BioMicroWorld2009 CONFERENCE PROGRAM OUTLINE

The conference presentations will start on Wednesday 2 December at 11:00 AM, although there will be a registration period from 9:00 to 11:00 AM. The Conference will finish on Friday 4 December around 7:00 PM. In any case, attendees will be able to register at the secretariat desk placed in HALL1 at any time during the conference.

Oral presentations will take place according to the following general structure in two different halls:

• HALL1: Auditorium building of the Faculty of Dentistry – University of Lisbon (Auditório da Faculdade de Medicina Dentária – Universidade de Lisboa) • HALL2: ISCTE -Lisbon University Institute (Instituto Superior de Ciências do Trabalho e da Empresa)

ORAL PRESENTATIONS SCHEDULE WEDNESDAY, 2 DECEMBER 2009 THURSDAY, 3 DECEMBER 2009 FRIDAY, 4 DECEMBER 2009

HALL 1 HALL 2 HALL 1 HALL 2 HALL 1 HALL 2

Morning &

Afternoon

Environmental, Marine, Water Microbiology

Agriculture, Soil, Forest

Microbiology

Bioremediation

Biofilms

Physiology,

Metabolism and Gene Expression

LUNCH BREAK (IN HALL1)

Afternoon &

Evening

Environmental, Marine,

Water Microbiology.

Agriculture, Soil, Forest Microbiology

Biotechnologically Relevant Enzymes and Proteins

Microbial Production of Chemicals

and Pharmaceuticals

Industrial Microbiology

Food Microbiology

Industrial Microbiology

Bioremediation

Biofilms

Methods

Physiology, Metabolism and Gene Expression

CONFERENCE CLOSING FAREWELL COCKTAIL

There will be 5 poster sessions, in HALL1 (Auditorium building of the Faculty of Dentistry – University of Lisbon (Auditório da Faculdade de Medicina Dentária – Universidade de Lisboa)), according the following schedule:

POSTER PRESENTATIONS SCHEDULE Day Time Sessions

Wednesday, 2 December From 16:30 to 18:00 • Environmental, Marine, Water Microbiology. • Biotechnologically Relevant Enzymes and Proteins. • Microbial Production of Chemicals and Pharmaceuticals.

Thursday, 3 December

From 10:45 to 11:30 • Agriculture, Soil, Forest Microbiology. • Food Microbiology. • Bioremediation. From 17:00 to 17:45

Friday, 4 December

From 10:45 to 11:30 • Industrial Microbiology. • Methods. • Medical & Pharmaceutical Microbiology. • Physiology, Metabolism, Gene Expression. • Biofilms.

From 17:00 to 17:45

Poster presenters have to check the session(s) in which their poster has been allocated. Posters are expected to be posted during the whole day assigned from 9:00 AM to 19:00 PM (approximately). Presenters are expected to be available for discussion of their posters during the corresponding sessions. Please also check the code given to your poster: the letter of your poster code gives you the day in which your poster should be posted, and the number indicates which panel you should stick your poster to (e.g. T-32 stands for that the poster is expected to be presented on Thursday (T), and on the panel number 32 (32))

BioMicroWorld2009 Scientific Program

WEDNESDAY, DECEMBER 2 (HALL 1) – ORAL PROGRAM Environmental, Marine, Water Microbiology.

Agriculture, Soil, Forest Microbiology.

9:00-11:00 REGISTRATION & COFFEE (Registration can also be done at any time during the Conference)

Chair: Dr. Florence Ploetze

11:00-12:00

PLENARY LECTURE “Microbial Adaptation to Toxic Organic Solvents– Mechanisms and Biotechnological Applications” Hermann Heipieper, Helmholtz Centre for Environmental Research – UFZ, Germany

12:00-12:15 From pure cultures to bacterial communities: Interaction of Microarrays and Next Generation Sequencing (NGS) Christine Klockow

12:15-12:30 Gene expression during long term survival of Escherichia coli O157:H7 in soil and water Christian P. Chauret

12:30-12:45 Bacterial Trade-off between Antibiotic Resistance and Biological Fitness Woojun Park

12:45-13:00 Prokaryote-Virus Coexistence Model in the Deep Ocean Katsuyuki Inoue

13:00-13:15 Identification of hepatotoxic cyanobacteria in the environment Anne Ylinen

13:15-13:30 Bacterial sulfate reduction in the oxic zone of acidic gold mine tailings contaminated with arsenic and other metals Olga Karnachuk, Olga Butorova

13:30-14:45 LUNCH BREAK (IN HALL 1)

Chair: Dr. Hermann Heipieper

14:45-15:00 The diversity and distribution of sulfate reducing microorganisms in a high-temperature oil reservoir Ketil Bernt Sørensen, Aaron Marc Saunders

15:00-15:15 Isolation of high performance indigenous microbial consortia from highly acidic acid mine drainages contaminated soils Maria de Fátima A. Alexandrino Fernandes

15:15-15:30 Desulfurization of Crude Oil by Rhodococcus erythropolis cells Isabel Filipa Ferreira

15:30-15:45 Pepton hydrolysates of silver carp (Hypophthalmichthys molitrix) head as a nitrogen source for Aeromonas salmonicida and optimization using Central Composite Design (CCD) and Response Surface Method (RSM) Reza Safari, Saeidi Asl

15:45-16:00 Isolation of Dunaliella salina (Volvocales, Chlorophyta) and its growth characteristics Rathinam Raja

16:00-16:15 Environmental impact on Rhizobium sp. cells Radha Bhattacharya

16:15-16:30 Impacts of Metal Nanoparticles on Leaf Litter Decomposition by Aquatic Fungi Arunava Pradhan, Cláudia Pascoal

16:30-18:00 POSTER SESSION & COFFEE BREAK (IN HALL 1)

Chair: Dr. Petr Baldrian

18:00-18:15 Effect of in vivo passage on germination and virulence of entomopathogenic fungi, Verticillium lecanii Ali Derakhshan

18:15-18:30 Genetic and Functional Diversity among phosphate-solubilizing bacteria from pea rhizosphere in the cold deserts of the Indian trans-Himalayas Arvind Gulati

18:30-18:45 The role of fungi in the decomposition processes in forest soils Petr Baldrian

18:45-19:00 Bacteria in salt-marsh sediments: Influence of plant colonization on abundance, physiological diversity and heterotrophic activity (Ria de Aveiro, Portugal) Vanessa Jesus Oliveira

19:00-19:15

Colonization pattern of Methylobacterium suomiense CBMB120 isolated from rhizosphere of and its effect on red pepper growth under green house condition to optimize efficiency of organic manure and lime management Tongmin Sa

19:15-19:30 Characterization of plant growth promoting traits of Methylobacterium oryzae CBMB20 isolated from rice and its effect in efficient use of organic manure for higher yield and growth promotion of red pepper Tongmin Sa

19:30-19:45 Effects of drought stress and arbuscular mycorrhiza on maize (Zea mays L.) growth characteristics. Ahmad Gholami

WEDNESDAY, DECEMBER 2 (HALL 2) – ORAL PROGRAM

Biotechnologically Relevant Enzymes and Proteins. Microbial Production of Chemicals and Pharmaceuticals.

Industrial Microbiology.

Chair: Dr. Matti T. Karp

14:45-15:00 Biotechnological potential of extracellular peroxidases from Streptomyces albus Andrew Ball

15:00-15:15 Production and characterization of thermostable phytase from Bacillus strain isolated from rhizosphere of Acacia cyanophylla Lindley Hasan Umit Ozturk

15:15-15:30 Engineering novel DNA binding specificity in Type II restriction endonucleases.

Richard D. Morgan

15:30-15:45 beta-glucosidase and alfa-rhamnosidase of naringinase immobilized on sol-gel matrices: activity and stability studies in ionic liquids Helder Vila-Real

15:45-16:00 A novel epoxide antibiotic isolated from Pantoea agglomerans 48b/90 inhibits economically important plant pathogens and the human pathogen Candida albicans Ulrike Sammer

16:00-16:15 Isolation and antimicrobial activity of Streptomyces tubercidicus against pathogenic bacteria and fungi Cristina Paiva Sousa

16:15-16:30 Synthesis of cellulases and xylanases from mutant PR-22 of Cellulomonas flavigena under catabolic repression conditions. Oscar A. Rojas-Rejón

16:30-18:00 POSTER SESSION & COFFEE BREAK (IN HALL 1)

Chair: Dr. Kaarina Sivonen

18:00-18:15 Microbial production of lactate-based polyesters Ken’ichiro Matsumoto

18:15-18:30 Hydrogen Production from Glycerol using Halophilic Fermentative Bacteria Matti T. Karp

18:30-18:45 Kinetic and metabolic characterization of a mezcal-mash-isolated yeast growing in sugarcane bagasse hydrolysates for ethanol production. Oscar A. Rojas-Rejón

18:45-19:00 Improving bioethanol production by Saccharomyces cerevisae strains, using agro-industrial by-products Maria Emília Lima-Costa, Catarina Sousa Tavares

19:00-19:15 From in silico to in vitro: Modelling and production of Trichoderma reesei endoglucanase 1 mutants in Pichia pastoris for textile biofinishing Gunseli Bayram Akcapinar

19:15-19:30 Ethanol fermentation of Carob pods extract by “Zymomonas mobilis” bacteria Seyed Abbas Shojaosadati

19:30-19:45 Relations between methanol methabolism pathway enzymes and β-galactosidase activities during a fed-batch fermentation of Pichia pastoris Seyed Abbas Shojaosadati

THURSDAY, DECEMBER 3 (HALL 1) – ORAL PROGRAM

Agriculture, Soil, Forest Microbiology (continuation). Food Microbiology.

Industrial Microbiology.

Chair: Dr. Juan José Valdez Alarcón

09:00-10:00

PLENARY LECTURE "Antibodies from Bacteria" Stefan Dübel, Institute for Biochemistry and Biotechnology, Technical University of Braunschweig, Germany

10:00-10:15 Study on the effect of Nitrogen, Glucose and Plant residues on soil microbial C Shahin Shahsavani

10:15-10:30 Application of Bdellovibrio-and-like organisms (BALOs) in integrated pest management Lóránt Hatvani

10:30-10:45

10:45-11:30 POSTER SESSION & COFFEE BREAK (IN HALL 1)

11:30-11:45 Leaching of pathogens from manure to drainage water – assayed using classic and DNA/mRNA based methods Carsten Suhr Jacobsen

11:45-12:00 Modeling of nitrogen leaching by using urea fertilizer in sandy loam soil Khalil Ajdary

12:00-12:15 Design of xanthomonads-specific molecular markers using CUPID and Insignia Pedro Miguel da Silva Albuquerque

12:15-12:30 Auto-inducing peptides, comC, D, and E, in a ruminal bacterium, Streptococcus bovis Narito Asanuma

12:30-12:45 Differences Between Microbial Communities in Worm Guts and the Soils They Inhabit Robert M Simpson

12:45-13:00 Associations between rumen microbes and cattle feed efficiency Leluo Guan

13:00-13:15 16S Ribosomal Ribonucleic Acid Analysis of Pathogenicity in Autothermal Thermophilic Aerobic Digestion Treated Swine Manure Shankar Congeevaram

13:15-13:30 Auxin-induced recovery of phytoplasma-infected periwinkle Mirna Ćurković Perica

13:30-14:45 LUNCH BREAK (IN HALL 1)

Chair: Dr. Anil Kumar Puniya

14:45-15:00 Supercritical fluids for pasteurization - on-line investigation of the inactivation mechanisms Claudio Cinquemani

15:00-15:15 Development and Evaluation of a Real–Time Quantitative PCR Assay for Detection and Enumeration of Pathogenic Yeast in Dairy Products Hiroshi Makino

15:15-15:30 Detection and Characterization of Pathogenic Vibrios in Seafood by a PCR-LDR-Universal Array Approach. Alessia Cariani

15:30-15:45 An assessment of the microbial diversity present in water from three Parisian surface water treatment plants Jean-Baptiste Poitelon

15:45-16:00 Heterogeneity of heat resistant proteases from milk spoiling Pseudomonas spp. Sophie Marchand

16:00-16:15 Discrimination of bacteria using optic fiber-based in situ synchronous fluorescence spectroscopy of colonies Leriche Françoise

16:15-16:30 Aspects of the regulatory mechanisms in the Alkali-Tolerance Response (AlTR) in Listeria monocytogenes Efstathios S Giotis

16:30-16:45 Spatial distribution of bacterial colonies in a model cheese Sophie Jeanson

17:00-17:45 POSTER SESSION & COFFEE BREAK (IN HALL 1)

Chair: Dr. James Gomes

17:45-18:00 Effect of the inoculum characteristics on the first stages of a growing yeast population in beer fermentations by means of an Individual-based Model Marta Ginovart

18:00-18:15 Heat stress adaptation of Escherichia coli under dynamic conditions: effect of inoculum size and heating rate Jan F. Van Impe

18:15-18:30 Interactions between Saccharomyces cerevisiae and non-Saccharomyces wine-related strains: inhibitory activity of small peptides produced by S. cerevisiae CCMI 885 Helena Albergaria, Diana Francisco

18:30-18:45 Glucosidases of Lactobacillus brevis and Oenococcus oeni for aroma release in wine Herbert Michlmayr, Nuno M. Barreira Braz da Silva

18:45-19:00 Scale-up of a Solid-State Bioconversion Process for Lovastatin Production in a 1200 Liter Reactor James Gomes, Sanjay Kumar

19:00-19:15 Amino acid uptake profiling of Streptomyces lividans batch fermentations Pieter-Jan D'Huys

19:15-19:30 Antimicrobial activity exibiting Baccillus: Screening for the antibiotics and associated genetic studies Shahida Hasnain

19:30-19:45 Separation of catalytically active enzymes through foam fractionation Diana Linke

THURSDAY, DECEMBER 3 (HALL 2) – ORAL PROGRAM Bioremediation.

