Concurrent Session: Plant microbiota functions and intermicrobial interactions

Wednesday, July 16, 2025

15:15 - 16:45

Location: Confex Hall 1+2

Co-Chair(s)

YB

Yang Bai

Chinese Academy of Sciences
PT

Paulo Teixeira (he/him/his)

Assistant Professor
University of Sao Paulo/
Piracicaba, Sao Paulo, Brazil

Presentations:

15:15 - 15:35

Molecular Mechanisms of Plant Microbiome Assembly: From Bacterial Genes to Host Specificity
Presenting Author: Dor Russ (he/him/his) – University of North Carolina
Author: Connor R. Fitzpatrick
Author: Chinmay Saha
Author: Theresa F. Law
Author: Corbin D. Jones
Author: Daniel J. Kliebenstein
Author: Jeffery L. Dangl – University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
15:35 - 15:55

Natural variation in Arabidopsis thaliana root responses to microbiota-derived Pseudomonas strains
Presenting Author: Charles Copeland (he/him/his) – Max Planck Institute for Plant Breeding Research
Author: Elke Logemann – Max Planck Institute for Plant Breeding Research
Author: Paul Schulze-Lefert – Max Planck Institute for Plant Breeding Research
15:55 - 16:15

Genes involved in manipulating the host growth-defense tradeoff by root-associated bacteria
Author: Jana Hucklenbroich – Max Planck Institute for Plant Breeding Research
Author: Zoe Prockl – Faculty of Science, Hokkaido University
Author: Fiqih Ramadhan – Faculty of Science, Hokkaido University
Author: Silvina Perin – Max Planck Institute for Plant Breeding Research
Presenting Author: Ryohei Thomas Nakano – Faculty of Science, Hokkaido University
Author: Tomohisa Shimasaki – Faculty of Science, Hokkaido University
16:15 - 16:25

Phage-Mediated Modulation of the Phyllosphere Microbiome and its Role in Pathogen Control in Arabidopsis thaliana
Presenting Author: Leonie Margarete Zott – University of Tuebingen - Tubingen
Author: Eric Kemen – Centre of Plant Molecular Biology (ZMBP), University of Tübingen
16:25 - 16:35

Plants finetune immune signaling, metabolite and nutrient levels to configure a healthy leaf microbiota
Presenting Author: Shanice Webster – Duke University
Author: Jin Xu – University of Florida Citrus Research and Education Center
Author: Tao Chen – Duke University
Author: Yulin Sun – Northeastern University
Author: Jing-ke Weng – Northeastern University
Author: Sheng Yang He, PhD – Duke University, HHMI
16:35 - 16:45

Root-secreted coumarin promotes Fe nutrition of coumarin-tolerant rhizobacteria
Presenting Author: Max J.J Stassen – Utrecht University
Author: Mike Bos – Utrecht University
Author: Marciel Pereira-Mendes – Utrecht University
Author: Sophie G.F Vijverberg (she/her/hers) – Utrecht University
Author: Valentine Trotter – UC Berkeley
Author: Adam Deutschbauer – UC Berkeley
Author: George Papaisidorou – Utrecht University
Author: Shu-Hua Hsu – Utrecht University
Author: Roeland Berendsen – Utrecht University
Author: Ronnie De Jonge – Utrecht University
Author: Ioannis A. Stringlis – Agricultural University of Athens
Author: Corné M.J. Pieterse, PhD (he/him/his) – Utrecht University