Joint conference for terrestrial and marine microbiology

Schedule 2025

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Schedule for It Ma(t)Ters 2025

Monday, 12.05.2025

14:00 – 14:30 Welcome and introductions by managing director and It-matters organization committee
14:45 – 15:25 Keynote 1: Matthias Fischer
15:30 – 16:10  Research Talks 1

15:30 – Louison Nicolas-Asselineau: From parasites to endosymbionts: a hypothetical evolutionary model of respiratory endosymbioses


15:50 – Frederik Schmidt: The iron nitrogenase reduces carbon dioxide to feedstock chemicals – unlocking new pathways for biological carbon capture and conversion
16:10 – 16:30 Coffee  break
16:30 – 17:10

Research Talks 2

16:30 – Nicole Von Possel: Understanding the role and diversity of specialized bacteria associated with brown algae 


16:50 – Giuseppe Peyroche: Tetrahydrofolate (H4F) increases the yield of methyl-groups from mineral-assisted CO2 and H2 fixation Name
17:10 Start up talks  
18:00 – 19:00 Dinner break
19:00 Poster Session I: Even numbers
20:00 Table Tennis and Board games

Tuesday, 13.05.2025

 

09:15 – 10:00 Keynote 2: Adrian Bunzel
10:10 – 10:50

Research Talks 3

10:10 – Dr. Ananda Sanches-Medeiros: A two-dimensional SortSeq analysis to unravel the regulation of a complex promoter region in Escherichia coli


10:30 – Hailey-Hannah Cottet: Endophytic N2-Fixing Vibrio Sp. Co-Occur With Recently Discovered Seagrass Root Symbiont 
10:50 – 11:10 Coffee Break
11:10 – 11:50 Research Talks 4

11:10 – Sebastian Silva Solar:  Tracking microbial community shifts in a sand microcosm experiment


11:30 – Franziska Otto: Allosteric Enhancement of Rubisco Catalysis through Engineered Small Subunits and Synthetic Interface Binders 
12:00 – 13:00 Lunch Break
13:00 – 15:00 Core facilities
15:00 – 15:40 Keynote 3: Judith Klatt
15:45 – 16:25

Research Talks 5

15:45 – Dr. Niels Oehlmann 


16:05 – Nicolas Schröder: Letting your guard down: Convergent transitions from ecto- to endosymbiotic lifestyles repeatedly caused the loss of defense mechanisms in chemosymbiotic Ca. Thiosymbion
16:25 – 16:45 Coffee Break
16:45 – 17:05

Research Talks 6

16:45 – Xuanlin Chen: A Saturable Incoherent Feedforward Loop Generates Ultrasensitive c-di-GMP Dynamics in Escherichia coli 
17:15  Group picture 
18:00 Dinner break
19:00  Poster session II: Odd numbers
20:30 Marburg Old Town

 

Wednesday, 14.05.2025

 

9:30 – 10:15 Keynote 4: Leanid Laganenka
10:15 – 10:45 Coffee breake
10:45 – 11:30 BioSpring
11:30 – 12:00 CSL Behring: DSP Process Development and Optimization for recombinant Biotherapies – Lab automation and model assisted approaches
12:15 – 13:00 Lunch Break
13:00 – 14:00 Open scientific discussion + closing remarks