Jeffery L. Dangl, PhD.

John N. Couch Professor, Department of Biology

Adjunct Professor, Department of Microbiology and Immunology

Associate Director, Carolina Center for Genome Sciences

Member, Curriculum in Genetics and Molecular Biology

University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, N.C

Birthdate: October 13, 1957

Birthplace: Grand Rapids, Mich.

Citizenship: American

Education:

1981-1986: PhD, Genetics

Department of Genetics

Stanford University Medical School

Stanford, Ca.

1976-1981: BAS (Bachelor of Arts and Sciences),

Biological Sciences and Modern Literature

MS, Biological Sciences

Stanford University

Stanford, Ca.

Positions Held:

1995-present: Associate Professor (1995-1999); John N. Couch Associate Professor (1999-2000); John N. Couch Professor (2000-); Adjunct Professor of Microbiology and Immunology, UNC-CH School of Medicine (2001-)

Current Research Topics: Arabidopsis as a model to identify and isolate loci necessary for disease resistance responses; Mechanisms of plant cell death; Pseudomonas syringae Type III effectors; Bacterial and Plant Genomics.

1989-1995: Group Leader (Assistant Professor equivalent)

Max-Delbrück Laboratorium in der MPG, Köln, Germany

Project: Arabidopsis as a model to genetically identify and isolate loci necessary for disease resistance responses

1986-1989: NSF Post-doctoral fellowship

Department of Biochemistry

Max-Planck-Institüt für Züchtungsforschung, Köln, Germany

Project: Stress-responsive cis regulatory elements from phenylpropanoid genes

1981-1986: PhD. student, Immunogenetics

Department of Genetics

Stanford University Medical School

Prof. Leonard A. Herzenberg, advisor

Dissertation: Correlation of isotype with segmental flexibility and complement fixation among families of immunoglobulins containing identical combining sites

1978-1981: Honors undergraduate research program

Departments of Biology and Genetics

Stanford University

Topic: T-cell ontogeny via cell surface marker expression

Teaching Experience:

Genetics and Molecular Biology (Bio 50; 1996-present); Strategies of Host-Microbe Interactions (Bio 115; 1997, 1999, 2001); Plant Molecular Genetics (Bio 272; 1998, 2000); Johnston Honors Seminar “Genetics Research: Design and Experiment” (1998).

Awards:

John L. Sanders Award: Distinguished Undergraduate Teaching/Service, UNC-CH, 1998.

Prize for Young Researchers, State of Nord-Rhein-Westfalen, Germany, 1991

National Science Foundation Plant Molecular Biology post-doctoral Fellowship 1986-89

Other Professional Activities:

Editorial Boards: Cell (from 1998) The Plant Journal (from 1990, Co-editor, 1995-) Molecular Plant-Microbe Interaction (from 1995; Senior Editor 1998-2000), Trends in Plant Sciences (from 1995), Current Opinion in Plant Biology (from 1997)

Additional manuscript reviews for: Science, Nature, PNAS, Plant Cell, EMBO Journal, Genetics, Trends in Microbiology, Trends in Genetics, Plant Physiology, Nature Biotech., Nature Genetics, Molec. Microbiol.

Grant Reviews for: NSF (Eukaryotic Genetics Panel, 1996-2000), NIH (CDF-1 and Genetics study sections, ad hoc), USDA, DOE, DFG (Germany), BBSRC (United Kingdom), BARD (Israel-USA), Marsden Fund (NZ), HFSP, Swiss National Funds

Member: North American Arabidopsis Steering Committee (NAASC; Elected) 1997-2000.

National Co-coordinator: German Research Society (DFG) Focus Program 1992-1995: “Arabidopsis as a Genetic Model for Plant Development"

Coordinator: NC Biotech Center’s Plant Molecular Biology Consortium, 1996-1998

Scientific Advisory Boards: Torrey Mesa Research Institute (1999-present); Syngenta Biotechnology (1996-present); CropSolution (1999-present)

Selected Invited Seminars and Symposium Presentations:

2001

Plant and Animal Genome, IX, San Diego, Plenary Speaker

      Banbury Center, “Pathogen Virulence and Host Resistance”, Cold Spring Harbor

Inst. for Molecular Biology and Biochemistry, Univ. of Texas, Austin, Tx.

