The session speakers will be invited or selected by the session conveners. If you want to become a session speaker and give a talk in a specific session, please contact the session conveners.
Session | Conveners and contact information |
1. Cross-kingdom signal perception | Xiufang Xin (CAS Center for Excellence in Molecular Plant Sciences, xinxf@cemps.ac.cn) Jianfeng Li (Sun Yat-sen University, lijfeng3@mail.sysu.edu.cn) Xiaorong Tao (Nanjing Agricultural University, taoxiaorong@njau.edu.cn) Xin Li (The University of British Columbia, xinli@msl.ubc.ca) |
2. Immunity receptor and effector biochemical activity/function | Jianmin Zhou (Yazhouwan National Laboratory, jmzhou@genetics.ac.cn) Wenbo Ma (The Sainsbury Laboratory, wenbo.ma@tsl.ac.uk) |
3. Plant-microbe and insect symbioses | Zhaosheng Kong (CAS Institute of Microbiology, zskong@im.ac.cn) Xuelu Wang (Henan University, xueluw@henu.edu.cn) Junbo Luan (Shenyang Agricultural University, jbluan@syau.edu.cn) |
4. Plant microbiome and microbe-microbe Interactions | Yang Bai (Peking University, ybai@pku.edu.cn) Xia Li (Huazhong Agricultural University, xli@mail.hzau.edu.cn) Zhong Wei (Nanjing Agricultural University, weizhong@njau.edu.cn） |
5. Plant-insect-natural enemy multitrophic interactions | Sibao Wang (CAS Center for Excellence in Molecular Plant Sciences, sbwang@cemps.ac.cn) Xiaowei Wang (Zhejiang University, xiaoweiwang@hotmail.com) Yanhui Lu (CAAS Institute of Plant Protection, yhlu@ippcaas.cn) |
6. New technologies and frontiers: Systems and spatial biology in plant-microbe interactions | Zhonghua Ma (Zhejiang University, zhma@zju.edu.cn) Jun Liu (China Agriculture university, Junliu@im.ac.cn) Daohong Jiang (Huazhong Agriculture University, daohongjiang@mail.hzau.edu.cn) |
7. Plant metabolism and immunity | Jie Luo (Hainan University, jie.luo@hainanu.edu.cn) Suomeng Dong (Nanjing Agricultural University, smdong@njau.edu.cn) |
8. Evolution of plant-insect/microbe interactions | Chengshu Wang (CAS Center for Excellence in Molecular Plant Sciences, wangcs@cemps.ac.cn) Guirong Wang (CAAS Institute of Plant Protection, grwang@ippcaas.cn) Jianhua Huang (Zhejiang University, jhuahuang@zju.edu.cn) Bente Gunnveig Berg (Norwegian University of Science and Technology, bente.berg@ntnu.no) |
9. Emerging harmful organism and agroecology | Wenxian Sun (China Agriculture university, wxs@cau.edu.cn) Youjun Zhang (CAAS Institute of Vegetables and Flowers, zhangyoujun@caas.cn) |
10. Plant resistance and crop molecular design | Xuewei Chen (Sichuan Agriculture University, xwchen88@163.com) Guangcun He (Wuhan University, gche@whu.edu.cn) |
11. Biotic Plant Interactions for Crop Health | Xuexin Chen (Zhejiang University, xxchen@zju.edu.cn) KL Heong (Fellow of The World Academy of Science, klheong@yahoo.com) |
Sessions talks (to be updated ......)
