-57

Poster presentation

Bacteriophage-host interaction at the cell enveiope of Staphylococcus aureus

Guoqing Xia

Microbiology and Virology, Institute of Inflammation and Repair Faculty of Medical and Human Sciences, University of Manchester,, Manchester, United Kingdom

12:05 - 15:30

Poster Day 3-T08-Pos-58

Poster presentation

Listeria monocytogenes’ prophage serves as an active regulatory switch to promote bacterial virulence

Anat Herskovits, Sigal Nadejda

Dpt. of Molecular Microbiology and Biotechnology, Tel Aviv University Israel, Tel Aviv, Israel

12:05 - 15:30

Poster Day 3-T08-Pos-59

Poster presentation

Understanding Bacterial Sensitivity to Phage

Stephen Ahern, Y. Emre Gencay, Lone Brøndsted

Department of Veterinary Disease Biology, University of Copenhagen, Frederiksberg C, Denmark

12:05 - 15:30

Poster Day 3-T08-Pos-60

Poster presentation

Hot Tales of T4’s Transition from Host to Phage Metabolism

Georgia Ray, Daniel Bryan, Betty Kutter

The Evergreen State College, Olympia, United States

12:05 - 15:30

Poster Day 3-T08-Pos-61

Poster presentation

High-affinity decoration of Bacteriophage T5 capsid

Emeline Vernhes¹, Madalena Renouard¹, Bernard Gilquin¹, Philippe Cuniasse¹, Dominique Durand¹, Patrick England², Anatoly Glukhov³, Olga Selivanova³, Vladimir Ksenzenko³, Sophie Zinn-Justin¹, Pascale Boulanger¹, et al.

¹Institute for Integrative Biology of the Cell (I2BC), CEA, CNRS, Université Paris-Sud, Gif-sur-Yvette, France, ²Institut Pasteur, Molecular Biophysics, CNRS UMR3528, Paris, France, ³Institute of Protein Research, Russian Academy of Sciences, Pushchino, Moscow Region, Russia

12:05 - 15:30

Poster Day 3-T08-Pos-62

Poster presentation

Transcriptomics of an anti-phage island in Vibrio cholerae

Zachary Barth¹, Kimberley Seed²

¹Department of Microbiology and Immunology, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, United States, ²Department of Molecular, Cellular, and Developmental Biology, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, United States

12:05 - 15:30

Poster Day 3-T08-Pos-63

Poster presentation

Insight into mechanisms of generalized transduction of Pseudomonas aeruginosa bacteriophages: description of preferred bacterial loci for packaging

Christine Pourcel, Cédric Midoux, Gilles Vergnaud

I2BC, Université Paris-Saclay, Orsay, France

12:05 - 15:30

Poster Day 3-T08-Pos-64

Poster presentation

Improvement of the interaction of molecularly imprinted polymers with genetically modified self-assembled virus displaying different types of exterior amino acids.

In-hyuk Baek^{1, 2}, Volkhard helms², Young jun Kim¹

¹Kist-europe, Saarbrucken, Germany, ²Center for bioinformatics Saarland University, Saarbrücken, Germany

12:05 - 15:30

Poster Day 3-T08-Pos-65

Poster presentation

High lambda prophage induction in the mouse gastrointestinal tract is costly for its bacterial host

Marianne De Paepe

INRA, Jouy-en-josas, France

12:05 - 15:30

Poster Day 3-T08-Pos-66

Poster presentation

Resistance of Marine Cyanobacteria to Generalist Cyanophages is often Intracellular

Sophia Zborowsky, Debbie Lindell

Technion-Israel Institute of Technology, Haifa, Israel

12:05 - 15:30

Poster Day 3-T08-Pos-67

Poster presentation

Phage-mediated ciprofloxacin resistance transfer in staphylococci

Ana Tskhvediani¹, Elene Didebulidze², Nino Janelidze³, Tamar Suladze³, Ekaterine Gabashvili², Marina Tediashvili⁴, Ekaterine Jaiani³

¹Postdoc, Tbilisi, Georgia, ²PhD student, ³Leading Scientist, ⁴Head of the laboratory

12:05 - 15:30

Poster Day 3-T08-Pos-68

Poster presentation

Domain of Unknown Function 3380 (DUF3380) confers potent N-acetylmuramidase activity to a Salmonella phage endolysin

Lorena Rodriguez-Rubio¹, Hans Gerstmans^{1, 2}, Simon Thorpe³, Stéphane Mesnage⁴, Rob Lavigne¹, Yves Briers²

¹KU Leuven, Laboratory of Gene Technology, Kasteelpark Arenberg 21, box 2462, 3001, Heverlee, Belgium, ²Ghent University, Department of Applied Biosciences, Laboratory of Applied Biotechnology, Valentin Vaerwyckweg 1, 9000, Ghent, Belgium, ³Faculty of Science, Mass Spectrometry Facility, University of Sheffield, Brook Hill Road, Sheffield S3 7HF, United Kingdom, ⁴Krebs Institute, Department of Molecular Biology and Biotechnology, University of Sheffield, Firth Court, Western Bank, Sheffield S10 2TN, United Kingdom

12:05 - 15:30

Poster Day 3-T08-Pos-69

Poster presentation

Metabolite and metabolism characterisation of Pseudomonas aeruginosa pellicle formation and the impact of converting temperate phages

Francesca Everest, Mohammed A. Tariq, Giles S. Holt, Anthony De Soyza, John Lodge, Audrey Smith, John D. Perry, Stephen Bourke, Stephen P. Cummings, Clare V. Lanyon, Darren L. Smith

University of Northumbria at Newcastle, Newcastle upon Tyne, United Kingdom

12:05 - 15:30

Poster Day 3-T08-Pos-70

Poster presentation

A new type of bacterium–phage interaction, an active lysogeny, in Listeria monocytogenes and its prophage

Nadejda Sigal, et al.

