Concurrent Session: Microbial infection strategies (pathogens & non-pathogens)

Monday, July 14, 2025

15:15 - 16:45

Location: Confex Hall 1+2

With Sponsorship Support From

Co-Chair(s)

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Armin Djamei

INRES- Plant Pathology, University of Bonn
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Amey Redkar, PhD (he/him/his)

Assistant Professor
National Centre for Biological Sciences
Bengaluru, Karnataka, INDIA

Presentations:

15:15 - 15:30

Processes underpinning the colonisation of plants by pathogenic and symbiotic filamentous microbes
Presenting Author: Sebastian Schornack – Sainsbury Laboratory (SLCU), University of Cambridge
15:30 - 15:45

Molecular mechanisms underlying gall formation in the corn smut fungus Ustilago maydis
Presenting Author: Mamoona Khan – University of Bonn
Author: Nithya Nagarjan – INRES-Plant Pathology, University of Bonn
Author: Kathrin Schneewolf – INRES-Plant Pathology, University of Bonn
Author: Peng Yu – 1Universität Bonn INRES - Root Functional Biology 3 TUM School of Life Sciences, Technical University of Munich, Germany
Author: Danning Wang – INRES-Root Functional Biology, University of Bonn
Author: Armin Djamei – INRES- Plant Pathology, University of Bonn
15:45 - 16:00

Visualising mutualism in arbuscular mycorrhizal symbiosis of rice
Presenting Author: Uta Paszkowski (she/her/hers) – University of Cambridge
Author: Jennifer McGaley
Author: Ben Schneider
Author: Martina Orvosova
16:00 - 16:15

Identification of the key virulence factor of the atypical rhizobia that trigger pathogenicity and nodulation on the same host
Author: Tifaine Folletti – Laboratoire des Interactions Plantes-Microbes-Environnement (LIPME), Université de Toulouse, INRAE, CNRS
Author: Sophie Massot – Université Paris Cité, CNRS, INRAE, Institute of Plant Sciences Paris-Saclay, 91190 Gif sur Yvette, France
Author: Laurent Sauviac – Laboratoire des Interactions Plantes-Microbes-Environnement (LIPME), Université de Toulouse, INRAE, CNRS
Author: Fabienne Vailleau – Laboratoire des Interactions Plantes-Microbes-Environnement (LIPME), Université de Toulouse, INRAE, CNRS
Author: Jörn Piel – Institute of Microbiology, Eidgenössische Technische Hochschule Zurich
Author: Pascal Ratet – Université Paris-Saclay, CNRS, INRAE, Université Evry, Institute of Plant Sciences Paris-Saclay
Presenting Author: Benjamin Gourion – Laboratoire des Interactions Plantes-Microbes-Environnement (LIPME), Université de Toulouse, INRAE, CNRS
16:15 - 16:30

Transcriptional plasticity of fast-core chromosomes governs establishment of a fungal pathogen on evolutionarily distant plant lineages
Presenting Author: Amey Redkar, PhD (he/him/his) – National Centre for Biological Sciences
Author: Vidha Srivastava, MSc – National Centre for Biological Sciences
Author: Siddharth Kaushik, MTech – National Centre for Biological Sciences