Program

ISM 2019 Program

Wednesday, March 6
Time	Session/Lecture info
08:30-09:30	Registration & Coffee Dolfi and Lola Ebner Auditorium
08:30-09:30
09:30-10:45	Plenary I Dolfi and Lola Ebner Auditorium
09:30-10:45	Regine Hengge Spatial organisation of transcriptional control and c-di-GMP signaling in Escherichia coli biofilms Chair: Orna Amster-Choder, Hebrew U
10:45-11:00	Coffee break
10:45-11:00
11:00-12:30	Parasitology Chair: Dan Zilberstein (Technion) Neta Regev-Rudzki (WIS) Octav Bundorf Botnar Auditorium
11:00-11:20	Ron Dzikowski, HUJI A surprising role of an alternative splicing factor in protecting malaria parasites from DNA damage and exposure to artemisinin
11:20-11:40	Michal Shapira, BGU Intriguing roles assigned to Leishmania eIF4E paralogs by CRISPR Cas-9 mediated knockout
11:40-12:00	Serge Ankri, Technion How bacteria regulate the virulence and the resistance of the intestinal parasite Entamoeba histolytica to oxidative stress?
12:00-12:15	Shulamit Michaeli , BIU The spliced leader RNA is a master regulator controlling life and death and social motility in trypanosomes
12:15-12:25	Yifat Ofir Birin , WIS Short talk: Malaria parasites modulate Type 1 interferon response by inhibiting CXCL10 secretion
12:25-12:30	Harsh Pawar , Technion Short talk: Arginine sensing and transport is uncoupled in Leishmania donovani parasites
11:00-12:30	Structures and functions in the prokaryotes domain Chairs: Michael Meijler (BGU) Ed Bayer (WIS) Dolfi and Lola Ebner Auditorium
11:00-11:20	Uri Gophna, TAU, Sarov Prize Acquired CRISPR immunity in haloarchaea
11:20-11:40	Raz Zarivach , BGU Structure-function studies of magnetosome-associated proteins from magnetotactic bacteria
11:40-12:00	Liraz Chai , HUJI Structure and function of extracellular matrix components from Bacillus subtilis biofilms
12:00-12:15	Livnat Afriat-Jurnou , Migal Harnessing Quorum Quenching lactonases to fight pathogenic bacteria
12:15-12:25	Neta Shlezinger, Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center Short talk: Fungal-host interactions: a duel to the (cell) death
12:25-12:30	Maya Voichek , WIS Short talk: Peptide-based communication systems in Paenibacillus polymyxa
12:30-14:00	Lunch
12:30-14:00
14:00-16:00	Mycology and Yeast Biology Chairs: Shay Covo (HUJI) Judith Berman (TAU) Octav Bundorf Botnar Auditorium
14:00-14:25	Ronit Weisman , Open U Growth and genomic stability regulation by TOR complex 2 signaling in fission yeast
14:25-14:45	Shay Ben Aroya , BIU Spatial organization of proteasome aggregations regulates proteasome subunits homeostasis"
14:45-15:05	Benny Horwitz , Technion The AP-1 like transcription factor ChAP1 balances tolerance and cell death in the response of the maize pathogen Cochliobolus heterostrophus to a plant phenolic
15:05-15:20	Mordechai Choder , Technion The linkage between mRNA synthesis translation and decay in yeast
15:20-15:35	Koyeli Das , HUJI Short talks selected from abstracts: The role of yeast mitochondrial Sfc1 and succinate in protein dual targeting and import.
15:35-15:50	Yoav Ram , IDC Herzliya Short talks selected from abstracts: Aneuploidy and adaptation in yeast and fungi
15:50-15:55	Eden Yifrach , WIS Flash Talks: Expanding the peroxisomal proteome: The identification and characterization of new peroxisomal proteins
15:55-16:00	Daria Feldman , HUJI Flash Talks: Small secreted proteins (SSPs) act as a checkpoint for fungal development and metabolism in the white-rot fungus Pleurotus ostreatus
14:00-16:00	The human microbiome Chairs: Eran Elinav (WIS) Naama Geva-Zatorsky (Technion) Dolfi and Lola Ebner Auditorium
14:00-14:25	Sven Peterson , Lee Kong Chian School of Medicine Microbes and the biology of ageing
14:25-14:45	Moran Yassour , HUJI The infant gut microbiome & mother-to-child bacterial transmission
14:45-15:05	Nissan Yissachar , BIU Thinking outside the mouse: ex-vivo dissections of host-microbiome cross talks
15:05-15:20	Yehudit Bergman , HUJI TBA
15:20-15:35	Jotham Suez , WIS Short talks selected from abstracts: Person-specific gut mucosal colonization resistance to probiotics and their detrimental effect on post-antibiotics microbiome recovery
15:35-15:50	Yael Litvak, UC Davis Short talks selected from abstracts: Shiga toxin-mediated pathogen expansion in the large intestine
15:50-15:55	Oryan Agranyoni , Ariel U Flash Talks: Gut microbiota shapes behavior and modulates adipose tissue adipokines profile in a dominant submissive mice model
15:55-16:00	Anna Pasechnek , TAU Flash Talks: Listeria monocytogenes prophage is fully adapted to the intracellular life style of its host.
16:00-16:15	Coffee break
16:00-16:15
16:15-17:15	Plenary II Dolfi and Lola Ebner Auditorium
16:15-17:15	Prof. Andreas Baumler, University of California Dietary copper shifts the gut microbiota to reconfigure pathogen growth Chair: Erez Mills (HUJI)
17:30-19:15	Poster session The David Lopatie Conference Centre
17:30-19:15

