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08:00-08:45 Registration with coffee and snacks
08:45-09:00 Conference welcome and information
9:00- 12:30 Session I: Plants and biotic stress:
09:00-09:40 Sarah Gurr The global movement of fungal crop pathogens: perils and predictions
09:40-10:30 Selected talks
9:40-9:55 May B. Brurberg Uncovering the strawberry-crown rot pathosystem& domestication of wild resistance genes
9:55-10:10 Benjamin Fuchs Herbicide residues in soil disrupt plant metabolism and plant-microbe-insect interactions in crop plants
10:10-10:25 Francesca Sasso Investigation of the role of Gal4 transcription factor in beneficial fungus-plant interactions in wheat
10:30-11:00 Coffee break
11:00-11:40 Cyril Zipfel Roles and recognition of stress-regulated secreted signaling peptides
11:40-12:30 Selected Talks
11:40-11:55 Serhii Kozin Re-engineering of Camalexin Biosynthetic Pathway in Arabidopsis thaliana
11:55-12:10 Richita Saikia Study of putative plasmodesmata-associated genes PDLP &SRC2 in conferring resistance or susceptibility
12:10-12:25 Anupam Gogoi A cell death inducing protein from strawberry confers resistance to Phytophthora in Nicotian b.
12:30-13:30 Lunch
13:30- 17:00 Session II: Plants and abiotic stress
13:30-14:10 Luis Herrera-Estrella
14:10-15:30 Poster session and coffee
15:30-16:10 Julia Bailey-Serres Shaping roots for wet and dry soils
16:10-17:00 Selected talks
16:10-16.25 Chai Hao Chiu Evolution and Function of Receptor Kinases in Arbuscular Mycorrhizal Symbiosis
16:25-16:40 Liu Wang FERONIA-mediated CC1 phosphorylation regulates plant salt tolerance in Arabidopsis
16:40-16:55 Donam Tushabe Negative effects of high-temperature stress on gametophyte performance
17:00-18:00 Break /End of day
18:00-late Dinner for organizing committee & invited speakers