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)
08:30 - 09:00Plenary Lecture: 40 years of Pseudomonas-based biocontrol By Monica HofteGhent University Belgium
09:00 - 09:453 Lectures
09:45 - 10:00Coffee break
10:00 - 10:20Invited speaker: Plant growth promotion by rhizosphere microbiota stimulated by Flavobacterium By Seon Woo LeeDong-A University, South Korea
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
10:40 - 11:353 Lectures
11:35 - 12:00Flash poster talks
12:00 - 13:00Lunch
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
13:30 - 14:153 Lectures
14:15 - 14:30Coffee break
14:30 - 14:50Invited Speaker: Genomic resources and functional mechanism of the root microbiome in plant growth and health By Yang BaiPeking University, China

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
15:10 - 15:553 Lectures
15:55 - 16:30Flash poster talks
16:30 - 17:00Open discussion
17:00 - 18:00Poster session
- Morning Session: Microbiome‚ synthetic community‚ and soil legacy
- Afternoon Session: Multi-omics‚ breakthrough and new technologies
08:30 - 09:00Plenary Lecture: Rethinking PGPRs in the frame of the one Health concept By Gabrielle BergGraz University of Technology Austria
09:00 - 09:453 Lectures
09:45 - 10:00Coffee break
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
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
10:40 - 11:353 Lectures
11:35 - 12:00Flash poster talks
12:00 - 13:00Lunch
12:00 - 13:00Lunch
13:00 - 13:30Plenary Lecture: Promoting crop resiliance by rhizosphere bacteria By Choong Min RyuKorea Research Institute of Bioscience and Biotechnology (KRIBB), South Korea
13:30 - 14:153 Lectures
14:15 - 14:30Coffee break
14:30 - 14:50Invited speaker: Plant Latent Defense Response to Beneficial Microbes By Huiming Zhang, China
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
15:10 - 15:553 Lectures
15:55 - 16:30Flash poster talks
16:30 - 17:00Open discussion
17:00 - 18:00Poster session
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
09:00 - 09:453 Lectures
09:45 - 10:00Coffee break
10:00 - 10:20Invited Speaker: Crop microbiomes: drivers and challenges of field-scale implementation By Birgit WassermannGraz University of Technology, Austria
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
10:40 - 11:353 Lectures
11:35 - 12:00Flash poster talks
Lunch
12:00 - 13:00Lunch
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
13:30 - 13:50Invited speaker By Mengcen WangZhejiang University, China
13:50 - 14:051 Lecture
14:05 - 14:20Coffee break
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
14:50 - 15:504 Lectures
15:55 - 16:30Flash poster talks
16:30 - 17:00Poster session
17:00 - 18:00Summary session
