Below are recordings of presentations given at the 2023 IS-MPMI Congress that took place in Providence, Rhode Island, USA. They are available to all members and those that registered to attend the Congress.
Opening Ceremony
UnderSTANDing and eNLRarging plant immune receptor repertoires
Jonathan Jones, The Sainsbury Laboratory
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Biomolecular condensation and membrane sub-compartmentalization for immune signaling
Biological function and subcellular dynamics of plant MLKL proteins conferring TNL-triggered immunity
Qiaochu Shen, University of Cologne
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Plant karyopherin KA120 regulates nuclear condensation of a core splicing regulatory complex to coordinate immune activation
Yangnan Gu, University of California, Berkeley
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Phase separation of GBPL3 in regulating plant immunity
Shuai Huang, The Ohio State University
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Biochemical and cellular dynamics of NLR receptor networks
Sophien Kamoun, The Sainsbury Laboratory
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Employment of Tandem Fluorescent Protein Timers to Study Protein Dynamics in Plant Immunity
Fausto Andres Ortiz Morea, Texas A&M University
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Functional drivers of plant microbiome assembly
Identification of the conserved iol gene cluster involved in rhizosphere competence in Pseudomonas
Ronnie De Jonge, Plant-Microbe Interactions, Department of Biology, Utrecht University
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Mining the soybean microbiome for disease suppressive microbes
Paulo Teixeira, University of São Paulo
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Presentation
Sarah Lebeis, University of Tennessee
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Genetic determinants of the switchgrass root-associated microbiome
Joseph Edwards, University of Texas At Austin
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Contribution of sugar transporters to differentiation of microbiota colonization along the longitudinal root axis of Arabidopsis
Eliza Loo
Heinrich-Heine Universität
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Functions of cellular organelles in plant immunity
Chloroplast localization and the N-terminus of AvrSen1 from Synchytrium endobioticum are required for activation of the Sen1-dependent hypersensitive response
Dong Zhang, Plant Breeding, Wageningen University and Research
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Tethering of Chloroplasts to the Pathogen Interface Underpins Chloroplast-Mediated Immunity
Tolga Bozkurt, Imperial College
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Identification and functional characterization of a candidate effector protease from Fusarium graminearum
Matthew Helm, USDA-ARS, Crop Production and Pest Control Research Unit
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Peptide Signaling and Perception in Plant-Microbe Interactions
PSKR1 balances the plant growth-defense trade-off in the rhizosphere microbiome
Siyu Song, University of British Columbia
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Differential regulation of chickpea rhizobia symbiosis by root and shoot cytokinin
Manish Tiwari, UW-Madison
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Deciphering the role of Malectin-like RLK, MpFER in the liverwort Marchantia polymorpha immune system
Yijia Yan, MPIPZ
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Coordination of cell surface immunity and N limitation by CEP-mediated signalling
Martin Stegmann, Technical University of Munich
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A role for phytocytokines during parasitic plant haustorium formation
Maxwell Fishman, RIKEN Center for Sustainable Resource Science
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Detangling the complex mechanism of action of the symbiotic plant peptides
Siva Sankari Iyer
Mani Sankaran, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
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Plant responses towards vascular pathogens and phloem-feeding insects
Sorghum Defense Responses To Sequential Attack By Insect Herbivores Of Diverse Feeding Guilds
Pritha Kundu, University of Nebraska-Lincoln
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HOMOLOG OF RPW8 4 (HR4) in defense against a phloem sap-feeding pest
Jyoti Shah, University of North Texas
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Viral diseases and insect vectors
Michelle Heck, Cornell University
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Diverse tomato immune receptors induce the accumulation of a shared set of proteins in the xylem sap upon Fusarium oxysporum infection
Margarita Simkovicova, University of Amsterdam
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Plant metabolites and microorganisms – multifaceted interactions
Understanding key microbial functions related to maize-microbe interactions using metaproteomics
Anna-Katharina Garrell, North Carolina State University
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Metabolic capacity of rhizosphere bacteria enriched by isoflavones in soybean rhizosphere
Akifumi Sugiyama, Kyoto University
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Advancing Collaborative Research in Rhizosphere Biology via Standardized Fabricated Ecosystems (EcoFAB 2.0)
Vlastimil Novak, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory
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A multi-omics strategy to elucidate microbiome recruitment in the tomato rhizosphere under nitrogen starvation
Rahul Jain, University of Amsterdam
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PRR evolution in model and crop plants
Allelic variation in the Arabidopsis TNL CHS3/CSA1 immune receptor pair reveals distinct regulatory and oligomerization modes
Yu Yang, UNC at chapel hill
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Evolutionary gain and loss of a plant pattern-recognition receptor for HAMP recognition
Adam Steinbrenner, University of Washington
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Evolutionary Trajectory of Pattern Recognition Receptors in Plants
Bruno Ngou, RIKEN
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Systems and spatial biology in host-pathogen interactions
An engineered rice NLR immune receptor perceives effectors of the Magnaporthe oryzae PWL family
Rafal Zdrzalek, John Innes Centre
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Establishing Extracellular Vesicle Markers for the Fungal Phytopathogen Colletotrichum higginsianum
Brian Rutter, Indiana University
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Understanding role of polyacetylene lipids in tomato defense signaling
Iris Mollhoff, Department of Biology, Stanford University
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Intercellular Communication in MPMI: The road less traveled?