Dept. of Botany, Univ. of Toronto, Toronto, Canada

John Innes Centre, Norwich, UK

The Blackman Memorial Lecture, Oxford University, Oxford UK

Vienna Biocenter, Inst. of Molecular Pathology, Vienna, Austria

Dept. of Microbiology and Immunology, UNC-CH School of Medicine

10^th International Society for Molecular Plant-Microbe Interactions, Madison, Wi

Gordon Conference “Microbial Adherence and Signal Transduction”

Dept. of Cell Biology, UNC-CH School of Medicine

ComBio 2001, Australian Societies Joint Congress, Canberra

The Waite University of Adelaide, Adelaide, Australia

Japanese-America Plant Conference, Transcription Factors, Tsukuba, Japan

Nara Institute of Agriculture, Science, and Technology, Nara, Japan

2002

Keystone “Signal Transduction and Crosstalk in Plant Biology” Lake Tahoe, Ca.

Keystone “Innate Immunity” Taos, NM

Univ. of Missouri, Molecular Biology Week, Columbia, Mo.

The Annual Maize Meeting, Orlando, Fl.

Indiana Univ., Opening of the Genome Science Building, Bloomington, Ia.

Univ. of Arizona, Plant Biology Graduate Student Invite, Tucson, Az.

Oregon State Univ., Biotechnology Center, Graduate Student Invite, Corvallis, Or.

Dept. of Molecular Biology, MGH, Harvard

Gordon Research Conf., “Plant Signal Transduction”, Plymouth, NH

3rd UK GARNET Symposium, York, UK

Symposium: Functional Genomics of Plant-Microbe Interactions Nancy, France

Publications (PR = Peer Reviewed):

1. Haajiman, JJ, HS Micklem, JA Ledbetter, JL Dangl, LA Herzenberg and LA Herzenberg (1981) T-cell ontogeny: Organ location by surface antigen markers is similar in adults and neonates. J. Exp. Med. 153, 605-614. PR

2. Dangl, JL, DR Parks, VT Oi and LA Herzenberg (1982) Rapid isolation of cloned isotype switch variants using fluorescence activated cell sorting. Cytometry 2, 395-401. PR

3. Dangl, JL and LA Herzenberg (1982) Selection of hybridomas and hybridoma variants by fluorescence activated cell sorting: A review. J. Immunological Methods 52, 1-14. PR

4. Oi, VT, TM Voung, RR Hardy, J Reidler, JL Dangl, LA Herzenberg and L Stryer (1984) Correlation between segmental flexibility and effector function of antibodies. Nature 307, 136-140. PR

5. Gurling, HMD, SR Grant and JL Dangl (1985) The genetic and cultural transmission of alcohol use, cigarette smoking and coffee drinking: A review and an example using a log-linear cultural transmission model. The British Journal of Addiction 80, 269-279. PR

6. Hardy, RR, JL Dangl, K Hayakawa, G Jaeger, LA Herzenberg and LA Herzenberg (1986) Frequent lambda light chain-gene rearrangement in a Ly-1+ B-cell lymphoma with a productive kappa chain allele. Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci., USA 83, 1438-1442. PR

7. Kleinfeld, R, RR Hardy, D Tarlinton, JL Dangl, LA Herzenberg and M Weigert (1986) Recombination between an expressed immunoglobulin heavy-chain gene and a germline variable gene segment in a Ly-1+ B-cell lymphoma. Nature 322, 843-846. PR

8. Dangl, JL, KD Hauffe, S Lipphardt, K Hahlbrock and D Scheel (1987) Parsley protoplasts retain differential responsiveness to UV-light and fungal elicitor. EMBO J. 6, 2551-2556. PR

9. Douglas, CJ, JL Dangl, H Hoffmann, S Lipphardt and K Hahlbrock (1987) Analysis of fungal elicitor- and UV light-induced gene expression in parsley cells. In: Plant Gene Systems and Their Analysis (eds.) L McIntosh and J Key, Alan R. Liss, New York.

