2025 Congress Videos
Opening Keynote and Plenary Session 1
TIR catalyzed signals at the heart of plant immunity
Jane Parker
Molecular coevolution of Magnaporthe oryzae pathogen and rice: defense by evolutionary bricolage mediated by genetic recombination
Ryohei Terauchi
A role of secondary small interfering RNAs in plant defense
Wenbo Ma
Concurrent Session:
Extracellular & Intracellular non-self recognition & signaling
Dual ligand receptor that mediates immunity and hormonal response in potato is targeted by parasitic nematode effector
Chloe Ramirez
“How not to die”: workings of an Arabidopsis TIR-NBS protein in amplifying systemic resistance
Federica Locci
Structural basis for broad-spectrum recognition and activation of an Arabidopsis TIR-NLR
He Zhao
Enzymatic and Ion Channel Activities of Plant Intracellular Immune Receptors
Li Wan
Concurrent Session:
Management of diseases and emerging diseases
RNA biopesticides for next generation crop protection
Anne Sawyer
Advancing Durable Soybean Rust Resistance for African Smallholders and Global Commercial Agriculture
Everton Capote Ferreira
Modern Breeding Tools for BXW Resistance: Advancing Banana Improvement through Transgenics and Genome Editing
Leena Tripathi
Engineering Resilience: Gene Editing Strategies for Combating Plant Diseases
Shai Lawit
Effects of increasing atmospheric carbon dioxide levels on soybean responses to diverse pathogens
Steven Whitham
Concurrent Session:
Microbial infection strategies (pathogens & non-pathogens)
Transcriptional plasticity of fast-core chromosomes governs establishment of a fungal pathogen on evolutionarily distant plant lineages
Amey Redkar
Molecular mechanisms underlying gall formation in the corn smut fungus Ustilago maydis
Mamoona Khan
Processes underpinning the colonisation of plants by pathogenic and symbiotic filamentous microbes
Sebastian Schornack
Visualising mutualism in arbuscular mycorrhizal symbiosis of rice
Uta Paszkowski
Concurrent Session:
Plant-virus Interactions (incl. Viromes, Evolution & Vectors)
Molecular mechanisms underlying Rx-NRC-mediated immunity
Chunpeng An
Repurposing geminiviruses for engineering gene circuits in plants: a copper-inducible BeYDV-derived expression system for biomanufacturing
Elena Garcia Perez
IRE1-dependent signaling arm of the unfolded protein response balances bifurcating influences on potexvirus replication/gene expression and virus cell-to-cell movement.
Jeanmarie Verchot
Structural basis for the activation of plant bunyavirus replication machinery and its dual-targeted inhibition by ribavirin
Jia Li
Role of spatio-temporal variation in host susceptibility to infection in the evolution of potyvirus’ virulence
Santiago Elena
Concurrent Session:
Population Biology, Ecology & Genomics
Repeat, evolve, repeat: The high evolvability of the Xanthomonas oryzae genome facilitates epidemic outbreaks in rice.
Alvaro PEREZ QUINTERO
Understanding the breakdown of resistance with population genomics: how European populations of powdery mildew overcame Pm17 resistance in wheat
Fabrizio Menardo
Balancing selection shapes root microbiome regulation in Lotus japonicus
Johan Bastien Quilbe
ToxB or not to ToxB: The Conflicting Roles of Transposons in Fungal Effector Evolution
Megan McDonald
An evolutionary and functional analysis of virulence gene promoters in Pseudomonas syringae.
