Sessions

The session speakers will be invited or selected by the session conveners. If you want to become a session speaker and give a talk in a specific session, please contact the session conveners.

Session	Conveners and contact information
1. Cross-kingdom signal perception	Xiufang Xin (CAS Center for Excellence in Molecular Plant Sciences, xinxf@cemps.ac.cn) Jianfeng Li (Sun Yat-sen University, lijfeng3@mail.sysu.edu.cn) Xiaorong Tao (Nanjing Agricultural University, taoxiaorong@njau.edu.cn) Xin Li (The University of British Columbia, xinli@msl.ubc.ca)
2. Immunity receptor and effector biochemical activity/function	Jianmin Zhou (Yazhouwan National Laboratory, jmzhou@genetics.ac.cn) Wenbo Ma (The Sainsbury Laboratory, wenbo.ma@tsl.ac.uk)
3. Plant-microbe and insect symbioses	Zhaosheng Kong (CAS Institute of Microbiology, zskong@im.ac.cn) Xuelu Wang (Henan University, xueluw@henu.edu.cn) Junbo Luan (Shenyang Agricultural University, jbluan@syau.edu.cn)
4. Plant microbiome and microbe-microbe Interactions	Yang Bai (Peking University, ybai@pku.edu.cn) Xia Li (Huazhong Agricultural University, xli@mail.hzau.edu.cn) Zhong Wei (Nanjing Agricultural University, weizhong@njau.edu.cn）
5. Plant-insect-natural enemy multitrophic interactions	Sibao Wang (CAS Center for Excellence in Molecular Plant Sciences, sbwang@cemps.ac.cn) Xiaowei Wang (Zhejiang University, xiaoweiwang@hotmail.com) Yanhui Lu (CAAS Institute of Plant Protection, yhlu@ippcaas.cn)
6. New technologies and frontiers: Systems and spatial biology in plant-microbe interactions	Zhonghua Ma (Zhejiang University, zhma@zju.edu.cn) Jun Liu (China Agriculture university, Junliu@im.ac.cn) Daohong Jiang (Huazhong Agriculture University, daohongjiang@mail.hzau.edu.cn)
7. Plant metabolism and immunity	Jie Luo (Hainan University, jie.luo@hainanu.edu.cn) Suomeng Dong (Nanjing Agricultural University, smdong@njau.edu.cn)
8. Evolution of plant-insect/microbe interactions	Chengshu Wang (CAS Center for Excellence in Molecular Plant Sciences, wangcs@cemps.ac.cn) Guirong Wang (CAAS Institute of Plant Protection, grwang@ippcaas.cn) Jianhua Huang (Zhejiang University, jhuahuang@zju.edu.cn) Bente Gunnveig Berg (Norwegian University of Science and Technology, bente.berg@ntnu.no)
9. Emerging harmful organism and agroecology	Wenxian Sun (China Agriculture university, wxs@cau.edu.cn) Youjun Zhang (CAAS Institute of Vegetables and Flowers, zhangyoujun@caas.cn)
10. Plant resistance and crop molecular design	Xuewei Chen (Sichuan Agriculture University, xwchen88@163.com) Guangcun He (Wuhan University, gche@whu.edu.cn)
11. Biotic Plant Interactions for Crop Health	Xuexin Chen (Zhejiang University, xxchen@zju.edu.cn) KL Heong (Fellow of The World Academy of Science, klheong@yahoo.com)

Sessions talks

Session 1		Oct. 14
Time	Name	Affiliation	Title of Presentation
14:00-14:30	Yi Li	Fujian Agriculture and Forestry University	Sensation of viral infection and initiation of antiviral defense in rice
14:30-14:50	Yuelin Zhang	Sichuan University	Salicylic acid biosynthesis pathways in plants
14:50-15:10	Jian Ye	Chinese Academy of Sciences, Institute of Microbiology	Targeted Protein Stabilization Confers Citrus Huanglongbing Resistance
15:10-15:30	Xianbing Wang	China Agricultural University	Plant virus-encoded viroporins: biological functions and inhibitor screening
15:45-16:15	Yansong Miao (EMBO Global Investigator Lecture)	Nanyang Technological University, Singapore	Phase Separation in Host Immune Responses at the Plant-Microbe Interface
16:15-16:35	Weijie Huang	Chinese Academy of Sciences, Center for Excellence in Molecular Plant Sciences	Vector-borne bacterial pathogens dampen plant light signaling to modulate plant-microbe-insect interactions
16:35-16:55	Xiaorong Tao	Nanjing Agricultural University	A viral effector blocks the turnover of a plant NLR receptor to trigger a robust immune response
16:55-17:15	Wei Wang	Chinese Academy of Sciences, Institute of Genetics and Developmental Biology	WTS, a pericycle-expressed ion channel, safeguards the stele to confer clubroot resistance
17:15-17:35	Jun Liu	Sun Yat-Sen University	The antagonistic role of an E3 ligase pair in regulating plant NLR-mediated autoimmunity

