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  • Sunday, Jul 13th
    15:45 - 17:35  
    Opening Keynote and Plenary Session 1
    Location: Confex Hall 1+2
    Chair: Alga Zuccaro (she/her/hers) – Institute for Plant Sciences, University of Cologne, The Cluster of Excellence on Plant Sciences (CEPLAS)
    Chair: Paul Schulze-Lefert – Max Planck Institute for Plant Breeding Research
    Plenary Session
    Sponsored By 
  • Sunday, Jul 13th
    15:45 - 16:20  
    The EMBO Keynote: The immune system of bacteria: Origin of eukaryotic immunity
    Location: Confex Hall 1+2
    Speaker: Rotem Sorek – Weizmann Institute
    Plenary Session
    Sponsored By 
  • Sunday, Jul 13th
    16:20 - 16:45  
    TIR catalyzed signals at the heart of plant immunity
    Location: Confex Hall 1+2
    Speaker: Jane Parker – Department of Plant-Microbe Interactions, Max-Planck Institute for Plant Breeding Research
    Author: Junli Wang – Max Planck Institute for Plant Breeding Research, Germany
    Author: Shijia Huang – Westlake Institute for Advanced Study
    Author: Federica Locci – Max Planck Institute for Plant Breeding Research
    Author: Henriette Lässle – Department of Plant-Microbe Interactions, Max-Planck Institute for Plant Breeding Research
    Author: Lisha Zhang – University of Tübingen
    Author: Thorsten Nürnberger – University of Tübingen
    Author: Dmitry Lapin (he/him/his) – Utrecht University
    Author: Yue Wu – CAS Center for Excellence in Molecular Plant Sciences
    Author: Zuhua He – CAS Center for Excellence in Molecular Plant Sciences, CAS
    Author: Jijie Chai – Westlake University
    Plenary Session
  • Sunday, Jul 13th
    16:45 - 17:10  
    A role of secondary small interfering RNAs in plant defense
    Location: Confex Hall 1+2
    Speaker: Wenbo Ma (she/her/hers) – The Sainsbury Laboratory
    Author: Min Wang
    Author: Xiaodong Fang
    Author: Xiaoqi Feng
    Author: Fan Qi
    Plenary Session
  • Sunday, Jul 13th
    17:10 - 17:35  
    Molecular coevolution of Magnaporthe oryzae pathogen and rice: defense by evolutionary bricolage mediated by genetic recombination
    Location: Confex Hall 1+2
    Speaker: Ryohei Terauchi, PhD – Kyoto University
    Plenary Session
  • Monday, Jul 14th
    08:15 - 09:55  
    Plenary Session 2
    Location: Confex Hall 1+2
    Chair: Thomas Ott – Cell Biology, Faculty of Biology, University of Freiburg
    Plenary Session
  • Monday, Jul 14th
    08:15 - 08:40  
    Hidden interactions within root nodules
    Location: Confex Hall 1+2
    Speaker: Macarena Marin – University of Lausanne
    Plenary Session
  • Monday, Jul 14th
    08:40 - 09:05  
    Hostile Takeover — How Viruses Hijack Plants
    Location: Confex Hall 1+2
    Speaker: Rosa Lozano-Durán – University of Tü​bingen
    Plenary Session
  • Monday, Jul 14th
    09:05 - 09:30  
    Metabolic Engineering for Vascular Pathogen Resistance
    Location: Confex Hall 1+2
    Presenting Author: Nuria Sanchez Sanchez Coll – Centre for Researach in Agricultural Genomics (CRAG)
    Author: Alvaro Jimenez-Jimenez
    Author: Carmen Grech-Hernandez
    Author: Montserrat Capellades
    Author: Lara Quinteiro
    Author: Jorge Rencoret
    Author: Ana Gutierrez
    Author: Maria Pilar Lopez-Gresa
    Author: Purificacion Lison
    Author: Marc Valls – Univ of Barcelona
    Plenary Session
  • Monday, Jul 14th
    09:30 - 09:55  
    Plenary 2 Presentation
    Location: Confex Hall 1+2
    Speaker: Yang Bai – Peking University
    Plenary Session
