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.
| Date | Title | Speaker | Insitute/Organization |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2024 | |||
| November 21, 2024 | Symbiotic microbes as driving forces of evolutionary innovation in beetles | Prof. dr. Martin Koltenpoth | Max Planck Institute of Chemical Ecology, Department of Insect Symbiosis, Jena, Germany |
| 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 |
