Keynote Speaker
Russell Vance
Russell Vance obtained his PhD in 2000 under the mentorship of David Raulet at the University of California, Berkeley. He conducted postdoctoral studies in the laboratories of John Mekalanos and Bill Dietrich at Harvard Medical School. He was appointed Assistant Professor at UC Berkeley in 2006, and is currently a Professor and HHMI Investigator.
Talk Title: "What an animal immunologist has learned from plant immunity"
IS-MPMI Outstanding Achievement Award
Opening Ceremony and Keynotes - Sunday, July 16
Jonathan D.G. Jones (JJ) studies how plants resist disease, and how pathogens circumvent host immune mechanisms. After a PhD in cereal genetics at the Plant Breeding Institute, Cambridge, UK, JJ postdoc’d with 2014 Awardee Fred Ausubel at Harvard on symbiotic nitrogen fixation, where he discovered his love for MPMI and attended the first MPMI meeting in Bielefeld in 1982. JJ then worked on Agrobacterium engineering at US agbiotech company, AGS, where he refined methods to express transgenes at high levels and to study and exploit plant transposons. In 1988, JJ started at the Sainsbury Laboratory (TSL), Norwich UK, serving as Head of TSL 1994-7 and 2003-2009. He was elected EMBO member (1998), Fellow of Royal Society (2003) and International Member of the US NAS (2015). In 2012 he won the U Minnesota EC Stakman award, in 2015 gave the Cornell Whetzel-Westcott-Dimock Seminar and in 2021 was awarded Honorary Member of British Society for Plant Pathology. He (with 2009 awardee Jeff Dangl) promoted the guard hypothesis for indirect recognition of pathogen effectors by host immune receptors, and also the “zigzagzig” conceptual framework that first integrated the distinct defenses initiated by immune receptors that detect extracellular or intracellular pathogen-derived molecules. He was among the first to show that integrated decoy domains in paired NLRs mimic authentic pathogen effector targets. He pioneered genomics methods, notably “RenSeq”, to accelerate Resistance gene cloning and analysis of plant immune receptor diversity and evolution. He is a strong advocate for using immune receptor genes from wild relatives to replace crop protection agrochemicals with genetics for disease control.
Talk Title: "UnderSTANDing and eNLRarging plant immune receptor repertories"
Plenary Speakers
Plenary Session 1 - Sunday, July 16
Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujibur Rahman Agricultural University (BSMRAU), Bangladesh
Talk Title: "Wheat blast: an emerging threat to global food security" |
Kenyatta University, Kenya
Talk Title: "Applications of biotechnology in banana improvement for enhancing food security and wealth creation in Africa" |
Cassava Virus Action Project, East Africa
Talk Title: "Portable genomics and social justice" |
Instituto Agronômico (IAC), Brazil
Talk Title: "Facing the challenges for a sustainable citrus production by developing control strategies based on plant - bacterial pathogen interactions" |
Plenary Session 2 - Monday, July 17
CSIRO, Canberra, Australia
Talk Title: "The Renaissance period for rust fungi" |
University of Cambridge, UK
Talk Title: "Arbuscular mycorrhizal symbiosis of cereals" |
University of Zurich, Switzerland
Talk Title: "Connecting the dots of surface immune signaling" |
Institute of Plant Physiology and Ecology, Shanghai Institutes for Biological Sciences, China
Talk Title: "Broad-spectrum resistance in rice―from NLR signaling to domestication" |
Plenary Session 3 - Monday, July 17
Unidad Irapuato, Mexico
Talk Title: "The plant microbiome in drylands: lessons from agaves and cacti" |
Max Planck Institute for Plant Breeding Research, Cologne, Germany
Talk Title: "TIR-protein signaling and defense network evolution" |
Kyoto University, Japan
Talk Title: "The molecular interactions between
Colletotrichum orbiculare and cucurbits" |
Plenary Session 4 - Tuesday, July 18
University of California-Davis, USA
Talk Title: "Chloroplasts as a hub for immune signaling" |
Max Planck Institute for Plant Breeding, Cologne, Germany
Talk Title: "A conserved biochemical function of plant NLR receptors"
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University of British Columbia, Vancouver, Canada IS-MPMI Early Career Achievement Awardee
Talk Title: " Getting to the root of plant-microbiome interactions"
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Institute of Plant Physiology and Ecology, Shanghai Institutes for Biological Sciences, CAS, China IS-MPMI Early Career Achievement Awardee