10. Scheel, D, JL Dangl, CJ Douglas, KD Hauffe, A Herrmann, H Hoffmann, K Hahlbrock (1987) Stimulation of phenylpropanoid pathways by environmental factors. In: NATO-ASI Series (eds.) D von Wettstein and N-H Chua, Plenum Press, New York, pp. 315-326.

11. Dangl, JL, TG Wensel, SM Morrison, L Stryer, LA Herzenberg and VT Oi (1988) Segmental flexibility and complement fixation of genetically engineered chimeric human, rabbit, and mouse antibodies. EMBO J. 7, 1989-1994. PR

12. Lipphardt, S, R Brettschneider, F Kreuzaler, J Schell and JL Dangl (1988) Light induced transient gene expression in parsley protoplasts: Functional identification of multiple cis regulatory elements in a heterologous chalcone synthase gene. EMBO J. 7, 4027-4033. PR

13. Schulze-Lefert, P, JL Dangl, M Becker-Andre, K Hahlbrock and W Schulz (1989) in vivo DNA footprints define sequences necessary for light activation of the parsley chalcone synthase gene. EMBO J. 8, 651-656. PR

14. Dangl, JL, K Hahlbrock and J Schell (1989) Regulation and structure of chalcone synthase genes. In: Cell Culture and Somatic Cell Genetics of Plants. Vol. 6: Plant Nuclear Genes and Their Expression (eds.) IK Vasil and J Schell, Academic Press, New York, pp.155-173.

15. Schulze-Lefert, P, M Becker-Andre, W Schulz, K Hahlbrock and JL Dangl (1989) Functional architecture of the light responsive chalcone synthase promoter from parsley. Plant Cell 1, 707-714. PR

16. Block, A, JL Dangl, K Hahlbrock and P Schulze-Lefert (1990) Functional borders, genetic fine-structure, and distance requirements of cis-elements mediating light responsiveness of the parsley chalcone synthase promoter. Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci., USA 87, 5387-5391. PR

17. Dangl, JL, H Lehnackers, S Kiedrowski, C Rupprecht, T Debener, M Arnold and IE Somssich (1991) Interactions between Arabidopsis thaliana and phytopathogenic Pseudomonas pathovars: A model for the genetics of disease resistance. In: Advances in Molecular Genetics of Plant-Microbe Interactions (eds.) H Hennecke and DPS Verma, Kluwer Academic Publications, Dordrecht, pp. 78-83.

18. Hauffe, KD, U Paszkowski, M Ellard, P Schulze-Lefert, K Hahlbrock, JL Dangl and CJ Douglas (1991) A 210bp parsley 4CL-1 promoter specifies complex expression patterns in transgenictobacco. Plant Cell 3, 435-443. PR

19. Douglas, CJ, KD Hauffe, M-E Ites-Morales, U Paszkowski, K Hahlbrock and JL Dangl (1991) Exonic sequences are required for elicitor and light activation of a plant defense gene, but promoter sequences are sufficient for tissue-specific expression. EMBO J. 10, 1767-1775 PR

20. Debener, T, H Lehnackers, M Arnold and JL Dangl (1991) Identification and molecular mapping of a single Arabidopsis locus conferring resistance against a phytopathogenic Pseudomonas isolate. Plant Journal 1, 289-302. PR

21. Dangl, JL (1992) Regulatory elements controlling developmental and stress induced expression of phenylpropanoid genes. In: Plant Gene Research, Vol. 8, Genes Involved in Plant Defense (eds.) pp. 303-326, T Boller and F Meins, Springer Verlag, Vienna/New York.

22. Dangl, JL (1992) The Major Histocompatibility Complex a la carte: Are there analogies to plant disease resistance genes on the menu? Plant Journal 2, 3-11. PR

23. Dangl, JL, EB Holub, T Debener, H Lehnackers, C Ritter and IR Crute (1992) Genetic definition of Arabidopsis loci involved in plant-pathogen interactions. In: Methods in Arabidopsis Research (eds.) C Koncz, N-H Chua, and J Schell, World Scientific Publishing, LTD, Singapore, pp.393-418.

