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Important considerations before you submit an abstract
Poster presenters MUST REGISTER BY April 11, 2016 or the abstract will be withdrawn from the Congress.
Please review the categories and fields below before using the online submission form.
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Abstract Submission Fields
1. Enter author information
First Name
Middle Initial
Last Name/Surname
Author designation – presenter or coauthor
Your title
Affiliation (only company/institution - Do not use abbreviations for institutions (i.e. University)
City, state/province, country – do not include street addresses or ZIP codes.)
Telephone
E-mail Address
Indicate if you are an undergraduate, graduate student, post doc, or junior faculty (less than 5 years from your Ph.D.)
Indicate if the presenter/author is a student or post doc
One author MUST be designated as the Presenter. (DO NOT ENTER this individual twice.)
Any additional author(s) must be designated as coauthor(s).
To add an author, complete the fields for contact information then click "save and continue”. Do this for each author.
2. Enter type of presentation
Only posters are being accepted for submission.
Posters - Open to all for submission.
There is no limit on the number of poster presentations that may be submitted.
Poster presenters are required to be present at their poster during certain time frames throughout the meeting for publication (to be announced).
A small number of poster submissions will be selected for talks in the concurrent sessions. Poster submitters selected for talks should still plan to present their poster, as a venue for discussion.
3. Enter presentation title
Capitalize only the first letter of the first word and any proper nouns, (e.g., Effect of pesticides on recovery of Didymella bryoniae from cucurbit vines). The title is limited to 200 characters including spaces. (Approximately 30 word count.)
Registered names and trademarks are not permitted in title.
Use the tool bar for italic words or phrases, as well as for subscript or superscript of characters.
Symbols (Greek, math, etc.) must be spelled out, e.g., Beta.
4. Select presentation categories
Select a primary and an associated secondary category from the list provided that best relates to your presentation.
Primary Secondary
Symbiosis and Mutualism
Symbiosis & Mutualism (mechanisms and evolution)
Commonalities between mutualists and pathogens
Phytobiome
Plant Microbiome
Molecular ecology of host-microbe interactions
Tritrophic interactions and biocontrol
Microbes
Microbial manipulation of the host
Inter-kingdom signaling
RNA-mediated interactions
Cell biology of microbe-host interactions
Apoplastic interactions
Genomics and systems biology
Genomes, genomics and epigenomics
Population genomics
Systems biology and modeling
Host-microbe co-evolution
Host Resistance
Recognition in plant immunity
Cell wall-mediated resistance
Signal transduction for systemic defense
Plant hormones and regulators
Translational and emerging systems
Emerging systems
Translational research; developing world needs
5. Submit Abstract Text
Read the technical requirements and view the sample abstract before submitting your abstract.
The abstract must be in one paragraph.
DO NOT INCLUDE the title, author name(s), or author affiliations in the abstract text field.
Use the abstract toolbar to add formatting (italics, superscripts, or subscripts).
Character limit is 1,500 characters including spaces (Approximately 250 word count).
6. Technical Requirements
Use all normal upper- and lowercase alphanumericas and common punctuation available on your keyboard. Use a common text such as Times, Times New Roman, Helvetica, or Courier.
Sample Abstract
Oomycete and fungal pathogens cause billions of dollars of damage to crops each year and threaten global food security. These pathogens secrete effector proteins that can enter plant cells to modify the physiology of their hosts. A major class of effectors produced by oomycetes contains RXLR motifs that mediate entry of these effectors into plant cells. Oomycete genomes encode hundreds of RXLR effector proteins, although only a minority of these are expressed and make major contributions to virulence. We previously showed that RXLR effectors, and also some fungal effectors that carry “RXLR-like” motifs, can enter host cells in the absence of any pathogen-encded machinery. Furthermore, these effectors can bind to specific lipids including phosphatidylinositol-3-phosphate (PI3P). PI3P-binding requires the RXLR motif, plus in some cases, C-terminal regions of the protein. Previously we showed that PI3P binding is required for the effectors to enter into host cells when the purified proteins are introduced into root or leaf tissue. Furthermore, entry of the proteins could by blocked by competing PI3P-binding proteins. In order to validate that PI3P-binding mediates host cell entry in planta, we have shown that heterologous PI3P-binding proteins such as yeast VAM7p can functionally replace the RXLR domain of Phytophthora sojae effector Avr1b, and can deliver this effector into soybean cells during a natural P. sojae infection. We have also produced stable transgenic cacao, rice and switchgrass plants that secrete PI3P-binding proteins in order to block effector entry. These plants show elevated resistance to diverse oomycete and fungal pathogens.
7. Terms & Conditions
If the abstract is accepted, I agree that the designated presenting author will present the abstract at the 2016 IS-MPMI XVII Congress, July 17-21, 2016, Portland, Oregon, U.S.A. and will register and pay the registration fee by April 11, 2016. I confirm that this is an original work and that the abstract has not been previously published. I and any contributing authors, as sole proprietors of the abstract, agree to transfer copyright of the abstract to the IS-MPMI. Abstracts will be published online in May 2016. By agreeing, I accept this copyright transfer.
I understand that failure to accept the copyright transfer will result in the immediate cancellation of my abstract submission.
