PLANTS AND MICROBIOMES
Chairs:
Angela Sessitsch – AIT, AT & Paul Schulze-Lefert – MPIZ, DE & Corne Pieterse, Utrecht Univ, NL
Activities:
The WG helps create a science community on plants and microbiomes, fosters collaborations and develops advice to policy makers.
Meetings:
The 5th Workshop of the Working Group will take place in Vienna on 11-12.12.2023.
The second workshop “Implementing a Plants and Microbiomes Strategy in Europe” (Announcement 31.5.2018) took place in Cologne on 12 October 2018. The aim of this second workshop was to define the needs of and provide advice to the EU Horizon 2020, Work programme 2020, and its successor Horizon Europe (Framework Programme 9). The meeting increased collaborations between the working group members (via e.g. COST action, Coordination & Support Actions, initiated more collaborations both bi-and multi-lateral). At the end of the meeting, a workshop report was drafted with status, goals and next steps in plants and microbiomes research and provided as science advice to policy to the European Commission.
In 2017, the group held its first workshop to define a strategy for plant microbiome research in Europe and beyond having a vision on the understanding and application of plant microbiomes in a multidisciplinary manner (linkage to plant research, soil / ecosystem, functioning, agronomy, human/animal health, conservation of biological / genetic resources) and well-integrated in the EPSO network. We defined the needs regarding joint efforts in plant microbiome research and reflect on the needs to achieve major understanding and enable innovations in crop production and ecosystem conservation. The outcome of this meeting, published in the 23.3.2017 report, will provide the basis for further activities planned within this WG and will be provided as science advice to policy to the European Commission.
EPSO news developed by this WG:
Future Research Needs in Sustainable Agriculture – SusCrop ERA-Net White Paper published 24.8.2023
National funders in the European Research Area Network on Sustainable Crop Production (SusCrop ERA-net) together with experts from science and stakeholders developed (supported by 2 workshops) the white paper on ‘Future Research Needs in Sustainable...
EPSO 5th Workshop on Plants and Microbiomes, Vienna 11-12.12.2023 – Draft programme – Submit your mini-abstract by 15 October
The EPSO Working Group on Plants and Microbiomes has the pleasure to announce that its fifth workshop will take place in Vienna on 11-12 December 2023. The workshop has three main themes: WG progress and reports on major (national & EU) projects and...
Register for the 22nd EPSO Plant Science Seminar – the 20th April 2023 seminar will focus on “Frontiers in the Plant Microbiome”
The 22nd Europe-wide seminar of the series by the European Plant Science Organisation (EPSO) aimed at the Plant Science community and its stakeholders. TTT: The seminar will be held online each third Thursday of the month at three (CET). On 20th April 2023 at...
Members:
Isabel Abreu, ITQB, PT
Hanna-Leena Alakomi, – VTT, FI
Benoit Alunni – INRAE, FR
Raffaella Maria Balestrini – CNR, IT
Elisa Bellucci – UNIVPM, IT
Carmen Bianco – CNR, IT
Ton Bisseling – WUR, NL
Sylvia Blümel – BoKu, AT
Paola Bonfante – Univ. Torino, IT
Harro Bouwmeester – Univ. Amsterdam, NL
Giovanni Nicola Bubici – CNR, IT
Marc Buée – INRAE Nancy-Lorraine, FR
Soumitra Chowdhury – Helmholtz Munich, DE
Barbara De Coninck, KU Leuven, BE
Roberto Defez – CNR, IT
Aurélie Deveau – INRAE Nancy-Lorraine, FR
Kerrie Farrar – IBERS, UK
Judith Felten – SLU Umea, SE
Tania Galindo Castaneda – ETH, CH
Sofie Goormachtig – VIB, BE
Rita Grosch – IGZEV, DE
Kristina Gruden – NIB, SI
Martin Hartmann – ETH, CH
Jaime Huerta – CBGP (UPM-INIA/CSIC), ES
Juan Imperial – Univ. Polit. de Madrid, INIA / CSIC, ES
Robert Koller – Julich Research Centre, DE
Ainhoa Martinez, IRNASA-CSIC, ES
Karin Metzlaff – EPSO
Liesje Mommer, WUR, NL
Christophe Mougel – INRAE, Centre de Rennes, FR
Laura Nanni – UNIVPM, IT
Joan Narciso, ETHZ, CH
Greta Noelke – IME Aachen, DE
Kirsi-Marja Oksman-Caldentey – VTT, FI
Iakovos Pantelides – Univ. Technology, CY
Corné Pieterse – Univ. Utrecht, NL
Christophe Plomion – INRAE Nancy-Lorraine, FR
Marusa Pompe-Novak – NIB, SI
Maria José Pozo- CSIC, ES
Simona RADUTOIU – Univ. Aarhus, DK
Hans Rediers, KU Leuven, BE
Katja Richert-Pöggeler – JKI, DE
Soledad Sacristan – CBGP (UPM-INIA/CSIC), ES
Michael Schloter – Helmholtz Munich, DE
Peter Schroeder – Helmholtz Munich, DE
Paul Schulze-Lefert, MPIZ, DE
Angela Sessitsch – AIT, AT
Skaidre Suproniene – LAMMC, LT
Chiara Tonelli, Univ. Milano – IT
Corinne Vacher – INRAE Nancy-Lorraine, FR
Marcel van der Heijden – Agroscope, CH
Jan Dirk van Elsas – Univ. Groningen, NL
Leo van Overbeek – WUR, NL
Juan Ignácio Vílchez – ITQB NOVA , PT
Observers:
From academia:
Gabriele Berg – Graz Univ of Techol., AT
Davide Bulgarelli – Univ. Dundee, UK
Gabriel Castrillo – Univ. Nottingham, UK
Tim Evison – Univ. Copenhagen, DK
Gabor Kovacs – Univ. Eötvös Lorand, HU
Mette Haubjerg Nicolaisen – Univ. Copenhagen, DK
Yvan Moenne-Loccoz – Univ. Lyon, FR
Riitta Nissinen – Univ. Jyväskyla, FI
Silvia Proietti – Univ. Tuscia , IT
Barbara Reinhold-Hurek – Univ. Bremen, DE
Patrick Schäfer – Univ. Giessen, DE
Klaus Schlaeppi – Univ. Basel, CH
Amir Sharon, Univ. Tel Aviv, IL
Soren Sorensen, – Univ. Copenhagen, DK
Stijn Spaepen – KUL, BE
Sofie Thijs – Univ. Hasselt, BE
Jaco Vangronsveld – Univ. Hasselt, BE
Marc Viñas, IRTA, ES
From industry and farming:
Jeanne Kjaer – Novozymes, DK
Harald Mikkelsen – Koppert, NL
Isabel Vercauteren – ApheaBio, BE