24. Dangl, JL, C Ritter, MJ Gibbon, JR Wood, LAJ Mur, S Goss, JW Mansfield, JD Taylor and A Vivian (1992) Functional homologs of the Arabidopsis RPM1 disease resistance gene in bean and pea. Plant Cell 4, 1359-1369. PR

25. Kiedrowski, S, P Kawalleck, K Hahlbrock, IE Somssich and JL Dangl (1992) Rapid activation of a novel plant defense gene is strictly dependent on the Arabidopsis RPM1 disease resistance locus. EMBO J. 11, 4677-4684. PR

26. Dangl, JL, T Debener, M Gerwin, S Kiedrowski, C Ritter, A Bendahmane, H Liedgens, and J Lewald (1992) Genetic approaches to an understanding of specific resistance responses of Arabidopsis thaliana against phytopathogenic Pseudomonads. In: Advances in Molecular Genetics of Plant-Microbe Interactions, Vol. 2 (ed.) E Nester and DPS Verma, Kluwer Academic Publications, Dordrecht, pp. 405-416.

27. Dangl, JL (1993) Applications of Arabidopsis thaliana to outstanding issues in plant-pathogen interactions. Int. Review of Cytology 144, 53-93.

28. Dangl, JL (1993) The emergence of Arabidopsis thaliana as a model for plant-pathogen interactions. Adv. Plant Pathology 10, 127-156. PR

29. Merkle, T, H Frohnmeyer, P Schulze-Lefert, JL Dangl, K Hahlbrock and E Schäfer (1994) Analysis of the chalcone synthase promoter in parsley in response to different light qualities. Planta 193, 275-282. PR

30. Crute, I., J Beynon, J Dangl, E Holub, B Mauch-Mani, A Slusarenko, B Staskawicz and F. Ausubel (1994) Microbial pathogenesis of Arabidopsis. In: Arabidopsis, (eds.) EM Meyerowitz and CR Somerville, Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory Press, NY, pp. 705-748.

31. Dietrich, RA, TP Delaney, SJ Uknes, ER Ward, JA Ryals and JL Dangl (1994) Arabidopsis mutants simulating disease response. Cell 77, 565-578. PR

32. Dangl, JL (1994) The enigmatic avirulence genes of phytopathogenic bacteria. In: "Bacterial Pathogenesis of Plants and Animals: Molecular and Cellular Mechanisms", Vol. 192 of Current Topics in Microbiology and Immunology, (ed.) JL Dangl, Springer Verlag, Vienna/New York/Heidelberg, pp. 99-118

33. Godiard, L, MR Grant, RA Dietrich, S Kiedrowski and JL Dangl (1994) Perception and response in plant disease resistance. Curr. Opin. Genet. & Develop. 4,662-671.

34. Dangl, JL, RA Dietrich, MR Grant, L Godiard, C Ritter, J-B. Morel, J. Lewald and E Straube (1994) Plant and Pathogen Loci Determining Recognition and Cell Death in Arabidopsis thaliana. In: Advances in Molecular Genetics of Plant-Microbe Interactions, Vol. 3 (ed.) MJ Daniels, JA Downie, A Osbourn, Kluwer Academic Publications, Dordrecht. pp. 289-296.

35. Dangl, JL (1995) Piéce de résistance: Novel classes of plant disease resistance genes. Cell 80, 363-366.

36. Dangl, JL (1995) Genes Involved in Bacterial Pathogenesis of Plants. In: Pathogenesis and Host Specificity in Plant Diseases Vol. 1 (ed.) US Singh, Elsevier Sciences, Oxford. pp. 293-303.

37. Dangl, JL, Preuss, D. and JI Schroeder (1995) Talking through walls: Signaling in plant development. Cell 83, 1071-1077.

