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