Date: July 13, 2025
Duration: 12:30-2:45 p.m.

Mentorship provides enormous support and guidance in building successful careers for mentees. The MPMI Assistant Feature Editors (AFEs) aim to provide a platform for early career attendees to learn and understand the effect of mentorship on career development. The Building Careers in Molecular Plant-Microbe Interactions Through Effective Mentoring satellite meeting is intended to serve as a space to explore the influence of mentorship in career growth. Participants will hear talks from academic and industry professionals, sharing the role of mentors in shaping their careers, how to approach a potential mentor, and different mentoring styles. The talks will be followed by small group discussions, including one mentor, that delve into the specifics of mentorship and fostering personal growth and career advancement. The workshop offers a unique opportunity for both mentors and mentees to network and build meaningful connections.

We acknowledge the support of organizations such as the Donald Danforth Plant Science Center, Terrana Biosciences, and Corteva Agriscience^TM. The workshop is offered at an affordable rate of $10. Registration is now open, and spots are limited. More details will be shared following registration.

For more details, please feel free to reach out to the organizing committee: Ruby Tiwari (AFE, MPMI Journal), Meenu Singla-Rastogi (AFE, MPMI Journal), Jawahar Singh (AFE, MPMI Journal), Ved Prakash (AFE, MPMI Journal), Ashley Nelson (graduate student, North Dakota State University), Namrata Jaiswal (research molecular biologist, USDA ARS, Purdue University).

Bhuwan Abbot
Ademola Adewuyi
Priscilla Tijesuni Adisa
Durga Venkata Ravi Teja Amulothu
Chunpeng An
Victoria Armer
Claude Becker
Josh William Bennett
Miroslav Berka
Veronika Berková
Anika Damm
Axelle Eliane Deroubaix
Ruoqi Dou
Nawaraj Dulal
Denise Caldwell
Arianna Capparotto
Jijie Chai
Balakumaran Chandrasekar
Yi-Chen Chang
Sydney Chen
Yao Chen
Yi-Feng Chen
Paula Collado Cordon
Marina Soneghett Cotta
Ishani Shankar Das
Buddhika Amarasinghe Dahanayaka
Frederickson Entila
Tzion Fahima
Liz Florez
Patricia Gallardo
Man Gao
Dablieny Hellen Garcia Souza
Lorenzo Gastelum Mena
Susana Giraldo Ramirez
Libia Fernanda Gómez-Trejo
Caroline Gutjahr
Kira Gysel
Manisha Haag
Max Hayhurst
Sofia Hernandez Luelmo
Johannes Herpell
Mariana Herrera Corzo
Muhammad Taufiq Hidayat
Karen Vanesa Hobecker
Fernando Matias Hurtado, Sr.
Seonghan Jang
Zhihao Jiang
Linnan Jie
Christian-Frederic Kaiser
Janani Kalaivani Sivakumar
Shubhangi Kalla
Amandeep Kaur
Abul Khayer
RJong Hum Kim
Gregory Knight
Stanislav Kopriva
Darius Kosmützky
Christine Kraus
Jenna Krumbach
Tyler Marzucco Lee
Volker Lipka
Yinuo Liu
Yujing Liu
Zhaohui Liu
Juan Carlos Lopez-Agudelo
Shuyi Luo
Joy Lyu
Riikka Mäkilä
Christian Mandelli
Clemence Marchal
Ann-Kathrin Maurer
David Colin McLean
Athira Menon
Fantin Mesny
Federico Gabriel Mirkin
Ishani Mondal
Arijit Mukherjee
Pratchaya Pramoj Na Ayutthaya
Daniela Negrete-Moreno
Bruno Ngou
Dalton Ngu
Ha Truong Nguyen
Bridget O’Banion
Erika Ono
Oloyede Joshua Oyekanmi
Ceren Özdemir
Shaojun Pan
Sooyeon Park
Imani Pascoe
Micaela Peppino
Leon Pierdzig
Delphine Maya Pott
Ram Sevak Raja Kumar
Chloe Ramirez
Lindsey E. Reid
Julia Retzlaff
Clemence Andrea Rodney
Sophie Charlotte Sent
Raphael Schaal
Ina Schlathoelter
Monja Schmid
Mariana Schuster
Kyungyong Seong
Anjana Sharma
Chaonan Shi
Wei Shi
Smita Of Shrestha
Yang Si
Abram William Smith
Mitchell Sorbello
Zarah Sorger
Thomas Spallek
Marta Suarez-Fernandez
Oliver Sulkowski
Huang Tan
Chika Tateda
Rachel Tavares
Corinna Thurow
Olivia Tjahjono
Yerisf Carla Torres Ascurra
Natsuki Tsuchida
Colin Turnbull
Kerstin Unger
Andrea Vadillo Dieguez
Katarina Petra Van Midden
Renzo Villena
Liyuan Wang
Qi Wang
Shaogan Wang
Wei Wang
Zonghua Wang
Hua Wei
Siyuan Wei
Katherine Wheeler
Sarah Wolf
Hyeonu Yang
Heejin Yoo
Yanrong You
Ziyue Zeng
Leonie Margarete Zott​​

