Period
Symposium Sessions : March 25 (Tue), 2025
Poster Presentations : March 25 (Tue) - 26 (Wed), 2025
Reception & Award : March 26 (Wed), 2025
Venue
Sunport Takamatsu
Grand Hall and Small Hall 2 for Symposium
Exhibition Hall for Poster Presentation
Organized by :

Program

March 24 (Monday) 14:00〜 17:00

Registration (Grand Foyer of 3F Grand Hall)

March 25 (Tuesday) 9:00〜16:10 SUNPORT Hall Takamatsu

Registration (Grand Foyer of 3F Grand Hall)

Opening Ceremony (3F Grand Hall)

10:00-10:30 Opening Ceremony

Welcoming Remarks
Prof. Kazuyuki Hiratsuka (Yokohama National University, Japan)

Congratulatory Remarks
Prof. Yong-Hwan Lee (Seoul National University, Korea)

Opening Remarks
Prof. Seon-Woo Lee (Dong-A University, Korea)

Opening Address
Prof. Hideki Takahashi (Tohoku University, Japan)

Plenary Lectures (3F Grand Hall)

Chair:

Prof. Sung-Hwan Yun (Soonchunhyang University, Korea)

10:30-11:10

Prof. Yasuyuki Kubo (Setsunan University, Japan)
“From Plant pathogenesis to human disease therapy: Colletotrichum orbiculare as a model for Niemann-Pick Type C”

Chair:

Prof. Kazuyuki Hiratsuka (Yokohama National University, Japan)

11:10-11:50

Prof. Kook-Hyung Kim (Seoul National University, Korea)
“Identification and characterization of soybean genes associated with resistance to the soybean mosaic virus”

11:50〜13:30

LUNCH

 

Symposium Concurrent Sessions

Session I: Emerging New Diseases (3F Grand Hall)

Chairs:

Dr. Takashi Fujikawa (National Agriculture and Food Research Organization, Japan)
Prof. Hyong Woo Choi (Gyeongguk National University) 

13:30-13:50

Prof. Kwang-Hyung Kim (Seoul National University, Korea)
“Understanding the eco-environmental factors affecting the occurrence of Fusarium head blight and their relevance to climate change in Korea”

13:50-14:10

Dr. Masako Tsujimoto Noguchi (National Agriculture and Food Research Organization, Japan)
“The occurrence and control of sweet potato foot rot caused by Diaporthe destruens in Japan”

14:10-14:30

Prof. Eui-Joon Kil (Gyeongguk National University, Korea)
“Emerging plant viruses in Korea: Expanding diversity and new threats”

14:30-14:50

Ms. Namiko Kirino (Research Institute for Agriculture, Okayama Prefectural Technology Center for Agriculture, Forestry and Fisheries, Japan)
“Efforts to elucidate the causes of peach bacterial canker caused by Dickeya dadantii”

Session II: New Control Measures: Both Chemical and Biological (3F Grand Hall)

Chairs:

Prof. Masafumi Shimizu (Gifu University, Japan)
Prof. Young-Ryun Chung (Gyeongsang National University; JGreen INC.)

14:50-15:10

Dr. Akira Kawaguchi (National Agriculture and Food Research Organization, Japan)
“Biological control for grapevine crown gall using the nonpathogenic Allorhizobium vitis strains”

15:10-15:30

Prof. Hyunkyu Sang (Chonnam National University, Korea)
“Fungicide resistance and management of Botrytis cinerea from strawberry”

15:30-15:50

Prof. Yuichiro Iida (Setsunan University, Japan)
“Mycoparasite-pathogen-plant: A tripartite interaction in the biocontrol of tomato leaf mold”

15:50-16:10

Prof. Kihyuck Choi (Dong-A University, Korea)
“Identification of keystone taxa from tomato seed endophytic communities and ecological role analysis in protective synthetic community construction”

Session III: Molecular Mechanisms of Pathogenicity (5F Small Hall 2)

Chair:

Prof. Kenro Ohshima (Hosei University, Japan)
Prof. Kwang-Hyung Kim (Seoul National University, Korea)

13:30-13:50

Prof. Chang-Sik Oh (Seoul National University, Korea)
“Plasmid-borne virulence genes of Clavibacter michiganensis to determine the development of wilt symptoms in host plants”

13:50-14:10

Prof. Kensaku Maejima (The University of Tokyo, Japan)
“Exploring phyllody: how a tiny effector can manipulate giant plant flowers”

14:10-14:30

Prof. Junhyun Jeon (Yeungnam University; Seoul National University, Korea)
“Genetic and transcriptomic analysis of hyphal constriction with a novel assay system in the rice blast fungus”

14:30-14:50

Prof. Soichiro Asuke (Kobe University, Japan)
“Molecular mechanisms of the host specificity of the blast fungus at the plant genus level”

Session IV: Molecular Mechanisms of Resistance (5F Small Hall 2)

Chair:

Prof. Yoshitaka Takano (Kyoto University, Japan)
Prof. Doil Choi (Seoul National University)

14:50-15:10

Prof. Yoji Kawano (Okayama University, Japan)
“An NLR paralog Pit2 generated from tandem duplication of Pit1 fine-tunes Pit1 localization and function”

15:10-15:30

Prof. Hangil Kim (Kangwon National University, Korea)
“RNA silencing suppressors: A driving force in the evolution of plant viruses”

15:30-15:50

Dr. Kazuhiro Ishibashi (National Agriculture and Food Research Organization, Japan)
“Genome engineering toward making virus-resistant plants”

15:50-16:10

Prof. Eui Hwan Chung (Korea University, Korea)
“Natural compound-mediated plant immune-priming”

March 25 (Tuesday) 16:30〜 Exhibition Hall

■ Poster Presentation Sessions

Chair:

Prof. Yoshitaka Takano (Kyoto University, Japan)
Prof. Hyong Woo Choi (Gyeongguk National University)

16:30〜17:30

Odd Number (P1-1, P1-3, P2-1, P2-3, etc.)

17:30〜18:30

Even Number (P1-2, P1-4, P2-2, P2-4, etc.)

March 26 (Wednesday) 9:00〜12:00 Exhibition Hall

■ Poster Presentations

March 26 (Wednesday) 18:30〜 JR Hotel Clement Takamatsu

■ Reception Banquet
(Joint Event with 2025 Annual Meeting of the Phytopathological Society of Japan)
■ Award Ceremony