Concurrent Session: Structure Informed Synthetic Biology: From Design to Function

Thursday, July 17, 2025

15:15 - 16:45

Location: Confex Hall 1+2

Co-Chair(s)

JK

Jiorgos Kourelis

Imperial University
MB

Mark Banfield

Group Leader
John Innes Centre
Norwich, England, United Kingdom

Presentations:

15:15 - 15:35

Integrated domains in cereal tandem kinase protein immune receptors are novel targets for disease resistance engineering
Presenting Author: Daniel S. Yu – John Innes Centre
Author: Rafal Zdrzalek – John Innes Centre
Author: Emi Katayama – Graduate School of Agricultural Science, Kobe University
Author: Hitomi Akiyama – Kobe University
Author: Lucy Daykin – John Innes Centre
Author: Iwan Goodridge – John Innes Centre
Author: Soichiro Asuke – Graduate School of Agricultural Science, Kobe University
Author: Mark J. Banfield – John Innes Centre
15:35 - 15:55

CANCELLED - Enhancing plant broad-spectrum resistance through engineered pattern recognition receptors
Presenting Author: Andrea A. Gust (she/her/hers) – Dept. of Plant Biochemistry, ZMBP, University of Tuebingen
Author: Yuankun Yang (he/him/his)
15:55 - 16:15

Harnessing Protein Design to Target NUDIX Effectors
Presenting Author: Simon J. Williams, PhD (he/him/his) – The Australian National University
Author: Benjamin Silke
Author: Carl McCombe
Author: Nuren Tasneem – Australian National University
16:15 - 16:25

Systematic Discovery and Design of Synthetic Immune Receptors in Plants
Presenting Author: Bruno Pok Man Ngou – RIKEN CSRS
Author: Michele Wyler – MWSchmid GmbH
Author: Marc Schmid – MWSchmid GmbH
Author: Takehiro Suzuki – RIKEN CSRS
Author: Naoshi Dohmae – RIKEN CSRS
Author: Yasuhiro Kadota, PhD (he/him/his) – RIKEN CSRS
Author: Ken Shirasu, PhD (he/him/his) – RIKEN CSRS
Author: Markus Albert – Friedrich-Alexander-University Erlangen-Nuremberg
16:25 - 16:35

Structural studies of MAX effectors and their host targets to guide targeted engineering of plant proteins for disease resistance
Presenting Author: Josephine Maidment – Plant Health Institute of Montpellier / Centre de Biologie Structurale
Author: Svenja C. Saile – Plant Health Institute of Montpellier
Author: Aurélien Bocquet – Plant Health Institute of Montpellier / Centre de Biologie Structurale
Author: Sébastien Ribeiro – Plant Health Institute of Montpellier
Author: Léo Bourcet – Centre de Biologie Structurale
Author: Céline Thivolle – Plant Health Institute of Montpellier
Author: Lisa-Fatimatou Planel – Plant Health Institute of Montpellier
Author: Mounia Lahfa – Centre de Biologie Structurale
Author: Marie Le Naour--Vernet, PhD (she/her/hers) – Institute of Plant and Microbial Biology, University of Zurich
Author: André Padilla – Centre de Biologie Structurale
Author: Thomas Kroj – Plant Health Institute of Montpellier
Author: Karine de Guillen – Centre de Biologie Structurale
Author: Stella Cesari (she/her/hers) – PHIM Plant Health Institute, Univ Montpellier, INRAE, CIRAD, Institut Agro, IRD
16:35 - 16:45

Pikobodies: NLR immune receptor-nanobody fusions can confer resistance to the potato blight pathogen Phytophthora infestans
Presenting Author: Andres Posbeyikian (he/him/his) – The Sainsbury Laboratory
Author: Barbara Schrammel
Author: Adeline Harant – The Sainsbury Laboratory
Author: Mauricio P. Contreras – The Sainsbury Laboratory
Author: Jose Salguero Linares – The Sainsbury Laboratory
Author: Jiorgos Kourelis – Imperial University
Author: Clémence Marchal – The Center for Plant Molecular Biology (ZMBP)
Author: Sophien Kamoun – The Sainsbury Laboratory