Indo French Workshop Plant microbiome as driver for the next green agricultural revolution

                                             

🌿 After months of preparation, excitement — and just a touch of stress — we’re thrilled to announce that tomorrow, INSA Lyon - Institut National des Sciences Appliquées de Lyon will host the Indo-French workshop on “Plant Microbiome as a Driver for the Next Green Agricultural Revolution.”

This event is jointly organized by Dr. Shilpi Sharma (Indian Institute of Technology Delhi) and Prof. Feth el Zahar Haichar (INSA Lyon, Laboratoire MAP (UMR 5240 : Université Claude Bernard Lyon 1, CNRS, INSA), with the generous support of the Indo-French Centre for the Promotion of Advanced Research (IFCPAR/CEFIPRA).

Our goal is to bring together leading Indian and French researchers in the field of plant-microbiome interactions, to exchange insights, explore recent advances, and address future challenges in this rapidly evolving area.

A heartfelt thank you to CIFEPRA and INSA Lyon for their support, and to our sponsors: CNRS, EUROMEDEX, Ozyme, MACHEREY-NAGEL, GeneCust S.A.S., Thermo Fisher Scientific, and Merck Life Science. Thanks also to the organising committee: Jessica BAUDE, Clara BLONDE, Adel Amine GANI, Audrey R., Sara MOUTACHARRIF, salima kouissa and the INSA Lyon DEPARTEMENT BIOSCIENCES.
 

PROGRAM

Thursday, May 22th 2025

08:45 – 09:15 INAUGURAL SESSION

09:15 – 10:45 SESSION Unravelling the interacons between the plant and its associated

microbiome

Chairs : Daniel Mueller and Minakshi Grover

09:15 Ashley Shade Ecological design of plant-beneficial synthec bacterial communies

09:45 Shilpi Sharma Roong for a change: Unraveling the pathobiome associated with Fusarium wilt

of pigeonpea

10:15 Feth el Zahar Haichar How plant traits and root exudates affect plant microbiome

10:45 TEA / COFFEE BREAK

11:05 – 12:35 SESSION Plant microbiomes for agricultural sustainability

Chairs : Céline Lavire & Abhrajyo Ghosh

11:05 Pascal Piveteau Sustainable organic waste management as driver of plant growth promoon

and healthy environment

11:35 Wafa Achouak Regulaon of Rhizosheath Formaon in Pearl Millet through Root Exudates

12:05 Daniel Muller Disease-Suppressive Soils: The Plant Microbiome at Work2

12:35 LUNCH

13:45 – 15:45 SESSION The might of the endophyc microbiomes

Chairs : Pascal Piveteau & Avinash Sharma

13:45 Akanksha Singh Inside Out: Endophyc Microbiomes as Key Players in Plant Metabolite

Modulaon

14:15 Louna Colaert-Sentenac Transient seed microbiomes impact seedling traits and resistance to a

phytopathogen

14:45 Sash Kumar Verma Seed inhabing bacterial endophytes promote growth and development,

and protect seedlings from disease in millet crops

15:15 B. Ramakrishnan Rice microbiomes: Vising the 'Soil and Seed' Principle

15:45 TEA / COFFEE BREAK

16:00 – 18:00 SESSION Harnessing the plant microbiomes

Chairs : Wafa Achouak & Sash Kumar Verma

16:00 Minakshi Grover Microorganisms as tool for abioc stress management in agriculture

16:30 Lars Jelsbak Leveraging microbial biotransformaon of secondary metabolites to enhance

plant health

17:00 Aswa R. Nair Soil borne disease management with endophyte based strategies

17:30 Sonal Srivastava Employing engineered microbial community to suppress human pathogens in

soil

18:00 DINNER (Le Jardin d'Aline, 4 Rue Jean-Bapste Clément, 69100 Villeurbanne)

Friday, May 23th 2025

8:30 – 9:00 TEA / COFFEE BREAK

09:00 – 10:30 SESSION Potenal of the rhizosphere microbiome

Chairs : Lars Jelsbak & Aswa R. Nair

9:00 Abhrajyo Ghosh Unveiling the key players of plant-microbe crosstalk at the rhizosphere

interface

9:30 Benoit Alunni Engineering maize root microbiota for improved plant nutrion under low-input

agriculture3

10:00 Avinash Sharma Harnessing the Potenal of Kidney Bean Rhizosphere Microbiomes for

Sustainable Agriculture in the Himalayas

10:30 TEA / COFFEE BREAK

10:45 – 12:15 SESSION Adopng omics to study plant microbiome interacons

Chairs : B. Ramakrishnan & Benoit Alunni

10:45 Yvan Moenne Loccoz Disease-suppressive soils, the plant microbiome at work

11:15 Gaurav Sharma Beyond host-microbial sequencing: Approaches and data analysis for plant

microbiome studies in Agriculture

11:45 Alia Dellagi Unravelling the mechanisms of maize nitrogen deficiency migaon by

mycorrhizae using a mul-omics approach combined to metabolic modelling

12:15 LUNCH

13:30 – 14:50 SESSION Plant microbiome in One Health

Chairs : Gaurav Sharma & Yvan Moenne Loccoz

13:30 Celine Lavire The effect of bacterial extracellular vesicles on plant metabolism

14:00 Sara Moutacharrif How bacterial gene organisaon links metabolism and virulence in Dickeya

dadani

14:25 Clara Blonde Roles of anaerobic respiraons of carbon sources for the adaptaon and survival

of Dickeya dadani

14:50 – 15:15 Roundtable discussion and concluding remarks

Moderators : Feth el Zahar HAICHAR & Shilpi SHARMA