Chair: Dr. Joonhong Park

11:30-11:45 Complete Dechlorination of Tetrachloroethene and Trichloroethene by Korean Dehalococcoides spp. in a Chloroethene-contaminated Freshwater Sediment Joonhong Park & Jaejin Lee

11:45-12:00 High Throughput Anlaysis of Aromatic Dioxygenase Gene Amplicons from a Tidal Mudflat Using Titanim-Pyrosequencing Joonhong Park

12:00-12:15 Interactions microorganism-salt marsh plants in the presence of Cu and PAHs contamination Ana P. Mucha

12:15-12:30 Preferential utilization of aromatics: modulation of glucose transport proteins in Pseudomonas putida CSV86 Prashant S Phale

12:30-12:45

Influence of predation by flagellates on the bacterial response to crude oil input in unpolluted oligotrophic and chronically oil-polluted mesotrophic Mediterranean sites Caroline Sauret

12:45-13:00 Functional expression and substrate specificity of three ring-hydroxylating dioxygenases from the PAH-degrading strain Mycobacterium 6PY1 Yves Jouanneau

13:00-13:15 Stimulation of polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbon biodegradation by nitrate and sulfate amendment to sediment along a natural salinity gradient Karl Rockne

13:15-13:30 Sustainable remediation of polycylic aromatic hydrocarbon contaminated soils using a two step bioremediation process. Andrew Stephen Ball

13:30-14:45 LUNCH BREAK (IN HALL 1)

Chair: Dr. Karl Rockne

14:45-15:00 The remarkable adaptability of Rhodococcus erythropolis cells Carla C.C.R. de Carvalho

15:00-15:15 Bioremediation of heavy metals through symbiosis between leguminous plant and rhizobium with engineered metallothionein and phytochelatin synthase genes Yoshikatsu Murooka

15:15-15:30

Removal of Heavy Metals in Wastewater Effluents in an Integrated Mode Using Supermacroporous Gels for Enrichment and Biogenic Sulphide for Subsequent Precipitation Linda Önnby

15:30-15:45 Advances on Pentachlorophenol Bioremediation by the Ascomycota fungus Penicillium

19:45-20:00 E. coli under pressure – stress monitoring in large scale protein production Michael Biermann

glandicola Mariana Carvalho

15:45-16:00 Dynamic model of multi-trophic interactions in bioremediation food webs Karl Rockne

16:00-16:15 Microbial biotransformation of fluorinated biphenyls Cormac Murphy

16:15-16:30 Taxonomically distinct ETBE-degrading communities, originated from the same site, are dominated by novel Mesorhizobium and Hydrogenophaga species Martina Kyselková

16:30-16:45 Chlorpyrifos degradation in a biomix of biobed system with allophonic top soil Maria Cristina Diez Jerez

16:45-17:00 Degradation of hydroquinone in Sphingomonas sp. strain TTNP3 Boris Alexander Kolvenbach

17:00-17:45 POSTER SESSION & COFFEE BREAK (IN HALL 1)

Chair: Dr. Carsten Suhr Jacobsen

17:45-18:00 Fungal strains capable to use polyurethane as sole carbon source Araceli Loredo

18:00-18:15 Bioaugmentation of a rotating biological contactor with a bacterial strain able to degrade fluorinated phenols Vânia Sofia de Sousa Bessa

18:15-18:30 Evaluation of toxic compounds effects on aerobic granule activity Anouk Ferreira Duque

18:30-18:45

Spent mushroom substrate from the industrial cultivation of P. ostreatus for discolouring complex chromo-baths for the textile industry: white rot fungi for a sustainable approach to wastewater treatment Simona Di Gregorio

18:45-19:00 Synthetic dye degradation by complex pellets of white-rot fungus Trametes versicolor Sebastian Elgueta Palma

19:00-19:15 Changes in microbial populations over time in an AMD affected field site Martin Reinicke

19:15-19:30 An integrated approach involving chemical and ecotoxicological evaluation of the efficacy of a bioremediation tool based on bioaugmentation with Pseudomonas sp. ADP in soils contaminated with atrazine commercial formulations Cristina A Viegas

19:30-19:45 Novel microbes from East Calcutta Wetland: Implications for environmental sustenance Madhusmita Mishra

FRIDAY, DECEMBER 4 (HALL 1) ORAL PROGRAM Biofilms. Methods.

Chair: Dr. Marcia Nitschke

09:00-10:00 PLENARY LECTURE "Insights into the Biofilm World" Rosário de Oliveira, Department of Biological Engineering, University of Minho, Portugal

10:00-10:15 Confocal analysis of 60 biofilms structure using a microplate based high throughput method. Arnaud Bridier

10:15-10:30 Biocides tolerance and architecture of opportunistic pathogens biofilms using the Calgary device Arnaud Bridier

10:30-10:45 Evaluation of chemical and physical disinfection of process water and the treatment of biofilms in a pilot plant Hans Rediers

10:45-11:30 POSTER SESSION & COFFEE BREAK (IN HALL 1)

11:30-11:45 A comparison between growth and adherence capacity in vitro: a preliminary evidence for pneumococci to exhibit virulence properties best at their mid- and late-log phases of growth Mohd Nasir Mohd Desa

11:45-12:00 Growth Phase-Dependent Regulation of csgD, the Master Regulator of Biofilm Formation: Interplay between Multiple Transcription Factors Akira Ishihama

12:00-12:15 Disruption of Gluconacetobacter diazotrophicus levansucrase encoding gene (lsdA) alters tolerance to abiotic stress, biofilm formation and sugarcane colonization. Juan José Valdez Alarcón

12:15-12:30 Cell-surface hydrophobicity and corrosion characteristics of hydrocarbon degrading bacteria Bacillus cereus ACE2 and Serratia marcescens ACE4 Yen-Peng Ting

12:30-12:45 Differences between clinical and food isolates of Listeria monocytogenes in biofilm formation Joana Silva

12:45-13:00 Effect of tyrosol in Candida species biofilm development Margarida Martins

13:00-13:15 Effect of different synthetic and naturally occurring biocides on bacteria isolated from biofilms of dental unit water: their biofilm forming ability Anjum Nasim Sabri

13:15-13:30 Antibacterial activity of quaternary ammonium monomers in solution and in non leaching coatings Diana Elizabeth Romero Tobar

13:30-14:45 LUNCH BREAK (IN HALL 1)

Chair: Dr. Igor B. Zhulin

14:45-15:00 Motility and biofilm formation ability of isolated vs collection P. aeruginosa: effect of single and combined antimicrobial application Idalina Machado

15:00-15:15 Role of planktonic and sessile extracellular signals on interspecies relationships Susana Lopes

15:15-15:30 Quantification of stone biofilms: incomplete factorial designs for the optimization of phytopigment extraction in dimethyl sulfoxide Iria Fernández-Silva

15:30-15:45 Human pathogens, nosocomial infections, heat-sensitive textile implants and an innovative approach to deal with them Claudio Cinquemani

15:45-16:00 Assessment of physiological heterogeneity of a population in multi-species microbial community by fluorescence techniques Saeid Rezaeinejad

16:00-16:15 A Lovastatin Production Model Possessing Features for Process Control Applications James Gomes

16:15-16:30 Two-dimensional toxicological screening by massive parallel microcultivation in nanoliter fluid segment sequences Johann Michael Köhler

16:30-16:45 Natural product mining by nanoliter-scale cultivation of single actinomycetes spores in a microfluidic system Emerson Zang

16:45-17:00 Unraveling hyphal heterogeneity in Aspergillus niger by genome-wide expression analysis of single hyphae Charissa de Bekker

17:00-17:45 POSTER SESSION & COFFEE BREAK (IN HALL 1)

Chair: Dr. David Baumler

17:45:18:00 Single Live-Bacterial Cell Assay of Promoter Activity and Regulation: Escherichia coli gcl promoter Akira Ishihama

18:00-18:15 Generation of computational metabolic models of three strains of Escherichia coli and growth comparisons in the presence or absence of oxygen David J. Baumler

18:15-18:30 A critical view on a theory coupling cell growth and DNA replication initiation through individual-based modelling Anke Verhulst

18:30-18:45 Quantifying the heterogeneous response of E. coli at temperatures close to the maximum growth temperature Eva Van Derlinden

FRIDAY, DECEMBER 3 (HALL 2) - ORAL PROGRAM

Physiology, Metabolism and Gene Expression.

Chair: Dr. Jan Nešvera

11:30-11:45 A novel method for Direct Cloning of large size gene or gene clusters from genomic DNA by Red/ET recombineering Youming Zhang

11:45-12:00 Structural Instability in Plasmid Vectors for DNA Vaccination Pedro Henrique Couto Oliveira

12:00-12:15 Availability of CO2 concentrating mechanism in extremely haloalkaliphilic cyanobacteria ‘Euhalothece natronophila’ from soda lake Magadi (Kenya) Olga Samylina

12:15-12:30 Regulation of ectoine biosynthesis in halotolerant methanotroph Methylomicrobium alcaliphilum 20Z Valentina Nikolaevna Khmelenina

12:30-12:45 Degradation of the Compatible Solute Ectoine Karin Schwibbert

12:45-13:00 Genetic Transformation of Lignin degrading fungi facilitated by Agrobacterium tumefaciens Ramesh Chander Kuhad

13:00-13:15 Proteome Analysis of the Responses to Phenol Concentration Variations in Moderately Halophilic Bacteria Halomonas sp.MU12 Selim Ceylan

13:15-13:30 Genomic variability of Thiomonas sp. isolated from arsenic-rich environments Florence Arsène-Ploetze

13:30-14:45 LUNCH BREAK (IN HALL 1)

14:45-15:00 Analysis of carbon source and pH-dependent transcriptional regulation of Humicola grisea var. thermoidea lignocellulolytic system Marcio José Poças Fonseca

15:00-15:15 A novel respiratory complex in Desulfovibrio vulgaris Hildenborough Sofia S. Venceslau, Inês A. Cardoso Pereira

15:15-15:30 Dissecting Gene Expression in Micro-Colonies of Aspergillus niger Charissa de Bekker

18:45-19:00 The MiST2 database: a genomics resource on microbial signal transduction Igor B Zhulin

19:00-19:15 Location sites of nucleic acid intercalators in yeast cells: computer-aided fluorescence microscopy study Evgeny Puchkov

19:15-19:30 Experimental investigation and modelling of biofilm growth and hydrodynamic/biomass interaction in a granular bioreactor applied to phenol removal Jean M.F. Martins

Conference Closing – Farewell Cocktail

17:00-17:45 POSTER SESSION & COFFEE BREAK (IN HALL 1)

POSTER SESSION WEDNESDAY, DECEMBER 2 From 16:30-18:00 in HALL 1

Environmental, Marine, Water Microbiology.Biotechnologically Relevant Enzymes and Proteins.

Microbial Production of Chemicals and Pharmaceuticals.Code Title Presenter(s) W1 Aquatic hyphomycetes: what can they tell us about stream ecological

integrity? Veronica Ferreira

W2 Pseudomonas arsenicoxidans sp nov., arsenite-oxidizing strain, isolated Atacama desert

Peter Kaempfer

W3 Comparison of Antibiotic Resistant Staphylococci on Hands of College-aged and Pre-school Aged Students

Elizabeth Katherine Oaks

W4 Comparative analysis of three molecular techniques used in the biodiversity study of a thermomineral spring cyanobacterial mat

Cristian Coman

W5 Isolation of an antibiotic producing bacterium from the Persian Gulf Esmaeil Darabpour W6 Withdrawn W7 Detection of potencially pathogenic yeast on environmental sources

in Portugal Inês Almeida

W8 Protozoan community dynamics in an intermittent feeding and aeration bioreactor

Spyridon Ntougias

W9 Utilization and pretratment of dairy industry wastewater by Candida bombicola for the production of sophorolipids

Achlesh Daverey

W10 Use of hydrolysates from silver carp (Hypophthalmichthys molitrix) head as a peptone for Vibrio anguillarum and optimization using Central Composite Design (CCD) and Response Surface Method (RSM)

Mohammad Reza Saeidi Asl, Reza Safari

W11 Effect of wastewater treatment plant effluent on the coastal waters of Peniche – A preliminary microbiological study

Alexandra Lopes da Cruz

W12 Identification of morphological, biochemical and molecular markers for discriminating among Botryococcus braunii strains belonging to A and B chemical races

Adriana Bica

W13 Factors affecting the Internal Gelation System as immobilization method for the isolation and cultivation of anaerobic microorganisms

Rosa Maria Aragão

W14 Microbial populations and CTX-M1 resistance in Escherichia coli isolated from wastewater treatment bioaerosol

Vladimir Kmet

W15 Morphological and ultrastructural peculiarities of ‘Euhalothece natronophila’ cells under different Ci concentrations

Olga Samylina

W16 A new Bacteroides host strain for the detection of bacteriophages indicating human faecal contamination in water

Melanie Wicki

W17 Dissipatrophic bacteria, which develop in community with xylolytic fungi in the ultrafresh conditions.

