“Exploring Phytobiomes” Workshop – Plant and Animal Genome Conference 2025

January 12, 2025

Location

San Diego, CA, USA

Website

https://plan.core-apps.com/pag32/event/ccb7e3a674d26e5273e1670285c799bf

Outline

The Phytobiome is all of the organisms in, on, and around plants, and encompasses the many biological and physical components that influence or are influenced by the plant or the plant environment, including the soil. It consists of other plants, animals (insects and nematodes), a wide diversity of microbes (viruses, bacteria, fungi, slime-molds and algae), the plant microbiome, and the environment. In this workshop, talks will cover various aspects of research into understanding phytobiomes.
The workshop is supported by the International Alliance for Phytobiomes Research and the Penn State One Health Microbiome Center.

Organizers

Isabelle Caugant, Kellye Eversole – International Alliance for Phytobiomes Research
Jan Leach – Colorado State University

Program

The workshop will take place in Room Palm 8 from 4:00 to 6:10pm

• 4:00pm – Plant-Microbiome Interactions for Enhanced Plant Disease Resistance
  Federico Martin, Colorado State University – Abstract
• 4:20pm – Microbial Inoculants and Biostimulants in the Age of Molecular and Computational Biology
  Esteban Veliz, University of California, Davis – Abstract
• 4:40pm – AMS and Genepro Deliver Superior Nitrogen Fixation Bacteria for Agriculture
  Betsy Alford, BioConsortia – Abstract
• 5:00pm – Xylella Fastidiosa, a Bacterial Pathogen at the Nexus of Parasitism and Commensalism
  Caroline Roper, University of California, Riverside – Abstract
• 5:20pm – Leveraging Algal Mutants to Elucidate Mechanisms of Coral-Algal Symbiosis
  Tingting Xiang, University of California, Riverside – Abstract
• 5:40pm – High-Throughput Bioprospecting the Phytobiome for Tools to Fight Against a Deadly Plant Pathogen
  Christopher Drozd, University of California, Riverside – Abstract