Issue 2 • 2017
InterView: Pamela C. Ronald
This InterView with Pamela C. Ronald, University of California, was performed by one of the 2016 IS-MPMI student travel awardees, Gazala Ameen, North Dakota State University. Gazala Ameen (GA): Dr. Ronald, your work and efforts to connect lab to land is a role model for many budding scientists. What is…
Fat Cats Can Jump Over The Wall: Plant Biotic Interactions Workshop in Hohhot, Inner Mongolia, China
— By Sophien Kamoun with contributions from LFCats On a cloudy Norwich day in 2011, post-docs Sebastian Schornack, Sylvain Raffaele, and Tolga Bozkurt were having a typical British lunch of fish and chips with mushy peas with their supervisor Sophien Kamoun. Somehow, the discussion turned to the importance of sustained…
A Recap of the 2017 APS Annual Meeting
This year’s Annual Meeting of The American Phytopathological Society was held in San Antonio, TX, on August 5–9. As someone whose research program is based primarily on studying molecular plant-microbe interactions, I have always found that the science presented at the APS Annual Meeting is more focused on the applied…
InterView: Thomas Baum
Thomas J. Baum Iowa State University What area(s) of molecular plant-microbe interactions do you feel your research has impacted most? I think our work and that of our collaborators was instrumental in bringing plant nematology into the next phase of research questions and approaches. We led plant nematology awayfrom pure…
InterViews: Andrew Bent
Andrew F. Bent University of Wisconsin – Madison What area(s) of molecular plant-microbe interactions do you feel your research has impacted most? From my early days, it would have to be developing and popularizing Arabidopsis and Pseudomonas syringae as experimental models for plant pathology research and discovering thatR genes encode…
InterView: Yong-Hwan Lee
Yong-Hwan Lee Seoul National University What area(s) of molecular plant-microbe interactions do you feel your research has impacted most? My research group has been undertaking comprehensive and integrative approaches to understand the molecular and genomic basis of fungal pathogenesis in the rice blast fungus. Wealso developed a powerful bioinformatics platform…
InterView: Hailing Jin
Hailing Jin University of California What area(s) of molecular plant-microbe interactions do you feel your research has impacted most? I think my research has the most impact on the areas of cross-kingdom RNAi and how this affects host-pathogen communications and of small RNA and epigenetics-mediated regulationin plant-pathogen interactions. What advice…
Expand on Discussions Reported in New, Open-Access MPMI Whitepaper
A new whitepaper published in Molecular Plant-Microbe Interactions, entitled “Foundational and Translational Research Opportunities to Improve Plant Health,” offers a detailed accounting of deliberations at a recent workshop focused on the various biotic challenges to maintaining plant health. This fully open-access paper provides an outline and an accounting of the…
Save the Date for the IS-MPMI XVIII Congress
We are pleased to announce that the next iteration of the IS-MPMI Congress will take place among the beautiful vistas only found in Scotland. During July 14–18, 2019, you will be able to interact with your molecular plant-microbe interactions community from around the world. Witness the majesty and history of…
Make Plans to Attend ICPP2018
The International Congress of Plant Pathology (ICPP) is an exciting global event that takes place once every five years. In 2018, Boston, Massachusetts, U.S.A., will host plant health scientists from around the world from July 29 to August 3. Leading experts from around the world will present the latest advances…