Paola Veronese

 
 
 
Assistant Professor
paola_veronese@ncsu.edu

North Carolina State University,
Department of Plant Pathology,
Campus Box 7251,
Raleigh, NC 27965-7251,
Office: Centennial Campus, Partners III Building, room 231,
Tel: (919) 513-8219 Fax: (919) 513-0024

Research: 

My research interests are directed towards gaining further insights into molecular genetic mechanisms governing plant-microbe interactions. The focus of my recent work has been the functional genomic analysis of pathosystems involving the model plant Arabidopsis thaliana and cosmopolitan fungi characterized by diverse pathogenicity strategies such as the necrotrophic Botrytis cinerea and systemic invaders of the genus Verticillium. 


Funded projects:


Role of Alternative Splicing in Arabidopsis Immune Response, NSF-EAGER IOS Program Symbiosis, Defense & Self-recognition; Co-PI Steffen Heber (NCSU Bioinformatics Research Center)


Graduate Training in the Application of Genomic and Bioinformatics Technologies to Fungal Pathosystems, UDSA National Needs Fellowship; Co-PIs Ignazio Carbone, Marc Cubeta, Margo Daub, Ralph Dean, Gary Payne (NCSU Plant Pathology Dept.)


Verticillium Comparative Genomics: Understanding Pathogenicity and Diversity of Soil-borne Fungal Pathogens, NSF&CSREES/USDA Microbial Genome Sequencing Program; Co-PIs Kathy Dobinson (Agriculture and Agri-Food Canada), Scott Gold (Univ. of Georgia), Seogchan Kang (Penn State Univ.), Steve Klosterman (ARS/USDA Salinas, CA), Li-Jun Ma (The Broad Institute of MIT and Harvard), Krishna Subbarao (UC Davis, CA

Teaching: 

Molecular Genetics of Plant Stress Responses (advanced graduate course)


Advances in Host-Microbe Interactions (advanced graduate course)


Plant-Microbe Interactions/Concepts (core graduate course, guest lectures)

Extension & Outreach: 

Kelma Scholar Program: research experience in the biological sciences for undegraduate students


 

Selected Publications: 

Amyotte, S.G., Tan, X., Pennerman, K., del Mar Jimenez, M., Klosterman, S., Ma, L.-J. Dobinson, K.F. Veronese P. (2012)Transposable elements in phytopathogenic Verticillium spp.: insights into genome evolution and inter- and intra-specific diversification. BMC Genomics (accepted for publication)


Howard, B., Veronese, P., Heber, S. (2011) Improved RNA-Seq read partitions in linear models for isoform quantification. IEEE International Conference on Bioinformatics and Biomedicine (BIBM11), Atlanta, Georgia, USA, November 12-15, 2011


Klosterman, S.J., Subbarao, K.V., Kang, S., Veronese, P., et al. (2011) Verticillium comparative genomics yields insights into niche adaptation of plant vascular wilt pathogens. PLoS Pathogens, 7 (7): e1002137


Hind, S., Pulliam, S., Veronese, P., Shantharaj, D., Nazir, A., Ranf, S., Preuss, G., Stratmann, J. (2011) The COP9 signalosome modulates tomato defenses via control of jasmonic acid synthesis. The Plant Journal, 65: 480-491


Luo, H., Song, F., Laluk, K., Veronese, P., Mengiste, T. (2010) The Arabidopsis Botrytis Susceptible1 interactor defines a subclass of RING E3 ligases that regulate pathogen and stress responses. Plant Physiology 154: 1766-1782


Veronese, P., Nakagami, H., Bluhm, B., AbuQamar, S., Chen, X., Salmeron, J., Dietrich, R., Hirt, H., Mengiste, T. (2006) The membrane-anchored BOTRYTIS-INDUCED KINASE 1 plays distinct roles in Arabidopsis resistance to necrotrophic and biotrophic pathogens. Plant Cell 18, 257-273


Veronese, P., Chen, X., Bluhm, B., Salmeron, J., Dietrich, R., Mengiste, T. (2004) The BOS loci of Arabidopsis are required for resistance to Botrytis cinerea infection. Plant Journal 40, 558-574


Veronese, P., Narasimhan, M.L., Stevenson, R.A., Zhu, J-K., Weller, S.C., Subbarao, K.V., Bressan, R.A. (2003) Identification of a locus controlling severity of Verticillium disease in Arabidopsis thaliana. Plant Journal 35, 574-587 (featured in the cover page of the issue 5)


Veronese, P., Ruiz, M.T., Coca, M.A., Lee, H., Ibeas, J.I., Damz, B., Pardo, J.M., Hasegawa, P.M., Bressan, R.A., Narasimhan, M.L. (2003) In defense against pathogens: both plant sentinels and foot soldiers need to know the enemy. Plant Physiology 131, 1580-1590


Maggio, S. Miyazaki, P. Veronese, T. Fujita, J. I. Ibeas, B. Damz, M. Narasimhan, P. M. Hasegawa, R. J. Joly, R. A. Bressan (2002) Does proline accumulation play an active role in stress-induced growth reduction? Plant Journal 31, 687-698


Veronese, P., Li, X., Niu, X., Weller, S.C., Bressan, R.A., Hasegawa, P.M. (2001) Bioengineering mint crop improvement. Plant, Cell Tissue & Organ Culture 64, 133-144 (special issue: Reviews of Plant Biotechnology and Applied Genetics)


Li, X., Gong, Z., Koiwa, H., Niu, X., Veronese, P., Ruggiero, B., Bressan, R.A., Weller, S.C., Hasegawa, P.M. (2001) Bar expressing peppermint (Mentha x piperita L. var. Black Mitcham) plants are highly resistant to the glufosinate herbicide liberty. Molecular Breeding 8, 109-118


Niu, X., Li, X., Veronese, P., Bressan, R.A., Weller, S.C., Hasegawa, P.M. (2000) Factors affecting Agrobacterium tumefaciens-mediated transformation of peppermint. Plant Cell Reports 19, 304-310


Caruso, L. Bertini, Tucci, M., Caporale, C., Leonardi, L., Saccardo, F., Bressan, R.A., Veronese, P., Buonocore, V. (1999) Isolation and characterization of wheat cDNA clones encoding PR-4 proteins. DNA sequence 10, 301-307


Veronese, P., Crino’, P., Tucci, M., Colucci, F., Yun, D.J., Hasegawa, M. P., Bressan, R.A., Saccardo, F. (1998) Pathogenesis-related proteins for control of fungal diseases of tomato. In: Genetics and breeding for crop quality and resistance. Scarascia Mugnozza, G.T., Porceddu, E. & Pagnotta, M.A. (Eds.), Kluwer Academic Publisher, p. 15-24 (book chapter)