Thursday, March 7
Time	Session/Lecture info
08:30-09:00	Registration & Coffee
08:30-09:00
09:00-11:00	Clinical Virology Chairs: Meir Shamay (BIU) Dana Wolf (HUJI) Octav Bundorf Botnar Auditorium
09:00-09:20	Oran Erster , Kimron Veterinary Institute Peste des Petites Ruminants virus (PPRV) in Israel ? An eradication target or an emerging pathogen?
09:20-09:40	Shai Ashkenazi , Ariel University Influenza vaccine 2018 ? a special challenge
09:40-10:00	Eric Haas , Israeli Ministry of Health Challenges of measles elimination and control: lessons learned from the 2018-9 outbreak in Israel
10:00-10:10	Valery Z. Grdzelishvili , University of North Carolina Short talks selected from abstracts: Understanding and breaking multiple mechanisms of resistance of cancer cells to oncolytic viruses
10:10-10:20	Meital Gal-Tanamy , BIU Short talks selected from abstracts: Hepatitis C virus Leaves Oncogenic Signatures on the Host Cell Following its Eradication by Antivirals Via Inducing an Epigenetic Memory Mechanism
10:20-10:30	Orna Mor , Ministry of Health Short talks selected from abstracts: Circulation of hepatitis A genotypes in Israel 2017-2018: environmental surveillance supports clinical findings
10:30-10:40	Noam Erez , IIBR Short talks selected from abstracts: First case of imported monkeypox in Israel
10:40-10:50	Tomer Hertz, BGU Short talks selected from abstracts: Antibody dependent enhancement of Zika infection caused by TBE vaccination and acute TBE disease
10:50-10:55	Ido From , HUJI Short talks selected from abstracts: Ex Vivo Modeling of Human Cytomegalovirus Infection and Mucosal Tissue Response at the Nasal Entry Site
10:55-11:00	Maoz Gelbart , TAU Short talks selected from abstracts: Exposing the hidden genetic diversity of HIV during acute infection
09:00-11:00	Microbial Genetics and evolution Chairs: Ilan Rosenshine (HUJI) Ehud Banin (BIU) Dolfi and Lola Ebner Auditorium
09:00-09:20	Ruty Hirschberg , Technion Maintenance of genetic variation under adaptation leads to rapid loss of adaptive alleles
09:20-09:40	Dor Salomon , TAU Bacterial wars: toxic arsenals in the fight for bacterial dominance
09:40-10:00	Yonatan Friedman , HUJI Evolutionary suicide in interacting microbial populations
10:00-10:15	Ohad Gal-Mor , SMC and TAU Short talks selected from abstracts: The plasmid-encoded Ipf and Klf fimbriae display different expression and varying roles in the virulence of Salmonella enterica
10:15-10:30	Qihui Hou , WIS Short talks selected from abstracts: Molecular Gossip: Horizontal RNA transfer in bacterial communities
10:30-10:45	Nir Salinas , Technion Short talks selected from abstracts: Extreme Amyloid Polymorphism in Staphylococcus aureus Virulent PSMα Peptides
10:45-10:50	Rachel Hashuel , HUJI Flash Talks: Aging of a bacterial colony enforces the evolvement of non-differentiating mutants
10:50-10:55	Tanita Wein , Kiel University Flash Talks: Evolution of plasmid stability under non-selective conditions
