EUROPEAN WORKSHOP ON BACTERIAL PROTEIN TOXINS
June 29 - July 3, 2025, Scientific Programme
All times are central Europe summer time (GMT+2)
Day 1, Sunday afternoon, June 29, 2025
| 15:00 – 17.45 | Arrival, Registration and Check-in
| 17.45 – 18.00 | Welcome address
| 18.00 – 19.00 | Keynote Lecture: Víctor Torres, St. Jude Children's Research Hospital, USA. TBA
| 19.00 – 22:00 | Drinks, Dinner & Social at Hotel ARANTZAZU
Day 2, Monday morning, June 30, 2025
Session 1 - Mechanism of Exotoxins I
Chair: TBA
| 9.00 – 9.30 | Jorge E. Galán, Yale School of Medicine. Typhoid toxin and the pathogenesis of typhoid fever.
| 9.30 – 9.45 | Selected from abstracts
| 9.45 – 10.15 | Armelle M. Menard, Université de Bordeaux: TBA
| 10.15 – 10:45 | Coffee Break
| 10.45 – 11.15 | Nuno dos Santos, i3S - Instituto de Investigação e Inovação em Saúde, Universidade do Porto, Portugal. TBA
| 11.15 – 11.30 | Selected from abstracts
| 11.30 – 11.45 | Selected from abstracts
| 11.45 – 12.30 | Flash Poster Presentation (even numbers)
| 12:30 – 14:30 | Standing lunch & Poster session 1 at ArantzazuLAB
Day 2, Monday afternoon, June 30, 2025
Session 2 - T3SS/T4SS-dependent effectors and toxins
Chair: TBA
| 15.00 - 15.30 | Samuel Wagner, Tübingen University, Germany. TBA
| 15.30 – 15.45 | Selected from abstracts
| 15.45 – 16.15 | Elizabeth L. Hartland, Hudson Institute of Medical Research, Australia. TBA
| 16.15 – 16.45 | Coffee Break
| 16.45 – 17.15 | Gabriel J. Waksman, Queen Mary University of London, UK. TBA
| 17.15 – 17.30 | Selected from abstracts
| 17.30 – 17.45 | Selected from abstracts
| 17.45 – 18.15 | Leo Eberl, University of Zurich, Switzerland. TBA
| 19:00 | Standing Dinner & Social at ArantzazuLAB
Day 3, Tuesday morning, July 1, 2025
Session 3 - T6SS-dependent effectors and toxins
Chair: TBA
| 9.00 – 9.30 | Eric Cascales, Laboratoire d'Ingénierie des Systèmes Macromoléculaires, France. TBA
| 9.30 – 9.45 | Selected from abstracts
| 9.45 – 10.15 | Dor Salomon, Tel Aviv University, Israel. A bipartite T6SS delivery domain defines a new class of peptidoglycan-targeting effectors
| 10.15 – 10:45 | Coffee Break
| 10.45 – 11.15 | Alain Filloux, Nanyang Technological University, Singapore. TBA
| 11.15 – 11.30 | Selected from abstracts
| 11.30 – 12.00 | Sarah Coulthurst, University of Dundee, UK | Diverse antimicrobial effectors delivered by the Type VI secretion system of Serratia marcescens
| 12.00 – 12.45 | Flash Poster Presentations (odd numbers)
| 12:45 – 14:45 | Standing lunch & Poster session 2 at ArantzazuLAB
Day 3, Tuesday afternoon, July 1, 2025
Session 4 - Exotoxins II
Chair: TBA
| 15.00 - 15.30 | Karla Satchell, Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine, USA. MARTX toxin surface Interactions and signal collisions during cell intoxication
| 15.30 – 15.45 | Selected from abstracts
| 15.45 – 16.15 | Carmen Amaro, Dr Moliner Hospital, Spain. Vibrio vulnificus MARTX toxin in animal septicaemia
| 16.15 – 16.45 | Coffee Break
| 16.45 – 17.15 | Peter Sebo, Academy of Sciences of the Czech Republic. TBA
| 17.15 – 17.30 | Selected from abstract
| 17.30 – 17.45 | Selected from abstract
| 17.45 – 18.15 | Sun Nyunt Wai, Umeå University, Sweden. TBA
| 19:00 | Dinner & Social at Hotel ARANTZAZU
Day 4, Wednesday morning, July 2, 2025
Session 5 - Toxin anti-toxin systems
Chair: TBA
| 9.00 – 9.30 | Sophie Helaine, Harvard Medical School, USA. Role of toxins in Salmonella persistence during infection
| 9.30 – 9.45 | Selected from abstract
| 9.45 – 10.00 | Selected from abstract
| 10.00 – 10.15 | Selected from abstract
| 10.15 – 10.45 | Coffee Break
Session 6 - T5SS-dependent toxins
Chair: TBA
| 10.45 – 11.15 | Peggy Cotter, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, USA. TBA
| 11.15 – 11.30 | Selected from abstract
| 11.30 – 11.45 | Selected from abstract
| 11.45 – 12.00 | Selected from abstract
| 12.30 – 13:30 | Lunch at Hotel SINDIKA
Day 4, Wednesday afternoon, July 2, 2025
| 15:00 | Group activities
| 20:00 | ETOX 2025 closing dinner
Day 5, Thursday morning, July 3, 2025
| 9.30 – 10.30 | Keynote Lecture: Denise Monack, Stanford University School of Medicine, USA. Salmonella-Host Interactions
| 10.30 – 11.00 | Coffee Break
Session 7 - T7SS-dependent toxins
Chairs: TBA
| 11.00 – 11.30 | Tracy Palmer, Newcastle University, UK. Antibacterial toxin substrates of the type VII secretion system
| 11:30 – 11.45 | Selected from abstracts
| 11.45 – 12.00 | Selected from abstracts
| 12.00 – 12.15 | ETOX 2027 announcement and Close from Organisers
| 12:30 – 13:30 | Lunch
| 14.30 | Buses depart