Marina Zaychicova

W18 Simultaneous removal of ammonia nitrogen, phenol and formaldehyde from high-concentration wastewaters using an MSCR system

Gholamreza Moussavi

W19 Nitrogen isotope composition of particulate organic matter (POM) in Lake Kinneret, Israel

Ora Hadas

W20 Environmental Significance of Microbial Fuel Cells in the Sediments of the Persian Gulf

Ali Ranginkaman

W21 Functional profile of fungi affecting cultural heritage in archives and Maria Carla Sclocchi

libraries. W22 Characterization of halophilic microorganisms from the Brazilian

Northeast saline soil Mônica Bucciarelli Rodriguez

W23 Chromobacterium sp. from the tropics: detection and diversity of phytase activity

Andrea Nascimento

W24 Isolation, Identification and Comparision of Cyanobacteria from Two Rivers Polluted with Different Chemicals

Meral Yilmaz

W25 Isolation and Characterization of Atrazine and Terbutryn Degrading Microbes from Surface and Subsurface Soil in Finland

Xinxin Liu

W26 Influence of Lead Contamination on Bacterial Community in Pine Forest Soil

Hui Nan Hul

W27 Bioprospection and characterization of endophytic fungi from tropical mangrove forests

Aline Pizzirani-Kleiner

W28 Effect of the ammonium chloride concentration on the mineral medium composition – Biodegradation of phenol by mixed culture

Abdeltif Amrane

W29 Electrochemical process coupled with biological treatment for the removal of a pesticide, phosmet.

Florence Fourcade

W30 Study of photocatalysis as a pre-treatment for azo dyes removal. Florence Fourcade W31 Photocatalysis / biotreatment coupling for the removal of

biorecalcitrant compounds. Yahiat Souhila, Florence Fourcade

W32 Withdrawn W33 Identification of toxic cyanobacteria from environmental samples

based on PCR amplification of a mcyD gene fragment Cristian Coman

W34 Effect of spoil heap waters on Anabaena sp. – possible inhibition of cyanobacteria inoculum in new water body in the brown coal mining basin

Hana Medova

W35 Quantification and microbial toxicity testing of pharmaceuticals in tropical marine sediments, All Saints Bay, Bahia, Brazil

Iara Brandão de Oliveira

W36 The Diversity of Bacteria Associated with Sponges Clathria rugosa and Clathria vulpina

Yogiara Yogiara

W37 Withdrawn W38 Withdrawn W39 Impact of copper on denitrification process and on the microbial

communities involved. Catarina Maria Magalhães

W40 Diversity of marine fungi on substrata collected in sandy beaches on Portuguese western coast

Egidia Azevedo

W41 Withdrawn W42 Role of Catalases in Isolates of Comamonas from a Polluted

Environment Bystrik Polek

W43 Automated detection and quantification of total bacteria in liquid samples based on the MPN method

Marita Preims, Christina Fuchsluger

W44 Simultaneous degradation of atrazine and simazine by Arthrobacter sp and Stenothrophomonas sp., in a packed bed reactor.

Silvia Patricia Galindez Nájera

W45 Structures, activities and biosynthesis of cyanobacterial peptides Kaarina Sivonen W46 Thermophilic Co-Digestion of Cellulose and Microalgal Biomass for

Hydrogen Production Sarah Carver

W47 Hydrolytic biocatalysts isolated from intestinal microbiome in black soldier fly larvae, Hermetia illucens

Chang-Muk Lee

W48 Degradation of 2,4-dichlorofenoxiacetic acid (2,4-D) by a microbial Nora Ruiz Ordaz

community in a packed bed column reactor (PBCR) W49 The role of fungi in the oxalate-carbonate pathway Mateo Guggiari W50 Fungi – bacteria interactions in the oxalate carbonate pathway: an

approach using microcosms Gaëtan Martin

W51 Influence of the fungicide Benomyl and ecophysiological factors on growth rate of the fumonsin-producing Fusarium verticillioides and Fusarium proliferatum from Spanish maize

María Teresa González-Jaén

W52 Comparison of experimental methods for determination of toxicity and biodegradability of xenobiotic compounds

Alicia M. Polo

W53 Biodegradation of aromatic amines in a packed bed biofilm reactor Nora Ruiz Ordaz W54 Effect of a respiratory inhibitor on the bioconversion of a xenobiotic

by activated sludge Ana Maria Tavares Mata

W55 Bioeffects and biotransformation of selenate in Chlorella sorokiniana.

Ines Garbayo

W56 Morphological changes induced by iron in Chlamydomonas acidophila.

Ines Garbayo

W57 Procaryotic biodiversity in anaerobic digester treating municipal solid waste

Andrea Nascimento

W58 The Bacterial Consortium Alleviated a Low-dose Gamma-Irradiation in Kalanchoe Plantlets

Leonid Ovcharenko

W59 INDISIM-SOM: an individual-based simulator on a website for experimenting and investigating diverse dynamics of Carbon and Nitrogen in mineral soils

Anna Gras Moreu

W60 Archaea from Algerian Hypersaline Environments producing Archaeocins

Sylvie Rebuffat, Nacera Imadalou-Idres

W61 Haloalkaliphiles bacteria isolated from a saline soda environment from central Mexico.

Ninfa Ramírez Durán

W62 Isolation of the extreme halophiles from rock salt Keiko Watanabe W63 Enrichment of Polyphosphate Accumulating Organisms in

Accumulibacter Clade I: affinity for nitrate, nitrite and oxygen Paulo Costa Lemos

W64 Withdrawn W65 Responses of aquatic microbial decomposers to inorganic nutrients

in a warming scenario Cláudia Pascoal, Isabel Fernandes

W66 In vitro methane reduction through bacteriocins of rumen isolates Sanjay Kumar W67 Detoxification of Olive Mill Wastewaters Using a Packed-Bed Batch

Reactor Susana M. Paixão Alves

W68 Bioconversion of the residue from cachaça production (vinasse) into Saccharomyces and Candida biomass

Cristina Ferreira Silva

W69 Isolation of bacteriophage-host pairs from marine sediments Magdalena Jakubowska W70 Diversity of bacteriophages and their hosts in the marine sediments:

the combined approach using metagenomics and electron microscopy

Magdalena Jakubowska, Borys Wróbel

W71 Assessing the viral pollution in Korean water environments by using Integrated cell culture-PCR and real-time PCR

Sang Jong Kim, Sung Won Song

W72 Withdrawn W73 Extraction of nucleic acids from trichloroethene (TCE) degrading

bacteria in extremely clayey groundwater sediments Jacob Bælum

W74 Influence of the heavy metals on chitosan production by Absidia corymbifera UCP 0134

Antonio Cardoso da Silva

W75 Soil Microbes and their Beneficial Roles to Improve the Environmental Quality

Hadi Ghorbani

W76 The effect of sodium selenite and selenate on the quality of lettuce and soil microbiological activity

Laila Dubova

W77 Bactericidal and amoebicidal activities of the free living amoeba Willaertia magna

Dey Rafik, Jacques Bodennec

W78 First data on the growth of marine biofilms dominated by Ostreopsis spp. (Dinophyceae) in microcosm experiments

Roberta Congestri

W79 Microbial Screening from Activated Sludge in Degradation of Dimethyl -Sulfoxide in Airlift Bioreactor

Sin-Yi He

W80 Role of Photochemically-Induced Oxidative Stress in Determining the Biological Effects of UV Radiation in Bacteria

Ana Luísa Mendes dos Santos

W81 Detection of D/N functional genes during a biotreatment of mixed olive oil and winery wastewaters

Ana Eusébio do Rosário

W82 Molecular assessment of microbial community structure and dynamics along mixed olive oil and winery wastewaters biotreatment

Ana Eusébio do Rosário

W83 Formation of macro- and micro-sized copper sulfide particles by pure cultures of metal-resistant sulfate-reducing bacteria

Olga Karnachuk, Olga Butorova

W84 Correlation between growth rate and donor/recipient ability in natural E. coli strains

Sílvia Cristina Martins Mendonça, Ana Maria Gonçalves Reis

W85 Diversity and abundance of bacteria community associated with rhizosediment and un-colonized sediments in salt marshes of two Portuguese estuaries.

Ana Machado

W86 Denitrifiers community abundance, structure and function associated with salt marshes sediments.

Ana Machado

W87 Joint culture of two defined methylotrophic strains for denitrification of ground water with natural gas as carbon source

Mohsen Nosrati

W88 Volatile Fatty Acids Separation by ion exchange chromatography in fixed bed collumn

Anne Caroline Malvestio

W89 Saccharomyces cerevisiae UE-ME3 is a good strain for isoproturon biorremediation?

Rui M. Alves Ferreira, Isabel Alves-Pereira

W90 Vanadium pentoxide: an oxidative stress agent which disturbs glutathione conjugates metabolization in Saccharomyces cerevisiae UE-ME3

Rui M. Alves Ferreira, Isabel Alves-Pereira

W91 Can microbial decomposers of plant litter be used as bioindicators of anthropogenic stress in streams?

Fernanda Cássio, Sofia Alexandra Ferreira Duarte

W92 The role of salinity in shaping inorganic nitrogen and N2O dynamics in estuarine sediments.

Catarina Teixeira

W93 Fungal communities in sediments from streams with contrasting water chemistry

Fernanda Cássio, Sofia Alexandra Ferreira Duarte

W94 Ultrastuctural Behavior of Rhodotorula mucilaginosa Induced by the Growth in Presence of Pyrene

Antonio Cardoso da Silva

W95 Agrobacterium radiobacter / Agrobacterium tumefaciens human isolates form a sub-population distinct from the environmental strains

Estelle Jumas-Bilak

W96 Freeze-thaw pre-lysis may not improve microbial DNA extraction from sponges

Ana Luísa Mendes dos Santos

W97 Yeasts from acidic aquatic environments: towards an ecological understanding

Diego Libkind

W98 Study on efficiency of activated sludge system by using fireclay as sorbent

Ramazan Ali Dianati Tilaki

W99 Estimation of freshwater cyanobacteria primary production with DCMU-fluorescence method

Vladimir Kolmakov

W100 Natural populations of dominant species and laboratory cultures of cyanobacteria: comparative analysis of amino acid composition and putative significance for primary consumers in aqautic environments

Anzhelika Kolmakova

W101 Thermophilic bacteria isolated from a personal-use composting reactor

Keiko Watanabe

W102 Seasonal monitoring of the microbial and physico-chemical quality of two rivers in Durban, South Africa

Balakrishna Pillay

W103 Microbial diversity in a uranium contaminated environment: the Urgeiriça mine (Central Portugal) as a case study

Ana Paula Chung

W104 Production of Prodigiosin for Serratia marcescens in Residues Agro industrials

Adriana Almeida Antunes

W105 Biodegradation of organic mater in lake water in different temperature condition (mesocosms experiment)

Dorota Gorniak

W106 Structure of bacterial consortia in glacier lagoons (King George Island, Antarctica)

Dorota Gorniak, Aleksander Swiatecki

W107 Correlation between PRTF1-F2 and macrolide resistance in Streptococcus pyogenes

Gianna Tempera

W108 Relationships between hydrophobicity and biofilm formation in Streptococcus agalactiae strains

Pio Maria Furneri

Withdrawn W110 Cardiolipin is important for Staphylococcus aureus to sustain the

fitness in the high salinity Melody Tsai

W111 Bacillus popilliae: Detection and Biochemical Characterization of Pectinolytic Activity

Vanessa Vallejo Becerra

W112 Heterologous expression of biotechnologically important enzymes from basidiomycetes

Diana Linke

W113 Bacillus subtilis CwlP in the SP-beta prophage comprises two novel cell wall hydrolase domains

Junichi Sekiguchi

W114 W115 Comparative study of recombinant versus natural hbFGF in survival

and proliferation of primary cultured 3T3 cells Hasan Mirzahoseini

W116 Expression of keratinase gene in Bacillus megaterium using an expression vector of pHIS1525.SPlipA and utilization of the resulting recombinant strain for chicken feather degradation prior to biogas production

Amir Mirabdollah, Saeid Alinezhad

W117 The ratio laccase/Mn peroxidase in solid state cultures of Pleurotus pulmonarius affects the ability to decolourize industrial dyes

Rosane Marina Peralta

W118 Hydrolysis of pretreated bagasse with the thermophilic enzyme mixture of Thermoascus aurantiacus

Adriane Maria Ferreira Milagres

W119 Optimization of growth media for economical β-glucanase production by Bacillus sp.

