Daily Program

Tuesday, Sep 17, 2024


Time Event
14:00 – 19:00 Transfer of Attendees & Guests from Wrocław to Krzyżowa – the Conference Venue
Registration & Accommodation
19:00 Get-together Dinner

Wednesday, Sep 18, 2024


Time Event
09:00 – 09:10 Welcome – Opening of the BMMC2024

Session I

09:10 – 09:55 Invited Speaker: Chris Whitfield
now you see it, now you don’t – the enigmatic salmonella t1 antigen
09:55 – 10:15 O1
Marie-Pierre Chapot-Chartier
molecular mechanisms underlying the structural diversity of rhamnose-rich cell wall polysaccharides in lactococci
10:15 – 10:35 O2
Wanesa Sasal
is there a link between phopq two components system and 4-amino-4-deoxy-l-arabinose addition to lipopolysaccharide of proteus mirabilis?
10:35 – 10:55 O3
Agata Palusiak
structure of the o-antigen of the klebsiella oxytoca 0.067 lps and its contribution to serological cross-reactions
10:55 – 11:25 Coffee Break
11:25 – 11:45 O4 Anna Notaro
biochemical characterization of a pyruvyl transferase from a giant virus
11:45 – 12:05 O5
Katarzyna Zamłyńska
studies on lipids a from brucella citisi and brucella lupini a nodule forming bacteria isolated from cytisus scoparius and lupinus albus, respectively

Flash Communications

12:05 – 12:20 FC1
Irina Sadovskaya
extracellular and cell wall bound polysaccharides from selected strains of lacticaseibacillus rhamnosus
FC2
Iwona Komaniecka
structural characterization of a water-insoluble polysaccharide from pleurotus citrinopileatus and prebiotic potential of its acidic hydrolysate
FC3
Anna Turska-Szewczuk
structure and gene cluster organization of closely related o-antigens of aeromonas sp. classified to the new provisional serogroup prevailing in polish aquaculture
12:20 – 12:40
FC4
Sabina Koj
plesiomonas shigelloides o68 lipopolysaccharide. expanding the array of p. shigelloides strains with unusual hydrophobic properties of the o-antigens
FC5
Ornella Serpino
structural biology approaches for characterization of shigella o-antigen specific monoclonal antibodies
FC6
Agnieszka Kowalczyk
reinstating the o10 antigen to the serological classification scheme for klebsiella pneumoniae
12:40 – 13:00 FC7
Gabriela Cieniuch
characterization of lipopolysaccharides in zoonotic s. liquefaciens and s. marcescens isolates
FC8
Katarzyna Machnik
enhancement of growth of the m. bovis bcg vaccine strain in stationary and submerged culture
FC9
Daria Artyszuk
characterization of the clinical isolate and exopolysaccharide of the flavonifractor plautii pcm 3108
13:00 -14:00 Lunch & Coffee

Session II

14:10 – 14:45 Invited Speaker: Robert J. Woods
recent advances in modeling complex polysaccharides
14:45 – 15:05 O6
Sonsoles Martin-Santamaria
molecular mechanisms of the innate immunity receptors: from lps to glylipids and small molecules
15:05 – 15:25 O7
Antonio Lembo
development and analysis of glycoprotein based antiviral vaccines using mass-spectrometry
15:25 – 15:45 O8
Marcello Mercogliano
against the trend: insights into lipopolysaccharide structure and outer membrane dynamics in cold-adapted pseudomonas isolated from enigma lake, antartica
15:45 – 16:15 Coffee Break
16:15 – 16:35 O9
Gustav Nestor
isotopically labelled carbohydrates for nmr studies of protein-carbohydrate interactions
16:35 – 16:55 O7
Tomasz Niedziela
chemotyping of bacterial glycans using nmr spectroscopy. high resolution magic angle spinning nmr in the analysis of o-antigens
16:55 – 17:30 Free time
17:30 – 18:30 Guided tour of the Krzyżowa Center Optional
19:00 Outdoor Barbecue & Bonfire

 

