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March 18 - Bacteria-Plant Interactions
Time	Title	Speaker
08:00-09:20	Registration
09:20-09:30	Welcome Address	Dr. Tuan-Hua David Ho Direcotr, Institute of Plant and Microbial Biology, Academia Sinica
09:30-10:15	Perception and Transduction of Microbial-Associated Molecular Patterns in Plants	Thomas Boller Institute of Botany, University of Basel, Switzerland
10:15-10:45	Coffee Break
10:45-11:30	Proteome Analysis Uncovers New Bacterial Factors Involved in Agrobacterium Virulence	Erh-Min Lai Institute of Plant and Microbial Biology, Academia Sinica, Taiwan
11:30-12:15	Biochemical Basis of Pseudomonas syringae Virulence	Jianmin Zhou National Institute of Biological Sciences, Beijing, China
12:15-14:00	Lunch

March 18 - Fungi-Plant Interactions
Time	Title	Speaker
14:00-14:45	Plant-Fungus Interactions with Emphasis on the Pathosystem Cladosporium fulvum-Tomato	Pierre de Wit Laboratory of Phytopathology, Wageningen University, The Netherlands
14:45-15:30	Signaling Pathways Regulating Early Infection-Related Morphogenesis in the Rice Blast Fungus	Jin-Rong Xu Fungal Biology, Purdue University, USA
15:30-16:00	Coffee Break
16:00:16:45	Functional Analysis of the Cell Wall Degrading Enzymes of Phytophthora parasitica	Ruey-Fen Liou Department of Plant Pathology and Microbiology, National Taiwan University, Taiwan
16:45-17:30	Structure, Evolution, and Function of Oomycete Effectors	Sophien Kamoun Sainsbury Laboratory, John Innes Centre, Norwich, UK
17:30-	Dinner (all participants are invited)

March 19 - Virus-Plant Interactions
Time	Title	Speaker
09:00-09:45	Unusual Lifestyle of Giant Algal Viruses	James L. Van Etten Department of Plant Pathology, University of Nebraska, USA
09:45-10:30	Structure, Replication and Molecular Genetics of a Plant Nucleorhabdovirus	Andrew O. Jackson Department of Plant and Microbial Biology, University of California, Berkeley, USA
10:30-11:00	Coffee Break
11:00-11:45	Repression of Bamboo Mosaic Virus by a Host Methyltransferase through Protein Interaction with the Viral RNA-Dependent RNA Polymerase	Menghsiao Meng Graduate Institute of Biotechnology, National Chung Hsing University, Taiwan
11:45-12:30	How Viruses Rely on the Endomembrane Network for Plasmodesmata Trafficking	Jeanmarie Verchot-Lubicz Department of Entomology and Plant Pathology, Oklahoma State University, USA
12:15-14:00	Lunch

March 19 - Plant Immunity and resistance
Time	Title	Speaker
14:00-14:45	Genetic Analysis of Plant PAMP-Triggered Immunity	Cyril Zipfel The Sainsbury Laboratory, John Innes Centre, UK
14:45-15:30	Ferredoxins, Redox Modulators, Work for Disease Immunity	Teng-Yung Feng Institute of Plant and Microbial Biology, Academia Sinica, Taiwan
15:30-16:00	Coffee Break
16:00:16:45	Defensome Model for Rice Innate Immunity	Ko Shimamoto Laboratory of Plant Molecular Genetics, Nara Institute of Science and Technology, Japan