BIOLOGICAL SCIENCE
FACULTY MEMBER
Dr. Kathryn M. Jones
| Office: | 230A Biology Unit I
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| Office: | (850) 645-8743
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| Fax: | (850) 644-0481
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| Mail code: | 4370 |
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kmjones@bio.fsu.edu
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Assistant Professor;
Ph.D., University of Chicago, 2001
POSITIONS AVAILABLE for postdoctoral investigators, graduate students, and undergraduate students (starting in 2008).
Research and Professional Interests:
I am interested in several fundamental questions about rhizobial/plant symbiotic interactions: How do plants respond to rhizobial determinants to facilitate
invasion by the rhizobium? Which of these rhizobial determinants (besides the well-characterized Nod factor) are important for invasion and how do they function? What plant factors/pathways are required for rhizobial invasion? And, at a later stage in symbiotic development, what rhizobial determinants are required for these bacteria to survive within a host cell membrane-derived intracellular compartment? Answers to these questions will provide fundamental insights into how bacteria invade and survive within eukaryotic cells, and modulate regulatory and signaling pathways to induce host cell morphological changes and differentiation.
Selected Publications:
Jones, K. M., N. Sharopova, D. P. Lohar, J. Q. Zhang, K. A. VandenBosch, and G. C. Walker. 2008. Differential response of the plant Medicago truncatula to its symbiont Sinorhizobium meliloti or an exopolysaccharide-deficient mutant. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the USA 105:704-709.
Jones, K. M., J. Lloret, J. R. Daniele, and G. C. Walker. 2007. The type IV secretion system of Sinorhizobium meliloti strain 1021 is required for conjugation, but not for intracellular symbiosis. Journal of Bacteriology 189:2133-2138.
Jones, K. M., H. Kobayashi, B. W. Davies, M. E. Taga, and G. C. Walker. 2007. Invasion of the plant host by symbiotic rhizobial bacteria: molecular clues from Sinorhizobium meliloti and the plant Medicago truncatula. Nature Reviews Microbiology 5:619-633.
Staehelin, C., L. S. Forsberg, W. D'Haeze, M. Y. Gao, R. W. Carlson, Z. P. Xie, B. J. Pellock, K. M. Jones, G. C. Walker, W. R. Streit, and W. J. Broughton. 2006. Exo-oligosaccharides of Rhizobium sp. NGR234 are required for symbiosis with various legumes. Journal of Bacteriology 188:6168-6178.
Campbell, G. R. O., L. A. Sharypova, H. Scheidle, K. M. Jones, K. Niehaus, A. Becker, and G. C. Walker. 2003. Striking complexity of lipopolysaccharide defects in a collection of Sinorhizobium meliloti mutants. Journal of Bacteriology 185:3853-3862.
Jones, K. M., and R. Haselkorn. 2002. A newly identified cytochrome c oxidase operon in the nitrogen-fixing cyanobacterium Anabaena sp. strain PCC 7120 specifically induced in heterocysts. Journal of Bacteriology 184:2491-2499.
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