10:55-11:00	Shai Ran Sapir , TAU Flash Talks: Coordination of cohabiting prophages in Listeria monocytogenes
11:00-11:30	Coffee break & Virology poster session (Botnar)
11:00-11:30
11:30-13:30	Aquatic Microbiota Chairs: Laura Steindler (Haifa U) Rakefet Schwarz (BIU) Octav Bundorf Botnar Auditorium
11:30-11:50	Einat Segev , WIS Microbial Interactions Across Disciplines And Timescales
11:50-12:10	Tamar Lotan , Haifa U Myxozoans: Ancient ?protozoan? parasites find a home in phylum Cnidaria
12:10-12:30	Gitai Yahel , Ruppin Academic Center TBA
12:30-12:45	Guy Schleyer , WIS Short talks selected from abstracts: Tapping into the metabolic cross-talk between a bloom-forming alga and its virus using mass spectrometry imaging
12:45-13:00	Maxim Rubin Blum , Israel Oceanographic and Limnological Research Short talks selected from abstracts: Metabolic versatility and microscale diversity in tubeworm symbiosis
13:00-13:15	Sheila Roitman , Technion Short talks selected from abstracts: Cyanophage-encoded lipid-desaturases: oceanic distribution, diversity and function
13:15-13:20	Ilia Maidanik , Technion Flash Talks: Population dynamics of T7-like cyanophages and their hosts in the Gulf of Eilat, Red Sea
13:20-13:25	Rotem Sela , Haifa U Flash Talks: The role of vibrio cholerae quorum sensing in the microbiota interactions of chironomids
13:25-13:30	Shai Fainsod , HUJI Flash Talks: Assessment of life cycle differentiation in the bloom-forming marine microalga Emiliania huxleyi using comparative transcriptomics
11:30-13:30	Microbial Biotechnology Chairs: Eddie Cytryn (ARO) Lital Alfonta (BGU) Dolfi and Lola Ebner Auditorium
11:30-11:50	Ed Bayer , WIS On the road to hyperthermostable cellulosomes
11:50-12:10	Edo Bar-Zeev , BGU Shedding-light on the mechanical properties and structural changes of E. coli biofilms following T4-phage infection
12:10-12:30	David Burstein , TAU The new Cas14 family: expanding the CRISPR-Cas toolkit
12:30-12:45	Lee Schnaider , TAU Short talks selected from abstracts: Design and Development of Self-Assembling Antibacterial Peptide Nano-Structures and Functional Materials
12:45-13:00	Alona Keren-Paz , WIS Short talks selected from abstracts: Novel classes of broad-spectrum drugs to combat antibiotic resistant bacteria
13:00-13:15	Oded Sued , Mekorot Short talks selected from abstracts: Biomolecular Monitoring of Fecal Contamination Origin in Lake Kinneret Watershed Using Microbial Source Tracking
13:15-13:20	Anuj Rana , ARO Flash Talks: Role of rhizosphere microbes and their derived novel volatile organic compounds
13:20-13:25	Hadar Ben Zaken , HUJI Flash Talks: New approach to fight caries -Novel Phages against Streptococcus Mutans
13:25-13:30	Oren Avram , TAU Flash Talks: M1CROB1AL1Z3R - a user-friendly webserver for rapid analysis of large-scale microbial genomics data
13:30-15:00	Lunch & Virology poster session (Botnar)
13:30-15:00
15:00-16:35	Environmental and Plant Microbiology Chairs: Saul Burdman (Hebrew U) Asaph Aharoni (WIS) Dolfi and Lola Ebner Auditorium
