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OMGN 2018 Program FINAL Journal of Shandong Agricultural University ( Natural Science Edition ) The picture was gotten from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia. Oomycete Molecular Genetics Network Meeting 2018 • 1 • Oomycete Molecular Genetics Network Meeting 2018 The Oomycete Molecular Genetics Research Network (OMGN) was initially funded by an NSF Research Coordination Network grant in 2001 and continued to receive funding from the NSF for many years. More recently, the Network has received funding from various USDA AFRI programs. The purpose of our annual meeting is to promote communication and collaboration, and minimize the duplication of effort within the oomycete molecular genetics community. Our community now numbers well in excess of 100 laboratories from around the world, and research on oomycetes attracts considerable attention from outside the community as well as within. The OMGN annual meeting alternates between Asilomar, CA, and another venue, usually outside of the USA. This year, the meeting returns to China, and we are delighted to welcome you to the Ramada Plaza Taian. The 2018 meeting will cover some of the latest research on Oomycete Genomics, Evolution, Population Biology, Host Interactions, and Effector Biology. We look forward to an engaging and dynamic meeting! • 2 • Oomycete Molecular Genetics Network Meeting 2018 ORGANIZERS Scientific Program: Xiuguo Zhang (Department of Plant Pathology, Shandong Agricultural University, Tai'an, Shandong, China) Chunyuan Zhu (College of Life Sciences, Shandong Agricultural University, Tai'an, Shandong, China) Meeting Logistics: Joel Shuman (Virginia Tech, Blacksburg, VA, USA) Shi Wang (Shandong Agricultural University) Cancan Yang (Shandong Agricultural University) INTERNATIONAL SCIENTIFIC ADVISORY COMMITTEE Co-chairs: Francine Govers (Wageningen University, Wageningen, Netherlands) John McDowell (Virginia Tech, Blacksburg, VA, USA) Members: Brett M. Tyler (Oregon State University, Corvallis, OR, USA) Sophien Kamoun (The Sainsbury Laboratory, Norwich, UK) Laura Grenville-Briggs Didymus (Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences, Alnarp, Sweden) Erica M. Goss (University of Florida, Gainesville, FL, USA) ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS This meeting is supported by Shandong Agricultural University. The project “Earmarked fund” was supported by China Agriculture Research System(CARS-25-03B) with Dr. Du as program leader. Table of contents • 3 • TABLE OF CONTENTS AT-A-GLANCE PROGRAM ……………………………………………………………………4 ABSTRACTS OF ORAL PRESENTATIONS ……………………………………………………………………9 ABSTRACTS OF POSTER PRESENTATIONS ……………………………………………………………………58 PARTICIPANTS ………………………………………………………………… 87 • 4 • AT-A-Glance program AT-A-GLANCE PROGRAM Oral presentations are in Grand Ballroom. Reception/Poster sessions are outside the Grand Ballroom. All meals are in Ramada Plaza Taian. Monday April 9th 8:30 - 9:00 Registration 9:00 - 9:05 Welcome Chair: 9:05 - 10:25 Oomycete biology, populations, and evolution I Audrey Ah-Fong and Kai Tao Cellular signaling and cytoskeleton dynamics 9:05 - 9:20 Francine Govers in Phytophthora Biochemical and genetic analyses of the oomycete Pythium insidiosum provide new insights into 9:25 - 9:40 Theerapong Krajaejun clinical identification, pathogenicity, and evolution of metabolism-related traits Mating type change in Phytophthora infestans 9:45 - 10:00 Li-Yun Guo regulated by histone deacetylases Ecology and evolution of oomycete communities in 10:05 - 10:20 Zachary Noel response to soybean seed treatments 10:25 - 11:00 Group photo and break Chair: 11:00-12:20 Keynote Speech Francine Govers Exploring fungal DNA Virus to control crop 11:00 - 11:35 Daohong Jiang diseases, challenge and opportunity 11:40 - 12:15 Omics in Plant Breeding Sanwen Huang 12:20 - 2:00 Lunch Chair: 2:00 - 3:40 Effectors I Petra Boevink and Kelsey Wood 2:00 - 2:15 Dissecting the transcriptional plasticity of P. sojae Brett Tyler Identification of Plasmopara viticola candidate 2:20 - 2:35 RXLR effector repertoire in Nicotiana Jiang Lu benthamiana 2:40 - 2:55 How are effectors secreted and delivered to the host? Shumei Wang 3:00 - 3:15 Plant recognition of Phytophthora GH12 MAMPs Yan Wang Characteristics of RxLR effector structures in 3:20 - 3:35 Li Zhao oomycete pathogens AT-A-Glance program • 5 • 3:40 - 4:10 Break Chair: 4:10 - 6:10 Genomics I Paul Birch and Diya Sen Towards the identification of effectors and secondary metabolites involved in oomycete-oomycete 4:10 - 4:25 Laura Grenville-Briggs interactions and mycoparasitism using comparative genomics Comparative genomics of four species of 4:30 - 4:45 Kyle Fletcher Peronosclerospora What role does Phytophthora kernoviae play in New 4:50 - 5:05 Rebecca McDougal Zealand forests? Land-use affects the growth and gene expression