Sponsored by the MPMI Journal
In celebration of the 2020 International Year of Plant Health, IS-MPMI is hosting a satellite meeting to bring together scientists who are taking molecular advances in plant science and translating these discoveries to develop disease resistant crops that will impact global food security. The meeting will highlight technical advances, progress in the field, and challenges for bridging the foundational research–translation gap.
The goal of the meeting is to capitalize on the expertise of the already-gathered IS-MPMI and APS communities to exchange ideas and strategies to bridge this gap to promote plant health around the world. The format will include presentations by MPMI scientists that are successfully bridging this gap (see program) and round table discussions. We encourage broad participation of students, post-doctoral scholars, principle investigators and policy makers to provide diverse perspectives.
Saturday, August 8th, 2020
Denver, Colorado
Held in conjunction with Plant Health 2020—Registration Opens Early April
Translational Science Symposium: Taking MPMI Discoveries to the Field
Uncovering complex traits in rice influencing biomass & benefiting human health
Jan Leach – Colorado State University
Engineering durable resistance in crops
Brian Staskawicz – Innovative Genomics Institute, Univ. of California, Berkeley
Leveraging gene silencing approaches to protect plants from fungi
Hailing Jin – University of California, Riverside
Broad-spectrum resistance to bacterial blight in rice using genome editing
Bing Yang – Danforth Plant Science
Enhancement by endophytes: Interplay of endophytes to benefit grasses
Carolyn Young – Noble Research Institute
Busting the rusts with resistance gene stacks in wheat
Brian Steffenson – University of Minnesota
Sub1 rice: Engineering rice for climate change
Pamela Ronald – University of California, Davis
Computational tools for translational research –Identifying new and reemerging pathogens & pests
Nik Grunwald – Oregon State