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JOHN STAVRINIDES

Post-doctoral Scientist

Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biophysics

I am interested in the processes underlying the establishment and maintenance of the host-pathogen relationship, and the genetic basis of microbial pathogenicity and virulence.

Academic History

Ph.D., Comparative Genomics, University of Toronto, 2006
Hon. BSc., Plant Pathology and Parasitology, University of Toronto, 2001

Professional History

Postdoctoral Scientist, University of Arizona, January 2007 - present
Laboratory Instructor, University of Toronto, 2001-2004
Research Assistant, University of Toronto, 1999-2001

Awards

NSERC Canada Postdoctoral Fellowship, 2007-2009
NSERC Canada Graduate Scholarship, 2004-2006
Elizabeth Ann Wintercorbyn Award for Research in Botany, 2004
Laboratory Teaching Assistant Award, 2004
Valerie Anderson Graduate Fellowship for Research in Plant Biology, 2003
D.L. Bailey Award for Excellence in Research Communication, 2003
University of Toronto Fellowship, 2001-2003
Dr. Clara Winifred Fritz Memorial Fellowship in Plant Pathology, 2001

Recent Publications

Ma, W., Dong, F.F., Stavrinides J., and Guttman D.S. (2006) Diversification of a type III effector family via both pathoadaptation and horizontal transfer in response to a coevolutionary arms race. PLoS Genetics 2 (12): E209.

Stavrinides, J., Ma, W. and Guttman D.S. (2006) Terminal reassortment drives the quantum of evolution of type III effectors in bacterial pathogens. PLoS Pathogens 2: E104.

Vencato, M., Tian, F., Alfano, J.R., Buell, C.R., Cartinhour, S., DeClerck, G.A., Guttman, D.S., Stavrinides, J., Joardar, V., Lindeberg, M., Mansfield, J.W., Myers, C.R., Collmer, A., and Schneider, D.J. (2006) Bioinformatics-enabled identification of the HrpL regulon and type III secretion system effector proteins of Pseudomonas syringae pv. phaseolicola 1448A. Molecular Plant-Microbe Interactions 19(11): 1193-1206.

Lindeberg, M., Stavrinides, J., Chang, J.H., Alfano, J.R., Collmer, A., Dangl, J.L., Greenberg, J.T., Mansfield, J.W. and Guttman, D.S. (2005) Unified nomenclature and phylogenetic analysis of extracellular proteins delivered by the type III secretion system of the plant pathogenic bacterium Pseudomonas syringae. Molecular Plant-Microbe Interactions 18(5): 275-282.

Stavrinides J. and Guttman D. S. (2004) Nucleotide sequence of the five-plasmid genome of the plant pathogen, Pseudomonas syringae pv. maculicola ES4326. Journal of Bacteriology 186(15): 5101-5115.

Stavrinides J. and Guttman D. S. (2004) Mosaic evolution of the SARS coronavirus. Journal of Virology 78(1): 76-82.