Speakers

Confirmed topics and speakers at IOBC-WPRS PR-IR 2022: Priming the future for healthy plants. We plan to carry on with the programme we were building for 2020, and we would like to thank the speakers named on here for their commitment to the new date. We very much appreciate your support.

Introductory speakers

Professor Duncan Cameron 

Director of Institute of Sustainable Food.

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Professor Victor Flors

IOBC Convenor, Departmento of Ciencias Agrarias y del Medio Natural. Universitat Jaume I. Spain

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Professor Jurriaan Ton

Professor of Plant Environmental Signalling

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Perception and signalling

Dr. Martin Heil

Innate immunity, immunogenic self-DNA, mutualism, ant-plant interactions, induced resistance, plant-plant communication, volatiles, nectar, extrafloral nectar

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Dr. Christine Faulkner

John Innes Institute, UK

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Professor Jürgen Zeier

Systemic acquired resistance, defense priming, plant metabolism, N-hydroxypipecolic acid

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Professor Ari Sadanandom

University of Durham, UK

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Transcriptional control

Dr. Andrea Harper

Ash dieback, associative transcriptomics

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Dr. Steven Spoel

 University of Edinburgh, UK

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Dr. Saskia van Wees

Plant immunity, plant hormones, microbes, insects, transcription

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Professor Fumiaki Katagiri

Plant immunity, signaling network, network biology, computational biology

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Cell wall immunity

Professor Antonio Molina

Crop protection, immunity, cell wall, disease resistance, glycans

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Dr. Christian Voigt

Glucan biosynthesis, cell wall, plant defence, plant-microbe interaction, disease imaging, super-resolution optics

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Epigenetic regulation

Anikó Meijer

Rice, root-knot nematodes, plant defence, epigenetics

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Dr. Melissa Magerøy

Plant defense, molecular biology, plant biochemistry, functional genomics

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Dr. Lionel Navarro

Active DNA demethylation shapes immune responsiveness and ensures proper WRKY-DNA binding at TE boundaries

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Role of soil microbiome in plant immunity

Professor Paola Bonfante

Mycorrhizal fungi, plant microbiota, arbuscular mycorrhizal symbiosis, fungal genomes, endobacteria, omics approaches, chitin, plant responses, plant pathogens

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Dr. Klaus Schlaeppi

Root microbiome, arabidopsis, maize, microbiota feedbacks, root exudates, mycorrhiza

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Dr. Sjoerd van der Ent - Koppert Biological Systems

Translating biological knowledge into efficacious tools for agriculture

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Phenotyping quantitative disease resistance and induced resistance

Dr. Matheus Thomas Kuska

Potential of hyperspectral imaging to detect plant diseases and identify plant resistance responses

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Dr. Stephen Rolfe

Priming agents, disease phenotyping, phenomics

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Tri-trophic interactions

Professor Monika Hilker

Molecular ecology, chemical ecology, plant-insect interactions, multitrophic interactions, plant anti-herbivore defence, insect eggs

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Dr. Ainhoa Martínez-Medina

Endophyte, mycorrhiza, plant defence, plant immune system, plant-insect-microbe interactions, priming, trichoderma

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Dr. Christelle Robert

University of Bern, Switzerland,

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Past, present and future of induced resistance research

Professor Brigitte Mauch-Mani

University of Neuchatel, Switzerland

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Professor Uwe Conrath

Defense priming, induced disease resistance, open chromatin, histones, transcriptional regulation, priming compounds, bifunctional fusion peptides, microgels

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Dr. Maria Pozo

Spanish National Research Council | CSIC · Experimental Station of Zaidín, Doctor in Biological Sciences

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Dr. Estrella Luna-Diez 

University of Birmingham, UK

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Dr. Mike Roberts

Lancaster University, UK 

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