Zu-Hua He

Subspecies-specific seletion of an immune module to rice bacterial blight

Academician of Chinese Academy of Sciences, Center for Excellence in Molecular Plant Sciences, CAS, China

Jan Leach

Exploiting Intergenic spaces to build durable stress resistance in plants

Academician of USA Academy of Sciences, Colorado State University, USA

Jian-Min Zhou

An ancient chemical defense against pathogenic bacteria

Institute of Genetics and Developmental Biology, CAS, China

Bing Yang

Genome editing toolkits for Xanthomonas functional genomics

University of Missouri, USA

Wei Qian

Bacterial signal perception: from evolution to biotechnology

Institute of Microbiology, CAS, China

Lionel Gagnevin

Herbarium specimens help reconstruct the phylogeography and timeline of Xanthomonas citri pv. citri diversification and expansiony

University of Montpellier, France

Renier van der Hoorn

Apoplast manipulation by Pseudomonas syringae

University of Oxford, UK

Xinhua Ding

The interaction of Xoc with rice and the development of immune inducers

Shandong Agricultural University, China

Valeria Scala

The lipidomic approach to improve the knowledge of host-bacteria interaction: case study of Xylella fastidiosa

Research Center for Plant Protection and Certification, Italy

Alvaro Perez

Evolution and evolvability of TAL effectors

IRD, France

Thomas Lahaye

Molecular news on Xanthomonas TAL and non-TAL effectors

Eberhard Karls University of Tubingen, Germany

Dilantha Fernando

Bacterial leaf streak in cereals in North America: from screening to genomics advancement on an emerging disease

Dept. of Plant Science, University of Manitoba, Canada

Bo Zhu

Post-transcriptional regulation controls bacterial virulence in rice

School of Agriculture and Biology, Shanghai Jiao Tong University