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MCIC Advisory Committe
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The MCIC advisory committee assists the OARDC director and the MCIC head by providing recommaedation on the improvement of services, purchasing of equipment, identification of infrastructure needs, and the development of strategic plans (Committee charter). The committee is composed of up to two faculty members from each OARDC academic and the USDA/ARS unit. Committee members are users of the facility. Faculty currently serving on the committee:
Sally Miller, Professor, Plant Pathology, Chair
Ann Dorrance, Plant Pathology
Linda Saif, Professor, Food and Animal Health Research Program
Chang Lee, Assiatant Professor, Food and Animal Health Research Program
Parwinder Grewald, Assiatant Professor, Entomology
John Finer, Professor, Horticulture and Crop Sciences
David Francis, Associate Professor, Horticulture and Crop Sciences
Warren Dick, Professor, Natural Resources
Frederick Michel, Associate Professor, Food Agricultural and Biological Engineering
Sandra Velleman, Professor, Animal Sciences
Margaret Redinbaugh, Adjunct Profesoor, USDA/ARS
Charles Krause, Adjunct Professor, USDA/ARS
Download meeting agenda and minutes:
- March 13, 2003, agenda
- December 16, 2003, agenda and minutes
- April 28, 2004: agenda and minutes
- September 9, 2004: minutes
- April 22, 2005: minutes
- December 12, 2005: minutes
- October 10,2006: minutes
- May 16, 2007: agenda
- January 22, 2008: agenda and minutes
Recent Publications (last three years)
Alfano, G., Bos, J., Cakir, C., Horst, L., Ivey, M. L., Madden, L. V., Kamoun, S., and Hoitink, H. A. 2006. Modulation of gene expression in tomato by Trichoderma hamatum 382. Phytopathology 96: S4. [sequencing, bioinformatics]
Ammar ED, Fulton D., Bai X., Meulia T. and Hogenhout S.A. 2004. An attachment tip and pili-like structures in insect- and plant-pathogenic spiroplasmas of the class Mollicutes. Arch. Microbiol. 181:97-105. [microscopy]
Ammar, E., and Hogenhout, S. A. 2005. Immunofluorescence confocal laser scanning microscopy as a reliable method for studying the distribution of mollicutes in vector leafhoppers (Cicadellidae: Hemiptera) and in host plants. Ann. Entomol. Soc. Am. 98: 820-826. [microscopy]
Ammar, E.-D. and Hogenhout, S.A. 2005. Immunofluorescence confocal laser scanning microscopy as a reliable method for studying the distribution of mollicutes in vector leafhoppers (Cicadellidae: Hemiptera) and in host plants. Annals of the Entom. Soc. Am. (in press). [microscopy]
Ammar, E.D., and Hogenhout, S.A. (2006). Mollicutes associated with arthropods and plants. In B Kostas, T Miller, eds, Insect Symbiosis Vol. II. CRC Press, Taylor & Francis Group, Boca Raton, FL, pp 97-118. [microscopy]
Ammar, E.-D., Meulia, T, Ozbek, E, and Hogenhout, S.A. 2005. Assembly and accumulation sites of Maize Mosaic Virus in plant host and insect vector using electron and confocal laser scanning microscopy. Current Issues on Multidisciplinary Microscopy Research and Education, Formatex Microscopy Book Series, Formatex Research Center, Badajoz, Spain (in press). [microscopy]
