Don’t miss the chance to have your latest findings on effectors published in the open access MPMI Focus Issue “Effectors at the Interface of Plant–Microbe Interactions.” This focus […]

Timothy L. Friesen, Editor-in-Chief Molecular Plant–Microbe Interactions For each gene that conditions reaction in the host there is a corresponding gene

The 20th IS-MPMI Congress was held in Providence, Rhode Island, on July 16–20, 2023, and featured a keynote talk by Russell Vance (professor and HHMI investigator, UC Berkeley) and a talk by IS-MPMI Outstanding Achievement Award winner Jonathan Jones (professor, The Sainsbury Laboratory). Early Career Achievement Award winners Cara Haney (associate professor and Canada Research Chair, University of British Columbia) and Xiufang Xin (Chinese Academy of Sciences Center for Excellence in Molecular Plant Sciences) were also recognized for their outstanding achievements, and new IS-MPMI President Adam Bogdanove was introduced. The meeting included 33 plenary speakers and approximately 80 concurrent session speakers. For the first time, concurrent session topics were selected by members and included a wide range of themes, comprising traditional research talks, insights into the publishing process, undergraduate research and networking, and TED-style flash talks. There were 762 attendees at the Congress, representing 40 different countries. Remarkably,

Anjali Iyer-Pascuzzi is a professor in the Botany and Plant Pathology Department at Purdue University. She grew up in Los

The IS-MPMI Election Committee is accepting nominations for President-Elect to join the IS-MPMI Board of Directors. Board member responsibilities include participating