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2024 NAS Inductees and Royal Society Fellows Named
IS-MPMI members Savithramma P. Dinesh-Kumar and Richard Michelmore have been inducted into the U.S. National Academy of Sciences, and Maria Harrison has been elected a Fellow of the Royal Society. Learn more about these scientists and others in future issues….
Bylaw Amendment Vote
The IS-MPMI Board of Directors recently reviewed and amended the IS-MPMI Bylaws. IS-MPMI voting members are being asked to ratify the amended bylaws. An electronic ballot was emailed in early March to members. Voting is open through March 25, 2024….
Mark Your Calendar for the 2025 IS-MPMI Congress!
Join us at the IS-MPMI Congress, July 13–17, 2025, at the Confex Conference and Exhibition Centre in Cologne, Germany, for groundbreaking research, sessions, and dialogues on molecular plant-microbe interactions….
Call for Papers! Publish in the MPMI Focus Issue on Fine Grain
The 2025 MPMI Focus Issue on Fine Grain will draw together reviews and original research papers on contemporary developments in understanding staple cereal crops and their pathogens. Submit your manuscript by September 30, 2024….
IS-MPMI Has Recordings of Previous Meeting Presentations
Recordings of presentations given at the 2023 IS-MPMI Congress are available to all members and those who registered to attend the congress. Explore what you missed!…
Root & Shoot Is Leading Cultural Change in Plant Science through Professional Societies
IS-MPMI is part of Root & Shoot, a Research Coordination Network (RCN) leading cultural change in plant science, with the aim of creating a culture of support. Learn more about Root & Shoot and available opportunities….
InterDisciplines: 2023 Future Science Prize in Life Sciences Awarded to Dr. Jijie Chai and Dr. Jian-Min Zhou
Congratulations to Dr. Jijie Chai and Dr. Jian-Min Zhou, winners of the 2023 Future Science Prize in Life Sciences in China! Drs. Chai and Zhou won this prestigious award for their discovery of resistosomes….
InterConnections: Get to Know Freddie King
Freddie King, Ph.D. student at Imperial College London, is the first author on a recent review published in MPMI summarizing mechanisms of perihaustorial effectors from oomycetes. Learn more about Freddie and how these proteins manipulate host immunity at the haustorial-plant interface….
InterConnections: Get to Know Kamesh Regmi
Kamesh Regmi and co-authors in the Innes lab at Indiana University Bloomington combined high-pressure freezing and freeze-substitution with serial block-face scanning electron microscopy to generate 3D models of the cytological events that occur during the susceptible interaction between Colletotrichum and Arabidopsis. Learn more about Kamesh and the study findings….
InterConnections: Get to Know Tom Waksman
Meet Dr. Tom Waksman, postdoctoral associate in the Bos lab at the University of Dundee, and first author of the recent MPMI paper “Computational Prediction of Structure, Function and Interaction of Myzus persicae (Green Peach Aphid) Salivary Effector Proteins.” Waksman and co-authors used computational methods to predict functional properties of…
Read the Latest MPMI Editor’s Pick
In the latest MPMI Editor’s Pick, Zitong Yang et al. show how the Phytophthora sojae effector PsCRN108 suppresses plant immunity by inhibiting the expression of Heat Shock Protein (HSP) family genes, shedding light on a new mechanism by which CRN effectors manipulate transcription factors to impact immunity….
Catch up on What’s New in MPMI Virtual Seminars
Listen to the What’s New in MPMI Virtual Seminar presented by Hasna Boubakri on “A Nonspecific Lipid Transfer Protein with Potential Functions in Infection and Nodulation.”…
Help Promote the Science of MPMI Journal!
Molecular Plant-Microbe Interactions is seeking applicants for two-year “assistant feature editor” positions to be filled by postdoctoral scientists. Assistant feature editors have the opportunity to be part of a journal editorial team, see the inner workings of the MPMI journal, develop a unique science communication project, and interact with the…
MPMI InterView with Prof. Adam Bogdanove
Pritha Kundu, postdoctoral fellow, University of Nebraska-Lincoln, interviewed IS-MPMI President Adam Bogdanove, professor, Department of Plant Pathology and Plant-Microbe Biology, Cornell University, about his research and career….
InterView with Cara Haney
Siva Sankari, assistant investigator, Stowers Institute, and MPMI assistant feature editor, interviewed Cara Haney, associate professor, University of Pittsburgh, and 2023 IS-MPMI Early Career Achievement Award winner, about her research….
MPMI InterView with Xiufang Xin
Eilyn Mena, scientist, Clemente Estable Biological Research Institute of Montevideo, interviewed Xiufang Xin, research group leader, Center for Excellence in Molecular Plant Sciences/Institute of Plant Physiology and Ecology, and IS-MPMI Early Career Achievement Award winner, about her work and experience in plant–pathogen interactions….
Micro… Greens? What Is Microgreens?
Dr. Tiff Mak, postdoctoral researcher, NNF Center for Biosustainability at DTU, and Dr. Dominique Holtappels, postdoctoral researcher, University of California, Berkeley, are the new hosts of the Microgreens podcast! Learn about Microgreens and what Mak and Holtappels have planned for upcoming episodes….
Conception of a Quiz-Based Gameshow, “Who Wants to Be an (MPMI)llionaire?,” at the 2023 IS-MPMI Congress
The quiz-based gameshow “Who wants to be an (MPMI)llionaire” held at the 2023 IS-MPMI Congress was a huge success. Learn about how it originated and was organized by Meenu Singla, postdoctoral associate, Innes lab, University of Indiana….
InterConnections: Get to Know Mohamed Hafez
Learn about Mohamed Hafez, coauthor of the research paper “Evolution of the ToxB Gene in Pyrenophora tritici-repentis and Related Species” recently published in MPMI, and the work that has provided novel insights into ToxB, its homologs, and its evolution….
Research Highlight: Evolution of the ToxB gene in Pyrenophora tritici-repentis and related species
Reem Aboukhaddour, Cereal Pathology Lab, Agriculture and Agri-Food Canada, Lethbridge, AB, discusses the pivotal question of how Pyrenophora tritici-repentis, the cause of tan spot of wheat, became pathogenic and how the inquiry aligns with the ongoing exploration of the emergence of necrotrophic diseases….
