Montreal Bacteriology Meeting
Symposium de bactériologie à Montréal
Friday January 20, 2023
INRS—Centre Armand-Frappier Santé Biotechnologie (Laval)
Talks begin at 9:05 am, 10:10 am, and 12:50 pm in Building #18, Pasteur Hall (Salle Pasteur)
Poster-and-Pizza session begins at 11:10 am in the Building #18 Atrium & Hallway
Registration: here
Organizers: Salim T. Islam (https://www.islamyxolab.com/), Frédéric Veyrier (http://fveyrier.profs.inrs.ca/)
Program:
| 8:30-9:00 | Arrival & Coffee (Poster Setup Optional) (30 min), Bldg. #18 Atrium |
| 9:00-9:05 | Welcome (5 min), Bldg. #18 Pasteur Hall |
| 9:05-9:25 | Talk 1 — Abdelkader Mellouk (Calmettes lab, INRS-AFSB) TAM complex and outer-membrane biogenesis |
| 9:25-9:45 | Talk 2 — Emma Mulholland (Brun lab, UdeM) Investigating the outer membrane through microscopy-based profiling |
| 9:45-10:10 | Coffee & Cookies & “Biobreak” (25 min), Bldg. #18 Atrium |
| 10:10-10:30 | Talk 3 — Arnold Alexandre (Marcotte lab, UQAM) Interaction of antimicrobials with bacterial membranes by in vivo solid-state NMR |
| 10:30-10:50 | Talk 4 — Annabelle Mathieu-Denoncourt (Duperthuy lab, UdeM) Polymyxin B in the aquatic environment: a proteomic, transcriptomic, and phenotypic study in Vibrio cholerae |
| 10:50-11:10 | Talk 5 — Lindsay Burns (Gruenheid lab, McGill) The bacterial virulence factor NleA undergoes host-mediated O-linked glycosylation |
| 11:10-12:00 | Posters & Pizza (50 min, Odd-numbered posters), Bldg.#18 Atrium & hallway |
| 12:00-12:50 | Posters & Pizza (50 min, Even-numbered posters), Bldg.#18 Atrium & hallway |
| 12:50-13:10 | Talk 6 — Mylene Trottier (Déziel lab, INRS-AFSB) Diversity of quorum sensing systems in clinical strains of Pseudomonas aeruginosa isolated from chronic and acute human infections |
| 13:10-13:30 | Talk 7 — Eszter Farkas (Nguyen lab, McGill) Production of antimicrobials by Canadian High Arctic bacteria |
| 13:30-13:40 | Closing Remarks, and “Antimicrobial Resistance Network” announcement by Prof. Dao Nguyen (10 min), Bldg. #18 Atrium |
| 13:40-14:30 | Networking with cider/wine and galette des rois (50 min), Bldg. #18 Atrium |
Map:
- The main entrance to INRS—Centre Armand-Frappier Santé Biotechnologie is located at 531 boulevard des Prairies, Laval H7V 1B7.
- To access campus via public transit, take the #20 bus (towards Chomedey) from Cartier metro station. Get off of the bus at the “Des Prairies/Armand-Frappier” stop. Otherwise, take the #24 bus (towards St. Dorothée) from Cartier metro station, and get off at the “Cartier/Micro” stop; then walk south on Avenue Micro (careful, there is no sidewalk!), then turn right onto Boul. des Prairies to reach the main gate. (You cannot access campus via Boulevard Cartier Ouest unless you have keycard authorization).
- Main entrance for Building #18. All BactoMontréal III activities will be taking place in Building #18.
- Parking spaces for those arriving by car/van/horse-drawn carriage. If driving, you must first enter campus via the main gate (531 boul. des Prairies). Park anywhere behind Building #18, then walk around to the main entrance.
The Atrium and Pasteur Hall are located on the ground floor of Building #18.
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