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Sophien Kamoun

I am passionate about plant pathogens, effectors, genomics, and evolution.

My group studies how filamentous plant pathogens, such as the Irish potato famine pathogen Phytophthora infestans, infect plants, and the plant processes that are modulated by these pathogens.

We aim to exploit state of the art findings on pathogen genomics and effector biology to develop novel disease resistant crops.

sophien.kamoun@tsl.ac.uk
+44 (0) 1603 450410

Publications

Adachi H, Contreras M, Harant A, Wu CH, Derevnina L, Sakai T, Duggan C, Moratto E, Bozkurt TO, Maqbool A, Win J, Kamoun S (2019)

An N-terminal motif in NLR immune receptors is functionally conserved across distantly related plant species. eLife 2019;8:e49956 DOI: 10.7554/eLife.49956

Wu CH, Adachi H, De la Concepcion JC, Castells-Graells R, Nekrasov V, Kamoun S (2019)

NRC4 gene cluster is not essential for bacterial flagellin-triggered immunity. Plant Physiol. 2019 Nov 11. pii: pp.00859.2019. doi: 10.1104/pp.19.00859.

De la Concepcion JC, Franceschetti M, MacLean D, Terauchi R, Kamoun S, Banfield MJ (2019)

Protein engineering expands the effector recognition profile of a rice NLR immune receptor. Elife. 2019 Sep 19;8. pii: e47713. doi: 10.7554/eLife.47713.

Zess EK, Jensen C, Cruz-Mireles N, De la Concepcion JC, Sklenar J, Stephani M, Imre R, Roitinger E, Hughes R, Belhaj K, Mechtler K, Menke FLH, Bozkurt T, Banfield MJ, Kamoun S, Maqbool A, Dagdas YF (2019)

N-terminal β-strand underpins biochemical specialization of an ATG8 isoform. PLoS Biol. 2019 Jul 22;17(7):e3000373. doi: 10.1371/journal.pbio.3000373.

Varden FA, Saitoh H, Yoshino K, Franceschetti M, Kamoun S, Terauchi R, Banfield MJ (2019)

Cross-reactivity of a rice NLR immune receptor to distinct effectors from the rice blast pathogen Magnaporthe oryzae provides partial disease resistance. J Biol Chem. 2019 Jul 11. pii: jbc.RA119.007730. doi: 10.1074/jbc.RA119.007730.

Wu CH, Adachi H, Concepcion JC, Castells-Graells R, Nekrasov V, Kamoun S (2019)

A CRISPR/Cas9 mediated 53 kb deletion of the NRC4 gene cluster of tomato does not affect bacterial flagellin-triggered immunity. bioRxiv preprint Jul 10, 2019 doi: https://doi.org/10.1101/697425

Adachi H, Contreras M, Harant A, Wu CH, Derevnina L, Sakai T, Duggan C, Moratto E, Bozkurt T, Maqbool A, Win J, Kamoun S (2019)

An N-terminal motif in NLR immune receptors is functionally conserved across distantly related plant species. bioRxiv preprint Jul 04, 2019 doi: https://doi.org/10.1101/693291

Jose SB, Wu CH, Kamoun S (2019)

Overcoming plant blindness in science, education, and society. Plants, People, Planet, 2019;00:1–4. https ://doi.org/10.1002/ppp3.51

Carvajal-Yepes M, K. Cardwell K, Nelson A, Garrett KA, Giovani B, Saunders DGO, Kamoun S, Legg JP, Verdier V, Lessel J, Neher RA, Day R, Pardey P, Gullino ML, Records AR, Bextine B, Leach JE, Staiger S, Tohme J (2019)

A global surveillance system for crop diseases. Science 28 Jun 2019: Vol. 364, Issue 6447, pp. 1237-1239 doi: 10.1126/science.aaw1572

Kamoun S, Talbot NJ, Islam MT (2019)

Plant health emergencies demand open science: Tackling a cereal killer on the run. PLoS Biol. 2019 Jun 3;17(6):e3000302. doi: 10.1371/journal.pbio.3000302.

Adachi H, Derevnina L, Kamoun S (2019)

NLR singletons, pairs, and networks: evolution, assembly, and regulation of the intracellular immunoreceptor circuitry of plants. Curr Opin Plant Biol. 2019 May 30;50:121-131. doi: 10.1016/j.pbi.2019.04.007.

Adachi H, Kamoun S, Maqbool A (2019)

A resistosome-activated ‘death switch’. Nat Plants. 2019 Apr 29. doi: 10.1038/s41477-019-0425-9.

De la Concepcion JC, Franceschetti M, Terauchi R, Kamoun S, Banfield MJ (2019)

Protein engineering expands the effector recognition profile of a rice NLR immune receptor. bioRxiv preprint Apr 16, 2019 doi: https://doi.org/10.1101/611152

Wu C-H, Kamoun S (2019)

Tomato Prf requires NLR helpers NRC2 and NRC3 to confer resistance against the bacterial speck pathogen Pseudomonas syringae pv. tomato. bioRxiv preprint Apr 01, 2019 doi: https://doi.org/10.1101/595744

Valent B, Farman M, Tosa Y, Begerow D, Fournier E, Gladieux P, Islam MT, Kamoun S, Kemler M, Kohn LM, Lebrun MH, Stajich JE, Talbot NJ, Terauchi R, Tharreau D, Zhang N (2019)

Pyricularia graminis‐tritici is not the correct species name for the wheat blast fungus: response to Ceresini et al. (MPP 20:2). Mol Plant Pathol. 2019 Feb;20(2):173-179. doi: 10.1111/mpp.12778.

Varden FA, Saitoh H, Yoshino K, Franceschetti M, Kamoun S, Terauchi R, Banfield MJ (2019)

Cross-reactivity of a rice NLR immune receptor to distinct effectors from the blast pathogen leads to partial disease resistance. bioRxiv preprint Jan 25, 2019 doi: https://doi.org/10.1101/530675

Zess EK, Białas A, Kamoun S (2019)

New & Views: Old fungus, new trick. Nat Microbiol. 2019 Feb;4(2):210-211. doi: 10.1038/s41564-018-0351-z.

Lida Derevnina L, Kamoun S, Wu CH (2018)

Dude, where is my mutant? Nicotiana benthamiana meets forward genetics. New Phytologist, 20 Dec 2018. doi: https://doi.org/10.1111/nph.15521

Chen H, Shu H, Wang L, Zhang F, Li X, Ochola SO, Mao F, Ma H, Ye W, Gu T, Jiang L, Wu Y, Wang Y, Kamoun S, Dong S (2018)

Phytophthora methylomes are modulated by 6mA methyltransferases and associated with adaptive genome regions. Genome Biol. 2018 Oct 31;19(1):181. doi: 10.1186/s13059-018-1564-4.

Zess EK, Jensen C, Cruz-Mireles N, De la Concepcion JC, Sklenar J, Imre R, Roitinger E, Hughes R, Belhaj K, Mechtler K, Menke F, Bozkurt T, Banfield M, Kamoun S, Maqbool A, Dagdas Y (2018)

N-terminal β-strand underpins biochemical specialization of an ATG8 isoform. bioRxiv preprint Oct 25, 2018 doi: https://doi.org/10.1101/453563

Gupta DR, Avila CR, Win J, Soanes DM, Ryder LS, Croll D, Bhattacharjee P, Hossain MS, Mahmud NU, Mehebub MS, Surovy MZ, Rahman MM, Talbot N, Kamoun S, Islam MT (2018)

Cautionary Notes on Use of the MoT3 Diagnostic Assay for Magnaporthe oryzae Wheat and Rice Blast Isolates. Phytopathology. 2018 Sep 25. doi: 10.1094/PHYTO-06-18-0199-LE.

