Highlights and other tweets of the the International Congress of Molecular Plant-Microbe Interactions in Quebec City, July 2009.
  • Photos from Congress Boat Cruise & Closing Party. No need to sign in to view piks. http://tinyurl.com/mmt7w9 (via @ismpmi) 6:05 PM Jul 29th from Tweetie

  • Closing comments by Federico Sanchez: Translational biology is becoming a reality with the PAMP receptor work of Cyril Zipfel 12:28 AM Jul 24th from Tweetie

  • Dinesh Kumar: Tobacco receptor kinase IRK is required for Tobacco mosaic virus resistance protein N-mediated hypersensitivity 12:26 AM Jul 24th from Tweetie

  • Paul Schulze-Lefert: Crystal structure of coiled coil domain of NBS-LRR resistance protein MLA10 reveals homodimer 12:22 AM Jul 24th from Tweetie

  • Silke Robatzek: FIP1 is a membrane ATPase required for signaling by the Arabidopsis PAMP receptor FLS2 4:37 PM Jul 23rd from Tweetie

  • Renier van Der Hoorn: Fungal, oomycete and bacterial plant pathogens secrete inhibitors of tomato papain-like cysteine proteases 4:34 PM Jul 23rd from Tweetie

  • B Tyler: Fungal and oomycete effectors bind phosphoinositides, enter plant cells by endocytosis. RXLR motifs in fungal effectors 2:00 PM Jul 23rd from Tweetie

  • Paul Birch: #Phytophthora infestans RXLR effector AVR3a binds, stabilizes plant E3 ubiquitin ligase CMPG1 to suppress cell death 1:12 PM Jul 23rd from Tweetie

  • Aaron Hummel & Adam Bogdanove also discovered the DNA binding code of Xanthomonas effectors http://yfrog.com/7bgikcj 12:06 AM Jul 22nd from Tweetie

  • B Mauch-Mani: Plant hormone ABA enhances resistance to pathogens e.g. oomycetes, fungi- enhances PAMP triggered callose deposition 2:13 PM Jul 22nd from Tweetie

  • Felice Cervone: Functional chimeras of the Arabidopsis PAMP receptor kinases FLS2 and EFR 9:49 PM Jul 21st from web

  • Bonas code: 1 repeat in effector protein matches 1 bp in target DNA. Amazing! Implications beyond engineering disease resistance 9:47 PM Jul 21st from web

  • Ulla Bonas: Amino acid to DNA sequence code in the repeats of DNA binding/transcription activating Xanthomonas effector proteins 9:44 PM Jul 21st from web

  • Maria Harrison: Medicago truncatula gene required for fungal mycorrhizal arbuscule development is an ABC transporter 7:37 PM Jul 21st from web

  • SY He: P syringae effector HopM1 and host target AtMin7 localize to trans Golgi network- AtMin7 mutant deficient in secretion 7:31 PM Jul 21st from web

  • Ksenia Krasileva (Staskawicz lab): Recognition of Hyaloperonospora arabidopsidis ATR1 by RPP1B doesnt require nuclear localization 7:25 PM Jul 21st from web

  • Peter Dodds: N terminal signals in flax rust effectors AvrM & AvrL567 required for host translocation- Differ from oomycete RXLR 7:10 PM Jul 20th from web

  • Pierre de Wit: tomato Cf immune receptors recognize secreted effector proteins of banana black sigatoga pathogen M fijiensis 7:10 PM Jul 20th from web

  • Several lab members are heading to in Quebec http://www.mpmi2009.ulaval.ca - Search abstracts @ http://tinyurl.com/mzgp4k 8:25 AM Jul 18th from web