of 5:10 - 5:25 Preeti Panda Phytophthora agathidicida Transcriptional regulation of Phytophthora sojae 5:30 - 5:45 Wenwu Ye effectors for successful infection Genome sequence of Plasmopara viticola reveals 5:50 - 6:05 Ling Yin effector repertoire and pathogenicity mechanisms 6:10 - 7:30 Dinner 7:30 - 10:00 Reception/Poster session Tuesday April 10th 9:00 – 5:00 Excursion/free time 6:00 - 7:30 Conference Dinner Wednesday April 11th Chair: Jun Zhao 8:30 - 9:50 Host Interactions and Resistance Mechanisms I and Veronica Ancona Phytophthora palmivora establishes tissue-specific 8:30 - 8:45 intracellular infection structures in the earliest Sebastian Schornack divergent land plant lineage 8:50 - 9:05 A pathogen suppressor of an NLR immune network Lida Derevnina A plant pathogen effector utilizes host susceptibility 9:10 - 9:25 factor NRL1 to degrade the immune regulator Qin He SWAP70 A potato STRUBBELIG-RECEPTOR FAMILY gene 9:30 - 9:45 Haixia Wang StLRPK1 involves in plant immunity by association • 6 • AT-A-Glance program with StSERK3/BAK1 9:50 – 10:20 Break Chair: 10:20-12:00 Effectors II Suomeng Dong and Lida Derevnina Phytophthora infestans RXLR Effector Pi22926 10:20 - 10:35 suppresses plant immunity by targeting the host Zhendong Tian MAP3β to manipulate MAP3K signalling pathway Biochemical basis of an RXLR-WY effector 10:40 - 10:55 Jessica Upson suppression of an NLR network Characterization of host-recognized WY domain 11:00 - 11:15 effectors from Bremia lactucae that lack the Kelsey Wood canonical RxLR motif Functional analysis of an effector PcRxLR101 in 11:20 - 11:35 Jing Li Phytophthora capsici A potato chloroplast kinase is required for Rpi-vnt1 11:40 - 11:55 Chuyun Gao mediated immunity against late blight pathogen 12:00 - 2:00 Lunch Chair: Daolong Dou 2:00-3:20 Oomycete biology, populations, and evolution II and Theerapong Krajaejun Molecular genetics of the oomycete pathogen of 2:00 - 2:15 Lin Zhang lettuce, Bremia lactucae. Structure determination of three enzymes from 2:20 - 2:35 Weiwei Song Phytophthora capsici 2:40 - 2:55 Profiling of the Phytophthora epigenomes Han Chen Immunity triggered by the small cysteine rich effector 3:00 - 3:15 PC2 from Phytophthora infestans requires Shuaishuai Wang proteolytic cleavage by the host protease P69B 3:20 - 3:50 Break AT-A-Glance program • 7 • Chair: 3:50-5:30 Genomics II Sucheta Tripathy and Wenwu Ye New insights into pathogenicity of the emerging 3:50 - 4:05 Diya Sen tropical pathogen: Phytophthora colocasiae on taro Mutations in oxysterol binding protein-related protein conferring oxathiapiprolin resistance confirmed 4:10 - 4:25 Jianqiang Miao using CRISPR/Cas9 in Phytophthora capsici and P. sojae Detection of multiple oomycetes in metagenomic data Maria Fernanda 4:30 - 4:45 by using E-probe Detection of Nucleic Analysis Proano (EDNA) EumicrobeDBLiteV11: a lightweight genomic 4:50 - 5:05 resource and analytic platform for draft oomycete Arijit Panda genomes Diploid genome assembly works better when Pacbio 5:10 - 5:25 long reads are supplemented with Illumina reads: P. Mathu Malar C ramorum assembly a case study 5:30 - 6:20 Committee meeting 6:30 - 7:30 Dinner 7:30 - 10:00 Reception/Poster session Thursday April 12th Chair: 8:30 - 9:50 Host Interactions and Resistance Mechanisms II Rebecca McDougal and Qin He Synergistic anti-oomycete effect of melatonin with a 8:30 - 8:45 biofungicide against oomycetic blank shank Maozhi Ren disease Phytophthora utilizes an RxLR effector to hijack the 8:50 - 9:05 Maofeng Jing host ER stress as part of their infection strategy A conserved host target of oomycete Avr3a family 9:10 - 9:25 effectors positively regulates plant resistance to Ruirui Feng Phytophthora NbMORF8 encoding protein localized in 9:30 - 9:45 mitochondria and chloroplasts negatively regulates Yang Yang plant immunity to Phytophthora pathogens 9:50 – 10:20 Break • 8 • AT-A-Glance program Chair: 10:20 - 11:40 Effectors III Jiang Lu and Biao Gu The evolutionarily conserved Phytophthora effector 10:20 - 10:35 RxLR24 interferes with the secretion of Iga Tomczynska antimicrobial compounds Structure and function analysis of effector 10:40 - 10:55 Liying Wang PcRxLR145 of Phytophthora capsici The Phytophthora sojae essential effector Avh238 11:00 - 11:15 targets soybean GmACSs to suppress ethylene Bo Yang biosynthesis and promote infection Host mRNA methylation pathway, a new target for 11:20 - 11:35 Jie Huang Phytophthora effector proteins? 11:40 -12:00 Closing remarks 12:00 -2:00 Lunch/Adjourn Abstracts of oral presentations • 9 • ABSTRACTS OF ORAL PRESENTATIONS (in order of appearance) Monday April 9th Chair: 9:05 - 10:25 Oomycete biology, populations, and evolution I Audrey Ah-Fong and Kai Tao Cellular signaling and cytoskeleton dynamics in 9:05 - 9:20 Francine Govers Phytophthora Biochemical and Genetic
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