ISRAEL SOCIETY FOR MICROBIOLOGY (ISM) Annual Meeting 18 …events.eventact.com/ISM/ISM/ISM/Program_Jan29.pdf · 2013-01-29 · Amir Sharon, Tel Aviv University 11:50 THE MOLECULAR

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ISRAEL SOCIETY FOR MICROBIOLOGY (ISM)

Annual Meeting 18-19 February, 2013

Wohl Center, Bar-Ilan University

Scientific Program (subject to changes)

updated January 29, 2013

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Monday, February 18, 2013

08:00-09:00 Registration, Poster Mounting (Hall 1) and Coffee Entrance Floor

09:00-09:15 Opening Ceremony Auditorium

Chair: Aharon Oren (Hebrew University), Annual Meeting Co-Chair

Greetings:

Aharon Oren (Hebrew University), Annual Meeting Co-Chair

Oded Béjà (Technion), Annual Meeting Co-Chair

Yechezkel Kashi (Technion), President, Israel Society for Microbiology

09:15-10:00 Prize Lectures I Auditorium

Chair: Yechezkel Kashi (Technion), President, Israel Society for Microbiology

09:15 Sarov Prize - Basic Studies THE TYPE III SECRETION SYSTEM AND INJECTED EFFECTORS OF

ENTEROPATHOGENIC ESCHERICHIA COLI

Ilan Rosenshine, Hebrew University

09:35 Sarov Prize - Medical and Clinical Studies CYTOMEGALOVIRUS INFECTION IN PREGNANCY – PAST, PRESENT

AND FUTURE

Galia Rahav, Sheba Medical Center, Tel Aviv University

10:00-11:00 Plenary Lecture I Auditorium

Chair: Oded Béjà (Technion), Annual Meeting Co-Chair

10:00 THE HIDDEN LIVES OF MARINE PICOPLANKTON: AN "OMICS"

PERSPECTIVE

Edward F. DeLong, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, USA

11:00-11:30 Coffee Break, Poster Session (Hall 1) and Exhibition Entrance Floor

11:30-13:00 Parallel Sessions A, B, C

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11:30-13:00 Parallel Session A: Clinical Microbiology Auditorium

Chairs: Yosef Paitan (Meir Medical Center) and Shiri Navon-Venezia (Ariel University)

11:30 STEALTH AND PERSISTENCE: DECODING THE PATHOGENICITY OF

CANDIDA GLABRATA

Ronen Ben-Ami, Tel Aviv Sourasky Medical Center

11:50 SALIVA rt-PCR CAN REPLACE URINE CULTURE FOR NEONATAL

DIAGNOSIS/SCREENING OF CONGENITAL CMV INFECTION

Ella Mendelson, Sheba Medical Center

12:10 AGEs SECRETED BY BACTERIA ARE INVOLVED IN THE

INFLAMMATORY RESPONSE

Ifat Cohen-Or, Tel Aviv University

12:30 DEVELOPMENT AND VALIDATION OF A MULTIPLEX PCR ASSAY FOR

IDENTIFICATION OF THE EPIDEMIC ST-258 KPC-PRODUCING

KLEBSIELLA PNEUMONIAE CLONE

Amos Adler, Tel Aviv Sourasky Medical Center

12:45 CHARACTERIZATION OF MACROLIDE RESISTANCE IN

CAMPYLOBACTER JEJUNI AND CAMPYLOBACTER COLI IN ISRAEL

Pninit Shaked-Mishan, Carmel Medical Center

11:30-13:00 Parallel Session B: Food and Water Microbiology Hall 2

Chairs: Sima Yaron (Technion) and Eddie Cytryn (ARO)

11:30 WHAT WILL IT TAKE FOR MICROALGAE TO OVERTURN MALTHUS'

PREDICTIONS ON RESOURCE INSECURITY?

Jonathan Gressel, Weizmann Institute

11:50 THE EFFECT OF PRECIPITATION ON ACTIVE AND DORMANT

MICROBIAL COMMUNITIES IN SOIL

Osnat Gillor, Ben-Gurion University

12:10 ADAPTATION OF BACILLUS SUBTILIS TO DAIRY-ASSOCIATED

ENVIRONMENTS

Moshe Shemesh, ARO

12:30 A BACTERIAL REPORTER PANEL FOR THE DETECTION AND

CLASSIFICATION OF ANTIBIOTIC SUBSTANCES

Sahar Melamed, Hebrew University

12:45 LEGIONELLA MONITORING IN A DRINKING WATER SYSTEM IN

ISRAEL: UNDERSTANDING THE PATHOGEN'S ECOLOGY

Sarah Rodríguez-Martínez, University of Haifa

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11:30-13:00 Parallel Session C: Plant-Microbe Interactions Hall 3

Chairs: Yael Helman (Hebrew University) and Saul Burdman (Hebrew University)

11:30 INFECTION STRATEGIES IN PLANT AND HUMAN PATHOGENS: THE

ROLE OF ANTI-APOPTOTIC MACHINERY

Amir Sharon, Tel Aviv University

11:50 THE MOLECULAR INTERACTIONS BETWEEN CLAVIBACTER

MICHIGANENSIS SUBSP. MICHIGANENSIS AND TOMATO

Shulamit Manulis-Sasson, ARO, Volcani Center

12:10 "CHEMICAL ARMS RACE AT SEA": HOW MARINE VIRUSES

MANIPULATE THEIR HOST METABOLISM DURING ALGAL BLOOMS IN

THE OCEAN

Assaf Vardi, Weizmann Institute

12:30 THE PHYLLOSPHERE: A PHOTOTROPHIC NICHE

Nof Atamna-Ismaeel, Technion

12:45 COMPARATIVE ANALYSES OF TYPE III-SECRETED EFFECTORS

AMONG STRAINS OF ACIDOVORAX CITRULLI

Noam Eckshtain-Levi, Hebrew University

13:00-14:30 Lunch, Poster Session (Hall 1) and Exhibition Entrance Floor

14:30-16:00 Parallel Sessions D, E, F

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14:30-16:00 Parallel Session D: Molecular Biology of Eukaryotes Auditorium

Chairs: Yoav Arava (Technion) and Maya Schuldiner (Weizmann Institute)

14:30 THE ‘OBLIGATE DIPLOID’ CANDIDA ALBICANS FORMS MATING-

COMPETENT HAPLOIDS

Judith Berman, University of Minnesota, USA; Tel Aviv University, Israel

14:50 INTERACTION BETWEEN PHENOLIC AND OXIDANT SIGNALING IN

COCHLIOBOLUS HETEROSTROPHUS

Benjamin Horwitz, Technion

15:10 FORMATION AND DISSOCIATION OF PROTEASOME STORAGE

GRANULES ARE REGULATED BY CYTOSOLIC pH

Shay Ben-Aroya, Bar-Ilan University

15:30 LOCALIZED TRANSLATION NEAR THE MITOCHONDRIA:

CHARACTERIZING A NOVEL RIBOSOMES' RECEPTOR

Chen Lesnik, Technion

15:45 A MICROSCOPY SCREEN FOR INCLUSION-BODY RESIDENT PROTEINS

REVEALS AN UNEXPECTED LINK BETWEEN PROTEIN QUALITY

CONTROL AND LIPID DROPLETS

Ofer Moldavski, Weizmann Institute

14:30-16:00 Parallel Session E: Parasitology Hall 2

Chairs: Shulamit Michaeli (Bar-Ian University) and Ron Dzikowski (Hebrew University)

