| Monday, June 17 | ||
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| Time | Activity | Speaker |
| 17:00-19:00 | Welcome reception & registration | |
| Tuesday, June 18 | ||
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| Time | Activity | Speaker |
| 08:00 - 09:00 | Registration | |
| 09:00 - 09:15 | Opening | |
| Session 1: Plant-microbiome interactions for sustainable agriculture | ||
| 09:15 - 09:45 | Microbiome engineering for a sustainable agriculture | Prof. dr. Marcel van der Heijden |
| 09:45 - 10:15 | Invited talk | Prof. dr. Antonio León Reyes |
| 10:15 - 10:35 | Towards defining the recruitment and ecological function of Bacteroidota in the plant microbiome | Ian Lidbury |
| 10:35 - 11:05 | ~ BREAK ~ | |
| 11:05 - 11:35 | Invited talk: Plant Responsiveness to Microbiota Feedbacks | Klaus Schläppi |
| 11:35 - 11:55 | Synthetic microbial communities for disease suppression in hydroponic systems | Stephen A. Rolfe |
| 11:55 - 12:15 | A walk on the wild side: exploring the functional potential of Andean soil microbiomes to enhance tolerance of potato to late blight disease | Dario X. Ramirez-Villacis |
| 12:15 - 13:30 | ~ LUNCH ~ | |
| Session 2: Plant-microbiome communication and assembly | ||
| 13:30 - 14:00 | Invited talk: Dispersal, invasion and microbiome structure | Prof. dr. Joy Bergelson |
| 14:00 - 14.30 | Invited talk: Rhizosphere immunity and its precision enhancement | Prof. dr. Zhong Wei |
| 14:30 - 14:50 | Bacterial gene clusters for the catabolism of plant specialized metabolites are crucial for plant-microbe interactions | Akifumi Sugiyama |
| 14:50 - 15:20 | ~ BREAK ~ | |
| 15:20 - 15:50 | Invited talk: Towards an understanding of root microbiome assembly in model plants and crops: findings from studies using complex bacterial communities | Dr. Simona Radutoiu |
| 15:50 - 16:10 | Host-microbiome Communication: Root-Derived Volatile Methyl Jasmonate Signals Host-Beneficial Biofilm Formation by the Soil Microbiome | Mrinmoy Mazumder |
| 16:10 - 16:40 | Flash Presentations | |
| 16:30 - 18:30 | Poster Session | |
| Wednesday, June 19 | ||
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| Session 3: Technological advances and translation | ||
| Time | Activity | Speaker |
| 09:00 - 09:30 | Invited Talk: Deciphering the chemical language of plant-microbiome interactions | Prof. dr. Marnix Medema |
| 09:30 - 10:00 | Invited Talk: Intra-bacteria competition determines plant-beneficial potential of SynComs | Dr. Kathrin Wippel |
| 10:00 - 10:20 | bacLIFE: a user-friendly computational workflow for genome analysis and prediction of lifestyle-associated genes in bacteri | Guillermo Guerrero-Egido |
| 10:20 - 10:40 | Gamification of microbiome research dissemination: a video game and the “Microbiome & Health” MOOC | Matthias Schweitzer |
| 10:40 - 11:10 | ~ BREAK ~ | |
| 11:10 - 11:40 | Invited talk: Microdialysis as a tool to study plant microbial interactions | Dr. Sandra Jämtgård |
| 11:40 - 12:00 | Seed tuber microbiome is a predictor of next-season potato vigor | Yang Song |
| 12:00 - 13:00 | ~ LUNCH ~ | |
| 13:00 - 14:30 | Early career market with invited speakers and industry | |
| 14:30 - 18:30 | Excursion | |
| 18:30 - 21:00 | Conference Dinner | |
| Thursday, June 20 | ||
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| Session 4: Transfer to and importance of the plant microbiome for other organisms | ||
| Time | Activity | Speaker |
| 09:00 - 09:30 | Invited Talk: The edible microbiome: tracking the food-gut axis | Prof. dr. rer. nat. Gabrielle Berg |
| 09:30 - 10:00 | Invited Talk: Plant to gut microbiome crosstalks: implications for human health | Dr. Hilde Herrema |
| 10:00 - 10:20 | Plant peptides as new eco-chemicals: an innovative approach to boost a healthy microbiome | Valeria Castaldi |
| 10:20 - 10:40 | Designing efficient synthetic microbial communities for enhanced survival and efficacy in mitigating biotic stress in agriculture | Rashi Tyagi |
| 10:40 - 11:10 | ~ BREAK ~ | |
| 11:10 - 11:40 | Invited talk: Expansion of herbivory, constriction to a host plant: a symbiont's work | Ana Simao Pinto de Carvalho |
| 11:40 - 12:00 | Crop diversification through intercropping shapes within-field soil bacterial community variation | Joliese Teunissen |
| 12:00 - 12:20 | Soilborne recruitment and inheritance of a phyllosphere disease-suppressive microbiome | Jelle Spooren |
| 12:20 - 13:30 | ~ LUNCH ~ | |
| Session 5: Plant Microbial Community Ecology | ||
| 13:30 - 14:00 | Invited talk: The genomic architecture of adaptation in nitrogen fixing symbionts | Prof. dr. Joel Sachs |
| 14:00 - 14:30 | Invited talk: Deciphering plant-rhizosphere interactions within a community framework | Dr. Sharon E. Zytynska |
| 14:30 - 14:50 | Beyond defense: Glucosinolate structural diversity shapes recruitment of a metabolic network of leaf-associated bacteria | Kerstin Unger |
| 14:50 - 15:20 | ~ BREAK ~ | |
| 15:20 - 15:50 | Invited talk: Cross-kingdom metabolic interactions in the Arabidopsis root microbiome | Dr. Stéphane Hacquard |
| 15:50-16:10 | Genome-scale metabolic networks predict rhizosphere microbiome suppressiveness against soil-borne pathogen Ralstonia solanacearum | Tianjie Yang |
| 16:10-16:30 | Lessons from the wild: deciphering phyllosphere microbiome assembly and functions of wild green foxtail for designing synthetic communities | Xiaoyu Zai |
| 16:30-18:30 | Poster session | |
| 18:30-21:00 | Royal Tropical Dinner | |
| Friday, June 21 | ||
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| Session 6: Microbiome-mediated effects on plant physiology and stress tolerance | ||
| Time | Activity | Speaker |
| 9:00 - 09:30 | Invited talk: Harnessing the power of deserts to make plants resistant to salt, heat and drought stress | Prof. dr. Heribert Hirt |
| 09:30 - 10:00 | Invited talk: Microbial legacies drive plant health | Dr. Roeland L. Berendsen |
| 10:00-10:20 | Exploring Microbial Interaction for Plant Drought Resilience in Phaseolus vulgaris L. | Thierry A. Pellegrinetti |
| 10:20-10:40 | Pseudomonas volatiles increase drought resilience through important transcriptional changes and by modifying the rhizosphere microbiome composition | Zulema Carracedo Lorenzo |
| 10:40 - 11:10 | ~ BREAK ~ | |
| 11:10 - 11:40 | Invited talk: When in drought: causes and consequences of Streptomyces enrichment in plant roots during drought | Dr. Connor Fitzpatrick |
| 11:40 - 12:00 | Aboveground JA- and SA-pathways induce stress-specific root microbiome responses in Brassica oleracea | Marcela Aragón |
| 12:00 - 12:20 | Identifying disease-suppressive microbial consortia by dilution-to-extinction | Jiayi Jing |
