Team IS-MPMI
The New IS-MPMI Community Website Is Live! Visit and Connect with Your IS-MPMI Family Today
IS-MPMI has launched Connect, a website where members and nonmembers can interact with one another to increase communication, collaboration, networking, and inclusion. Visit the website to find a discussion or group and connect with colleagues around the world….
IS-MPMI to Continue Mini-Symposia on the Latest Research Discoveries
Over the next year, IS-MPMI will be holding regularly scheduled international mini-symposia to connect researchers with the latest advances and discoveries in plant-microbial biology. Members are invited to recommend topics for these workshops….
Join IS-MPMIConnect to Stay Connected
IS-MPMIConnect is a virtual platform offering members and supporters an easy way to stay connected to our community and each other. Join today to participate in discussion groups on Work/Life Balance, Early Career Professionals, Parenting and Caregiving in STEM, and Inclusion & Diversity. We can’t wait to see you online!
…Has COVID Got You Down? It’s Time to reConnect!
The COVID-19 pandemic has wrought unprecedented disruptions in our lives. IS-MPMIConnect is a new, virtual platform that will help us promote interactions between members, strengthen our collaboration, improve dialogue, and develop a stronger network….
InterConnections: Get to Know Member Laura Bacete
First author Laura Bacete, a former graduate student in the lab of Antonio Molina and current postdoc at the Institute for Biology at the Norwegian University of Science and Technology, details the journey to discovering how plant cell-wall composition plays a role in disease resistance….
InterConnections: Get to Know Member Dawei Xin
Corresponding authors Dawei Xin and Qingshan Chen, Northeast Agricultural University in Harbin, China, describe their study, which was designed to identify the mechanism regulating the establishment of symbiosis in soybean, enabling it to fix nitrogen from the air….
InterConnections: Get to Know Member Li-Na Yang
Li-Na Yang and co-authors explore the role of intrinsic disorder in the development of pathogenicity in the RXLR AVR2 effector of Phytophthora infestans. Their results support the notion that intrinsic disorder is important for the effector function of pathogens….
MPMI Journal Goes Gold Open Access to Bring Its Science to the World
With the gold open access launch in January 2021, the MPMI journal will become more accessible than ever and can serve as a community meeting place for all. Jeanne Harris, MPMI editor-in-chief, envisions the journal as a place to tackle the big questions in molecular plant–microbe interactions….
Thoughts about the What’s New in MPMI! Virtual Seminar Series
The What’s New in MPMI! virtual seminar series provides new ways for the IS-MPMI community to connect and for MPMI to engage with readers and authors. The interaction is outside the regular publication cycle and is much more personal, giving readers and listeners the chance to directly interact with the…
The MPMI Virtual Seminar Series as a Resource for Online Teaching
With many conferences and regular seminar series cancelled, and many courses being held remotely, the MPMI virtual seminar series, What’s New in MPMI!, is being used by teachers looking for scientific seminars for their students or additional content for a course….
Announcements
Japan-US Early Career Showcase: Remodeling of the Plant–Microbe Environment During Disease, Defense, and Mutualism The 12th Japan-US Seminar in Plant Pathology: Remodeling of the Plant–Microbe Environment During Disease, Defense, and Mutualism will be held online September 28 and 29 and October 5 and 6 from 7 to 9 p.m. (EDT)….
Two New Junior Members Join the Board of Directors
In order to include the viewpoints of our members-in-training in society decision making and congress planning, the IS-MPMI Board of Directors (BOD) has added two junior members. The BOD received applications from several impressive candidates from around the globe and evaluated each based on excellence in scholarship and training, collaboration…
InterStellar: Regine Kahmann Elected as Foreign Member of the Royal Society
Kahmann’s election as Foreign Member of the Royal Society constitutes recognition of her outstanding scientific achievements….
InterStellar: Giles Oldroyd has been Elected as Fellow of the Royal Society
Oldroyd has been recognized for his outstanding contributions to science in plant-microbe interactions with his election as a Fellow of the Royal Society….
InterStellar: Barbara Valent Inducted into National Academy of Sciences
Valent has earned membership in the prestigious U.S. National Academy of Sciences, the country’s leading authority on science and technology….
MPMI and Phytobiomes Journal Are Looking for Assistant Feature Editors
The journals are looking for creative individuals who have innovative communication skills and are eager to volunteer to engage with both the scientific and nonscientific communities as assistant feature editors….
Introducing What’s New in MPMI!—a Virtual Seminar Series Highlighting Recent Publications in MPMI
This series is designed to serve as an important venue for young scientists to share new work, as other opportunities to do so have dwindled….
InterConnections: Get to Know Member Beverly J. Agtuca
Agtuca, a graduate student in the lab of Gary Stacey at the University of Missouri and first author of “In-Situ Metabolomic Analysis of Setaria viridis Roots Colonized by Beneficial Endophytic Bacteria,” shares a great story about how collaboration can not only lead to great research but also to lasting friendships….
InterConnections: Get to Know Member Jennifer Lewis
Lewis provides background on work done with first author Yuan Chen on “Comparative Genomics Screen Identifies Microbe-Associated Molecular Patterns from ‘Candidatus Liberibacter’ spp. That Elicit Immune Responses in Plants” and shares how collaboration with and feedback from colleagues can help bring together a project….
InterConnections: Get to Know Member Matt Neubauer
First author Neubauer shares a summary of how his project “Arabidopsis EDR1 Protein Kinase Regulates the Association of EDS1 and PAD4 to Inhibit Cell Death” developed and also talks about the trials and tribulations that eventually led to publication of his graduate studies while working in the lab of Roger…