14:30 A NOVEL MECHANISM FOR GENOME REMODELING:

DECONDENSATION OF THE MITOCHONDRIAL NUCLEOID OF

TRYPANOSOMES

Joseph Shlomai, Hebrew University

14:50 STRESS GRANULE FORMATION IN ENTAMOEBA HISTOLYTICA: CROSS

TALK BETWEEN EHMLBP, EHRLE3 REVERSE TRANSCRIPTASE AND

POLYUBIQUITINATED PROTEINS

Serge Ankri, Technion

15:10 NOVEL SIGNALLING PATHWAY THAT SENSES LACK OF EXTERNAL

ARGININE ACTIVATES SYNTHESIS OF ITS TRANSPORTER BY

INCREASING mRNA STABILITY IN LEISHMANIA

Dan Zilberstein, Technion

15:30 INSULATOR-LIKE PAIRING ELEMENTS REGULATE SILENCING AND

MUTUALLY EXCLUSIVE EXPRESSION OF VAR GENES IN PLASMODIUM

FALCIPARUM

Inbar Avraham, Hebrew University

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14:30-16:00 Parallel Session E: Parasitology (continued) Hall 2

15:40 DIRECT EVIDENCE FOR THE ADAPTIVE ROLE OF COPY NUMBER

VARIATION ON ANTIFOLATE SUSCEPTIBILITY IN MALARIA

PARASITES

Adina Heinberg, Weill Cornell Medical College, USA

15:50 THE MECHANISM OF SPLICED LEADER SILENCING IN

TRYPANOSOMES

Shualmit Michaeli, Bar-Ilan University

14:30-16:00 Parallel Session F: Evolutionary Processes in Microbiology Hall 3

Chairs: Ron Milo (Weizmann Institute) and Anat Herskovits (Tel Aviv University)

14:30 THE TRANSIENT ROLE OF CHROMOSOMAL DUPLICATIONS IN STRESS

ADAPTATION

Avihu Yona, Weizmann Institute

14:50 PROMOTER SWITCHING FACILITATES MASSIVE REGULATORY

REWIRING IN BACTERIA

Yaara Oren, Tel Aviv University

15:10 GOING A FEW PHENOTYPIC STEPS BACKWARDS BY TAKING A FEW

GENOTYPIC STEPS FORWARD: CONTINUOUS EVOLUTION OF

PROCHLOROCOCCUS STRAINS RESISTANT TO PHAGE

Sarit Avrani, Technion

15:30 CONTRIBUTION OF LATERAL GENE TRANSFER TO THE ADAPTATION

OF METHANOSPHAERA STADTMANAE TO THE MAMMALIAN GUT

Mor Lurie-Weinberger, Tel Aviv University

15:45 Interactive Talk

MICROBIOLOGY BY THE NUMBERS BIOTRIVIA

Ron Milo, Weizmann Institute


16:30-18:00 Parallel Sessions G, H, I

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16:30-18:00 Parallel Session G: Bacterial-Host Interactions Auditorium

Chair: Einat Zchori-Fein (ARO)

16:30 WHY DOES THE ENTERIC PATHOGEN SALMONELLA ENTERICA

SURVIVE IN PLANTS, AND HOW DOES IT DO IT?

Sima Yaron, Technion

16:50 TRI-TROPHIC UNDERGROUND SYMBIOSIS BETWEEM A WEEVIL,

BACTERIA AND A DESERT PLANT

Adi Behar, Hebrew University

17:10 INSECT-ASSOCIATED BACTERIA AS POSSIBLE CONTROL AGENTS

AGAINST PHYTOPLASMA IN GRAPES

Lilach Iasur-Kruh, ARO, Technion

17:30 VIRULENCE GENE PROFILING AND PATHOGENICITY

CHARACTERIZATION OF NON-TYPHOIDAL SALMONELLA

ACCOUNTED FOR INVASIVE DISEASE IN HUMANS

Ohad Gal-Mor, Sheba Medical Center

17:45 CHARACTERIZATION OF THE SECRETED EGG MASS DEGRADING

FACTOR BY AEROMONAS AQUARIORUM

Sivan Laviad, University of Haifa

16:30-18:00 Parallel Session H: Mycology Hall 2

Chairs: Israela Berdichevsky (Technion) and Esther Segal (Tel Aviv University)

16:30 THE POST GENOMIC ERA IN THE DIAGNOSIS OF INFECTIOUS

DISEASES; MASS SPECTROMETERY AND THE MALDI TOF

TECHNOLOGY

Yoram Keness, Emek Medical Center

16:50 A NETWORK OF CFEM CELL SURFACE PROTEINS DIRECTS HEME-

IRON ACQUISITION IN CANDIDA ALBICANS

Galit Kuznets, Technion

17:10 IDENTIFICATION OF NOVEL ANTIFUNGAL COMPOUNDS TARGETING

THE FUNGAL CELL WALL AND CHARACTERIZATION OF THEIR MODE

OF ACTION

Gabriel Mircus, Tel Aviv University

17:30 CANDIDA ALBICANS ISOLATES FROM CANDIDEMIA AND SUPERFICIAL

CANDIDIASIS: COMPARISON OF VIRULENCE ATTRIBUTES AND

GENOTYPING

Marina Mandelblat, Tel Aviv University

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16:30-18:00 Parallel Session H: Mycology (continued) Hall 2

17:45 RELEASE OF PLEUROTUS OSTREATUS VERSATILE-PEROXIDASE FROM

Mn2+

REPRESSION ENHANCES ANTHROPOGENIC AND NATURAL

SUBSTRATE DEGRADATION

Tomer Meir Salame, Hebrew University

16:30-18:00 Parallel Session I: Microbial Ecology Hall 3

Chairs: Debbie Lindell (Technion) and Assaf Vardi (Weizmann Institute)

16:30 Introduction

16:35 THE HITCHHIKER'S GUIDE TO THE PHYLLOSPHERE - VOLATILE

MEDIATED BACTERIAL INTERACTIONS

Yael Helman, Hebrew University

16:55 MICROBE SPECIFIC BIOLOGICAL FILTRATION AT THE SUBMICRON

RANGE

Gitai Yahel, Ruppin Academic Center

17:15 GRAZERS MAY SERVE AS IMPORTANT TRANSMISSION VECTORS FOR

MARINE VIRUSES THAT REGULATE PHYTOPLANKTON BLOOMS

Miguel Frada, Weizmann Institute

17:30 EXPLORING THE BOVINE RUMEN BACTERIAL COMMUNITY FROM

BIRTH TO ADULTHOOD

Elie Jami, ARO, Tel Aviv University

17:45 A NEWLY ISOLATED GREEN ALGA FROM DESERT CRUSTS - AN

UNUSUAL COMBINATION OF A UNIQUE SURVIVAL CAPABILITY AND

RECORD HIGH GROWTH AND PHOTOSYNTHETIC RATES

Haim Treves, Hebrew University

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Tuesday, February 19, 2013

08:00-09:00 Registration and Coffee Entrance Floor

09:00-10:00 Prize Lectures II Auditorium

Chair: Yechezkel Kashi (Technion), President, Israel Society for Microbiology

09:00 Shilo Prize GETTING TO THE ROOT OF FLAVOBACTERIA: ECOLOGICAL,

PHYSIOLOGICAL AND FUNCTIONAL CHARACTERISTICS OF A

DOMINANT RHIZOSPHERE GENUS

Eddie Cytryn, ARO

09:20 Ashner Prize ANALYSIS OF THE MAGNETOTACTIC BACTERIA CATION DIFFUSION

FACILITATOR, MamM

Natalie Zeytuni, Ben-Gurion University

09:35 Rubinovitz-Grossman Prize LOW SPECIES BARRIERS IN HALOPHILIC ARCHAEA AND THE