Racquel Singh
Experimental evolution of root-associated microbial communities
Ruben Garrido-Oter
Concurrent Session:
Symbiosis and Mutualism (mycorrhiza and N-fixing Rhizobia)
Regulation of arbuscular mycorrhiza development
Caroline Gutjahr
The soil-borne fungus Verticillium dahliae differentially employs molecular tools to establish interactions with phylogenetically distant terrestrial microalgae
Hanna Rovenich
Stimulation of arbuscular mycorrhizal symbiosis by a fungal tripeptide
Nicolas Frei Dit Frey
Plenary Session 2
Hostile Takeover — How Viruses Hijack Plants
Rosa Lozano-Durán
Plenary 2 Presentation
Yang Bai
Plenary Session 3
EvoMPMI, effectoromics and AI-driven strategies to enhance durable disease resistance in potato
Vivianne Vleeshouwers
Concurrent Session:
Effector Interference Mechanisms
Verticillium TRADE – a fungal effector that induces plant cell identity switches and reprograms plants for enhanced drought resilience
Corinna Thurow
Phytophthora effector hijacks host calcium channels to suppress PTI
Joo Hyun Lee
Effector-triggered processing body formation attenuates host translation to dampen plant immunity upon infection
Manuel Gonzalez Fuente
Aphid effectors suppress plant immunity via recruiting defence proteins to processing bodies
Qun Liu
Effector crosstalk in Xanthomonas citri: host ripening pathway links type III and type II effector virulence functions
Thomas Lahaye
The RXLR-EER motifs determine an unconventional secretion pathway associated with EV production
Wei Wang
The F. graminearum effector TPP1 hijacks the chloroplast iron-sulfur protein and dynamically regulates plant defense via phase separation
Youhuang Xiang
Concurrent Session:
RNA on the move: Advances in Cross-Species Communication & Translational Research
Dual Role of Xylella fastidiosa Extracellular Vesicles in Gene Transfer and sRNA-Mediated Plant Immunity Regulation
Alessa Ruf
Extracellular proteins facilitate fungal EV entry into plant cells to induce cross-kingdom RNA interference
Lorenz Oberkofler
RNA-Based Control of Downy Mildew Pathogens in Plants
Mahmut Tör
Cross-kingdom RNAi in AM symbiosis
Manisha Haag
Functional analysis of secreted long non-coding RNAs contributing to the virulence of the corn smut fungus Ustilago maydis
Shigeyuki Tanaka
Cross-Kingdom RNAs in Insect-Plant Interactions: Discovery, Functions, Visualization, and Applications
Yazhou Chen
Concurrent Session:
Subcellular dynamics and signaling in host-microbe interactions
Plant pathogenic fungi hijack phosphate signaling with conserved Nudix-effectors
Alex Wegner
A novel secondary signal-Zn mediates control of nitrogen fixation via transcription factor filamentation
Jieshun Lin
Glutamate receptor-like ion channels are transcriptionally induced by the EDS1-SAG101-NRG1 node and contribute to effector-triggered immunity in Nicotiana benthamiana
Junli Wang
Nuclear translocation of ADR1s is required for a complete plant immunity
Meijuan Hu
Molecular regulation of rhizobial infection
Thomas Ott
Multiple immune functions of plant TIR domain proteins
WEN SONG
Plenary Session 4
Exploring the metabolic space of plant defense
Dapeng Li
Re-programming of host membrane trafficking during plant-pathogen interactions
Tolga Bozkurt
A forward genetic screen in Sclerotinia sclerotiorum: finding the most unexpected
Xin Li
Concurrent Session:
Crop resistance genetics and genomics
A Wheat Tandem Kinase Activates an NLR to Trigger Immunity
Oliver Powell
Potato NLRome Empowers Discovery of Late Blight Disease Resistance Genes
Suomeng Dong
Effectoromics screening identifies non-canonical TN genes in pepper contributing to Phytophthora capsici resistance
Xin Yan
A canonical protein complex controls immune homeostasis and multipathogen resistance in rice
Yue Wu
Concurrent Session:
Discrimination of friend from foe
Regulatory architecture of disease resistance in maize revealed by multi-omic systems genetics
Justin Walley
Beyond the barrier: how Fusarium eludes host physical barriers to reach the root vasculature
Lucrezia Pinto
Concurrent Session:
Local and inter-organ signaling in immunity and mutualistic interactions
Extracellular desiccation causes microbial growth arrest in effector-triggered immunity
Charles Roussin-Leveillee
Epidermal/sensory plastids and signaling in response to plant-associated bacteria
Jean Greenberg
Coordination of immunity and nitrogen status by diverse CEP signalling modules
Martin Stegmann
Exploring the role of lipid transfer in extrahaustorial membrane formation in barley attacked by the powdery mildew fungus, Blumeria hordei
Sohini Deb
Concurrent Session:
Microbe-mediated impacts on plant-parasite interactions
Herbivory-induced green leaf volatiles increase plant performance through jasmonate-dependent plant-soil feedbacks
Lingfei Hu
Volatile production and predatory wasp recruitment are indirect anti-herbivore defenses mediated by the pattern recognition receptor INR
Natalia Guayazan Palacios