Armstrong, M.R., Whisson, S.C., Pritchard, L., Bos, J.I.B., Venter, E., Avrova, A.O., Rehmany, A. P., Böhme, U., Brooks, K., Cherevach, I., Hamlin, N., White, B., Fraser, A., Lord, A., Quail, M.A., Churcher, C., Hall, N., Berriman, M., Huang, S., Kamoun, S., Beynon, J.L., and Birch, P.R.J. 2005. An ancestral oomycete locus contains late blight avirulence gene Avr3a, encoding a protein that is recognised in the host cytoplasm. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences USA, 102:7766-7771. [molecular biology]
Ashraf, S., Abdel-Alim, G. , Al-Natour, M.Q., and Saif, Y. M. 2005. Interference between mild and pathogenic strains of Infectious bursal disease virus in chickens. Av Dis 49-99,2005. [miscoscopy]
Bai, X., Zhang, J., Ewing, A., Miller, S. A., Jansco Radek, A., Schevchenko, D., Tsukerman, K., Walunas, T., Lapidus, A., Campbell, J., and Hogenhout, S. A. 2006. Living with genome instability: the adaptation of phytoplasmas to diverse environments of their insect and plant hosts. J. Bacteriology 188:1-15. [bioinformatics]
Bai, X., Zhang, J., Holford, I.R. and Hogenhout, S.A. 2004. Comparative genomics identifies genes that are shared by distantly related insect-transmitted plant pathogenic mollicutes. FEMS. 235, 249:258. [sequencing, bioinformatics]
Bhattacharjee, S., Hiller, L., Liolios, K., Win, J., Kanneganti, T., Young, C., Kamoun, S., and Haldar, K. 2006. The malarial host-targeting signal is conserved in the Irish potato famine pathogen. PLoS Pathogens 2: e50. [sequencing, bioinformatics]
Blouin Bankhead, S., Landa,B., Lutton, E., Weller D., McSpadden Gardener, B. 2004. Minimal changes in rhizobacterial population structure following root colonization by wild type and transgenic biocontrol strains. FEMS Microbiol. Ecol. 49:307-318. [genotyping]
Bos, J., Kanneganti, T., Young, C., Cakir, C., Huitema, E., Win, J., Armstrong, M., Birch, P., and Kamoun, S. 2006. The C-terminal half of Phytophthora infestans RXLR effector AVR3a is sufficient to trigger R3a-mediated hypersensitivity and suppress INF1-induced cell death in Nicotiana benthamiana. Plant Journal, 48:165-176. [sequencing, microscopy]
Brewer, M. T., Lang, L., Fujimura, K., Dujmovic, N., Gray, S., and Vanderknaap, E. K. 2005. Development of a software program Tomato Analyzer, to analyze fruit shape. [molecular biology, bioinformatics]
Cannon, M. J., and Pate, J. L. 2006. Presence and Regulation of Messenger Ribonucleic Acids Encoding Components of the Class II Major Histocompatibility Complex-Associated Antigen Processing Pathway in the Bovine Corpus Luteum . Reproduction 131:689-698 (2006). [sequencing]
Cannon, M. J., Davis, J., and Pate, J. L. 2007. The class II MHC molecule BoLA-DR is expressed by endothelial cells of the bovine corpus luteum. Reproduction (in press). [sequencing]
Chapin, L. J., Want, Y., Lutton, E., and McSpadden Gardener, B. B. 2006. Distribution and fungicide sensitivity of tomato fruit rot pathogens in Ohio. Plant Disease 90:397-403. [microscopy]
Cheetham, S., Souza, M., Meulia, T., Grimes, S., Han, M. G., and Saif, L. J. 2006. Pathogenesis of a genogroup II human norovirus in gnotobiotic pigs. J. Virol. 80:10372-81. [microscopy].
