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Brian Staskawicz

Born
Brian John Staskawicz
Alma mater
AwardsMember of the National Academy of Sciences (1998)[1]
Scientific career
InstitutionsUniversity of California, Berkeley
ThesisGenetics and biochemistry of toxigenicity in Pseudomonas syringae pv. phaseolicola : production, transport, and immunity to phaseolotoxin (1980)
Websiteplantandmicrobiology.berkeley.edu/profile/staskawicz

Brian John Staskawicz ForMemRS[1] is professor of plant and microbial miology at the University of California, Berkeley[2][3] and scientific director of agricultural genomics at the Innovative Genomics Institute (IGI).

Education[edit]

Staskawicz was educated at Bates College (BA, 1974), Yale University (MS, 1976) and the University of California, Berkeley where he completed a PhD in plant pathology in 1980.[4]

Research and career[edit]

Staskawicz has made many seminal contributions to the understanding of infection strategies of plant pathogens and immune response of plants.[5][6][7] These include the cloning of the first pathogen effector gene and the cloning and characterisation of one of the first plant NOD-like receptors.[1]

Staskawicz and his colleagues also played a major role in establishing Arabidopsis thaliana as a model organism to study the molecular basis of microbial recognition by plants and genetically dissect defense signaling pathways.[1] More recently[when?], he is leading an effort at the IGI in the genome editing of agriculture crops for biotic and abiotic stress resistance and improved plant performance.[1] Work in his laboratory has identified and characterised bacterial effector proteins from both Pseudomonas syringae and Xanthomonas spp.

Awards and honours[edit]

Staskawicz was elected a Foreign Member of the Royal Society (ForMemRS) in 2019.[1] He is a member of the National Academy of Sciences of the US and has been elected a Fellow of both the American Phytopathological Society and the American Academy of Microbiology.[1]

References[edit]

  1. ^ a b c d e f g Anon (2019). "Professor Brian Staskawicz ForMemRS". royalsociety.org. London: Royal Society. Archived from the original on 2019-04-24. One or more of the preceding sentences incorporates text from the royalsociety.org website where:

    “All text published under the heading 'Biography' on Fellow profile pages is available under Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License.” --Royal Society Terms, conditions and policies at the Wayback Machine (archived 2016-11-11)
  2. ^ Brian Staskawicz publications indexed by the Scopus bibliographic database. (subscription required)
  3. ^ Brian Staskawicz publications indexed by Google Scholar Edit this at Wikidata
  4. ^ Staskawicz, Brian John (1980). Genetics and biochemistry of toxigenicity in Pseudomonas syringae pv. phaseolicola : production, transport, and immunity to phaseolotoxin. berkeley.edu (PhD thesis). University of California, Berkeley. OCLC 79867607.
  5. ^ Chisholm, Stephen T.; Coaker, Gitta; Day, Brad; Staskawicz, Brian J. (2006). "Host-Microbe Interactions: Shaping the Evolution of the Plant Immune Response". Cell. 124 (4): 803–814. doi:10.1016/j.cell.2006.02.008. ISSN 0092-8674. PMID 16497589. S2CID 10696351.
  6. ^ Baker, B. (1997). "Signaling in Plant-Microbe Interactions". Science. 276 (5313): 726–733. doi:10.1126/science.276.5313.726. ISSN 0036-8075. PMID 9115193. Closed access icon
  7. ^ Staskawicz, B.; Ausubel, F.; Baker, B.; Ellis, J.; Jones, J. (1995). "Molecular genetics of plant disease resistance". Science. 268 (5211): 661–667. Bibcode:1995Sci...268..661S. doi:10.1126/science.7732374. ISSN 0036-8075. PMID 7732374. S2CID 6154978. Closed access icon
source: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brian_Staskawicz

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