EPS Theme 2 Symposium and  Willie Commelin Scholten day  Interactions between Plants and Biotic Agents

Date: 9 February 2021
Time: 14.00 -18.00h
Venue: Online via  MS Teams
Registration deadline: 1 February 2021 (24 January 2021, when you would like to receive a drink/snack package)
Organizers: Saskia van Wees and Erik Poelman

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 9 February 2021. This Symposium will be an online event. So we can be sure to follow all the corona regulation and most important to create an scientific environment where we can present and discuss our results, while maintaining a healthy distance.

Program:

14:00    OPENING

 14:05    Dmitry Lapin (Plant Microbe Interactions, UU) How plants use the TIR protein domain present across the tree of life to restrict microbial invasion

14:30    Sergio Landeo Villanueva (Phytopathology, WU) Red light imaging for programmed cell death visualization and quantification in plant-pathogen interactions

14:55    BREAK

15:05    PARALLEL SESSIONS (three sessions, four presentations each)

SESSION 1

15:05   Xiangyu Liu (Plant Sciences, LU) Getting help from your neighbor belowground: Testing for an associational resistance against soil nematodes

15:20   Sharella Schop (Virology, WU) Mature plant resistance: why do aphids turn black and die on older sugar beet leaves?

15:35   Yu-Hsien Lin (Swammerdam, UVA) Insect-plant battle: Ecophysiology of insect saliva and plant volatile signaling

15:50    Juan Sanchez Gil (Plant Microbe Interactions, UU) Genetic determination of ecological competence in the rhizosphere

 16:05    Session discussion

SESSION 2

15:05   Eleni Koseoglou (Plant Breeding, WU) Inactivation of WALLS ARE THIN1 (WAT1) in tomato reduces susceptibility to the vascular bacterium Clavibacter michiganensis

15:20   Qi Zheng (Nematology, WU) Nucleocytoplasmic distribution is required for activation of immune response by the potato NB-LRR receptor Gpa2

15:35   Yaohua You (Phytopathology, WU) Tolerance mechanisms to plant saponin in

Botrytis cinerea

15:50    Misha Paauw (Swammerdam, UVA) How plants protect hydathodes against bacterial pathogens

 16:05    Session discussion

SESSION 3

15:05   Peter Karssemeijer (Entomology, WU) Lessons learnt from cabbage root transcriptomics; the role of glucosinolates in plant defence against a specialist root herbivore

15:20   Lieke Vlaar (Plant Hormone Biology, UVA) Does integration of host cues into the dauer pathway mediate potato cyst nematode hatching?

15:35   Jaap-Jan Willig (Nematology, WU) Functional knockout of the transcription factor TCP9 increases resilience to the cyst nematode Heterodera schachtii in Arabidopsis

15:50    Daniel Monino Lopez (Plant Breeding, WU)Allelic variants of the NLR protein Rpi-chc1 differentially recognise members of the Phytophthora infestans PexRD12/31 effector superfamily through the leucine-rich repeat domain

 16:05    Session discussion

16:20    BREAK, Formation of teams for Pubquiz

16:30    PUBQUIZ

17:00    END

 

Registration
Attendance is free, but registration is required. Please use this link to register.

For this event you will get 0.2 credits for your TSP.


Tuesday, February 9, 2021
14:00 - 18:00

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