Niklaus Grunwald Explained

Niklaus J. Grünwald
Birth Place:Caracas, Venezuela
Field:Biology, ecology, plant pathology
Work Institution:USDA Agricultural Research Service
Oregon State University
Cornell University
Alma Mater:UC Davis

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]

Education

Grünwald 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] He pursued postdoctoral research at Cornell University.

Research

His academic research 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.[3] [4] These pathogens have well characterized Effectors to circumvent plant host recognition that in the genus Phytophthora include RxLR, Crinkler and other small secreted proteins.[5] [6] [7] [8] 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.[9]

Honors and awards

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Notes and References

  1. Web site: Biographical Sketch. 2015. American Phytopathological Society. dead. https://web.archive.org/web/20160423235459/http://www.apsnet.org/members/awards/RuthAllen/Pages/NiklausJGr%C3%BCnwald.aspx. 2016-04-23.
  2. Web site: Pds Sso . Harvest.lib.ucdavis.edu . 2015-08-31.
  3. 10.1111/mpp.12190. The Top 10 oomycete pathogens in molecular plant pathology. Molecular Plant Pathology. 413–434. 2015. 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. . Petre . B. . 29 . 16. 4. 6638381 . 25178392 .
  4. Book: 978-0-89054-212-5 . Phytophthora Diseases Worldwide . Erwin . Donald C . Ribeiro . Olaf K . 1996 . The American Phytopathological Society .
  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. . Phytophthora Genome Sequences Uncover Evolutionary Origins and Mechanisms of Pathogenesis . 10.1126/science.1128796 . Science . 313 . 5791 . 1261–1266 . 2006 . 16946064. 2006Sci...313.1261T . 1165482 . 21287860 .
  6. 10.1038/nature08358. Genome sequence and analysis of the Irish potato famine pathogen Phytophthora infestans. Nature. 461. 7262. 393–8. 2009. 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. . Fahlgren . N. . 29 . 19741609. 2009Natur.461..393H. free .
  7. 10.1146/annurev.phyto.44.070505.143436. A Catalogue of the Effector Secretome of Plant Pathogenic Oomycetes. Annual Review of Phytopathology. 44. 41–60. 2006. Kamoun . S. . 16448329.
  8. 10.1016/j.tim.2005.11.007. Trafficking arms: Oomycete effectors enter host plant cells. Trends in Microbiology. 14. 8–11. 2006. Birch . P. R. J. . Rehmany . A. P. . Pritchard . L. . Kamoun . S. . Beynon . J. L. . 1. 16356717.
  9. Foster . Zachary S. L. . Sharpton . Thomas J. . Grünwald . Niklaus J. . Poisot . Timothée . Metacoder: An R package for visualization and manipulation of community taxonomic diversity data . PLOS Computational Biology . 21 February 2017 . 13 . 2 . e1005404 . 10.1371/journal.pcbi.1005404. 5340466 . 28222096 . 2017PLSCB..13E5404F . free .
  10. Web site: ARS . Ars.usda.gov . 2015-08-31.
  11. Web site: Niklaus J. Grünwald . Apsnet.org . 2015-08-31.

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