EPS Theme 2 Symposium “Interactions between Plants and Biotic Agents ”
Date: 19. January 2023
Location: H0.08, Science Park, Amsterdam
Registration: here
Fee: no fee (no-show fee of 50 € will be charged)
Deadline for Registration: 10 January 2023
All EPS members with an interest in Interactions between Plants and Biotic Agents are hereby kindly invited to join the EPS Theme 2 Symposium on the 19th of January.
This symposium gives EPS theme 2 members the opportunity to present and discuss their own work, especially the young scientists (PhD candidates & postdocs). Please contact Erik Poelmann & Frank Takken for the presentations.
Programme:
9:30 REGISTRATION WITH COFFEE
10:00 OPENING
10:05 Corné Pieterse (Plant Microbe Interactions, UU) Willie Commelin Scholte Lecture, Spinoza laureate. “The plant microbiome: lessons from the past, focus of the future.”
10:40 Jaap-Jan Willig (Nematology, WUR) “Transcription factor WOX11 modulates root architecture plasticity and tolerance to cyst nematode infections.”
11:00 Xiangyu Liu (Plant Sciences, LU) “The role of root-associated bacteria in root morphology, plant performance and plant-herbivore interactions in Jacobaea vulgaris.”
11:20 COFFEE BREAK
11:50 Misha Paauw (Molecular Plant Pathology, UVA) “Colonization of the leaf vasculature by the plant pathogen Xanthomonas campestris.
12:10 Jelle Spooren (Plant Microbe Interactions, UU) “Conserved disease-associated resistobiomes form a plant protective soil-borne legacy.”
12:30 Christiaan Schol (Plant Breeding, Phytopathology, WUR) “Identification of C. fulvum effector Avr9B suggests sequential breakdown of the Cf-9 resistance locus.”
13:00 LUNCH BREAK
14:00 Sarmina Dangol (Plant Physiology, UVA) “Towards understanding the role of effector proteins from the bacterium Candidatus liberibacter asiaticus (CLas) and its vector, the Asian citrus psyllid (ACP), in plant immunity.”
14:20 Bram Kamps (Entomology, WUR) “Drought and waterlogging differently affect the response to herbivory by Myzus persicae in two Rorippa plant species.”
14:40 Thijs Bierman (Plant Sciences, LU) “Sustainable plant protection via trichome mimics.”
15:00 André Bertran (Nematology, WUR) “The dauer pathway regulates potato cyst nematode hatching.”
15:30 CLOSING
15:40 DRINKS
Thursday, January 19, 2023
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