MiCRop seminar series

Since May 2021, MiCRop organises a series of bimonthly MiCRop seminars (online) to train our PhD-students, postdocs and Tenure Trackers. Experts in the field are invited to present their pioneering work in the plant-microbiome interaction. This is an excellent opportunity to provide the team with interactions with experts from outside the consortium.

Past seminars

Date Title Speaker Insitute/Organization
2024
September 19, 2024 Adapting to symbiosis loss: new microbial associations in non-mycorrhizal plants Dr. Juliana Almario Université Claude Bernard Lyon 1, Ecologie Microbienne Lyon, France
March 21, 2024 The edible microbiome - tracking the microbiome from farm to fork Prof. dr. Gabriele Berg University of Environmental Biotechnology, Graz University of Technology (TU Graz), Graz, Austria
Department of Microbiome Biotechnology, Leibniz Institute for Agricultural Engineering and Bioeconomy (ATB), & University of Potsdam, Potsdam, Germany
May 16, 2024 Sphingomonas, an encyclopedia of genetic secrets to keep bacterial inoculants from dying in the field Dr. Derek S. Lundberg Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences (SLU), Uppsalam Sweden
2023
Jan. 19, 2023 Bacteriophages and their diverse roles in the wheat phyllosphere Prof. Lars Hestbjerg Hansen Microbial Ecology and Biotechnology, Copenhagen University, Denmark
March 16, 2023 Mining ancient genomes for new strategies for nutrient retention in agroecosystems Prof. Angela Kens University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
May 25, 2023 Understanding key microbial functions related to maize-microbe interactions using metaproteomics and synthetic microbial communities Dr. Manuel Kleiner North Carolina State University, USA (https://kleinerlab.cals.ncsu.edu/)
June 15, 2023 When in drought: causes and consequences of drought-enriched Streptomyces in plants roots Dr. Connor Fitzpatrick University of Toronto
Sep. 21, 2023 Balancing the plant microbiome Dr. Omri Finkel University of Jerusalem
Nov. 16, 2023 Fungal interactions and co-adaptation in the plant phyllosphere Prof. Dr. Eva H. Stukenbrock Christian-Albrechts University of Kiel and Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Biology
2022
Jan. 20, 2022 Protective microbiome in the rhizosphere Dr. Choong-Min Ryu Molecular Phytobacteriology Lab., Korea Research Institute of Bioscience and Biotechnology (KRIBB), Korea
March 17, 2022 Evolution of plant symbioses Dr. Pierre-Marc Delaux University of Toulouse, France, Evolution of Plant - Microbe Interactions, Plant Science Research laboratory
May 19, 2022 The interactions between plants and root microbiome in Arabidopsis and rice Dr. Yang Bai Institute of Genetics and Developmental Biology, Chinese Academy of Sciences
June 16, 2022 Can we use genetic and epigenetic variation in mycorrhizal fungi to increase yields of globally important crops and how does this influence the rhizosphere microbiome? Prof. Ian Sanders University of Lausanne, Department of Ecology and Evolution, Bern, Switzerland
Sep. 15, 2022 Synthetic Ecology of the Root Microbiota: Linking Genes to Communities and Ecosystems Dr. Stéphane Hacquard Max Planck Institute for Plant Breeding Research, Cologne, Germany
Nov. 17, 2022 Drought and the root microbiome Prof. Devin Coleman-Derr Plant Gene Expression Center, USDA-ARS / UC Berkeley
2021
May 20, 2021 Exudate-microbiome interactions on Maize roots Prof. Klaus Schläppi University of Basel, Dep. of Environmental Sciences, Plant Microbe Interactions, Switzerland
June 17, 2021 Root colonisation and competitiveness of Rhizobium Prof. Philip Poole Oxford University, Dep. Of Plant Sciences, UK
Sep. 16, 2021 Evolution in host-microbe symbioses: adaptation to extreme environments, host discrimination, and domestication. Dr. Stephanie Porter Washington State University, School of Biological Sciences, USA
Nov. 18, 2021 Receptors guiding symbiotic association between legumes, nitrogen fixing bacteria and surrounding microbiota Dr. Simona Radutoiu Aarhus University, Dep. of Molecular Biology and Genetics - Plant Molecular Biology, Denmark