De la Concepcion JC, Franceschetti M, Maqbool A, Saitoh H, Terauchi R, Kamoun S, Banfield MJ (2018)

Polymorphic residues in rice NLRs expand binding and response to effectors of the blast pathogen. Nature Plants (2018) https://doi.org/10.1038/s41477-018-0194-x

Langner T, Kamoun S, Belhaj K (2018)

CRISPR Crops: Plant Genome Editing Toward Disease Resistance. Annu Rev Phytopathol. 2018 Jul 5. doi: 10.1146/annurev-phyto-080417-050158.

Pais M, Yoshida K, Giannakopoulou A, Pel MA, Cano LM, Oliva RF, Witek K, Lindqvist-Kreuze H, Vleeshouwers VGAA, Kamoun S (2018)

Gene expression polymorphism underpins evasion of host immunity in an asexual lineage of the Irish potato famine pathogen. BMC Evol Biol. 2018 Jul 5;18(1):93. doi: 10.1186/s12862-018-1201-6.

Dagdas YF, Pandey P, Tumtas Y, Sanguankiattichai N, Belhaj K, Duggan C, Leary AY, Segretin M, Contreras M, Savage Z, Khandare VS, Kamoun S, Bozkurt TO (2018)

Host autophagy machinery is diverted to the pathogen interface to mediate focal defense responses against the Irish potato famine pathogen. Elife. 2018 Jun 22;7. pii: e37476. doi: 10.7554/eLife.37476.

Wu CH, Derevnina L, Kamoun S (2018)

Receptor networks underpin plant immunity. Science 22 Jun 2018: Vol. 360, Issue 6395, pp. 1300-1301 DOI: 10.1126/science.aat2623

Gupta DR, Reyes-Avila CS, Win J, Soanes DM, Ryder LS, Daniel Croll D, Bhattacharjee P, Hossain MS, Mahmud NU, Mehbub MS, Surovy MZ, Talbot NJ, Kamoun S, Islam MT (2018)

The MoT3 assay does not distinguish between Magnaporthe oryzae wheat and rice blast isolates from Bangladesh. bioRxiv preprint Jun 14, 2018 doi: https://doi.org/10.1101/345215

Langner T, Białas A, Kamoun S (2018)

The Blast Fungus Decoded: Genomes in Flux. MBio. 2018 Apr 17;9(2). pii: e00571-18. doi: 10.1128/mBio.00571-18.

Weiß CL, Pais M, Cano LM, Kamoun S, Burbano HA (2018)

nQuire: a statistical framework for ploidy estimation using next generation sequencing. BMC Bioinformatics. 2018 Apr 4;19(1):122. doi: 10.1186/s12859-018-2128-z.

Upson JL, Zess EK, Białas A, Wu CH, Kamoun S (2018)

The coming of age of EvoMPMI: evolutionary molecular plant-microbe interactions across multiple timescales. Curr Opin Plant Biol. 2018 Mar 28;44:108-116. doi: 10.1016/j.pbi.2018.03.003.

Domazakis E, Wouters D, Visser R, Kamoun S, Joosten MH, Vleeshouwers VGAA (2018)

The ELR-SOBIR1 complex functions as a two-component RLK to mount defense against Phytophthora infestans. Mol Plant Microbe Interact. 2018 Feb 16. doi: 10.1094/MPMI-09-17-0217-R.

Upson JL, Zess EK, Bialas A, Wu CH, Kamoun S (2018)

The coming of age of EvoMPMI: evolutionary molecular plant-microbe interactions across multiple timescales. bioRxiv preprint Jan 28, 2018 doi: https://doi.org/10.1101/254755

Fujisaki K, Abe Y, Kanzaki E, Ito K, Utsushi H, Saitoh H, Białas A, Banfield M, Kamoun S, Terauchi R (2017)

An unconventional NOI/RIN4 domain of a rice NLR protein binds host EXO70 protein to confer fungal immunity. bioRxiv preprint Dec 24, 2017 doi: https://doi.org/10.1101/239400

Kamoun S, Lozano-Durán R, Nakhleh L (2017)

Stranger in a strange land: the experiences of immigrant researchers. Genome Biology 18:232

Chen H, Shu H, Wang L, Zhang F, Li X, Ochola S, Mao F, Ma H, Ye W, Gu T, Jiang L, Wu Y, Wang Y, Kamoun S, Dong S (2017)

Phytophthora methylomes modulated by expanded 6mA methyltransferases are associated with adaptive genome regions. bioRxiv preprint Nov 11, 2017 doi: https://doi.org/10.1101/217646

Tamiru M, Natsume S, Takagi H, White B, Yaegashi H, Shimizu M, Yoshida K, Uemura A, Oikawa K, Abe A, Urasaki N, Matsumura H, Babil P, Yamanaka S, Matsumoto R, Muranaka S, Girma G, Lopez-Montes A, Gedil M, Bhattacharjee R, Abberton M, Kumar PL, Rabbi I, Tsujimura M, Terachi T, Haerty W, Corpas M, Kamoun S, Kahl G, Takagi H, Asiedu R, Terauchi R (2017)

Genome sequencing of the staple food crop white Guinea yam enables the development of a molecular marker for sex determination. BMC Biol. 2017 Sep 19;15(1):86. doi: 10.1186/s12915-017-0419-x.

Petre B, Win J, Menke FLH, Kamoun S (2017)

Protein-Protein Interaction Assays with Effector-GFP Fusions in Nicotiana benthamiana. Methods Mol Biol. 2017;1659:85-98. doi: 10.1007/978-1-4939-7249-4_8.

Bialas A, Zess EK, De la Concepcion JC, Franceschetti M, Pennington HG, Yoshida K, Upson JL, Chanclud E, Wu C-H, Langner T, Maqbool A, Varden FA, Derevnina L, Belhaj K, Fujisaki K, Saitoh H, Terauchi R, Banfield MJ, Kamoun S (2017)

Lessons in effector and NLR biology of plant-microbe systems. bioRxiv preprint Aug 2, 2017 doi: https://doi.org/10.1101/171223

Wu CH, Abd-El-Haliem A, Bozkurt TO, Belhaj K, Terauchi R, Vossen JH, Kamoun S (2017)

NLR network mediates immunity to diverse plant pathogens. Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2017 Jul 11. pii: 201702041. doi: 10.1073/pnas.1702041114.

Weiß CL, Pais M, Cano LM, Kamoun S, Burbano HA (2017)

nQuire: A Statistical Framework For Ploidy Estimation Using Next Generation Sequencing. bioRxiv preprint May 29, 2017 doi: https://doi.org/10.1101/143537

Kamoun S (2017)

Can a biologist fix a smartphone?—Just hack it! BMC Biol. 2017 May 8;15(1):37. doi: 10.1186/s12915-017-0378-2.

Michelmore RW, Coaker G, Bart R, Beattie GA, Bent A, Bruce T, Cameron D, Dangl J, Dinesh-Kumar S, Edwards R, Eves-van den Akker S, Gassmann W, Greenberg J, Harrison R, He P, Harvey J, Huffaker A, Hulbert S, Innes R, Jones JD, Kaloshian I, Kamoun S, Katagiri F, Leach JE, Ma W, McDowell JM, Medford J, Meyers B, Nelson R, Oliver RP, Qi Y, Saunders D, Shaw M, Subudhi P, Torrance L, Tyler BM, Walsh J (2017)

Foundational and translational research opportunities to improve plant health. Mol Plant Microbe Interact. 2017 Apr 11. doi: 10.1094/MPMI-01-17-0010-CR.

Franceschetti M, Maqbool A, Jiménez-Dalmaroni MJ, Pennington HG, Kamoun S, Banfield MJ (2017)

Effectors of Filamentous Plant Pathogens: Commonalities amid Diversity. Microbiol. Mol. Biol. Rev. June 2017 vol. 81 no. 2 e00066-16 doi: 10.1128/MMBR.00066-16

Nekrasov V, Wang C, Win J, Lanz C, Weigel D, Kamoun S (2017)

Rapid generation of a transgene-free powdery mildew resistant tomato by genome deletion. Sci Rep. 2017 Mar 28;7(1):482. doi: 10.1038/s41598-017-00578-x.

