Concurrent Session: Effector Interference Mechanisms

Tuesday, July 15, 2025

11:30 - 13:00

Location: Room M+N

Co-Chair(s)

SH

Saskia Hogenhout

Group Leader
Department of Crop Genetics
Crop Genetics Dept., John Innes Centre
Norwich, England, United Kingdom
JL

Joo Hyun Lee (she/her/hers)

Plant Immunity Research Center
Seoul National University
Seoul, SOUTH KOREA

Presentations:

11:30 - 11:50

Phytophthora effector hijacks host calcium channels to suppress PTI
Presenting Author: Joo Hyun Lee (she/her/hers) – Seoul National University
11:50 - 12:10

Effector crosstalk in Xanthomonas citri: host ripening pathway links type III and type II effector virulence functions
Presenting Author: Thomas Lahaye – Eberhard-Karls-University Tübingen
Author: Trang Thi-Thu Phan
Author: Rodrigo Silva Araujo Streit
Author: Joachim Kilian
Author: Paloma de los Angeles Aguilera
Author: Nan Wang
Author: Nicolas Brich
Author: Robert Morbitzer – ZMBP, University of Tuebingen
Author: Edda von Roepenack-Lahaye – ZMBP, University of Tuebingen
Author: Priscila Oliveira de Giuseppe
Author: Concetta Licciardello
Author: Jan Grau
Author: Paulo Teixeira (he/him/his) – University of Sao Paulo/
Author: Gabriela Felix Persinoti
Author: Mario Tyago Murakami
Author: Chang Liu
12:10 - 12:20

Aphid effectors suppress plant immunity via recruiting defence proteins to processing bodies
Presenting Author: Qun Liu – John Innes Centre
Author: Anna C. M. Neefjes – University of Amsterdam
Author: Archana Singh – Cambridge University
Author: Roksolana Kobylinska – Institute of Science and Technology
Author: Sam T. Mugford – John Innes Centre
Author: Mar Marzo – John Innes Centre
Author: James Canham – The Sainsbury Laboratory
Author: Mariana Schuster, PhD (she/her/hers) – Leibniz Institute of Plant Biochemistry
Author: Renier A. L. van der Hoorn – University of Oxford
Author: Yazhou Chen – Huazhong Agricultural University
Author: Saskia A. Hogenhout – Crop Genetics Dept., John Innes Centre
12:20 - 12:30

Effector-triggered processing body formation attenuates host translation to dampen plant immunity upon infection
Presenting Author: Manuel Gonzalez Fuente – Faculty of Biology and Biotechnology, Ruhr-University of Bochum
Author: Nico Schulz – Faculty of Biology and Biotechnology, Ruhr-University of Bochum
Author: Alibek Abdrakhmanov – Gregor Mendel Institute (GMI), Austrian Academy of Sciences
Author: Shanshuo Zhu – Faculty of Biology and Biotechnology, Ruhr-University of Bochum
Author: Gautier Langin – Faculty of Biology and Biotechnology, Ruhr-University of Bochum
Author: Mirita Franz-Wachtel – Proteome Center Tübingen, University of Tübingen
Author: Boris Macek – Proteome Center Tübingen, University of Tübingen
Author: Anders Hafren – Department of Plant Biology, Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences
Author: Yasin Dagdas – The Gregor Mendel Institute of Molecular Plant Biology
Author: Suayib Üstün – Faculty of Biology and Biotechnology, Ruhr-University of Bochum
12:30 - 12:40

The F. graminearum effector TPP1 hijacks the chloroplast iron-sulfur protein and dynamically regulates plant defense via phase separation
Presenting Author: Youhuang Xiang – Indiana University Bloomington
Author: Roger W. Innes, PhD (he/him/his) – Indiana University Bloomington
12:40 - 12:50

The RXLR-EER motifs determine an unconventional secretion pathway associated with EV production
Presenting Author: Wei Wang – University of Dundee
Author: Shumei Wang – University of Dundee
Author: Lin Xu – University of Dundee
Author: Stephen C. Whisson – James Hutton institute
Author: Petra C. Boevink – James hutton institute
Author: Paul R.J. Birch – University of Dundee
Author: Lydia Welsh – James Hutton institute
12:50 - 13:00

Verticillium TRADE – a fungal effector that induces plant cell identity switches and reprograms plants for enhanced drought resilience
Presenting Author: Corinna Thurow – Department of Plant Cell Biology, Georg-August-University Göttingen
Author: Konrad Subieta – Department of Plant Cell Biology, Georg-August-University Göttingen
Author: Leonie Weber – Department of Plant Cell Biology, Georg-August-University Göttingen
Author: Jan-Niclas Lübbers – Department of Plant Cell Biology, Georg-August-University Göttingen
Author: Karin Wiesotzki – Department of Plant Cell Biology, Georg-August-University Göttingen
Author: Leon Pierdzig – Department of Plant Cell Biology, Georg-August-University Göttingen
Author: Kerstin Schmitt – Department of Molecular Microbiology and Genetics, Georg-August-University Göttingen
Author: Oliver Valerius – Department of Molecular Microbiology and Genetics, Georg-August-University Göttingen
Author: Thomas Teichmann – Department of Plant Cell Biology, Georg-August-University Göttingen
Author: Volker Lipka – Department of Plant Cell Biology, Georg-August-University Göttingen