Long-distance communications, a central feature of systemic immune responses
Aardra Kachroo, University of Kentucky
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Deciphering the roles of reactive oxygen species and calcium during viral infection in Arabidopsis
Jahed Ahmed, Laboratoire de Biogenèse Membranaire (LBM), CNRS/Universite de Bordeaux
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A Fusarium graminearum trichothecene mycotoxin facilitates plasmodesmatal crossings by hyphae during wheat infection
Victoria Armer, Rothamsted Research
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Targeting of an Arabidopsis plasmodesmal HMA protein by the fungal pathogen, Colletotrichum higginsianum
Emma Turley, John Innes Centre
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Role of membrane contact site Synaptotagmin A during Candidatus Liberibacter phloem infection in Citrus
Chiara Bernardini, Citrus Research and Education Center CREC
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Symplastic effector mobility facilitated by paired effectors is conserved in fungal pathogens
Frank Takken, University of Amsterdam
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Investigating the dynamic regulation of plasmodesmata during bacterial infection
Kyaw Aung, Iowa State University
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Nicotiana benthamiana, a model plant for interaction between organisms
Michitaka Notaguchi, Nagoya University
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Calcium signal generation, propagation and decoding in local and systemic plant immune signalling
Tina Romeis, Leibniz Institute of Plant Biochemistry
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Beating the host at its own game: Manipulation of SA by Plasmodiophora brassicae the protist pathogen causing clubroot disease of canola
Hossein Borhan, AAFC
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Calcium application induces Jasmonic Acid responses and resistance via Coronatine Insensitive 1 (COI1) in Arabidopsis thaliana
Antonio Leon-Reyes, USFQ
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Root and shoot transcriptional landscape of Arabidopsis to Pseudomonas simiae WCS417
Shu-Hua Hsu, Plant-Microbe Interactions, Department of Biology, Utrecht University
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Lettuce Big Vein associated Virus ORF3 encodes a 30K-like protein that facilitates cell-to-cell movement
Willem Schravesande, Rijk Zwaan, Breeding B.V.
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Plasmodesmata-specific immune signalling isolates cells from their neighbours
Christine Faulkner, John Innes Centre
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AlphaFold: structural insights into molecular plant-microbe interactions
Structural mining of the wheat stem rust foldome uncovers a new rust Avr
Megan Outram, CSIRO
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Agriculture and Food AI guided discovery of cross kingdom autophagy modulators during host-pathogen interactions
Tarhan Ibrahim, Imperial College, London
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Structures predicted by AlphaFold elucidate fungal effector evolution
Kyungyong Seong, University of California, Berkeley
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Suppression of innate immunity during nitrogen fixing symbiosis, causes and consequences
Pathogen flows at the root/nodule interface
Thomas Prévitali, LIPME
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Terminal bacteroid differentiation: when plant immune peptides are turned into symbiotic efficiency modulators
Benoit Alunni, I2BC, UMR9198 CNRS-CEA-Univ. Paris-Saclay
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Infection strategies in the plant-microbe dynamic
Powdery mildew breaks down host chloroplasts for nutrient acquisition
Hang Xue, University of California
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Deciphering the function of MAX effectors in the rice Magnaporthe oryzae interaction
Marie Le Naour--Vernet, PHIM Plant Health Institute, Univ Montpellier, INRAE, CIRAD, Institut Agro, IRD
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The overexpression of the apoplastic soybean Germin-like protein subfamily 1 member 10 enhances resistance to Meloidogyne incognita in transgenic tobacco plants and soybean hairy roots
Valdeir Moreira, Graduated Student of University of Brasília/UnB
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Dicot-smut specific effectors target plant hormone signalling during endophytic growth
Vera Goehre, Heinrich-Heine University
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Investigating the role of arbuscular mycorrhizal effectors in the symbiosis
Ruben Betz, Karlsruhe Institute of Technology
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Ferroptosis regulates the infection strategy and pathogenesis in cereal blast
Naweed Naqvi, Temasek Life Sciences Laboratory
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Single-cell and spatial technologies: advancement of cell-type specific immunity
Single-cell profiling of complex plant responses to bacterial infection
Jie Zhu, University of California, Davis
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Single-cell transcriptomics revealed cell-type specific responses to fungal infection
Bozeng Tang, The Sainsbury Laboratory
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Single-cell and spatial dissection of plant-microbe interactions
Tatsuya Nobori, Salk Institute
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Pikobodies form a high order sensor/helper NLR complex prior to activation
Clemence Marchal, The Sainsbury Laboratory
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Spatially-Resolved, Single Cell Transcriptome Mapping of the Arbuscular Mycorrhizal Symbiosis
Karen Serrano, University of California - Berkeley
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Environmental Impacts on Plant-Microbe Interactions
The impact of warming climates on bacterial mediated immunity in Solanum lycopersicum
Mack Loranger, University of Toronto
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Strengthening the resilience of plant immune systems to a warming climate