  • Monday, Jul 14th
    17:30 - 19:10  
    Plenary Session 3
    Location: Confex Hall 1+2
    Chair: Peng Yu – 1Universität Bonn INRES - Root Functional Biology 3 TUM School of Life Sciences, Technical University of Munich, Germany
    Plenary Session
  • Monday, Jul 14th
    17:30 - 17:55  
    Plenary Presentation Title: Cross-kingdom RNA communication and nanotechnology enabled spray induced gene silencing for crop protection
    Location: Confex Hall 1+2
    Speaker: Hailing Jin, PhD (she/her/hers) – University of California
    Author: Jonatan Nino-Sanchez
    Author: Huaitong Wu – University of California, Riverside
    Author: Lulu Qiao
    Author: Rachael Hamby
    Plenary Session
  • Monday, Jul 14th
    17:55 - 18:20  
    Understanding and Preventing Fungal Dysbiosis in Plant Roots
    Location: Confex Hall 1+2
    Speaker: Stephane Hacquard – MPIPZ
    Speaker: Stephane Hacquard – MPIPZ
    Plenary Session
  • Monday, Jul 14th
    18:20 - 18:45  
    Establishing causality: Opportunities of synthetic communities for plant microbiome research
    Location: Confex Hall 1+2
    Speaker: Julia A. Vorholt (she/her/hers) – ETH​ Zurich
    Plenary Session
  • Monday, Jul 14th
    18:45 - 19:10  
    EvoMPMI, effectoromics and AI-driven strategies to enhance durable disease resistance in potato
    Location: Confex Hall 1+2
    Speaker: Vivianne Vleeshouwers – Wageningen University & Research
    Plenary Session
  • Tuesday, Jul 15th
    08:15 - 09:55  
    Plenary Session 4
    Location: Confex Hall 1+2
    Chair: Caroline Gutjahr – Max-Planck-Institute of Molecular Plant Physiology
    Plenary Session
    With Sponsorship Support From 
  • Tuesday, Jul 15th
    08:15 - 08:40  
    A forward genetic screen in Sclerotinia sclerotiorum: finding the most unexpected
    Location: Confex Hall 1+2
    Speaker: Xin Li – Michael Smith Laboratories
    Plenary Session
  • Tuesday, Jul 15th
    08:40 - 09:05  
    Re-programming of host membrane trafficking during plant-pathogen interactions
    Location: Confex Hall 1+2
    Speaker: Tolga Bozkurt, PhD (he/him/his) – Imperial College London
    Plenary Session
  • Tuesday, Jul 15th
    09:05 - 09:30  
    A critical role of access to host metabolites for virulence of bacterial pathogens and use of knowledge for engineering resistance
    Location: Confex Hall 1+2
    Speaker: Wolf B. B. Frommer, Dr. rer. nat. – Heinrich Heine University​ Düsseldorf
    Author: Boris Szurek – Institut de Recherche pour le Développement
    Author: Bing Yang
    Author: Eliza Loo
    Author: Paul CHAVARRIAGA
    Plenary Session
  • Tuesday, Jul 15th
    09:30 - 09:55  
    Exploring the metabolic space of plant defense
    Location: Confex Hall 1+2
    Speaker: Dapeng Li – Chinese Academy of Sciences
    Plenary Session
  • Wednesday, Jul 16th
    08:15 - 09:55  
    Plenary Session 5
    Location: Confex Hall 1+2
    Chair: Honour McCann – Max Planck Institute for Biology
    Plenary Session
  • Wednesday, Jul 16th
    08:15 - 08:40  
    Haustorium induction in Orobanchaceae parasitic plants
    Location: Confex Hall 1+2
    Plenary Session
  • Wednesday, Jul 16th
    08:40 - 09:05  
    Plant pathogens suppress one another with repurposed phage machinery
    Location: Confex Hall 1+2
    Speaker: Talia Karasov, PhD – University of Utah
    Plenary Session
  • Wednesday, Jul 16th
    09:05 - 09:30  
    Deep genomic insights into the emergence of crop pathogens
    Location: Confex Hall 1+2
