| 10:00-16:00 | EPSO 6th Workshop on Plants and Microbiomes |
| 16:00-19:30 | Welcome reception & registration |
| 18:00 – 18:30 | Opening and welcome by authorities |
| 18:30 – 19:30 | Inaugural talk by Julia Vorholt : Establishing causality: Opportunities of synthetic communities for plant microbiome research Talk sponsored by MSCA-funded project MicroSOS |
| 19:30 – 21:00 | Dinner, master ham slicer (Jamón Ibérico), local wine experience and live flamenco show |
Session sponsored by ISME
Chaired by Peter van ’t Hof and Xinya Pan
| 09:00 – 09:30 | Paolina Garbeva: The importance of volatile compounds in belowground plant-microbe interactions |
| 09:30 – 10:00 | Harro Bouwmeester: Plants actively recruit beneficial micro-organisms. Discovery of new metabolite signalling relationships between plants and their microbiome |
| 10:00 – 10:15 | Christopher Barnes: The methylome-root microbiome axis as an unexplored mechanism of plant adaptation |
| 10:15 – 10:30 | Huei-Hsuan Tsai: Localized glutamine leakage drives microbial colonization patterns on roots |
| 10:30 – 10:45 | Joana Jesus: Microbial contributions to the ecological success of Acacia longifolia – a strategy that involves soils, seeds and nodules |
| 10:45 – 11:15 | Coffee Break |
| 11:15 – 11:45 | Ioannis Stringlis: Root Defense Barriers Modulate Beneficial Microbe Interactions and Microbiome Assembly in Arabidopsis |
| 11:45 – 12:15 | Gilles van Wezel: Plant-microbe interactions elicit the biosynthesis of cryptic antimicrobials |
| 12:15 – 12:30 | Mimi Tian: A strigolactone-isofraxidin-microbiota axis underpins soil-borne pathogen resistance |
| 12:30 – 12:45 | Tomoaki Sato: Oxidative Isoflavone Catabolism in the Soybean Root Microbiota and Its Role in Root Colonization |
| 12:45 – 13:00 | Ute Albrecht: Systemically delivered Oxytetracycline improves Plant Performance and alters the active Bark Microbiome in Huanglongbing-affected Citrus Trees |
| 13:00 – 15:00 | Lunch |
Session sponsored by Koppert
Chaired by Tanvi Taparia and Adam Ossowicki
| 15:00 – 15:15 | talk from Koppert |
| 15:15 – 15:45 | Ian Lidbury: Cryptic or obvious? – A holistic approach to understanding plant-microbe interactions at the root-soil interface |
| 15:45 – 16:15 | Omri Finkel: Don’t fixate on fixation – can we predict nodule efficiency from rhizobial genomes? |
| 16:15 – 16:30 | Arianna Capparotto: Plant genetic and root-associated microbial diversity modulate Lactuca sativa responsiveness to a soil inoculum under phosphate deficiency |
| 16:30 – 16:45 | Alice Alves: Plants Speak Through Exudates: Metabolomic Analysis of Root Chemical Responses to Potassium Sources |
| 16:45 – 17:00 | Carmen Sanchez-Cañizares: From whole plant to single cell: why terminally differentiated bacteroids are more efficient nitrogen fixers in legume nodules |
| 17:00 – 17:30 | Coffee Break |
| 17:30 – 19:30 | Poster Session (Odd numbers) |
Session sponsored by Conexión Microbioma
Chaired by Viviane Cordovez and Ioannis Stringlis
| 09:00 – 09:30 | Ainhoa Martinez Medina: Systems Biology of Microbe-Induced Plant Resistance: Unlocking Mechanisms for Sustainable Crop Protection |
| 09:30 – 10:00 | Andrea Sánchez-Vallet: Host adaptation and intrahost competition in fungal plant pathogens |
| 10:00 – 10:15 | Blanca Ruíz Muñoz: Long-term organic farming shapes rhizosphere microbiome and enhances agroecosystem resilience in avocado orchards |
| 10:15 – 10:30 | Kris DeKreek: Help from belowground: intraspecific plant variation in microbial enhanced defence against insects |
| 10:30 – 10:45 | Daniel Garrido Sanz: Priority effects of seed-borne bacteria drive wheat rhizosphere microbiome |
| 10:45 – 11:15 | Coffee Break |
| 11:15 – 11:45 | Maria J. Pozo: Mycorrhiza Induced Resistance: Functioning and Applications in Agriculture |
| 11:45 – 12:15 | Lucas William Mendes: From soil to rhizosphere: microbiome-driven paths to sustainable agriculture |
| 12:15 – 12:30 | Máximo González: Disentangling Microbial Contributions to Tomato Yield and Drought Resilience through Genotype-Environment Interactions |
| 12:30 – 12:45 | Tanvi Taparia: From single strain inoculants to microbial consortia |
