Keynote speakers

 

We are very excited to announce that the following keynote speakers have been confirmed:

Special session on microbial ecology and biocontrol

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Jos Raaijmakers

Professor Microbial interactions and diversity at the University of Leiden, Leiden, the Netherlands

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Head of Department of the Microbial Ecology Department at NIOO KNWA, Wageningen, the Netherlands

Jos M Raaijmakers - Google Scholar

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Roeland Berendsen

Assistant Professor in Plant Microbe Interactions at the University of Utrecht, Utrecht, the Netherlands

Presentation: From soil-borne legacies to predictive microbiomes: phenotyping of plant-microbe interactions

Roeland L. Berendsen - Google Scholar

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Joana Falcao Salles

Professor in Microbial Community Ecology at the University of Groningen, Groningen, the Netherlands

Publications | Salles Lab | Rijksuniversiteit Groningen

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Ralstonia specific sessions

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Caitilyn Allen

Professor Emeritus in the Department of Plant Pathology at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, Madison, USA

Presentation: How Plant Pathogenic Ralstonia Respond to a Host - the Story of RprR

Caitilyn Allen - Google Scholar

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Stephane Genin

Researcher CNRS, LIPME (Laboratoire des Interactions Plantes - Microorganismes - Envrionnement), Université de Toulouse, INRAE, CNRS, Castanet-Tolosan, France

Presentation: The R. solanacearum expanded family: expanding geographical areas, expanding host range, and expanding knowledge

Stephane Genin - Google Scholar

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Marc Valls

Full professor, Centre for Research in Agricultural Genomics (CRAG), University of Barcelona, Barcelona, Spain

Pesentation: Characterisation and engineering of the mechanisms conferring vascular resistance to bacterial wilt in tomato

Marc Valls - Google Acadèmic‬‬‬

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Honour McCann

Research Group Leader in Plant Pathogen Evolution at the Max Planck Institute for Biology, Tübingen, Germany

Presentation: Antagonism and emergence: genomics of historic and contemporary Ralstonia spp. outbreaks

Honour C. McCann - Google Scholar

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Zhong Wei

Professor in the Nanjing Agricultural University, Nanjing, China

Presentation: Harnessing the rhizobiont to control R. solanacearum invasion

Zhong Wei - Google Scholar

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Gilles Cellier

Project coordinator within the Tropical Pests and Diseases unit (RAPT), French Agency for Food, Environmental and Occupational health & Safety (ANSES), Plant health Laboratory, St Pierre, Reunion Island, France

Gilles Cellier - Google Scholar

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Ville-Petri Friman

Professor in Microbiology, University of Helsinki, Helsinki, Finland

Presentation: Using phages to biocontrol R. solanacearum

Ville-Petri Friman - Google Scholar