RNA metabolism in bacteria

23 Novembre 2016

Patrick Linder

Prof. Patrick Linder, UNIGE
Prof. Patrick Viollier, UNIGE
Dr. Peter Redder, Université Paul Sabatier, Toulouse

Mark Paget, School of Life Sciences, University of Sussex, UK

Franz Naberhaus, Microbial Biology, Ruhr University Bochum, Germany

Hilde De Reuse, Unité Pathogenèse de Helicobacter, Institut Pasteur, France

Xavier Charpentier, Group "Horizontal gene transfer in bacterial pathogens", Centre International de Recherche en Infectiologie, France

Brice Felden, Rennes University, France

Sabine Brantl, AG Bakteriengenetik, Friedrich-Schiller-Universität Jena, Germany

Bacteria that live in changing environments need to be able to rapidly adapt their expression profile. Although transcription and translation initiation play an important role in this adaptation, it became clear that posttranscriptional regulation is crucial in this process in environmental bacteria or in pathogens. This one-day mini symposium aims at illustrating to the students the different levels of fine-tuning that exist and expose them to first-grade scientists that combine classical and state of the art techniques:

- Differential regulation by sigma factors
- Translation initiation
- Small RNA
- RNA chaperons
- Toxin/Antitoxin systems
- RNA processing
- RNA degradation
- RNA in space

UNIGE, Centre Médical Universitaire, Seminar room 7172

Map

Mark Paget

School of Life Sciences, University of Sussex, UK

"The role and regulation of σ factors in bacterial transcription"

Franz Naberhaus

Microbial Biology, Ruhr University Bochum, Germany

"The temperature-responsive RNA structurome of a bacterial pathogen"

 Hilde De Reuse

Unité Pathogenèse de Helicobacter, Institut Pasteur, France

"Post-transcriptional regulation by a minimal RNA-degradosome in Helicobacter pylori"

Xavier Charpentier

Group "Horizontal gene transfer in bacterial pathogens", Centre International de Recherche en Infectiologie, France

"Silencing of natural transformation by an RNA chaperone and a multi-target sRNA"

Brice Felden

Rennes University, France

"Insights into the regulation of bacterial sRNA expression -sRNAs as potential biomarkers for bloodstream infections in S. aureus"

Sabine Brantl

AG Bakteriengenetik, Friedrich-Schiller-Universität Jena, Germany

"SR1- the first dual-function sRNA from Bacillus subtilis: Base-pairing and peptide functions"

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