Brian Staskawicz

Brian Staskawicz
Born	Brian John Staskawicz
Alma mater	Bates College (BA) Yale University (MS) University of California, Berkeley (PhD)
Awards	Member of the National Academy of Sciences (1998)[1]
Scientific career
Institutions	University of California, Berkeley
Thesis	Genetics and biochemistry of toxigenicity in Pseudomonas syringae pv. phaseolicola : production, transport, and immunity to phaseolotoxin (1980)
Website	plantandmicrobiology.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

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

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

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

1. 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:

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3. Brian Staskawicz publications indexed by Google Scholar
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.
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.