    Speaker: Daniel Croll, PhD (he/him/his) – University of Neuchâ​tel
    Plenary Session
  • Wednesday, Jul 16th
    09:30 - 09:55  
    Molecular Mechanisms of Rice Resistance to Brown Planthopper
    Location: Confex Hall 1+2
    Speaker: Guangcun He – Wuhan University
    Plenary Session
  • Wednesday, Jul 16th
    17:30 - 18:45  
    Plenary Session 6
    Location: Confex Hall 1+2
    Chair: Eva Stukenbrock – University of Kiel
    Plenary Session
  • Wednesday, Jul 16th
    17:30 - 17:55  
    Durable rust resistance in cereals
    Location: Confex Hall 1+2
    Speaker: Simon Krattinger (he/him/his) – King Abdullah University of Science and Technology
    Author: Urooj Fatima – King Abdullah University of Science and Technology
    Author: Umar Shahul Hameed – King Abdullah University of Science and Technology (KAUST)
    Author: Natalia Arango Lopez – King Abdullah University of Science and Technology (KAUST)
    Author: Naganand Rayapuram – King Abdullah University of Science and Technology (KAUST)
    Author: Heribert Hirt – King Abdullah University of Science and Technology (KAUST)
    Author: Michael Abrouk – King Abdullah University of Science and Technology (KAUST)
    Author: Yajun Wang – King Abdullah University of Science and Technology (KAUST)
    Author: Jonathan D. G. Jones – The Sainsbury Laboratory
    Author: Stefan Arold – King Abdullah University of Science and Technology (KAUST)
    Plenary Session
  • Wednesday, Jul 16th
    17:55 - 18:20  
    MAX effectors in the rice-Magnaporthe oryzae interaction
    Location: Confex Hall 1+2
    Speaker: Stella Cesari (she/her/hers) – PHIM Plant Health Institute, Univ Montpellier, INRAE, CIRAD, Institut Agro, IRD
    Presenting Author: Stella Cesari (she/her/hers) – PHIM Plant Health Institute, Univ Montpellier, INRAE, CIRAD, Institut Agro, IRD
    Author: Josephine Maidment – Plant Health Institute of Montpellier / Centre de Biologie Structurale
    Author: Svenja C. Saile – Plant Health Institute of Montpellier
    Author: Sébastien Ribeiro – Plant Health Institute of Montpellier
    Author: Karine de Guillen – Centre de Biologie Structurale
    Author: Thomas Kroj – Plant Health Institute of Montpellier
    Author: Marie Le Naour--Vernet, PhD (she/her/hers) – Institute of Plant and Microbial Biology, University of Zurich
    Author: Aurélien Bocquet
    Author: Léo Bourcet
    Author: Céline Thivolle
    Author: Lisa-Fatimatou Planel – Plant Health Institute of Montpellier
    Plenary Session
  • Wednesday, Jul 16th
    18:20 - 18:45  
    Invasion by invitation: Rhizobia’s journey into legumes
    Location: Confex Hall 1+2
    Speaker: Fang Xei (she/her/hers) – CAS Center for Excellence in Molecular Plant Sciences
    Speaker: Fang Xie – CAS Center for Excellence in Molecular Plant Sciences, Shanghai, China
    Author: Zhiqiong Zheng – CAS Center for Excellence in Molecular Plant Sciences, Shanghai, China
    Author: Ning Zhou – CAS Center for Excellence in Molecular Plant Sciences, Shanghai, China
    Author: Xiaolin Li – CAS Center for Excellence in Molecular Plant Sciences, Shanghai, China
    Plenary Session
  • Thursday, Jul 17th
    08:15 - 09:55  
    Plenary Session 7
    Location: Confex Hall 1+2
    Chair: Armin Djamei – INRES- Plant Pathology, University of Bonn
    Plenary Session
  • Thursday, Jul 17th
    08:15 - 08:40  
    Apoplast manipulation by Pseudomonas syringae
    Location: Confex Hall 1+2
    Speaker: Renier A. L. van der Hoorn – University of Oxford
    Plenary Session
  • Thursday, Jul 17th
