Brian Staskawicz
Brian Staskawicz | |
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| Born | Brian John Staskawicz |
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| Awards | Member of the National Academy of Sciences (1998)[1] Wolf Prize in Agriculture (2025) |
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| 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 |
Brian John Staskawicz ForMemRS[1] is professor of plant and microbial biology at the University of California, Berkeley[2][3] and scientific director of agricultural genomics at the Innovative Genomics Institute (IGI).
Education
[edit | edit source]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
[edit | edit source]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
[edit | edit source]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] In 2025 he was awarded the Wolf Prize in Agriculture.[8]
References
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