【Academic report】A Seminar on Plant Immunity

 

Topic: Signaling Networks Controlling Soybean Immunity Response

Reporter：Steve Whitham教授

    Iowa State University

    http://www.plantpath.iastate.edu/people/whitham

Date：2013.10.17, 1:30 pm

Location：农生楼报告厅

Host：陈功友教授

 

STEVE WHITHAM

EDUCATION

B. S., Agricultural Biochemistry, Iowa State University, 1990

M.S., Plant Pathology, University of California – Berkeley, 1992

Ph.D., Plant Pathology, University of California – Berkeley, 1995

ACADEMIC POSITIONS

September 2013 to Present：DIRECTOR, Plant Sciences Institute Center for Plant Responses to Environmental Stresses

September 2012 to September 2013: INTERIM DIRECTOR, Plant Sciences Institute Center for Plant Responses to Environmental Stresses

July 2012 to present: PROFESSOR, Iowa State University, Department of Plant Pathology & 

July 2007 to June 2012: ASSOCIATE PROFESSOR, Iowa State University, Department of Plant Pathology & Microbiology. 

December 2000 to June 2007: ASSISTANT PROFESSOR, Iowa State University, Department of Plant Pathology. 

August 1999 to November 2000: STAFF SCIENTIST, Torrey Mesa Research Institute,  

             Inc., San Diego, CA.

May 1996 to July 1999

       POSTDOCTORAL FELLOW, NIH-National Research Service Awardee,    

       Texas A&M University and Washington State University

June 1995 to May 1996

       POSTDOCTORAL RESEARCH, USDA-Plant Gene Expression Center   

       and University of California - Berkeley, Berkeley, CA 

SELECTED  PUBLICATIONS

Liu, J. Z. and Whitham, S. A.* (2013) Overexpression of a soybean nuclear localized type III DnaJ domain-containing HSP40 reveals its roles in cell death and disease resistance. Plant J. 74:110-121. 

Liu, S., Kandoth, P. K., Warren, S. D., Yeckel, G., Heinz, R., Alden, J., Yang, C., Jamai, A., El-Mellouki, T., Juvale, P. S., Hill, J. H., Baum, T. J., Cianzio, S., Whitham, S. A., Korkin, D., Mitchum, M. G.*, and Meksem, K.* (2012) A soybean cyst nematode resistance gene points to a new mechanism of plant resistance to pathogens. Nature. 492:256-260

Schneider, K. T., van de Mortel, M., Bancroft, T. J., Braun, E., Nettleton, D., Nelson, R. T., Frederick, R. D., Baum, T. J., Graham, M. A.*, and Whitham, S. A.* (2011). Biphasic gene expression changes elicited by Phakopsora pachyrhizi in soybean correlates with fungal penetration and haustoria formation. Plant Physiol. 157:355-71. 

Liu, J. Z., Horstman, H. D., Braun, E., Graham, M. A., Zhang, C., Navarre, D., Qiu, W. L., Lee, Y., Nettleton, D., Hill, J. H., and Whitham, S. A.* (2011). Soybean homologs of MPK4 negatively regulate defense responses and positively regulate growth and development. Plant Physiol. 157:1363-78.

Pandey, A. K., Yang, C., Zhang, C., Graham, M. A., Horstman, H. D., Lee, Y., Zabotina, O. A., Hill, J. H., Pedley, K. F.*, and Whitham, S. A.* (2011). Functional analysis of the Asian soybean rust resistance pathway mediated by Rpp2. Mol. Plant Microbe Interact. 24: 194–206. 

Wise, R. P., Moscou, R. P., Bogdanove, A. J., and Whitham, S. A. (2007). Transcript profiling in host–pathogen interactions. Annu. Rev. Phytopathol. 45:15.1–15.41

Whitham, S. A.* and Wang, Y. (2004). Roles for host factors in plant viral pathogenicity. Curr. Opin. Plant Biol. 7:365-371

Whitham, S. A.*, Quan, S., Chang, H.-S., Cooper, B., Estes, B., Zhu, T., Wang, X., and Hou, Y.-M. (2003). Diverse RNA viruses elicit the expression of common sets of genes in susceptible Arabidopsis thaliana plants. Plant J. 33:271-283

Whitham, S. A., Anderberg, R. J., Chisholm, S. T. and Carrington, J. C.* (2000). RTM2 is required for resistance to tobacco etch virus in Arabidopsis and encodes a unique protein with similarity to small heat shock proteins. Plant Cell. 12:569-582

Whitham, S. A., Yamamoto, M. L. and Carrington, J. C.* (1999). Selectable viruses and altered susceptibility mutants in Arabidopsis thaliana. Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. USA. 96:772-777

Whitham, S., McCormick, S. and Baker, B.* (1996). The N gene from tobacco confers resistance to tobacco mosaic virus in transgenic tomato. Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. USA. 93:8870-8781

Whitham, S., Dinesh-Kumar, S. P., Choi, D., Hehl, R., Corr, C. and Baker, B.* (1994). The product of the tobacco mosaic virus resistance gene N: Similarity to Toll and the Interleukin-1 Receptor. Cell 78:1101-1115