Recent news from the Plant Biology group

Congratulations

Congratulations to Johannes Stratmann on his recent NSF award "Role of the COP9 signalosome and its subunit CSN5 in the regulation of MAPK pathways and defense responses in tomato."

Congratulations to Erin Connolly and Tammi Richardson on their recent ROP award "Functional genomics of iron uptake in the marine diatom Thalassiosira pseudonana".

Congratulations to Beth Krizek on her recent ROP award "Using ChIP-chip to identify growth-promoting genes in plants".

Congratulations to Matt Endres, Becky Higgins, Sarah Refi Hind and Amy Wahba on their Batson Fellowship Travel awards.

Congratulations to Becky Higgins and Sarah Refi Hind on their ASPB Plant Biology 2008 Travel Grant awards.

Florascope

The Fall 2007 issue of Florascope is now available.

Former University of South Carolina REU student wins ASPB SURF

Ashley Hipps, an REU student in Beth Krizek's lab in the summer of 2006 was awarded a $3,000 Summer Undergraduate Research Fellowship (SURF) from ASPB that will allow her to do research on "Determining the molecular mechanisms of temperature modulation of defense responses in Arabidopsis thaliana through int mutants" in Jian Hua's lab at Cornell University in the summer of 2007.

Highlighted publications

Kerkeb, L., Mukherjee, I., Chatterjee, I., Lahner, B., Salt, D.E., and Connolly, E.L. (2008) "Iron-induced turnover of the Arabidopsis IRT1 metal transporter requires lysine residues" Plant Physiol. 146, 1964-1973. [PDF]

Kaitheri Kandoth, P., Ranf, S., Pancholi, S.S., Jayanty, S., Walla, M.D., Miller, W., Howe, G.A., Lincoln, D.E., and Stratmann, J.W. (2007) "Tomato MAPKs LeMPK1, LeMPK2, and LeMPK3 function in the systemin-mediated defense response against herbivorous insects" Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. USA 104, 12205-12210. [PDF] Two Magellan scholar undergraduates are authors on this paper. Congratulations!