FORMATION OF RECOMBINANT HYBRIDS

Adit Naor, Tel Aviv University

10:00-11:00 Plenary Lecture II

Chair: Aharon Oren (Hebrew University), Annual Meeting Co-Chair

10:00 ARCHAEAL VIRUSES, PLASMIDS AND VIRUS-LIKE MEMBRANE

VESICLES: INSIGHTS INTO THE ORIGIN AND NATURE OF VIRUSES

AND RELATED ELEMENTS

Patrick Forterre, Institut Pasteur, Université Paris Sud, France


11:30-13:00 Parallel Sessions J, K, L

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11:30-13:00 Parallel Session J: Microbial Systems Biology and Genomics Auditorium

Chairs: Uri Gophna (Tel Aviv University) and Itzhak Mizrahi (ARO)

11:30 METAGENOME AND METATRANSCRIPTOME ANALYSES OF ROOT

BACTERIAL COMMUNITIES

Dror Minz, ARO

11:50 YEAST ADAPTATION TO STRESS: A ROLE FOR ANEUPLOIDY AS A

FAST EVOLUTIONARY INTERMEDIATE

Orna Dahan, Weizmann Institute

12:10 STRESS-INDUCED EVOLUTION OF ANTIBIOTIC RESISTANCE

Ruth Hershberg, Technion

12:30 MAPPING THE DYNAMIC REDOX PROTEOME OF MARINE DIATOMS IN

RESPONSE TO OXIDATIVE STRESS

Shilo Rosenwasser, Weizmann Institute

12:45 INSIGHTS INTO THE BOVINE RUMEN PLASMIDOME

Aya Brown Kav, ARO, Tel Aviv University

11:30-13:00 Parallel Session K: Applied Microbiology and Biotechnology Hall 2

Chairs: Shimshon Belkin (Hebrew University) and Ester Segal (Technion)

11:30 MOLECULAR SELF-ASSEMBLY OF SHORT PEPTIDES: IMPLICATIONS

FOR MICROBIOLOGY AND BIOTECHNOLOGY

Ehud Gazit, Tel Aviv University

11:50 CHARACTERIZING VIRAL-HOST INTERACTIONS IN THE MEMBRANE

CONTEXT USING MICROFLUIDICS

Doron Gerber, Bar-Ilan University

12:10 RAPID DETECTION OF BACTERIA BY ‘DIRECT-CELL-CAPTURE’ ONTO

2D LAMELLAR MACRO-POROUS SILICON PHOTONIC CRYSTAL

GRATINGS

Ester Segal, Technion

12:30 HIGH RESOLUTION CRYSTAL STRUCTURE OF THE ACETYLXYLAN

ESTERASE AXE2 FROM GEOBACILLUS STEAROTHERMOPHILUS

Onit Alalouf, Technion

12:45 DIRECTED EVOLUTION OF LIPASE T6 FROM GEOBACILLUS

STEAROTHERMOPHILUS FOR ENHANCED METHANOL TOLERANCE

Adi Dror, Technion

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11:30-13:00 Parallel Session L: Molecular Microbiology of Prokaryotes Hall 3

Chairs: Orna Amster-Choder (Hebrew University) and Rotem Sorek (Weizmann Institute)

11:30 PROTEINS AND DNA ELEMENTS ESSENTIAL FOR THE CRISPR

ADAPTATION PROCESS IN ESCHERICHIA COLI

Udi Qimron, Tel Aviv University

11:50 RISE AND FALL OF MICROBIAL MULTICELLULARITY: LESSONS

FROM GRAM-POSITIVE BACTERIA

Ilana Kolodkin-Gal, Weizmann Institute

12:10 STRUCTURAL AND FUNCTIONAL DYNAMICS OF NhaA A PROTOTYPE

Na+/H

+ ANTIPORTER IN HOMEOSTASIS OF pH, Na

+ AND VOLUME IN

CELLS

Etana Padan, Hebrew University

12:30 THE ROLE OF NANORNASE IN MEDIATING BIOFILM FORMATION VIA

C-DI-GMP IN THE BACTERIAL PATHOGEN PSEUDOMONAS

AERUGINOSA

Dorit Cohen, Bar-Ilan University

12:45 CROSS-REGULATION OF METABOLISM AND VIRULENCE IN THE

HUMAN BACTERIAL PATHOGEN LISTERIA MONOCYTOGENES

Lior Lobel, Tel Aviv University

13:00-14:30 Lunch, Poster Session (Hall 1) and Exhibition Entrance Floor

14:30-15:00 ISM Annual Members’ Assembly Hall 3

15:00-16:30 Parallel Sessions M, N, O

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15:00-16:30 Parallel Session M: Molecular Virology Auditorium

Chairs: Ofer Mandelboim (Hebrew University) and Benjamin Sredni (Bar-Ilan University)

15:00 Introduction

15:02 HCMV (HHV5) ENCODED microRNAs - IN VIRAL REPLICATION AND

LATENCY

Yonat Shemer Avni, Ben-Gurion University

15:24 RAB1 AND ITS GAP TBC1D20 ARE RECRUITED TO LIPID DROPLETS BY

THE HEPATITIS C VIRUS NONSTRUCTURAL PROTEIN 5A

Ella H. Sklan, Tel Aviv University

15:46 MODELING OF HUMAN CYTOMEGALOVIRS (HCMV) MATERNAL-

FETAL TRANSMISSION IN EX VIVO INFECTED HUMAN DECIDUAL

ORGAN CULTURES

Dana Wolf, Hebrew University

16:08 THE NUCLEOLUS AND HERPESVIRUS INFECTION

Ronit Sarid, Bar-Ilan University

15:00-16:30 Parallel Session N: Veterinary and Animal Microbiology Hall 2

Chairs: Yuval Gottlieb (Hebrew University) and Inna Lysnyansky (Kimron Veterinary

Institute)

15:00 EFFECTIVENESS OF FMD VACCINATION IN DAIRY AND FEEDLOT

CATTLE

Ehud Elnekave, Hebrew University

15:20 MOLECULAR CHARACTERIZATION OF ACQUIRED RESISTANCE TO

MACROLIDES IN MYCOPLASMA BOVIS FIELD STRAINS

Uri Lerner, Kimron Veterinary Institute, Hebrew University

15:40 BOVINE MASTITIS ASSOCIATED ESCHERICHIA COLI: GENOTYPING,

VIRULENCE ASSESSMENT AND PATHOGENOMIC ANALYSIS

Shlomo Blum, Kimron Veterinary Institute, Hebrew University

16:00 IDENTIFICATION OF BARTONELLA SPECIES IN COWS AND THEIR LICE

FROM ISRAEL

Ricardo Gutierrez, Hebrew University

16:15 CARDINIUM IN CULICOIDES BITING MIDGES: THE MERRIER THE

ENVIRONMENT OF THE HOST- THE MORE OF THE SYMBIONT

Neta Morag, Hebrew University

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15:00-16:30 Parallel Session O: Epidemiology of Infectious Diseases Hall 3

