Research

Plant immune regulation

• Characterization of the root knot nematode secretome to identify candidate effectors of host immunity
• Comparison of early signaling events between PAMP-triggered and effector-triggered immunity
• Early SA-mediated changes in the host proteome
• Peptide signaling in plant immunity

Proteogenomics

• Discovery, revision, and validation of arabidopsis genes by peptide mass spectrometry
• Discovery, revision, and validation of maize genes by peptide mass spectrometry

Proteotype determines phenotype

• An atlas of proteotypes reveals networks of post-transcriptional regulation in maize

Algal biology

• Algal abiotic stress signaling
• Host-pathogen interactions between algae and chytrids

Funding: NSF Arabidopsis 2010; NSF National Plant Genome Research Program