June 8-9 Showcase

09:00 - 09:10 OPENING REMARKS

09:10 - 09:30 Jia Xuan Leong – Graduate Student, University of Tuebingen, Germany
The battle between bacterial effector and plant autophagy

09:30 - 09:50 Everlyne Wosula – Postdoctoral Scholar, International Institute of Tropical 
Agriculture, Dar es Salaam, Tanzania
The cassava whitefly, Bemisia tabaci: Genetic diversity and application of KASP for diagnosis

09:50 - 10:10 Valdeir Junio Vaz Moreira – Graduate Student, University of Brasília, Brazil
RNAi-mediated parasitism gene silencing: a novel source of resistance for crop protection against the root-knot nematodes

10:10 - 10:30 Emeka Chibuzor Okechukwu –  Postdoctoral Scholar, University of Worcester, UK
Biocontrol of down mildew pathogens

10:30 - 10:50 Break

10:50 - 11:10 Jack Rhodes – Postdoctoral Scholar, The Sainsbury Laboratory, Norwich, UK
Investigating the role of novel phytocytokines in the stress response 

11:10 - 11:30 Kiona Elliott – Graduate Student, Washington University, St. Louis, MO
Investigating cassava susceptibility to Xanthomonas induced bacterial blight

11:30 - 11:50 Natalia Guayazán Palacios – Graduate Student, University of Washington, WA
Kunitz trypsin inhibitor diversity in legumes reveals novel cysteine residues required for protein stability and function in the Lepidoptera midgut

11:50 - 12:10 Priyamedha Sengupta – Graduate Student, Institute for Plant Sciences and Cluster of Excellence on Plant Sciences (CEPLAS), University of Cologne, Germany
Elucidating the role of Glycoside hydrolase family 25 in microbial antagonism​  

12:10 - 13:00 Breakout Discussions

07:00 - 07:10 OPENING REMARKS

07:10 - 07:30 Eunji Lee – Graduate Student, Dong-A University, South Korea
Post-transcriptional regulation of plant NLRs by nonsense-mediated mRNA decay and evolution and conservation of NLRs as NMD-targets

07:30 - 07:50 Kajal Mandal – Graduate Student, CSIR-Indian Institute of Chemical Biology, India
Comparative Genome Analysis Across 128 Phytophthora Isolates Reveal Species-Specific Microsatellite Distribution and Localized Evolution of Compartmentalized Genomes

07:50 - 08:10 Valentine Nakato – Postdoctoral Scholar, International Institute of Tropical Agriculture, Kampala, Uganda
Title Pending​

08:10 - 08:30 Sabine Brumm – Postdoctoral Scholar, Sainsbury Laboratory, University of Cambridge, United Kingdom
Exploiting conserved development regulators to achieve pathogen resistance in barley

08:30 - 08:50 Break

08:50 - 09:10 Sanhita Chakraborty – Postdoctoral Scholar, University of Wisconsin, Madison, WI
Dissecting the interactions between rhizobium-legume symbiosis and salinity​

09:10 - 09:30 Isabel Pochet Pimentel – Graduate Student, Department of Molecular Genetics and Microbiology, Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile
Plant transcription factors are required for the functional beneficial association between Arabidopsis thaliana and the N-fixing bacterium Ensifer meliloti

09:30 - 09:50 Brian Rutter – Postdoctoral scholar, Biology Department, Indiana University
The Development of Extracellular Vesicle Markers for the Fungal Phytopathogen Colletotrichum higginsianum

09:50 - 10:10​ Jovana Mijatović – Graduate student, University of Georgia
Impacts of traditional and translational disease resistance in cotton

10:10 - 11:00 Breakout Discussions
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