Chairs: Ella Mendelson (Sheba Medical Center) and Lea Valinsky (Ministry of Health)

15:00 SMALL RNAS USED FOR PATHOGEN DETECTION

Noam Shomron, Tel Aviv University

15:20 NEXT GENERATION SEQUENCING OF INFECTIOUS DISEASES -

IMPLICATIONS FOR PUBLIC HEALTH

Lea Valinsky, Ministry of Health

15:40 THE EVOLVING EPIDEMIOLOGY OF PERTUSSIS IN ISRAEL

Chen Stein Zamir, Ministry of Health

16:00 ENVIRONMENTAL SURVEILLANCE FOR HUMAN HEPATITIS VIRUS

(HAV) USED FOR EPIDEMIOLOGICAL INVESTIGATION OF HAV

SPREAD IN DAN METROPOLITAN AREA AND OTHER CITIES

Yossi Manor, Sheba Medical Center

16:15 EMERGENCE AND INCREASE OF EMRSA15 AMONG MRSA

BACTEREMIA ISOLATES IN ISRAEL

Assaf Rokney, Ministry of Health

16:30-16:45 Best Poster Prize Announcement Auditorium

Chair: Yechezkel Kashi (ISM President, Technion)

16:45-17:00 Closing Remarks & ISM Election Results Auditorium

Chairs: Aharon Oren and Oded Béjà (Meeting Co-Chairs, Hebrew University and

Technion) and Yechezkel Kashi (ISM President, Technion)

17:00-17:30 Lecture on Molecular Gastronomy Auditorium

Hai Schwartz, Chef, President of the Israeli Chef Society 2010-2012

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Poster Session Entrance Floor-Hall 1

