Tour Includes:

· Round trip transportation from TCU Place

· Distillery tour and tasting (includes charcuterie and

sampling of Black Fox spirits

· Farm tour (tour of flower, orchard, and pumpkin fields)

· A catered light supper

Monday July 8, 2019

Morning sessions

Keynote address (8:30 - 9:30; Salon B & C)

Tiina Roose: Multiscale image based modelling of rhizosphere processes

Poster pitches (9:30 - 10:00; Salon B & C)

Health break (10:00 - 10:30)

Parallel sessions (10:30 - 12:30)

1. The root microbiome (Gallery A)

Chairs: Sue Grayston & Simeon Smaill

10:30 - 11:00 Plant microbiome: Unravelling the biota black

box

V. Gupta

11:00 - 11:15 Does the seed microbiome persist in the plant

rhizosphere over time?

C.L. Khodadad

11:15 - 11:30 Development of the rhizosphere microbiome is

dependent on root age and the preceding

detritusphere

M.D. Denton

11:30 - 11:45 Plant functional group and their associated root traits

as predictors of the saprophytic fungal communities in

experimental grasslands

D. Francioli

11:45 - 12:00 Contrasting long-term fertilization regimes

differentially impact root-associated microbial

communities during the development of field-grown

maize

A. Bourceret

12:00 - 12:15 Soil-borne legacies of plant disease

G. Vismans

12:15 - 12:30 Structural equation modelling of a winnowed soil

microbiome identifies how invasive plants re-structure

microbial networks

S.D. Siciliano

2. Spatio-temporal organization in the rhizosphere

(Gallery B)

Chair: Doris Vetterlein

10:30 - 11:00 X-ray CT based platform for integration of physical,

chemical and biological information on spatiotemporal

patterns at single root and root system scale

D. Vetterlein

11:00 - 11:15 Roots change the pore structure only if they have to –

development of biopores and compaction around roots

M. Lucas

11:15 - 11:30 Rhizosphere modelling reveals the spatiotemporal

distribution of daidzein, which alters bacterial

communities in the rhizosphere

A. Sugiyama

11:30 - 11:45 Hydraulic bridges at the root-soil interface: insights

from high-resolution synchrotron X-ray CT

M.A. Ahmed

11:45 - 12:00 Contrasting impacts of rhizodeposits on the physical

formation and functioning of the rhizosphere

P.D. Hallett

12:00 - 12:15 Simulating and characterizing spatio-temporal

patterns of rhizodeposits-the development of the

rhizosphere in 3D

C. Sheng

12:15 - 12:30 Response of soil microbial community to

photosynthetic product secretion activity of plant roots

indicated by rhizosphere live imaging method

Y. Unno

3. Root exudates (Gallery C)

Chairs: Melissa Arcand & Eduardo Mitter

10:30 - 11:00 Sampling root exudates – mission impossible?

E. Oburger

11:00 - 11:15 Digging into soil chemistry – metabolomics analysis of

root exudates and rhizosphere metabolites

A. Weinhold

11:15 - 11:30 Quantifying citrate-enhanced phosphate uptake by

roots

D. McKay Fletcher

11:30 - 11:45 Organic acids and phosphatase enzymes determine

phosphorus availability in the rhizosphere of different

plant species

D. Touhami

11:45 - 12:00 How rice root exudates shape the nitrification process

W.M. Shi

12:00 - 12:15 Who’s your neighbor? Plants neighbors induce

species-specific changes in a focal plants’ root

exudation and rhizosphere community compositio

T.C. Ulbrich

12:15 - 12:30 Comparative analysis of root exudates and bacterial

diversity in aeroponics and soil

A. Zancarini

Lunch, Poster & exhibit viewing, and Campus tours

(12:30 - 2:00)

Download a list of posters here:

Afternoon sessions

Keynote address (14:00 - 15:00; Salon B & C)

Corne Pieterse: The soil-borne supremacy: root microbiome and plant immunity

4. The root microbiome (Gallery A)

Chairs: Davide Francioli & Sue Grayston

15:15 - 15:45 How biotic interactions shape the movement of fresh

and decaying root carbon into soil

J. Pett-Ridge

15:45 - 16:00 Close-up on informational war between Gram

opposite rhizobacteria

A. Chane

16:00 - 16:15 Shotgun metagenomics sequencing of the

rhizosphere microbiota associated to seven ecotypes

of Medicago truncatula

B. Pivato

16:15 - 16:30 Intended and unintended consequences of planted

forest management for microbial rhizobiome properties

S.J. Small

16:30 - 16:45 A synthetic community approach to understanding the

Poplar microbiome

D. Carper

5. Spatio-temporal organization in the rhizosphere

(Gallery B)

Chairs: Doris Vetterlein

15:15 - 15:45 Insights into the spatial organization of rice-associated

diazotrophs and their nitrogen fixation activity

H. Schmidt

15:45 - 16:00 Spatial evaluation of carbon flow and microbial

function through the root-rhizosphere-soil continuum

J. Moran

16:00 - 16:15 Benchmarking models of root architecture and

function

A. Schnepf

16:15 - 16:30 Influence of root mucilage gel properties on

pore-scale processes in the rhizosphere

M. Brax

16:30 - 16:45 Root position and trait shifts depending on a

neighbor’s nutrient-acquisition strategy in kwongan

nutrient-impoverished soils

P. de Britto Costa

6. Rhizosphere of extreme environments (Gallery C)

Chair: Steve Siciliano, Marcus Griffiths & Milko Jorquera

15:15 - 15:45 Rhizobacterial communities associated with flowering

desert phenomenon (Atacama Desert, Chile) and their

potential as plant growth-promoting bacteria

M. Jorquera

15:45 - 16:00 Flavonoids are involved in phosphorus

deficiency-induced cluster-root formation in white lupin

C.Y. Xiong

16:00 - 16:15 Root system architecture and salt dynamics at the

root zone

U. Nachshon

16:15 - 16:30 Rhizosphere microbiome of halophytes as a source of

osmoregulatory genes

S. Mukhtar

16:30 - 16:45 Bacterial communities associated with the native

Antarctic grass Deschampsia antarctica

A. Znoj

Poster session, exhibits, and drinks (16:45 - 18:00)

Graduate Student Social (19:00 - 23:00)

An opportunity for graduate students to meet, socialize and talk about Science (or not). Meet at the Cathedral Social Hall (located at 608 Spadina Crescent E) at 7:00 pm for drinks, appetizers and conversation.

Black Fox Distillery Tour (18:00 - 21:00)

(prior registration required)

Author present on Monday

Author present on Tuesday

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