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Congratulations to the recipients of the 2025 Wolf Prize in Agriculture: Jeff Dangl, Jonathan D. G. Jones, and Brian J. Staskawicz. In this issue, MPMI Assistant Features Editor Jawahar Singh talks with Jonathan Jones about his career. Future issues will include interviews with Dr. Dangl and Dr. Staskawicz….

This InterView with Maria Harrison, professor at Boyce Thompson Institute for Plant Research, was performed by one of the 2016 IS-MPMI student travel awardees, Kevin Cope, University of Wisconsin-Madison. Editor’s note: Kevin communicated to me that after the interview, he was interested in joining Dr. Harrison’s lab as a postdoc….

Nawaraj Dulal Position: Post-Doctoral Research Associate Introduce yourself—your background, where you are now, and your current research focus. I am currently a Post-Doctoral Research Associate in the Department of Plant Pathology at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln (UNL), advised by Dr. Richard Wilson. I completed my PhD in Plant Pathology from…

Mentorship is a critical component in developing scientific excellence and community sustainability. At the 2025 IS-MPMI Congress, early-career researchers (ECRs) and senior scientists participated in a workshop on Building Careers in MPMI Through Effective Mentoring, sharing their experiences and talking about what effective mentorship looks like….

by Katelyn Butler and Michelle Marks, Department of Plant Pathology, University of Wisconsin-Madison Editor’s note: After participating in a roundtable discussion on impostor syndrome led by Michelle and Katelyn at the 2017 APS Annual Meeting, I invited them to develop the following article. The Interactions advisory board and I feel…

Ryan DelPercio is a postdoctoral researcher at the University of California, Davis, Genome Center, investigating the transcriptional and regulatory networks underlying symbiotic nitrogen fixation and developing advanced CRISPR-based molecular tools. Learn how his research uncovered how soybean and its symbiotic partner Bradyrhizobium diazoefficiens coordinate their transcriptional programs through time….

Join us in supporting our early-career members by giving to the Michael Mishkind Travel Fund. This fund honors the memory of Michael Mishkind, who was a long-time program director at the U.S. National Science Foundation and a strong supporter of research on plant biotic interactions. Learn how you can donate…

Your continued engagement strengthens IS-MPMI’s ability to champion our science, elevate new voices, and keep MPMI, our community’s premier forum, vibrant. IS-MPMI will be updating membership rates February 1, 2026. Members renewing a two-year membership may renew at the current rate through January 31, 2026….

Did you know that highlighting your research in Interactions increases readership compared to papers that don’t have Spotlights published in Interactions? Consider doing a Spotlight today!…

This InterView with Seogchan Kang, Professor of Plant Pathology at Penn State, was conducted by Hao-Xun Chang, a 2016 IS-MPMI student travel awardee, who is currently a post-doc at Michigan State University. Log in to join the conversation! Hao-Xun Chang (HXC): Thank you very much for accepting my invitation, and…