Monday, February 18 11:00-11:30

13:00-14:30

16:00-16:30

Tuesday, February 19 11:00-11:30

13:00-14:30

Epidemiology of Infectious Diseases

P-1 A LARGE-SCALE OUTBREAK CAUSED BY OXA-48-PRODUCING

ENTEROBACTERIACEAE IN A NEONATAL INTENSIVE CARE UNIT

(NICU): EPIDEMIOLOGICAL AND MICROBIOLOGICAL

CHARACTERISTICS

Amos Adler, Ester Solter, Samira Masarwa, Tamar Miller-Roll, Bassam

Abu-Libdeh, Hatem Khammash, Khalil Najem, Susan Dekadek, Chen Stein-Zamir,

Nafez Nubani, Amin Kunbar, Marc Victor Assous, Yehuda Carmeli,

Mitchell J. Schwaber

P-2 A MULTINATIONAL STUDY OF COLONIZATION WITH ESBL-

PRODUCING ENTEROBACTERIACEAE IN HEALTHCARE PERSONNEL

AND FAMILY MEMBERS OF PATIENTS ADMITTED TO

REHABILITATION CENTERS

Amos Adler, Marek Gniadkowski, Anna Baraniak, Radoslaw Izdebski, Janusz Fiett,

Antonino Salvia, Joan V. Samso, Christine Lawrence, Jerome Solomon, Mical Paul,

Yaffa Lerman, Yael Schwartzberg, Eti Mordechai, Angelo Rossini, Josana Fierro,

Christine Lammens, Surbhi Malhotra-Kumar, Herman Goossens,

Waleria Hryniewicz, Christian Brun-Buisson, Yehuda Carmeli

P-3 LABORATORY BASED SURVEILLANCE OF CIRCULATING SEROTYPES

AND CLONETYPES OF LISTERIA MONOCYTOGENES IN ISRAEL

Analia Ezernitchi, Jacob Moran-Gilad, Vered Agmon, Yoni Ynon, Joseph Jaffe,

Israel Nissan, Lea Valinsky

P-4 RELATIONSHIPS BETWEEN A(H1N1)pdm INFLUENZA INFECTION AND

INFECTIONS WITH OTHER RESPIRATORY VIRUSES

Michal Mandelboim, Tal Meningher, Musa Hindiyeh, Liora Regev,

Hilda Sherbany, Ella Mendelson

P-5 SALMONELLA OUTBREAKS IN ISRAEL, 1999-2011: FROM

STATISTICALLY GENERATED ALARM TO PATHOGEN`S SEQUENCE

Alex Marzel, Israel Nissan, Yosef Ilan Schorr, Lea Valinsky, Galia Rahav,

Ohad Gal-Mor

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P-6 EMERGENCE OF MULTIDRUG RESISTANT SALMONELLA ENTERICA

SEROVAR KENTUCKY IN ISRAEL

Israel Nissan, Yosef Ilan Schorr, Joseph Jaffe, Vered Agmon, Avraham Reisfeld,

Jacob Moran-Gilad, Lea Valinsky

Microbial Systems Biology and Genomics

P-7 THE GENOMIC AVENUE TO AVIAN COLISEPTICEMIA

Sagi Huja, Yaara Oren, Dvora Biran, Elzbieta Brzuszkiewicz, Gerhard Gottschalk,

Joerg Hacker, Ulrich Dobrindt Dobrindt, Eliora Ron

P-8 TOWARDS CULTURING THE UNCULTURABLES

Matthew Oberhardt, Raphy Zarecki, Leah Reshef, Uri Gophna, Eytan Ruppin

P-9 PHENOTYPIC CHARACTERIZATION OF DIFFERENT HALOFERAX

VOLCANII-HALOFERAX MEDITERRANEI HYBRIDS

Yael Yair, Adit Naor, Uri Gophna

P-10 A COMPARATIVE EVALUATION OF NB30, NB54 AND PTC124 IN

TRANSLATIONAL READ-THROUGH EFFICACY FOR TREATMENT OF

AN USH1C NONSENSE MUTATION

Valery Belakhov, Tobias Goldmann, Nora Overlack, Fabian Moller,

Michiel van Wyk, Uwe Wolfrum, Kerstin Nagel-Wolfrum, Timor Baasov

Mycology

P-11 ANTIFUNGAL ACTIVITY OF NEW GROUP OF THE

ORGANOPHOSPHORUS HETEROCYCLES 6-(DIALKOXYPHOSPHORYL)-

3H-THIAZOLO[3,2-b][1,2,4] TRIAZOL-7-YLIUM CHLORIDES

Valery Belakhov, Elena Erkhitueva, Albina Dogadina, Andrey Khramchikhin,

Boris Ionin

P-12 FUNCTIONALITY OF MANGANESE PEROXIDASE ISOENZYMES

FAMILY UNDER Mn2+

DEFICIENT CONDITIONS OF PLEUROTUS

OSTREATUS

Doriv Knop, Tomer Meir Salame, Dana Levinson, Oded Yarden, Yitzhak Hadar

P-13 COMBINATIONS OF NYSTATIN-INTRALIPID WITH OTHER

ANTIFUNGAL DRUGS AGAINST ASPERGILLUS TERREUS

Moshe Nahmias, Rita Semis, Sigalit Lev, Esther Segal

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P-14 RELEASE OF PLEUROTUS OSTREATUS VERSATILE-PEROXIDASE FROM

Mn2+

REPRESSION ENHANCES ANTHROPOGENIC AND NATURAL

SUBSTRATE DEGRADATION

Tomer Meir Salame, Doriv Knop, Dana Levinson, Sameeer J. Mabjeesh,

Oded Yarden, Yitzhak Hadar

P-15 ANTIFUNGAL DRUG INTERACTIONS: REPRESSORS AND ENHANCERS

OF THE DEVELOPMENT OF RESISTANCE AND TOLERANCE

Adi Ulman, Uri Gophna, Judith Berman

Evolutionary Processes in Microbiology

P-16 SOCIAL EVOLUTION OF BACTERIAL REGULATORY NETWORKS - A

POSITIVE FEEDBACK NETWORK STRUCTURE PROMOTES THE

EVOLUTIONARY STABILITY OF ALTRUISTIC COOPERATION

Ishay Ben-Zion, Avigdor Eldar

P-17 CONTRIBUTION OF LATERAL GENE TRANSFER TO THE ADAPTATION

OF METHANOSPHAERA STADTMANAE TO THE MAMMALIAN GUT

Mor Lurie-Weinberger, Michael Peeri, Tamir Tuller, Uri Gophna

P-18 A ONE-SIDED ARMS-RACE BETWEEN PROCHLOROCOCCUS AND THE

CYANOPODOPHAGES INFECTING THEM

Daniel A. Schwartz, Sarit Avrani, Debbie Lindell

Plant-Microbe Interactions

P-19 THE AGENT OF LATE WILT OF CORN, HARPOPHORA MAYDIS,

PATHOGENESIS AND CONTROL

Ofir Degani, Tsafrir Weinberg, Gilad Cernica, Onn Rabinovitz

P-20 ANTIMICROBIAL ACTIVITY IN PISTACIA ATLANTICA GALLS

Yoram Gerchman, Moshe Inbar

Parasitology

P-21 CONTROL OF PROTEIN MISFOLDING AND DEVELOPMENTAL CUES IN

LEISHMANIA?

Daphna Kirshenbaum, Anat Ben Zvi, Michal Shapira

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Food and Water Microbiology

P-22 BIOFILM FORMATION OF BACILLUS SPECIES IN MILK IS GOVERNED

BY THE TAPA-SIPW-TASA OPERON

Ronit Gutman-Pasvolsky, Varda Zakin, Moshe Shemesh

P-23 CASTING A NET: FIBRES PRODUCED BY MICROCYSTIS SP. IN FIELD

AND LABORATORY POPULATIONS

Gad Weiss, Moshe Harel, Einat Daniel, Avraham Wilenz, Ora Hadas,

Assaf Sukenik, Bojan Sedmak, Elke Dittmann, Sergei Braun, Aaron Kaplan

Microbial Ecology

P-24 INTERACTION BETWEEN SCENEDESMUS AND MICROCYSTIS MAY BY

USED TO CLARIFY THE ROLE OF SECONDARY METABOLITES

Gad Weiss, Moshe Harel, Judy Lieman-Hurwitz, Jenny Gun, Ovadia Lev,

Mario Lebendiker, Violeta Temper, Colin Block, Assaf Sukenik, Tamar Zohary,

Sergei Braun, Shmuel Carmeli, Aaron Kaplan

P-25 BLACK BAND DISEASE BACTERIAL CONSORTIUM IN RED SEA

CORALS

Luba Arotsker, Nachshon Siboni, Eitan Ben-Dov, Esti Kramarsky-Winter,

Yossi Loya, Ariel Kushmaro

P-26 A SINGLE MOLECULE AMPLIFICATION METHOD REVEALS THAT T7-

LIKE CYANOPHAGES ENCODING THE PSBA GENE ARE ABUNDANT IN

THE RED AND MEDITERRANEAN SEAS

Nava Baran, Naama Dekel, Svetlana Goldin, Ilia Maidanik, Debbie Lindell

P-27 MICROBIAL COMMUNITIES RELATED TO ELECTRON ACCEPTORS

GRADIENT IN LAKE KINNERET SEDIMENT

Itay Bar-Or, Eitan Ben-Dov, Werner Eckert, Ariel Kushmaro, Orit Sivan

P-28 NATURAL QUORUM SENSING INHIBITORS FROM PREVIOUSLY

UNCULTURED MARINE BACTERIA

Hilla Ben-Hamo, Ariel Kushmaro, Robert S. Marks

P-29 MODELING OF BACTERIOPHAGES AND BACTERIA PREDATOR-PREY

DYNAMICS IN BIOLOGICAL WASTEWATER TREATMENT PROCESSES

Marina de Leeuw, Asher Brenner, Ariel Kushmaro

18


P-30 ADAPTATION TO LIFE AT HIGH SALT CONCENTRATIONS: GENOMIC

AND METAGENOMIC STUDIES OF THE ABUNDANCE OF ACIDIC

PROTEINS IN HALOPHILIC MICROORGANISMS

Rahel Elevi Bardavid, Aharon Oren

P-31 METABOLIC PATHWAY ENRICHMENT IN VIRAL METAGENOMES

Hagay Enav, Yael Mandel-Gutfreund, Oded Béjà

P-32 TEMPORAL ANTHROPOGENIC EFFECTS ON SOIL MICROBIOME- THE

CASE OF TREATED WASTE WATER IRRIGATION

Sammy Frenk, Yitzhak Hadar, Dror Minz

P-33 ISOLATION AND CHARACTERIZATION OF A CYANOPHAGE

CARRYING PSI GENES

Svetlana Fridman, Debbie Lindell, Oded Béjà

P-34 CHARACTERIZATION OF THE RUMEN METHANOGENIC

COMMUNITIES AND THEIR CONTRIBUTION FOR METHANE EMISSION

Nir Friedman, Itzhak Mizrahi

P-35 ANTIBIOTIC RESISTANCE IN UNDISTURBED SOILS: A POTENTIAL

SOURCE OF CLINICAL ANTIBIOTIC RESISTANCE?

Joao Gatica, Edouard Jurkevitch, Eddie Cytryn

P-36 MUTATIONS IN PORIN-LIKE GENES IN THE MARINE

CYANOBACTERIUM SYNECHOCOCCUS SP. WH8109 CONFER

RESISTANCE TO T7-LIKE PODOVIRUSES

Eyal Greengrass, Debbie Lindell

P-37 INTERACTIONS BETWEEN PROCHLOROCOCCUS AND

HETEROTROPHIC MARINE BACTERIA

Michal Grossowicz, Dikla Aharonovich, Michael J. Follows, Daniel Sher

P-38 MUNICIPAL WASTES AS A POOL FOR HORIZONTALLY TRANSERABLE

ANTIBIOTIC RESISTANCE GENES

Ella Kaplan, Edouard Jurkevich, Eddie Cytryn

P-39 IDENTIFICATION OF GENETIC TRAITS ASSOCIATED WITH

ECOLOGICAL NICHE ADAPTATION IN THE GENUS FLAVOBACTERIUM

Max Kolton, Noa Sela, Yigal Elad, Eddie Cytryn

P-40 SUCCESSION AND ACTIVITY OF RHIZOSPHERE BACTERIAL

COMMUNITIES DURING TOMATO PLANT DEVELOPMENT

Max Kolton, Zohar Pasternak, Sergey Segal, Ellen R. Graber, Yigal Elad,

Eddie Cytryn

19


P-41 CHARACTERIZATION OF NATURAL DEGRADATION OF CHLORO-

ALIPHATIC COMPOUNDS IN POLLUTED GROUNDWATER IN THE

HOLON INDUSTRIAL AREA

Dora Luskin, Eddie Cytryn, Anat Bernstein, Zeev Ronen, Joao Gatica, Max Kolton,

Ella Kaplan, Benny Chefetz

P-42 DISTRIBUTION OF TOXINOGENIC CYANOBACTERIA ACROSS ISRAEL:

GEOGRAPHI, ENVIRONMENTAL FACTORS AND WATER BODY TYPES

Sophi Marman, Daniel Sher

P-43 FUNGAL INDUCTION OF SANDSTONE FORMATION

Segula Masaphy

P-44 GLYCINE BETAINE IS THE MAIN ORGANIC OSMOTIC SOLUTE IN A

STRATIFIED MICROBIAL COMMUNITY IN A HYPERSALINE

EVAPORITIC GYPSUM CRUST

Aharon Oren, Rahel Elevi Bardavid, Nesya Kandel, Zeev Aizenshtat, Jan Jehlička

P-45 THE ISOLATION AND INITIAL CHARACTERIZATION OF

CYANOPHAGES FROM LAKE KINNERET

Irina Pekarsky, Yotam Hulata, Riki Pinkas, Nechama Malinksy-Rushansky,

Ora Hadas, Debbie Lindell

P-46 METAGENOMICS OF PHAGE-HARBORED METABOLIC GENES IN THE

RED SEA

Alon Philosof, Oded Béjà

P-47 RESISTANCE OF BIOLOGICAL SAND CRUST ORGNISMS TO HARSH

ENVIRONMENTAL CONDITIONS

Hagai Raanan, Danny Ionescu, Nir Keren, Itzhak Ohad, Aaron Kaplan

P-48 CHARACTERIZATION OF INDICATOR ORGANISMS AND PATHOGENS

IN DOMESTIC GREYWATER

Amatzia Wilk, Eitan Ben-Dov, Ariel Kushmaro

P-49 EVALUATION OF BIOCIDES ALONE OR IN THEIR COMBINATIONS TO

SUPPRESS SULFATE REDUCING BACTERIA

Ophir Zisman, Eitan Ben-Dov, Asher Brenner, Ariel Kushmaro

20


Molecular Virology

P-50 HOW SV40 ENTERS THE NUCLEUS?

Orly Ben-Nun Shaul, Veronika Butin-Israeli, Idit Kopatz, Stephen A. Adam,

Takeshi Shimi, Robert D. Goldman, Ariella Oppenheim

P-51 LIGAND MIMICRY – A NOVEL MECHANISM OF MICROBE-RECEPTOR

INTERACTIONS

Nir Drayman, Ariella Oppenheim

P-52 RETROGRADE AXONAL TRANSPORT OF VZV IN HUMAN EMBRYONIC

STEM CELL-DERIVED NEURONS: KINETIC AND PHARMACOLOGICAL

STUDIES

Sergei Grigoryan, Paul R. Kinchington, In-Hong Yang, Seliaru Anca, Zhu Hua,

Ronald S. Goldstein

P-53 ANTAGONISTIC EFFECTS OF HTLV-1 TAX ONCOPROTEIN ON BRCA1

EXPRESSION AND FUNCTION

Mahmoud Huleihel, Meital Shukrun, Azhar Gabarin, Ammar Abou-kandil,

Mordechai Aboud

P-54 INVOLVEMENT OF PROTEIN KINASE C IN THE ACTIVATION OF HTLV-

1 AND HIV PROMOTERS

Mahmoud Huleihel, Azhar Gabarin, Mordechai Aboud

P-55 REGULATION OF BETA-CATENIN PROTEIN LEVELS AND

UBIQUITYLATION BY E6 AND E6AP

Yael Kuslansky, Anna Jackman, Levana Sherman

P-56 MICROARRAY ANALYSIS OF HOST CELL GENE TRANSCRIPTION IN

RESPONSE TO VARICELLA-ZOSTER VIRUS INFECTION IN NEURONS

DERIVED FROM HUMAN EMBRYONIC STEM CELLS COMPARED TO

FIBROBLAST CELLS

Amos Markus, Hiba Waldman Ben-Asher, Paul R. Kinchington,

Ronald S. Goldstein

P-57 VIROLOGICAL RESPONSE OF HIV-1 PATIENTS TO RALTEGRAVIR

TREATMENT- THE ISRAELI EXPERIENCE

Orna Mor, Michal Michaeli, Itzchak Levy, Marina Wax, Hagit Rudich,

Fernando Mileguir, Ruth Pavel, Daniel Elbirt, Sarah Radian-Sade, Zeev Sthoeger,

Keren Olshtain-Pops, Michal Chowers, Daniel Turner, Ella Mendelson

21


P-58 REARRANGEMENTS IN THE NON-CODING REGULATORY REGION OF

BKV STRAINS OBTAINED FROM A RENAL TRANSPLANT PATIENT

ALTER VIRAL REPLICATION, LATE GENE EXPRESSION AND

CYTOPATHOLOGY IN VITRO

Tsachi Tsadok Perets, Lester Michael Shulman, Ronit Sarid, Ella Mendelson

P-59 AGNO PROTEIN IS INVOLVED IN THE INDUCTION OF DNA DAMAGE,

LEADING TO THE FORMATION OF TRUNCATED AGNO STRAINS

UNABLE TO REPLICATE OR INFECT HOST CELLS

Tsachi Tsadok Perets, Ella Mendelson, Ronit Sarid, Lester Michael Shulman

P-60 THE ROLE OF AUTOPHAGY IN THE LIFE CYCLE OF A LARGE DNA

VIRUS INFECTING MARINE PHYTOPLANKTON

Daniella Schatz, Adva Shemi, Shilo Rosenwasser, Shifra Ben-Dor, Assaf Vardi

P-61 A NOVEL SYSTEM FOR IN VITRO TESTING OF POLIOVIRUS

NEUROVIRULENCE USING HUMAN EMBRYONIC STEM CELL-

DERIVED NEURONS

Lester Michael Shulman, Anna Sloutskin, Yuri Perepliotchikov,

Ronald S. Goldstein

P-62 SUPERINFECTION EXCLUSION OF α-HERPESVIRUSES IN HUMAN

FIBROBLASTS AND NEURONS

Anna Sloutskin, Paul R. Kinchington, Ronald S. Goldstein

P-63 NEWCASTLE DISEASE VIRUS (NDV) – AN ONCOLYTIC AGENT FOR

CANCER TREATMENT

Shay Tayeb, Dror Kolodkin-Gal, Barak Yaacov, Abed Khalaileh, Haya Falk,

Zichria Zakay-Rones, Gideon Zamir, Amos Panet

P-64 HERPES SIMPLEX VIRUS TYPE 1 MODE OF SPREAD IN THE

CLINICALLY- RELEVANT TISSUES, SKIN AND BRAIN, DIFFERS IN

ACCORD WITH TISSUE TYPE

Yael Tsalenchuck, Tomer Tzur, Israel Steiner, Amos Panet

Veterinary and Animal Microbiology

P-65 PHOTOINDUCED INACTIVATION OF MYCOPLASMA GALLISEPTICUM:

NEW PERSPECTIVES FOR VACCINE DEVELOPMENT

Hazem Atalla, Yossi Raviv, Ina Lysnyansky, Shlomo Rottem

22


Bacterial-Host Interactions

P-66 IDENTIFICATION AND CHARACTERIZATION OF NEW T3SS EFFECTOR

PROTEINS IN SALMONELLA ENTERICA

Marina Faltz, Hadas Isaac Solnik, David Burstein, Haim Ashkenazy, Tal Pupko,

Sima Yaron

P-67 CHARACTERIZATION OF THE BOVINE BACTERIAL COMMUNITY AND

ITS RELATION TO ENERGY HARVEST EFFICIENCY

Elie Jami, Itzhak Mizrahi

P-68 POTENTIAL VIRULENCE FACTORS OF MYCOPLASMA HYORHINIS:

PHOSPHOLIPASE ACTIVITY, HEMOLYSIS AND THE REVERSE CAMP

PHENOMENON

Jonathan Kornspan, Ran Nir-Paz, Shlomo Rottem

P-69 GENOME OF COXIELLA SP., THE SYMBIONT OF THE TICK

RHIPICEPHALUS TURANICUS

Itai Lalzar, Shimon Harrus, Yuval Gottlieb

P-70 DISCOVERY OF NOVEL TYPE III EFFECTOR PROTEINS IN

PSEUDOMONAS AERUGINOSA

Shirley Satanower, David Burstein, Michal Simovitch, Meital Zehavi,

Gal Yerushalmi, Tal Pupko, Ehud Banin

P-71 A GENETIC SCREEN FOR THE IDENTIFICATION OF LISTERIA

MONOCYTOGENES DETERMINANTS THAT MODULATE THE HOST

NF-κB PATHWAY

Shira Shaham, Lior Lobel, Anat Herskovits

P-72 THE MULTIDRUG TRANSPORTER P-GLYCOPROTEIN CONTRIBUTES

TO ACTIVATION OF TYPE I INTERFERON RESPONSE

Nadejda Sigal, Millie Kaplan Zeevi, Shiri Weinstein, Dan Peer, Anat Herskovits

P-73 STUDYING THE ROLE OF LISTERIA MONOCYTOGENES' MDR

TRANSPORTERS AND LTA IN ACTIVATION OF THE TYPE I

INTERFERON RESPONSE IN MACROPHAGES

Keren Tadmor, Yair Pozniak, Tamar Burg-Golani, Millie Kaplan-Ze’evi, Moran

Brenner, Lev Rabinovich, Sigal Nadejda, Anat Herskovits

P-74 NLED, A BACTERIAL METALLOPROTEASE THAT SPECIFICALLY

TARGETS AND INACTIVATES HOST CELL JNK AND P38

Lihi Gur-Arie, Ilan Rosenshine

23


Clinical Microbiology

P-75 THE CLINICAL SIGNIFICANCE OF ISOLATION OF TWO DIFFERENT

ORGANISMS FROM THE URINE OF PATIENTS WITH AN INDWELLING

CATHETER

Marc Victor Assous, Ina Gofman, Amos Yinnon, Tamar Lachish,

Yonit Wiener-Well

P-76 RECTAL SWABS ARE SUITABLE FOR QUANTIFYING THE CARRIAGE

LOAD OF KPC-PRODUCING CARBAPENEM-RESISTANT

ENTEROBACTERIACEAE (CRE)