Coaker G., and D. Francis. 2004. Mapping, genetic effects, and epistatic interaction of two bacterial canker resistance QTLs from Lycopersicon hirsutum. Theor Appl Genet. 108:1047-1055 [sequencing]
Coaker G., B. Willard, M. Kinter, E. J. Stockinger, and D. Francis. 2004. Proteomic analysis of resistance to bacterial canker of tomato. Molecular Plant Microbe Interactions. 17:1019-1028. [molecular biology, sequencing, bioinformatics]
Davis, T. L., and Pate, J. L. 2006. Proliferation of Major Histocompatibility Nonrestricted Gamma Delta T Cells is Stimulated by Bovine Luteal Cells. Biol. Reprod. - accepted with revision. [sequencing]
E. Kabelka, W. Yang, and D. M. Francis. 2004. Improved Tomato Fruit Color within an Inbred Backcross Line Derived from Lycopersicon esculentum and L. hirsutum Involves the Interaction of Loci. J. Amer. Soc. Hort. Sci. 129:250-257 [sequencing]
Gajendran, K., Gonzales, M., Farmer, A., Archuleta, E., Win, J., Waugh, M., and Kamoun, S. 2006. Phytophthora functional genomics database (PFGD): functional genomics of Phytophthora-plant interactions. Nucleic Acids Research, 34:D465-D470. [bioinformatics]
Garces, S., and Williams, R. 2004. First record of Hesperomyces virescens thaxter (Laboulbeniales: Ascomycetes) on Harmonia axyridis (Pallas) (Coleoptera:Coccinellidae). Journal of the Kansas Entomologycal Society. 77: 156-158 [microscopy]
Gaulin, E., Drame, N., Lafitte, C., Torto-Alalibo, T., Martinez, Y., Ameline-Torregrosa, C., Khatrb, M., Mazarguil, H., Villalba-Mateos, F., Kamoun, S., Mazars, C., Dumas, B., Bottin, A., Esquerre-Tugaye, M., and Rickauer, M. 2006. Cellulose-binding domains of a Phytophthora cell wall protein are novel pathogen-associated molecular patterns. Plant Cell, 18:1766-1777. Peer Reviewed. [sequencing]
Gordon, S., St Martin, S. K., and Dorrance, A. E. 2006. Rps8 Maps to a resistance gene rich region on soybean molecular linkage group F. Crop Sci. 46:168-173. [genotyping]
Gutierrez, L., and McSpadden Gardener, B. 2004. Identification and fungicide sensitivity of fungal pathogens causing tomato fruit rot in Ohio. Phytopathology 94:S37. [sequencing]
Han, M.G., Smiley, J. R. , Thomas, C. and Saif, L. J. 2004. Genetic recombination between two genotypes of genogroup III bovine noroviruses (BoNVs) and capsid sequence diversity among BoNVs and Nebraska-like bovine enteric calicivirus. J. Clin. Microbiol., 42 (11): 5214-5224. [sequencing]
Han, Q. M.G., Wang, J. R. Smiley, K. O. Chang and L. J. Saif. 2005. Self-assembly of the recombinant capsid protein of a bovine norovirus (BoNV) into virus-like particles and evaluation of cross-reactivity of BoNV with human noroviruses. J. Clin. Microbiol., 43 (2): 778-785. [sequencing, microscopy]
Hogenhout, S. A., Sandhu, S. H., Jagdale, G. B., and Grewal, P. S. 2006. Comparative Analysis of the Expressed Genome of the Entomopathogenic Nematode, Heterorhabditis bacteriophora. Mol. Biochem. Parasitology. 145: 239-44. [bioinformatics]
Hoitink, H. A., Madden, L. V., and Dorrance, A. E. 2006. Systemic resistance induced by Trichoderma spp.: Interactions between the host, the pathogen, the biocontrol agent, and soil organic matter quality. Phytopathology 96:186-189. [genotyping]
Huitema, E., Vleeshouwers, V., Cakir, C., Kamoun, S., and Govers, F. 2005. Differences in intensity and specificity of hypersensitive response induction in Nicotiana spp. by INF1, INF2A and INF2B of Phytophthora infestans. Molecular Plant-Microbe Interactions, 18:183-193. [molecular biology]