Session 2		Oct. 14
Time	Name	Affiliation	Title of Presentation
14:00-14:30	Rosa Lozano-Duran	University of Tuebingen	Hostile takeover - Viral strategies to hijack a plant
14:30-14:50	Yu-hang Chen	Chinese Academy of Sciences, Institute of Genetics and Developmental Biology	Ca2+ channels in plant effector-triggered immunity
14:50-15:10	Li Wan	Chinese Academy of Sciences, Center for Excellence in Molecular Plant Sciences	Activation of helper NLRs by TIR immune signaling
15:10-15:30	Federica Locci	Max Planck Institute for Plant Breeding Research	How not to die:a a TIR-NBS protein interacts with PAD4 to amplify and propagate immune signaling
15:45-16:05	Yan Liang	Zhejiang University	A lectin receptor-like kinase controls xylem immunity
16:05-16:25	Yan Wang	Nanjing Agricultural University	A conserved Phytophthora apoplastic effector targets the co-receptor BAK1 to dampen plant immunity
16:25-16:45	Jiejie Li	Beijing Normal University	Myosin XI-mediated BIK1 recruitment to nanodomains facilitates FLS2-BIK1 complex formation
16:45-17:05	Lei Wang	University of Bern	Natural phytocytokines antagonist in tomato
17:05-17:25	Yusuke Saijo	Nara Institute of Science and Technology	Plant adaptation to phosphate deficiency via dual functional receptors in immunity and nutrient acquisition

Session 3		Oct. 14
Time	Name	Affiliation	Title of Presentation
14:00-14:20	Fang Xie	Chinese Academy of Sciences, Center for Excellence in Molecular Plant Sciences	Constitutive Activation of Nuclear Calcium Oscillations Leads to Spontaneous Nodule Formation
14:20-14:40	Changfu Tian	China Agricultural University	Symbiotic compatibility mediated by nonorthogonal integration of key symbiosis genes in broad-host-range rhizobia
14:40-15:00	Zhe Yan	Chinese Academy of Agricultural Sciences	Single-cell sequencing on soybean nodules identifies genes facilitating rhizobium infection
15:00-15:20	Yuefeng Guan	Guangzhou University	Understanding and improving symbiotic nitrogen fixation in Soybean
15:20-15:40	Hao Zheng	China Agricultural University	Integration of multi-omics technologies for insect-microbiome study
15:55-16:15	Guan-Hong Wang	Chinese Academy of Sciences, Institute of Zoology	Insect microbial function mining and symbiotic strategies to combat vector-borne disease
16:15-16:35	Xiao-Li Bing	Nanjing Agricultural University	Role of salivary proteins in endosymbiont-mediated interactions between spider mites and plants
16:35-16:55	Jun-Bo Luan	Shenyang Agricultural University, China	Molecular and cellular basis of whitefly-bacteria symbiosis
16:55-17:15	Jian Feng	Chinese Academy of Sciences, Institute of Genetics and Developmental Biology	Processing of NODULEINCEPTION controls thetransition to nitrogenfixation in root nodules
17:15-17:35	Xu Cheng	Agricultural Genomics Institute at Shenzhen, Chinese Academy of Agricultural Sciences	Exploringthe impacts of rhizosphere microbiomeon crop growth

