We are happy to share selected contributions from IAB IMOSS SEB 2019, the 2019 International Association of Bryologists (IAB), International Molecular Moss Science Society (iMOSS) and la Sociedad Española de Briología (SEB) joint conference, held in Madrid, Spain, on July 9-12, 2019.  The papers are published in the journal Frontiers in Plant Sciences and listed below: https://www.frontiersin.org/research-topics/11134/highlights-of-iab-imoss-seb-2019-joint-conference#articles  

Each year Laval University launches a competitive process to postulate few candidates to the Canada Research Chairs. This year, the Villarreal Lab was awarded one of the seven Canada Research Chair, two professors of the Faculty of Science and Engineering were granted this competitive award. The 5-year project deals with the symbiosis between tropical plants (especially gymnosperms) and microbes (virus, fungi and bacteria) at a genomic and metabolomic level. The research is mostly based in Pa...