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Full Schedule

Full Schedule

  • Monday, July 14, 2025
  • 07:30 - 16:00  
    Speaker Ready Room Open
  • 07:30 - 18:00  
    IS-MPMI Registration Desk
  • 08:15 - 09:55  
    Plenary Session 2
    Chair: Thomas Ott – Cell Biology, Faculty of Biology, University of Freiburg
    Plenary Session
  • 09:55 - 10:30  
    Coffee Break
    Networking
  • 09:55 - 17:30  
    Poster Hall Open
  • 10:30 - 12:00  
    Concurrent Session: Plant-virus Interactions (incl. Viromes, Evolution & Vectors)
    Co-Chair: Laura Medina-Puche – Department of Plant Biochemistry, Centre for Plant Molecular Biology (ZMBP), Eberhard Karls University
    Co-Chair: Francisco Murilo Zerbini – Universidade Federal de Vicosa
    Concurrent Session
  • 10:30 - 12:00  
    Concurrent Session: Population Biology, Ecology & Genomics
    Co-Chair: Honour McCann – Max Planck Institute for Biology
    Co-Chair: Stig U. Andersen – Aarhus University
    Concurrent Session
  • 10:30 - 12:00  
    Concurrent Session: Symbiosis and Mutualism (mycorrhiza and N-fixing Rhizobia)
    Co-Chair: Caroline Gutjahr – Max-Planck-Institute of Molecular Plant Physiology
    Co-Chair: Georgina Hernandez, PhD (she/her/hers) – Universidad Nacional Autonoma de Mexico (UNAM)
    Mutualistic symbioses between plants and fungi or bacteria are based on the exchange of nutrients and are characterized by reciprocal benefits and close physical interaction, including in most cases accommodation of the microbes inside host cells. This requires fine-tuned signaling and cellular remodeling of both partners to reach and maintain compatibility, and to terminate the interaction in a timely manner to prevent parasitism. In this session we highlight recent findings on signaling, development, regulation, functioning, molecular diversity and evolution of mutualistic plant-microbe symbioses.
    Concurrent Session
  • 12:00 - 13:30  
    Lunch Break
    Networking
  • 13:30 - 15:15  
    Coffee Break
  • 13:30 - 15:15  
    Session 1 Presenting Authors at Posters (Odds)
    Poster
  • 15:15 - 16:45  
    Concurrent Session: Extracellular & Intracellular non-self recognition & signaling (1)
    Co-Chair: Jane Parker – Department of Plant-Microbe Interactions, Max-Planck Institute for Plant Breeding Research
    Co-Chair: Kee Hoon Sohn, PhD (he/him/his) – Seoul National University
    Concurrent Session
  • 15:15 - 16:45  
    Concurrent Session: Management of diseases and emerging diseases
    Co-Chair: Kamil Witek – 2Blades, The Sainsbury Laboratory
    Concurrent Session
  • 15:15 - 16:45  
    Concurrent Session: Microbial infection strategies (pathogens & non-pathogens)
    Co-Chair: Armin Djamei – INRES- Plant Pathology, University of Bonn
    Co-Chair: Amey Redkar, PhD (he/him/his) – National Centre for Biological Sciences
    Concurrent Session
  • 16:45 - 17:30  
    Coffee Break
    Networking
  • 17:30 - 19:10  
    Plenary Session 3
    Chair: Peng Yu – 1Universität Bonn INRES - Root Functional Biology 3 TUM School of Life Sciences, Technical University of Munich, Germany
    Plenary Session