Chairing our final #BioMetals2018 session is Dr. Pierre Cornelis (Laboratoire de microbiologie signaux et microenvironnement - lmsm-lab.fr). The topic: metals at the host-microbe interface.

We begin our final session with a talk by UoR BioSci's Dr. Simon Andrews, with a discussion on how the bacterial pathogen Brucella uses #iron export to enhance survival against superoxides during phagocytosis. #BioMetals2018

More on #macrophages at #BioMetals2018! David Heinrichs of Schulich WesternU presents: "Staphylococcus aureus: adaption to life in the phagolysosome." A look at how S aureus replicates inside phagosomes and acquire nutrients. #copper & #zinc repletion, #iron & #magnesium depletion.

#BioMetals2018's final talk is by Dr. Kamila Stokowa-Soltys from UNIWROC. How does metal ion coordination affect the activity of membrane proteins in Fusobacterium nucleotum?

Congrats to #BioMetals2018 trainees receiving awards: Anna SantaMaria of Chemistry at Illinois (Best Talk), Azul Pinochet-Barros of @cornellpathogen (Poster - 1st place), Eric Peng of U.S. FDA (Poster - 2nd place), and Anabel Bergeron of uOttawaBMI The Ottawa Hospital (Poster - 3rd place)!

Congratulation to Dr. Larry L. Barton of Univ. of New Mexico on receipt of the Heritage Award: In recognition for special contributions to the development of the biometals field. #BioMetals2018

Congrats to Dr. Marvin J. Miller from Notre Dame Science for the Biometals Award, in recognition for outstanding research in the biometals field. #BioMetals2018

I wish to applaud the organizers of #BioMetals2018 for their obvious commitment to gender diversity in the selection of speakers. This was the most balanced program I’ve ever attended. Alain Stintzi

#BioMetals2018: Photos📷 & tweets curated and in chronological order. Day 1: x.com/i/moments/1020… Day 2: x.com/i/moments/1020… Day 3: x.com/i/moments/1020… Day 4: x.com/i/moments/1020… Day 5: x.com/i/moments/1020… Enjoy! Full drive of photos will be uploaded soon.

Interested in host-microbiome interactions in IBD? Check out the paper by Xu Zhang and Shelley Deeke in Nature Comm on gut microbiome and intestinal extracellular vesicles in pediatric IBD. ow.ly/xhj430l2Ho4

The pattern of gut #microbiome and metabolites changes as colon #cancer progresses, as defined by metagenomics and metabolomics in a large cohort. nature.com/articles/s4159… Nature Medicine No shortage of implications for pathobiology and diagnosis

I'd like to share this remembrance of Pierre Cornelius from his students & colleagues. He made important contributions to understanding iron acquisition/ metabolism by P. aeruginosa & served as Belgian Ambassador to ASM. journals.asm.org/doi/10.1128/jb… ASM JBacteriology Eds