38. Ritter, C. and JL Dangl (1995) The avrRpm1 gene of Pseudomonas syringae pv. maculicola is required for virulence on Arabidopsis. Mol. Plant-Microbe Interact. 8, 444-453. PR

39. Grant, MR, L Godiard, E Straube, T Ashfield, J Lewald, A Sattler, RW Innes and JL Dangl (1995) Structure of the Arabidopsis RPM1 gene which enables dual-specificity disease resistance. Science 269, 843-846. PR

40. Ritter, C and JL Dangl (1996) Interference between two specific pathogen recognition events mediated by distinct plant disease resistance genes. Plant Cell 8, 251-257. PR

41. Jones, AM, and JL Dangl (1996) Logjam at the Styx: Programmed cell death in plants. Trends in Plant Science 1, 114-119.

42. Boyes, DC, JM McDowell and JL Dangl (1996) Plant disease resistance: Many roads lead to resistance. Current Biology 6, 634-637.

43. Dangl, JL, RA Dietrich, J-B Morel, DC Boyes, T Jabs, JM McDowell, MR Grant, S Kjemtrup and S Kaufman (1996) Genetic interactions between genes controlling cell death and pathogen recognition in Arabidopsis. In: Biology of Plant-Microbe Interactions (eds.) G Stacey, B Mullin, PM Gresshoff, IS-MPMI, St. Paul, Mn. pp. 39-46.

44. Jabs, T, RA Dietrich and JL Dangl (1996) Initiation of runaway cell death in an Arabidopsis mutant by extracellular superoxide. Science 273, 1853-1856. PR

45. Dangl, JL, RA Dietrich and MH Richberg (1996) Death don't have no mercy: Cell death programs in plant-microbe interactions. Plant Cell 8, 1793-1807. PR

46. Dangl, JL (1997) Learning from the mammalian immune system in the wake of the R gene flood. In: The Gene-for-Gene Relationship in Plant-Parasite Interactions (eds.) IR Crute, EB Holub, and JJ Burdon and, CAB International, Oxford, pp. 389-400.

47. Dietrich, RA, MH Richberg, R Schmidt, C Dean and JL Dangl (1997) A novel zinc finger protein is encoded by the Arabidopsis LSD1 gene and functions as a negative regulator of plant cell death. Cell 88, 685-694. PR

48. Hunt, MD, TP Delaney, RA Dietrich, KB Weymann, JL Dangl and JA Ryals (1997) Salicylate-independent lesion formation in Arabidopsis lsd mutants. Mol. Plant-Microbe Interact.10, 531-536. PR

49. Morel, J-B and JL Dangl (1997) The Hypersensitive response and the induction of cell death in plants. Cell Death & Different.19, 17-24. PR

50. Dangl, JL and EB Holub (1997) La Dolce Vita: A Molecular Feast in Plant-Pathogen Interactions. Cell 91,17-24.

51. Dangl, JL (1998) Plants just say NO to pathogens. Nature 394, 525-526

52. McDowell, JM, D Murali, TA Long, MGM Aarts, S Goff, EB Holub and JL Dangl (1998) Intragenic recombination and diversifying selection contribute to the evolution of downy mildew resistance at the RPP8 locus in Arabidopsis. Plant Cell 10, 1861-1874. PR

53. Richberg, MH, DH Aviv and JL Dangl (1998) Dead cells DO tell tales. Curr. Opin. Plant Biol. 1, 480-485.

54. Grant, MR, JM McDowell, AG Sharpe, M de Torres Zabala, DJ Lydiate and JL Dangl (1998) Independent deletions of a pathogen resistance gene in Brassica and Arabidopsis. Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci., USA 95, 15843-15848. PR

55. Boyes, DC, J Nam and JL Dangl (1998) The Arabidopsis thaliana RPM1 disease resistance gene product is a peripheral plasma membrane protein that is degraded coincident with the hypersensitive response. Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci., USA 95, 15849-15854. PR

56. Morel, J-B and JL Dangl (1999) Suppressors of the Arabidopsis lsd5 cell death mutation identify genes involved in regulating disease resistance responses. Genetics 151, 305-319. PR

57. Kliebenstein, DJ, RA Dietrich, AC Martin, RL Last and JL Dangl (1999) LSD1 regulates salicylic acid induction of copper zinc superoxide dismutase in Arabidopsis thaliana. Molec. Plant-Microbe Interact. 12, 1022-1026. PR

59. Dangl, JL (2000) Mechanisms of specific disease resistance: Current understanding and future challenges. Keynote Address. In: Biology of Plant-Microbe Interactions (eds.) PJGM DeWit, T Bisseling, WJ Stiekema; IS-MPMI, St. Paul, Mn. Pp. 1-12.

