CLOST18: CLOSTRIDIUM XVIII
PROGRAM

Days: Tuesday, September 29th Wednesday, September 30th Thursday, October 1st Friday, October 2nd

Tuesday, September 29th

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17:00-18:10 Session 2: Keynote

Keynote presentation

17:00
Adventures with Clostridium (and cousins), Biomass Conversion, and Entrepeneurship. (abstract)
17:35
TBA
18:10-21:00 Session 3: Poster Session A and Reception
Recombinant synthesis of isobutyrate in the acetogen Eubacterium callanderi 'Marburg' (abstract)
PRESENTER: Barbara Rühle
Antimicrobial Resistance in Clostridium perfringens Isolated from Commercial Broiler Flocks in Punjab, Pakistan: A Field Surveillance Study (abstract)
Interspecies interactions between Clostridium saccharoperbutylacetonicum and Saccharomyces cerevisiae during fermentation of wheat straw hydrolysate to butanol (abstract)
Innovative Solvent Production Through Genetic Engineering and Microbial consortium approaches (abstract)
Deletions of genes with unclear functions within and adjacent to the C1-fixing cluster reveal distinct roles in Clostridium autoethanogenum (abstract)
Characterizing the effect of temperature on ethanol production in Thermoanaerobacterium saccharolyticum strains (abstract)
PRESENTER: Isabela Queiroz
Functional annotation of thermophilic putative glycerol consumption genes (abstract)
PRESENTER: Melina Erikson
Adaptive laboratory evolution of Clostridium autoethanogenum for improved growth on low-CO syngas (abstract)
PRESENTER: Simra Sharif
Application of an oxygen-scavenging enzyme cascade for cell-free testing of Clostridium autoethanogenum metabolism under atmospheric conditions (abstract)
Optimization of Plasmid Curing from Genetically Engineered Clostridium autoethanogenum (abstract)
Breeding Energy Crops for Optimized Biomass Composition: Implications for Clostridium Fermentation Efficiency (abstract)
Optimisation of cell-free gene expression towards accelerating metabolic engineering in Clostridium autoethanogenum (abstract)
pH-CONTROLLED FERMENTATION IN Clostridium kluyveri PURE CULTURE: EFFECT ON CAPROATE PRODUCTION, CARBON SELECTIVITY AND KINETIC PERFORMANCE (abstract)
PRESENTER: Fabián Otálora
Wednesday, September 30th

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09:00-10:25 Session 4: Physiology and Biochemistry
09:00
Many ways lead to Rome: fundamental principles and differences in acetogenesis among species (abstract)
09:35
CO2 capture by a co-culture consisting of A. woodii and C. drakei to produce carboxylic acids (abstract)
10:10
Metabolic response of Clostridium autoethanogenum to syngas composition variations in batch bioreactor cultivations (abstract)
PRESENTER: Clara Carneiro
10:25-10:55Coffee Break
10:55-12:15 Session 5: Physiology and Biochemistry
10:55
Towards a quantitative understanding of Clostridium thermocellum metabolism (abstract)
11:30
Butyrate as a growth factor of Clostridium acetobutylicum: Post-translational modifications of butyrate-forming Clostridium (abstract)
PRESENTER: Hyeongmin Seo
11:45
Engineering A. thermocellus to utilize lactate formation as a primary NADH sink to study limitations in metabolism (abstract)
PRESENTER: Carolus Nurminen
12:00
Heliobacteria, The Phototrophic Clostridia, Utilize NfnAB for Phototrophic Energy Conversion (abstract)
PRESENTER: Patricia Baker
12:15-13:30Lunch
13:30-14:50 Session 6: Genetics and Synthetic Biology
Chair:
13:30
Progress in understanding gas conversion by thermophilic microorganisms (abstract)
14:05
Re-engineering carbon fixation: Carbon monoxide dehydrogenase as a metabolic control point in Clostridium autoethanogenum. (abstract)
14:20
Engineering Clostridium acetobutylicum as a Robust Chassis for Synthetic Biology (abstract)
14:35
Gene expression of target enzymes related to mixotrophic metabolism in Clostridium beijerinckii Br21 (abstract)
14:50-15:30Coffee Break and Group Photo
15:30-16:50 Session 7: Genetics and Synthetic Biology
Chair:
15:30
Development of advanced genome engineering tools for the human gut acetogen Eubacterium limosum (abstract)
16:05
Development of a dual-selection system for characterizing inducible promoters in Thermoanaerobacterium saccharolyticum (abstract)
PRESENTER: Edson Kim
16:20
Building a Genetic Fortress (abstract)
PRESENTER: Andrew Dempster
16:35
Metabolic engineering and Scale-Up of autotrophic lactate production in Acetobacterium woodii (abstract)
PRESENTER: Marie Ortner
17:00-21:00 Session 8: Poster Session B and Reception
Butyrate-Producing Clostridium Species as Emerging Nutraceutical and improving gut health. (abstract)
Integrated Genomic, Transcriptomic and Secretomic Analyses Reveal Adaptive Mechanisms of Acetivibrio thermocellus (formerly Clostridium thermocellum) B8 for Sugarcane Residue Deconstruction (abstract)
Metabolically tailored Clostridia as robust platforms for biohydrogen production from wastewater by-products (abstract)
Integrated Microalgae–Clostridium Platform for Sustainable Biohydrogen Production (abstract)
PRESENTER: Carola Cerrato
Butyrate-Producing Clostridium Species as Emerging Nutraceutical Agents: Industrial Prospects and Applications in Gut Health and Human Nutrition (abstract)
Clostridium thermocellum as a versatile CBP platform candidate for conversion of untreated, cotreated, and pretreated lignocellulose (abstract)
Modeling Clostridium thermocellum Metabolism for the In Silico Evaluation of Growth Temperature Effects on Ethanol Biosynthesis (abstract)
PRESENTER: Cristian Ferraz
Preliminary screening of Clostridium luticellarii growth and metabolite profile under Heterotrophic and Mixotrophic Conditions using Amino Acid Supplementation (abstract)
PRESENTER: Pablo Salgado
Consolidated bioprocessing under a high sucrose environment (abstract)
Cotreatment consolidated bioprocessing for sugarcane feedstock (abstract)
PRESENTER: Miguel Canha
Biochemical evidence for substrate channeling in the bifunctional Aldehyde Alcohol Dehydrogenase enzyme in Clostridium thermocellum (abstract)
Discovery of novel anaerobic microbial species and development of high efficiency fermentation technologies for short and medium chain fatty acids (abstract)
Are lactic acid bacteria friendly or hostile to butyrate-producing bacteria in the production of butyric acid by sequential batch processing and using effluents from brown sugar production? (abstract)
PRESENTER: Felipe Eng
Fermentation of acetate and lactate by an anaerobic co-culture for butyrate production (abstract)
Thursday, October 1st

