COST Action 850: Publications

WG1 and 2: “Genomics and Symbiotic Interactions between Micro-organisms and their Helminthic or Invertebrate Hosts”, Orthodox Academy of Crete, Kolymbari, Crete, Greece, July 15-17, 2005.

Download: Programme (PDF, 32 KB)

Presentations:

Genomics, Session I, Chair: Dr. Richard ffrench-Constant

• Environmental sensing and comparative genomics in Xenorhabdus spp.
  Steve Forst, USA (Download PDF, 1'866 KB)
• Genomic and post-genomic analysis of Photorhabdus luminescens TT01 strain, an entomopathogenic bacterium.
  Sophie Gaudriault, Eric Duchaud, Anne Lanois, Noel Boemare, and Alain Givaudan, France (Download PDF, 533 KB)
• Insect Wolbachia Genomics
  Siv Andersson, Sweden
• Genomics of the Wolbachia wPip strain from Culex mosquitoes
  Steve Sinkins, United Kingdom (Download PDF, 686 KB)
• Insight into the mechanism of Wolbachia wVul genome evolution in feminized Isopoda Armadillidium vulgare
  Lanming Chen, Denmark
• A genome sequence survey of the Wolbachia symbiont of the filarial nematode Onchocerca volvulus (wOvo): coevolution, gene transfer, and the origin of arthropod Wolbachia"
  Mark Blaxter, K. Fenn, C. Whitton, M. Jones and J. Parkhill, United Kingdom
• Evolutionary genomics of Buchnera aphidicola
  Andres Moya, Spain (Download PDF, 1'682 KB)
• The extra-chromosomal DNA of Sodalis glossinidius
  Alistair Darby, United Kingdom (Download PDF, 945 KB)
• Sodalis Symbiosis Islands
  Simon Young, United Kingdom (Download PDF, 800 KB)

Invertebrate-Symbiont Interactions, Session II, Chair: Dr. Ralf-Udo Ehlers

• How to make caterpillars small or floppy
  Richard ffrench-Constant, United Kingdom (Download PDF, 6'689 KB)
• Nutrition and signal exchange between Photorhabdus and its invertebrate hosts
  David Clarke, United Kingdom (Download PDF, 939 KB)
• Stages of infection and virulence gene expression during the interaction between Photorhabdus and insect hosts.
  Alain Givaudan, Sylvie Pagès, Karine Brugirard-Ricaud, Robert Zumbihl, and Michel Brehélin, France (Download PDF, 1'876 KB)
• They've got a ticket to ride: molecular mechanisms of Xenorhabdus nematophila colonization of Steinernema carpocapsae nematodes
  Goodrich Blair, USA (Download PDF, 1'220 KB)
• The endosymbiosis of Blochmannia with carpenter ants
  Roy Gross, Germany (Download PDF, 20'514 KB)
• Rapid coevolution between Daphnia and its microparasites
  Dieter Ebert, Switzerland

Symbiosis Research and EU funding, Session III, Chair: Dr. Siv Andersson and Dr. Andres Moya

• Open discussion about funding opportunities in the frame of the current framework EU Framework 6 (Resubmission of EuroSym?) and the next, EU Framework 7.

Invertebrate-Symbiont Interactions, Session IV, Chair: Dr. David Clarke

• Incompatible Insect Technique: a novel and environmentally friendly technology for insect pest population control
  Kostas Bourtzis and Sofia Zabalou, Greece (Download PDF, 1'615 KB)
• Wolbachia infecting worker ants: What is a reproductive endoparasite doing inside a sterile host
  David Hughes, Finland (Download PDF, 2'332 KB)
• Micromalthus debilis, endosymbionts and life history traits
  Henk Braig, United Kingdom
• From cockroaches to filarial nematodes: an ultrastructural journey in symbiosis
  Claudio Bandi, Italy
• Intramitochondrial symbionts in the tick Ixodes ricinus
  Nathan Lo, Italy (Download PDF, 2'835 KB)
• Cell biology studies on host-Wolbachia interactions
  Elena Kiseleva, Russia (Download PDF, 4'089 KB)
• Wolbachia effects on Drosophila melanogaster: longevity, male success, fitness
  Irina Goryacheva, Russia (Download PDF, 2'381 KB)
• Whitefly symbionts
  Yuval Gottlieb, Israel
• Rickettsia as secondary symbionts of insects
  Einat Zchori-Fein, Israel