    08:40 - 09:05  
    A multi-disciplinary approach to understand anti-bacterial plant immunity
    Location: Confex Hall 1+2
    Author: Meng Shen – 1. Institute of Genetics and Developmental Biology, Chinese Academy of Sciences
    Author: Pei Mao – Yazhouwan National Laboratory
    Author: Haijun Wang – College of Chemistry and Molecular Engineering, Peking University
    Author: Wei Wang – Institute of Genetics and Developmental Biology, Chinese Academy of Sciences
    Author: Yangan Zheng – Institute of Genetics and Developmental Biology, Chinese Academy of Sciences
    Author: Meijuan Hu – Institute of Genetics and Developmental Biology, Chinese Academy of Sciences
    Author: Jiayu Wang – Institute of Genetics and Developmental Biology, Chinese Academy of Sciences
    Author: Xiaoguang Lei – College of Chemistry and Molecular Engineering, Peking University
    Author: Kangmin He – Institute of Genetics and Developmental Biology, Chinese Academy of Sciences
    Speaker: Jian-Min Zhou – Yazhouwan National Laboratory
    Plenary Session
  • Thursday, Jul 17th
    09:05 - 09:30  
    Rich tapestry of wheat rust resistance genes and their fate in global improvement programs
    Location: Confex Hall 1+2
    Speaker: Evans Lagudah (he/him/his) – CSIRO Agriculture and Food
    Author: CIMMYT Wheat Rust Program
    Author: ACRCP AUS
    Author: Ricky Milne
    Author: Kathy Dibley
    Plenary Session
  • Thursday, Jul 17th
    09:30 - 09:55  
    Toward the understanding of the genetic control of the root nodule symbiosis under phosphate-deficient conditions
    Location: Confex Hall 1+2
    Speaker: Oswaldo Valdes-Lopez, PhD (he/him/his) – UNAM
    Author: Jawahar Singh – University of Cambridge
    Author: Ana Belén Mendoza-Soto
    Author: Manish Tiwari
    Author: Damienl Formey
    Author: Jean-Michel Ané
    Author: Martina Ried
    Author: Tomás Acevedo-Sandoval
    Plenary Session
  • Thursday, Jul 17th
    17:30 - 19:20  
    Plenary Session 8 & Closing Remarks
    Location: Confex Hall 1+2
    Chair: Silke Robatzek – LMU Biocentre
    Chair: Paul Schulze-Lefert – Max Planck Institute for Plant Breeding Research
    Plenary Session
  • Thursday, Jul 17th
    17:30 - 17:55  
    From Effectors to Infochemicals: How Mutualistic Fungi Engineer Root Compatibility
    Location: Confex Hall 1+2
    Speaker: Alga Zuccaro (she/her/hers) – Institute for Plant Sciences, University of Cologne, The Cluster of Excellence on Plant Sciences (CEPLAS)
    Plenary Session
  • Thursday, Jul 17th
    17:55 - 18:20  
    Plant microbiome: the extended immune system
    Location: Confex Hall 1+2
    Speaker: Corné M.J. Pieterse, PhD (he/him/his) – Utrecht University
    Author: PMI Team Utrecht
    Plenary Session
  • Thursday, Jul 17th
    18:20 - 18:45  
    Fungal pathogens co-opt ancient antimicrobials for host manipulation
    Location: Confex Hall 1+2
    Speaker: Bart Thomma (he/him/his) – CEPLAS/University of Cologne
    Author: Fantin Mesny – University of Zürich
    Author: Valentina Wolf – University of Lund
    Author: Anton Kraege (he/him/his) – University of Cologne
    Author: Ana López-Moral
    Author: Wilko Punt – University of Cologne
    Plenary Session
  • Thursday, Jul 17th
    18:45 - 19:20  
    Towards a holistic understanding of arbuscular mycorrhizal symbiosis
    Location: Confex Hall 1+2
    Speaker: Maria J. Harrison, Ph.D (she/her/hers) – Boyce Thompson Institute
    Author: Sergey Ivanov
    Author: Trevor Tivey
    Plenary Session