15:00-15:20	Ofir Bahar , ARO Comparative and functional genomics of the uncultivable plant pathogen Candidatus Liberibacter
15:20-15:40	Maggie Levy , HUJI Glucosinolate detoxification in Botrytis cinerea
15:40-16:00	Osnat Giloor , BGU The fate of pathogens and antibiotic resistance genes in treated wastewater irrigated soils and crops
16:00-16:15	Edouard Jurkevitch , HUJI Short talk: Prey secretory systems are involved in resistance to bacterial predation
16:15-16:20	Yevgeni Yegorov , BIU Flash Talks: Self-Suppression of Biofilms in Cyanobacteria: Role of Type II/Type IV Secretion Systems
16:20-16:25	Avihai Zolti , ARO Flash Talks: Can microbiome reveal hidden stress of its host?
16:25-16:30	Harsh Maan , WIS Flash Talks: Biofilms sense the phlyogenetic distances of their competitors to fine-tune antibiotic production
16:30-16:35	Shay Tal , Israel Oceanographic and Limnological Research Flash Talks: Characterization of the overall plasmids population in marine environment
15:00-16:35	Molecular Virology Chairs: Ron Diskin (WIS) Adi Stern (TAU) Octav Bundorf Botnar Auditorium
15:00-15:20	Alex Rouvinski , HUJI Virus host interactions in insect-restricted viruses vs insect-borne pathogenic arboviruses
15:20-15:40	Oren Kobiler , TAU Herpesviruses recombination occurs where replication compartments coalesce
15:40-16:00	Noam Stern-Ginossar , WIS TBA
16:00-16:10	Reem Abu Rass , TAU Short talk: Identification of a novel RNA-binding protein of the emerging pathogen Tilapia Lake Virus (TiLV)
16:10-16:20	Ran Taube , BGU Short talk: Fused in Sarcoma silences HIV gene transcription through suppressing AFF4 activation and displacing Tat on TAR
16:20-16:30	Moshe Dessau , BIU Short talk: Structural studies of the envelope glycoprotein N (Gn) from an enveloped plant virus
16:30-16:35	Karin Broennimann , WIS Flash Talks: A novel Hepatitis B virus RNA element manipulates cellular DNA damage response to advance viral proliferation
16:35-17:05	Coffee break
16:35-17:05
17:05-17:45	ISM Prize lecture Chair: Prof. Anat Herskovits (TAU) Dolfi and Lola Ebner Auditorium
17:05-17:45	EMET Prize winner Prof. Hanna Engelberg-Kulka (HUJI) Sarov Prize winner Prof. Michal Madelboim (TAU and SMC)
17:45-18:45	Plenary III Chair: Itzik Mizrahi (BGU) Dolfi and Lola Ebner Auditorium
17:45-18:45	Prof. Alan Grossman , MIT A journey across boundaries: Communication and the control of bacterial sex
18:45-19:00	Short talk award, Poster award & Closing remarks Dolfi and Lola Ebner Auditorium
18:45-19:00

Abstract submission dead line January 20th.

In parallel with the Passwell International Meeting for Antibiotic Resistance

Organizing committee

Erez Mills,
The Hebrew University of Jerusalem
Ilana Kolodkin-Gal,
Weizmann Institute of Science

Coordinator & Accessibility Issues

Irit Veksler

irit.veksler@weizmann.ac.il

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ISM 2019 Program

Wednesday, March 6

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