Department of Molecular Microbiology and Biotechnology, George S. Wise Faculty of Life Sciences, Tel Aviv University, Tel Aviv, Israel

12:05 - 15:30

Poster Day 3-T08-Pos-71

Poster presentation

Identification of phage receptors in Erwinia amylovora after transposon mutagenesis

Leandra E. Knecht^{1, 2}, Yannick Born¹, Martin J. Loessner², Lars Fieseler¹

¹Institute of Food and Beverage Innovation; Zurich University of Applied Sciences, Wädenswil, Switzerland, ²Institute of Food; Nutrition and Health; ETH Zurich, Zürich, Switzerland

12:05 - 15:30

Poster Day 3-T08-Pos-72

Poster presentation

Induction of Prophage Φ1207.3 in Streptococcus pneumoniae

Francesco Santoro, Gabiria Pastore, Francesco Iannelli, Gianni Pozzi

University of Siena, Siena, Italy

12:05 - 15:30

Poster Day 3-T08-Pos-73

Poster presentation

Microbial warfare: interaction of streptococcal bacteriophages with their host

Alex Woodacre¹, Leonardo Furi¹, Ana Sousa Manso¹, Maddalena Galati², Megan De Ste Croix¹, Richard Haigh¹, Kristine Fjelland³, Gregor Gilfillan³, Martha Clokie¹, Marco R Oggioni¹

¹University of Leicester, Leicester, United Kingdom, ²Pisa University Hospital, Pisa, Italy, ³University Hospitals Oslo, Oslo, Denmark

12:05 - 15:30

Poster Day 3-T08-Pos-74

Poster presentation

The spread of PICI-like elements in Gram-negative bacteria

Alfred Fillol Salom¹, Nuria Quiles-Puchalt¹, Jose R Penades¹

¹Institute of Infection Immunity and Inflammation, GBRC, University of Glasgow, Glasgow, United Kingdom, ²Centro de Investigacion y Tecnologia Animal. Instituto Valenciano de Investigaciones Agrarias, Valencia, Spain

12:05 - 15:30

Poster Day 3-T08-Pos-75

Poster presentation

Mycoreovirus-induced suppression of host vegetative incompatibility reaction facilitates horizontal transmission of heterologous viruses

Songsong Wu¹, Jiasen Cheng¹, Yanping Fu¹, Tao Chen¹, Daohong Jiang¹, Said Ghabrial², Jiatao Xie¹

¹State Key Laboratory of Agricultural Microbiology, The Provincial Key Lab of Plant Pathology of Hubei Province, College of Plant Science and Technology, Huazhong Agricultural University, WUHAN, China, ²Department of Plant Pathology, University of Kentucky, lexington, United States

12:05 - 15:30

Poster Day 3-T08-Pos-76

Poster presentation

Dissecting the potential impact of the BTP1 prophage of Salmonella Typhimurium strain D23580, a representative of the emerging invasive non-typhoidal salmonellae

Angela Makumi¹, Ines Staes¹, William Cenens¹, Samuel Kariuki², Abram Aertsen¹, et al.

¹KU Leuven, Leuven, Belgium, ²Kenya Medical Research Institute, Nairobi, Kenya

12:05 - 15:30

Poster Day 3-T08-Pos-77

Poster presentation

Phage-borne depolymerases specific to Klebsiella capsular polysaccharides

Agnieszka Latka¹, Barbara Maciejewska¹, Grazyna Majkowska-Skrobek¹, Flavia Squeglia², Maria Romano², Rita Berisio², Zuzanna Drulis-Kawa¹

¹Institute of Genetics and Microbiology, University of Wroclaw, Wroclaw, Poland, ²Institute of Biostructures and Bioimaging, National Research Council, Naples, Italy

12:05 - 15:30

Poster Day 3-T08-Pos-78

Poster presentation

Complete genomes of ETA-converting bacteriophages isolated from impetigo strains of Staphylococcus aureus

Tibor Botka¹, Vladislava Růžičková¹, Hana Konečná², Roman Pantůček¹, Ivan Rychlík³, Zbyněk Zdráhal², Petr Petráš⁴, Jiří Doškař¹

¹Department of Experimental Biology, Faculty of Science, Masaryk University, Kotlárská 2, 611 37 Brno, Czech Republic, ²Central European Institute of Technology, Masaryk University, Kamenice 5, 625 00 Brno, Czech Republic, ³Veterinary Research Institute, Hudcova 70, 621 00 Brno, Czech Republic, ⁴National Institute of Public Health, National Reference Laboratory for Staphylococci, Šrobárova 48, 100 42 Prague, Czech Republic

