2018 – Brief program below
- Monday, April 9 – Registration/Welcome, Session 1, Keynotes, Sessions 2 & 3, Evening reception/poster session
- Tuesday, April 10 – Excursion/free time, Conference dinner
- Wednesday, April 11 – Sessions 4-7, Evening Reception/Poster session
- Thursday, April 12 – Sessions 8 &9, depart
The oral program only is below or in pdf format (click here). The full program with oral and poster abstracts in pdf format (click here).
For the poster presentations, there is sufficient space for authors to present both evenings. Poster size should be limited to a maximum of 90 cm wide x 120 cm long.
| PROGRAM 2018 | ||
|---|---|---|
| Monday, April 9, 2018 | ||
| 8:30 - 9:00 | Registration | |
| 9:00 - 9:05 | Welcome | |
| 9:05 - 10:25 | Oomycete biology, populations, and evolution I | Chair: Audrey Ah-Fong and Kai Tao |
| 9:05 - 9:20 | Cellular signaling and cytoskeleton dynamics in Phytophthora | Francine Govers |
| 9:25 - 9:40 | Biochemical and genetic analyses of the oomycete Pythium insidiosum provide new insights into clinical identification, pathogenicity, and evolution of metabolism-related traits | Theerapong Krajaejun |
| 9:45 - 10:00 | Mating type change in Phytophthora infestans regulated by histone deacetylases | Li-Yun Guo |
| 10:05 - 10:20 | Ecology and evolution of oomycete communities in response to soybean seed treatments | Zachary A. Noel |
| 10:25 - 11:00 | Group Photo and Break | |
| 11:00 - 12:20 | Keynote Speeches | Chair: Francine Govers |
| 11:00-11:35 | Exploring fungal DNA Virus to control crop diseases, challenge and opportunity | Daohong Jiang |
| 11:40-12:15 | Omics in Plant Breeding | Sanwen Huang |
| 12:20-2:00 | Lunch | |
| 2:00 - 3:40 | Effectors I | Chair: Petra Boevink and Kelsey Wood |
| 2:00 - 2:15 | Dissecting the transcriptional plasticity of P. sojae | Brett Tyler |
| 2:20 - 2:35 | Identification of Plasmopara viticola candidate RXLR effector repertoire in Nicotiana benthamiana | Jiang Lu |
| 2:40 - 2:55 | How are effectors secreted and delivered to the host? | Shumei Wang |
| 3:00 - 3:15 | Plant recognition of Phytophthora GH12 MAMPs | Yan Wang |
| 3:20 - 3:35 | Five new structures extend understanding of RxLR effector | Li Zhao |
| 3:40 - 4:10 | Break | |
| 4:10 - 6:10 | Genomics I | Chair: Paul Birch and Diya Sen |
| 4:10 - 4:25 | Towards the identification of effectors and secondary metabolites involved in oomycete-oomycete interactions and mycoparasitism using comparative genomics | Laura Grenville-Briggs |
| 4:30 - 4:45 | Comparative genomics of four species of Peronosclerospora | Kyle Fletcher |
| 4:50 - 5:05 | What role does Phytophthora kernoviae play in New Zealand forests? | Rebecca McDougal |
| 5:10 - 5:25 | Land-use affects the growth and gene expression of Phytophthora agathidicida | Preeti Panda |
| 5:30 - 5:45 | Transcriptional regulation of Phytophthora sojae effectors for successful infection | Wenwu Ye |
| 5:50 - 6:05 | Genome sequence of Plasmopara viticola reveals effector repertoire and pathogenicity mechanisms | Ling Yin |
| 6:10 - 7:30 | Dinner | |
| 7:30 - 10:00 | Reception/Poster Session | |
| Tuesday, April 10th, 2018 | ||
| 9:00 - 5:00 | Excursion/free time | |
| 6:00 - 7:30 | Conference Dinner | |
| Wednesday, April 11th, 2018 | ||
| 8:30 - 9:50 | Host Interactions and Resistance Mechanisms I | Chair: Jun Zhao and Veronica Ancona |
| 8:30 - 8:45 | Phytophthora palmivora establishes tissue-specific intracellular infection structures in the earliest divergent land plant lineage | Sebastian Schornack |
| 8:50 - 9:05 | A pathogen suppressor of an NLR immune network | Lida Derevnina |
| 9:10 - 9:25 | A plant pathogen effector utilizes host susceptibility factor NRL1 to degrade the immune regulator SWAP70 | Qin He |
| 9:30 - 9:45 | A potato STRUBBELIG-RECEPTOR FAMILY gene StLRPK1 involves in plant immunity by association with StSERK3/BAK1 | Haixia Wang |
| 9:50 - 10:20 | Break | |
| 10:20 - 12:00 | Effectors II | Chair: Suomong Dong and Lida Derevnina |
| 10:20 - 10:35 | Phytophthora infestans RXLR Effector Pi22926 suppresses plant immunity by targeting the host MAP3KIβ to manipulate MAP3K signalling pathway | Zhendong Tian |
