Detailed Program

Mariangela Hungria (Embrapa, BR)
The Brazilian experience of microbial bio-inputs replacing chemical fertilizers: agronomic, economic and environmental impacts

Katharina Belt (University of Western Australia, AU)
Evaluating the efficiency of biostimulant products on soil microbiome and plant performance as a viable alternative to traditional fertilizers in agricultural systems

Mohammadhossein Ravanbakhsh (Blossom Microbial Technologies, NL)
Holobiont-level plant enhancement through improvement of microbial function 

Charlotte Klank (Aphea.Bio, BE)
APEXbio – Leveraging an integrated R&D platform to accelerate market introductions of microbial biosolutions.

Juan Ignacio Vílchez (ITQB - NOVA, PT)
Unveiling the Complexities of Seed Microbiology: Insights into Environmental Adaptation and Biotechnological Potential

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Mara Tabea Kraft (Evologic Technologies GmbH, AT)
Phoma 2.0: A compromise between efficacy and applicability – or can farmers have both?

Licinio Díaz (Ceres Biotics Tech S.L., ES)
Performing from inside: a successful agronomical case of the use of endophytic N₂ fixing bacterium Azotobacter salinestris CECT 9690

Maged M. Saad (KAUST (King Abdullah University of Science and Technology), SA)
Harnessing Desert Rhizosphere Microbes for Enhancing Plant Resilience to Abiotic Stress: A Case Study on Avicennia marina and Indigofera argentea

Eoghan King (Universidad Politecnica de Madrid, ES)
Keep your roots cool and well-fed to beat the heat: Unraveling the phytobiome response under heat stress and nutrient scarcity

Markus Gorfer (AIT Austrian Institute of Technology, AT)
Effects of management and climate change scenarios on microbial communities in rhizosphere and root endosphere of major European crops

Olubukola O. Babalola (North-West University, ZA)
Exploring Nature's Resilience: Harnessing the Potential of Rhizobacteria in Enhancing Plant Drought Tolerance

Salila Pradhan (Indian Institute of Technology Delhi, IN)
Rhizosphere microbiome transplantation for mitigation of salinity stress in Solanum lycopersicum

Rumyana Karlova (Wageningen University, NL)
Mechanisms of Root Microbiome Recruitment Under Drought Stress

Elena Giuliano (ETH Zurich, CH)
Unearthing synergies: exploring root-microbiome interactions in maize in response to nitrogen deficiency and drought

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Roland Berdaguer (Wageningen University & Research, NL)
Root metabolites shape the rhizosphere microbiome of Solanaceae plants under drought

Beatriz Ramos-Solano (Fundacion Universitaria San Pablo Ceu, ES)
The plant-curated microbiome from a saline environment includes isolates that enhance tomato growth, triggering different adaptive mechanisms

Irma Milanese (University of Trento, IT)
Enhancement of cold tolerance of tomato plants using endophytic bacteria isolated from cold-adapted plants

Etienne Yergeau (Institut national de la recherche scientifique, CA)
Can microbes predict the future?

Sylvie Mazurier (INRAE, FR)
Plant iron nutrition as mediated by plant-microbe interactions

Sulemana Issifu (Hohenheim, DE)
Thinopyrum intermedium exhibits a potential to control microbially-mediated nitrification

Tania Galindo (ETH, CH)
Interactions of root anatomical and architectural phenotypes with root microbiomes in maize under low nitrogen fertilization

Paula Rojas (University of Vienna, AT)
Biological nitrification inhibitors: a natural alternative to increase nitrogen use efficiency and reduce nitrogen fertilizer losses

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Emmy L'Espérance (INRS, CA)
The role of microbial diversity and functionality in agroecosystems

Rens R. T. Van Essen (Agriculture Victoria Research, AU)
Discovery of N-fixing bacteria and their application in barley.

Carl Pille (The University of Melbourne, AU)
Plant growth promoting members of the core Brachypodium distachyon root microbiome

Philippe Vandenkoornhuyse (Université de Rennes, FR)
Toward an agriculture of holobionts ?

Omri Finkel (The Hebrew University of Jerusalem, IL)
Balancing the plant microbiome against pathogens

Nathan Vannier (IGEPP, INRAE, FR)
Genome-guided metatranscriptomics in a synthetic multi-kingdom microbiota identifies common microbial transcriptomic reprogramming and conserved root-colonization genes.

Tanvi Taparia (University of Copenhagen, DK)
Harnessing disease legacy effects in the plant microbiome for plant health

Waseem Raza (Nanjing Agricultural University, CN)
Microbe-induced phenotypic diversity attenuates competition outcomes in clonal plant populations

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Supakan Panturat (John Innes Centre, GB)
Exploring Close-Rotation Microbiome Dysbiosis In Legume

Alix Catry (Université Claude Bernard Lyon 1, FR)
Rhizosphere metabarcoding/metagenomics and plant metabolomic analyses of suppressive soils grown with tobacco (challenged by Thielaviopsis basicola) or wheat (challenged by Fusarium graminearum)

Cem Turanoglu (Université de Rennes / Yves Rocher, FR)
Uneven plant phenotypic response to AM fungi inocula : a focus on Asteraceae family

Tanja Kostic (AIT Austrian Institute of Technology, AT)
Plant microbiomes in the context of food systems

Simona Radutoiu (Aarhus University, DK)
Towards an understanding of root microbiome assembly in model plants and crops: findings from studies using complex bacterial communities    