Session 4		Oct. 14
Time	Name	Affiliation	Title of Presentation
14:00-14:20	Ville-Petri Friman	University of Helsinki	Plant growth-promoting phages
14:20-14:40	Feng Gu	China Agricultural University	Cooperation and competition between AM fungi and bacteria in mobilizing organic phosphorus in hyphosphere
14:40-15:00	Zhong Wei	Nanjing Agricultural University	Strigolactones-mediated holobiont immunity?
15:00-15:20	Yuting Liang	Chinese Academy of Sciences, Institute of Soil Science	Microbial strategies for enhancing acidic red soil quality and efficiency
15:20-15:40	Hongyan Zhu	University of Kentucky	Enacting partner specificity in root nodule symbioses: Beyond Nod factor perception
15:55-16:15	Jiatao Xie	Huazhong Agricultural University	Plant modifies fungal non-self recognition to facilitate mycovirus transmission
16:15-16:35	Feng Yu	Hunan University	Receptor kinases drive interactions between plant roots, microorganisms, and soil
16:35-16:55	Juan Ignacio Vílchez	Instituto de Tecnologia Química e Biológica (ITQB)-NOVA	Enhancing resolution on vertical transmission insights during plant-microbe beneficial interactions: New models using heat stress as environmental conditioner
16:55-17:15	Xingang Zhou	Northeast Agricultural University	Volatile-mediated positive interspecific plant interaction restructures rhizosphere microbiota
17:15-17:35	Kei Hiruma	The University of Tokyo	Molecular mechanisms governing fungal lifestyles across the mutualist-pathogen continuum under stress conditions

Session 5		Oct. 15
Time	Name	Affiliation	Title of Presentation
14:00-14:20	Shai Morin	Hebrew University of Jerusalem	Studying phloem-feeding in whiteflies – from feeding site location to osmoregulation
14:20-14:40	Yule Liu	Tsinghua University	Molecular basis of methyl-salicylate-mediated plant airborne defence
14:40-15:00	Yunhe Li	Henan University	Planthopper-induced rice volatiles inhibit resistance against conspecifics in neighbouring plants
15:00-15:20	Haijun Xiao	Beijing Forestry University	Landscape impacts on the abundance and richness of pests and natural enemies in small-holder rice ecosystems
15:20-15:40	Yingbo Mao	Chinese Academy of Sciences, Center for Excellence in Molecular Plant Sciences	Mirids secrete a TOPLESS targeting protein to compete with cotton bollworms on cotton plant
15:55-16:15	Ran Li	Zhejiang University	Role of primary and secondary metabolites in rice and brown planthopper interaction
16:15-16:35	Qian Chen	Fujian Agriculture and Forestry University	Exploiting salivary proteins of insect vectors: a viral strategy for transmission to plant hosts
16:35-16:55	Bing Wang	Institute of Plant Protection, Chinese Academy of Agricultural Sciences	The role of (E)-β-farnesene in tritrophic interactions: chemoreception and evolution
16:55-17:15	Pengjun Xu	Tobacco Research Institute, Chinese Academy of Agricultural Sciences	Densovirus infection facilitates plant–virus transmission by an aphid
17:15-17:35	Jiang Zhang	Agricultural Genomics Institute at Shenzhen, Chinese Academy of Agricultural Sciences	Friends or enemies: the role of Pseudomonas species in the interaction between Salicaceae plants and insects

Session 6		Oct. 15
Time	Name	Affiliation	Title of Presentation
14:00-14:30	Kenichi Tsuda	Huazhong Agricultural University	Virulence suppression by plant immunity and microbiota
14:30-14:50	Fumi Katagri	University of Minnesota	How can plants stay in this world while their pathogens can evolve much faster?
14:50-15:10	Daohong Jiang	Huazhong Agricultural University	Hypovirulence-associated mycovirus-mediated plant vaccine and its application
15:10-15:30	Jun Liu	China Agricultural University	Single-cell and spatial transcriptomics reveals a stereoscopic response of rice leaf cells to Magnaporthe oryzae infection
15:45-16:15	Patrick Schäfer	Justus Liebig University	RNA interference and priming in crop protection
16:15-16:35	Huiquan Liu	Northwest A&F University	Resolving conflicts: How the A-to-I RNA editing system shaped the evolution of eukaryotic complexity
16:35-16:55	Tianqi Zhang	Nanjing Agricultural University	Single-Cell Sequencing Analysis of Plant Immune Responses to 'Long-Distance' and 'Short-Distance', 'New-Treatment' and 'Old-Treatment'
16:55-17:15	Houxiang Kang	Institute of Plant Protection, Chinese Academy of Agricultural Sciences	Development of Machine Learning Methods for Accurate Prediction of Plant Disease Resistance
17:15-17:35	Zongtao Sun	Ningbo University	The role of intracellular lectin protein in vector insect-virus-rice host interactions

