Seminar Talks

It is a great pleasure to announce the upcoming PlantMicrobe seminar talk to be given by

the LRZ I01 team on Tuesday, April 28th 2026 at 13:00 via Zoom.

"New Tools and Workflows from I01"

TRR356 PlantMicrobe projects are offered the Gitlab-based DataHub for storing "warm" data according to the FAIR principles (Wilkinson et al. 2016) with metadata and unique identifiers. The system hosts "living" datasets under construction in "Annotated Research Context" (ARC) format.

However, TRR356 scientists also need to publish or archive their finished-up datasets in institutional, subject-specific or generic repositories for long-term reuse. To make this step of the research data lifecycle easy for DataHub users, the I01 subproject provides conversion tools for ARCs.

In this talk, we show you how to use these newly-produced tools, in particular the online ARCPub tool which helps you with data publication via the FDAT, Open Data LMU and MediaTUM repositories and beyond. By accelerating metadata reuse and harmonization, ARCpub lowers barriers to FAIR data sharing with an improved metadata quality and continuity of information across the data lifecycle. We close the talk with a brief outlook on related activities and plannings of I01.

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It is a great pleasure to announce the upcoming PlantMicrobe seminar talk to be given by

Amey Redkar, Tata Institute of Fundamental Research, Bangalore, India

on Tuesday, May 5 2026 at 13:00 in person at MPI-MP (Room U.019) and also via Zoom.

"Deciphering the compatibility regulatory mechanisms of fungal pathogenesis in systemic infections"

Fungal interactions with plant roots, either beneficial or detrimental, have a crucial impact on agriculture and ecosystems. The cosmopolitan plant pathogen Fusarium oxysporum (Fo) provokes vascular-wilt disease in more than a hundred different crops. On angiosperms (flowering plants), Fo exhibits exquisite adaptation to the plant xylem niche as well as host-specific pathogenicity in form of wilting, both of which are conferred by effectors secreted in xylem (SIX) and encoded on lineage-specific genomic regions. However, such isolates also can colonize the roots of other plants asymptomatically as endophytes or even protect them against pathogenic strains. The molecular determinants of endophytic multi-host compatibility are largely unknown. Moreover, the strategies that enable these pathogens to exploit deeper tissues such as xylem and what led to the emergence of such systemic infections in plants remains elusive. Also, to date, the origin of accessory regions and how these different genomic compartments orchestrate an infection process remains unresolved.

In this talk I will introduce our work on how multi-host compatibility is established in vascular wilts, how the infection process is co-ordinated to lead to diverse interaction outcomes – such as pathogenic and endophytic; and our recent initiatives to define the compatibility regulatory mechanisms both in- and ex-planta to understand these complex interactions of hidden beneath.

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It is a great pleasure to announce the upcoming PlantMicrobe seminar talk to be given by

Heidi Seibold, Digital Research Academy

on Tuesday, May 19th 2026 at 13:00 in person at LMU Martinsried (Room B01.027) and also via Zoom.

"Research Software Engineering"

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