Prince DC, Rallapalli G, Xu D, Schoonbeek H-J, Cevik V, Asai S, Kemen E, Cruz-Mireles N, Kemen A, Belhaj K, Schornack S, Kamoun S, Holub EB, Halkier BA, Jones JDG (2017)

Albugo-imposed changes to tryptophan-derived antimicrobial metabolite biosynthesis may contribute to suppression of non-host resistance to Phytophthora infestans in Arabidopsis thaliana. BMC Biology 15:20 DOI 10.1186/s12915-017-0360-z

Dagdas Y, Pandey P, Sanguankiattichai N, Tumtas Y, Belhaj K, Duggan C, Segretin M, Kamoun S, Bozkurt TO (2017)

Host autophagosomes are diverted to a plant-pathogen interface. bioRxiv preprint January 30, 2017 doi: https://doi.org/10.1101/102996

Derevnina L, Petre B, Kellner R, Dagdas YF, Sarowar MN, Giannakopoulou A, De la Concepcion JC, Chaparro-Garcia A, Pennington HG, van West P, Kamoun S (2016)

Emerging oomycete threats to plants and animals. Philos Trans R Soc Lond B Biol Sci. 2016 Dec 5;371(1709). pii: 20150459. doi: 10.1098/rstb.2015.0459.

Kellner R, De la Concepcion JC, Maqbool A, Kamoun S, Dagdas YF (2016)

ATG8 Expansion: A Driver of Selective Autophagy Diversification? Trends Plant Sci. Dec 27. pii: S1360-1385(16)30200-X. doi: 10.1016/j.tplants.2016.11.015.

Wu CH, Abd-El-Haliem A, Bozkurt TO, Belhaj K, Terauchi R, Vossen JH, Kamoun S (2016)

NLR signaling network mediates immunity to diverse plant pathogens. bioRxiv preprint November 29, 2016 doi: http://dx.doi.org/10.1101/090449

Hopes A, Nekrasov V, Kamoun S, Mock T (2016)

Editing of the urease gene by CRISPR-Cas in the diatom Thalassiosira pseudonana. Plant Methods 12:49. doi: 10.1186/s13007-016-0148-0

Islam MT, Croll D, Gladieux P, Soanes DM, Persoons A, Bhattacharjee P, Hossain MS, Gupta DR, Rahman MM, Mahboob MG, Cook N, Salam MU, Surovy MZ, Sancho VB, Maciel JL, NhaniJúnior A, Castroagudín VL, Reges JT, Ceresini PC, Ravel S, Kellner R, Fournier E, Tharreau D, Lebrun MH, McDonald BA, Stitt T, Swan D, Talbot NJ, Saunders DG, Win J, Kamoun S (2016)

Emergence of wheat blast in Bangladesh was caused by a South American lineage of Magnaporthe oryzae. BMC Biol. 2016 Oct 3;14(1):84.

Derevnina L, Dagdas YF, De la Concepcion JC, Bialas A, Kellner R, Petre B, Domazakis E, Du J, Wu CH, Lin X, Aguilera-Galvez C, Cruz-Mireles N, Vleeshouwers VG, Kamoun S (2016)

Nine things to know about elicitins. New Phytol. 2016 Sep 1. doi: 10.1111/nph.14137.

Maqbool A, Hughes RK, Dagdas YF, Tregidgo N, Zess E, Belhaj K, Round A, Bozkurt TO, Kamoun S, Banfield MJ (2016)

Structural basis of host Autophagy-related protein 8 (ATG8) binding by the Irish potato famine pathogen effector protein PexRD54. J Biol Chem. 2016 Jul 25. pii: jbc.M116.744995.

Hopes A, Nekrasov V, Kamoun S, Mock T (2016)

Editing of the urease gene by CRISPR-Cas in the diatom Thalassiosira pseudonana. bioRxiv preprint July 18, 2016 doi: http://dx.doi.org/10.1101/062026

Islam T, Croll D, Gladieux P, Soanes S, Persoons A, Bhattacharjee P, Hossain S, Gupta D, Rahman MM, Mahboob MG, Cook N, Salam M, Sancho VB, Maciel JN, Nanib A, Castroagudin V, de Assis Reges JT, Ceresini P, Ravel S, Kellner R, Fournier E, Tharreau D, Lebrun MH, McDonald B, Stitt T, Swan D, Talbot N, Saunders D, Win J, Kamoun S (2016)

Emergence of wheat blast in Bangladesh was caused by a South American lineage of Magnaporthe oryzae. bioRxiv preprint June 19, 2016 doi: http://dx.doi.org/10.1101/059832

Belhaj K, Cano LM, Prince DC, Kemen A, Yoshida K, Dagdas YF, Etherington GJ, Schoonbeek HJ, van Esse HP, Jones JD, Kamoun S, Schornack S (2016)

Arabidopsis late blight: Infection of a nonhost plant by Albugo laibachii enables full colonization by Phytophthora infestans. Cell Microbiol. 2016 Jun 15. doi: 10.1111/cmi.12628.

Kamoun S, Zipfel C (2016)

Fungal pathogenesis: Host modulation every which way. Nature Microbiology 1. doi:10.1038/nmicrobiol.2016.75

Giannakopoulou A, Chaparro-Garcia A, Kamoun S (2016)

The potato NLR immune receptor R3a does not contain non-canonical integrated domains. bioRxiv preprint May 31, 2016 doi: http://dx.doi.org/10.1101/056242

Yoshida K, Saunders DG, Mitsuoka C, Natsume S, Kosugi S, Saitoh H, Inoue Y, Chuma I, Tosa Y, Cano LM, Kamoun S, Terauchi R (2016)

Host specialization of the blast fungus Magnaporthe oryzae is associated with dynamic gain and loss of genes linked to transposable elements. BMC Genomics. 2016 May 18;17(1):370. doi: 10.1186/s12864-016-2690-6.

Giannakopoulou A, Bialas A, Kamoun S, Vleeshouwers VG (2016)

New & Views: Plant immunity switched from bacteria to virus. Nat Biotechnol. 2016 Apr 7;34(4):391-2. doi: 10.1038/nbt.3538.

Kamoun S, Zipfel C (2016)

Scientific record: Class uncorrected errors as misconduct. Nature. 2016 Mar 10;531(7593):173. doi: 10.1038/531173e.

Petre B, Saunders DGO, Sklenar J, Lorrain C, Krasileva KV, Win J, Duplessis S, Kamoun S (2016)

Heterologous Expression Screens in Nicotiana benthamiana Identify a Candidate Effector of the Wheat Yellow Rust Pathogen that Associates with Processing Bodies. PLoS ONE, February 10, 2016 doi: 10.1371/journal.pone.0149035

Petre B, Kopischke M, Evrard A, Robatzek S, Kamoun S (2016)

Cell re-entry assays do not support models of pathogen-independent translocation of AvrM and AVR3a effectors into plant cells. bioRxiv preprint January 29, 2016 doi: http://dx.doi.org/10.1101/038232

Dagdas YF, Belhaj K, Maqbool A, Chaparro-Garcia A, Pandey P, Petre B, Tabassum N, Cruz-Mireles N, Hughes RK, Sklenar J, Win J, Menke F, Findlay K, Banfield MJ, Kamoun S, Bozkurt TO

An effector of the Irish potato famine pathogen antagonizes a host autophagy cargo receptor. Elife. 2016 Jan 14;5. pii: e10856. doi: 10.7554/eLife.10856

Belhaj K, Cano LM, Prince DC, Kemen A, Yoshida K, Dagdas YF, Etherington GJ, Schoonbeek H, van Esse HP, Jones JDG, Kamoun S, Schornack S (2015)

Arabidopsis late blight: Infection of a nonhost plant by Albugo laibachii enables full colonization by Phytophthora infestans. bioRxiv preprint December 23, 2015 doi: http://dx.doi.org/10.1101/035006

Wu CH, Belhaj K, Bozkurt TO, Birk MS, Kamoun S (2015)

Helper NLR proteins NRC2a/b and NRC3 but not NRC1 are required for Pto-mediated cell death and resistance in Nicotiana benthamiana. New Phytol. 2015 Nov 23. doi: 10.1111/nph.13764.