Naze Gul Avci

W120 Laccase Production by Basidiomycetes Isolated from Forest in Nuevo León, México

Isela Quintero Zapata

W121 Production of Amylases, CMCases, Xylaneses and Ligninolytic Enzymes by White-rot Fungi in Solid and Liquid Fermentation

Katiushka Arevalo Niño

W122 Role of valine residue conserved at extra-sugar binding space in hydrolysis and transglycosylation activities of cyclomaltodextrinase-family enzymes

Myoung-Uoon Jang

W123 Enzymatic properties and expression levels of various chimeric enzymes between barley alpha-amylase isozyme 1 and 2 in E. coli

Tae-Jip Kim

W124 Enzymatic characterization of N-terminally truncated dextransucrase cloned from Leuconostoc citreum HJ-P4

Myoung-Uoon Jang

W125 Enzymatic properties of various hemicellulose-hydrolyzing enzymes cloned from a hyperthermophile of Thermotoga neapolitana

Tae-Jip Kim

W126 Structural characterization of Xylanase II from Trichoderma reesei QM9414.

Angeles Bañares Hidalgo

W127 Structural characterization of the propeptide NH2-terminal of the precursor of pulmonary surfactant protein B (SP-B)

Angeles Bañares Hidalgo

W128 Exploring the biotechnological applications of an halotolerant pH-versatile laccase produced by Streptomyces ipomoea CECT 3341

Manuel Hernández

W129 The NiFeSe hydrogenase from Desulfovibrio vulgaris Hildenborough shows tolerance to oxygen inactivation

Marta C. Marques, Inês A. Cardoso Pereira

W130 Characterization of the optimal conditions for the cultivation of “Cladosporium cladosporioide (Fres.) de Vries” and isolation of the pectinase produced in solid-state conditions

Carlos José Pimenta

W131 Utilization of agroindustrial residues as substrates for production of pectinolytic enzymes by biological agent “G088”.

Carlos José Pimenta

W132 Microbial lipase purification using aqueous two-phase system Álvaro Silva Lima W133 Optimizing the production of biodiesel through the use of pork

pancreatic lipase (PPL) Cristóbal Verdugo Escamilla, Salvador Rodríguez Ortiz

W134 A new lipase-catalyzed biodiesel by response surface methodology using Rhizopus oryzae derived lipase

Cristóbal Verdugo Escamilla, Salvador Rodríguez Ortiz

W135 Production of a new biodiesel by using a low cost lipase derived from Themomyces lanuginosus and a response surface methodology

Enrique Sancho Puebla, Salvador Rodríguez Ortiz

W136 A method for detection of Rhizomucor miehei lipase activity Salvador Rodríguez Ortiz W137 Optimisation of production of therapeutic peptides in Escherichia

coli Oksana Degtjarik, Martina Hladíková

W138 Fed-batch fermentation for heterologous protein production by recombinant Pichia pastoris

Marcela Silvestre Outtes Wanderley

W139 Effect of soy lecithin on the ligninolitic enzymes production by the white-rot fungus Anthracophyllum discolor

Maria Cristina Diez Jerez

W140 Hemicelluloytic and cellulolytic activities in the culture filtrate of Thermoascus aurantiacus ATCC 204492 induced by products of xylan hydrolysis

Adriane Maria Ferreira Milagres

W141 Effect of different carbon sources used for Candida guilliermondii precultivation on Xylose reductase and Xylitol dehydrogenase activities during sugarcane bagasse hemicellulosic hydrolysate fermentation

Priscila Vaz de Arruda, Maria das Graças de Almeida Felipe

W142 DNA sequence-discrimination by PspGI Richard Morgan W143 Lignin degradation by complex pellets of white-rot fungus

Anthracophyllum discolor in airlift reactor Sebastián Elgueta

W144 Phosphoglucosamine mutase GlmM of Streptococcus pneumoniae is activated by endogenous eukaryotic-type protein kinase StkP

Pavel Branny

W145 Bacteriocin Production by Bean Root Bacteria Merih Kivanc W146 Characterization of marine isolates with extracellular protease

production and their commercial application Sumana Das

W147 Biosurfactant Production by Candida pelliculosa and C. sphaerica Isolated from Soil Contaminated with Lead

Galba M. Campos Takaki

W148 Biosurfactant production by Chromobacterium violaceum using alternative sources: corn steep liquor (industrial waste), lactose and corn oil

Adriana Almeida Antunes

W149 Effect of culture conditions on the production of an extracellular protease by a Bacillus sp isolated from soil samples of Tehran park

Leila Jabalameli

W150 Prevention of L-tyrosine by-production and improved performance of an Escherichia coli L-phenylalanine-producing strain using tyrA ssrA-like tagged alleles

Vera Doroshenko

W151 Polyhydroxybutyrate production from cheese whey by recombinant E. coli

Luisa Seuanes Serafim

W152 Development of a carob based medium for mannitol production by Leuconostoc fructosum NRRL B-2041

Florbela Carvalheiro

W153 Biosynthesis of amino acids sulfur in Saccharomyces cerevisiae is affected by fermentation conditions in beer production

Astrid Espino-Vázquez

W154 Chitin and chitosan produced by Mucoralean fungi using a new economic medium- Corn Steep

Thayza C. Montenegro Stamford

W155 Withdrawn W156 Withdrawn W157 Identification and Emulsification Properties of a Biosurfactant

Produced by Bacteria from Soil, Chiang Mai, Thailand Surachai Techaoei

W158 Isolation, phenogenotypic idenfication and bioactivity of endophytic microorganisms intrinsically associated with Miconia albicans in Brazilian tropical savannah tree in Sao Carlos - SP

Cristina Paiva Sousa

W159 Growing kinetics of antimicrobial activity of Streptomyces tubercidicus brute extracts

Cristina Paiva Sousa

W160 Xylitol production from dilute-acid hydrolysis of bean group shells Chizuru Sasaki Sasaki W161 Amine Derivatives of Fungal Monascus Pigment Inhibiting the

Adipogenesis of 3T3-L1 Cells Chul Soo Shin, Sung Hun Youn

W162 High concentration production of L-cysteine from the precursor D,L-ATC using the enzymes of Shinella zoogloeoides

Chul Soo Shin, Sung Hun Youn, Deokyeong Choe

W163 The catalytic potential of bacterial multicomponent monooxygenases ToMO and PH for the synthesis of antioxidants tyrosol and hydroxytyrosol.

Viviana Izzo

W164 Solar UV radiation quality and nitrogen starvation induce changes in the commercial carotenoid profile of a Dunaliella bardawil mutant

Carlos Casal Bejarano

W165 Production of micro-organisms and metabolites for the food industry and agribusiness in a bio-factory in Brazil

Marcelo Cláudio Pereira

W166 Phosphate solubilization of low solubility sources in liquid medium by an isolate of Aspergillus niger

Marcelo Cláudio Pereira

W167 Fermentation of grape marc for production of bioactive phenolic compounds

Cristobal Noe Aguilar

W168 Production of lipids by several marine and freshwater microalgae Rosa León W169 Productivity of Chlorella sorokiniana in a short light-path (SLP)

panel photobioreactor under high irradiance Maria Cuaresma Franco

W170 Enhanced growth and lipid anabolism in iron exposed cultures of Chlamydomonas acidophila isolated from an acidic environment.

Maria Cuaresma Franco

W171 Compared production of lutein-enriched biomass from a new strain of microalgae in differents photobioreactors

Carlos Vilchez

W172 Green microalgae: source for healthy foods, novel biofuels and CO2 abatement

Carlos Vilchez

W173 UV-A mediated modulation of photosynthetic efficiency, xanthophyll cycle and fatty acid production of Nannochloropsis

Carlos Casal Bejarano

W174 Extraction of clavulanic acid in aqueous two-phase systems followed by separation through ultrafiltration

Guilherme Youssef Rodriguez

W175 Use of volatile acids waste in the production of xanthan gum in a culture of Xanthomonas campestris pv campestris - CBMAI 199 (ATCC 33913)

José Alberto Corrêa Leite

W176 Production of mycotoxins Zearalenones and Aflatoxins by selected strains of Fusarium sp. and Aspergilus flavus

Rodrigo Facchini Magnani

W177 Bacillus cereus hemolysin II and its various applications Zhanna Kovalevskaya, Alexander Solonin

POSTER SESSION THURSDAY, DECEMBER 3 From 10:45-11:30, and from 17:00-17:45

Agriculture, Soil, Forest Microbiology. Food Microbiology.

Bioremediation.Code Title Presenter(s) T1 Effect of biofumigation with manure amendments and repeated

biosolarization on Fusarium densities in pepper crops María Ángeles Martínez Francés

T2 Molecular identification of endophytic actinomycetes isolated from Aquilaria crassna Pierre ex Lec and their plant growth promoters substances

Pongrawee Nimnoi

T3 Fungal microbiota from rain water and pathogenicity of the isolated Fusarium species

Daniel Palmero Llamas

T4 Prevalence and Pathogenicity of Airborne Fusarium species in south east coast of Spain

Daniel Palmero Llamas

T5 Fungi and actinomycetes isolated from plant-parasitic nematode infested soils and their biocontrol potential, indole-3-acetic acid and siderophore production

Pornthip Ruanpanun

T6 Glomalin production and microbial activity in soils impacted by gypsum mining in the semi arid of Pernambuco

Adália Mergulhão

T7 Impact of Biological Control Agents on Fusaric acid concentrations in Gladiolus grandiflorus corms Infected with Fusarium oxysporum f. sp. gladioli

Walid Nosir

T8 The efficiency of Trichoderma harzianum and Aneurinobacillus migulanus in the control of Gladiolus corm rot in a soilless culture system

Walid Nosir

T9 Nucleotide Sequence analysis of the fusion protein gene of Newcastle disease viruses isolated from chicken in Iran

Saeed Shateri

T10 Caracterization of soil suppresion to Fusarium wilt Mila Santos T11 Indole-3-acetic acid production by plant associated bacteria: potential

to alter endogenous IAA content and growth of Triticum aestivum L. Basharat Ali

T12 Effect of PGPR with AMF on tomato lycopene and antioxidant content

Kourosh Ordookhani

T13 Endophyte screens from Taiwan native Anoectochilus formosanus Hayata roots.

Li-Sen Young

T14 Erwinia aphidicola on Phaseolus vulgaris and Pisum sativum: a new pathogen in Spain

Mila Santos

T15 Molecular properties and significance of phosphoenolpyruvate carboxykinase in a ruminal bacterium, Streptococcus bovis

Kanada Kazuhiro

T16 Silicate weathering potential of bacteria isolated from different soil profiles

Clarisse Balland

T17 Effects of Pseudomonas , Azotobacter and Azosprillum on tomato potassium content and fruit quality

Kourosh Ordookhani

T18 Polyphenol oxidase in golden chanterelle (Cantharellus cibarius) mushroom

Jacqueline Keyhani

T19 Entomopathogenic fungi to control the cherry fruit fly Rhagoletis cerasi Loew (Diptera: Tephritidae) in Shahrood region, northeast of Iran

Ali Derakhshan

T20 Microbiological and Chemical Properties of Tarhana During Fermentation

Merih Kivanc

T21 Effect of the irrigation by worn water on some physiological and biochemical parameters of the bread wheat (Triticum eastivum L.) in the region of Guelma Algerian East))

Ouahiba Bordjiba, Fatiha Bekhouche

T22 Endophytic bacteria associated with tropical mangrove forests: characterization and biotechnological applications

João Lúcio Azevedo

T23 Potential for biocontrol of Anthonomus grandis using a chitinolytic extract of endophytic Streptomyces sp.

Paulo Teixeira Lacava

T24 Molecular characterization of Fusarium oxysporum f. sp. lycopersici causing wilt of tomato

Maria Luiza Ribeiro Bastos da Silva

T25 Phylogenetic characterization of Beauveria bassiana isolates originated from different insects hosts

Maria do Carmo Catanho

T26 Genetic variation within AMF morphotypes from mycorrhizosphere of plants from undisturbed,industrial and agricultural land :An investigation through LSU rDNA sequencing

Sanjeev Kumar

T27 Temporal variations in soil fungi communities after biosolarization and its repeated use in pepper crops in Southeast Spain

María Ángeles Martínez Francés

T28 Sequencing of the region of ribosomal internal transcribed spacer (ITS) of Metarhizium anisopliae in Pernambuco State

Adália Mergulhão

T29 Nitrifying microorganisms biodiversity in different soils types of the European part of Russia

Anna Cherobaeva

T30 Composted olive mill pomace as organic fertiliser in organic olive oil groves

Roberto Garcia-Ruiz

T31 Some virulence aspects of Pseudomonas syringae pv. syringae strains isolated from mango trees

Víctor José Carrión Bravo, Eva Arrebola Diez

T32 Diversity of endophytic fungal community of Vitis labrusca L. (var. Niagara Rosada) and biological control of Fusarium sp. and Botrytis sp.

