The International Parasitic Plant Society is pleased to host the first IPPS Online Seminar Series. International scientific exchange on the basis of regular society meetings and conferences is hindered by the Covid19 pandemic. The IPPS Online Seminar Series offers Society members an opportunity to learn about the most recent developments in parasitic plant research from leading scientists in the field, discuss with them and exchange with other members on a regular basis.
The IPPS Online Seminar will take place at 3:00 PM GMT (3:00 PM GMT = 8:00 AM Los Angeles, 10:00 AM Bogota, 11:00 AM New York/Santiago, 12:00 PM Brasilia, 4:00 PM Abuja/London, 5:00 PM Amsterdam/Berlin/Cape Town, 6:00 PM Tel Aviv/Nairobi, 11:00 PM Beijing, (next day) 12:00 AM Tokyo, (next day) 01:00 AM Canberra) of every first Wednesday of a month, featuring maximum two invited speakers per session. Each invited talk will be 30 minutes in length, followed by a 15 minute-discussion with the audience. All session will be hosted as a Zoom seminar such that speakers and audience can interact on various levels, be it visually and orally, by chat, or in showing icon-based reactions. The Zoom link can be accessed from the IPPS Members-only Area. PIs are welcome to share the seminar link with their lab!
Seminar schedule
| Speaker | Title | Date |
|---|---|---|
| Michael Axtell (US) | Molecular evolution and transcriptional control of trans-species microRNA from Cuscuta campestris | 04 May 2022 |
| Claire Baker & Dave Sands | Control of Striga weed with a virulence enhanced bioherbicide | |
| Benjamin Thiombiano (NL) | To be announced | 06 Apr 2022 |
| Satoshi Ogawa (JP) | To be announced | |
| Luiza Teixeira (DE, US) | New perspectives in haustorium structure and evolution across parasitic flowering plants | 02 Mar 2022 |
| Runxian Yu (CN) | The minicircular and extremely heteroplasmic mitogenome of the holoparasitic plant Rhopalocnemis phalloides | |
| Dorota Kawa (US) | Mechanisms of microbe-induced resistance to Striga in sorghum | 02 Feb 2022 |
| Kateřina Knotková (CZ) | Interactions between and parasitic plants and invasive hosts: the experimental evidence | 01 Dec 2021 |
| Emily Bellis (US) | Evolution of parasitic plant-host interactions from gene to continent scales | |
| Salim Al-Babili (SA) | Harnessing hormones and signaling molecules for combating Striga | 03 Nov 2021 |
| Stephane Munoz (FR) | To be announced | |
| Thomas Spallek (DE) | Signaling between Phtheirospermum and Arabidopsis | 06 Oct 2021 |
| Immaculate Mwangangi (UK) | To be announced | |
| Nicoleta Muchira, Damaris Odeny (KE) | What we know about Sorghum-Striga interactions | 01 Sep 2021 |
| Soyon Park (US) | Molecular host-parasite interactions | |
| Min-Yao Jhu (US) | CcLBD25 functions as a key regulator of haustorium development in Cuscuta campestris | 04 Aug 2021 |
| Francisco Fontúrbel (CL) | Cascade impacts of climate change on ecological interactions: lessons from a keystone mistletoe | |
| Jim Westwood, Vivian Bernal (US) | An artificial host system for growing and studying Cuscuta | 07 Jul 2021 |
| Natalia Pabón-Mora (CO) | Natural history and genomics in Pilostyles (Apodanthaceae), the smallest endoholoparasitic plants on Earth | |
| Jianqiang Wu (CN) | Interactions between hosts and parasitic plant Cuscuta (dodder) | 02 Jun 2021 |
| Songkui Cui (JP) | Host infection is mediated by ethylene signaling in the parasitic plant | |
| Harro Boumeester (NL) | The role of rhizosphere signaling in the host-parasitic plant interaction | 12 May 2021 |
| Julie Scholes (UK) | Can Receptor-Like Protein (RLP) resistance genes in rice provide protection against Striga hermonthica? |