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8^th Leibniz Plant Biochemistry Symposium 2023: Plants as Masters of Resilience, in memoriam Dierk Scheel

PROGRAM                                                                Program as pdf

Monday, May 8, 2023

13:00 – 14:00      Reception
14:00 – 14:05      Welcome Address (Alain Tissier)

Chair: Steffen Abel

14:10 – 15:00      Thorsten Nürnberger (University of Tübingen),
                              Novel insights into plant immune receptor evolution and function

15:00 – 15:40      Martin Parniske (Ludwig Maximilians University, Munich),
                              Dierk Scheel’s impact on my scientific career: inspiration, rejection, support

15:40 – 16:00       Coffee Break

16:00 – 16:40       Stefanie Ranf-Zipproth (University of Fribourg),
                              Multiple roles of lipopolysaccharide in plant-bacteria interactions: plant immune elicitor and bacterial virulence factor?

16:40 – 17:20      Cyril Zipfel (University of Zurich)
                             Connecting the dots of receptor kinase-mediated immune signaling

Tuesday, May 9, 2023

Chair: Stefanie Ranf-Zipproth
9:00 – 9:40          Axel Brakhage (Leibniz Institute for Natural Product Research and Infection Biology, Jena)
                             Natural products as fungal virulence factors and drivers of microbiome composition

9:40 – 10:20        Nicole van Dam (Leibniz Institute of Vegetable and Ornamental Crops)
                             The dark side of plant metabolomics: Root and root exudate analyses in forests and fields

10:20 – 10:40       Coffee Break

10:40 – 11:20      Stephan Clemens (University of Bayreuth)
                              Metals and metabolites – the role of ligands in element accumulation

11:20 – 12:00      Heribert Hirt (King Abdullah University of Science and Technology)
                             Role of MAPK-targeted chromatin reprogramming in plant immunity  

12:00 – 13:30       Lunch Break

13:30 – 14:10      Ulla Bonas (Martin Luther University Halle-Wittenberg)
                              How plant pathogenic bacteria manipulate the plant

14:10 – 14:50      Sophien Kamoun (The Sainsbury Laboratory, Norwich)
                              How to trick a plant pathogen

14:50 – 15:20        Coffee Break

15:20 – 16:00       Paul Schulze-Lefert (Max Planck Institute for Plant Breeding Research, Cologne)
                              Structure, assembly and functions of the plant microbiome

16:00 – 16:15      Closing Remarks (Stefanie Ranf-Zipproth)

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