João Lúcio Azevedo

T33 Agrobacterium-mediated transformation of the endophytic fungus Penicillium pinophilum associated with sugarcane

Aline Pizzirani-Kleiner

T34 Dairy using kefir grains: production and development Álvaro Silva Lima T35 Production of beer using sorghum and sorghum malt Myriam Elias Santos T36 Microbial analysis of soils from avocado crop modified by organic

amendments Nuria Bonilla

T37 Effect of DFO-B siderophore on lead sorption by Na-montmorillonite Mohsen Hamidpour Badouei

T38 Identification of virulence genes in Fusarium oxysporum f. sp. lycopersici the causal agent of tomato wilt disease

Maria Luiza Ribeiro Bastos da Silva

T39 Polybiotrophy of Serratia marcescens, a causative agent of an onion disease in arid zone of the South of Ukraine

Leonid Ovcharenko

T40 Bacterial community structure in the rhizosphere of three cactus species growing in xerophytic highlands in central Mexico

Hugo C. Ramírez Saad

T41 Evaluation of plant growth promoting and colonization ability of bradyrhizobia isolated from sweet potato.

Yoshinari Ohwaki

T42 Bacterial diversity in the nodules of soybean. Yoshinari Ohwaki T43 The role of plant growth promotion rhizobacteria on sustainable field

crop production Ahmad Gholami

T44 Database construction of Basidiomycetes Genetic Resource using ITS Sakae Horisawa

region T45 Molecular and classical approaches to understand the effect of

wildfires on microbial diversity from Mediterranean forests Mª Enriqueta Arias

T46 Determination of soil microbial community fluctuations by different techniques in a maize field

José Antonio Regodón

T47 Soil bioremediation of atrazine pesticide by two strains of soil microorganism

José Antonio Regodón

T48 Pseudomonas fluorescens S1Pf1Rif increases plant tolerance to chrysanthemum yellows phytoplasma infection (“Candidatus Phytoplasma asteris”)

Chiara Musso

T49 Microbial characterization of a heavy metal polluted soil phytoremediated with Populus euroamericana

Chiara Musso

T50 Pathogenic bacteria can produce exopolysaccharides and use them as carbon source under stress conditions: the case of Erwinia amylovora

Elena González Biosca

T51 Ability of Ralstonia solanacearum phylotype II to adapt to simultaneous stressful conditions of oligotrophy and temperature in water

Elena González Biosca

T52 N2O and N2 emissions from pasture soils differing in pH – does the linkage between the gas fluxes, denitrifying activity and size of the denitrifier community exist?

Jirí Cuhel

T53 Denitrification rate and relative production of denitrification products N2O and N2 are driven differently by proximal and distal control of soil pH

Miloslav Šimek

T54 Population diversity of Cryphonectria parasitica in Croatia Mirna Curkovic-Perica T55 Nematicidal activity of Solanum sisymbriifolium and S. nigrum

extracts against the root-lesion nematode Pratylenchus goodeyi Mónica Rodrigues, Lucília Teixeira, Margarida Correia

T56 Ecology of coarse wood decomposition by the saprotrophic fungus Fomes fomentarius

Petr Baldrian

T57 Evaluation of flow cytometry to assess Erwinia amylovora viability under different stress conditions

Ricardo Delgado Santander

T58 Colonization and migration abilities of Erwinia amylovora in host plants inoculated by irrigation.

Ricardo Delgado Santander

T59 Mycobiota predominant and aflatoxins content in shell and shelled Brazil nuts

Otniel Freitas Silva

T60 Influence of organic and conventional soil tillage system on soil respiration and enzymatic activity

Laila Dubova

T61 The importance of the biomicroworld on macroproduction João Pinto T62 Fiber degrading potential of rumen fungi isolated from cattle Sanjay Kumar T63 Nodulation process and nitrogen fixation effectiveness in field beans

(Vicia faba) Ina Alsiņa

T64 The toxicity and histopathology of Bacillus thuringiensis Cry1Ba toxin to Spodoptera frugiperda (Lepidoptera, Noctuidae)

Lidia Mariana Fiuza

T65 Phenotypic characterization and the application of the rep-PCR technique in a study of new strains of Bacillus thuringiensis in the South of Brazil

Lidia Mariana Fiuza

T66 Biological activity in a soil amended with pulp mill sludge: A field study

Felipe Gallardo Arriagada

T67 Detection of group I and group II introns in a Mexican Bacillus thuringiensis collection

Astrid Espino-Vázquez

T68 Fungal diversity associated to Prays oleae in Trás-os-Montes (Northeastern region of Portugal). A survey of potential entomopathogenic fungi

Ivo Vaz de Oliveira

T69 Effect of preservation methods on Beauveria bassiana viability Ivo Vaz de Oliveira T70 Genetic Variability Analysis of entomopathogenic fungi isolated

from citrus-growing areas of Mexico Isela Quintero-Zapata

T71 Influence of the C:N ratio and pH on ectomycorrhizal fungal growth Paula Baptista T72 Antimicrobial activity of chitosan against Fusarium oxysporum f. sp.

tracheiphilum Thayza C. Montenegro Stamford

T73 Multiple associations involving ectomycorrhizal and endomycorrhizal fungi, nitrogen fixing bacteria and the leguminous species Dimorphandra wilsonii, a threatened species from the Brazilian Cerrado

Maria Rita Scotti

T74 Genetic relationship in the isolates Chromobacterium violaceum by rep-PCR fingerprinting

Maria do Carmo Catanho

T75 Effects of PGPR on tomato plant growth and nutrients uptake Shahram Sharafzadeh T76 Effect of different rhizobia on Pallar (Phaseolus lunatus L.) in the

Valley of Nazca in Peru Doris Zúñiga Dávila

T77 Occurrence of Methicilin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus at a Dairy Farm

Juraj Banykó

T78 Risk characterization of selected contaminants in sewage sludge: microorganisms, total phenols and heavy metals

Aline Alves Barbosa da Silveira

T79 Effect of different rhizospheric bacterias in the growth of Gossypium barbadense L. in Perú

Doris Zúñiga Dávila

T80 Characterization of rhizospheric bacteria isolated from maca (Lepidium meyenii W.) in the highlands of Junin-Peru

Doris Zúñiga Dávila

T81 Bio-Organic Fertilizers an Essential Alternative to Harmful Chemical Sources

Hadi Ghorbani

T82 Microbiological Changes in Cheese of Algarvian Goat Breed during Ripening

Isabel Ratão

T83 Betalactam resistance in food Escherichia coli isolated from broilers Vladimir Kmet T84 Bacteriocin production by Lactobacillus ssp.V69 and some aspects of

its mode of action against Listeria monocytogenes ScottA Vanessa Biscola

T85 Fusarium spp. occurrence in feeds and cereal grains (Portugal-2007) Inês Almeida T86 Isolation and characterization of cysteine biosynthetic gene in

Lactobacillus casei encoding cysteine lyase and synthase activity Biljana Bogicevic

T87 Characterization of Bacillus bacteriophage isolated from the fermented soybean,chungkookjang

Young Nam Lee

T88 Application of Quantitative RT-PCR in expression study of the ammonium and hexose transporters during the rehydration of Saccharomyces cerevisiae in active dried form

Enrico Vaudano, Antonella Costantini

T89 Molecular identification of yeast species associated with green table olive production

Joaquín Bautista Gallego

T90 Bacteriophage contamination and fermentation of Natto by Bacillus subtilis (natto) –Study of phage related key enzyme that spoils sticky texture of natto-

Keitarou Kimura

T91 Optimization of honey-musts alcoholic fermentation to obtain high quality mead

António Inês Virgílio Falco

T92 Chitosan Matrices as Carriers for the Delivery of Natural Volatile Laura Higueras Contreras,

Antimicrobials Gracia Mª López-Carballo T93 Antimicrobial Properties of Nanostructured Chitosan-Silver

Membranes Laura Higueras Contreras, Gracia Mª López-Carballo

T94 Detection and antibiotic susceptibility of coliform bacteria in fresh vegetables

María Pilar Falomir

T95 Host responses to Saccharomyces cerevisiae isolates: new criteria to select safe strains

María Pilar Falomir

T96 Antimicrobial and physical and mechanical properties of composite whey protein and starch edible films

Seyed Hadi Razavi

T97 Inability to resuscitate viable-but-nonculturable cells of Escherichia coli and Listeria monocytogenes

Daniela Pinto

T98 Biofertilization and phytostimulation in wheat by cyanobacteria Basharat Ali T99 Presence of Arcobacter spp. contamination in fresh lettuces for

human consumption Ana González Pellicer

T100 Antimicrobial activity of rhamnolipids from P. aeruginosa PAO1 against L. monocytogenes

Marcia Nitschke

T101 Effect of the characteristics of the winery in the ecology and biodiversity of Saccharomyces in two vine-growing areas in Andalusia (Southern Spain)

Patricia Paneque Macías

T102 Preliminary selection of autochthonous Saccharomyces strains from Ronda (Malaga, Southern Spain) based on their oenological characteristics

Patricia Paneque Macías

T103 Molecular characterization and biodiversity of Saccharomyces cerevisiae in spontanous fermentation in D. O. “Condado de Huelva“ (Southern Spain)

Almudena Clavijo Rodríguez

T104 Selection of Oenococcus oeni strains to employ as starters in malolactic fermentation.

Enrico Vaudano, Antonella Costantini

T105 Identification and Characterization of Yeasts Isolated from Oleic Ecosystems

Sheila Romo Sanchez

T106 Non-selective and selective isolation of DNA from food matrices and other real samples by magnetic particles

Alena Spanova

T107 Detection of Lactobacilli from Fecal Flora of Some Infants Sabihe Soleimanian-Zad T108 Production of lactic acid, biosurfactants and bacteriocins by

Lactococcus lactis using trimming vine shoots and vinasses as substrates for fermentation

Noelia Rodríguez Pazo

T109 Selection of lactic acid bacteria for the production of phenyllactic acid for food conservation

Noelia Rodríguez Pazo

T110 Use of the E-beam radiation to diminish the late blowing of cheese slices

Juan Antonio Ordoñez

T111 Antifungical potential of Cladosporium cladosporioides (Fres) De Vries metabolites in reduction of coffee contamination by toxigenic Aspergillus genera

Sara Maria Chalfoun

T112 Growth Kinetics of Biopigment Production by Thai Isolated Monascus purpureus in a Stirred Tank Bioreactor

Sasithorn Kongruang

T113 Red Bacterial Cellulose Production by Fermentation of Monascus purpureus

Sasithorn Kongruang

T114 Microbiological control of wines from Denomination of Origin Rías Baixas in Galicia (NW Spain)

Pilar Blanco Camba

T115 Survival of commercial yeasts on winery environment and their prevalence during spontaneous fermentations

Pilar Blanco Camba

T116 Evaluation of the persistence of viable Listeria monocytogenes cells in chlorinated water

Ana González Pellicer

T117 B- Glucans Production and Manoproteins Release in Yeasts María Chacón Ocaña T118 Prevention of food-transmitted human pathogen virus and bacteria in

fruits and vegetables by use of indicator organisms Trine-Maria Damgaard

T119 Use of interdelta polymorphisms of Saccharomyces cerevisiae strains to monitor the population evolution during wine fermentations

Helena Albergaria

T120 Antimicrobal susceptibility of Campylobacter jejuni isolated from poultry products and human cases of campylobacteriosis

Joana Silva

T121 Characterization and identification of a bacteriocin produced by Leuconostoc pseudomesenteroides KM432BZ

Alyssa Carre-Mlouka

T122 Quinolone resistance in nontyphoidal Salmonella enterica: role of chromosomal mutations and plasmid-mediated determinants

Maria Jorge Geraldes Campos

T123 ß-lactam resistance and extended-spectrum ß-lactamases in Salmonella strains isolated from animals

Maria Jorge Geraldes Campos

T124 Phylogeny of gamma-polyglutamic acid-producing Bacillus strains isolated from fermented bean foods manufactured in Asian and West African countries

Yasutaka Tahara

T125 Wine ecological practices increase the chromosomic polymorphism of yeasts

Maria Sancho Prieto

T126 Antimicotic potency of Drosera intermedia extracts on fungi and yeasts causing biodeterioration on food commodities

Anabela Romano

T127 Biocontrol of the patulin-producing Penicillium expansum by yeast: in vitro and in vivo assays

Covadonga Vázquez Estévez

T128 Effect in vitro of lactic acid bacteria isolated from guirra sheep against Salmonella spp

Claudia Milena Amorocho Cruz

T129 Investigation of the ochratoxin A levels in plasma from Valencian Community healthy citizens and relationship with their diet

Misericordia Jiménez Escamilla

T130 Species specific PCR detection protocol for the main mycotoxin-producing Aspergillus species in paprika.

Covadonga Vázquez Estévez

T131 Effect of methyl-2-benzimidazol carbamate and physicochemical factors on the growth and ochratoxin A production by Aspergillus ochraceus in bee pollen medium

Misericordia Jiménez Escamilla, Eva María Mateo Jiménez

T132 Occurrence of spoilage bacteria Pseudomonas and Pectobacterium on Finnish carrots

Minna Kahala

T133 Evaluation of the activity of different fungicides against ochratoxigenic Aspergillus spp. in barley-based medium

Misericordia Jiménez Escamilla, Eva María Mateo Jiménez

T134 Bee pollen-containing culture media can stimulate production of patulin by Penicillium expansum

Francisco Manuel Valle Algarra, Eva María Mateo Jiménez

T135 New antifungal bacteriocin synthesizing strains of Lactococcus lactis ssp. lactis as the perspective biopreservatives for protection of raw smoked sausages

Lidia G. Stoyanova

T136 Comparison between Lactic Acid Bacteria populations present in two green table olives fermentative processes

Salvador Rodríguez Ortiz

T137 Molecular and convencional identification and caracterization by ARDRA and DGGE of the microbiota associated to semi-dry coffee (Coffea arabica L.)