Petre B, Saunders DGO, Sklenar J, Lorrain C, Krasileva KV, Win j, Duplessis D, Kamoun S (2015)

In planta expression screens of candidate effector proteins from the wheat yellow rust fungus reveal processing bodies as a pathogen-targeted plant cell compartment. bioRxiv preprint November 19, 2015 doi: http://dx.doi.org/10.1101/032276

Chaparro-Garcia A, Kamoun S, Nekrasov V (2015)

Boosting plant immunity with CRISPR/Cas. Genome Biol. 2015 Nov 19;16(1):254.

Sharma R, Xia X, Cano LM, Evangelisti E, Kemen E, Judelson H, Oome S, Sambles C, van den Hoogen DJ, Kitner M, Klein J, Meijer HJ, Spring O, Win J, Zipper R, Bode HB, Govers F, Kamoun S, Schornack S, Studholme DJ, Van den Ackerveken G, Thines M (2015)

Genome analyses of the sunflower pathogen Plasmopara halstedii provide insights into effector evolution in downy mildews and Phytophthora. BMC Genomics. 2015 Oct 5;16(1):741. doi: 10.1186/s12864-015-1904-7

Petre B, Lorrain C, Saunders DG, Win J, Sklenar J, Duplessis S, Kamoun S (2015)

Rust fungal effectors mimic host transit peptides to translocate into chloroplasts. Cell Microbiol. 2015 Oct 1. doi: 10.1111/cmi.12530.

Rickett LM, Pullen N, Hartley M, Zipfel C, Kamoun S, Baranyi J, Morris RJ (2015)

Incorporating prior knowledge improves detection of differences in bacterial growth rate. BMC Systems Biology, 9:60 doi:10.1186/s12918-015-0204-9

Giannakopoulou A, Steele JF, Segretin ME, Bozkurt T, Zhou J, Robatzek S, Banfield MJ, Pais M, Kamoun S (2015)

Tomato I2 immune receptor can be engineered to confer partial resistance to the oomycete Phytophthora infestans in addition to the fungus Fusarium oxysporum. Mol Plant Microbe Interact. 2015 Sep 14.

Chaparro-Garcia A, Schwizer S, Sklenar J, Yoshida K, Petre B, Bos JI, Schornack S, Jones AM, Bozkurt TO, Kamoun S (2015)

Phytophthora infestans RXLR-WY Effector AVR3a Associates with Dynamin-Related Protein 2 Required for Endocytosis of the Plant Pattern Recognition Receptor FLS2. PLoS One;10(9):e0137071. doi: 10.1371/journal.pone.0137071.

Yoshida K, Sasaki E, Kamoun S (2015)

Computational analyses of ancient pathogen DNA from herbarium samples: challenges and prospects. Front. Plant Sci. | doi: 10.3389/fpls.2015.00771

Maqbool A, Saitoh H, Franceschetti M, Stevenson C, Uemura A, Kanzaki H, Kamoun S, Terauchi R, Banfield MJ (2015)

Structural basis of pathogen recognition by an integrated HMA domain in a plant NLR immune receptor. Elife. 2015 Aug 25;4. doi: 10.7554/eLife.08709.

Ilyas M, Hörger AC, Bozkurt TO, van den Burg HA, Kaschani F, Kaiser M, Belhaj K, Smoker M, Joosten MH, Kamoun S, van der Hoorn RA (2015)

Functional Divergence of Two Secreted Immune Proteases of Tomato. Current Biology 25: 2300–2306.

Rallapalli G, Fraxinus Players, Saunders DGO, Yoshida K, Edwards A, Lugo CA, Collin S, Clavijo B, Corpas M, Swarbreck D, Clark M, Downie JA, Kamoun S, Team Cooper, MacLean D (2015)

Lessons from Fraxinus, a crowd-sourced citizen science game in genomics. eLife 2015;4:e07460

Fujisaki K, Abe Y, Ito A, Saitoh H, Yoshida K, Kanzaki H, Kanzaki E, Utsushi H, Yamashita T, Kamoun S, Terauchi R (2015)

Rice Exo70 interacts with a fungal effector, AVR-Pii and is required for AVR-Pii-triggered immunity. Plant J. doi: 10.1111/tpj.12934.

Patron NJ, Orzaez D, Marillonnet S, Warzecha H, Matthewman C, Youles M, Raitskin O, Leveau A, Farré G, Rogers C, Smith A, Hibberd J, Webb AAR, Locke J, Schornack S, Ajioka J, Baulcombe DC, Zipfel C, Kamoun S, Jones JDG, Kuhn H, Robatzek S, Van Esse HP, Sanders D, Oldroyd G, Martin C, Field R, O'Connor S, Fox S, Wulff B, Miller B, Breakspear A, Radhakrishnan G, Delaux PM, Loqué D, Granell A, Tissier A, Shih P, Brutnell TP, Quick WP, Rischer H, Fraser PD, Aharoni A, Raines C, South PF, Ané JM, Hamberger BR, Langdale J, Stougaard J, Bouwmeester H, Udvardi M, Murray JAH, Ntoukakis V, Schäfer P, Denby K, Edwards KJ, Osbourn A, Haseloff J (2015)

Standards for plant synthetic biology: a common syntax for exchange of DNA parts. New Phytologist 14 Jul 2015 doi: 10.1111/nph.13532

Solovyeva I, Schmuker A, Cano LM, van Damme M, Ploch S, Kamoun S, Thines M (2015)

Evolution of Hyaloperonospora effectors: ATR1 effector homologs from sister species of the downy mildew pathogen H. arabidopsidis are not recognised by RPP1WsB. Mycological Progress: 14 (53)

Petre B, Lorrain C, Saunders D, Duplessis S, Kamoun S (2015)

Rust fungal effectors mimic host transit peptides to translocate into chloroplasts. bioRxiv preprint May 19, 2015; doi: http://dx.doi.org/10.1101/019521

Oliva RF, Cano L, Raffaele S, Win J, Bozkurt TO, Belhaj K, Oh S, Thines M, Kamoun S (2015)

A recent expansion of the RXLR effector gene Avrblb2 is maintained in global populations of Phytophthora infestans indicating different contributions to virulence. Mol Plant Microbe Interact. 2015 Apr 20.

Du J, Verzaux E, Chaparro-Garcia A, Bijsterbosch G, Keizer LCP, Zhou J, Liebrand TWH, Xie C, Govers F, Robatzek S, van der Vossen EAG, Jacobsen E, Visser RGF, Kamoun S, Vleeshouwers VGAA (2015)

Elicitin recognition confers enhanced resistance to Phytophthora infestans in potato. Nature Plants 1, Article number: 15034 (2015) doi:10.1038/nplants.2015.34

Selosse MA, Strullu-Derrien C, Martin FM, Kamoun S, Kenrick K (2015)

Plants, fungi and oomycetes: a 400-million year affair that shapes the biosphere. Volume 206, Issue 2, pages 501–506, April 2015. DOI: 10.1111/nph.13371

Takagi H, Tamiru M, Abe A, Yoshida K, Uemura A, Yaegashi H, Obara T, Oikawa K, Utsushi H, Kanzaki E, Mitsuoka C, Natsume S, Kosugi S, Kanzaki H, Matsumura H, Urasaki N, Kamoun S, Terauchi R (2015)

MutMap accelerates breeding of a salt-tolerant rice cultivar. Nature Biotechnology (2015) doi:10.1038/nbt.3188

Wu C-H, Belhaj K, Bozkurt TO, Kamoun S (2015)