Joshi, R., and McSpadden Gardener, B. B. 2006. Identification of genes associated with pathogen inhibition in different strains B. subtilis. Phytopathology 96:145-154. [sequencing, genotyping]
K. Scheets and M.G. Redinbaugh. Infectious cDNA transcripts of Maize necrotic streak virus: infectivity and translational characteristics. Virology, 350: 171-183. 2006. [sequencing]
Kamoun, S., and Smart, C.D. 2005. Late blight of potato and tomato: Genomics meets real life problems. Plant Disease, Submitted. [microscopy]
Kanneganti, T., Bai, X., Tsai, C., Win, J., Meulia, T., Goodin, M., Kamoun, S., and Hogenhout, S. A. 2006. A functional genetic assay for nuclear trafficking in plants. Plant Journal, in press. [sequencing, microscopy]
Kanneganti, T., Huitema, E., Cakir, C., and Kamoun, S. 2006. Synergistic interactions of the plant cell death pathways induced by Phytophthora infestans Nep1-like protein PiNPP1.1 and INF1 elicitin. Molecular Plant-Microbe Interactions, 19:854-863. [sequencing, microscopy]
Langston, B.J., Bai, S., and Jones, M.L. 2004. Increases in DNA fragmentation and induction of a senescence-specific nuclease are delayed during corolla senescence in ethylene-insensitive (ert1-1) transgenic petunia. Journal of Experimental Botany, 56:15:23. [microscopy]
Li, Y., W.A. Dick and O.H. Tuovinen. 2004. Fluorescence microscopy for visualization of soil microorganisms-a review. Biol Fertil Soils 39:301-311. [microscopy]
Liu, Z., Bos, J.I.B., Armstrong, M., Whisson, S.C., da Cunha, L., Torto-Alalibo, T., Win, J., Avrova, A.O., Wright, F., Birch P.R.J., and Kamoun, S. 2005. Patterns of diversifying selection in the phytotoxin-like scr74 gene family of Phytophthora infestans. Molecular Biology and Evolution, 22:659-672. [bioinformatics]
Lübberstedt, T., Ingvardsen, C., Melchinger, A.E., Xing, Y., Salomon, R., Redinbaugh, M.G. Two chromosome segments confer multiple potyvirus resistance in maize. Plant Breeding, 125: 352-356. 2006. [sequencing]
McSpadden Gardener, B. 2004. Ecology of Bacillus and Paenibacillus spp. in agricultural systems. Phytopathology 94:1252-1258. [sequencing and genotyping]
McSpadden Gardener, B., R. Joshi, L. Gutierrez, and E. Lutton. 2004. Biocontrol capacities of phlD+ psuedomonads that are prevalent in Ohio soils. Phytopathology 94:S69. [sequencing and genotyping]
Nguyen TV, Yuan L, Azevedo MSP, Jeong K, Gonzalez AM, Iosef C, Lovgren-Bengtsson K, Morein B, Lewis P, Saif LJ. 2006. High titers of circulating maternal antibodies suppress effector and memory B-cell responses induced by an attenuated rotavirus priming and rotavirus-like particle-immunostimulating complex boosting vaccine regimen. Clin Vaccine Immunol. 13:475-85. [microscopy]
Patel,S., Rose, A., Meulia,T., Dixit, R., Cyt, R.J., and Meier, I. 2004. Arabidopsis WPP-domain proteins are developmentally associated with the nuclear envelope and promote cell division. (2004). The Plant cell. 16, 3260-3273. [microscopy]
Randall, T., Dwyer, R., Huitema, E., Beyer, K., Cvitanich, C., Kelkar, H., Ah Fong`, A., Gates, K., Roberts, S., Yatzkan, E., Gaffney, T., Law, M., Testa, A., Torto-Alalibo, T., Zhang, M., Zheng, L., Mueller, E., Windass, J., Binder, A., Birch, P., Gisi, U., Govers, F., Gow, N., Mauch, F., van Wiest, P., Waugh, M., Yu, J., Boller, T., Kamoun, S., Lam, S., and Judelson, H. 2005. Large-scale gene discovery in the oomycete Phytophthora infestans reveals likely components of phytopathogenicity shared with true fungi. Molecular Plant-Microbe Interactions, 18:229-243. Peer Reviewed. [bioinformatics]