Cristina Ferreira Silva

T138 Isolation and characterisation of exopolysaccharide producing lactic Jennifer Savage

acid bacteria T139 Withdrawn T140 Fluorescence in situ hybridisation for direct quantification of

Saccharomyces cerevisiae and Hanseniaspora guilliermondii populations during alcoholic fermentations

Imma Andorrá Solsona

T141 Effect of pure and mixed cultures of the main wine yeast species on grapemust fermentations

Imma Andorrá Solsona

T142 Antibacterial activity of extracts from different Origanum vulgare clones grown in Latvia.

Ina ALSI?A

T143 Pulsed light treatment for the shelf-life extension of packaged cooked ham slices

Manuela Fernández Álvarez

T144 Variability analysis of microbial inactivation by different preserving treatments.

Juan Aguirre, Gonzalo García de Fernando

T145 Modulation of the gut microflora by dietary fibres and characterization of extracellular metabolites and fermentation products by GC-MS analyses

Inga Marie Aasen

T146 Isolation and identification of molds associated with table olives Francisco Pérez Nevado T147 Influence of pesticides on the growth kinetics of yeast used as starter

cultures in green table olives Francisco Pérez Nevado

T148 Quantifying the effect of (in)organic acids on the thermal inactivation of Escherichia coli

Eva Van Derlinden, Jan Van Impe

T149 Screening of lactic acid bacteria from wine and grapes for malolactic and glycosidase activities

Herbert Michlmayr, Nuno M. Barreira Braz Da Silva

T150 Production of sweet probiotic milk using mixed culture of Lactobacillus and Bifidobacterium strains and studying its effect on IBD.

Elham Jaberansari

T151 Behavior of shiga-toxin-producing Escherichia coli (STEC) of serotype O113:H21 to front pH, water activity, time and temperature.

Aloysio de Mello Figueiredo Cerqueira

T152 Partial fermentation of must from Tempranillo dried grapes by selected yeasts

Nieves Lopez de Lerma

T153 Ochratoxin A and ochratoxigenic fungi in coffee (Coffea arabica l.) in southern Minas Gerais State-Brazil (1998 to 2005)

Luís Roberto Batista

T154 Microbial conversion of major ginsenosides to pharmaceutically active minor ginsenoside C-K by Dyella sp. QGC -49

Qingmei Liu

T155 Synergism of natural compounds in struggle for safe and healthier food

Slawomir Szczepaniak

T156 Sugar Cane Waste as Alternative Medium for Astaxanthin Production by Mucor javanicus

Aline Alves Barbosa da Silveira

T157 Selection of a broad lytic spectrum phage for Salmonella detection Elisabete R. Fernandes T158 Uranium adsorption by Articulospora tetracladia: can aquatic

hyphomycetes be natural bioremediators of uranium contaminated streams?

Veronica Ferreira

T159 Thermophilic Bacteria Degrading Poly(Vinyl Alcohol) Mal Nam Kim T160 Bioremediation of Polyethylene Jin San Yoon T161 Degradation of fluoroanilines by the wild strain Labrys portucalensis Catarina Raquel Leite

Amorim T162 Sequential Photo-Biodegradation of МСРА with the Use of Exilamps Elena Karetnikova T163 Reactive Violet 12 dye decolorization by mycelial culture of

Trametes versicolor Albert Krastanov

T164 The decolorization of azo - dyes by Trametes versicolor under the influence of different glucose concentrations

Albert Krastanov

T165 Biodegradation of two herbicides: Metribuzin and Linuron by some Fungal Species isolated by a Polluted soil in the North - East Algerian.

Ouahiba Bordjiba, Fatiha Bekhouche

T166 Nickel(II) biosorption by Rhodotorula glutinis Liliana Morales Barrera T167 Fed-batch and repeated fed-batch cultures of Candida sp. in an airlift

bioreactor for the removal of Cr(VI) from aqueous solutions Liliana Morales Barrera

T168 Isolation and characterization of Ni resistant endophytic bacteria from Alyssum serpyllifolium and their potential in promoting plant growth and Ni accumulation by host and non-host plants

Ying Ma, Mani Rajkumar

T169 Diversity of methylotrophic bacteria isolated from mangrove species and their potential for bioremediation of heavy metals

Paulo Teixeira Lacava

T170 Removal of bentazon by liquid and solid state cultures of ganoderma lucidum

Rosane Marina Peralta

T171 Soil microcosms for determination of growth by Streptomyces mirabilis P16B1 in heavy metal contaminated soil

Eileen Schütze

T172 Influence of readily assimilated carbon sources on the phenol degradation by Trichosporon cutaneum R57 strain

Zlatka Alexieva

T173 Growth of Trametes versicolor on nitro- and hydroxyl-phenol derivates

Zlatka Alexieva

T174 Hexavalent chromium detoxification of Bacillus pumilus-S4, Pseudomonas doudoroffii-S5 and Exiguobacterium-S8 in association with Hydrophytes

Muhammad Faisal

T175 Biosurfactant production by Pseudomonas fluorescens – Physico-chemical characterization and solubilization of a model organic compound, naphthalene

Abdeltif Amrane

T176 Biosorption of mercury by bacteria and potential applications for bioremediation

Sylvie Rebuffat, Daniel Garcia

T177 Soluble Sulfate Removal from Effluent Water by Sulfate Reducing Bacterial Consortia

Poonam Nasipuri

T178 Adaptation of Novosphingobium sp. PP1Y to grow on complex mixtures of aromatic compounds dissolved in oil phases

Viviana Izzo

T179 Extracellular production of hydroxyl radical by Streptomyces cyaneusCECT 3335 via quinone redox cycling: a new strategy for BTEX degradation.

Mª Enriqueta Arias

T180 Enhanced Biodegradation of 1,2-Dichloroethane in Soil Co-contaminated with Heavy Metals under Different Bioremediation Strategies

Ademola Olufolahan Olaniran;

T181 Impact of fungus bioaugmentation on diesel-contaminated soil bioremediation by co-composting

Juliana Abraham, Teresa Gea

T182 Diversity of foaming producing nocardioform actinomycetes from wastewater treatment plants in Spain

Gonzalo Cuesta Amat

T183 Monitoring of oil-degrading bacteria during bioremediation by foodborn compost

Eri Hara

T184 Inoculation of selected Rhizobacteria favours plant growth under stress conditions

Salvador Rodríguez Ortiz, Maria Sancho Prieto

T185 New proteins expression by PGPR Pseudomonas fluorescens under arsenic-induced stress conditions

Enrique Sancho Puebla, Maria Sancho Prieto

T186 Bias in analytical procedure of microorganism’s community structure Ken Mizuno

in soil T187 Screening of pentachlorophenol degradation ability of several fungi

isolates from Tunisian soils Mariana Carvalho

T188 Isolation and screening of bacteria to decolorize Azo-dyes Rakesh Kumar T189 Genetic engineering of Cupriavidus metallidurans CH34 for

bioremediation of heavy metals in wastewater Elisabete J. Vicente, Ronaldo Biondo, Oeber F. Quadros

T190 Tolerance and stress response of the saprobe macrofungi Macrolepiota procera to nickel

Paula Baptista

T191 Plant-microorganisms associations in salt marshes: influence on hydrocarbon degradation

Ana Paula Mucha

T192 Characterization of Ni-resistant plant growth promoting bacterium Bacillus megaterium for microbial-assisted phytoremediation of Ni contaminated soils

Mani Rajkumar

T193 In situ identification of bacteria involved in Polycyclic Aromatic Hydrocarbon biodegradation and proteomic analysis of associated enzymes

Yves Jouanneau, Florence Martin

T194 Ecodynamics and impact of copper on microbial communities in a vineyard soil variably amended with organic matter

Jean M.F. Martins

T195 Characterisation of soil fungal communities in healthy forest stands and in infected with Heterobasidion parviporum and Armillaria spp.

Lelde Grantina

T196 Comparison of conventional and molecular methods for analyzing soil fungal diversity to determine the impact of soil use purpose

Lelde Grantina

T201 Insight of Small Domain in Thermostability of Thermoalkalophilic Lipases from Bacillus stearothermophilus L1 and Geobacillus zalihae strain T1

Mohd Basyaruddin Abdul Rahman

T202 Optimization of Lipase-Catalyzed Production of Succinic Acid Ester Using Central Composite Design Analysis

Mohd Basyaruddin Abdul Rahman

T203 Catalytic Promiscuity of Thermostable T1 Lipase from Geobacillus zalihaii by Metal Substitution

Mohd Basyaruddin Abdul Rahman

POSTER SESSION FRIDAY, DECEMBER 4 From 10:45-11:30, and from 17:00-17:45, in HALL 1

Industrial Microbiology. Methods.

Medical & Pharmaceutical Microbiology. Physiology, Metabolism, Gene Expression.

Biofilms. Code Title Presenter(s) F1 Microbiological characterization and disposal issues of table olive

wastewaters Spyridon Ntougias

F2 Hydrolysis of Spruce wood and Sugarcane Bagasse by cellulases and hemicellulases

Patricia Pavón Orozco

F3 Mixture design of agricultural waste substrates for lacase production from white rot fungal

Thanunchanok Chairin

F4 Isolation and selection of phenol-degrading bacteria from wastewater-contaminated soils in Iran.

Narges Kolahchi

F5 Biosynthesis of the lipids by the yeasts Rhodotorula gracilis Sergiy Shulga F6 Method of Lysine extraction from the culture fluid of producent Sergiy Shulga F7 Isolation and Characterization of a Locally Isolated Soil Microbe

Capable of Producing Polyhydroxyalkanoate Bioplastic from Renewable Resources

Yahaya M. Normi

F8 Towards a consolidate bio-processing for the conversion of agroindustrial wastes into optically pure lactic acid

Roberto Mazooli

F9 Screening for antibiotics from indigenous Streptomyces, their genetic and mutational analysis

Imran Sajid

F10 Multigenic family coding for endo-1,4-beta-xylanases in Penicillium canescens

Irina Maisuradze

F11 Fed-batch and fed-batch followed by perfusion cultivation to produce capsular polysaccharide by Haemophilus influenzae type b.

Mickie Takagi

F12 Cultivation of Salmonella enterica Typhimurium in bioreactor and development of flagellin purification process

Mickie Takagi

F13 Metabolically engineered E. coli gene expression: Efficient conditional gene silencing can be achieved using artificial convergent transcription protected from Rho-dependent termination

Vera Doroshenko

F14 Searching for proteins that influence biotransformation of VitaminD3 in Rhodococcus erythropolis.

Noriko Imoto

F15 Biosynthesis and Biocompatibility of polyhydroxyalkanoates by Cuprivadus necator strain A-04 and recombinant Escherichia coli

Suchada Chanprateep

F16 Biocompatibility Assessment of PHB, Random and Block copolymer of P(3HB-co-3HV)s produced by Paracoccus denitrificans

Suchada Chanprateep

F17 Cronobacter sakazakii, Enterobacteriaceae and microbial population of infant formula milk in Malaysia

Norrakiah Abdullah Sani

F18 Inhibitory action of the toxic compounds present in lignocellulosic hydrolysates on xylose-to-xylitol bioconversion by Candida guilliermondii

Inês Conceição Roberto

F19 Activated carbon production from brewer’s spent grain lignin Inês Conceição Roberto F20 Optimization of a fermentation process for butanol production using

Particle Swarm Optimization Adriano Pinto Mariano

F21 Investigating the 3-dimensional structure of family 43 glycoside hydrolase (CtGH43), a cellulase from Clostrdium thermocellum structure for possible interactions using molecular docking and other bioinformatics tools

Shadab Ahmed

F22 Effect of pH and Inoculum Percentage on Canthaxanthin Production by Dietzia maris

Debjani Dutta

F23 Evaluation of different microbial expression systems for therapeutic peptide production

Oksana Degtjarik, Zuzana Antosonova

F24 Detection of PKS genes from a Brazilian sugarcane endophytic Aspergillus sp.

Juan Diego Rojas

F25 Effect of oxidized cellulose on probiotic bacteria Petra Šnévajsová F26 The application of PCR methods and gas chromatography for

detection of specific non-pathogenic bacteria of the genus Clostridium

Bohuslav Rittich

F27 Withdrawn Tanveer Ahmad Shah F28 Bioconversion of wheat straw to value added cattle feed by RCK –1

fungal isolate Bhuvnesh Shrivastava

F29 Optimization of a protoplast transformation method for Bacillus Subtilis, Bacillus megaterium, and Bacillus Cereus by a plasmid pHIS1525.SplipA

Amir Mirabdollah, Saeid Alinezhad

F30 Isolation and identification of chitinolytic bacteria from pruning tree compost

Norio Kurosawa, Keiko Watanabe

F31 Isolation and characterization of cellulase producing bactera from pruning tree compost and soil

Junko Ueda

F32 Production of ethanol from agroindustrial waste: cassava bagasse and malt bagasse

Marcia Palma

F33 Changes in the stability and catalysis of fungal enzymes produced in submerged and solid-state fermention: the case of tannase

Cristobal Noe Aguilar

F34 Antifungical potential of Cladosporium cladosporioides (Fres) De Vries metabolites in reduction of coffee rust (Hemileia vastatrix Berk & Br.)