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Zulema Carracedo Lorenzo (Wageningen University & Research, NL)
Pseudomonas volatiles increase drought resilience through important transcriptional changes and by modifying the rhizosphere microbiome composition

Eleonora Rolli (University of Milan, IT)
Non-flavonoid root exudates contributed to the plant ‘cry-for-help’ under polychlorinated biphenyl stress

Maroua Alaoui (UniLaSalle, FR)
Characterization of non-coding RNAs in root exudates and effects on Plant Growth-Promoting Rhizobacteria

Aurelien Carlier (INRAE, FR)
Mechanisms Underpinning the Vertical Transmission of Leaf Endophytic Bacteria

Matthew Agler (Friedrich Schiller University Jena, DE)
Plant secondary defense and signalling metabolites shape specific recruitment of a balanced leaf bacteriome

Nhi Nguyen (The University of Tokyo, JP)
The root endophytic fungus Colletotrichum tofieldiae enhances plant growth and fitness under nitrogen deprivation in field and laboratory settings through multiple strategies.

Kenichi Tsuda (Huazhong Agricultural University, CN)
Maintenance of plant and microbiota health by plant immunity

Monika Messmer (FiBL Research Institute of Organic Agriculture, CH)
TBA

Raffaella Balestrini (CNR, IT)
Exploring the role of arbuscular mycorrhizal symbiosis in designing sustainable future cropping systems

Marco Giovannetti (University of Torino, IT)
Plant genome-soil microbiota feedbacks shapes Lactuca sativa responses to a soil microbial inoculum

Dejana Pankovic (JKI, Institute for Resistance research and stress tolerance, DE)
Development of molecular breeding tools for improved resistance of barely to leaf rust and net blotch by bacterial priming

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Alejandra Sarai Gallo Sandoval (Wageningen University, NL)
Plant breeding for beneficial plant-microbe interactions in Brassica oleracea and Allium fistulosum intercropping system

Corinne Vacher (INRAE, FR)
Unraveling microbial interactions underlying grapevine resistance to mildews: bridging field studies with synthetic community approaches

Stéphane Compant (AIT Austrian Institute of Technology, AT)
Harnessing fungal-bacterial interactions to improve plant growth and health

Ivica Dimkic (University of Belgrade - Faculty of Biology, RS)
Use of growth-promoting plant traits and community-function landscape model for the efficient design of consortia

Francesca Vaccaro (University of Florence, IT)
The dissection of genotype-by-genotype interkingdom interactions can help identify sociomicrobiological clues of synthetic communities assembly: a model with the symbiotic nitrogen-fixer Sinorhizobium meliloti and Trichoderma

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Leilei Li (EV-ILVO Plant, BE)
Is chitin-mediated plant growth promotion dependent on Mortierellaceae species?

Monica Höfte (Ghent University, BE)
How to unlock the biocontrol potential of Pseudomonas spp.?    

Gabriele Berg (Graz University of Technology, AT)
Exploiting the microbiome for biocontrol of plant and human pathogens

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Belen Guijarro (inia-csic, ES)
Improving the biocontrol strategies of three well-defined biocontrol agents, PF909, EN 282 and PO212 through consortium formulations

Andrea Braun-Kiewnick (Julius-Kuehn Institute, DE)
Towards a microbe-assisted soil amelioration in continuous wheat rotations

Julian Liber (Duke University, US)
Uncovering genetic bases of phyllosphere commensalism in the biocontrol yeast Aureobasidium pullulans

Livia Jerjen (University of Fribourg, CH)
Elucidating the molecular determinants underlying the anti-Phytophthora activity of potato-associated Pseudomonas.

Shumaila Rasool (Netherlands Institute of Ecology (NIOO-KNAW), NL)
Bioinoculant-induced plant resistance is modulated by interactions with resident soil microbes

Thomas Rey (De Sangosse, FR)
Rhizosphere colonisation by a root associated Streptomyces relies on plant immunity activation by specialised metabolites produced by the bacteria  

Anja Logo (Agroscope, CH)
Identification of bacterial indicators for disease suppression of compost in three different pathogen – plant systems

Britt Koskella (University of California Berkeley, US)
Pre and probiotics of the tomato plant phyllosphere for increased yield and decreased disease

Jesús Mercado Blanco (Estación Experimental del Zaidín (CSIC), ES)
Versatility and impact on plant holobionts of a bacterial biocontrol agent: better alone or in combination?

Senka Causevic (University of Lausanne, CH)
Synthetic soil communities offer insights into soil microbiota development and ecological processes underlying strain engraftment

Rashi Tyagi (Indian Institute of Technology Delhi, IN)
Rhizosphere engineering by designing synthetic microbial communities for combating Fusarium wilt in pigeonpea

Sanjay Swarup (National University of Singapore, SG)
Ecologically designed three-member microbial consortium promote growth in Brassicaceae members by modulating growth-defense trade-off

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Frederik Bak (AIT Austrian Institute of Technology, AT)
Synthetic bacterial community mimics the assembly pattern of a natural community on wheat roots grown in soil

Martin Hartmann (ETH Zürich, CH)
Organic and conventional agriculture promote distinct soil microbiomes with contrasting metabolic potentials

Livio Antonielli (AIT Austrian Institute of Technology, AT)
Harnessing machine learning for predictive tools in microbiome studies: a focus on amplicon sequence variants and metagenomic shotgun sequencing

Alexandre Jousset (Cybiome GmbH, CH)
Generative AI for precision microbiome interventions

Michael Ionescu (Lavie-Bio Ltd, IL)
Functions-based Design of live bacteria-based ag-biological products of novel diversities and efficacies