What to expect?

  • Nov 29th day 1
  • Nov 30th day 2
  • Dec 1st day 3
  • Morning Session: PGPR history‚ plant growth promotion‚ and induced systemic resistance
  • Afternoon Session: PGPR Ecology (PGPR-other microbe interactions)
Monica Höfte portrait
08:30 - 09:00Plenary Lecture: 40 years of Pseudomonas-based biocontrol By Monica HofteGhent University Belgium
3 Lectures
09:00 - 09:453 Lectures
coffee cups
09:45 - 10:00Coffee break
Seon-Woo Lee-portrait
10:00 - 10:20Invited speaker: Plant growth promotion by rhizosphere microbiota stimulated by Flavobacterium By Seon Woo LeeDong-A University, South Korea
Edoardo Puglisi portrait
10:20 - 10:40Invited Speaker: From living cells to postbiotics: evidence and perspectives for microbial plant growth promotion By Edoardo PuglisiUniversità Cattolica del Sacro Cuore, Italy

From living cells to postbiotics: evidence and perspectives for microbial plant growth promotion

3 Lectures
10:40 - 11:353 Lectures
stopwatch
11:35 - 12:00Flash poster talks
fresh fruit in a heart shaped bawl
12:00 - 13:00Lunch
fresh fruit in a heart shaped bawl
12:00 - 13:00Lunch
13:00 - 13:30Plenary Lecture: Plant mechanisms involved in recruitment of disease-suppressive microbiota By Saskia van WeesUtrecht University, the Netherlands
3 Lectures
13:30 - 14:153 Lectures
coffee cups
14:15 - 14:30Coffee break
Yang Bai
14:30 - 14:50Invited Speaker: Genomic resources and functional mechanism of the root microbiome in plant growth and health By Yang BaiPeking University, China
Gustavo Santoyo
14:50 - 15:10Invited speaker: Interactions of Plant Growth-Promoting Bacillus spp. with Beneficial and Pathogenic Fungi By Gustavo SantoyoMichoacan University San Nicolas de Hidalgo, Mexico
3 Lectures
15:10 - 15:553 Lectures
stopwatch
15:55 - 16:30Flash poster talks
Open discussion
16:30 - 17:00Open discussion
Poster session
17:00 - 18:00Poster session
  • Morning Session: Microbiome‚ synthetic community‚ and soil legacy
  • Afternoon Session: Multi-omics‚ breakthrough and new technologies
Gabrilele Berg portrait
08:30 - 09:00Plenary Lecture: Rethinking PGPRs in the frame of the one Health concept By Gabrielle BergGraz University of Technology Austria
3 Lectures
09:00 - 09:453 Lectures
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09:45 - 10:00Coffee break
Invited Speaker: Genome-wide association study of the diazotroph community in rice rhizosphere
10:00 - 10:20Invited Speaker: Genome-wide association study of the diazotroph community in rice rhizosphere By Shin OkazakiTokyo University of Agriculture and Technology, Japan
Jorge Rocha
10:20 - 10:40Invited speaker: Harnessing Emergent Community Traits in Microbial Consortia: Rapid Assembly of PGP SynComs By Jorge RochaCenter for Biological Research of the Northwest (CIBNOR), Mexico
3 Lectures
10:40 - 11:353 Lectures
stopwatch
11:35 - 12:00Flash poster talks
fresh fruit in a heart shaped bawl
12:00 - 13:00Lunch
fresh fruit in a heart shaped bawl
12:00 - 13:00Lunch
Dr. Choong-Min Ryu
13:00 - 13:30Plenary Lecture: Promoting crop resiliance by rhizosphere bacteria By Choong Min RyuKorea Research Institute of Bioscience and Biotechnology (KRIBB), South Korea
3 Lectures
13:30 - 14:153 Lectures
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14:15 - 14:30Coffee break
Invited speaker: Plant Latent Defense Response to Beneficial Microbes
14:30 - 14:50Invited speaker: Plant Latent Defense Response to Beneficial Microbes By Huiming Zhang, China
Stringlis portrait
14:50 - 15:10Invited Speaker: From Defense Barriers to Disease Resistance: Plant Traits that Shape Beneficial Microbiomes By Ioannis A. StringlisAgricultural University of Athens, Greece
3 Lectures
15:10 - 15:553 Lectures
stopwatch
15:55 - 16:30Flash poster talks
Open discussion
16:30 - 17:00Open discussion
Poster session
17:00 - 18:00Poster session
set table
18:00 - 20:00Banquet
  • Morning Session: PGPR field application
  • Afternoon Session: AI‚ digital plant care‚ and PGPR
08:30 - 09:00Plenary Lecture: Strategies for improving the application of PGPR biofertilizer By Ruifu ZhangNanjing University, China

3 Lectures
09:00 - 09:453 Lectures
coffee cups
09:45 - 10:00Coffee break
Brigit Wassermann-portrait
10:00 - 10:20Invited Speaker: Crop microbiomes: drivers and challenges of field-scale implementation By Birgit WassermannGraz University of Technology, Austria
antonio-leon
10:20 - 10:40Invited Speaker: Biochar and Plant Growth-Promoting Rhizobacteria: Harnessing the Microbiome for Sustainable Crop Health By Antonio LeonUniversity San Francisco de Quito, Ecuador
3 Lectures
10:40 - 11:353 Lectures
stopwatch
11:35 - 12:00Flash poster talks
fresh fruit in a heart shaped bawl
Lunch
fresh fruit in a heart shaped bawl
12:00 - 13:00Lunch
Samuel Bickel
13:00 - 13:30Plenary lecture: Modeling taxonomic and functional diversity of bacteria to promote plant and soil health By Samuel BickelGraz University of Technology, Austria
Invited speaker
13:30 - 13:50Invited speaker By Mengcen WangZhejiang University, China
1 Lecture
13:50 - 14:051 Lecture
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14:05 - 14:20Coffee break
Plenary lecture: Hormones of the Holobiont: Inter-kingdom Communication for Greater Crop Productivity and Climate Change Resilience
14:20 - 14:50Plenary lecture: Hormones of the Holobiont: Inter-kingdom Communication for Greater Crop Productivity and Climate Change Resilience By Donald SmithMcGill University, Canada
4 Lectures
14:50 - 15:504 Lectures
stopwatch
15:55 - 16:30Flash poster talks
Poster session
16:30 - 17:00Poster session
Summary session
17:00 - 18:00Summary session