1 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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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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Monday, February 18, 2013
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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Monday, February 18, 2013
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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Monday, February 18, 2013
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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Monday, February 18, 2013
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
16:00-16:30 Coffee Break, Poster Session (Hall 1) and Exhibition Entrance Floor
16:30-18:00 Parallel Sessions G, H, I
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Monday, February 18, 2013
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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Monday, February 18, 2013
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
11:00-11:30 Coffee Break, Poster Session (Hall 1) and Exhibition Entrance Floor
11:30-13:00 Parallel Sessions J, K, L
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Tuesday, February 19, 2013
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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Tuesday, February 19, 2013
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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Tuesday, February 19, 2013
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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Tuesday, February 19, 2013
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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Poster Session Entrance Floor-Hall 1
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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Poster Session Entrance Floor-Hall 1
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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Poster Session Entrance Floor-Hall 1
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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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