58. Dangl, JL (1999) A long view from a high plateau. Nature 401, 543-544.

60. McDowell, JM and JL Dangl (2000) Signal transduction in the plant immune response. Trends Biochem. Sci. 25, 79-82. PR

61. Holt III, BF, D Mackey and JL Dangl (2000) Strength through diversity: Role of leucine rich repeats in disease resistance of plants. Curr. Biol. 100, R5-R7.

62. Kjemtrup, S., Z. Nimchuk and JL Dangl (2000) Effector proteins of phytopathogenic bacteria: Bifunctional signals in virulence and host recognition. Curr. Opinion Microbiol. 3, 73-78

63. McDowell, JM, A Cuzick, C Can, J Beynon, JL Dangl and EB Holub (2000) Downy mildew (Peronospora parasitica) resistance genes in Arabidopsis vary in functional requirements for NDR1, EDS1, NPR1 and Salicylic Acid accumulation. Plant Journal 22,523-530. PR

64. Nimchuk, Z, E Marois, S Kjemtrup, RT Leister, F Katagiri and JL Dangl (2000) Eukaryotic fatty acylation drives plasma membrane targeting and enhances function of several Type III effector proteins from Pseudomonas syringae. Cell 101, 353-363. PR

65. Schrick, K, U Mayer, A Horrichs, C Kuhnt, C Bellini, J Dangl, J Schmidt and G Jürgens (2000) Cell expansion in Arabidopsis embryogenesis requires FACKEL (FK), a sterol C-14 reductase. Genes & Develop. 14, 1471-1484. PR

66. Dangl, JL, RA Dietrich and H Thomas (2000) Senescence and Programmed Cell Death. In: Biochemistry and Molecular Biology of Plants (eds.) B. Buchanan, W. Gruissem, R. Jones. ASPP Press, Rockville, Md. Pgs.1044-1100.

67. Maleck, K, A Levine, T Eulgem, A Morgan, J Schmid, K Lawton, JL Dangl and RA Dietrich (2000) The transcriptome of Arabidopsis during systemic acquired resistance. Nature Genet. 26, 403-410. PR

68. The Arabidopsis Genome Inititative (2000) Analysis of the genome of the flowering plant Arabidopsis thaliana. Nature 408, 796-815. PR

69. Somerville, C and J Dangl (2000) Genomics: Plant biology in 2010 (Policy forum). Science 290, 2077-2078.

70. Nimchuk, Z, L Rohmer, JH Chang and JL Dangl (2001) Knowing the Dancer from the Dance: R gene products and their interactions with other proteins from host and pathogen. Curr. Opin. Plant Biol 4, 288-294.

71. Dangl, JL and JDG Jones (2001) Plant pathogens and integrated defence responses to infection. Nature 411, 826-833. PR

72. Staskawicz, BJ, MB Mudgett, JL Dangl and JE Galan (2001) Common and contrasting mechanisms of pathogen virulence and host resistance in plant and animal disease. Science 292, 2285-2289.

