Richard W Michelmore
Professor and Director
rwmichelmore@ucdavis.edu

UC Davis Genome Center
Molecular & Cellular Biology
Microbiology - Medicine
Plant Science

Office
4311 GBSF
530-752-1729

Office
Assistant: Lauren Plunkett
530-752-7598
laplunkett@ucdavis.edu


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Degrees:
1979 PhD University of Cambridge Natural Sciences
1976 BA University of Cambridge Natural Sciences
Research Interests:
Genetics and genomics of disease resistance in plants
Please see website for details
http://michelmorelab.ucdavis.edu

Awards:
Fellow, American Association for the Advancement of Science
Novozymes Inc. Endowed Chair in Genomics
Department and Center Affiliations:
UC Davis Genome Center
Department of Molecular & Cellular Biology,
Department of Medical Microbiology & Immunology
Department of Plant Sciences
Professional Societies:
American Association for the Advancement of Science
American Phytopathological Society
American Society of Plant Physiologists
Genetics Society of America
CBS Graduate Group Affiliations:
Plant Biology  
Genetics  
Graduate Groups not Housed in CBS:
Plant Pathology  
Publications: Last updated 11/22/2009
  • Shen, K.A., Chin, D.B., Arroyo-Garcia, R., Ochoa, O.E., Lavelle, D.O., Wroblewski, T., Meyers B.C., and Michelmore, R.W. (2002). Dm3 is one member of a large constitutively-expressed family of NBS-LRR encoding genes. Mol. Plant Microbe Interact. 15:251-26.
  • Meyers, B.C., Kozik, A., Griego, A., Kuang, H. and Michelmore, R.W. (2003). Genome-wide analysis of NBS-LRR-encoding genes in Arabidopsis. Plant Cell 15:809-834.
  • Kuang, H., Woo, S.-S., Meyers, B., Nevo, E. and Michelmore, R.W. (2004). Multiple genetic processes result in heterogeneous rates of evolution within the major cluster of disease resistance genes in lettuce. Plant Cell 16:2870-2894.
  • Wroblewski, T., Tomczak, A., and Michelmore, R. W. (2005). Optimization of Agrobacterium-mediated transient assays of gene expression in lettuce, tomato and Arabidopsis. Plant Biotechnology Journal 3:259-273.
  • Bernal, A., Pan, Q., Pollack, J., Rose, L., Willets, N., Kozik, A., Michelmore, R. (2005). Functional dissection of the Pto resistance gene using DNA shuffling. J. Biol. Chem. 280:23073-83.
  • McHale, L., Tan, X., Koehl, P., Michelmore, R.W. (2006). Plant NBS-LRR proteins: adaptable guards. Genome Biology 7:212.
  • West, M. A.L., van Leeuwen, H., Kozik, A., Kliebenstein, D. J., Doerge, R. W., St.Clair, D. A., Michelmore, R.W. (2006). High-density haplotyping with microarray-based expression and single feature polymorphism markers in Arabidopsis. Genome Research 16: 702-712.
  • West, M.A.L., Kim, K., Kliebenstein, D., van Leeuwen, H., Michelmore, R.W., Doerge, R.W., St Clair, D.A. (2007). Global eQTL mapping reveals the complex genetic architecture of transcript-level variation in Arabidopsis. Genetics 175:1441-50.
  • Truco, M.J., Antonise, R., Lavelle, D., Ochoa, O., Kozik, A, Witsenboer, H., Fort, S., Jeuken, M.J.W., Kesseli, R. V., Lindhout, P., Michelmore, R.W., Peleman, J. (2007). A high-density, integrated genetic linkage map of lettuce (Lactuca spp.). Theor. Appl. Genet. 115:735-746.
  • Wroblewski, T., Piskurewicz, U., Tomczak, A., Ochoa, O., & Michelmore, R.W. (2007). Multiple resistance specificities are lost due to silencing homologs of the RGC2 NBS-LRR-encoding gene family in lettuce. Plant J. 51:803-818.
  • Caldwell, K.S. & Michelmore, R.W. (2009). Genes encoding defense signaling proteins in plants are more conserved than those encoding recognition proteins. Genetics 181:671-84.
  • Wroblewski, T., Caldwell, K.S., Piskurewicz, U., Cavanaugh, K.A., Xu, H., Kozik, A., Ochoa, O., McHale, L.K., Lahre, K., Jelenska, J., Castillo, J.A., Vinatzer, B.A., Greenberg, J.T., Michelmore, R.W. (2009). Large-scale analysis of interactions between several crop species and the effector repertoires from multiple Pseudomonas and Ralstonia spp. Plant Physiology 150:1733-49.
  • Luo, Y., Caldwell, K., T. Wroblewski, Wright, M.E., & Michelmore, R.W. (2009). Cleavage of a negative regulator of plant innate immunity, RIN4, is dependent on resistance genes and affected by multiple bacterial effectors. The Plant Cell 21:2458-2472.
  • Please view website for additional publications.
Laboratory Personnel:
The Genome Center

Please see the Michelmore Lab and Genome Center web pages.

Teaching Interests:
Biotechnology and genetics of crop improvement (GGG220/VCR220). Impact of biotechnology on society (PLB12). Genomics
Research Contribution to Society:
Developing and implementing genetic solutions to pest and disease problems in plants that result in higher quality foods produced with reduced chemical inputs. Development of genomic approaches for the efficient utilization of genetic information. Strategies for resistance gene deployment to enhance durability of disease resistance and stability of the global food supply.
Key Words:
Disease resistance, genomics, plant biotechnology, plant pathogens