The NLR helper protein NRC3 but not NRC1 is required for Pto-mediated cell death in Nicotiana benthamiana. bioRxiv doi: http://dx.doi.org/10.1101/015479

Hubbard A, Lewis CM, Yoshida K, Ramirez-Gonzalez RH, de Vallavieille-Pope C, Thomas J, Kamoun S, Bayles R, Uauy C, Saunders DGO (2015)

Field pathogenomics reveals the emergence of a diverse wheat yellow rust population. Genome Biology (2015) 16:23 DOI 10.1186/s13059-015-0590-8

Wu C-H, Krasileva KV, Banfield MJ, Terauchi R, Kamoun S (2015)

The “sensor domains” of plant NLR proteins: more than decoys? Front. Plant Sci. doi: 10.3389/fpls.2015.00134

Petre B, Saunders DG, Sklenar J, Lorrain C, Win J, Duplessis S, Kamoun S (2015)

Candidate effector proteins of the rust pathogen Melampsora larici-populina target diverse plant cell compartments. Mol Plant Microbe Interact. 2015 Feb 4. [Epub ahead of print]

Belhaj K, Chaparro-Garcia A, Kamoun S, Patron NJ, Nekrasov V (2015)

Editing plant genomes with CRISPR/Cas9. Current Opinion in Biotechnology Volume 32, April 2015, Pages 76–84

Bozkurt TO, Belhaj K, Dagdas YF, Chaparro-Garcia A, Wu CH, Cano LM, Kamoun S (2014)

Rerouting of plant late endocytic trafficking towards a pathogen interface. Traffic. 2014 Nov 28. doi: 10.1111/tra.12245. [Epub ahead of print]

Giannakopoulou A, Schornack S, Bozkurt TO, Haart D, Ro DK, Faraldos JA, Kamoun S, O’Maille PE (2014)

Variation in Capsidiol Sensitivity between Phytophthora infestans and Phytophthora capsici Is Consistent with Their Host Range. PLOS ONE (2014). Published: September 09, 2014DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0107462

Kamoun S, Furzer O, Jones JD, Judelson HS, Ali GS, Dalio RJ, Roy SG, Schena L, Zambounis A, Panabières F, Cahill D, Ruocco M, Figueiredo A, Chen XR, Hulvey J, Stam R, Lamour K, Gijzen M, Tyler BM, Grünwald NJ, Mukhtar MS, Tomé DF, Tör M, Van den Ackerveken G, McDowell J, Daayf F, Fry WE, Lindqvist-Kreuze H, Meijer HJ, Petre B, Ristaino J, Yoshida K, Birch PR, Govers F. (2014)

The Top 10 oomycete pathogens in molecular plant pathology. Mol Plant Pathol. 2014 Sep 1. doi: 10.1111/mpp.12190. [Epub ahead of print] PubMed PMID: 25178392.

Bozkurt TO, Richardson A, Dagdas YF, Mongrand S, Kamoun S, Raffaele S (2014)

The plant membrane-associated REM1.3 remorin accumulates in discrete perihaustorial domains and enhances susceptibility to Phytophthora infestans. Plant Physiology May 2014 pp.114.235804

Alfred J, Dangl JL, Kamoun S and McCouch SR (2014)

New horizons for plant translational research. PLOS Biology, 12:e1001880.

Lorrain C, Kamoun S and Petre B (2014)

Populus trichocarpa Coproporphyrinogen III oxidase (PtCPO) localizes in sub-chloroplastic structures.

Kamoun, S. (2014)

Keeping up with the plant destroyers. PlantVillage.

Kamoun, S. (2014)

Wonders of the plant-microbe interactions world. IS-MPMI Reporter, 2014:2.

Saunders, D., Yoshida, K., Sambles, C., Glover, R., Clavijo, B., Corpas, M., Bunting, D., Dong, S., Clark, M., Swarbreck, D., Ayling, S., Bashton, M., Collin, S., Hosoya, T., Edwards, A., Crossman, L., Etherington, G., Win, J., Cano, L., Studholme, D., Downie, J.A., Caccamo, M., Kamoun, S., and MacLean, D. (2014)

Crowdsourced analysis of ash and ash dieback through the Open Ash Dieback project: A year 1 report on datasets and analyses contributed by a self-organising community. bioRxiv, 5:98.

Yoshida, K., Burbano, H.A., Krause, J., Thines, M., Weigel, D., and Kamoun, S. (2014)

Mining herbaria for plant pathogen genomes: back to the future. PLOS Pathogens, 10:e1004028.

Saunders, D.G., Win, J., Kamoun, S., and Raffaele, S. (2014)

Two-dimensional data binning for the analysis of genome architecture in filamentous plant pathogens and other eukaryotes. In “Plant-Pathogen Interactions: Methods and Protocols”, P. Birch, J. Jones, and J. Bos, eds. Methods in Molecular Biology, 1127:29-51.

Lee, H.A., Kim, S.Y., Oh, S.K., Yeom, S.I., Kim, S.B., Kim, M.S., Kamoun, S., and Choi, D. (2014)

Multiple recognition of RXLR effectors is associated with nonhost resistance of pepper against Phytophthora infestans. New Phytologist, in press.

Kamoun, S. (2014)

Gained in translation. IS-MPMI Reporter, 2014:1.

Nemri, A., Saunders, D.G., Anderson, C., Upadhyaya, N.M., Win, J., Lawrence, G., Jones, D., Kamoun, S., Ellis, J., and Dodds, P. (2014)

The genome sequence and effector complement of the flax rust pathogen Melampsora lini. Frontiers in Plant Science, 5:98.

King, S.R.F., McLellan, H., Boevink, P.C., Armstrong, M.R., Bukharova, B., Sukarta, O., Win, J., Kamoun, S., Birch, P.R.J., and Banfield, M.J. (2014)

Phytophthora infestans RXLR effector PexRD2 interacts with host MAPKKKe to suppress plant immune signaling. Plant Cell, in press.

Segretin, M.E., Pais, M., Franceschetti, M., Chaparro-Garcia, A., Bos, J.I., Banfield, M.J., and Kamoun, S. (2014)

Single amino acid mutations in the potato immune receptor R3a expand response to Phytophthora effectors. Molecular Plant-Microbe Interactions, in press.

Thines, M., and Kamoun, S. (2010)

Oomycete-plant coevolution: recent advances and future prospects. Current Opinion in Plant Biology, 13:427-433.

Petre, B., and Kamoun, S.(2014)

Unsolved mystery – How do filamentous pathogens deliver effector proteins into plant cells? PLOS Biology, 12:e1001801.

Dong, S., Stam, R., Cano, L.M., Song, J., Sklenar, J., Yoshida, K., Bozkurt, T.O., Oliva, R., Liu, Z., Tian, M., Win, J., Banfield, M.J., Jones, A.M.E., van der Hoorn, R.A.L., and Kamoun, S. (2014)

Effector specialization in a lineage of the Irish potato famine pathogen. Science, 343:552-555.

Lin, K., Limpens, E., Zhang, Z., Ivanov, S., Saunders, D.G.O., Mu, D., Pang, E., Cao, H., Cha, H., Lin, T., Zhou, Q., Shang, Y., Li, Y., Sharma, T., van Velzen, R., de Ruijter, N., Aanen, D.K., Win, J., Kamoun, S., Bisseling, T., Geurts, R., and Huang, S. (2014)

Single nucleus genome sequencing reveals high similarity among nuclei of an endomycorrhizal fungus. PLOS Genetics, 10:e1004078.

Kamoun, S. 2013.

A most honorable legacy. IS-MPMI Reporter, 2013:3.

Qi, J., Liu, X., Shen, D., Miao, H., Xie, B., Li, X., Zeng, P., Wang, S., Shang, Y., Gu, X., Du, Y., Li, Y., Lin, T., Yuan, J., Yang, X., Chen, J., Chen, H., Xiong, X., Huang, K., Fei, Z., Mao, L., Tian, L., Stadler, T., Renner, S.S,, Kamoun, S., Lucas, W.J., Zhang, Z., Huang, S. 2013.

