Brian John Staskawicz ForMemRS[1] is professor of plant and microbial miology at the University of California, Berkeley[2][3] and scientific director of agricultural genomics at the Innovative Genomics Institute (IGI).
[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.
], 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.
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