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PRELIMINARY PROGRAM

April 28 ^th – 2014

13:30

Registration

14:00

Opening session

14:30

Biodiscovery opportunities from Actinobacteria of extreme environments
Alan T. Bull (School of Biosciences, University of Kent, Kent, UK)

15:20

Magnetotactic bacteria: biology, diversity and biotechnology
Ulysses Garcia Casado Lins (Instituto de Microbiologia Prof. Paulo de Góes, Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro, Rio de Janeiro, Brasil)

16:10

Coffee break

16:30

The plant microbiome: ecology and functionality of bacterial endophytes and how plants can benefit
Angela Sessitsch (Austrian Institute of Technology GmbH, AIT, Tulln, Austria)

17:20

Searching for anti-cancer and anti-parasite leads from filamentous fungi
Cedric Pearce (Mycosynthetix, Inc., Hillsborough, USA)

April 29 ^th – 2014

8:30

Successful drug discovery informed by Actinobacterial systematics
Michael Goodfellow (School of Biology, University of Newcastle, Newcastle upon Tyne, UK)

9:20

Microbial diversity of Brazilian environments: from basic to applied
Alexandre Soares Rosado (Instituto de Microbiologia Prof. Paulo de Góes, Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro, Rio de Janeiro, Brasil)

10:10

Coffee Break

10:30

Physiological and phylogenetic diversity of microbial life in hypersaline environments
Aharon Oren (The Institute of Life Sciences, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Jerusalem, Israel)

11:20

Full genome sequencing of Samba virus: a giant virus of the Mimiviridae family isolated from Negro River, in the Brazilian Amazon rainforest
Jônatas Santos Abrahão (Departamento de Microbiologia, Instituto de Ciências Biológicas, UFMG, Belo Horizonte, Brasil)

12:10

Lunch (restaurants around FAPESP)

14:10

Marine Actinomycete biodiversity: implications for natural product discovery
Paul R. Jensen (Scripps Institution of Oceanography, University of California San Diego, San Diego, USA)

15:00

The structure and rearrangements of a complete polyketide synthase module during its catalytic cycle
David H. Sherman (Life Sciences Institute, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, USA)

15:50

Coffee Break

16:10

Microbial collections and biological resources centers
Manuela da Silva (Fundação Oswaldo Cruz, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil)

17:00

Microbial diversity of the deep-sea piezophilic microorganisms, and their pressure adapted mechanisms
Chiaki Kato (Institute of Biogeoscience, Japan Agency for Marine-Earth Science and Technology, Japan)

April 30 ^th – 2014

8:30

Discovering natural products from myxobacteria with emphasis on rare producer strains in combination with improved analytical methods
Rolf Müller (Helmholtz-Institute for Pharmaceutical Research Saarland, Saarland University, Saarbrücken, Germany)

9:20

Brazilian biodiversity as an inexhaustible source of tools for biotechnology - bioproducts generating bacteria
Luiziana Ferreira da Silva (Instituto de Ciências Biomédicas, Universidade de São Paulo, Brasil).

10:10

Coffee Break

10:30

Technology’s big impact on microbial small-molecule research
Robert H. Cichewicz (Natural Products Discovery Group, University of Oklahoma, Norman, USA)