Washington, DC, USA
http://www.phytobiomes.org/activities/Pages/Phytobiomes-2015.aspx
Assembly and role of microbes on above-ground parts of plants
Steven Lindow, University of California, Berkeley
From micro environment, to microbial envelopes; Role of insect microbiomes in plant-insect communication
Cristina Rosa, The Pennsylvania State University
Finding and optimizing soil microbes for enhancing agricultural productivity and sustainability
Daniel Schachtman, University of Nebraska-Lincoln
The Populus microbiome: Progress and limitations of our understanding of microbiome community structure and function over space and time
Christopher Schadt, Oak Ridge National Laboratory
Drivers of plant microbial community composition
Susannah Tringe, DOE Joint Genome Institute
Symbiotic drivers of plant adaptation: Reprograming plant physiology for agricultural sustainability and food security
Rusty Rodriguez, Adaptive Symbiotic Technologies
Fungal volatile organic compounds: Overlooked novel effectors controlling fungal interaction with plants?
Ningxiao Li, The Pennsylvania State University
Modeling soil microbial communities using artificial neural networks
Marcio Lambais, ESALQ, Brazil
Analysis of the maize leaf microbiome across 270 diverse maize lines
Jason Wallace, Cornell University
Prospects for the soil microbiome and sustainable intensification
Richard Conant, Colorado State University