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09:00-10:25 Session 9: Metabolic Engineering and Systems Biology
09:00
The 6-phosphofructokinase reaction in Acetivibrio thermocellus is both ATP- and pyrophosphate-dependent (abstract)
09:35
Fine-tuning Chain Elongation Selectivity and H2 production in Clostridium kluyveri: Ethanol and acetate ratio effect (abstract)
PRESENTER: Andrés Suazo
10:10
Carbon-to-Food Technology: Industrial-Scale Microbial Valorization of CO₂ into Proteins and Lipid (abstract)
10:25-10:55Coffee Break
10:55-12:15 Session 10: Metabolic Engineering and Systems Biology
10:55
Exploring the regulatory landscape behind improved autotrophy of Clostridium autoethanogenum (abstract)
11:30
Metabolic remodeling during cellulose and hemicellulose co-utilization in Clostridium thermocellum (abstract)
11:45
Aldehyde dehydrogenase and alcohol dehydrogenase inactivation trigger metabolic reprogramming in Clostridium ljungdahlii (abstract)
PRESENTER: Ziyong Liu
12:00
Rex-mediated regulation coordinates energy homeostasis and C2/C4 carbon flux partitioning in Clostridium Tyrobutyricum (abstract)
12:15-13:30Lunch
Friday, October 2nd

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09:00-10:25 Session 11: Metabolic Engineering and Systems Biology
09:00
Metabolic engineering for high titer ethanol production (abstract)
09:35
Adaptive evolution of electron transfer pathways in Thermoanaerobacterium saccharolyticum (abstract)
10:10
Sustainable acetone production in Clostridium ljungdahlii (abstract)
10:25-10:55Coffee Break
10:55-12:20 Session 12: Feedstock Utilization and Consortia
10:55
Proteomic Characterization of the Clostridium cellulovorans Cellulosome and Noncellulosomal Enzymes with Sorghum Bagasse (abstract)
11:30
The central role of the genus Clostridium (and friends) in the solubilization and utilization of lignocellulosic carbohydrates. (abstract)
12:05
Clostridia as versatile platforms for the valorization of waste biomass into hydrogen gas (abstract)
PRESENTER: Roberto Mazzoli
12:20-13:30Lunch
13:30-15:25 Session 13: Industrial and New Applications
Chair:
13:30
Engineering Clostridia for Chemicals and Biofuels Production (abstract)
14:05
Valorization of an Industrial Paper Fiber Reject Side-Stream using Consolidated Bioprocessing with Clostridium thermocellum and Thermoanaerobacterium thermosaccharolyticum (abstract)
14:20
Strategies to enhance carbon capture in a microbial electrosynthesis cell using Clostridium carboxidivorans (abstract)
14:35
Clostridium pasteurianum as Industrial Microorganism for Efficient Production of 1,3-Propanediol: From Metabolic Engineering, to Fermentation and Product Separation (abstract)
14:50-15:20Coffee Break
15:20-16:40 Session 14: Industrial and New Applications
15:20
Gas Fermentation with Clostridium: Bridging C1 Feedstocks and Sustainable Bioproducts (abstract)
15:55
From Biogenic CO2 to 1-Hexanol: Advancing Gas Fermentation in an integrated circular biorefinery concept (abstract)
16:10
Clostridium carboxidivorans as a versatile biohydrogenation platform for odd-chain alcohol production (abstract)
PRESENTER: Riccardo Raspone
16:25
Kinetic Modeling of a Bacillus subtilis–Clostridium beijerinckii Co-culture for ABE Fermentation: Dynamic Analysis of Microbial Interactions and Solvent Production (abstract)
PRESENTER: Julián Quintero
16:40-17:30 Session 15: The future of the "Clostridium" meeting

In the 36 years since the first Clostridium meeting, there has been a significant change in the taxonomic classification of many former Clostridial species.

  • What are the key commonalities that tie our community together?
  • What should be the focus of future meetings? 
  • Do we change the meeting name to reflect changes in taxonomy, or keep it for historical reasons?