Redinbaugh, M., and Hogenhout, S. A. 2005. Plant Rhabdoviruses. In: (Z.F. Fu, ed.) The World of Rhabdoviruses. Current Topics in Microbiology and Immunology, vol. 292. Springer-Verlag, NY. Pp. 143-163. [microscopy, molecular biology]
Reed, S. E., Tsai, C., Willie, K. J., Redinbaugh, M., and Hogenhout, S. A. 2005. Shotgun sequencing of the negative-sense RNA genome of the rhabdovirus, Maize mosaic virus. J. Virol. Meth., 129: 91-96. [molecular biology]
S. Cheetham*, M. Souza*, S. Grimes°, M. Han *, Q. Wang *, T. Meulia †, K. Jeong *and L. J. Saif *. Pathogenesis of a human norovirus in the gnotobiotic pig model. Abstract presented to the 2004 American Society of Virology meeting. [microscopy]
Saint-Jean, S., Testa, A., Kamoun, S., and Madden, L.V. 2005. Use of a green fuorescent protein marker for studying splash dispersal of sporangia of Phytophthora infestans. European Journal of Plant Pathology, in press. [microscopy]
Shamaila Ashraf, S., Abdul-Alim, G. and Saif, Y. M. Detection of Infectious bursal disease virus serotype 1 and 2 antibodies using commercial ELISA kits. Shamaila Ashraf, G. Abdul-Alim and Y. M. Saif. In Proc. 56th North Central Avian Disease Conference and Symposium on threatening avian respiratory diseases. pp 54-55. Mar 14-15, 2005. St. Paul. MN. [microscopy].
Skinner, J. S., von Zitzewitz, J., Sz_cs, P., Marquez-Cedillo, L., Filichkin, T., Amundsen, K., Stockinger, E. J., Thomashow, M. F., Chen, T. H., and Hayes, P. M. 2005. Structural, functional and phylogenetic characterization of a large CBF gene family in barley. Plant Molecular Biology. 59:533-551. [molecular biology]
Tang, Y., Lee, C. W., Zhang, Y., Senne, D. A., Dearth, R. N., Byrum, B., Perez, D. R., Suarez, D. O., and Saif, Y. M. 2005. Isolation and characterization of H3N2 influenza A virus from turkeys. Avian Dis. 49:207-213. Peer Reviewed. [molecular biology]
Tang, Y., Murgia, M., and Saif, Y. M. 2005. Molecular characterization of the capsid gene of two serotypes of turkey astroviruses. Avian Dis. 49:514-519. Peer Reviewed. [molecular biology, microscopy]
Tang, Y., Wang, Q., and Saif, Y. M. 2005. Development of a ssRNA internal control template reagent for a multiplex RT-PCR to detect turkey astroviruses. J. Virol. Meth. 126:81-86. [molecular biology, microscopy]
Tian, M., Benedetti, B. and Kamoun, S. 2005. A second Kazal-like protease inhibitor from Phytophthora infestans inhibits and interacts with the apoplastic pathogenesis-related protease P69B of tomato. Plant Physiology, Submitted. [molecular biology]
Tian, M., Liu, Z., and Kamoun, S. 2005. Evolution of Kazal-like protease inhibitors in Phytophthora was driven by gene duplication, domain shuffling, and diversifying selection. Moelcular Biology and Evolution, in revision. [molecular biology]
Tian, M., Win, J., Song, J., van der Hoorn, R., Vanderknaap, E. K., and Kamoun, S. 2006. A Phytophthora infestans cystatin-like protein targets a novel tomato papain-like apoplastic protease. Plant Physiology, in press. [sequencing]
Torto-Alalibo, T., Tian, M., Gajendran, K., Waugh, M., van Weist, P., and Kamoun, S. 2005. Expressed sequence tags from the oomycete fish pathogen Saprolegnia parasitica reveal putative virulence factors. BMC Microbiology, 5:46. [molecular biology]
