Applied Molecular Microbiology

The 2018 Summer Schools in Applied Molecular Microbiology took place at the Inter-University Centre in Dubrovnik, from 8 – 16 September. Applications are now closed.

The focus for this year was ‘Microbial Specialised Metabolites: From Genome to Molecule’ and recognises the recent development of interest in microbial metabolites that has resulted from the sequencing of small molecule-producing microorganisms, coupled with the explosive development of sequencing technology, bioinformatics and chemical analysis.

Topics for 2018 included;

• Isolation and screening of metabolite-producing microorganisms
• Diversity of specialised metabolite producers
• Natural product biosynthesis
• Natural products in microbial communities and cell-cell interactions
• Natural products in symbioses with higher organisms
• Regulation of natural product biosynthesis, including intra- and extracellular signalling
• Metagenomics and heterologous pathway expression
• Diverse microbiomes
• Genomics mining for novel natural product discovery
• Prediction and characterisation of biosynthetic pathways in silico and experimentally
• Activation of transcriptional silent cryptic gene clusters
• Pathway engineering

Co-Directors

• Mervyn Bibb, John Innes Centre, Norwich, UK
• Greg Challis, University of Warwick, Coventry, UK
• Dušica Vujaklija, Ruđer Bošković Institute, Zagreb, Croatia
• Barrie Wilkinson, John Innes Centre, Norwich, UK