A genomic variation map provides insights into the genetic basis of cucumber domestication and diversity. Nature Genetics, 45:1510-1515.

Kosugi, S., Natsume, S., Yoshida, K., MacLean, D., Cano, L., Kamoun, S., and Terauchi, R. 2013.

Coval: Improving alignment quality and variant calling accuracy for next-generation sequencing data. PLOS ONE, 8:e75402.

Belhaj, K., Chaparro-Garcia, A., Kamoun, S. and Nekrasov, V. (2013)

Plant genome editing made easy: targeted mutagenesis in model and crop plants using the CRISPR/Cas system. Plant Methods, 9:39.

Cano, L.M., Raffaele, S., Haugen, R.H., Saunders, D.G.O., Leonelli, L., MacLean, D., Hogenhout, S.A., and Kamoun, S. 2013.

Major transcriptome reprogramming underlies floral mimicry induced by the rust fungus Puccinia monoica in Boechera stricta. PLOS ONE, 8:e75293.

Nekrasov, V., Staskawicz, B., Weigel, D., Jones, J.D.G., and Kamoun, S. (2013)

Targeted mutagenesis in the model plant Nicotiana benthamiana using Cas9 RNA-guided endonuclease. Nature Biotechnology, 31:691-693.

Kamoun, S. 2013.

Science on the Med. IS-MPMI Reporter, 2013:2.

Xia, S., Cheng, Y.T., Huang, S., Win, J., Soards, A., Jinn, T.L., Jones, J., Kamoun, S., Chen, S., Zhang, Y., Li, X. 2013.

Regulation of transcription of NB-LRR-encoding genes SNC1 and RPP4 via H3K4 tri-methylation. Plant Physiology, 162:1694-1705.

Fekih, R., Takagi, H., Tamiru, M., Abe, A., Natsume, S., Yaegashi, H., Sharma, S., Sharma, S., Kanzaki, H., Matsumura, H., Saitoh, H., Mitsuoka, C., Utsushi, H., Uemura, A., Kanzaki, E., Kosugi, S., Yoshida, K., Cano. L., Kamoun, S., and Terauchi, R. 2013.

MutMap+: Genetic mapping and mutant identification without crossing in rice. PLOS ONE, 8:e68529.

Pais, M., Win, J., Yoshida, K., Etherington, G.J., Cano, L.M., Raffaele, S., Banfield, M.J., Jones, A., Kamoun, S., and Saunders, D.G.O. 2013.

From pathogen genomes to host plant processes: the power of plant parasitic oomycetes. Genome Biology, 14:211

Banfield, M.J., and Kamoun, S. 2013.

Hooked and cooked: A fish killer genome exposed. PLOS Genetics, 9:e1003590.

Yoshida, K., Schuenemann, V., Cano, L., Pais, M., Mishra, B., Sharma, R., Lanz, C., Martin, F., Kamoun, S., Krause, J., Thines, M., Weigel, D., and Burbano, H. 2013.

The rise and fall of the Phytophthora infestans lineage that triggered the Irish potato famine. eLife, 2:e00731.

Takagi, H., Uemura, A., Yaegashi, H., Tamiru, M., Abe, A., Mitsuoka, C., Utsushi, H., Natsume, S., Kanzaki, H., Matsumura, H., Saitoh, H., Yoshida, K., Cano, L.M., Kamoun, S., Terauchi, R. 2013.

MutMap-Gap: whole-genome resequencing of mutant F2 progeny bulk combined with de novo assembly of gap regions identifies the rice blast resistance gene Pii. New Phytologist, 200:276-283.

Cantu, D., Segovia, V., Maclean, D., Bayles, R., Chen, X., Kamoun, S., Dubcovsky, J., Saunders, D.G., and Uauy, C. 2013.

Genome analyses of the wheat yellow (stripe) rust pathogen Puccinia striiformis f. sp. tritici reveal polymorphic and haustorial expressed secreted proteins as candidate effectors. BMC Genomics, 14:270.

MacLean, D., Yoshida, K., Edwards, A., Crossman, L., Clavijo, B., Clark, M., Swarbreck, D., Bashton, M., Chapman, P., Gijzen, M., Caccamo, M., Downie, A., Kamoun, S., and Saunders, D. 2013.

Crowdsourcing genomic analyses of ash and ash dieback — power to the people. GigaScience, 2:2.

Sharma, S., Sharma, S., Hirabuchi, A., Yoshida, K., Fujisaki, K., Ito, A., Uemura, A., Terauchi, R., Kamoun, S., Sohn, K.H., Jones, J.D., and Saitoh, H. 2013.

Deployment of Burkholderia glumae type III secretion system as an efficient tool for translocating pathogen effectors to monocot cells. Plant Journal, 74:701-712.

Kamoun, S. 2013.

Trees and trends. IS-MPMI Reporter, 2013:2.

Takagi, H., Abe, A., Yoshida, K., Kosugi, S., Natsume, S., Mitsuoka, C., Uemura, A., Utsushi, H., Tamiru, M., Takuno, S., Innan, H., Cano, L.M., Kamoun, S., and Terauchi, R. 2013.

QTL-seq: Rapid mapping of quantitative trait loci in rice by whole genome resequencing of DNA from two bulked populations. Plant Journal, 74:74-183.

Win, J., Chaparro-Garcia, A., Belhaj, K., Saunders, D.G.O., Yoshida, K., Dong, S., Schornack, S., Zipfel, C., Robatzek, S., Hogenhout, S.A., and Kamoun, S. 2012.

Effector Biology of Plant-associated Organisms: Concepts and Perspectives. Cold Spring Harbor Symposium on Quantitative Biology, 77:235-247.

Wang, E., Schornack, S., Marsh, J.F., Gobbato, E., Schwessinger, B., Eastmond, P., Schultze, M., Kamoun, S., and Oldroyd, G.E.D. 2012.

A common signaling process that promotes mycorrhizal and oomycete colonization of plants. Current Biology, 22:2242-2246.

Cooke, D.E.L., Cano, L.M., Raffaele, S., Bain, R.A., Cooke, L.R., Etherington, G.J., Deahl, K.L., Farrer, R.A., Gilroy, E.M., Goss, E.M., Grunwald, N.J., Hein, I., MacLean, D., McNicol, J.W., Randall, E., Oliva, R.F., Pel, M.A., Shaw, D.S., Squires, J.N., Taylor, M.C., Vleeshouwers, V.G.A.A., Birch, P.R.J., Lees, A.K., and Kamoun, S. 2012.

Genome Analyses of an Aggressive and Invasive Lineage of the Irish Potato Famine Pathogen. PLoS Pathogens, 8:e1002940.

Saunders, D.G.O., Breen, S., Win, J., Schornack, S., Hein, I., Bozkurt, T.O., Champouret, N., Vleeshouwers, V.G.A.A., Birch, P.R.J., Gilroy, E.M., and Kamoun, S. 2012.

Host protein BSL1 associates with Phytophthora infestans RXLR effector AVR2 and the Solanum demissum immune receptor R2 to mediate disease resistance. Plant Cell, 24:3420-3434.

van Damme, M., Bozkurt, T.O., Cakir, C., Schornack, S., Sklenar, J., Jones, A.E.M., and Kamoun, S. (2012)

The Irish potato famine pathogen Phytophthora infestans translocates the CRN8 Kinase into host plant cells. PLoS Pathogens, 8:e1002875.

Youle, M., Rohwer, F., Whiteley, M., Steel, B.C., Delalez, N.J., Nord, A.L., Berry, R.M., Armitage, J.P., Kamoun, S., Hogenhout, S., Diggle, S. P., Gurney, J., Pollitt, E. J. G., Boetius, A. and Cary, S. C. 2012.

Microbial Olympics. Nature Reviews Microbiology, 10:583-588.