73. Rustérucci, C, DH Aviv, BF Holt III, JL Dangl and JE Parker (2001) The disease resistance signaling components EDS1 and PAD4 are essential regulators of the cell death pathway controlled by LSD1 in Arabidopsis. Plant Cell 13, 2211-2224. PR

74. Tornero, P and JL Dangl (2001) A high throughput method for quantifying growth of phytopathogenic bacteria in Arabidopsis thaliana. Plant Journal 28, 475-481. PR

75. Torres, MA, JL Dangl and JDG Jones (2002) Arabidopsis gp91^phox homologues AtrbohD and AtrbohF are required for accumulation of reactive oxygen intermediates in the plant defense response. Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci., USA 99, 523-528. PR

76. Tornero, P, R Chao, W Luthin, S Goff and JL Dangl (2002) Large scale structure-function analysis of the Arabidopsis RPM1 disease resistance protein. Plant Cell 14, 435-450. PR

77. Aviv, DH, C Rustérucci, BF Holt III, RA Dietrich, JE Parker and JL Dangl (2002) Runaway cell death, but not basal disease resistance, in lsd1 is SA- and NIM1/NPR1-dependent. Plant J. 23, 381-391. PR

78. Mackey, D, BF Holt III, A Wiig and JL Dangl (2002) RIN4 interacts with Pseudomonas syringae Type III effector molecules and is required for RPM1-mediated disease resistance in Arabidopsis. Cell 108, 743-754. PR

79. Chen, W, NJ Provart, J Glazebrook, F Katagiri, H.-S. Chang, T Eulgem, F Mauch, S Luan, G Zou, SA Whitham, PR Budworth, Y Tao, Z Xie, X Chen, S Lam, JA Kreps, JF Harper, A Si-Ammour, B Mauch-Mani, M Heinlein, K Kobayashi, T Hohn, JL Dangl, X Wang, T Zhu (2002) Expression profile matrix of Arabidopsis transcription factor genes suggests their putative functions in response to environmental stresses. Plant Cell 14, 559-574. PR

80. Maleck, K, U Neuenschwander, R Cade, RA Dietrich, JL Dangl and J Ryals (2002) Isolation and characterization of broad spectrum disease resistant mutants. Genetics 160, 1661-1771. PR

81. Tör, M, P Gordon, A Cuzick, T Eulgem, E Sinapidou, F Mert, C Can, JL Dangl and EB Holub (2002) Arabidopsis SGT1b is required for defense signaling conferred by several Downy Mildew (Peronospora parasitica) resistance genes. Plant Cell 14, 993-1003. PR

82. Tornero, P, P Merritt, A Sadanandom, K Shirasu, R Innes and JL Dangl (2002) RAR1 and NDR1 contribute quantitatively to the function of Arabidopsis disease resistance genes in both simple and non-linear pathways. Plant Cell 14, 1005-1015. PR

83. Holt III, BF, DC Boyes, M. Ellerstrøm, N Siefers, A Wiig, S Kauffman, MR Grant and JL Dangl (2002) An evolutionarily conserved mediator of plant disease resistance gene function is required for normal Arabidopsis development. Developmental Cell 2, 807-817. PR

84. Varet, A, JE Parker, P Tornero, N Nass, T Nürnberger, JL Dangl, D Scheel and Justin Lee (2002) NHL25 and NHL3, two NDR1/HIN1-like genes in Arabidopsis thaliana with potential role(s) in plant defense Molec. Plant-Microbe Interact. 15, 608-616. PR

Current Positions of Former Graduate Students, Post-Doctoral Fellows, and Undergrads

Graduate Students:

Siegrid Kiedrowski, PhD. 1994, Staff Scientist, Bayer, AG Monnheim, Germany

Claudia Ritter, PhD. 1995, Medical Product Development, Köln, Germany

Andrea Horrichs, PhD. 1996, Medical Product Development, Aachen, Germany

Jean-Benoit Morel, PhD. 1998, Post-Doctoral Fellow, INRA, Versailles, France

Michael H. Richberg, MS 1998, Free lance computer consultant, Durham, N. C.

Eric Marois, MS 1999, Post-doc, MPI Dresden, Germany

Patrizia Marchesini, PhD. 2000 (Université Fribourg, Switzerland), Nestle Corp.

Daniel H. Aviv (Curriculum in Genetics), PhD. 2002, Screenwriter/Law School, NYC.