| 10:40 - 10:55 | Biochemical basis of an RXLR-WY effector suppression of an NLR network | Jessica Upson |
| 11:00 - 11:15 | Characterization of host-recognized WY domain effectors from Bremia lactucae that lack the canonical RxLR motif | Kelsey Wood |
| 11:20 - 11:35 | Functional analysis of an effector PcRxLR101 in Phytophthora capsici | Jing Li |
| 11:40 - 12:00 | A potato chloroplast kinase is required for Rpi-vnt1 mediated immunity against late blight pathogen | Chuyun Gao |
| 12:00 - 2:00 | Lunch | |
| 2:00 - 3:20 | Oomycete biology, populations, and evolution II | Chair: Daolong Dou and Theerapong Krajaejun |
| 2:00 - 2:15 | Molecular genetics of the oomycete pathogen of lettuce, Bremia lactucae | Lin Zhang |
| 2:20 - 2:35 | Structure determination of three enzymes from Phytopthora capsici | Weiwei Song |
| 2:40 - 2:55 | Profiling of the Phytophthora epigenomes | Han Chen |
| 3:00 - 3:15 | Immunity triggered by the small cysteine rich effector PC2 from Phytophthora infestans requires proteolytic cleavage by the host protease P69B | Shuaishuai Wang |
| 3:20 - 3:50 | Break | |
| 3:50 - 5:30 | Genomics II | Chair: Sucheta Tripathy and Wenwu Ye |
| 3:50 - 4:05 | New insights into pathogenicity of the emerging tropical pathogen: Phytophthora colocasiae on taro | Diya Sen |
| 4:10 - 4:25 | Mutations in oxysterol binding protein-related protein conferring oxathiapiprolin resistance confirmed using CRISPR/Cas9 in Phytophthora capsici and P. sojae | Jianqiang Miao |
| 4:30 - 4:45 | Detection of multiple oomycetes in metagenomic data by using E-probe Detection of Nucleic Analysis (EDNA) | Maria Fernanda Proano |
| 4:50 - 5:05 | EumicrobeDBLiteV11: a lightweight genomic resource and analytic platform for draft oomycete genomes | Arijit Panda |
| 5:10 - 5:25 | Diploid genome assembly works better when Pacbio long reads are supplemented with Illumina reads: P. ramorum assembly a case study | Mathu Malar C |
| 5:30 - 6:20 | Committee meeting | |
| 6:30 - 7:30 | Dinner | |
| 7:30 - 10:00 | Reception/Poster session | |
| Thursday, April 12th, 2018 | ||
| 8:30 - 9:50 | Host Interactions and Resistance Mechanisms II | Chair: Rebecca McDougal and Qin He |
| 8:30 - 8:45 | Synergistic anti-oomycete effect of melatonin with a biofungicide against oomycetic blank shank disease | Maozhi Ren |
| 8:50 - 9:05 | Phytophthora utilizes an RxLR effector to hijack the host ER stress as part of their infection strategy | Maofeng Jing |
| 9:10 - 9:25 | A conserved host target of oomycete Avr3a family effectors positively regulates plant resistance to Phytophthora | Ruirui Feng |
| 9:30 - 9:45 | NbMORF8 encoding protein localized in mitochondria and chloroplasts negatively regulates plant immunity to Phytophthora pathogens | Yang Yang |
| 9:50 - 10:20 | Break | |
| 10:20 - 11:40 | Effectors III | Chair: Jiang Lu and Biao Gu |
| 10:20 - 10:35 | The evolutionary conserved Phytophthora effector RxLR24 interferes with the secretion of antimicrobial compounds | Iga Tomczynska |
| 10:40 - 10:55 | Structure and function analysis of RxLR effector PcRxLR145 of Phytophthora capsici | Liying Wang |
| 11:00 - 11:15 | The Phytophthora sojae essential effector Avh238 targets soybean GmACSs to suppress ethylene biosynthesis and promote infection | BoYang |
| 11:20 - 11:35 | Host mRNA methylation pathway, a new target for Phytophthora effector proteins? | Jie Huang |
| 11:40 -12:00 | Closing remarks | |
| 12:00 -2:00 | Lunch/Adjourn |
Past Meeting Programs:
- 2017 – Asilomar, California, US, March 11-14. Downloading meeting program and abstracts.
- 2016 – Malmo, Sweden, June 14-17. Download meeting program and abstracts.
- 2015 – Asilomar, California, US, March 14-17. Download meeting program.
- 2014 – Norwich, UK, July 2-4th, Download meeting program.
- 2013 – Asilomar, California, March 10-12. Download meeting program.
- 2012 – Nanjing, P.R. China, May 26-28. Download meeting program.
- 2011- Asilomar, California, US, March 13-15. Download meeting program.
- 2010 – Toulouse, France, June 6-8. Download meeting program.