Talk Title: "Understanding plant-pathogen-environment interactions" |
Plenary Session 5 - Wednesday, July 19
Aarhus University, Denmark
Talk Title: "The EMBO Keynote Lecture: Signalling events controlling the outcome of the plant and microbe interactions at the root-soil interface
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Donald Danforth Plant Science Center, St. Louis, Missouri, USA
Talk Title: "Viruses as tools for understanding plant cell biology"
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Institut de Biologie de l'Ecole Normale Supérieure (IBENS), Paris, France
Talk Title: Extracellular small RNAs in plant-bacteria interactions |
Institute of Plant Physiology and Ecology, Shanghai Institutes for Biological Sciences, CAS, China
Talk Title: "Nutrient exchange and regulation in plant-microbe symbioses" |
Plenary Session 6 - Wednesday, July 19
Max Planck Institute for Developmental Biology, Tübingen, Germany
Talk Title: "Evolutionary genomics of emerging pathogens"
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Australian National University, Canberra, Australia
Talk Title: "Balancing friends and foes: How legumes deal with symbionts and parasites" |
University of Cambridge, UK
Talk Title: "AI-powered holistic and dynamic plant-pathology to deliver new sources of resistance" |
Seoul National University, Korea
Talk Title: "Nuclear effectors of the rice blast fungus,
Magnaporthe oryzae" |
Plenary Session 7 - Thursday, July 20
University of Freiburg, Germany
Talk Title: "What does it take for a root cell to enable intracellular colonisation by rhizobia?" |
Donald Danforth Plant Science Center, St. Louis, Missouri, USA
Talk Title: "Genetics, genomics and epigenomics for sustainable crop improvement" |
Nanjing Agricultural University, China
Talk Title: " Gene expressional polymorphism underpins host specialization" |
John Innes Centre, Norwich, UK
Talk Title: "Root legume endosymbioses signaling" |
Plenary Session 8 - Thursday, July 20
University of California, Berkeley
Talk Title: "Biodiversity of plant innate immune receptors and pathogen effectors" |
Oregon State University, USA
Talk Title: "Identifying plant genes associated with leaf endophytes and pathogen antagonism" |
John Innes Centre, Norwich, UK
Talk Title: "Zombie plants, microbes and insect vectors: how effectors modulate plant development and defense"
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John Innes Centre, Norwich, UK
Talk Title: "Engineering plant NLR immune receptors to combat blast disease" |
Plenary Session 9 - Thursday, July 20
The Next Big Idea @ IS-MPMI 2023
Organized by: Patricia Baldrich and Ryan DelPercio
Description: As Albert Einstein famously said, “if you can't explain it simply, you don't understand it well enough.” The Next Big Idea challenges researchers to focus on the “WHY” behind their research, including minimal scientific jargon, experimental details, or results. We want participants to emphasize why an audience of non-expert scientists and non-scientists, should care about their research – think of it as a hybrid between a TED talk and a Shark Tank pitch. Participants will have
five minutes to present the rationale and justification behind their research. Following each pitch, we will leave
five minutes for questions from the audience and our evaluators. All participants will receive a token of appreciation and
live feedback from the audience using QR codes. The winner of the challenge will receive a monetary prize and eternal community recognition! Participants will be recruited from IS-MPMI registered attendees.
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Who wants to be an MPMIllionaire!?
Organized by: Meenu Singla-Rastogi
Description: This session will be a “Game Show” modeled after the popular TV show “Who Wants to be a Millionaire?” but focused on MPMI knowledge gleaned from attending all plenary sessions and from reading papers published in MPMI. To qualify to be a ‘contestant’ in this live session, all MPMI registrants will be invited to take a daily online multiple-choice quiz that will include questions designed, in part, by the plenary speakers. The top 8 entrants (teams or individual) will be selected for the final in- person competition based on their scores from the daily quizzes, with the top eight scores advancing to the in-person round.
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