ICPPB & Biocontrol 2024 Program

Pick up your welcome package and name tag and purchase conference swag at, The Inn at Virginia Tech

See directions in the printed program for walking to the Hahn Horticulture Garden. Let the Conference check-in desk know if you need transportation.

The Inn at Virginia Tech

Pick up your welcome package and name tag and purchase conference swag, The Inn at Virginia Tech

Poster sessions are held in Latham Ballroom DEF, the room next to the main meeting room, Latham Ballroom DEF

The plant holobiont in frame with the One Health and Planetary Health concept

Examining the microbiome through the lens of the one health concept

Toward understanding plant - pathogen - microbiome interactions

All coffee breaks will occur right outside the main meeting room, Latham Ballroom ABC, and right next to the poster session location, Latham Ballroom DEF

Plant and microbiome engineering for disease resistance

Genome editing for plant disease resistance

Natural products from Bacillus protect plants against crown gall disease

Eggplant alert: Discovering a novel plant receptor recognizing a Gram-positive secreted bacterial protease

Investigating the functional response of plant microbial communities to induced plant dysbiosis

Plant microbiome engineering for improved disease resistance

Lunches will be held in Latham Ballroom AB, the main meeting room

Latham Ballroom DEF

From molecular mechanisms at the basis of plant-bacteria interactions to disease resistance

An ancient plant defense metabolite inhibits type III injectisome of diverse pathogenic bacteria

Breaking down the plant defence barriers: Lignin degradation during host colonization by the bacterial wilt pathogen Ralstonia solanacearum

Stick or Spread: Ralstonia lectins have a novel dual role in attachment under flow and dispersal in static conditions

Apoplastic effectors of Gram-positive Clavibacter bacteria critical for both virulence and immune response in plants

Insights into Pectobacterium spp versatile virulence tool box

Posters 3 (Ancona, V.), 9 (Mustafa, J.), 13 (Schiavi, D.)

Ecology and evolution of plant-associated bacteria

Eco-evolutionary dynamics of pathogen populations during host adaptation

Mutation, Recombination, and Host Adaptability in Xanthomonas Transcription Activator-Like Effectors (TALEs)

Local vegetable crops: a hypothesis to explain contrasting genetic structure within phylotype I population of Ralstonia pseudosolanacearum in Madagascar

Investigating the diverse roles and contributions of mobile genetic elements in plant-microbe interactions

Posters 18 (Fischer-Le Saux, M.), 24 (Mweta, J.), 34 (Zhao, Y.)

Latham Ballroom CDE

The Inn at Virginia Tech

Pick up your welcome package and name tag and purchase conference swag, The Inn at Virginia Tech

Adaptation of plant-associated bacteria to a life in, on, and off plants

Ralstonia solanacearum adaptation to life inside and outside of the plant

Oh, NO! How Ralstonia solanacearum mitigates oxidative stress in planta to cause bacterial wilt disease

Understanding how Dickeya senses its environment: the importance of untranslated regions

All is fair in infection and war: Survival, persistence, and competition mechanisms in plant pathogenic bacteria

Posters 37 (Barny, M.), 39 (De Moraes Ceseti, L.), 42 (Gorter, F.)

The Plurality of Interactions in the Phytobiome

Exploring the impact of protist microbiomes on plant health

Disruption to the Cell Wall of the Plant Pathogen Xanthomonas euvesicatoria pv. perforans triggers assembly of the Type 6 Secretion System

Plants fine-tune ions and metabolite levels to configure a healthy microbiota

Five decades of genetic and phenotypic diversity of Xanthomonas arboricola pv. pruni strains isolated from peach in the Eastern US

Plant-microbe interactions in the Anthropocene

Probably on the lawn outside the meeting room

Latham Ballroom AB

Latham Ballroom CDE

Common challenges and opportunities in plant and animal health and biosecurity

Common opportunities and challenges in using genomics and metagenomics for pathogen identification in plants and animals

Genomic delineation and description of species and within-species lineages in the genus Pantoea

Genomic analysis of Xylella fastidiosa suspecies pauca whole genomes sequenced directly from plants

Evolution of copper resistance in Xanthomonas perforans population

Real-time pathogen sequence search with sourmash branchwater

Posters 45 (Khokhani, D.), 49 (Rogers, E.), 51 (Sharaf, H.)

Phytobiome management in CEA and the field, chaired by Scott Lowman, sponsored by IALR

Enrichment for novel bacterial isolates with potential as biofertilizers for soil-less controlled environment agriculture

Insights into biocontrol potential of bacteria associated with hydroponic systems: phenotypic and whole genomic analysis

Preventing root rot outbreaks of Globisporangium (syn. Pythium) ultimum in hydroponic systems using rhizosphere microbiomes

Epigenetic Abnormality in Oil Palm: Rhizosphere Bacteria Increased DNA Methylation in Oil Palm Ramets

Posters 54 (Vanneste, J.), 62 (Duan, Y.), 63 (Kesharwani, A.K.)

Latham Ballroom CDE