When development meets stress: Understanding developmental reprogramming upon pathogenesis in plants

SESSION 1. Pathogen perception and signalling

FERONIA and the regulation of receptor kinase-mediated signaling
Cyril Zipfel (Institute of Plant and Microbial Biology, University of Zurich, Switzerland)

Organ-specific regulation of growth-defense trade-offs by a cognate receptor-peptide pair
Youssef Belkhadir (Gregor Mendel Institute, Austria)

How phytoplasma effectors induce dramatic changes in plant architecture and modulate plant defense to insect pests
Saskia Hogenhout (John Innes Centre, UK)

Coffee break

Plant hormones on the crossroads of plant growth and defense
Cris Argüeso (Colorado State University, USA)

Coordinating patterning and growth during early flower morphogenesis
Teva Vernoux (RDP Laboratory, Ecole Normale Superieure Lyon, France)

Toward understanding “Disease-Climate-Microbiome” interactions in plants
Sheng Yang He (DOE Plant Research Lab, USA)

Lunch and poster session

SESSION 2. Cellular and nuclear basis of the interplay growth-defence.

Precision in Plant Immune Expression: Not Lost in Translation
Xinnian Dong (Duke University, USA)

Retinoblastoma - a jack of all trades in development and stress response
Arp Schnittger (University of Hamburg, Germany)

Coffee Break

Cell wall-dependent immunity-growth balance
Clara Sánchez-Rodríguez (ETH Zurich, Switzerland)

Symplastic regulation of immunity and infection
Christine Faulkner (John Innes Centre, UK)

Modulation of autophagy during pathogen attack
Tolga Bozkurt (Imperial College London, UK)

Round table: “Future challenges for feeding the world”
Chair: Pere Puigdomenech (Centre for Research in Agricultural Genomics, Spain)

Participants:

• Carmen R. Beuzon (University of Malaga, Spain)
• Hailing Jin (University of California Riverside, USA)
• Rachil Koumproglou (Semillas Fitó, Spain)
• Detlef Weigel (MPI for Developmental Biology, Germany)
• Jose Luis Riechmann (Centre for Research in Agricultural Genomics, Spain)

SESSION 3. Pathogen and host co-evolution and adaptation.

Arabidopsis and its pathogens - tales from the wild
Detlef Weigel (MPI for Developmental Biology, Germany)

Differences among A. thaliana ecotypes in response to infection drives patterns of virus adaptation
Santiago Elena (Institute for Plant Molecular and Cell Biology (IBMCP-CSIC), Spain)

Cross-Kingdom RNAi and small RNA trafficking between plants and fungal pathogens
Hailing Jin (University of California Riverside, USA)

Impact of plant immunity on a bacterial pathogen
Kenichi Tsuda (Max Planck Institute for Plant Breeding Research, Germany)

Bacterial adaptation to host environment during the onset of the infection
Emilia López-Solanilla (CBGP, Spain)

Novel defence and defence evasion mechanisms in Pseudomonas syringae-plant interactions
Carmen R. Beuzon (Institute for Mediterranean and Subtropical Horticulture "La Mayora" (UMA-CSIC), Spain)

Novel phenotypic approaches in quantitative analysis of biotic stress in plants
Klára Panzarová (Photon Systems Instruments, Czech Republic)

Reinforcing plant evolutionary genomics using ancient DNA
Hernán Burbano (MPI for Developmental Biology, Germany)

Origin and evolution of the nuclear auxin response system
Dolf Weijers (Wageningen University, the Netherlands)

Formation of root meristems
Idan Efroni (The Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Israel)

Root damage and immune responses at cellular resolution
Niko Geldner (University of Lausanne, Switzerland)

Closing remarks and farewell