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Workshop:The Potato-Ralstonia solanacearum pathosystem:

advances in breeding for resistance

Jueves 22 de Octubre 2015 - Sala de Videoconferencias de la Facultad de Agronomía

Visiting scientists:
Dr. Cyril Zipfel (The Sainsbury Lab, Norwich, UK)
Dr. Jan Kreuze (Centro Internacional de la Papa, Perú) 

AGENDA

8:30:   Reception.
8:50:   Welcome and Introduction. Marco Dalla Rizza – Guillermo Galván.
9:00-9:20: Knowing the enemy:progress and challenges in the study of Ralstonia solanacearum strains causing bacterial wilt of potato in Uruguay. María Inés Siri y María Julia Pianzzola.
9:25-9:45: Advances in breeding for resistance to Potato Bacterial Wilt in Uruguay. Francisco Vilaró.
9:50-10:10: Exploring the use of wild relatives in potato breeding through integrated cytogenetic and genomic approaches. Paola Gaiero.
10:15-10:35: Perception of damage in a transgenic potato-EFR event:assessment of resistance to Ralstonia solanacearum. Marco Dalla Rizza.
10:30-11:00: Coffee Break
11:00-11:40:Use of surface immune receptors to engineer broad-spectrum resistance to bacterial diseases in cultivated species . Cyril Zipfel.
11:50-12:30:Transgenic resistance to Ralstonia solanacearum in potato by Quorum-quenching. Jan Kreuze.
12:40-13:00: Discussion.
Comments and Questions.

Visita de expertos en temática:  resistencia genética a la marachitez de la papa causado por Ralstonia solanacearum.

Entre los días 21 y el 24 de Octubre estarán visitando nuestro país los Drs. Cyril Zipel (TSL-UK, http://www.tsl.ac.uk/staff/cyril-zipfel/) y Jan Kreuze (CIP-Perú) en el contexto de un proyecto INIA que involucra grupos de investigación nacional de Facultad de Agronomía y Química focalizados en la incorporación de resistencia genética a la marchitez bacteriana de la papa.

Detalle de los investigadores visitantes:

Professor Cyril Zipfel - Group Leader -Head of The Sainsbury Laboratory

My group studies the molecular basis of plant innate immunity. We aim at deciphering the signaling events linking perception of pathogen-associated molecular patterns (PAMPs) to the establishment of immunity. We use the leucine-rich repeats receptor kinases EFR and FLS2, which perceive bacterial EF-Tu and flagellin, respectively, as model pattern recognition receptors (PRRs). Our work also aims at understanding how plant receptor kinases work at the molecular level and how signaling specificity is achieved between different receptor kinase-mediated signaling pathways involved in immunity and growth. We are also exploring how outcomes of our research can be used to engineer sustainable broad-spectrum disease resistance in crops

Dr. Jan F. Kreuze

Germplasm Enhancement and Crop Improvement Division, International Potato Center, Peru.

Principal virologist at the International Potato Center (CIP), head of the virology and quarantine units at the international potato center (CIP). This encompasses management and coordination research in virology and bacteriology which includes basic research on the identification of novel viral agents and understanding of virus interactions and resistance in plants, but also more applied research such as development of diagnostic methods and transgenic virus resistance. Also deputy head of the Applied Biotechnology Laboratory (ABL) at CIP responsible for the management and supervision of the research in the development of transgenic resistance strategies to pests and diseases.