Lamour, K., Mudge, J., Gobena, D., Hurtado-Gonzales, O.P., Schmutz, J., Kuo, A., Miller, N.A., Rice, B.J., Raffaele, S., Cano, L., Bharti, A.K., Donahoo, R.S., Finley, S.L., Huitema, E., Hulvey, J., Platt, D., Salamov, A., Savidor, A., Sharma, R., Stam, R., Storey, D., Thines, M., Win, J., Haas, B., Dinwiddie, D., Jenkins, J., Knight, J., Affourtit, J., Han, C.S., Chertkov, O., Lindquist, E.A., Detter, C., Grigoriev, I.V., Kamoun, S., Kingsmore, S.F. 2012.

Genome sequencing and mapping reveal loss of heterozygosity as a mechanism for rapid adaptation in the vegetable pathogen Phytophthora capsici. Molecular Plant-Microbe Interactions, 25:1350-1360.

Kamoun, S., and Ward, E. 2012.

Next-generation disease resistance breeding: Crop plants with DNA deletions are not GMOs. Biofortified.

Saitoh, H., Fujisawa, S., Mitsuoka, C., Ito, A., Hirabuchi, A., Ikeda, K., Irieda, H., Yoshino, K., Yoshida, K., Matsumura, H., Tosa, Y., Win, J., Kamoun, S., Takano, Y., and Terauchi, R. 2012.

Large-scale gene disruption in Magnaporthe oryzae identifies MC69, a secreted protein required for infection by monocot and dicot fungal pathogens. PLoS Pathogens, 8:e1002711.

Raffaele, S., and Kamoun, S. 2012.

Genome evolution in filamentous plant pathogens: why bigger can be better. Nature Reviews Microbiology, 10:417-430.

Bozkurt, T.O., Schornack, S., Banfield, M.J., and Kamoun, S. 2012.

Oomycetes, effectors, and all that jazz. Current Opinion in Plant Biology, 15:483-492.

Rietman, H., Bijsterbosch, G., Cano, L.M., Lee, H.-R., Vossen, J.H., Jacobsen, E., Visser, R.G.F., Kamoun, S., and Vleeshouwers, V.G.A.A. 2012.

Qualitative and quantitative late blight resistance in the potato cultivar Sarpo Mira is determined by the perception of five distinct RXLR effectors. Molecular Plant-Microbe Interactions, 25:910-919.

Lu, Y.-J., Schornack, S., Spallek, T., Geldner, N., Chory, J., Schellmann, S., Schumacher, K., Kamoun, S., and Robatzek, S. 2012.

Patterns of plant subcellular responses to successful oomycete infections reveal differences in host cell reprogramming and endocytic trafficking. Cellular Microbiology, 14:682-697

MacLean, D., and Kamoun, S. 2012.

Big data in small places. Nature Biotechnology, 30:33-34.

Abe, A., Kosugi, S., Yoshida, K., Natsume, S., Takagi, H., Kanzaki, H., Matsumura, H., Yoshida, K., Mitsuoka, C., Tamiru, M., Innan, H., Cano, L., Kamoun, S., and Terauchi, R. 2012.

Genome sequencing reveals agronomically important loci in rice using MutMap. Nature Biotechnology, 30:174-178.

Win J, Krasileva KV, Kamoun S, Shirasu K, Staskawicz BJ, Banfield MJ (2012)

Sequence divergent RXLR effectors share a structural fold conserved across plant pathogenic oomycete species. PLoS Pathogens, 8:e1002400.

Saunders, D.G.O., Win, J., Cano, L.M., Szabo, L.J., Kamoun, S., and Raffaele, S. 2012.

Using hierarchical clustering of secreted protein families to classify and rank candidate effectors of rust fungi. PLoS ONE, 6:e16608.

Bozkurt, T.O., Schornack, S., Win, J., Shindo, T., Ilyas, M., Oliva, R., Cano, L.M., Jones, A.M.E., Huitema, E., van der Hoorn, R.A.L., and Kamoun, S. 2011.

Phytophthora infestans effector AVRblb2 prevents secretion of a plant immune protease at the haustorial interface. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences USA, 108:20832-20837.

van Damme, M., Cano, L. M., Oliva, R., Schornack, S., Segretin, M. E., Kamoun, S. and Raffaele, S. 2011.

Evolutionary and Functional Dynamics of Oomycete Effector Genes, in Effectors in Plant-Microbe Interactions (eds F. Martin and S. Kamoun), Wiley-Blackwell, Oxford, UK. doi: 10.1002/9781119949138.ch5

Boutemy, L.S., King, S.R.F., Win, J., Hughes, R.K., Clarke, T.A., Blumenschein, T.M.A., Kamoun, S., and Banfield, M.J. 2011.

Structures of Phytophthora RXLR effector proteins: a conserved but adaptable fold underpins functional diversity. Journal of Biological Chemistry, 41:35834-35842.

Vleeshouwers, V.G.A.A., Raffaele, R., Vossen, J., Champouret, N., Oliva, R., Segretin, M.E., Rietman, H., Cano, L.M., Lokossou, A., Kessel, G., Pel, M.A., and Kamoun, S. 2011.

Understanding and exploiting late blight resistance in the age of effectors. Annual Reviews of Phytopathology, 49:507-531.

Win, J., Kamoun, S., and Jones, A.M. 2011.

Purification of effector-target protein complexes via transient expression in Nicotiana benthamiana. In “Plant Immunity: Methods and Protocols”, J.M. McDowell, ed. Methods in Molecular Biology, 712:181-194

Huitema, E., Smoker, M., and Kamoun S. 2011.

A straightforward protocol for electro-transformation of Phytophthora capsici zoospores. In “Plant Immunity: Methods and Protocols”, J.M. McDowell, ed. Methods in Molecular Biology, 712:129-135.

Gilroy, E.M., Breen, S., Whisson, S.C., Squires, J., Hein, I., Kaczmarek, M., Turnbull, D., Boevink, P.C., Lokossou, A., Cano, L.M., Morales, J., Avrova, A.O., Pritchard, L., Randall, E., Lees, A., Govers, F., van West, P., Kamoun, S., Vleeshouwers, V.G.A.A., Cooke, D.E.L. and Birch, P.R.J. 2011.

Presence/absence, differential expression and sequence polymorphisms between PiAVR2 and PiAVR2-like in Phytophthora infestans determine virulence on R2 plants. New Phytologist, 191:763-776.

Chaparro-Garcia, A., Wilkinson, R.C., Gimenez-Ibanez, S., Findlay, K., Coffey, M.D., Zipfel, C., Rathjen, J.P., Kamoun, S., and Schornack, S. 2011.

The receptor-like kinase SERK3/BAK1 is required for basal resistance against the late blight pathogen Phytophthora infestans in Nicotiana benthamiana. PLoS One, 6:e16608.

Raffaele, S., Farrer, R.A., Cano, L.M., Studholme, D.J., MacLean, D., Thines, M., Jiang, R.H.Y., Zody, M.C., Kunjeti, S.G., Donofrio, N.M., Meyers, B.C., Nusbaum, C., and Kamoun, S. 2010.

Genome evolution following host jumps in the Irish potato famine pathogen lineage. Science, 330:1540-1543.

Baxter, L., Tripathy, S., Ishaque, N., Boot, N., Cabral, A., Kemen, E., Thines, M., Ah-Fong, A., Anderson, R., Badejoko, W., Bittner-Eddy, P., Boore, J.L., Chibucos, M.C., Coates, M., Dehal, P., Delehaunty, K., Dong, S., Downton, P., Dumas, B., Fabro, G., Fronick, C., Fuerstenberg, S.I., Fulton, L., Gaulin, E., Govers, F., Hughes, L., Humphray, S., Jiang, R.H.Y., Judelson, H., Kamoun, S., Kyung, K., Meijer, H., Minx, P., Morris, P., Nelson, J., Phuntumart, V., Qutob, D., Rehmany, A., Rougon-Cardoso, A., Ryden, P., Torto-Alalibo, T., Studholme, D., Wang, Y., Win, J., Wood, J., Clifton, S.W., Rogers, J., Van den Ackerveken, G., Jones, J.D.G., McDowell, J.M., Beynon, J., and Tyler, B.M. 2010.

