Shahid Siddique and Alison Coomer: Honors at Worldwide Congress of Nematology – Entomology & Nematology Information

UC Davis nematologist Shahid Siddique on the podium on the Seventh Worldwide Congress of Nematologists.

Nematologist Shahid Siddique of the UC Davis Division of Entomology and Nematology and his doctoral pupil Alison Coomer, drew widespread recognition on the Seventh Worldwide Congress of Nematology (ICN), held Might 1-6 in Antibes Juan-Les-Pins, France. 

Siddique served as an invited speaker and chaired a nine-presentation session on nematode-plant interactions. He additionally was elected to the governing board member of the European Society of Nematology (ESN), and can serve a four-year time period.

Siddique, who joined the UC Davis school in March 2019 as an assistant professor after serving as a analysis group chief for a number of years on the College of Bonn, Germany, delivered his deal with on “How Crops Acknowledge Nematodes: Indicators and Signalling.”

Siddique focuses his analysis on “elucidating interactions between parasitic nematodes and their hosts utilizing molecular and fundamental utilized methodologies.” Plant-parasitic nematodes are harmful pests inflicting losses of billions of {dollars}, he says on his lab web site. “Whereas these pests have been investigated primarily as a result of they pose a significant menace to meals safety globally, they’re additionally intellectually fascinating because of their extremely developed interkingdom interactions with host vegetation.” 

Coomer, who lately gained a worldwide competitors sponsored by the Worldwide Federation of Nematology Societies (IFNS) for her three-minute thesis on root-knot nematodes, offered her award-winning video, “Commerce-Offs Between Virulence and Breaking Resistance in Root-Knot Nematode.”  She acquired a busary in addition to a certificates signed by ICN president Larry Duncan of the College of Florida and convention chair Pierre Abad of France, a senior scientist at INRA, a French public analysis institute devoted to agricultural science. Coomer additionally showcased her work on a life-sized poster. 

IFNS yearly hosts the three-minute thesis competitors “to domesticate pupil educational and analysis communication expertise, and to reinforce general consciousness of nematodes and the science of nematology.” Coomer, a doctoral pupil in plant pathology with an emphasis on nematology, is engaged on her dissertation, “Plant Parasitic Nematode Effectors and Their Position within the Plant Protection Immune System.”

The worldwide assembly, themed “Crossing Borders: A World of Nematode Range and Impression to Uncover” to reconcile the significance of agricultural manufacturing with that of environmental conservation,  drew 682 nematologists from 57 nations. Amongst them have been 100 pupil and early profession scientist busary recipients. The scientific program of 32 concurrent classes included 288 oral displays, 12 workshops, 12 keynote audio system and greater than 500 poster displays. 

It was the primary in-person assembly in two years because of the COVID-19 pandemic.