2025 IS-MPMI Congress

The 20th Congress on Molecular Plant-Microbe Interactions (IS-MPMI) brought together over 1,300 scientists, researchers, and industry professionals from academia, government, and private sectors to present groundbreaking research, exchange ideas, and forge new collaborations in the field of plant-microbe interactions. The congress took place from July 13 to 17, 2025, at the Confex Centre in Cologne, Germany.

Congratulations to Axelle Deroubaix, PhD student on the ShySM project, for presenting her promising results on the role of two fungal specialized metabolites in establishing plant infection. She received financial support from the IS-MPMI Michael Mishkind Travel Award Fund. Axelle’s PhD is funded by Saclay Plant Sciences.

A second poster on the design and validation of a new set of tools for the production of fungal specialized metabolites (SMs) was also presented by Jean-Félix Dallery. These tools allow the heterologous production of SMs in baker's yeast (Saccharomyces cerevisiae) and were made in the frame of Aude Geistodt-Kiener's PhD. The system was published in the journal Metabolic Engineering https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ymben.2023.10.002.