| Session 1 | ||
| Speaker | Affiliation | Title of Presentation |
| Yi Li | Fujian Agriculture and Forestry University | Sensation of viral infection and initiation of antiviral defense in rice |
| Yansong Miao | Nanyang Technological University, Singapore | Phase Separation in Host Immune Responses at the Plant-Microbe Interface |
| Jian Ye | Chinese Academy of Sciences, Institute of Microbiology | Targeted Protein Stabilization Confers Citrus Huanglongbing Resistance |
| Xianbing Wang | China Agricultural University | Plant virus-encoded viroporins: biological functions and inhibitor screening |
| Yuelin Zhang | Sichuan University | Salicylic acid biosynthesis pathways in plants |
| Weijie Huang | Chinese Academy of Sciences, Center for Excellence in Molecular Plant Sciences | Vector-borne bacterial pathogens dampen plant light signaling to modulate plant-microbe-insect interactions |
| Xiaorong Tao | Nanjing Agricultural University | Effector triggered assembly of NLR ring-type E3 ligase to induce immunity |
| Wei Wang | Chinese Academy of Sciences, Institute of Genetics and Developmental Biology | WTS, a pericycle-expressed ion channel, safeguards the stele to confer clubroot resistance |
| Jun Liu | Sun Yat-Sen University | The antagonistic role of an E3 ligase pair in regulating plant NLR-mediated autoimmunity |
| Session 2 | ||
| Speaker | Affiliation | Title of Presentation |
| Rosa Lozano-Duran | Univ Tuebingen | Hostile takeover - Viral strategies to hijack a plant |
| Yu-hang Chen | IGDB | Ca2+ channels in plant effector-triggered immunity |
| Li Wan | CEMP | Activation of helper NLRs by TIR immune signaling |
| Federica Locci | MPIPZ | How not to die:a a TIR-NBS protein interacts with PAD4 to amplify and propagate immune signaling |
| Antonio Molina | UPM, Madrid | Novel insights into plant immunity and disease resistance mechanisms triggered by cell wall-derived glycans: deciphering the function of Leucine Rich Repeat-Malectin Receptor Kinases |
| Yan Liang | Zhejiang Univ | A lectin receptor-like kinase controls xylem immunity |
| Yan Wang | Nanjing Agr Univ | A conserved Phytophthora apoplastic effector targets the co-receptor BAK1 to dampen plant immunity |
| Jiejie Li | Beijing Normal University | Myosin XI-mediated BIK1 recruitment to nanodomains facilitates FLS2-BIK1 complex formation |
| Lei Wang | Univ Bern | Natural phytocytokines antagonist in tomato |
| Session 3 | ||
| Speaker | Affiliation | Title of Presentation |
| Xiao-Li Bing | Nanjing Agricultural University, China | Role of salivary proteins in endosymbiont-mediated interactions between spider mites and plants |
| Hong-Wei Shan | Ninbo University | The plant-sucking insect Riptortus pedestris selects assembly of gut microbiota from environment to enhance host reproduction |
| Guan-Hong Wang | Institute of Zoology, Chinese Academy of Sciences | Insect microbial function mining and symbiotic strategies to combat vector-borne disease |
| Hao Zheng | China Agr Univ | Integration of multi-omics technologies for insect-microbiome study |
| Jian Feng | Institute of Genetics and Developmental Biology (IGDB), CAS | Processing of NODULEINCEPTION controls thetransition to nitrogenfixation in root nodules |
| Yuefeng Guan | Guangzhou University | Understanding and improving symbiotic nitrogen fixation in Soybean |
| Xu Cheng | Agricultural Genomics Institute at Shenzhen (AGIS) | Exploringthe impacts of rhizosphere microbiomeon crop growth |
| Zhe Yan | Chinese Academy of Agricultural Sciences | Single-cell sequencing on soybean nodules identifies genes facilitating rhizobium infection |
| Changfu Tian | China Agricultural University | Symbiotic compatibility mediated by nonorthogonal integration of key symbiosis genes in broad-host-range rhizobia |
| Fang Xie | CAS Center for Excellence in Molecular Plant Science | To be announced |
| Session 4 | ||
| Speaker | Affiliation | Title of Presentation |
| Ville-Petri Friman | University of Helsinki | Plant growth-promoting phages |
| Feng Gu | China Agricultural University | Cooperation and competition between AM fungi and bacteria in mobilizing organic phosphorus in hyphosphere |
| Zhong Wei | Nanjing Agricultural University | Strigolactones-mediated holobiont immunity? |
| Yuting Liang | Institute of Soil Science, Chinese Academy of Sciences | Microbial strategies for enhancing acidic red soil quality and efficiency |
| Qing Yang | Institute of Plant Protection, Chinese Academy of Agricultural Sciences | To be announced |
| Jiatao Xie | Huazhong Agricultural University | Plant modifies fungal non-self recognition to facilitate mycovirus transmission |
| Feng Yu | Hunan University | Receptor kinases drive interactions between plant roots, microorganisms, and soil |
| Mengcen Wang | Zhejiang University | Protective interspecies signaling in the phyllosphere microbiome |
| Xingang Zhou | Northeast Agricultural University | Volatile-mediated positive interspecific plant interaction restructures rhizosphere microbiota |
