Prof. Igor A. Tikhonovich
Academician of RAS, Dean of the Biology Faculty, St. Petersburg State University, Scientific Adviser of ARRIAM, St. Petersburg
“The principle of genome complementarity and plant-microbe interactions.”
Prof. Olga S. Afanasenko
Academician of RAS, Head of the Plant Disease Immunity Laboratory, All-Russian Institute of Plant Protection, St. Petersburg
“Types of plant resistance to diseases and peculiarities of pathogen/plant-host interactions in different pathosystems.”
Prof. Liudmila A. Lutova
Professor of the Department of Genetics and Biotechnology, St.Petersburg State University, St.Petersburg
“The role of meristematic genes in microbial-induced neoplasms.”
Dr. Nikolay A. Provorov
Director of All-Russia Research Institute for Agricultural Microbiology, St.Petersburg
“Symbiogenesis and organellogenesis: models of cell genome evolution.”
Prof. Yuriy V.Gogolev
Professor, Kazan Federal University, Head of the Laboratory of Molecular Biology, Kazan Institute of Biochemistry and Biophysics, RAS, Kazan
“Omics approaches for the study of plant-microbial pathosystems on the example of the research of the pathocomplex of snow mold of winter cereals.”
Prof. Farida V. Minibaeva
Professor, Kazan Federal University, Head of the Laboratory of Redox Metabolism, Kazan Institute of Biochemistry and Biophysics RAS, Kazan
“The lessons of symbiosis from lichens.”
Prof. Guzel R. Kudoyarova
Head of the Laboratory of Plant Physiology, Institute of Biology, Ufa Scientific Centre of the RAS, Kazan
“The role of plant hormones in the interaction of plants and rhizosphere bacteria under normal and stress conditions.”
Prof. Sergei Yu. Shchyogolev
Head of the Laboratory of Immunochemistry, Institute of Biochemistry and Physiology of Plants and Microorganisms of the RAS, Saratov
“Bioinformatic analysis of the microbe-associated molecular patterns (MAMPs) of bacterial flagellins and MAMP interactions with plant receptors.”
Dr. Elena E. Fedorova
Head of Plant-Microbe Interactions, Timiryazev Institute of Plant Physiology of RAS, Moscow
“Root nodule infected cell: ion’s transport problems and surprises.”
Dr. Kirill N. Demchenko
Head of the Laboratory of Cellular and Molecular Mechanisms of Plant Development, Komarov Botanical Institute of RAS, St. Petersburg
“Root nodule symbioses and lateral roots developmental program.”
Dr. Philipp B. Gannibal
Director of All-Russian Institute of Plant Protection, St. Petersburg
“Host specialization of plant pathogenic fungi: the evolution of genomes and crop protection.”
Dr. Ton Timmers
Senior Scientist Light Microscopy, Max Planck Institute for Plant Breeding Research, Cologne, Germany
“Live cell and deep tissue imaging during plant-microbe interactions and plant development.”
Prof. Katharina Pawlowski
Professor in plant-microbe interactions at Department of Ecology, Environment and Plant Sciences, Stockholm University, Sweden
“Actinorhizal symbioses.”
Dr. Eugene A. Rogozhin
Research fellow of the Laboratory of neuroreceptors and neuroregulators, Shemyakin-Ovchinnikov Institute of bioorganic chemistry of RAS, Moscow
“Antimicrobial peptides represent a molecular response of plants to biotic stress!”