Sara Maria Chalfoun

F35 Utilization of Organic Wastes from Biodiesel process for Production of Biodegradable Polyhydroxyalkanoates by newly isolated bacteria screened from oil contaminated soils in Thailand

Suchada Chanprateep

F36 Fermentation characteristics as criteria for selection of cachaça yeast Evelyn de Souza Oliveira F37 Fermentation characteristics of Saccharomyces cerevisiae strains to

produce banana’s brandy Evelyn de Souza Oliveira

F38 The production of volatile compounds by yeasts isolated from artisanal brazilian cachaça distilleries

Evelyn de Souza Oliveira

F39 The specificity of an Enterobacter aerogenes 13 lipase Vida Bendikiené F40 Studies on the of specificity of some lipase-catalysed hydrolysis and

esterification reactions Vida Bendikiené

F41 Cloning and expression of an aspartate aminotransferase from Xanthomonas oryzae pv oryzae

Han-Chul Kang

F42 Purification, immobilization and application of tannase for beverage clarification

Rakesh Kumar

F43 Acute toxicity evaluation of several compounds involved in fossil fuels biodesulphurisation studies

Susana M. Paixão Alves

F44 Withdrawn

F45 Strains selection on aliphatic substrates: first step for omega-oxidation of C9-C18 fatty acids to obtain biopolymers from waste

Roberto Mazooli, Michele Zapponi

F46 PHA production by mixed culture from a by-product of paper industry

Luisa Seuanes Serafim

F47 Alternative method for biological airborne agents detection in only few hours / Innovative microbial air sampler

Quitterie Desjonquères

F48 Screening and characterization of lactic acid bacteria for the production of mannitol in carob based syrups

Florbela Carvalheiro

F49 Biological detoxification of different hemicellulosic hydrolyzates using Issatchenkia occidentalis CCTCC M 206097 yeast

Sílvio Silvério da Silva

F50 From shake flasks to laboratory bioreactor: Scale-up of a bioemulsifier /biosurfactant production processs by Candida lipolytica UCP 0988

Clarissa Daisy da Costa Albuqerque

F51 Assessment of the use of biological material on technological development – a patent approach

Zea Mayerhoff

F52 Clavulanic Acid Degradation in an Aqueous Two Phase System Guilherme Youssef Rodriguez

F53 Optimization of the Continuous Clavulanic Acid Adsorption Process Marlei Barboza F54 Microalgae from The Salar de Atacama (Northern Chile), as a

potential resource of fatty acids of industrial interest Gladys Hayashida

F55 Physiologic diversity in Debaryomyces hansenii Luís C. Duarte F56 Biocidal potential of essential oils of Piper aduncum, Piper

hispidinervum and Syzygium aromaticum on important pathogenic and toxigenic microorganisms important for food.

Luís Roberto Batista

F57 Effect of coating materials upon organic acid production by immobilized B. animalis subsp. lactis Bb12, in both batch and continuous cultures

Seyed Hadi Razavi

F58 Old Yellow Enzymes: Powerful biocatalysts for the asymmetric hydrogenation of C=C bond

Michihiko Kataoka

F59 Biological polyhydroxybutyrate production from waste glycerol at bench scale.

M. Teresa Cesário

F60 Physiological characterization of mannitol overproducing strains in carob based medium

Luís C. Duarte

F61 Degradation assay of lignocellulosic compounds in combination with polyurethane resin by CECT fungi

Pedro A. Jiménez Gómez

F62 Bioprospection of microorganisms for lipase production using an industrial waste as carbon source

Roberto Albuquerque Lima

F63 ANN-based Software Sensor for Emulsifcation Activity Estimation in Biosurfactant Production Process by Candida lipolytica UCP 0998

Clarissa Daisy da Costa Albuqerque

F64 Comparison of eleven Escherichia coli quantitative methods for Malaysian ready-to-eat food (poultry)

Norrakiah Abdullah Sani

F65 Flow cytometry for analysis and sorting of large particles, sized from 20-1,500 microns (e.g. Aspergillus, Daphnia, Aquatic Larvae, Pollen).

Rico Bongaarts

F66 Nanocurvatures induced by ethidium bromide in yeast plasma membrane

Ezzatollah Keyhani

F67 Characterisation of initial degradation stage of Scots pine (Pinus sylvestris L.) sapwood after attack by brown-rot fungus Coniophora puteana

Ilze Irbe

F68 DTAF: An Efficient Probe to Study Cyanobacterial-Plant Interaction Using Confocal Laser Scanning Microscopy (CLSM)

Shahida Hasnain Hasnain

F69 Differences in stationary phase cells of Saccharomyces cerevisiae var. bayanus grown in aerobic and hypoxic bath cultures assessed by electric particle analysis, light diffraction and flow cytometry

Xavier Portell Canal

F70 Validation of serological test for diagnosing Helicobacter pylori infection in dyspeptic H.pylori culture positive children in Georgia

Neli Chakvetadze, Nanuli Ninashvili

F71 Bacterial growth as a nonlocal coherent phenomenon Marcin Molski F72 Probabilistic modelling of the growth of spoilage bacteria on chilled

food products Paul Shorten

F73 Comparison of several methods for DNA isolation from Aspergillus flavus and DNA quantification on nanodrop and conventional spectrophotometer

Bojan Šarkanj

F74 Aggregation-based in silico study for better understanding of related membrane interfering analogous of Amphotericin B

Soroush Sardari

F75 Selectivity-refined in silico analogue finding method for new antifungal molecules based on amphotericin B molecular features

Soroush Sardari

F76 Metabolic reconstruction of Synechococcus elongatus, towards a minimal photoautotrophic cell

Carmen María González Domenech

F77 Design of predictive models for deoxynivalenol accumulation in barley grain cultures of Fusarium culmorum under different conditions

Eva María Mateo Jiménez

F78 Assessment of imazalil activity on the growth of Penicillium expansum and production of patulin in potato-glucose-agar medium

Francisco Manuel Valle Algarra, Eva María Mateo Jiménez

F79 A chemiformatics approach to produce an enriched database of antimycobacterial compounds useful for drug discovery pipeline

Behrad Shaghaghi

F80 Theoretical design study for new β-lactamase inhibitors Ana Claudia Granato F81 Color measurements as a reliable method for estimating chlorophyll

degradation to phaeopigments Patricia Sanmartín

F82 Sensitivity analysis of Campylobacter spp. in poultry based meat preparations

Jan Van Impe

F83 Ethanol biosensor based on rhodium dioxide and alcohol dehydrogenase

Karel Vytřas

F84 Advances in detection of inorganic pollutants Sylvie Rebuffat, Daniel Garcia, Monique Sabaty

F85 Viscosity assessment in yeast vacuoles by Brownian motion of polyphosphate complexes

Evgeny Puchkov

F86 Influence of culture conditions on hydrogen peroxide production by Lactobacillus jensenii

Scott Holt

F87 Stempholactoside, new Stemphol derivative isolated from tropical endophytic fungus Gaeumannomyces amomi BCC4066

Juangjun Jumpathong

F88 Proteinic extracts from Sporothrix schenckii cell wall a novel serological strategy by sporotrichosis

Myrna Sabanero López

F89 Rheological Characterisation and Effect of Abiotic Factors on the Antimicrobial Efficacy of Chitosan - Based Hydrogels Containing Alpha-Hydroxy Acids

Alexandra Nogueira da Silva

F90 Ethnomedicinal survey of medicinal plant species used as remedy for HAV/HBV/HCV by the ethnic groups of Bangladesh

Ariful Haque Mollik

F91 Study of the influence of ethylene oxide sterilization variables on Gisela Mendes

Bacillus subtilis inactivation F92 In vitro evaluation of biopolymers as delivery system of plant

extracts on cultures of Porphyromonas gingivalis and Agreggatibacter actinomycetemcomitans

Aida Rodriguez Garcia

F93 In vitro tests of polymers with extracts from plants used in Mexican traditional medicine on Candida albicans biofilm formation

Aida Rodriguez Garcia

F94 In vitro tests of antimicrobial activity of plants used in Mexican traditional medicine

Luis Jesus Galán Wong

F95 Effect of plants used in Mexican traditional medicine on Candida albicans biofilm formation

Luis Jesus Galán Wong

F96 Antimicrobial activity of Thymus vulgaris, Matricaria chamomilla, Croton lechleri, Caléndula officinalis L., Julliana adstringens Schl against periodontophatogens microorganisms

Katiushka Arevalo Nino

F97 Anatomopathological and mycological findings in two wild seagulls (Larus sp) infected with Aspergillus fumigatus

Herminia Marina Martins

F98 Invasive infection by Trichosporon mucoides following circovirus infection in a parrot

Herminia Marina Martins

F99 Conjugation of Haemophilus Influenzae type b capsular polysaccharide and tetanus toxoid using DMT-MM as activating agent.

Giovana Cappio Barazzone

F100 Screening and evaluation of human intestinal lactobacilli for the development of novel gastrointestinal probiotics

Reet Mändar

F101 Methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus (MRSA) in Brazil: Classification of SCCmec and virulence factors

Maria de Lourdes Ribeiro de Souza da Cunha

F102 Synergistic Antimicrobial Activity Among Hydroalcoholic Extract of Leaves of Trees in the Brazilian Territory Common

Sílvio Silvério da Silva

F103 Purinergic agents of hydroalcoholic Agaricus blazei extracts: identification, quantification and biological assays

Adelar Bracht

F104 Isolation and screening of soil microorganisms for membrane-active antimicrobial metabolites

Behrad Shaghaghi

F105 Beneficial effects of HIV peptidase inhibitors on Fonsecaea pedrosoi: promising compounds to arrest key fungal biological processes and virulence

André Luis Souza dos Santos

F106 Colicin E1 production is associated with bacteriocin multiproducer strains in uropathogenic Escherichia coli

David Šmajs

F107 New antibacterial molecules produced by endophytic Paenibacillus polymyxa

J. Daniel Dubreuil

F108 Effectiveness of N-acetilcysteine (NAC) on prevention and eradication of S. epidermidis biofilms

María Coronada Fernández-Calderón

F109 Bacterial liquid-like envelopes detected by dynamic atomic force microscopy: false capsules/EPS

Antonio Méndez-Vilas, Luis Labajos-Broncano, Julia Perera Nuñez

F110 Anti-herpes simplex virus activity of a medicinal plant Jiraporn Nikomtat F111 Serotype Distribution of Chlamydia trachomatis Isolated from

clinical urogenital samples in North-Eastern Croatia Ivana Roksandic Križan

F112 Genotyping of Human Papillomavirus in abnormal cervical samples from the North-Eastern Croatia

Magdalena Peric

F113 Determination of mode of action for novel synthetic antifungal agents using reversal assay method

Soroush Sardari

F114 An efficient molecular typing assay for Alternaria spp. isolates Anabela Paulino Lança

F115 Polyphasic characterization of Aspergillus fumigatus strains causing infection in parrots and dolphins

Anabela Paulino Lança

F116 Variation in IL-8 release and ICAM-1 expression by different human lung airway epithelia induced by Burkholderia cepacia complex (Bcc)

Seshu Kumar Kaza

F117 Pneumococcal whole-cell vaccine: optimization of pneumococcal cell growth using fed-batch cultivation

Rimenys Junior Carvalho

F118 Simple and efficient method of E. coli disruption for recombinant pneumococcal surface protein A production

Martha Massako Tanizaki

F119 Isolation, identification and antimicrobial activity of an Aneurinibacillus strain from bat cave of tropical rain forests in Thailand

Wonyong Kim

F120 Isolation and identification of ATP-secreting bacteria from mice and humans

Yoshimitsu Mizunoe, Tadayuki Iwase

F121 Inhibition of endothelial interleukin-8 production and neutrophil transmigration by Staphylococcus aureus beta-hemolysin.

Akiko Tajima

F122 Functional analysis of the widely conserved cytoplasmic domain of Spa24 in the T3SS assembly

Abdelmounaaim Allaoui, Aimé Christian Kayath

F123 Quantitative evaluation of lactobacilli and Clostridium difficile in faeces of patients with antibiotic associated diarrhoea and antibiotic resistance of isolated strains

Paul Naaber, Siiri Kõljalg, Epp Sepp

F124 Chemical and pharmacological study of Brazilian marine Streptomyces.