Thursday, Sep 19, 2024


Time Event

Session III

09:00 – 09:45 Invited Speaker: Jeroen D. C. Codée
synthetic bacterial glycans and mimetics
09:45 – 10:05 O11
Biswajit Sarkar
synthetic zwitterionically modified bacterial glycans for glycan array study
10:05 – 10:25 O12
Nikita M. Podvalnyy
synthesis of trisaccharide antigens including colitose, abequose and fucose residues and assessment of antibody cross-reactivity
10:25 – 10:45 O13
Wiesław Kaca
reactivity differences beween patient antibodies against lipolysacharides and synthetic antigens derived from proteus mirabilis strains
10:45 – 11:05 O14
Serena Monaco
advanced nmr toolkit for the structural and enzymatic elucidation of protein-carbohydrate microbial interactions in the gut
11:05 – 11:35 Coffee Break
11:35 – 11:55 O15
Raffaele D’Amico
from antarctic seas to biotechnological frontiers: investigating the structural and functional properties of psychrobacter sp. tae2020 capsular polysaccharide
11:55 – 12:15 O16
Anna Chudzik
extracellular vesicles secreted by cutibacterium acnes contain membrane glycolipids
12:15 – 12:35 Sponsor’s Presentation
Clément Denys – Elicityl

Flash Communications

12:35 – 13:00 FC10
Andrej Sinica
fractionation of exopolysaccharides produced by limosilactobacillus fermentum mm1v, an inhibitor of pathogenic bacterial growth
FC11
Adam Choma
the complete structure of lipid a from rhizobium sp. cas 24 the bacterial endophyte of chemaecytisus albus (hacq.) rothm.
FC12
Jakub Smoliński
the mycobacterium bovis bcg substrain pasteur cells contain a diverse array of lipids
FC13
Jan Brykała
non-nutritive sweetener – impact on phage infectivity
FC14
Olena Welchinska
study of biological properties of bacterial lectins of saprophytic strains bacillus subtilis 668 imv and bacillus polymyxa 102 kgu
13:00 -14:00 Lunch & Coffee

Session IV

14:00 – 14:45 Invited Speaker: Antonio Molinaro
the chemical diversity of microbial glycans
14:45 – 15:05 O17
Sabina Górska
probiotics polysaccharide – just the sweet part of probiotics or like a cake out of the oven, full of promise?
15:05 – 15:25 O18
Flaviana Di Lorenzo
lipopolysaccharides from microbiota: fantastic “structures” and where to find them
15:25 – 15:45 O19
Cedric Battaglino
dissecting the role of bacterial outer membrane vesicle (omv)- dependent complement activation in systemic inflammatory response syndrome (sirs)
15:45 – 16:15 Coffee Break
16:15 – 16:35 O20
Andrea Iovine
structural elucidation of the capsular polysaccharide from lactiplantibacillus plantarum
16:35 – 16:55 O21
Jacek Rybka
how salmonella enteritidis evades the innate immunity mechanisms using the length of lipopolysaccharide molecules
16:55 – 17:15 O22
Katarzyna Pacyga-Prus
impact of dephosphotylation on the structure and function of b.pat polysaccharide isolated from bifidobacterium animalis ssp. animalis ccdm 218
17:15 – 18:15 Poster Session & Coffee
18:15 – 19:00 Free time
19:00 Gala Dinner & Dance

 

Friday Sep, 20, 2024


Time Event

Session V

08:45 – 09:30 Invited Speaker: Cristina De Castro
glycosylation in giant viruses
09:30 – 09:50 O23
Stefanie Barbirz
a sweet key to bacteriophage infection: phage-glycan interactions at gram-negative envelopes and in biofilms
09:50 – 10:10 O24
Ryan Griffiths
engineering bacillus subtilis for production of o-glycoconjugates
10:10 – 10:30 O25
Immacolata Speciale
unveiling the function of paramecium bursaria chlorella virus a111/114r gene
10:30 – 10:50 O26
Antonella Aquilone
bioinformatic identification and modeling of chlorovirus pbcv-1 multidomain protein a111/114r
10:50 – 11:00 Closing of the BMMC2024
11:00 – 12:00 Lunch & Coffee
12:15 – 12:30 Transfer of attendees & guests from Krzyżowa back to Wrocław

Types of Contribution

Invited Speaker:  45 minutes (including 5 minutes for Q&A)
Oral Communication (O): 20 minutes (including 5 minutes for Q&A)
Flash Communication (FC): a short presentation (4 minutes,  3 slides max., no Q&A)  of poster data
(questions to be saved for the poster session)