About
Qiurong Fan was born in Fujian, China. She received her Bachelor of Science in Biological Sciences from Fujian Agriculture and Forestry University, China. In her fourth year of college, she participated exchange student program in Department of Microbiology and Cell Sciences in University of Florida. While as an undergraduate student, she started to engage in several self-motivated research activities involving with bacteriology and bioinformatics in the lab of Dr. Rosemary Loria. Following graduation, she started her internship in the lab of Dr. Mathews Paret located in North Florida Research and Education Center, Quincy, FL. She transitioned her role into graduate research assistant in Department of Plant Pathology and continued her research projects under supervision of Dr. Mathews Paret and Dr. Jeffrey Jones since spring 2017.
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Research
Bacterial spot of pepper caused by Xanthomonas euvesicatoria, is one of most economically relevant bacterial disease of pepper in the tropics and sub-tropics. In Florida, there are very limited management options available due to the presence of copper-tolerant strains and Qiurong’s research is on novel copper composites that can manage copper-tolerant strains. Qiurong is also conducting genetic studies on understanding the relationship between Xanthomonas spp. strains affecting roses and other crops.
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Publications
Kunwar, S., Iriarte, F., Fan, Q., da Silva, E.E., Ritchie, M.L., Nguyen, N.S., Freeman, J.H., Stall, R.E., Jones, J.B., Minsavage, G.V., … & Paret M.L. (2018). Transgenic expression of EFR and Bs2 genes for field management of bacterial wilt and bacterial spot of tomato. Phytopathology, 108(12), 1402-1411.Zhang, J., Hu, J., Shen, H., Zhang, Y., Sun, D.,
Pu, X., Yang, Q., Fan, Q. and Lin, B. (2018). Genomic analysis of the Phalaenopsis pathogen Dickeya sp. PA1, representing the emerging species Dickeya fangzhongdai. BMC genomics, 19(1), p.782
Zhang, Y., Fan, Q., & Loria, R. (2016). A re-evaluation of the taxonomy of phytopathogenic genera Dickeya and Pectobacterium using whole-genome sequencing data. Systematic and applied microbiology, 39(4), 252-259. (Equal contribution first author).
Zhang, Y., Bignell, D. R., Zuo, R., Fan, Q., Huguet-Tapia, J. C., Ding, Y., and Loria, R. (2016). Promiscuous Pathogenicity Islands and Phylogeny of Pathogenic Streptomyces spp. Molecular Plant-Microbe Interactions, 29(8), 640-650.