Molecular mechanisms underlying the rapid evolution of plant–microbe interactions

Attendees

Please note that this list is provisional and subject to change without notice.

  • Joy Bergelson (Chicago, USA) –  Ecology and evolution of plant-pathogen interactions
  • Antonio Di Pietro (Cordoba, Spain) – Transposon vs. SNP variation in Fusarium oxysporum
  • Eric Holub (Warwick, U.K.) – Evolution of the Arabidopsis-white rust warfare
  • Sophien Kamoun (Norwich, U.K.) – Oomycete genome plasticity and evolution
  • Eric Kemen (Cologne, Germany) – Evolution of plant-microbiome communities
  • Anne Liisa Laine (Helsinki, Finland) – Maintenance of diversity in host and parasite populations
  • Takaki Maekawa (Cologne, Germany) – Co-evolution of allelic resistance genes and matching avirulence genes
  • Bruce McDonald (Zürich, Switzerland) – Population genetics of plant pathogens
  • Benoit Moury (INRA, France) – Evolution of viral virulence and antiviral resistance
  • Ralph Panstruga (Aachen, Germany) – Rapid evolution in powdery mildews
  • Martijn Rep (Amsterdam, The Netherlands) – Dispensable chromosomes in Fusarium
  • Laura Rose (Düsseldorf, Germany) – Interplay of pathogens, microRNAs and regulation of resistance genes in plants
  • Diane Saunders (Norwich, U.K.) – Adaptation of cereal pathogens to changing environments
  • Jan Schirawski (Aachen, Germany)  – Rapid evolution of host specificity
  • Karl Schmid (Hohenheim, Germany) – Experimental evolution of maize-Exserohilum turcicum co-adaptation
  • Eva Stukenbrock (Kiel, Germany) – Recombination in rapid adaptive evolution of fungal pathogens
  • Aurelien Tellier (Munich, Germany) – Host-parasite coevolution at the genome level
  • Bart Thomma (Wageningen, The Netherlands) – Evolution of fungal genomes
  • Peter Tiffin (Minnesota, USA) – Quantitative genetics to understand evolutionary process shaping diversity in natural populations
  • Dan Kliebenstein (Davis, USA) – Genetic variation of secondary metabolites in plant-pathogen interactions