| Yang Bai | Peking University | Genetic feature and functional potentials of crop root microbiome |
| Session 5 | ||
| Speaker | Affiliation | Title of Presentation |
| Shai Morin | Hebrew University of Jerusalem | Studying phloem-feeding in whiteflies – from feeding site location to osmoregulation |
| Yule Liu | Tsinghua University | Molecular basis of methyl-salicylate-mediated plant airborne defence |
| Yunhe Li | Henan University | Planthopper-induced rice volatiles inhibit resistance against conspecifics in neighbouring plants |
| Haijun Xiao | Beijing Forestry University | Landscape impacts on the abundance and richness of pests and natural enemies in small-holder rice ecosystems |
| Yingbo Mao | Chinese Academy of Sciences Center for Excellence in Molecular Plant Sciences | Mirids secrete a TOPLESS targeting protein to compete with cotton bollworms on cotton plant |
| Ran Li | Zhejiang University | Role of primary and secondary metabolites in rice and brown planthopper interaction |
| Qian Chen | Fujian Agriculture and Forestry University | Exploiting salivary proteins of insect vectors: a viral strategy for transmission to plant hosts |
| Bing Wang | Institute of Plant Protection, Chinese Academy of Agricultural Sciences | The role of (E)-β-farnesene in tritrophic interactions: chemoreception and evolution |
| Pengjun Xu | Tobacco Research Institute, Chinese Academy of Agricultural Sciences | Densovirus infection facilitates plant–virus transmission by an aphid |
| Jiang Zhang | Agricultural Genomics Institute at Shenzhen, Chinese Academy of Agricultural Sciences | Friends or enemies: the role of Pseudomonas species in the interaction between Salicaceae plants and insects |
| Zongtao Sun | Ningbo University | The role of intracellular lectin protein in vector insect-virus-rice host interactions |
| Session 6 | ||
| Speaker | Affiliation | Title of Presentation |
| Kenichi Tsuda | Huazhong Agricultural University | Virulence suppression by plant immunity and microbiota |
| David Guttman | University of Toronto | The Adaptive Landscape of Pseudomonas syringae Virulence |
| Fumi Katagri | University of Minnesota | How can plants stay in this world while their pathogens can evolve much faster? |
| Daohong Jiang | Huazhong Agricultural University | Hypovirulence-associated mycovirus-mediated plant vaccine and its application |
| Jun Liu | China Agricultural University | Single-cell and spatial transcriptomics reveals a stereoscopic response of rice leaf cells to Magnaporthe oryzae infection |
| Houxiang Kang | Institute of Plant Protection, Chinese Academy of Agri Sci | Development of Machine Learning Methods for Accurate Prediction of Plant Disease Resistance |
| Huiquan Liu | Northwest A&F University | Resolving conflicts: How the A-to-I RNA editing system shaped the evolution of eukaryotic complexity |
| Tianqi Zhang | Nanjing Agricultural University | Single-Cell Sequencing Analysis of Plant Immune Responses to 'Long-Distance' and 'Short-Distance', 'New-Treatment' and 'Old-Treatment' |
| Patrick Schäfer | Justus Liebig University | RNA interference and priming in crop protection |
| Session 7 | ||
| Speaker | Affiliation | Title of Presentation |
| Alberto Macho | Chinese Academy of Sciences | To be announced |
| Yongli Qiao | Shanghai Normal University | A sweet story from Phytophthora-soybean interaction |
| Tiancong Qi | Tsinghua University | Activation and function of the EDS1-PAD4-ADR1 immune receptor complex in stomatal immunity |
| Shoucai Ma | Xianghu Laboratory | Finding novel regulatory mechanism that keeps plant immune responses in check |
| Jong-Seong Jeon | Kyung Hee University | To be announced |
| Guotian Li | Huazhong Agricultural University | Phospholipids in plant immunity |
| Junli Wang | Max Planck Institute | Glutamate receptor-like channels (GLRs) are required for effector-triggered immunity in Nicotiana Benthamiana |
| Gang Li | Nanjing Agricultural University | Rescuing mycotoxin-hijacked metabolic flux confers resistance to the crop fungal disease |
| Yuese Ning | CAAS Plant Protection Institute | The E3 ubiquitin ligase OsRING113 ubiquitinates the metabolite-related bZIP transcription factor APIP5 to enhance broad-spectrum disease resistance in rice |
| Zhenhua Liu | Shanghai Jiaotong University | Evolution of defensive natural products in plants |
| Session 8 | ||
| Speaker | Affiliation | Title of Presentation |
| Bente Gunnveig Berg | Norwegian University of Science and Technology | Coding of odor valence in the olfactory system of the heliothine moth |
| Taiyun Wei | Fujian Agriculture and Forestry University | The mechanism of phloem-inhabiting unculturable bacterial pathogens transmission by insect vectors |
| Weiguo Fang | Zhejiang University | Chemical ecological interactions between the insect pathogenic fungi Metarhizium and insects |
| Xiaoyue Hong | Nanjing Agricultural University | Endosymbionts manipulate the reproduction and fitness in spider mites |
