2025
January 14
Michael Krings, Bavarian State Collection for Palaeontology and Geology
"The small world in the Rhynie chert – how microorganisms, plants, and animals lived together 400 million years ago"
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April 8
Padraic Flood, Wageningen University and Research NL
"Lathyrus tuberosus: The Protein-Rich Tuber Crop of the Future"
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April 15
Marco Incarbone, MPI Molecular Plant Physiology
"AGO5 restricts virus vertical transmission in plant gametes"
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May 20
David Mackey, Ohio State University
"Niche establishment is foundational to bacterial infection of plants"
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May 27
Santiago F. Elena, University of Valencia
“Age matters: host developmental stage modulates immune responses and viral evolution"
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June 10
Isabel Saur, University of Cologne
"Barley-powdery mildew interaction"
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July 8
Pingtao Ding, Leiden University, Netherlands
"Transcriptional execution of intracellular plant innate immunity"
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July 22
Alexander Förderer, Max Planck Institute of Molecular Plant Physiology, Golm
"Structure-informed engineering of plant-microbe interactions"
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Sept 23
Juan Carlos De la Concepción, Gregor Mendel Institute of Plant Biology, Vienna BioCenter
“Following the Effector: A Journey Through Virulence, Immunity, and Evolution”
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Sept 30
Sebastian Pfeilmeier, University of Amsterdam
"Plant infections by Xanthomonas pathogens: a lens into tissue-specific virulence and immunity"
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Oct 7
Marc Knight, Durham University
“Calcium signalling in response to stress in plants”
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Nov 11
James Brown, John Innes Centre, UK
"Durable Disease Resistance in Cereals"
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Nov 25
Adrian Wallner, AIT Austrian Institute of Technology
“Exploring endofungal bacteria: Insights from the grapvine pathogen Fomitiporia mediterranea“
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2024
February 20
Cyril Zipfel, University of Zurich and The Sainsbury Laboratory
"Activation and regulation of plant immunity by secreted signaling peptides"
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May 7
Daniel Croll, University of Neuchâtel
"Entanglement of transposable elements and virulence in rapid crop pathogen adaptation"
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May 14
Renier van der Hoorn, University of Oxford
"Chemical proteomics, CryoEM and AI reveal novel apoplast manipulation mechanisms by Pseudomonas syringae"
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May 21
Christine Wolter, UB TUM & TUM RD Hub and Martin Spenger, UB LMU
"Research Data Management at the Munich Universities, with discussionon connection to TRR356"
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May 28
Lois Banta, Williams College
"Modulation of host defenses by the Type VI Secretion System (T6SS) of Agrobacterium tumefaciens"
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June 4
Keith Duncan, Donald Danforth Plant Science Center, St. Louis
"Using lab-based X-ray tomography for multiscale and correlative 3D imaging in plant biology"
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June 11
Brande B. H. Wulff, King Abdullah University of Science and Technology
"Wheat rust resistance genes: R we there yet?"
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June 18
Sarah O'Connor, Max Planck Institute for Chemical Ecology
"Harnessing plant natural products"
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July 16
Eva H. Stukenbrock, University of Kiel
"The role of microbial interactions in fungal pathogenicity"
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July 17, Wednesday at 11.:15 am
Eva H. Stukenbrock, University of Kiel
"Control of the immune receptor gene expression and immunity-conditioned growth"
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July 23
Dmitry Lapin, Utrecht University
"Control of the immune receptor gene expression and immunity-conditioned growth"
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October 15
Uta Paszkowski, University of Cambridge
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October 29
Hernán Burbano, University College London
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November 5
Iris Eisermann, The Sainsbury Laboratory
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2023
January 17
Thorsten Langner, The Sainsbury Laboratory
“From basic research to application: Understanding pathogen evolution to guide plant immune receptor engineering”
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April 25
Tonni Andersen, Max Planck Institute for Plant Breeding Research
“Timing of root barriers is essential for soil-to-shoot integration of rhizosphere status”
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May 9
Danelle Seymour, University of California, Riverside
“Integrating scales to traverse the genotype-phenotype divide in citrus”
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May 23
Farhah Assaad, Technical University of Munich, School of Life Sciences
“Plant resilience to future climate”
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May 30
Caroline Gutjahr, Max Planck Institute of Molecular Plant Physiology, Root Biology and Symbiosis
“Regulation AM development”
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June 6
Detlef Weigel, Max Planck Institute for Biology Tübingen
“Introduction to work on plant immunity in the Weigel lab”
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June 13
Eric Kemen, Universität Tübingen
“What factors shape the host microbiota? An infinite puzzle of microbe-microbe-host-environment interactions”
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June 20
Martin Stegmann, Technical University of Munich
"Regulation of disease susceptibility and resistance by phytocytokines"
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June 27
Andreas Schaller, University of Hohenheim
"Unexpected addition to the systemin family: three new wound signaling peptides in tomato"
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July 4
Defeng Shen, Max Planck Institute for Plant Breeding Research
"The importance of barriers in a functional relationship"
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July 11
Gunther Doehlemann, University of Cologne, Institute of Plant Sciences
"The tricked plant - how the fungal pathogen Ustilago maydis manipulates the gene expression and metabolism of its host"
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July 18
Stephane Compant, Austrian Institute of Technology
"Fungal-bacterial interactions and impact on plant growth and health"
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September 7
Jeremy Murray, CAS Center for Excellence in Molecular Plant Science, Shanghai
"The Ins and Outs of Nitrate Transport in Legumes"
September 8
Jeremy Murray, CAS Center for Excellence in Molecular Plant Science, Shanghai
"Specific Small Molecule Signaling : Flavonoids as host-to-microbe signals"
September 12
Joshua Taillon, National Institute of Standards and Technology
"Lessons Learned Evaluating and Deploying Electronic Laboratory Notebooks at NIST"
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September 19
Klaus Schläppi, Department of Environmental Sciences, University of Basel
“Exudate-microbiome interactions on Maize roots”
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October 12
Michael Udvardi, Centre for Crop Science, Queensland Alliance for Agriculture and Food Innovation
“Genetics and genomics of symbiotic nitrogen fixation in legumes: past, present and future”
October 17
Korbinian Schneeberger, Ludwig-Maximilans-Universität Munich
"On pathogen-induced mutation rates in A. thaliana - a status report"
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October 24
Ralph Hückelhoven, Technical University of Munich
"Co-option of host ROP GTPase and phospholipid signaling by the barley powdery mildew fungus”
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October 31
Saskia Hogenhout, John Innes Centre, Advanced Plant Health
"Unlocking the unique activities of phytoplasma effectors"
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November 14
Marion Clavel, Gregor Mendel Institute of Molecular Plant Biology
"Relieving the burden of replication: how selective autophagy protects host cells against virus induced organelle remodeling"
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December 5
Jessica Erickson, Leibniz Institute of Plant Biochemistry, Halle (Saale)
"Understanding Xanthomonas virulence through the study of secreted proteins"
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December 12
Kate Parys, Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität Munich
"Genetic and functional diversity of Lotus MLD-LRR-RKs in root endosymbiosis"
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