Christian Danve Castroverde, Wilfrid Laurier University
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Humidity-induced aquaporin phosphorylation provides a critical step in leaf water defense against bacterial pathogens
Yusuke Saijo, Nara Institute of Science and Technology
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Revisiting the publishing system to promote open science
Presentation of the new eLife's publishing model
Facundo Romani, University of Cambridge
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Early Career Researchers: Embrace open science to advance your career
Sophien Kamoun, The Sainsbury Laboratory
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Type of actions to be carried out to promote open science in your group/lab
Ksenia Krasileva, University of California, Berkeley
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Accelerating scientific publication with preprints
Jessica Polka, ASAPbio
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RNA-mediated interactions and crop protection strategies
Barley extracellular vesicles in the interaction with the obligate biotrophic fungus Blumeria hordei
Hannah Thieron, RWTH Aachen University
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Tracing non-coding (nc)RNAs in plant-fungal symbioses through a comparative analysis of Serendipita indica-colonized model and crop plant species
Ena Secic, Institute of Phytopathology, Justus Liebig, University Giessen, Giessen
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Fungal extracellular vesicles deliver small RNAs into plants to induce cross-kingdom RNA interference
Lorenz Oberkofler, Ludwig Maximilian, University of Munich
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Plants secrete diverse RNAs into their apoplast that reach leaf surfaces, with potential to impact plant-microbe interactions
Lucía Borniego, Indiana University
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Circular antisense RNAs (caRNAs) as a new mode of action for RNA-based plant protection
Timo Schlemmer, Institute of Plant Science COST Action exRNA
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Showcasing Undergraduate Research and Mentoring in Plant-Microbe Interactions
The Microbial World: Response Among the Flax Microbiome to Salinity Stress
Ellyn Evans, The College of Wooster
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Investigating small signaling peptides involved in nitrogen acquisition and nodulation
Divya Jain, Tennessee State University
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Nonhost solanaceous plants recognize multiple effectors from the citrus pathogen Xanthomonas citri subsp. citri
Caio Vinícius
Cardoso Mendes, "Luiz de Queiroz" College of Agriculture/ University of São Paulo
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Comparison of Genomically Diverse and Similar Rhizobium leguminosarum Strains for Symbiotic Effectiveness and Competitiveness for Root Nodule Occupancy in Pisum sativum
Mia Haugan, North Dakota State University, Department of Microbiological Sciences
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Point-of-care molecular plant disease diagnosis
Field based molecular diagnostics – from research to commercial availability
Timothy Miles, Michigan State University, Small Fruit & Hop Pathology Program
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Developing and deploying fit for purpose point-of-care molecular assays for plant pathogens
James Woodhall, University of Idaho
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Commercialization of molecular POC assays: special considerations for test developers
Deborah Groth-Helms, AGDIA
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Plenary Session 1
Wheat blast: an emerging threat to global food security
Md Tofazzal Islam, Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujibur Rahman Agricultural University (BSMRAU)
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Applications of biotechnology in banana improvement for enhancing food security and wealth creation in Africa
Mary Mwangi, KENYATTA UNIVERSITY
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Portable genomics and social justice
Laura Okalebo, Bioteam Introduction
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Plenary Session 2
Arbuscular mycorrhizal symbiosis of cereals
Uta Paszkowski, Crop Science Centre, Department of Plant Sciences, University of Cambridge
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Plenary Session 4
Understanding plant-pathogen-environment interactions
Xiufang Xin, CAS Center for Excellece in Molecular Plant Sciences, Chinese Academy of Sciences
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Getting to the root of plant-microbiome interactions
Cara Haney, University of British Columbia
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Plenary Session 6
Balancing friends and foes: How legumes deal with symbionts and parasites
Ulrike Mathesius, Australian Natl University
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AI-powered holistic and dynamic pathology to deliver new sources of resistance
Sebastian Eves-van den Akker, The Crop Science Centre, University of Cambridge
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Nuclear effectors of the rice blast fungus, Magnaporthe oryzae
Yong-Hwan Lee, Department of Agricultural Biotechnology, Seoul National University
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Plenary Session 7
Gene expressional polymorphism underpins host specialization
Suomeng Dong, Nanjing Agricultural University
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The molecular mechanisms enabling intracellular rhizobial infections in legumes
Thomas Ott, Univ of Freiburg
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Plenary Session 8
Biodiversity of plant innate immune receptors and pathogen effectors
Ksenia Krasileva, University of California, Berkeley
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Unlocking the unique activities of phytoplasma effectors: Targeted protein degradation to downregulate a range of plant developmental regulators
Saskia Hogenhout, John Innes Centre
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