Anat Lerner, Jacob Romano, Inna Chmelnitsky, Shiri Navon-Venezia,

Rotem Edgar, Yehuda Carmeli

P-77 BIOFILM FORMATION AND SUSCEPTIBILITY TO GENTAMICIN AND

COLISTIN IN EXTREMELY DRUG RESISTANT KPC-PRODUCING

KLEBSIELLA PNEUMONIAE

Livnat Naparstek, Yehuda Carmeli, Shiri Navon-Venezia, Ehud Banin

Molecular Biology of Eukaryotes

P-78 EXCESS OF Srs2p SENSITIZES CELLS TO DNA DAMAGING AGENTS

Shay Bramson, Alex Bronstein, Martin Kupiec

P-79 NEUROSPORA CRASSA PROTEIN ARGININE METHYL TRANSFERASES

ARE INVOLVED IN GROWTH AND DEVELOPMENT AND INTERACT

WITH THE NDR KINASE COT1

Daria Feldman, Carmit Ziv, Michal Efrat, Oded Yarden

P-80 SENSING ENVIROMENTAL STRESSES AND CELL FATE REGULATION

VIA REDOX SIGNALING IN MARINE DIATOMS

Shiri Graff van Creveld, Shilo Rosenwasser, Daniella Schatz, Assaf Vardi

P-81 MAS1, A 91AA PROTEIN CONFERS SENSITIVITY OF NEUROSPORA

CRASSA TO A NOVEL ASPERGILLUS TUBINGENSIS METABOLITE

Liat Koch, Anat Lodin, Micha Ilan, Shmuel Carmeli, Oded Yarden

24


Molecular Microbiology of Prokaryotes

P-82 MOLECULAR CHARACTERIZATION OF SALMONELLA ENTERICA

SEROVAR INFANTIS UNIQUE PLASMID AND ITS ROLE IN VIRULENCE

Gili Aviv, Ohad Gal-Mor, Galia Rahav

P-83 THE EFFECT OF PSTS AND PHOB ON PSEUDOMONAS AERUGINOSA

SWARMING MOTILITY AND BIOFILM FORMATION

Inna Blus-Kadosh, Ehud Banin

P-84 PHOSPHOGLYCOLATE MAY SERVE AS THE SIGNAL FOR

ACCLIMATION TO CHANGING ATMOSPHERIC CO2 LEVEL

Maya Dayan, Judy Lieman-Hurwitz, Martin Hagemann, Aaron Kaplan

P-85 CROSS-REGULATION OF METABOLISM AND VIRULENCE IN LISTERIA

MONOCYTOGENES

Sivan Fridman, Marika Linsky, Anat Herskovits

P-86 A NOVEL PROTEIN INVOLVED IN RIBOSOMAL MATURATION

Maya Grinwald, Aviram Rasouly, Eliora Ron

P-87 IMIPENEM RESISTANCE AND FITNESS COST IN PSEUDOMONAS

AERUGINOSA DUE TO OprD LOSS ARE PARTIALLY COMPENSATED

FOR AT THE POPULATION LEVEL

Shahar Ish-Shalom, Shiri Navon-Venezia, Inna Chmelnitsky, David Schwartz,

Thilo Kohler, Christian Van-Delden, Rotem Edgar, Yehuda Carmeli

P-88 REGULATORY INTERACTIONS BETWEEN CspC AND THE HEAT

SHOCK RESPONCE

Gal Lenz, Eliora Ron

P-89 DEGRADATION OF THE CYANOBACTERIAL LIGHT HARVESTING

COMPLEX: DAVID AND GOLIATH STORY

Mali Levi, Eleonora Sendersky, Renata Kisiliak, Noga Kozer, Yaron Shav-Tal,

Rakefet Schwarz

P-90 AUTO-INHIBITION OF BIOFILM FORMATION MEDIATED BY A TYPE II

PROTEIN SECRETION SYSTEM

Elad Nagar, Daniella Schatz, Eleonora Sendersky, Rami Parnasa, Rakefet Schwarz

P-91 STRUCTURE- FUNCTION STUDIES OF FTSZ & FTZM FROM

MAGNETOSPIRILLUM GRYPHISWALDENSE MSR-1

Hila Nudelman, Geula Davidov, Frank D. Müller, Dirk Schüler, Raz Zarivach

25


P-92 INTER-SPECIES INTERACTION MEDIATES CELL LYSIS AND BIOFILM

FORMATION THROUGH NUTRIENT AVAILABILITY AND SECONDARY

METABOLITES

Sivan Peretz-Elias, Paul Williams, Ehud Banin

P-93 MOLECULAR AND CELLULAR COMPARISON OF SALMONELLA

PARATYPHI A AND SALMONELLA TYPHIMURIUM INVASION IN TO NON-

PHAGOCYTIC CELLS

Dana Elhadad, Galia Rahav, Ohad Gal-Mor

Applied Microbiology and Biotechnology

P-94 PROTEIN ENGINEERING OF 2-HYDROXYBIPHENYL 3-

MONOOXYGENASE FROM PSEUDOMONAS AZELAICA FOR SYNTHESIS

OF HYDROXYTYROSOL

Almog Bregman, Ayelet Fishman

P-95 ENZYMATIC MECHANISMS INVOLVED IN CARBAMAZEPINE

TRANSFORMATION BY THE WHITE ROT FUNGUS PLEUROTUS

OSTREATUS

Naama Golan-Rozen, Yitzhak Hadar, Benny Chefetz

P-96 COPPER ACCUMALATION AND ITS EFFECT ON THE SELECTIVITY OF

TYROSINASE FROM BACILLUS MEGATERIUM

Mor Goldfeder, Margarita Kanteev, Noam Adir, Ayelet Fishman

P-97 REVEALING NOVAL GLYCOSIDE HYDROLASES BY CONTEXTUAL

METAGENOMICS

Noam Grimberg, Yuval Shoham, Oded Béjà

P-98 C-TERMINAL BIOMASS SENSOR OF ANTI-SIGI6 FACTOR RSGI6 IN

CLOSTRIDIUM THERMOCELLUM RESEMBLES GH10 XYLANASES AND

FORMS A STRUCTURALLY NOVEL FOLD

Yehuda Halfon, Ilya Borovok, Raphael Lamed, Edward A. Bayer, Felix Frolow

P-99 CROSS-LINKING OF SOY PROTEINS GLYCININ AND β-CONGLYCIN IN

USING TYROSINASE FROM BACILLUS MEGATERIUM

Sivan Isaschar, Ayelet Fishman

P-100 LACTIC ACID BACTERIA FERMENTED PUMPKIN BASED PROBIOTIC

BEVERAGE

Arturs Patetko, Pavels Semjonovs, Arisa Fomina, Ilze Denina, Dagnija Upite,

Lilija Auzina, Rita Treimane

26


P-101 EFFECTS OF NITROGEN AND CARBON SOURCES ON RDX

DEGRADATION UNDER ANAEROBIC CONDITIONS IN STRAIN

RHODOCOCCUS YH-1

Dhan Prakash, Ali Nejidat, Zeev Ronen

P-102 BIODEGRADATION OF CYCLIC AZO DYE BY A NOVEL BACTERIAL

CONSORTIUM ABR-1 AND TOXICITY EVALUATION OF METABOLITES

BY DIFFERENT BIOASSAY SYSTEMS

Arun Prasad, Kokati Venkata Bhaskara Rao, Venkata Satyanarayana

P-103 MOLECULAR AND ISOTOPIC ANALYSIS FOR EVALUATION OF IN SITU

DEGRADATION OF BROMINATED COMPOUNDS

Kevin Kuntze, Angela Woods, Hans Richnow, Ivonne Nijenhuis, Anat Bernstein,

Zeev Ronen

P-104 BIOMASS SENSOR OF ANTI-SIGMA FACTOR IN CLOSTRIDIUM

THERMOCELLUM CONTAINS TWO INTERLACED PA14 MODULES AND

STRUCTURALLY RESEMBLES PART OF ANTHRAX TOXIN

Inna Rozman Grinberg, Eleanor Gafni, Oren Yaniv, Liat Bahari, Milana

Voronov-Goldman, Ilya Borovok, Edward A. Bayer, Raphael Lamed, Felix Frolow

P-105 STUCTURE-FUNCTION STUDY OF GH27 β-ARABINOPYRANOSIDASE

FROM GEOBACILLUS STEAROTHERMOPHILUS T-6

Rachel Salama, Hodaya V. Solomon, Shifra Lansky, Gil Shoham, Yuval Shoham

P-106 REGULATION ANALYSIS OF CELLULOSE RELATED GENES BY

ALTERNATIVE σ FACTORS IN CLOSTRIDIUM THERMOCELLUM

Andy Sand, Evert K. Holwerda, Daniel G. Olson, Yakir Nataf, Ilya Borovok,

Edward A. Bayer, Raphael Lamed, Lee R. Lynd, Yuval Shoham

P-107 BIODEGRADATION OF STYRENE BY NEWLY ISOLATED BACTERIAL

LACCASE

Ronen Schwartz, Alex Sivan

P-108 THE MACROMOLECULAR CRYSTALLOGRAPHY RESEARCH CENTER

(MCRC) AT BEN-GURION UNIVERSITY OF THE NEGEV

Anat Shahar, Raz Zarivach

P-109 USE OF FORMALDEHYDE-DEGRADING BACTERIA FOR

BIODEGRADATION OF CONTAMINATIED WASTEWATER

Bernadette Soudah Abou Atta, Ayelet Fishman

P-110 COHESIN-INDUCED THERMOSTABILITY ENHANCEMENT OF A

CLOSTRIDIUM THERMOCELLUM DOCKERIN-CONTAINING

CELLULOSOMAL ENDOGLUCANASE

Johanna Stern, Michael Anbar, Sarah Morais, Edward A. Bayer

27


P-111 SYNERGY AMONG FAMILY-48 EXOGLUCANASES AND FAMILY-124

ENDOGLUCANASE IN TRIVALENT DESIGNER CELLULOSOME

COMPLEXES

Yael Vazana, Yoav Barak, Yonit Ben David, Edward A. Bayer

P-112 STRUCTURE OF A NOVEL STAND-ALONE COHESIN PROTEIN FROM

RUMINOCOCCUS FLAVIFACIENS

Milana Voronov-Goldman, Maly Levy-Assaraf, Oren Yaniv, Gloria Weiserman,

Sadanary Jindou, Linda Shimon, Ilya Borovok, Edward A. Bayer, Raphael Lamed,

Felix Frolow

P-113 THE ACCELERATION OF BIODEGRADATION OF COMPLEX

HALOGENATED ORGANIC COMPOUNDS IN INDUSTRIAL

WASTEWATER

Moran Zangi-Kotler, Ariel Kushmaro

P-114 IDENTIFICATION OF GROWTH-RATE RELATED REGULATORY

ELEMENTS OF CELLULOSOMAL GENES IN CLOSTRIDIUM

THERMOCELLUM

Tal Zeltzer, Yuval Shoham

P-115 FROM SMELLY WINES TO ALZHEIMER- CYSTEINE CATABOLISM TO

RELEASE H2S

Gal Winter, Chris Curtin

P-116 CHORISMATE IS A STUMBLING BLOCK IN THE PATH FOR

SUSTAINABLE AROMATICS

Gal Winter, Jens Kromer

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