12:05 - 15:30

Poster Day 3-T08-Pos-79

Poster presentation

Development of spontaneous phage-resistant mutants in Bacillus thuringiensis: the tectivirus-bacteria interplay

Annika Gillis¹, Marc Harper², Christopher Lee^{2, 3, 4}, Jacques Mahillon¹

¹Laboratory of Food and Environmental Microbiology, Université catholique de Louvain, Louvain-la-Neuve, Belgium, ²Institute for Genomics and Proteomics, University of California Los Angeles, Los Angeles, United States, ³Dept. of Chemistry & Biochemistry, University of California Los Angeles, Los Angeles, United States, ⁴Molecular Biology Institute, University of California Los Angeles, Los Angeles, Los Angeles, United States

12:05 - 15:30

Poster Day 3-T08-Pos-80

Poster presentation

Mobilization mechanism of pathogenicity islands by endogenous phages of Staphylococcus aureus isolates from cystic fibrosis patients

Mercedes Cevera, Katarina Guzman, Migle Ziemyte, Angeles Tormo-Mas

Instituto de Investigación Sanitaria la FE, Valencia, Spain

12:05 - 15:30

Poster Day 3-T08-Pos-81

Poster presentation

Control of the replication of the Salmonella bacteriophage Gifsy-1 by an antisense RNA

Nicolas Wenner¹, Kristian Händler², Jay C. D. Hinton¹

¹Institute of Integrative Biology, University of Liverpool, Liverpool, United Kingdom, ²Life and Medical Sciences (LIMES)-Institute, Rheinische Friedrich-Wilhelms-University Bonn, Bonn, Germany

12:05 - 15:30

Poster Day 3-T08-Pos-82

Poster presentation

Inter-simple sequence repeat (ISSR) analysis to molecular characteristic determination of Heliotropium digynum in Saudi Arabia

Mona Alwahaibi

king saud Unv., Riyadh, Saudi Arabia

12:05 - 15:30

Poster Day 3-T08-Pos-83

Poster presentation

Molecular characterization of an endolysin harboring a novel spore binding domain encoded by a Bacillus cereus phage PBC2

Minsuk Kong, Hongjun Na, Sangryeol Ryu

Department of Food and Animal Biotechnology, Department of Agricultural Biotechnology, Research Institute of Agriculture and Life Sciences, and Center for Food and Bioconvergence, Seoul National University, Seoul, Korea, Republic of (South)

12:05 - 15:30

Poster Day 3-T08-Pos-84

Poster presentation

Insight into the lytic cassette of the lactococcal phage TP712

Susana Escobedo¹, Clara Roces¹, Udo Wegmann², Pilar García¹, Ana Rodríguez¹, Beatriz Martínez¹

¹DairySafe group. Dpt. Technology and Biotechnology of Dairy Products. Dairy Research Institute IPLA-CSIC, Villaviciosa, Spain, ²Institute of Food Research, Norwich Research Park, Norwich, United Kingdom

12:05 - 15:30

Poster Day 3-T08-Pos-85

Poster presentation

Efficient generation of mcr-1 gene knockout using CRISPR/Cas9 in Escherichia coli

Lichang Sun, Tao He, Maoda Pang, RAN WANG, et al.

Institute of Food Safety and Monitoring Technology, Jiangsu Academy of Agricultural Sciences, Nanjing, China

12:05 - 15:30

Poster Day 3-T08-Pos-86

Poster presentation

BIOCHEMICAL DIVERSITY WITHIN COCCOLITHOVIRUS ENCODED SERINE PALMITOYLTRANSFERASE AND ITS IMPACT ON THE PRODUCTION OF GLYCOSPHINGOLIPIDS AND VIRAL DEMISE OF EMILIANIA HUXLEYI

Jozef Nissimov¹, Rebecca Gardella¹, Helen Fredricks², Udi Zelzion³, Debashish Bhattacharya³, Ben Van Mooy², Kay Bidle¹

¹Department of Marine and Coastal Sciences, Rutgers University, New Brunswick, United States, ²Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution, Woods Hole, United States, ³Department of Ecology, Evolution and Natural Resources, Rutgers University, New Brunswick, United States

12:05 - 15:30

Poster Day 3-T08-Pos-87

Poster presentation

Isolation and characterization of a bacteriophage infecting the anaerobic methane oxidizing bacterium Methylomirabilis oxyfera

Lavinia Gambelli, et al.

Microbiology, IWWR, Faculty of Science, Radboud University, Nijmegen, Netherlands

12:05 - 15:30

Poster Day 3-T08-Pos-88

Poster presentation

Genetic traits associated with distribution of prophages in acidophilic genomes

Paulo Covarrubias^{1, 2}, Ana Moya^{1, 2}, Oscar Salgado¹, Raquel Quatrini¹

¹Fundación Ciencia & Vida, Santiago, Chile, ²Universidad Andrés Bello, Santiago, Chile