All 2025 IS-MPMI Congress attendees qualify for a $500 discount off their article processing charge when they submit a manuscript to MPMI. Stop by the journal’s booth at the meeting to receive your promotional code.

The focus issue Fine Grain: Molecular, Cellular and Genomic Details of Cereal Crop Diseases is coming to MPMI this spring! Get a sneak peek at the focus issue with articles now available in Just Published:

Majority of the Highly Variable NLRs in Maize Share Genomic Location and Contain Additional Target-Binding Domains

Daniil M. Prigozhin, Chandler A. Sutherland, Sanjay Rangavajjhala, and Ksenia V. Krasileva

ZymoSoups: A High-Throughput Forward Genetics Method for Rapid Identification of Virulence Genes in Zymoseptoria tritici

Haider Ali, Megan C. McDonald, and Graeme J. Kettles

Closing the Information Gap Between the Field and Scientific Literature for Improved Disease Management, with a Focus on Rice and Bacterial Blight

Eliza P. I. Loo, Boris Szurek, Yugander Arra, Melissa Stiebner, Marcel Buchholzer, B. N. Devanna, Casiana M. Vera Cruz, and Wolf B. Frommer

The Molecular Dialogue Between Zymoseptoria tritici and Wheat

Lukas Meile, Cristian Carrasco-López, Cécile Lorrain, Gert H. J. Kema, Cyrille Saintenac, and Andrea Sánchez-Vallet

Plant Viral Synergism: Co-expression of P1 and NIaPro Cistrons of Wheat Streak Mosaic Virus and Triticum Mosaic Virus Is Required for Synergistic Interaction in Wheat​

Chi Hzeng Wong, Jeffrey Alexander, and Satyanarayana Tatineni

Molecular Plant-Microbe Interactions (MPMI) is looking for creative, innovative communicators who eagerly want to volunteer their time to engage with both the scientific and nonscientific communities in accessible ways. As an assistant feature editor, you’ll be a part of a journal editorial team, see the inner workings of the MPMI journal, interact with the greater molecular plant-microbe interactions scientific community, and be directly involved in science communication projects, including writing commentaries, press releases, and author spotlights. Learn more about the opportunity and how to apply.

All 2025 IS-MPMI Congress attendees qualify for a $500 discount off their article processing charge when they submit a manuscript to MPMI. Stop by the journal’s booth at the meeting to receive your promotional code. ​

MPMI Volume 38, Number 1, Editor’s Pick​

Transcriptomic Profiling of ‘Candidatus Liberibacter asiaticus’ in Different Citrus Tissues Reveals Novel Insights into Huanglongbing Pathogenesis

In the latest MPMI Editor’s Pick, Amelia Lovelace et al. investigate the transcriptomic landscape of ‘Candidatus Liberibacter asiaticus’ in citrus seed coat vasculatures, revealing unique gene expression patterns and identifying two virulence factors that suppress callose deposition, potentially aiding colonization. Additionally, analysis of regulatory elements suggests LuxR-type transcription factors regulate Liberibacter effector gene expression, providing new insights into huanglongbing pathogenesis. Read the Commentary by Assistant Feature Editor Ruby Tiwari.

Catch Up on Other Recent MPMI Editor’s Picks

The Soybean Cyst Nematode Effector Cysteine Protease 1 (CPR1) Targets a Mitochondrial Soybean Branched-Chain Amino Acid Aminotransferase (GmBCAT1)
Margets et al.

miR472 Deficiency Enhances Arabidopsis thaliana Defense Without Reducing Seed Production
Francois Vasseur et al.​