Session 7		Oct. 15
Time	Name	Affiliation	Title of Presentation
14:00-14:20	Alberto Macho	Chinese Academy of Sciences, Center for Excellence in Molecular Plant Sciences	Manipulation of plant metabolism by the bacterial pathogen Ralstonia solanacearum
14:20-14:40	Wende Liu	Institute of Plant Protection, Chinese Academy of Agricultural Sciences	A typical protein degradation pathways: Attack and defense strategies of rice and blast fungus
14:40-15:00	Tiancong Qi	Tsinghua University	Activation and function of the EDS1-PAD4-ADR1 immune receptor complex in stomatal immunity
15:00-15:20	Shoucai Ma	Xianghu Laboratory	Finding novel regulatory mechanism that keeps plant immune responses in check
15:20-15:40	Guotian Li	Huazhong Agricultural University	Phospholipids in plant immunity
15:55-16:15	Lijun Wang	Max Planck Institute	Glutamate receptor-like channels (GLRs) are required for effector-triggered immunity in Nicotiana Benthamiana
16:15-16:35	Gang Li	Nanjing Agricultural University	Rescuing mycotoxin-hijacked metabolic flux confers resistance to the crop fungal disease
16:35-16:55	Yi Xu	Nanjing Agricultural University	Unraveling the mystery of soybean stay-green syndrome
16:55-17:15	Zhenhua Liu	Shanghai Jiaotong University	Evolution of defensive natural products in plants
17:15-17:35	Shimin Zuo	Yangzhou University	Resistance mechanism and elite gene identification of rice variety YSBR1 against sheath blight disease

Session 8		Oct. 16
Time	Name	Affiliation	Title of Presentation
8:30-8:50	Jonas H. Kymre	Norwegian University of Science and Technology	Coding of odor valence in the olfactory system of the heliothine moth
8:50-9:10	Guirong Wang	Agricultural Genomics Institute at Shenzhen, Chinese Academy of Agricultural Sciences	Methyl eugenol regulates mating behavior in oriental fruit flies by enhancing lek attractiveness
9:10-9:30	Taiyun Wei	Fujian Agriculture and Forestry University	The mechanism of phloem-inhabiting unculturable bacterial pathogens transmission by insect vectors
9:30-9:50	Weiguo Fang	Zhejiang University	Chemical ecological interactions between the insect pathogenic fungi Metarhizium and insects
9:50-10:10	Xiaoyue Hong	Nanjing Agricultural University	Endosymbionts manipulate the reproduction and fitness in spider mites.
10:25-10:45	Lilin Zhao	Chinese Academy of Sciences, Institute of Zoology	Chemical adaptive interaction among pinewood nematodes, its vector beetle, associate microbes and pine trees.
10:45-11:05	Haijian Huang	Ningbo University	Saliva improves planthopper feeding by suppressing plant defenses
11:05-11:25	Yazhou Chen	Huazhong Agricultural University	Brown planthoppers translocate lncRNA transcripts into rice plants to promote colonisation
11:25-11:45	Alexander J. McClelland	The Sainsbury Laboratory ,Norwich, UK	A Plant Protease Targets Outer Membrane Proteins of Bacterial Pathogens
11:45-12:05	Chengshu Wang	Chinese Academy of Sciences, Center for Excellence in Molecular Plant Sciences	Insect-Fungus interactions byond bilateral regimes

