Marie Curie Conference on Non-Pathogenic Clostridia
Toulouse, February 24 to 27, 2008

Sunday February 24, 2008
Location: Comfort Inn Hotel in Ramonville

17H00-19H00 Registration
18H00-19H00 Plenary lecture
Terry Papoutsakis
Clostridia, biofuels and biorefining: potential and problems
19H00-22H00 Welcome dinner

Monday February 25, 2008
Location: INSA Toulouse-Amphitheatre Fourier

Session I: Metabolism of Non-Pathogenic Clostridia
8H30-9H30 Hubert Bahl
Oxidative stress response and aerotolerance in Clostridium acetobutylicum
9H30-10H00 Gaëlle André
The sulphur metabolism and its regulation in Clostridium acetobutylicum
10H00-10H30 Katrin Schwartz
System Biology of Clostridium acetobutylicum-understanding solvent production
10H30-11H00 Coffee break
11H00-11H30 Stefan Junne
Monitoring of cell polarizability in the acetone-butanol fermentation with electrooptical measurements
11H30-12H30 Wilf Mitchell
Substrate accumulation and its control in solventogenic clostridia
12H30-14H00 Lunch

Session II: Metabolic Engineering of Non-Pathogenic Clostridia
14H00-15H00 Isabelle Meynial-Salles
Metabolic Engineering of Clostridium acetobutylicum for the production of 1, 3 propanediol.
15H00-15H30 Agnieska Brandt
Expression of Clostridium acetobutylicum butanol synthetic genes in Escherichia coli
15H30-16H30 George Bennett
Contributions of Clostridia to the degradation of hazardous materials
16H30-18H00 Poster session I
19H00-22H00 Dinner at the Comfort Inn Ramonville

Tuesday February 26, 2008
Location: INSA Toulouse-Amphitheatre Fourier

Session III: Genetics and Genomic of Non-Pathogenic Clostridia
9H00-10h00 Peter Duerre
Regulation of solvent formation in Clostridium acetobutylicum
10H00-10H30 John Heap
The Clostron gene knockout system: refinements and application.
10H30-11H00 Coffee break
11H00-11H45 Zhen Shi
Transcriptional analysis of Clostridium beijerinckii during the shift from acidogenesis to solventogenesis
11H45-12H30 Philippe Soucaille
Gene deletion and integration without markers in Clostridium acetobutylicum
12H30-14H00 Lunch

Session IV: Sporulation of Non-Pathogenic Clostridia
14H00-15H00 Elisabeth Steiner
How do clostridia phosphorylate Spo0A
15H00-15H30 Sara Jabbari
Mathematical modelling of the gene regulation network controlling sporulation initiation
15H30-16H00 Brian Tracy
Development and application of flow-cytometry techniques for Clostridium cell cultures
16H00-18H00 Poster session II
19H00-24H00 Congress dinner at the restaurant “Les beaux arts” in Toulouse

Wednesday February 27, 2008
Location: INSA Toulouse-Amphitheatre Fourier

Session V: Polysaccharide hydrolysis and sugar transport in Non-Pathogenic Clostridia
9H00-10H00 Ed Bayer
The cellulosome of the Clostridia and related bacteria
10H00-10H30 Julie Watson
Xylose Catabolism in the biofuel producing organism Clostridium acetobutylicum ATTC 824
10H30-11H00 Coffee break
11H00-12H00 Mickaël Desvaux
Cellulose metabolism in mesophilic cellulolytic clostridia: Clostridium cellulolyticum as a case study
12H00-13H00 Chantal Tardif
How does Clostridium cellulolyticum regulate cellulosome production and composition?
13H00-14H00 Lunch
14H00 Departure

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