Invited Speaker

OPENING LECTURES

Microbial community genomics : new perspective on genome evolution, population biology, and systems ecology
Edward DeLong, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, MA/USA

Structural membrane genomics and structural membrane proteomics using the hyperthermophilic bacterium Aquifex aeolicus
Hartmut Michel, Max PIanck Institute of Biophysics, Frankfurt/D

DISTINGUISHED LECTURE

Methanogenic Archaea from genes to function – a biochemist´s view
Rolf Thauer, Max Planck Institute for Terrestrial Microbiology, Marburg/D

INVITED LECTURES (as of May 31, 2007)

Industrial relevance of functional genomics technologies at DSM Nutritional Products
Sabine Arnold, DSM Nurtitional Products Ltd., Bases/CH

The genome of a psychrotrophic food spoilage lactic acid bacterium Leuconostoc gasicomitatum LMG 18811
J. Björkroth, Helsinki University/FIN

Comparative and functional genomics of plant pathogenic Xanthomonads: insight into the ancestral genome and the evolution of host-and tissue-specific pathovars
Adam Bogdanove, Iowa State University, Ames, IA/USA

Corynebacterium glutamicum – a model organism for systems biotechnology
Michael Bott, FZ Jülich/D

Looking sideways, backwards and forwards from the Streptomyces genome
Keith F. Chater, John Innes Institute, Norwich/UK

Computational Modeling and Analysis of the Regulatory Network of E.coli K-12
Julio Collado-Vides, National Autonomous University of Mexico (UNAM),
Cuernavaca/MX

Streptococcus genomics and evolution
Philipe Glaser, Institut Louis Pasteur, Paris/F

The complexity of oxygen-controlled regulons in a nitrogen-fixing symbiont
Hauke Hennecke, ETH Zürich/CH

Cloning the smell of the seaside - from genes, to genomes to metagenomes
Andrew Johnston, School of Biological Sciences, Norwich/UK

The Corynebacterium glutamicum story: from genomes to industrial fermentation processes
Ralf Kelle, Degussa AG, Halle/D

Genomic approach to studying bacterial-host signals in symbiosis
Sharon R. Long, Stanford University, CA/USA

The global biodegradation network: genes and landscapes
Victor de Lorenzo, Centro Nacional de Biotecnologia Madrid/E

Bacillus licheniformis for enzyme production: from classical strain improvement to genomic design
Karl-Heinz Maurer, Henkel KGaA, Düsseldorf/D

Recent tales from group A Streptococcus , the Flesh-Eater, from genomes to SNPs
James M. Musser, The Methodist Hospital, Houston, TX/USA

Breaking the barrier between commensalism and pathogenicity
Eric Oswald, INRA, UMR1225, Toulouse/F

Pseudomonas fluorescens : a genome poised for action
Paul B. Rainey, The University of Auckland, Auckland/NZ

Genome-wide experimental determination of barriers to horizontal gene transfer
R. Sorek, DOE Joint Genome Institute, Walnut Creek, CA/USA

Systems biology of microbial metabolism
Uwe Sauer, ETH Zürich/CH

Global transcriptional analysis of Clostridium acetobutylicum during the shift from acidogenic to solventogenic and alcohologenic conditions
Philippe Soucaille, UMR INSA-INRA 792 INSA, Toulouse/F

The bioplastic producing “Knallgas“ bacterium Ralstonia eutropha H16
Alexander Steinbüchel, Westfälische Wilhelms-University of Münster/D

Legionella pathogenicity and the host side of infection
Michael Steinert, University of Würzburg/D

Helicobacter genomics and evolution
Sebastian Suerbaum, Hannover Medical School/D

Functional fermentations by lactic acid bacteria
Willem M. de Vos, Wageningen University/NL and Helsinki University/S

The dynamic and structural basis of robustness in systems biology
Hans Westerhoff, University of Manchester/UK

Comparative metabolic genomics for industrial biotechnology
An-Ping Zeng, TU Hamburg-Harburg/D