Date: 8 February 2022, 13:00– 18:00 (including Pubquiz)
Organizers: Erik Poelmann & Harold van den Burg
Location: Online
Deadline for abstract submission: 10 January 2022
Deadline for Registration: 2. February 2022 (without snack box), 23 January 2022 (with snack box)
Registration: closed
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 8th of February. We will finish the day with a fun Pubquiz.
Programme:
14:00 OPENING
14:05 Sebastian Tonn (Plant Microbe Interactions, UU) Phenotyping of lettuce downy mildew by imaging pathogen induced UV-fluorescence
14:30 Yu-Hsien Lin (Plant Physiology – UVA) Enzymatic properties and phylogenetic analyses suggest the evolutionary timeline and divergence of lepidopteran hexenal isomerases
14:55 BREAK
15:05 PARALLEL SESSIONS (two sessions, four presentations each)
SESSION 1
15:05 Si Qin (Phytopathology, WUR) Cross-kingdom RNA interference in early phases of the Botrytis cinerea-tomato interaction
15:20 Hayat Sehki (Molecular Plant Pathology, UVA) Viruses expressing weak Viral Suppressor of RNA silencing induce RNASE THREE LIKE1 to promote infection
15:35 Changfeng Zhang (Plant Microbe Interactions, UU) Devosia sp. ZB163 is consistently enriched on hyphae of arbuscular mycorrhizal fungi and promotes plant mycorrhization, nitrogen uptake and growth
15:50 Daniel Monino Lopez (Plant Breeding, WUR) Rpi-agf1: a novel type broad spectrum resistance gene against Phytophthora infestans
16:05 Session discussion
SESSION 2
15:05 Davy Meijer (Entomology, WUR) The role of far-red light in mediating tritrophic plant-arthropod interactions
15:20 Nina Guarneri (Nematology, WUR) Root architecture plasticity in response to endoparasitic cyst nematodes is mediated by damage signaling
15:35 Einar Martínez (Phytopathology, WUR) Genetic diversity and comparative genomic analysis of Fusarium spp. strains infecting bananas in Cuba
15:50 Xiangyu Liu (Plant Sciences, LU) Current and legacy effects of neighborhood communities on plant growth and aboveground herbivory
16:05 Session discussion
16:20 BREAK, Formation of teams for Pubquiz
16:30 PUBQUIZ
17:00 END
Tuesday, February 8, 2022
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