Session 9		Oct. 16
Time	Name	Affiliation	Title of Presentation
8:30-8:50	Wenxian Sun	Jilin Agricultural University	Molecular mechanisms underlying Ustilaginoidea virens pathogenicity
8:50-9:10	Wenming Wang	Sichuan Agricultural University	Parasitic mechanisms by which Ustilaginoidea virens colonizes rice flowers
9:10-9:30	Frank Zhao	Washington State University	Implication of large chromosomal inversions in the evolution of Erwinia amylovora genome
9:30-9:50	Zhaojiang Guo	Institute of Vegetables and Flowers, Chinese Academy of Agricultural Sciences	Why can the "super pest" whitefly thrive on over 600 host plants?
9:50-10:10	Fangfang Li	Institute of Plant Protection,CAAS	The RNA of tobamovirus encodes additional viral proteins
10:25-10:45	Yutao Xiao	Agricultural Genomics Institute at Shenzhen, Chinese Academy of Agricultural Sciences	Adaptive evolution of Spodoptera frugiperda (J.E.Smmith) for Bt maize
10:45-11:05	Xuefeng Wang	Southwest University	Effectors from Huanglongbing-associated pathogen manuipulate autophage to promote bacterial infection
11:05-11:25	Hetan Chang	Agricultural Genomics Institute at Shenzhen, Chinese Academy of Agricultural Sciences	Smell to survive: the anti-cannibalism strategy of locust
11:25-11:45	Haiyang Li	Henan Agricultural University	Emerging Fusarium pseudograminearum: pathagenesis and interaction with wheat
11:45-12:05	Yongli Qiao	Shanghai Normal University	A sweet story from Phytophthora-soybean interaction

Session 10		Oct. 16
Time	Name	Affiliation	Title of Presentation
8:30-8:50	Zhiyong Liu	Chinese Academy of Sciences, Institute of Genetics and Developmental Biology	Helper NLRs in Wheat Disease Resistance
8:50-9:10	Men Yuan	Huazhong Agricultural University	Rice R gene mining and breeding against bacterial pathogens
9:10-9:30	Xinhua Ding	Shandong Agricultural University	The MYB transcription factor OsMYBxoc1
9:30-9:50	Yuese Ning	CAAS Plant Protection Institute	Ubiquitin E3 ligase-mediated rice immunity against Magnaporthe oryzae
9:50-10:10	Kai Wang	International Rice Research Institute	Molecular Design of Rice with Multi-biotic Resistances
10:25-10:45	Jin Fan	Yazhou Bay National Laboratory	The Genes Involved in the Combat between Rice and False Smut Fungus
10:45-11:05	Guoyong Xu	Wuhan University	Defense strategies for plant health: disease tolerance versus resistance
11:05-11:25	Xiao Lin	Chinese Academy of Sciences, Institute of Microbiology	Hunting crop resistance genes from the wild
11:25-11:45	Lei Zhao	Northwest A&F University	Strategies of Barley Yellow Dwarf Virus to Facilitate Viral Infection by Suppressing Wheat Immune Responses and to Promote Aphid Transmission
11:45-12:05	Lei Deng	Shandong Agricultural University	Why ripe fruits are more susceptible to necrotrophic pathogens than unripe fruits？

Session 11		Oct. 16
Time	Name	Affiliation	Title of Presentation
8:30-8:50	Xiangzong Meng	Shanghai Normal University	Activation of phytoalexin biosynthesis and secretion by multilayered signaling pathways
8:50-9:10	Bo Li	Huazhong Agricultural University	The Mechanism of Phytopathogen Transmission in Plant Xylem and Innovations in Anti-Vascular Disease Strategies
9:10-9:30	Yanjun Kou	China National Rice Research Institute	The interaction between broad-spectrum blast resistance gene Pi9 and avirulence factor AvrPi9
9:30-9:50	Mian Zhou	Capital Normal University	A novel pathogen effector hijacks the circadian clock to perturb both plant development and immunity
9:50-10:10	Chengguo Duan	Chinese Academy of Sciences, Center for Excellence in Molecular Plant Sciences	Nucleus - a new battleground in the arms race between plants and pathogenic fuing
10:25-10:45	Tong Zhang	South China Agricultural University	The balance of rice viruses in inter-species interactions
10:45-11:05	Yanjuan Jiang	Yunnan University	Rapid host cell acidification is a novel plant defense response countered by the brown planthopper
11:05-11:25	Jieshun Lin	Aarhus University	A novel secondary signal-zinc mediates control of nitrogen fixation via transcription factor FUN filamentation
11:25-11:45	Xiang Sun	Shenyang Agricultural University, China	Hamiltonella regulates whitefly fertilization by influencing the expression of maternal gene tudor
11:45-12:05	Hong-Wei Shan	Ningbo University	The plant-sucking insect Riptortus pedestris selects assembly of gut microbiota from environment to enhance host reproduction

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