Wen-Yuan Song - CV

 

Assistant Professor (80% Research, 20% Teaching)

Education:

Institute of Genetics, Academia Sinica, Beijing (China), 1995, Ph.D.

Lanzhou University (China), 1988, M.S.

Honors and Awards:

Travel Award for interlaboratory research collaboration.  From Multi-institutional Plant Protein Phosphorylation Group, 1995.

The Rockefeller Foundation's Fellowship for qualified foreign student dissertation research in rice biotechnology leading to the Ph.D. degree, 1993-1995.

Research Experience:

  • Assistant Professor, Department of Plant Pathology, University of Florida, Gainesville, 2/1999 - present.
  • Postdoctoral Fellow, Department of Plant Pathology, University of California, Davis, 2/1995 - 2/1999.
  • Graduate Fellow, Department of Plant Pathology, University of California, Davis, 2/1993 - 2/1995. 
  • Graduate Fellow, Institute of Genetics, Academia Sinica, Beijing (China), 9/1991 - 2/1995.
  • Research Assistant, Institute of Genetics, Academia Sinica, Beijing (China), 6/1988 - 9/1991.

Research:

Molecular mechanisms by which plants confer resistance to pathogens.

Teaching:

PLP 6303 Molecular Plant Pathology

PLP 6921 Colloquium in Plant Pathology

Supervise graduate students.

Current Projects and Grants:

Song, W.-Y. "Signal Pathways-mediated by the rice receptor-like kinase XA21", NSF, 8/2000-6/2003, 375K.

Publications:

Liu, G., Pi, L.-Y., Song, W.-Y., Walker, J.C., Ronald, P.C. Biochemical characterization of the kinase domain of the rice disease resistance receptor-like kinase XA21 (submitted).

Van der Knaap, E., Song, W.-Y., Ruan, D.L., Sauter, M., Ronald, P.C., Kende, H (1999).  Expression of a gibberellin-induced leucine-rich repeat receptor-like protein kinase in deepwater rice and its interaction with kinase-associatedprotein phosphatase. Plant Physiol. 120: 559-570.

Zhang, S.-P., Song, W.-Y., Chen, L.-L., Ruan, D.-L. Ronald, P.C., Beachy, R., and Fauquet, C. (1998).  Genetic engineering of agronomically important indica rice varieties for resistance to bacterial blight disease. Molecular Breeding 4: 551-558.

Wang, G.-L., Ruan, D.L, Song, W.-Y., Sideris, S., Chen, L.-L., Pi, L.-Y., Shiping Zhang, Zhen Zhang, Claude Fauquet, Brandon S. Gaut, Maureen C. Whalen, and Ronald, P.C. (1998).  The disease resistance gene, Xa21D, encodes a receptor-like molecule with a LRR domain that determines race specific recognition and is subjected to adaptive evolution. Plant Cell 10: 765-769.

Song, W.-Y., Pi, L.-Y., and Ronald, P.C. (1998).  Identification and characterization of 14 transposable-like elements in the noncoding regions of the rice Xa21 disease resistance locus.  Molecular and General Genetics 258:449-456.

Song, W.-Y., Pi, L.-Y., Wang, G.-L., Gardner, J., Holsten, T.E., and Ronald, P.C. (1997).  Evolution of the rice Xa21 disease resistance gene family. Plant Cell 9: 1279-1287.

Wang, G.-L., Song, W.-Y., Ruan, D.L, Sideris, S. and Ronald, P.C. (1996).  The cloned gene, Xa21, confers resistance to multiple Xanthomonas  oryzae pv. oryzae isolates in transgenic plants. Molecular Plant-Microbial Interaction 9: 850-855.

Wang, G.-L., Song, W.-Y., Chen, L.-L. Ruan, D.L, Sideris, S. and Ronald, P.C. (1996).  Resistance spectrum, race specificity, and expression of the Xa21 gene family.  International Rice Research Notes 21: 45-46.

Song, W.-Y. (1996).  Xa21 encodes a receptor kinase-like protein. Rice Biotechnology Quarterly 27: 2-3.

Ronald, P.C., Song,W.-Y., Wang, G.-L., Chen, L.-L., Kim, H.-S., Pi, L.-Y., Holsten, T.E., Ruan, R., Wang, B., Williams, C.E., Zhai, W.-X., Zhu, L.-H., Fauquet, C. (1995).  The rice disease resistance gene encodes a receptor kinase-like protein.  Proceedings form the Third International Rice Genetics Symposium, Manila, Philippines, 16-20 October.

Song, W.-Y., Wang, G.-L., Chen, L.-L., Kim, H.-S., Pi, L.-Y., Holsten, T.E., Gardner, J., Wang, B., Zhai, W.-X., Zhu, L.-H., Fauquet, C., and Ronald, P.C. (1995).  A receptor kinase-like protein encoded by the rice disease resistance gene, Xa21. Science 270: 1804-1806.

Sun, J., Song, W.-Y., Zhu, L.-H., Chen, R.-S. (1995).  Analysis of tRNA gene sequences by neural network. Journal of Computational Biology 2: 409-416.

Wang, G.-L., Holsten, T.E., Song, W.-Y., Wang, H.-P., and Ronald, P.C. (1995). Rice bacterial artificial chromosomes in genome analysis. Rice Biotechnology Quarterly 23:1. 

Wang, G.-L., Holsten, T.E., Song, W.-Y., Wang, H.-P. and Ronald, P.C. (1995). Construction of a rice bacterial artificial chromosome library and identification of clones linked to the Xa21 disease resistance locus. Plant, J. 7: 525-533.

Ronald, P., Holsten, T., Scambray, J., Song, W.-Y., Wang, G.-L. and Williams, C. (1995). Molecular genetic analysis of the rice bacterial blight resistance locus Xa21.  IN: Plant Genome and Plastome: Their Structure and Evolution. K. Tsunewaki, ed., pp. 95-100.

Liang, C.-Z., Tong, Z., Song, W.-Y., Zhu, L.-H.  (1994).  RFLP analysis of phytochrome gene (PHYA) of photoperiod-sensitive genic male sterile rice NK58S and control NK58.  Acta Botanica Sinica 36: 759-764.

Gu, J., Hui, D.-W., Zhuang, B.-C., Song, W.-Y., Xu, B., Chen, S.-Y. (1994).  Studies on rDNA ITS1 regions of soybean and its wild relatives.  Acta Botanica Sinica 36: 759-764.

Tian, W.-Z., and Song, W.-Y. (1988). Transient expression of the -glucuronidase gene in protoplasts of Triticum Aestivum L. Genetic Manipulation in Plants 5: 29-35.

Patent Application:

Procedures and material for conferring disease resistance in plants. UC case No. 95-032-2. Serial # 08/475,891