KEYNOTE SPEAKER
INVITED SPEAKERS
SELECTED/ADDITIONAL SPEAKERS
KEYNOTE SPEAKER
Lydia Bourouiba
Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), Cambridge, MA
Research interest: Elucidating the fluid dynamics of leaf-to-leaf microbial transmission through airborne droplets
http://lbourouiba.mit.edu/
INVITED SPEAKERS
David Armitage
Okinawa Institute of Science and Technology, Japan
Confronting and Resolving the Issues of Scale in Microbial Community Ecology
https://www.oist.jp/groups/integrative-community-ecology-unit-david-armitage
Brian Bailey
University of California, Davis, CA
High-Resolution Modeling Tools for Understanding Plant System Architectural Impacts on Pathogen Development
https://baileylab.ucdavis.edu
Maria Brandl
USDA-ARS, Albany, CA
Formation of E. coli Persister Cells in the Lettuce Phyllosphere and Associated Environmental Stressors Predicted by Mathematical Modeling
https://www.ars.usda.gov/people-locations/person?person-id=10920
Tom Buckley
University of California, Davis, CA
Research interest: Physiology, ecology and biophysics of plant responses and adaptations to environmental stress and change
https://www.plantsciences.ucdavis.edu/people/thomas-buckley
Posy Busby
Oregon State University, Corvallis, OR
Research interest: Assembly and function of non-pathogenic fungi on and in plants and their influence on plant disease severity
https://posybusby.com
Aurélien Carlier
Laboratoire des Interactions Plantes-Microorganismes (LIPME), INRAE, Toulouse, France; Ghent University, Belgium
Mechanisms Underpinning the Vertical Transmission of Leaf Endophytic Bacteria
https://en.lipme.fr/phyllosym-1
Morgan Carter
The University of Arizona, Tucson AZ
The Microbiomes of Microbes
https://morganecarter.wordpress.com
Robin Choudhury
University of Texas, Rio Grande Valley, TX
Epidemiology in the Phyllosphere: Modeling Spatio-Temporal Dynamics at a Micro Scale
https://www.utrgv.edu/seems/directory/faculty/robin-choudhury/index.htm
Magalie Guilhabert
Microbial Research Technologies, Crop Science at Bayer, Sacramento, CA
Nadav Kashtan
Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Israel
Life on a Leaf: Microscopic Surface Wetness as a Key Determinant Shaping Microbial Ecology of the Phyllosphere
https://www.nadavkashtan.com
Isabelle Laforest-Lapointe
Université de Sherbrooke, Quebec, Canada
Unraveling Moss-Microbe Interactions Across Host Species and Stem Depth
https://www.laforestlab.com/
Mitja Remus-Emsermann
Freie Universität, Berlin, Germany
It Takes More Than Two to Tango? A Bottom-Up Investigation of Bacterial Leaf Community Assemblages
https://www.bcp.fu-berlin.de/en/biologie/arbeitsgruppen/mikrobiologie/ag_remus-emsermann/people/remus-emsermann/index.html
SELECTED/ADDITIONAL SPEAKERS
This list of confirmed speakers is updated regularly; more names and titles to come!
