Invited Speakers

Plenary speaker

Elizabeth M Nolan

Metal sequestration by calprotectin and consequences on microbial physiology

 Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Department of Chemistry, Cambridge MA, USA

Confirmed Invited Speakers

Pascal Arnoux (France) http://biam.cea.fr/drf/biam/Pages/laboratoires/lbc/bacteries-metaux.aspx

Bacterial nicotinamine-like metallophores : discovery, diversity, regulation and evolution

Claudia A Blindauer (United Kingdom)
 https://warwick.ac.uk/fac/sci/chemistry/research/blindauer/blindauergroup

 A single zinc sensor mediates the response of an oligotrophic marine cyanobacterium to zinc excess and starvation

Jacques Bourguignon (France)http://www.lpcv.fr/en/Pages/MetalStress/Presentation.aspx

The fate of uranium in plants – Physiological and cellular effects

Stefano Ciurli (Italy) https://site.unibo.it/bioinorgchem/en

Nickel trafficking in the urease system

Maria Fillat (Spain) https://www.bifi.es/biochemistry-mcb/#2  -> Left menu -> Research group:
“Genetic regulation and physiology of cyanobacteria”

Metalloregulation of cyanobacterial physiology operated by FUR (ferric uptake regulator) proteins

Katharina Fromm (Switzerland) http://frommgroup.ch

How bacteria cope with silver: Silver ion coordination by proteins and metal ion reduction, maintaining homeostasis

Robert P Hausinger (USA) https://mmg.natsci.msu.edu/people/faculty/hausinger-robert-p/

Nickel-Pincer Nucleotide Cofactor

John D. Helmann (USA) https://micro.cornell.edu/research/helmann-lab/

Manganese homeostasis in Bacillus subtilis

Marian Llamas (Spain) https://orcid.org/0000-0002-9499-0492

Sensing the environment and the host: iron transport and signalling in Pseudomonas

Svetlana Lutsenko (United States of America) https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/myncbi/1RK-T7xv6giQs/bibliography/public/

Intestinal copper regulates fat absorption

Olivier Neyrolles (France) http://www.ipbs.fr/mycobacterial-interactions-host-cells

Metallobiology at the host-pathogen interface: the case of tuberculosis

Dietrich H. Nies (Germany) http://bionomie.mikrobiologie.uni-halle.de/PubList.html

The three pillars of bacterial zinc homeostasis

Richard Ortega (France) http://www.cenbg.in2p3.fr/-CIS-Chemical-Imaging-and-?lang=en

Metals and morphological synaptic plasticity: insights from correlative super resolution and synchrotron imaging

Clotilde Policar (France) https://www.chimie.ens.fr/recherche/laboratoire-lbm/peptides-glycoconjugues-metaux-biologie/people/clotilde-policar/

Imaging metal complexes in cells : from Single Core Multimodal Probes to Metallodrugs

Liliana Quintanar (Mexico)

Metal-induced aggregation of gamma-crystallins: Insights into the

bioinorganic chemistry of cataract disease

Nigel Robinson (United Kingdom) https://www.dur.ac.uk/chemistry/staff/profile/?id=9147

How cells help proteins to acquire the correct metals: Free energies of metalation

Michael Sperling (Germany) 
https://www.uni-muenster.de/Chemie.ac/en/karst/group/sperling.html

Elemental bioimaging and speciation analysis to track gadolinium retention from MRI contrast agents in the body

 Blockhuys Stephanie  (Sweden) Pernilla Wittung Stafshede
https://www.chalmers.se/en/departments/bio/research/chemical_biology/Wittung-Stafshede-Lab/

 New role of copper protein in cancer

Aixin Yan (Hong Kong) http://www.hku.hk/biosch/staff/ay/index.html

Cross-talk of the zinc, iron, and copper homeostatic pathways