Ben F. Holt, III, PhD. 2002, Post-doctoral fellow, UNC-CH

Post-doctoral fellows:

Hiltrud Liedgens, Staff Scientist, Max-Planck Insitute, Köln, Germany

Thomas Debener, Research Group Leader, Rose Genetics and Breeding, German National Research Center, Ahrensburg, Germany

Thorsten Jabs, Fungicide Research Group Leader, BASF AG, Limburgerhof, Germany

Murray R. Grant, Senior Lecturer (Associate Professor), Imperial College, Wye, Ashford, England

D. Murali, Post-Doctoral, Dept. of Plant Pathology, North Carolina State University, Raleigh, N. C.

Laurence Godiard, Chargé de Recherche, INRA, Toulouse, France

Douglas Boyes, Senior Staff Scientist, Paradigm Genetics, Research Triangle Park, NC

Robert A. Dietrich, Senior Group Leader, Syngenta, Research Triangle Park, N. C.

Patricia Brand Monteiro (Brazilian Science Ministry Fellowship), Staff Scientist, Fundecitrus, Brazil.

John McDowell (NIH Fellowship, USDA Fellowship), Assistant Professor, Virginia Tech University

Jaesung Nam, Assistant Professor, Dong-A University, Pusan, South Korea.

Susanne Kjemtrup (NIH Fellowship), Staff Scientist, Paradigm Genetics, Research Triangle Park, NC.

Mats Ellerstrøm (Swedish National Sci. Foundation Fellow); Univ. of Gøthenburg, Sweden

Current Graduate Students and Post-Doctoral Fellows

Graduate Students:

Zachary Nimchuk

Laurence Rohmer (INRA-Versailles)

David Hubert

Filiz Yamak

Youssef Belkhadir (INRA-Givry)

Post-doctoral fellows:

Pablo Tornero (Spanish Ministry of Agriculture and Science Fellowship)

Petra Epple (Swiss National Foundation and German Research Society Fellowships)

Saijun Tang

David Mackey (Life Science Research Foundation Fellowship)

Jeff Chang (NIH NRSA Post-doctoral Fellowship)

Miguel-Angel Torres

Thomas Eulgem (German Research Society Fellowship; Otto Hahn Medallion Award)

Tsutomu Kawasaki (Japanese Ministry of Science Fellow)

Gopal Subramanian (Canadian NSERC Fellow)

Duk-Ju Hwang (Korean Federal Research Ministry Sabbatical)

Ben F. Holt III

Hiro Kaminaka (Japanese Ministry of Science Fellow)

Undergraduates:

We have currently 6 Bio 98 students (Honors Research) in the lab:

Duc Tang, junior

Victor Weigman, junior

Greg Tayrose, junior

Mike Stagner, junior

Charles (Britt) Beasley, Junior

T. Garrett McDaniel, Junior

Former Undergraduates:

1998

Sara Hashway (Couch Award for best Dept. Molecular and Cellular Biology Honors thesis)

Terri Long (Leclair Award for best Dept. Botany Honors thesis); currently a doctoral student, Univ. of Georgia

2000

Aaron Levine (Couch Award for best Dept. Molecular and Cellular Biology Honors thesis; Churchill Fellowship; HHMI Doctoral Fellowship); Masters student at Cambridge University; currently a consultant in Atlanta.

Amanda Mack (Leclair Award for best Dept. Botany Honors thesis); currently a doctoral student at the Univ. of Wisconsin

Scott McEwan (Armed Services Medical School)

Billy Luthin (UNC School of Medicine)

2001

H. Claire Taylor (Couch Award for best Dept. Molecular and Cellular Biology Honors oral thesis presentation thesis); currently an NIH Research Intern.

Nick Siefers (Couch Award for best Dept. Molecular and Cellular Biology Honors written thesis); currently a doctoral student at Stanford University

Ulrika Sandberg, currently Wayne St. Univ. Medical School

Veronica Franco, currently a doctoral student in the UNC-CH Curriculum in Genetics and Molecular Biology

2002

Ryon Chao, currently a medical student at UNC-CH

William (Billy) Rowell, currently a doctoral student at UC Berkeley

Jenny Shock, currently a doctoral student at UCSF