We will solicit abstracts for 25 minute talks or standard posters, alongside preferences for housing. Free rooms at the OIST Seaside House will be given to those interested. In the event they fill up, preference will be given to those who choose to share with roommates and early career participants (students/postdocs).
Phyllosphere 12
Registration
- 2025-05-05 - Application deadline
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About the Workshop
The ‘phyllosphere meeting’ is a (typically) quinquennial event that brings together experts from around the world with a scientific interest in leaves (and other above-ground parts of plants and trees, including flowers, fruit, buds, petioles, stems, twigs, branches, and trunks) as a habitat for microorganisms.
First held in 1970, the meeting serves as an international platform to share and learn about the latest discoveries in phyllosphere microbiology and as an incubator for new ideas and new collaborations in a field that recognizes how the many essential ecosystem services that plant foliage provides are influenced by the microscopic organisms that can be found on and in leaves (i.e. bacteria, fungi, yeasts, protists, viruses, insects).
As a discipline that became established in the 1950s, phyllosphere microbiology is now recognized as having contributed in significant ways to the study of host-microbe and microbe-microbe interactions using the leaf as an experimentally and conceptually useful model microbiome.
Phyllosphere meetings are truly multi- and inter-disciplinary. With backgrounds in such wide-ranging areas as plant pathology, food safety, microbial ecology, phytochemistry, and vegetation science, participants discuss phyllosphere microbiology in terms of problems such as foliar diseases and contamination of leafy greens with enteropathogenic bacteria, and in terms of solutions such as microbes, proteins and chemicals with plant-growth promoting activities or other commercially viable applications, and bioremediation of atmospheric pollutants.
Organizers
- David Armitage, OIST Graduate University
- Hidetoshi Saze, OIST Graduate University
- Kaoru Tsuji, Kobe University, planning committee member
- Akio Tani, Okayama University, planning committee member
- Kenichi Tsuda, Huazhong Agricultural University, planning committee member
- Johan Leveau, University of California Davis, planning committee member (host of previous meeting)
- Kosuke Shiraishi, Kyoto University, planning committee member
- Britt Koskella, University of California Berkeley, planning committee member
Application for talks/posters will open in the next few days
Daily Program
Day 0 | 05 June 2025
15:00-18:00
Check-in
OIST Seaside House
18:00-22:00
Dinner and Social
OIST Seaside House
Day 1 | 06 June 2025
9:00 - 9:45
Keynote Speaker
9:45 - 10:35
Presentations
Session 1
10:35 - 11:00
Coffee break
11:00 - 12:15
Presentations
Session 2
12:15 - 13:25
Lunch
13:30 - 15:05
Presentations
Session 3
15:05 - 15:35
Coffee break
15:35 - 17:40
Presentations
Session 4
18:30 - ?
Banquet Dinner
Cafeteria (OIST Center Building)
Day 2 | 07 June 2025
9:00 - 10:40
Presentations
Session 5
10:40 - 12:00
Poster session + Coffee break
12:00 - 18:00
Excursion to Motobu Peninsula
Churaumi Aquarium // Tropical Dream Center // Bise Fukugi Tree Road
18:00
Travel back to Onna and drop-off at Seaside House or near dining establishments
Day 3 | 08 June 2025
9:00 - 9:45
Keynote Speaker 2
9:45 - 10:35
Presentations
Session 6
10:35 - 11:00
Coffee break
11:00 - 12:15
Presentations
Session 7
12:15 - 13:25
Lunch
13:25 - 15:05
Presentations
Session 8
15:05 - 15:35
Coffee break
15:35 - 17:40
Presentations
Session 9
18:00 - 20:00
Dinner
Day 4 | 09 June 2025
9:00 - 10:15
Presentations
Session 10
10:15 - 10:40
Coffee break
10:40 - 12:20
Presentations
Session 11
12:20 - ?
Box lunch and checkout
Speaker Line-Up
Keynote Speaker
Kei Hiruma
University of Tokyo, Japan
Invited Speakers
Marina Kalyuzhnaya
San Diego State University, USA
Hidehiro Ishizawa
University of Hyogo, Japan
Talia Karasov
University of Utah, USA
Haruna Matsumoto
Zheijiang University, China
Itumeleng Moroenyane
Stellenbosch University University, South Africa
Henriette Schluepmann
Utrecht University, Netherlands
Mary Catherine Aime
Purdue University, USA
Fletcher Halliday
Oregon State University, USA
Marion Donald
Landcare Research/University of Canterbury, New Zealand
Isheng Jason Tsai
Academia Sinica, Taiwan
Leonora Bittleston
Boise State University, USA
Cecilia Grossi
National Scientific and Technical Research Council, Argentina
Additional Speakers
Akio Tani
Okayama University, Japan
Kaoru Tsuji
Kobe University, Japan
Kenichi Tsuda
Huazhong Agricultural University, China
Kosuke Shiraishi
Kyoto University, Japan
Britt Koskella
University of California Berkeley, USA
Johan Leveau
University of California Davis, USA
Kaoru Tsuji
Kobe University, Japan
Dave Armitage
OIST, Japan
Registration payment
The conference registration fees will be JPY ¥45,000 for all participants.
This registration includes access to all talks, all scheduled meals, and transport to and from the field trip (costs for aquarium/botanical garden entrance not included).
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・Please note that the deadline for payment is May 5, 2025.
・Please note that after the completion of fee payment, there will be a fee of 3.6% if you later decide to cancel and get a refund.
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Cancellation and Refund Policy
Participation fees will be refunded if cancellations are made in written form via email to workshop@oist.jp not later than 15 business days prior to the start of the workshop.
In case of a natural disaster (typhoon, earthquake, etc.), which results in the cancellation of the workshop, participant fees will be refunded after subtracting the processing fee of 3.6%.