The role of pest-associated microbes in insect-plant interactions
Silvia Coolen
Systemic Rhizobial Nodulation Suppression Induced by Plant-Parasitic Nematode Infection
Yi-Lun Tsai
Concurrent Session:
Plant Interactions with nematodes & parasitic plants
From host signals to parasitism: a transcription factor duet regulates sequential effector deployment
Anika Damm
Root-knot nematode-derived RGF peptide mimics hijack host signaling to orchestrate feeding site formation
Xiaoli Guo
A trehalase-derived MAMP triggers LecRK-V-mediated immune responses in Arabidopsis
Yasuhiro Kadota
Concurrent Session:
Plant microbiota functions and intermicrobial interactions
Natural variation in Arabidopsis thaliana root responses to microbiota-derived Pseudomonas strains
Charles Copeland
Molecular Mechanisms of Plant Microbiome Assembly: From Bacterial Genes to Host Specificity
Dor Russ
Phage-Mediated Modulation of the Phyllosphere Microbiome and its Role in Pathogen Control in Arabidopsis thaliana
Leonie Zott
Root-secreted coumarin promotes Fe nutrition of coumarin-tolerant rhizobacteria
Max Stassen
Molecular coevolution of Magnaporthe oryzae pathogen and rice: defense by evolutionary bricolage mediated by genetic recombination
Ryohei Terauchi
Plenary Session 5
Deep genomic insights into the emergence of crop pathogens
Daniel Croll
Molecular Mechanisms of Rice Resistance to Brown Planthopper
Guangcun He
Haustorium induction in Orobanchaceae parasitic plants
Satoko Yoshida
Plant pathogens suppress one another with repurposed phage machinery
Talia Karasov
Concurrent Session:
Emerging and re-emerging pathosystems
Genome-wide association studies reveal adaptation mechanisms in a major wheat pathogen
Cecile Lorrain
Emergence and host range expansion of an epidemic lineage of Ralstonia solanacearum
Daria Evseeva
Wheat Take-all genomics, giant transposable elements (Starships) and sampling the classical Long-Term Experiment Broadbalk
Kim Hammond-Kosack
Genomics-assisted exploration of global diversity and evolutionary mechanisms in the host generalist fungus Sclerotinia sclerotiorum
Mark Derbyshire
Concurrent Session:
Engineering plant-microbe traits
Engineering new-to-nature immune sensors for novel recognition of effectors in plant pathosystems
Angus Bucknell
Deciphering Mixed-Linkage Glucan (MLG) biosynthesis and the perception of MLG-derived oligosaccharides by the plant immune system to develop sustainable crop protection solutions
Benjamin Menn
The rise of resistance: from natural diversity to rational modifications of immune receptors
Ksenia Krasileva
Toward the engineering of plant pattern recognition receptors for durable disease resistance
Songyuan Zhang
Concurrent Session:
Nutrient exchange & role of metabolites in plant-microbe interactions
METABOLOMIC, PROTEOMIC, AND GENOMIC PATTERNS REVEAL SANCTIONING MECHANISMS OF MEDICAGO TRUNCATULA AGAINST NON-COOPERATIVE RHIZOBIA
Didier Reinhardt
Tripartite plant–fungus–bacterium interactions facilitate plant growth under nutrient-deficient conditions
Daria Evseeva
Reduce powdery mildew proliferation by limiting required host metabolites
Mary Wildermuth
Specific function of particular myrosinases in pathogen-triggered indole glucosinolate metabolism
Pawel Bednarek
Sugar metabolism regulates soybean root rot
Yongli Qiao
Concurrent Session:
Plant Regulation of biotic and abiotic stress – trade-offs
Too Hot to Handle? Unlocking novel plant-microbe interactions under heat stress
Carlos González Sanz
HIVE: a novel unsupervised machine learning tool to find specific and common plant defence signatures against multi-factorial stresses
Giulia Calia
R immune receptors as potential targets for engineering pathogen-resistant plants resilient to climate change
Ksenia Krasileva
Concurrent Session:
Spatial & temporal resolution of the interaction interface
Stochastic and deterministic processes shape the formation of phenotypically distinct Pseudomonas syringae subpopulations that cooperate to colonize the plant
Carmen Beuzon
Hidden dialogues unveiled: visualization of plant root-microbe interactions
Feng Zhou
Spatiotemporally resolved organelle dynamics in resistosome-mediated hypersensitive cell death
Yi-Feng Chen
Concurrent Session:
Structure Informed Synthetic Biology: From Design to Function
Systematic Discovery and Design of Synthetic Immune Receptors in Plants
Bruno Pok Man Ngou
Structural studies of MAX effectors and their host targets to guide targeted engineering of plant proteins for disease resistance
Josephine Maidment
Harnessing Protein Design to Target NUDIX Effectors
Simon Williams
Plenary Session 7
Toward the understanding of the genetic control of the root nodule symbiosis under phosphate-deficient conditions
Oswaldo Valdes-Lopez
Apoplast manipulation by Pseudomonas syringae
Renier van der Hoorn
Plenary Session 8 & Closing Remarks
From Effectors to Infochemicals: How Mutualistic Fungi Engineer Root Compatibility
Alga Zuccaro
