Slime, Cell Wall

Monday, 8 September 2008 15:30 - 17:00, Halls B, C and D

Molecular characterization of the Staphylococcus aureus surface protein C (SasC) involved in cell aggregation and biofilm formation
  • Christine Heilmann, Institute of Medical Microbiology, University Hospital of Münster, Germany
StcA is a novel Staphylococcus aureus biofilm determinant
  • Robert Shanks, United States
Natural polyphenols inhibit biofilm formation in S. aureus and S. epidermidis
  • Laura Selan, Sapienza University, Italy
Molecular mechanisms involved in Staphylococcus epidermidis biofilm detachment
  • Isabelle Bleiziffer, Germany
Disruption of Staphylococcus epidermidis biofilms by medicinal maggot Lucilia sericata excretions/secretions
  • Llinos Harris, Medical Microbiology and Infectious Diseases, Institute of Life Science, School of Medicine, Swansea University, Swansea, United Kingdom
Bioinformatics as a tool to identify regulator genes potentially involved in biofilm formation in Staphylococcus epidermidis reference strains RP62a and 12228
  • Stephanie Sandiford, Medical Microbiology, University of Manchester, Manchester Royal Infirmary, Manchester, UK, United Kingdom
Coating of biomaterials with antimicrobial peptides to prevent biofilm formation of coagulase negative staphylococci
  • Stephanie Sandiford, Medical Microbiology, University of Manchester, Manchester Royal Infirmary, Manchester, UK, United Kingdom
Study of genetic and phenotypic biofilm variations in clinical Staphylococcus capitis
  • Bintao Cui, RMIT University, Australia
The effect of different proteases on staphylococcal biofilm
  • Marco Artini, Sapienza University, Rome, ITALY, Italy
A helical string of alternately connected two three-helix bundles for the 1.1-megadalton cell wall-associated protein ebh from Staphylococcus aureus
  • Toshiko Ohta, University of Tsukuba, Japan
recA mediated spontaneous deletions of the icaADBC operon of clinical Staphylococcus epidermidis isolates: A new mechanism of phenotypic variations
  • Titik Nuryastuti, Department of Microbiology, Faculty of Medicine, Gadjah Mada University, Yogyakarta, Indonesia, Indonesia
Structural studies of MreC, cell-shape determinant protein of Bacillus subtilis
  • Raili Seppala, NMR Laboratory, Program in Structural Biology and Biophysics, Institute of Biotechnology, University of Helsinki, Finland