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Niklaus J. Grünwald is a biologist and plant pathologist born and raised in Caracas, Venezuela of German and Swiss ancestry. He is currently a research scientist with the USDA Agricultural Research Service, a Professor (Courtesy) in the Department of Botany and Plant Pathology at Oregon State University, and a Professor (Adjunct) in the Department of Plant Pathology and Plant-Microbe Biology at Cornell University.[1]
Niklaus J. Grünwald | |
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| Born | Caracas, Venezuela |
| Alma mater | UC Davis |
| Scientific career | |
| Fields | Biology, ecology, plant pathology |
| Institutions | USDA Agricultural Research Service Oregon State University Cornell University |
| Website | grunwaldlab |
Education
editGrünwald obtained a BSc in plant science at University of California, Davis (UC Davis) in 1992. He completed his PhD in ecology and plant pathology in 1997 at UC Davis studying the effect of cover crop decomposition on soil nutrient cycling and soil microbiology.[2][1] He pursued postdoctoral research at Cornell University.
Research
editHis academic research[3] focuses on the evolution, genomics, and ecology of plant pathogens in the genus Phytophthora and management of the diseases they cause. This pathogen group includes some of the most costly diseases affecting crops and ecosystems.[4][5] These pathogens have well characterized Effectors to circumvent plant host recognition that in the genus Phytophthora include RxLR, Crinkler and other small secreted proteins.[6][7][8][9] Grünwald is best known for providing novel insights into how plant pathogens emerge, methods to study pathogen evolution, particularly when populations are clonal, and characterizing the evolutionary history of Phytophthora pathogens. In collaboration with one of his students he developed the concept of heat trees to show differential abundance of species (or other hierarchical data like gene expression) in a tree format.[10]
Honors and awards
edit- 1991 Phi Kappa Phi
- 1992 Summa Cum Laude, UC Davis
- 1992 Outstanding undergraduate performance, Agricultural Science and Management UC Davis
- 1996 Sigma Xi
- 2006 USDA ARS Early Career Award[11]
- 2007 Syngenta Award,[12] American Phytopathological Society
- 2015 Ruth Allen Award,[1] American Phytopathological Society. This award is named after the first female plant pathologist, Ruth F. Allen, and given for outstanding, innovative research contribution that has changed, or has the potential to change, the direction of research in any field of plant pathology.
References
edit- ^ a b c "Biographical Sketch". American Phytopathological Society. 2015. Archived from the original on 2016-04-23.
- ^ "Pds Sso". Harvest.lib.ucdavis.edu. Retrieved 2015-08-31.
- ^ Niklaus Grunwald publications indexed by Google Scholar
- ^ Kamoun, S.; Furzer, O.; Jones, J. D. G.; Judelson, H. S.; Ali, G. S.; Dalio, R. J. D.; Roy, S. G.; Schena, L.; Zambounis, A.; Panabières, F.; Cahill, D.; Ruocco, M.; Figueiredo, A.; Chen, X. R.; Hulvey, J.; Stam, R.; Lamour, K.; Gijzen, M.; Tyler, B. M.; Grünwald, N. J.; Mukhtar, M. S.; Tomé, D. F. A.; Tör, M.; Van Den Ackerveken, G.; McDowell, J.; Daayf, F.; Fry, W. E.; Lindqvist-Kreuze, H.; Meijer, H. J. G.; et al. (2015). "The Top 10 oomycete pathogens in molecular plant pathology". Molecular Plant Pathology. 16 (4): 413–434. doi:10.1111/mpp.12190. PMC 6638381. PMID 25178392.
- ^ Erwin, Donald C; Ribeiro, Olaf K (1996). Phytophthora Diseases Worldwide. The American Phytopathological Society. ISBN 978-0-89054-212-5.
- ^ Tyler, B. M.; Tripathy, S.; Zhang, X.; Dehal, P.; Jiang, R.; Aerts, A.; Arredondo, F.; Baxter, L.; Bensasson, D.; Beynon, J. L.; Chapman, J.; Damasceno, C. M.; Dorrance, A. E.; Dou, D.; Dickerman, A. W.; Dubchak, I. L.; Garbelotto, M.; Gijzen, M.; Gordon, S. G.; Govers, F.; Grunwald, N. J.; Huang, W.; Ivors, K. L.; Jones, R. W.; Kamoun, S.; Krampis, K.; Lamour, K. H.; Lee, M. K.; McDonald, W. H.; Medina, M. (2006). "Phytophthora Genome Sequences Uncover Evolutionary Origins and Mechanisms of Pathogenesis" (PDF). Science. 313 (5791): 1261–1266. Bibcode:2006Sci...313.1261T. doi:10.1126/science.1128796. OSTI 1165482. PMID 16946064. S2CID 21287860.
- ^ Haas, B. J.; Kamoun, S.; Zody, M. C.; Jiang, R. H. Y.; Handsaker, R. E.; Cano, L. M.; Grabherr, M.; Kodira, C. D.; Raffaele, S.; Torto-Alalibo, T.; Bozkurt, T. O.; Ah-Fong, A. M. V.; Alvarado, L.; Anderson, V. L.; Armstrong, M. R.; Avrova, A.; Baxter, L.; Beynon, J.; Boevink, P. C.; Bollmann, S. R.; Bos, J. I. B.; Bulone, V.; Cai, G.; Cakir, C.; Carrington, J. C.; Chawner, M.; Conti, L.; Costanzo, S.; Ewan, R.; et al. (2009). "Genome sequence and analysis of the Irish potato famine pathogen Phytophthora infestans". Nature. 461 (7262): 393–8. Bibcode:2009Natur.461..393H. doi:10.1038/nature08358. PMID 19741609.
- ^ Kamoun, S. (2006). "A Catalogue of the Effector Secretome of Plant Pathogenic Oomycetes". Annual Review of Phytopathology. 44: 41–60. doi:10.1146/annurev.phyto.44.070505.143436. PMID 16448329.
- ^ Birch, P. R. J.; Rehmany, A. P.; Pritchard, L.; Kamoun, S.; Beynon, J. L. (2006). "Trafficking arms: Oomycete effectors enter host plant cells". Trends in Microbiology. 14 (1): 8–11. doi:10.1016/j.tim.2005.11.007. PMID 16356717.
- ^ Foster, Zachary S. L.; Sharpton, Thomas J.; Grünwald, Niklaus J.; Poisot, Timothée (21 February 2017). "Metacoder: An R package for visualization and manipulation of community taxonomic diversity data". PLOS Computational Biology. 13 (2): e1005404. Bibcode:2017PLSCB..13E5404F. doi:10.1371/journal.pcbi.1005404. PMC 5340466. PMID 28222096.
- ^ "ARS". Ars.usda.gov. Retrieved 2015-08-31.
- ^ "Niklaus J. Grünwald". Apsnet.org. Retrieved 2015-08-31.
External links
edit- Lab website at Oregon State
- USDA profile
- Department of Botany and Plant Pathology department at Oregon State
- "SIPS Plant Pathology & Plant-Microbe Biology Section" at Cornell University