Ana Claudia Granato

F125 Lactic acid bacteria from the vagina of healthy Turkish women: identification, hydrogen peroxide production

Emine Dinçer

F126 Heterologous expression of hydrophobins RodA and RodB from Aspergillus fumigatus in host Pichia Pastoris

Ib Søndergaard, Mona Højgaard Pedersen

F127 Effects of endocannabinoids and 3-deazaadenozine on the growth of free-living amoebas and their phagocytosis activity

Dey Rafik, Jacques Bodennec

F128 Screening of antimicrobial activity of several extracts of Cistus ladanifer and Arbutus unedo

Fernanda Conceição Domingues

F129 Antibiotics processed by Supercritical Fluids: antibacterial activity assessment

Lidia Pinheiro

F130 Identification of Staphylococcus aureus isolates from bovine mastitis samples related to human epidemic clone USA300 in backyard farms from México.

Juan José Valdez Alarcón

F131 Phylotaxonomy of human and environmental isolates belonging to Tissierella group.

Estelle Jumas-Bilak

F132 Degradation of Sgs1 in response to rapamycin treatment in yeast Saccharomyces cerevisiae

Rim Marrakchi, Chedly Chouchani

F133 Propolis from Azores: antimicrobial and antioxidant properties Marco Guimaráes F134 Syzygium aromaticum (clove) extract reduce virulence factors

mediated by QS in Gram negative bacterias Pedro A. Jiménez Gómez

F135 Development of Antibacterial Preparations Containing Fermented Products from Some Thai Herbs

Surachai Techaoei

F136 Activity of Flourquinolones on Staphylococcus aureus and S. saprophyticus strains: Post-antibiotic Effect (PAE)

Galba M. Campos Takaki

F137 Purification of Cephamycin C from fermentation broth Marlei Barboza F138 Indigenous medicinal plants popularly used for cure of bacterial

diseases in Kishoreganj district of Bangladesh Ariful Haque Mollik

F139 Convergent acquisition of bacterial Antibiotic resistance determinants from experimental animals

Shankar Congeevaram

F140 Investigation of in-vitro and in-vivo Beta-Lactamase Inhibition by Beta-Lactamase-Inhibitor-Protein Based Peptides

Nilay Budeyri

F141 Enhancement of extracellular purine nucleoside and AICA ribonucleoside accumulation by Bacillus strains through the genetic modification of genes involved in nucleoside export

Natalia Zakataeva

F142 Glucansucrase-derived prebiotic oligosaccharides enhance enzyme activity in Bifidobacterium

Scott Holt

F143 Dissection of the Escherichia coli rpsB promoter: in vivo analysis of activity and stringent response.

Leonid Aseev

F144 Formate dehydrogenases and hydrogen metabolism in Desulfovibrio vulgaris Hildenborough

Sofia Silva, Inês A. Cardoso Pereira

F145 ROS production and cell cycle arrest in Saccharomyces cerevisiae during nitrogen-depleted alcoholic fermentation

António Inês Virgílio Falco

F146 Assaying the Single and Combined Genotoxicity of Calotropis procera Ait Latix and Chlorcyrin in Aspergillus terreus

Jamal S. M. Sabir

F147 Alterations by transition metals nickel, cadmium and mercury in Salmonella typhimurium growth and membrane proteins

Ezzatollah Keyhani

F148 Effect of cyanide and azide on growth and membrane proteins in Salmonella typhimurium

Jacqueline Keyhani

F149 Cadmium effect on KlHIS4 promoter DNA binding factors Mónica Lamas Maceiras F150 Influence of Hap2p and Hap3p on KlHIS4 promoter binding activity Mónica Lamas Maceiras F151 Proteomic analysis of antibiotic resistance in Salmonella spp. strains

from wild rabbits and boars Gilberto Igrejas

F152 Detection and genetic characterization of vanA-containing Enterococcus strains in healthy Lusitano horses

Gilberto Igrejas

F153 Screening of Halobacterium salinarum DNA sequences coding for salt resistance in a yeast model

Mônica Bucciarelli Rodriguez

F154 Aerobic biodegradation of dichloromethane: new findings Julia Firsova F155 Functional Interaction Between GacA and Fur in Virulence

Regulation of Pseudomonas syringae pv. tabaci 11528 Jun Hyeok Park, Dong Gwang Lee, Jun Seung Lee, Hyung Suk Baik

F156 Construction of auxotrophic mutants of Methylophilus methylotrophus AS1 by recombination-mediated marker exchange between linear DNA and bacterial chromosomes in cells carrying the Escherichia coli aroP transporter gene: application for Phe production from methanol

Evgeny Gak

F157 Induction of DNA double strand breaks and branched DNA replication structures does not predict the antimicrobial effect of thymidylate deprivation

María del Carmen Mata Martín

F158 The effects of a calpain inhibitor upon human and plant trypanosomatids life cycles

Marta Helena Branquinha de Sá

F159 Role of the nemRA operon of Escherichia coli K-12 in reducing ubiquinone as well as glyoxal

Changhan Lee

F160 Multiple promoters of stress-responding genes of Corynebacterium glutamicum

Jan Nešvera

F161 Transcriptional regulation of ADE2 and PUT2 genes in Kluyveromyces lactis.

Ana María Rodríguez Torres

F162 Characterization of KlTup1 repressor. Ana María Rodríguez Torres

F163 Vph1p, the vacuolar subunit of the V-ATPase in Saccharomyces cerevisiae, can compensate the lack of Stv1p, the Golgi subunit, to allow proper N-glycosylation of proteins

Isaac Corbacho

F164 Vital staining of yeast acidified vacuoles using neutral red Isaac Corbacho F165 Construction of a plasmid vector for thermoacidophilic

crenarchaeon Sulfolobus acidocaldarius Yoko Kawasaki

F166 Active ATPase ClpY(HslU), a homologous subunit of the eukaryotic 26S proteasome, is required to maintain replication in a nrdA101ts mutant of Escherichia coli at restrictive temperature

María Elena López Acedo

F167 Deficient activity of DnaA protein allows proficient replication at restrictive conditions for ribonucleotide reductase mutants

María Elena López Acedo

F168 Diversification of nucleoid-associated proteins in bacteria revealed by comparative proteomic analysis

Ryosuke Ohniwa

F169 Influence of inoculum and residual glucose concentration on Streptococcus pneumoniae serotype 6B cultivation

Talita Souza Carmo

F170 Differences in vitamin requeriments for Streptococcus pneumoniae serotype 14 cultivation in flask and in reactor

Martha Massako Tanizaki, Verónica Maria Rodege Gogola

F171 Mechanisms of SigH activation in minor cell population: a stochastic process or gene activation by short junction duplication

Kazuya Morikawa

F172 Molecular characterization of light sensitive mutants of the microalga Chlamydomonas reinhardtii

Marta Vila, Inmaculada Couso

F173 Studies on the expression levels of the carotenogenic enzymes in the microalga Chlamydomonas reihardtii

Herminia Rodríguez

F174 Genetic manipulation of the carotenoids biosynthetic pathway by overexpression of the phytoene synthase enzyme in the microalga Chlamydomonas reinhardtii

Rosa León

F175 Plant Cell Contact-dependent Virulence Regulation of hrp Genes in Pseudomonas syringae pv. tabaci 11528

Jun Hyeok Park, Jun Seung Lee, Dong Gwang Lee, Hyung Suk Baik

F176 Thermoacidophilic archaea of Acidilobales ord. nov.: methabolic properties based on genomic data.

Maria Prokofyeva

F177 Berberine vs. P. polychaetum alkaloit extract for antimicrobial activity

Cagakan Ozbalci

F178 Fermentation of fructo- and xylo-oligosaccharides by probiotic and butyrate-producing bacteria

Patricia Moura, Miguel João Lúcio

F179 Isolation, characterization and regulation of carotenoid biosynthetic pathway genes in microalgae

Inmaculada Couso, Herminia Rodríguez

F180 Studies of internal structure of multicellular microbial community by two-photon confocal microscopy

Zdena Palková

F181 Volatile ammonia, the signaling molecule in different stages of multicellular yeast community development.

Libuše Váchová

F182 Screening of novel bacteria for biohydrogen production Patricia Moura F183 Withdrawn F184 Ammonium assimilation in the eukaryotic microalge

Chlamydomonas acidophila Javier Vigara

F185 Toxicity differences between Cr(VI) species in strain Ochrobactrum tritici 5bvl1

Romeu Francisco

F186 The Genotoxicity of Three Synthetic Pesticides: Chlorpyrifos, Cypermethrin and Their Mixture Chlorcyrin in Aspergillus terreus

Jamal S. M. Sabir

F187 Characterisation of the NrfH cytochrome c quinol dehydrogenase from Desulfovibrio vulgaris

Daniela Matos

F188 Exploiting S. cerevisiae- and C. elegans-based eukaryotic screening bioassays to diagnose potentially adverse effects of xenobiotics in environmental samples

Cristina A. Viegas

F189 Antimicrobial and photocatalytic effect of silicate and silicone hygienic coatings

Jarmila Vytrasova

F190 Microbial corrosion inhibition of steel by a cationic surfactant synthesis

Hamitouche Houria

F191 Pseudomonas fluorescens ER74508 adherence to polymer networks made of polydiméthylsiloxane and/or cellulose acetate butyrate

Pierre Lembré, Patrick Di Martino

F192 Withdrawn F193 Characterization of corrosive bacterial consortia isolated from a

cooling tower Yen-Peng Ting

F194 Comparison of methods for detection of biofilm in Coagulase-Negative Staphylococci

Maria de Lourdes Ribeiro de Souza da Cunha

F195 Use of Biosurfactants to reduce adhesion of Staphylococcus aureus to plastic surfaces

Marcia Nitschke

F196 Effect of chromium on biofilm formation: bacterial biofilms in association with cyanobacterial strain

Anjum Nasim Sabri

F197 PAH degrading Bacterial community from the Sea Surface Microlayer in an estuarine system

Vanessa Jesus Oliveira

F198 In vitro activities of the minocycline and EDTA solutions (CATH-SAFE®) against microorganisms embebedded in biofilm on the surface of hemodialysis catheters

Bruna Leite

F199 Monoculture and mixed biofilms of Listeria monocytogenes and Pseudomonas fluorescens – evidences of antagonism and self-repression

Rosário Oliveira

F200 Impact of peptidoglycan modifications on bacterial virulence: functional analysis of two Shigella flexneri genes; orf185 and orf186

Abdelmoughit Kaoukab-Raji, Abdelmounaaim Allaoui

F201 Microphytobenthic biofilms in the Cabras lagoon (Sardinia, Italy) Francesca Di Pippo F202 Phosphomonoesterase and phosphodiesterase activities of cultured

phototrophic biofilms Francesca Di Pippo

F203 Plasmids, antibiotics and their influence on the formation of dynamic Escherichia coli biofilms

Joana Teodosio

F204 On site monitoring of biofilm formation on quartz quarries using colorimetric techniques

Patricia Sanmartín

F205 Quantification of stone biofilms: phytopigment s extraction improvement by application of ultrasonic methods

Iria Fernández Silva

F206 Culturing phototrophic biofilms on surfaces: what determines biomass accumulation and species succession

Roberta Congestri

F207 Alternative electron sinks of Deinococcus geothermalis Minna Peltola F208 Anaerobic Baffled Tank (ABR) and Role of biofilm Zabihollah Yousefi F209 Biofilm formation by kefir micro-organisms Véronique Ninane F210 Ecological approaches for dairy wastewater treatment Irina Schneider F211 Biofilm development during an anaerobic wastewater treatment

process Irina Schneider

F212 Microbial cell surface hydrophobicity and surface energy obtained using the sessile droplet technique: identification of sources of

Antonio Méndez-Vilas, Luis Labajos-Broncano, Julia

inaccuracies due to the topography and chemical heterogeneity of microbial lawns

Perera Nuñez

F213 Biofouling community of a lubrication oil tank from a supply vessel Christer Fjeld, Rolf Arnt Olsen

F214 Potential of microbial consortium for biological treatment of the effluent from cassava flour production

Roberto Albuquerque Lima

F215 Design of surfaces response analysis of kLa depending of aeration and agitation in 14 L bioreactor

Myriam Elias Santos

F216 Genotypic variability in the sequence encoding SpaP and mut II of cariogenic Streptococcus mutans strains in saliva samples intra and inter family members

Andrea Guadalupe Alcázar-Pizaña

F217 Streptococcus intermedius trigger quorum-sensing genes in Porphyromonas gingivalis

Andrea Guadalupe Alcázar-Pizaña

F218 QuantiFERON-TB GOLD ELISA assay for the detection of Mycobacterium tuberculosis specific antigens in blood specimens of HIV positive patients in a high burden country

Marleen Kock and Marthie Ehlers

F219 The use of real-time PCR assays for the detection, identification and drug susceptibility patterns of Mycobacterium in sputum and blood specimens in HIV positive patients

Marleen Kock and Marthie Ehlers

F220 Hypocholesterolemic Effects of Lactobacillus Strain Isolated from Blondo (Waste of virgin coconut oil) Observed in Broiler Cholesterol Contained Diets

Endang Purwati

F221 Molecular Characterization of Bacteria Acetic Lactat Isolated from Blondo (Waste Virgin Coconut Oil)

Endang Purwati

F222 Possibility to Produce Antioxidant polyfenol by Agrobacterium rizogenese transformation in T. Cacao

Sumaryati Syukur

F223 Anti-oxidant polyfenol in T. Cacao Sumaryati Syukur