The report of the XVI Congress is now available as a supplement to the November issue of MPMI. In honor of Ko Shimamoto, a student travel fellowship program was initiated to enrich graduate student and postdoctoral participation at this congress.  The fellows contributed to the dissemination of the meeting findings by releasing daily scientific highlights via social networking. A group of fellows were selected to summarize their perspectives of the meeting highlights to share this information with our broader IS-MPMI community. Contributions to this meeting report were made by: Cris Argüeso, Bethany Huot, Panya Kim, Derek Lundberg, Morgan Halane and Irene Serrano, in collaboration with two IS-MPMI Board members, Roger Innes and Mary Beth Mudgett. Read the full report now.