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Sunday 13 September (Novotel Chateau de Versailles)

18:00–19:30

Registration opens – collect your delegate pack

   

19:30–21:00

Welcome reception at the Novotel Hotel Château de Versailles

   

Monday 14 September (INRA-Versailles)

8:00–8:30

Registration

   

8:30–8:35

Welcome and announcements
Marc-Henri Lebrun & Sophien Kamoun

 

Session 1: Genome-wide analyses of microbial effectors

Chair: Marc-Henri Lebrun

   

8:35–9:15

1.1 Ustilago effectors

 

Regine Kahmann

 

 

9:15–9:55

1.2 Ralstonia solanacearum: Molecular bases of adaptation to plants

 

Stéphane Genin

 

Session 2: Effector evolution

Chair: Marc-Henri Lebrun

 

 

9:55–10:35

2.1 The evolution of the Pseudomonas syringae HopZ family of type III effectors

 

David Guttman

 

 

10:35–11:15

2.2 Evolutionary and functional dynamics of Phytophthora infestans effector genes

 


Sophien Kamoun

 

 

11:15–11:45

Coffee

   

 

Session 3: Microbial effector functions: virulence and avirulence

Chair: Nick Talbot

 

 

11:45–12:25

3.1 Elicitation and evasion of plant immunity by Pseudomonas effectors AvrPto and AvrPtoB

 

Greg Martin

 

 

12:25–13:05

3.2 Pseudomonas syringae type III effectors: Enzymatic activities, sites of action, and their ability to suppress plant innate immunity

 

Jim Alfano

   

13:05–14:00

Lunch

 

 

14:00–14:40

3.3 Flax rust Avr-R interactions

 

Peter Dodds

   

14:40–15:20

3.4 Leptosphaeria maculans AVRs and SSPs

 

Thierry Rouxel

   

15:20–16:00

3.5 The pathogen effectors of the downy mildew oomycete pathogen, H. arabidopsidis, and host responses to stress

 

Jim Benyon

 

 

16:00–16:30

Coffee

 

 

16:30–17:10

3.6 Cladosporium fulvum effectors and functional homologues in Dothideomycete fungi

 

Pierre de Wit

 

 

17:10–17:50

3.7 How Xanthomonas type III effector proteins manipulate the plant

 

Ulla Bonas

 

 

17:50–19:30

Posters and reception

 

Tuesday 15 September

 

Session 4: Effector trafficking: processing/uptake by plants

Chair: Francis Martin

 

 

8:30–9:10

4.1 Effector secretion and translocation during rice blast disease

 

Barbara Valent

 

 

9:10–9:50

4.2 Host-selective toxins of Pyrenophora tritici-repentis, inside and out

 

Lynda Ciuffetti

 

Session 5: Effector trafficking: secretion/delivery by microbes

Chair: Francis Martin

 

 

9:50–10:30

5.1 Investigating the delivery of effector proteins by the rice blast fungus Magnaporthe oryzae

 

Nick Talbot

   

10:30–11:00

Coffee

   

11:00–11:40

5.2 Bacterial effector delivery

 

Guy Cornelis

 

 

11:40–12:20

5.3 How oomycete and fungal effectors enter host cells

 

Brett Tyler

 

Session 6: Plant targets of microbes/bioagressor effectors

Chair: Nick Talbot

 

 

12:20–13:00

6.1 Localisation and function of Phytophthora infestans RXLR effectors and their host targets

 

Paul Birch

   

13:00–14:00

Lunch

 

 

14:15

Afternoon excursion to the Palace of Versailles

   

18:00

Bus leaves Novotel Château de Versailles for Conference Dinner with a cruise on the River Seine

 

Wednesday 16 September

 

Session 6 cont: Plant targets of microbes/bioagressor effectors

Chair: Nick Talbot

 

 

8:30–9:10

6.2Xanthomonas perforans effector proteins as predictive indicators of durable and sustainable resistance to bacterial spot disease of Tomato

 

Brian Staskawicz

 

 

9:10–9:50

6.3 Small RNA pathways and their interference by pathogens in eukaryotes

 

Olivier Voinnet

   

9:50–10:30

6.4 Nematode effector proteins: Targets and functions in plant parasitism

 

Dick Hussey

   

10:30–11:00

Coffee

 

Session 7: Microbial effectors in symbiotic interactions

Chair: Sophien Kamoun

 

 

11:00–11.40

7.1 Secretome of the basidiomycete Laccaria bicolor and the ascomycete Tuber melanosporum reveal evolutionary insights into ectomycorrhizal symbiosis

 

Francis Martin

   

11:40–12:20

7.2 Fungal signals and plant fungal perception in the arbuscular mycorrhizal symbiosis

 

Natalia Requena

 

 

12:20–13:00

7.3 The role of effector proteins in the legume-rhizobia symbiosis

 

William Deakin

 

 

13:00–14:00

Lunch

 

Session 8: Emerging Effectors – nematodes, insects, metabolites

Chair: Sophien Kamoun

 

 

14:00–14:40

8.1 Nematode effectors a genome wide survey

 

Pierre Abad

    

14:40–15:20

8.2 Using pathogen effectors to investigate host resistance mechanisms

 

Jonathan Jones

   

15:20–15:50

Coffee

   

15:50–16:30

8.3 RNAi knockdown of insect salivary proteins

 

Gerald Reeck

   

16:30–17:10

8.4 Secondary metabolites as effectors: Fungal secondary metabolism is an essential component of the complex interplay between rice and Magnaporthe grisea

 

Marc-Henri Lebrun

   

17:10–17:30

Closing comments

   

17:30

Meeting close and depart

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