| Lilin Zhao | Institute of Zoology，Chinese Academy of Sciences | Chemical adaptive interaction among pinewood nematodes, its vector beetle, associate microbes and pine trees |
| Haijian Huang | Ningbo University | Saliva improves planthopper feeding by suppressing plant defenses |
| Chengshu Wang | CAS Center for Excellence in Molecular Plants Sciences | Insect-Fungus interactions byond bilateral regimes |
| Guirong Wang | Agricultural Genomics Institute at Shenzhen, Chinese Academy of Agricultural Sciences | Methyl eugenol regulates mating behavior in oriental fruit flies by enhancing lek attractiveness |
| Yazhou Chen | Huazhong Agricultural University | Brown planthoppers translocate lncRNA transcripts into rice plants to promote colonisation |
| Alexander J. McClelland | The Sainsbury Laboratory ,Norwich, UK | A Plant Protease Targets Outer Membrane Proteins of Bacterial Pathogens |
| Session 9 | ||
| Speaker | Affiliation | Title of Presentation |
| Wenxian Sun | Jilin Agricultural University | Molecular mechanisms underlying Ustilaginoidea virens pathogenicity |
| Wenming Wang | Sichuan Agricultural University | Parasitic mechanisms by which Ustilaginoidea virens colonizes rice flowers |
| Frank Zhao | Washington State University | Implication of large chromosomal inversions in the evolution of Erwinia amylovora genome |
| Zhaojiang Guo | Institute of Vegetables and Flowers, Chinese Academy of Agricultural Sciences | Why can the "super pest" whitefly thrive on over 600 host plants? |
| Fangfang Li | Institute of Plant Protection, Chinese Academy of Agricultural Sciences | The RNA of tobamovirus encodes additional viral proteins |
| Yutao Xiao | Agricultural Genomics Institute at Shenzhen, Chinese Academy of Agricultural Sciences | Adaptive evolution of Spodoptera frugiperda (J.E.Smmith) for Bt maize |
| Xuefeng Wang | Southwest University | Effectors from Huanglongbing-associated pathogen manuipulate autophage to promote bacterial infection |
| Hetan Chang | Agricultural Genomics Institute at Shenzhen, Chinese Academy of Agricultural Sciences | To be announced |
| Haiyang Li | Henan Agricultural University | Emerging Fusarium pseudograminearum: pathagenesis and interaction with whea |
| Yi Xu | Nanjing Agricultural University | Unraveling the mystery of soybean stay-green syndrome |
| Session 10 | ||
| Speaker | Affiliation | Title of Presentation |
| Zhiyong Liu | Institute of Genetics and Developmental Biology, Chinese Academy of Sciences | Helper NLRs in Wheat Disease Resistance |
| Men Yuan | Huazhong Agricultural University | Rice R gene mining and breeding against bacterial pathogens |
| Xinhua Ding | Shandong Agricultural University | The MYB transcription factor OsMYBxoc1 |
| Wende Liu | Institute of Plant Protection, Chinese Academy of Agricultural Sciences | A typical protein degradation pathways: Attack and defense strategies of rice and blast fungus |
| Kai Wang | International Rice Research Institute | Molecular Design of Rice with Multi-biotic Resistances |
| Jin Fan | Yazhou Bay National Laboratory | The Genes Involved in the Combat between Rice and False Smut Fungus |
| Guoyong Xu | Wuhan University | Defense strategies for plant health: disease tolerance versus resistance |
| Xiao Lin | Institute of Microbiology, Chinese Academy of Sciences | Hunting crop resistance genes from the wild |
| Lei Zhao | Northwest A&F University | Strategies of Barley Yellow Dwarf Virus to Facilitate Viral Infection by Suppressing Wheat Immune Responses and to Promote Aphid Transmission |
| Session 11 | ||
| Speaker | Affiliation | Title of Presentation |
| Xiangzong Meng | Shanghai Normal University | Activation of phytoalexin biosynthesis and secretion by multilayered signaling pathways |
| Bo Li | Huazhong Agricultural University | The Mechanism of Phytopathogen Transmission in Plant Xylem and Innovations in Anti-Vascular Disease Strategies |
| Yanjun Kou | China National Rice Research Institute | The interaction between broad-spectrum blast resistance gene Pi9 and avirulence factor AvrPi9 |
| Mian Zhou | Capital normal university | A novel pathogen effector hijacks the circadian clock to perturb both plant development and immunity |
| Chengguo Duan | CAS Center for Excellence in Molecular Plant Science | Nucleus - a new battleground in the arms race between plants and pathogenic fuing |
| Jun-Bo Luan | Shenyang Agricultural University, China | Molecular and cellular basis of whitefly-bacteria symbiosis |
| Tong Zhang | South China Agricultural University | The balance of rice viruses in inter-species interactions |
| Yanjuan Jiang | Yunnan University | Rapid host cell acidification is a novel plant defense response countered by the brown planthopper |
| Jieshun Lin | Aarhus University, Denmark | A novel secondary signal-zinc mediates control of nitrogen fixation via transcription factor FUN filamentation |
| Xiang Sun | Shenyang Agricultural University, China | Hamiltonella regulates whitefly fertilization by influencing the expression of maternal gene tudor |