Tsai, C., Redinbaugh, M., Willie, K. J., Reed, S., Goodin, M., and Hogenhout, S. A. 2005. Complete Genome Sequence and in planta Subcellular Localization of Maize Fine Streak Virus Proteins. Journal of Virology 79: 5304-5314. [microscopy, molecular biology]
Tyler, B., Tripathy, S., Zhang, X., Dehal, P., Jiang, R., Aerts, A., Arredondo, F., Baxter, L., Bensasson, D., Beynon, J., Chapman, J., Damasceno, C., Dorrance, A. E., Dou, D., Dickerman, A., Dubchak, I., Garbelotto, M., Gijzen, M., Gordon, S., Govers, F., Grunwald, N., Huang, W., Ivors, K., Jones, R., Kamoun, S., Krampis, K., Lamour, K., Lee, M., McDonald, W., Medina, M., Meijer, H., Nordberg, E., Maclean, D., Ospina-Giraldo, M., Morris, P., Phuntumart, V., Putnam, N., Rash, S., Rose, J., Sakihama, Y., Salamov, A., Savidor, A., Scheuring, C., Smith, B., Sobral, B., Terry, A., Torto-Alalibo, T., Win, J., Xu, Z., Zhang, H., Grigoriev, I., Rokhsar, D., and Boore, J. 2006. Phytophthora genome sequences uncover evolutionary origins and mechanisms of pathogenesis. Science, 313:1261-1266. Peer Reviewed. [sequencing, bioinformatics]
Van der Knaap, Sanyal, A., Jackson, S.A., and Tanksley, S.D. 2004. High-resolution fine mapping and in situ hybrydization analysis of sun, a locus controlling tomato fruit shape, reveals a region of the tomato genome prone to DNA rearrangements. Genetics. 168, 2127:2140. [sequencing]
Van der Knaap, E. K., Welty, D., and Holford, I. R. 2005. Database development: Tomato fruit development database Tomato marker database: www.tomatomap.net. [bioinformatics]
Vleeshouwers, V., Driesprong, J., Kamphuis, L., Torto-Alalibo, T., van't Slot, K., Govers, F., Visser, R., Jacobsen, E., and Kamoun, S. 2006. Agroinfection-based high throughput screening reveals specific recognition of INF elicitins in Solanum. Molecular Plant Pathology, 7:499-510. Peer Reviewed. [sequencing]
Wang, Z., Triezenberg, S. J., Thomashow, M. F., and Stockinger, E. J. 2005. Multiple hydrophobic motifs in Arabidopsis CBF1 COOH-terminus provide functional redundancy in trans-activation. Plant Molecular Biology. 58:543-559. [molecular biology]
Welty, N., Radovich, C. L., Meulia, T., and Vanderknaap, E. K. 2006. Inflorescence development in two tomato species. Canadian Journal of Botany. [microscopy]
Win, J., Kanneganti, T., Torto-Alalibo, T., and Kamoun, S. 2006. Computational and comparative analyses of 150 full-length cDNA sequences from the oomycete plant pathogen Phytophthora infestans. Fungal Genetics and Biology, 43:20-33. [molecular biology, bioinformatics]
Yang, W. and D. M. Francis. 2005. Marker Assisted Selection for Combining Resistance to Bacterial Spot and Bacterial Speck in Tomato. J. Amer. Soc. Hort. Sci. 130:716-721. [molecular biology]
Yang, W., E. J. Sacks, M. L. Lewis Ivey, S. A. Miller, and D. M. Francis. 2005. Resistance in Lycopersicon esculentum intraspecific crosses to Race T1 strains of Xanthomonas campestris pv. vesicatoria causing bacterial spot of tomato. Phytopathology 95:519-527. [molecular biology]
Yang, W., X. Bai, E. Kabelka, C. Eaton, S. Kamoun, E. Van der Knaap, and D. Francis. 2004. Discovery of single nucleotide polymorphisms in Lycopersicon esculentum by computer aided analysis of expressed sequence tags. Molecular Breeding. 14: 21-34. [sequencing, bioinformatics]