| 12:45 – 13:00 | Tianje Yang: Rhizosphere vitamins: the glue holding the plant holobiont together |
| 13:00 – 15:00 | Lunch |
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Session sponsored by NPJ
Chaired by Lucia Stalder and Victor Carrion
| 09:00 – 09:30 | Francisco Dini Andreote: Ecological principles of plant-microbe interactions and soil suppressiveness |
| 09:30 – 10:00 | Asaf Levy: The function of plant microbiota against herbivore insects |
| 10:00 – 10:15 | James McDonald: Characterising and engineering the oak microbiome to suppress disease |
| 10:15 – 10:30 | Iakovos Pantelides: Deciphering Microbial Drivers of Soil Suppressiveness Against Fusarium Wilt of Tomato in Cyprus |
| 10:30 – 10:45 | Nicolas Rojas Preciado: The Sugar Beet Leaf Microbiome Harbors Aphid-Killing Bacteria Whose Composition Shifts in Response to Aphid Infestation |
| 10:45 – 11:15 | Coffee Break |
Session sponsored by Microbiome
Chaired by Linda Gouka and Jose Antonio Gutierrez Barranquero
| 11:15 – 11:45 | Ling Ding: Plant growth promoting metabolites from Streptomyces |
| 11:45 – 12:15 | Eiko Kuramae: Domestication reshaped rice microbiomes: From nitrogen-fixing allies to N₂O producers |
| 12:15 – 12:30 | Eleonora Rolli: The plant ‘cry-for-help’ under polychlorinated biphenyl stress shapes root chemistry and ecological interactions |
| 12:30 – 12:45 | Rumyana Karlova: Mechanisms of Root Microbiome Recruitment Under Drought Stress |
| 12:45 – 13:00 | Elisa Korenblum: The root microbiome of wild grass populations from arid to Mediterranean regions as a Reservoir for Drought-Adapted Bacteria |
| 13:00 – 15:00 | Lunch |
Session sponsored by Journal of Applied Microbiology
Chaired by Lucas William Mendes and Francisco Dini Andreote
| 15:00 – 15:30 | Akos Kovács, From single species to community living of Bacillus |
| 15:30 – 16:00 | Manuel Delgado Baquerizo: Soil biodiversity and function under global change |
| 16:00 – 16:30 | Jaime Huerta-Cepas: Unveiling the rare microbial biosphere: Deep target capture sequencing for taxonomic and functional discovery in plant microbiomes and beyond |
| 16:30 – 16:45 | Yuze Li: Predicting Rhizosphere Competence Related Catabolic Gene Clusters in plantassociated bacteria with RhizoSMASH |
| 16:45 – 17:00 | Aditya S. Malwe: Plant hologenomics and multi-omics integration of plant phenotypes, genotypes and microbiome |
| 17:00 – 17:15 | Kevin M. Bretscher: Integrative analysis of rice microbiomes reveals a global core microbiome and signatures of alkaline and saline soils |
| 17:15 – 17:30 | Talk from Journal of Applied Microbiology, Microbiome and Conexión Microbioma |
| 17:30 – 19:30 | Poster Session (Even numbers) & Coffee Break |
| 20:30 | Gala dinner |
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Session sponsored by IHSM UMA- CSIC
Chaired by Ainhoa Martínez Medina and Juan Ignacio Vilchez
| 09:00 – 9:30 | Viviane Cordovez: Yeast Adaptations to the Phyllosphere: Ecological and Genomic Insights |
| 9:30 – 09:45 | Mengshuai Liu: Questiomycin A from Pseudomonas aurantiaca CM9 as a key biocontrol metabolite against crown gall disease |
| 09:45 – 10:00 | Kerstin Unger: Pathogen-mediated degradation of the plant defense metabolite sulforaphane functions as public good in a leaf bacterial community |
| 10:00 – 10:15 | Guilherme Lucio Martins: Drivers of microbial carbon fixation pathways in Theobroma grandiflorum |
| 10:15 – 10:45 | Coffee Break |
Session sponsored by Novogene
Chaired by Eleonora Rolli and Rafael Jorge León Morcillo
| 10:45 – 11:15 | Corné M.J. Pieterse: Plant Microbiome: The Extended Host Immune System |
| 11:15 – 11:45 | Angela Sessitsch: Plant microbiome modulation and effects of plant performance and quality traits |
| 11:45 – 12:00 | Sheila Roitman: The MicroVirome: Expanding the Plant Holobiont |
| 12:00 – 12:15 | Xinrun Yang: Designing and Harnessing Rhizosphere Synbiotics for Plant Health |
| 12:15 – 12:30 | Adam Ossowicki: Training soil microbiomes for sustainable agriculture |
| 12:30 – 12:50 | Closing statements and final remarks |
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