Plenary Session

Plenary Session 8 & Closing Remarks

Chair(s)

• SR

  Silke Robatzek

  LMU Biocentre
  Martinsried, Bayern, Germany
• PS

  Paul Schulze-Lefert

  Professor
  Max Planck Institute for Plant Breeding Research
  Köln, Nordrhein-Westfalen, Germany

Presentations:

• 17:30 - 17:55  

  From Effectors to Infochemicals: How Mutualistic Fungi Engineer Root Compatibility
  

  Speaker: Alga Zuccaro (she/her/hers) – Institute for Plant Sciences, University of Cologne, The Cluster of Excellence on Plant Sciences (CEPLAS)
• 17:55 - 18:20  

  Plant microbiome: the extended immune system
  

  Speaker: Corné M.J. Pieterse, PhD (he/him/his) – Utrecht University

  Author: PMI Team Utrecht
• 18:20 - 18:45  

  Fungal pathogens co-opt ancient antimicrobials for host manipulation
  

  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
• 18:45 - 19:20  

  Towards a holistic understanding of arbuscular mycorrhizal symbiosis
  

  Speaker: Maria J. Harrison, Ph.D (she/her/hers) – Boyce Thompson Institute

  Author: Sergey Ivanov

  Author: Trevor Tivey