​Program​

​​Tentat​ive Schedule​

​This schedule is tentative and subject to change.



Sunday, 13 July
​TimeEvent
8:00 - 15:00Satellite Meetings*
15:15 -15:45Opening Ceremony
15:45 - 17:35
Plenary Session 1 and Keynote
Rotem Sorek
Thorsten Nürnberger
Wenbo Ma
Ryohei Terauchi
*Additional Registration Required


Monday, 14 July
TimeEvent
8:15 - 9:55
Plenary Session 2
Macarena Marí​n
Wolf Frommer
Núria Sanchez Coll
Yan Liang
9:55 - 10:30
Morning Coffee Break
10:30 - 12:00
Concurrent Session 1-3
Symbiosis and Mutualism (mycorrhiza and N-fixing Rhizobia)
Population Biology, Ecology & Genomics
Plant-virus Interactions (incl. Viromes, Evolution & Vectors)
12:00 - 13:30
Lunch Break
13:30 - 15:15Poster Session Group 1 & Coffee Break
15:15 - 16:45 Concurrent Sessions 4-6
Management of diseases and emerging diseases
Extracellular & Intracellular non-self recognition & signaling
Microbial infection strategies (pathogens & non-pathogens)
16:45 - 17:30Coffee Break
17:30 - 19:10 Plenary Session 3
Hailin Jin
Stéphane Haquard
Julia Vorholt
Vivianne Vleeshouwers


Tuesday, 15 July
​TimeEvent
8:15 - 9:55
Plenary Session 4
Xin Li
Tolga Bozkurt
Rosa Lozano-Durán
Dapeng Li
9:55 - 11:30
Poster Session Group 1 & Coffee Break
11:30 - 13:00
Concurrent Session 7-9
RNA on the move: Advances in Cross-Species communiation & Translational Research
Subcellular dynamics and signaling in host-microbe interactions
Effector Interference Mechanisms
13:00 - 19:00Free Afternoon


Wednesday, 16 July
TimeEvent
8:15 - 9:55
Plenary Session 5
Satoko Yoshida
Talia Karasov
Daniel Croll
Guangcun He
9:55 - 10:30
Morning Coffee Break
10:30 - 12:00
Concurrent Session 10-12
Discrimination of friend from foe
Local and inter-organ signaling in immunity and mutualistic interactions
Plant Interactions with nematodes & parasitic plants
12:00 - 13:30Lunch Break
13:30 - 15:15Poster Session Group 2 & Coffee Break
15:15 - 16:45 Concurrent Sessions 13-15
Plant microbiota functions and intermicrobial interactions
Microbe-mediated impacts on plant-insect interactions
Crop resistance genetics and genomics
16:45 - 17:30Coffee Break
17:30 - 19:10 Plenary Session 6
Simon Krattinger
James Dale
Stella Cesari
Fang Xie


Thursday, 17 July
TimeEvent
8:15 - 9:55
Plenary Session 7
Renier van der Hoorn
Libo Shan
Evans Lagudah
Oswaldo Valdé​s-López
9:55 - 10:30
Morning Coffee Break
10:30 - 12:00
Concurrent Sessions 16-18
Emerging and re-emerging pathosystems
Plant Regulation of biotic and abiotic stress – trade-offs
Engineering plant-microbe traits
12:00 - 13:30Lunch Break
13:30 - 15:15Poster Session Group 2 & Coffee Break
15:15 - 16:45 Concurrent Sessions 19-21
Spatial & temporal resolution of the interaction interface
Nutrient exchange & role of metabolites in plant-microbe interactions
Structure Informed Synthetic Biology: From Design to Function
16:45 - 17:30
Coffee Break
17:30 - 19:20 Plenary Session 8 & Keynote
Alga Zuccaro
Corné Pieterse
Bart Thomma
​Maria Harrison
19:20 - 21:3​0Closing Event*
*Additional Registration Required
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