September 2023 – New lab members and outreach
What a summer! We traveled to several conferences, submitted one tenure package and a few grants led both by different lab members.
We had fun at our 8th Annual Forward Planning Symposium (aka Lab retreat).
We bid farewell to Anne Nakamoto, who started PhD in Genomics and Computational Biology at UC Santa Cruz.
This fall we also welcome new lab members (https://krasilevalab.org/people/):
- Giuseppe Denora is a visiting graduate student researcher from IDEAS Innovation Development in AgriFood Systems, University of Bari Aldo, Italy. He will be working on #projectwheat transforming wheat in both literal and symbolic sense for better plant health.
- Yuting Lin, Luyang Zhang and Doogie Kim are our newest undergraduate research student apprentices trained through the URAP program at Berkeley.
In outreach news:
- Chandler Sutherland did a podcast on “How Plants Evolve Their Immune System” with The Graduates radio, KALX 90.7 link to recording
- Grace Stark is continuing to lead UC Berkeley Mycology Club. Here is the Cal Mycology Discord. You can also follow Grace’s observations on iNaturalist: https://www.inaturalist.org/people/grace_stark
May 2023 – Happy graduation!
Congratulations Dr Pierre Joubert! Pierre received PhD in Microbiology with DE in Genomics and Computational Biology this spring.
You can watch his finishing talk here – link
March 2023 – Hello Spring!
Happy St Patrick’s day, Spring break and other holidays!
This month, we welcome new undergraduate, Ann Palayur, who will be working with China and Rakesh on understanding and improving plant immunity in #project-wheat.
Congrats Pierre, and Kyungyong on recent preprint and publications!
It’s online! Altering specificity and auto-activity of plant immune receptors Sr33 and Sr50 via a rational engineering approach https://doi.org/10.1094/MPMI-07-22-0154-R… by @JaninaTamborski @KyungyongS together with @FurongLiu @bstask you all saw it first @biorxivpreprint
We have new preprint! Pathogens evolve as fast as their hosts. We looked into which genomic features are associated with rapid gene presence absence variation. Read new study by @pmjoubert to find out more:
- Joubert PM, Krasileva KV “Distinct genomic contexts predict gene presence-absence variation in different pathotypes of a fungal plant pathogen” bioRxiv 2023.02.17.529015; doi: https://doi.org/10.1101/2023.02.17.529015 Research article
January 2023 – Happy New Year – recent news from the lab
Happy New Year, Lunar New Year and Chinese Spring Festival to everyone.
Thumbs up to Grace for outstanding re-launch of UC Berkeley Mycology Club!
Congrats Chandler, Anne, Pierre, and Kyungyong on recent preprint and publications!
Sutherland CA, Prigozhin DM, Monroe JG, Krasileva KV “High intraspecies allelic diversity in Arabidopsis NLR immune receptors is associated with higher transcription, gene body hypomethylation, and proximity to transposable elements” bioRxiv 2023.01.12.523861; doi: https://doi.org/10.1101/2023.01.12.523861 Research article
Seong K, Krasileva KV. “Prediction of effector protein structures from fungal phytopathogens enables evolutionary analyses“. Nat Microbiol.2023 Jan;8(1):174-187. doi: https://doi.org/10.1038/s41564-022-01287-6. Research article
Baggs EL, Stark FG, Tiersma MB, Krasileva KV “Pseudomonas isolates from ponds populated with duckweed prevent disease caused by pathogenic Pseudomonas species” bioRxiv 2022.12.09.519836; doi: https://doi.org/10.1101/2022.12.09.519836 Research article
Nakamoto AA, Joubert PM, Krasileva KV “Evolutionary dynamics of transposable elements in Magnaporthe oryzaereveal evidence of genomic transfer and key differences between rice and wheat blast pathotypes” bioRxiv 2022.11.27.518126; doi: https://doi.org/10.1101/2022.11.27.518126 Research article