Session 1 — Nodule Function and
Rhizobial Infection
Room America · Chair:
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Time |
Speaker |
Title |
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14:00 20 min |
Jean-François Arrighi PHIM / IRD, Montpellier,
France |
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14:20 20 min |
Haixiang Yu Yazhouwan National Laboratory,
China |
NAD1 Orchestrates Immune
Suppression to Enable Rhizobial Intracellular Accommodation during Nodulation |
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14:40 20 min |
Wendell J. Pereira University of Florida, USA |
Across Species and Cell Types: A
Single-Cell Atlas for Root Nodule Symbiosis |
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15:00 10 min |
Colin Pellerin-Lefebvre PHIM / IRD, Montpellier,
France |
The NSP1/NSP2/RHD6La pathway controls the formation
of axillary root hairs that mediate rhizobial infection in the tropical
legume Aeschynomene Evenia
|
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15:10 10 min |
Ana Claudia Bonatto UFPR — Genetics, Brazil |
Novel proteins potentially involved in Sinorhizobium fredii NGR234-Cowpea symbiosis |
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15:20 10 min |
Amanda Edling de Barros I2BC / Université Paris-Saclay, France |
Dynamics of the Sinorhizobium
meliloti genome architecture during symbiotic differentiation |
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Session 2 — Nitrogen Sensing,
Metabolic Regulation and Nitrogenase Biochemistry
Room Mercosul · Chair: Philip Poole
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Time |
Speaker |
Title |
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14:00 20 min |
Marco Aurélio Schuler de Oliveira UEM — Biochemistry, Brazil |
Post-Translational Control of Nitrogen
Metabolism in Herbaspirillum seropedicae: Insights from the GlnD-PII
and GlnE-GS Modules |
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14:20 20 min |
Susana L. A. Andrade University of Freiburg,
Germany |
Sensing and surviving (with) ammonium
|
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14:40 20 min |
Luciano Fernandes Huergo UFPR — Setor Litoral, Brazil |
The PII signal transduction
protein interaction network in the model organism Escherichia coli |
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15:00 20 min |
Joël Klein-Song University of Oxford, United
Kingdom |
Chamaecrista
mimosoides as a
model for the evolution of nodulation in caesalpinioid legumes |
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15:20 10 min |
Julieta Agustina Crisci INBIOTEC-CONICET, Argentina |
From Electrode to Nitrogenases:
Proteomic Signatures of Electrochemical Rewiring in Azotobacter vinelandii |
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Session 3 — Diazotroph
Diversity, Genomics and Taxonomy
Room America · Chair:
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Time |
Speaker |
Title |
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16:00 20 min |
Luc Felicianus Marie Rouws Embrapa Agrobiologia, Brazil |
From
symbiosis to free-living nitrogen fixation: ecology of sugarcane-associated Bradyrhizobium
spp.
|
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16:20 20 min |
Federico Battistoni IIBCE, Uruguay |
Characterization of the
interaction between the diazotrophic endophytic plant growth-promoting strain
Kosakonia radicincitans UYSO10 and sugarcane plants |
|
16:40 20 min |
Gabriele Bellotti Università Cattolica del Sacro Cuore, Italy |
Comparative phylogenomics,
pangenomics, metabolic modeling and plant growth-promoting traits (PGPT)
profiling reveal functional diversification across the genus Azospirillum |
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17:00 10 min |
Stefan Schwab Embrapa Agrobiologia, Brazil |
A new diazotrophic Herbaspirillum
species |
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17:10 10 min |
Sofía Reyes-Impellizzeri Universidad San Sebastián,
Chile |
Comparative Genomics of Nitrogen Metabolisms in Acidithiobacillia:
Patterns of Diversity and Evolution
|
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17:20 10 min |
Nataly Chavarria- Ruiz Universidad Nacional Agraria La Molina, Peru |
Molecular
diversity of Nostoc forming edible macrocolonies from high-Andean
lakes in Peru
|
Session 4 — Bioinoculant
Technology and Crop Productivity
Room Mercosul · Chair: Karsten
(Pivot Bio)
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Time |
Speaker |
Title |
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16:00 20 min |
Solon C. de Araujo ANPII Bio, Brazil |
Title to be confirmed |
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16:20 20 min |
Karsten Temme Pivot Bio, USA |
Title to be confirmed |
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16:40 20 min |
Jerri Zilli Embrapa Agrobiologia, Brazil |
Diazotrophic Nitrospirillum-based
inoculant for sugarcane |
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17:00 10 min |
Bruno Treichel Embrapa Pantanal / UFRGS, Brazil |
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17:10 10 min |
Francisco José Teles UFPR — Biochemistry, Brazil |
PHB depolymerase PhaZ1 are required for efficient