Rishi Bhandari
Auburn University, Auburn, AL, USA
Resilience of Microbial Community Associated with Phyllosphere in Response to Biotic and Abiotic stress
Benjamin Daniel
Institute of Microbiology, ETH, Zürich, Switzerland
Generation and Experimental Validation of WISH-Tags for Tracking Bacterial Populations
Gwyn Beattie
Iowa State University, Ames, IA, USA
Light as an Anticipatory Signal for Environmental Water Loss in Pseudomonas syringae
Gina Chaput
Genome Center, University of California, Davis, CA, USA
Metagenomic Bycatch: Bacterial Metagenomic Assembled Genomes (MAGs) Extracted From a Global Seagrass (Zostera marina) Genome Sequencing Effort
Yuti Cheng
Duke University, Durham, NC, USA
Identification and Characterization of a Dysbiosis Mutant in Arabidopsis
Gitta Coaker
Department of Plant Pathology, University of California – Davis, Davis, CA, USA
Single-cell Resolution of the Plant Response to Bacterial Infection
Megan Dixon
University of Wisconsin – Madison, Madison, WI, USA
Infection’s Slippery Slope: Impacts of Xanthomonas gardneri on Apoplast Nutrients
Hanareia Ehau-Taumaunu
Department of Plant Pathology and Environmental Microbiology, The Pennsylvania State University, University Park, PA, USA
Developing Phyllosphere Microbial Community-Based Disease Suppression
Maria Faticov
Sherbrooke University, Sherbrooke, Canada/Stockholm University, Stockholm, Sweden
Foliar Fungal Communities under Urban Stress
Linda Gouka
Netherlands Institute of Ecology (NIOO-KNAW), Wageningen, The Netherlands
Genetic, Phenotypic and Metabolic Diversity of Yeasts from Wheat Flag Leaves
Jacob Heil
Boise State University, Boise, ID, USA
Change in the Sagebrush Phyllosphere with Time and Climate
Annika Hoffmann
Leibniz Centre for Agricultural Landscape Research (ZALF), Müncheberg, Germany
A Race against Time – Priority Effects in Co-inoculation of Fusarium, Alternaria, and Pseudomonas in the Phyllosphere of Wheat
Geneviève Lajoie
Institut de Recherche en Biologie Végétale, Université de Montréal, Montréal, Canada
Plant-Bacteria Associations are Phylogenetically Structured in the Phyllosphere
Steve Lindow
University of California – Berkeley, Berkeley, CA, USA
The Yea and Nay of Spray-and-Pray in Phyllosphere Experiments
Maria Marco
Department of Food Science and Technology, University of California – Davis, Davis, CA, USA
Kimchi, Kocho, Kraut: Intra- and Inter-species Diversity of Microbes that Make Tasty Foods
Neil McRoberts
Department of Plant Pathology, University of California – Davis, Davis, CA, USA
Foundational Theories of Community Ecology in the Age of Biome Research
Marco Mechan Llontop
Michigan State University, East Lansing, MI, USA/Great Lakes Bioenergy Research Center, East Lansing, MI, USA
Stress-Specialized Phyllosphere Exudates Select for Distinct Microbiome Members in Sorghum Epicuticular Wax and Aerial Root Mucilage
Kyle Meyer
Department of Integrative Biology, University of California – Berkeley, Berkeley, CA, USA
The Impact of Transmission Within versus Among Host Plant Species on Microbiome Diversity and Adaptation
Luke Moe
University of Kentucky, Lexington, KY, USA
Microbial Ecology of Retting Hemp
Cindy Morris
INRAE-PACA, Plant Pathology Research Unit, Montfavet, France
The Great Pretender: the Lichen Peltigera Provides a Leaf-Like Habitat for Iceland’s Unique Genetic Lines of Pseudomonas syringae
Alan Pacheco
Institute of Microbiology, ETH, Zürich, Switzerland
Quantifying the Role of Resource Competition in Determining Phyllosphere Microbiome Structure
Letizia Pondini
The University of Warwick, Coventry, United Kingdom
Investigating the Impact of Road Traffic Pollution on Antimicrobial Resistance of Phyllosphere Microbial Communities
Yasuyoshi Sakai
Division of Applied Life Sciences, Graduate School of Agriculture, Kyoto University, Kyoto, Japan
Distribution and Survival Strategy of Methylotrophs in the Phyllosphere
Efthymia Symeonidi
University of Utah, Salt Lake City, USA
Leveraging Functional Genomics and Population Genetics to Identify Genetic Barriers to Pathogen Colonization of the Phyllosphere
Rachel Vannette
Department of Entomology & Nematology, University of California – Davis, Davis, CA, USA
Relative Roles of Habitat Filtering and Dispersal in Shaping the Flower Microbiome in Epilobium canum
Julia Vorholt
Institute of Microbiology, ETH, Zürich, Switzerland
“Biochemical Virtuosi of the Living World”: How Methylotrophs Got Me into Phyllosphere Science
Zihui Wang
Département des Sciences Biologiques, Université du Québec à Montréal, Montreal, Canada
Diversity and Biogeography of Leaf-associated Bacteria along a Latitudinal Gradient