nitrogen fixation in Herbaspirillum seropedicae
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Session 5 — Evolution and
Engineering of Nitrogen Fixation
Room America · Chair: Raúl Platero
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Time |
Speaker |
Title |
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16:00 20 min |
Raúl Platero IIBCE, Uruguay |
25 Years of Cupriavidus Rhizobia |
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16:20 20 min |
Qi Cheng Hebei Agricultural University,
China |
Nitrogenase-like Catalytic
Diversity Beyond Biological Nitrogen Fixation: Evidence for a New
Evolutionary Framework |
|
16:40 20 min |
Brett Ferguson University of Queensland,
Australia |
Regulatory
mechanisms of legume nodule number; VigExp for rapid expression analyses in
cowpea
|
|
17:00 10 min |
Julián A. Rubio-Pulido LIPME-INRAE / Toulouse, France |
Strain-dependent Bacteroid
Differentiation of Mimosa pudica Symbionts |
|
17:10 10 min |
Alexandre Ganne PHIM / IRD, Montpellier,
France |
Characterization of the involvement of EPP1 and EPP2
during Nod-independent symbiosis in the legume Aeschynomene evenia
|
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17:20 10 min |
Natalia Rodriguez Rodriguez Udelar — Faculty of Agronomy, Uruguay |
Session 6 — Soil Health,
Microbial Communities and Extreme Environments
Room Europe · Chair(s): José Ivo
Baldani · Graham O’Hara
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Time |
Speaker |
Title |
|
16:00 20 min |
Ana I. Ribeiro-Barros Universidade de Lisboa, Portugal |
Influence
of Altitude and Legume Shade Trees on Nitrogen-Fixing Bacterial Communities
in Coffee Soils
|
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16:20 20 min |
Cecilia Taulé IIBCE, Uruguay |
Isolation and characterization
of rhizobia and endophytes from native forage legume nodules in Uruguayan
grasslands |
|
16:40 20 min |
Gabriel Schimmelpfeng Passos ESALQ-USP / CENA, Brazil |
The Cyanobacterium Is Not Alone:
Nitrogen Metabolism Across the Cyanosphere |
|
17:00 10 min |
Benyi J. Marín Gallego Universidad Nacional de Tucumán, Argentina |
Functional and taxonomic
characterization of soybean nodule endophytic bacteria with potential to
mitigate salt stress |
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17:10 10 min |
Anathi Magadlela Sol Plaatje University, South
Africa |
Salt tolerant Canavalia rosea, a
sustainable solution for soil sodicity in irrigated sugarcane plantations |
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17:20 10 min |
Leonardo Magalhães Cruz UFPR, Brazil |
Host Associations Patterns and Novel Paraburkholderia
Species Among Mimosa–beta-rhizobia symbioses from Southern Brazil
Revealed by Comparative Phylogenomics |
Session 7 — Non-legume and
Associative Symbioses
Room Americas · Chairs:
Katharina Pawlowski · Luciane Passaglia
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Time |
Speaker |
Title |
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14:00 20 min |
Katharina Pawlowski Stockholm University, Sweden |
Frankia and actinorhizal plants:
The oldest approach to root nodule symbiosis |
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14:20 20 min |
Shin Okazaki Tokyo Univ. of Agriculture and
Technology, Japan |
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14:40 20 min |
Carolina Weigert Galvão UEPG, Brazil |
Azospirillum strains
differentially enhance essential oil production and bioactive monoterpene
accumulation in Origanum vulgare |
|
15:00 10 min |
Andrêssa Cardozo de Almeida UFLA — Biology, Brazil |
Azospirillum brasilense
improves the resistance of strawberries to osmotic stress |
|
15:10 10 min |
Rebeca Perez UFPR / ICGEB, Brazil |
Elucidating the Role of Cell-Cell Signaling in Herbaspirillum
rubrisubalbicans M1
|
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15:20 10 min |
Willian Yuiti Takahashi Embrapa Agrobiologia, Brazil |
Synthetic bacterial communities composed of
plant-associated bacteria enhance insoluble phosphate solubilization
|
Session 8 — Climate Change and
Abiotic Stress
Room Europe · Chair: Federico Battistoni
|
Time |
Speaker |
Title |
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14:00 20 min |
Olivier Berteloot VIB-UGent, Belgium |
Validating the use of endemic
rhizobia for sustainable soybean cultivation in Northwestern Europe |
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14:20 20 min |
Sulamita Correa Embrapa Agrobiologia, Brazil |
From Ice to Agriculture: Metabolic Plasticity of a
Extremophile Bacteria
|
|
14:40 20 min |
Marivaine da Silva Brasil UFMS, Brazil |
Isolation
and Characterization of Diazotrophic Bacteria from Pantanal Pastures: Plant
Growth-Promoting Traits under Osmotic Stress
|
|
15:00 10 min |
Kaoutar Taha Mohammed V University in Rabat, Morocco |
|
|
15:10 10 min |
Eduardo Koerich Nery UFABC, Brazil |
Climatic shifts have shaped the
evolution of symbiosomes in a tropical legume lineage |
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15:20 10 min |
Thalita Regina Tuleski UFPR — Biochemistry, Brazil |
Auxin
production by A. brasilense: the link between plant-growth promotion
and stress alleviation |
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