Signatures of adaptation to obligate biotrophy in the Hyaloperonospora arabidopsidis genome. Science, 330:1549-1551.

Yaeno, T., Li, H., Chaparro-Garcia, A., Schornack, S., Koshiba, S., Watanabe, S., Kigawa, T., Kamoun, S., and Shirasu, K. 2011.

Phosphatidylinositol monophosphate-binding interface in the oomycete RXLR effector AVR3a is required for its stability in host cells to modulate plant immunity. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences USA, 108:14682-14687.

Raffaele, S., Win, J., Cano, L.M., Kamoun, S. 2010.

Analyses of genome architecture and gene expression reveal novel candidate virulence factors in the secretome of Phytophthora infestans. BMC Genomics, 11:637.

Kaschani, F., Shabab, M., Bozkurt, T., Shindo, T., Schornack, S., Gu, C., Ilyas, M., Win, J., Kamoun, S., van der Hoorn, R.A. 2010.

An effector-targeted protease contributes to defense against Phytophthora infestans and is under diversifying selection in natural hosts. Plant Physiology, 154:1794-1804.

Schornack, S., van Damme, M., Bozkurt, T.O., Cano, L.M., Smoker, M., Thines, M., Gaulin, E., Kamoun S., and Huitema, E. 2010.

Ancient class of translocated oomycete effectors targets the host nucleus. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences USA, 107:17421-17426.

Oh, S.-K., Kamoun S., and Choi, D. 2010.

Oomycete RXLR effectors function as both activator and suppressor of plant immunity. Plant Pathology Journal, 26:209-215.

Levesque, C.A., Brouwer, H., Cano, L., Hamilton, J.P., Holt, C., Huitema, E., Raffaele, S., Robideau, G.P., Thines, M., Win, J., Zerillo, M.M., Beakes, G.W., Boore, J.L., Busam, D., Dumas, B., Ferriera, S., Fuerstenberg, S.I., Gachon, C.M., Gaulin, E., Govers, F., Grenville-Briggs, L., Horner, N., Hostetler, J., Jiang, R.H., Johnson, J., Krajaejun, T., Lin, H., Meijer, H.J., Moore, B., Morris, P., Phuntmart, V., Puiu, D., Shetty, J., Stajich, J.E., Tripathy, S., Wawra, S., van West, P., Whitty, B.R., Coutinho, P.M., Henrissat, B., Martin, F., Thomas, P.D., Tyler, B.M., De Vries, R.P., Kamoun, S., Yandell, M., Tisserat, N., Buell, C.R. 2010.

Genome sequence of the necrotrophic plant pathogen, Pythium ultimum, reveals original pathogenicity mechanisms and effector repertoire. Genome Biology, 11:R73.

Bos, J.I.B., Armstrong, M.R., Gilroy, E.M., Boevink, P.C., Hein, I., Taylor, R.M., Zhendong, T., Engelhardt, S., Vetukuri, R.R., Harrower, B., Dixelius, C., Bryan, G., Sadanandom, A., Whisson, S.C., Kamoun, S., and Birch, P.R.J. 2010.

Phytophthora infestans effector AVR3a is essential for virulence and manipulates plant immunity by stabilizing host E3 ligase CMPG1. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences USA, 107:9909-14.

Oliva, R., Win, J., Raffaele, S., Boutemy, L., Bozkurt, T.O., Chaparro-Garcia, A., Segretin, M.E., Stam, R., Schornack, S., Cano, L.M., van Damme, M., Huitema, E., Thines, M., Banfield, M.J., and Kamoun, S. 2010.

Recent developments in effector biology of filamentous plant pathogens. Cellular Microbiology, 12:705-715.

Green, S., Studholme, D.J., Laue, B.E., Dorati, F., Lovell, H., Arnold, D., Cottrell, J.E., Bridgett, S., Blaxter, M., Huitema, E., Thwaites, R., Sharp, P.M., Jackson, R.W., and Kamoun, S. 2010.

Comparative genome analysis provides insights into the evolution and adaptation of Pseudomonas syringae pv. aesculi on Aesculus hippocastanum. PLoS ONE, 5:e10224.

Lebrun, M.H. and Kamoun, S. 2010.

Effectors, effectors et toujours des effectors. New Phytologist, 186:290-292.

Schornack, S., Huitema, E., Cano, L.M., Bozkurt, T.O., Oliva, R., van Damme, M., Schwizer, S., Raffaele, S., Chaparro-Garcia, A., Farrer, R., Segretin, M.E., Bos, J., Haas, B.J., Zody, M.C., Nusbaum, C., Win, J., Thines, M., and Kamoun, S. 2009.

Ten things to know about oomycete effectors. Molecular Plant Pathology, 10:795-803.

Oh, S.-K., Young, C., Lee, M., Oliva, R., Bozkurt, T., Cano, L.M., Win, J., Bos, J.I.B., Liu, H.,-Y., van Damme, M., Morgan, W., Choi, D., van der Vossen, E.A.G., Vleeshouwers, V., and Kamoun, S. 2009.

In planta expression screens of Phytophthora infestans RXLR effectors reveal diverse phenotypes, including activation of the Solanum bulbocastanum disease resistance protein Rpi-blb2. Plant Cell, 21:2028-2947.

Haas, B.J., Kamoun, S., Zody, M.C., Jiang, R.H.Y., Handsaker, R.E., Cano, L.M., Grabherr, M., Kodira, C.D., Raffaele, S., Torto-Alalibo, T., Bozkurt, T.O., Ah-Fong, A.M.V., Alvarado, L., Anderson, V.L., Armstrong, M.R., Avrova, A., Baxter, L., Beynon, J., Boevink, P.C., Bollmann, S.R., Bos, J.I.B., Bulone, V., Cai, G., Cakir, C., Carrington, J.C., Chawner, M., Conti, L., Costanzo, S., Ewan, R., Fahlgren, N., Fischbach, M.A., Fugelstad, J., Gilroy, E.M., Gnerre, S., Green, P.J., Grenville-Briggs, L.J., Griffith, J., Grunwald, N.J., Horn, K., Horner, N.R., Hu, C.-H., Huitema, E., Jeong, D.-H., Jones, A.M.E., Jones, J.D.G., Jones, R.W., Karlsson, E.K., Kunjeti, S.G., Lamour, K., Liu, Z., Ma, L., MacLean, D., Chibucos, M.C., McDonald, H., McWalters, J., Meijer, H.J.G., Morgan, W., Morris, P.F., Munro, C.A., O'Neill, K., Ospina-Giraldo, M., Pinzon, A., Pritchard, L., Ramsahoye, B., Ren, Q., Restrepo, S., Roy, S., Sadanandom, A., Savidor, A., Schornack, S., Schwartz, D.C., Schumann, U.D., Schwessinger, B., Seyer, L., Sharpe, T., Silvar, C., Song, J., Studholme, D.J., Sykes, S., Thines, M., van de Vondervoort, P.J.I., Phuntumart, V., Wawra, S., Weide, R., Win, J., Young, C., Zhou, S., Fry, W., Meyers, B.C., van West, P., Ristaino, J., Govers, F., Birch, P.R.J., Whisson, S.C., Judelson, H.S., and Nusbaum, C. 2009.

Genome sequence and analysis of the Irish potato famine pathogen Phytophthora infestans. Nature 461:393-398.

Schornack, S., Fuchs, R., Huitema, E., Rothbauer, U., Lipka, V., and Kamoun, S. 2009.

Protein mislocalization in plant cells using a GFP-binding chromobody. Plant Journal, 60:744-754.

Jagdale, G.B., Kamoun, S., and Grewal, P.S. 2009.

Entomopathogenic nematodes induce components of systemic resistance in plants: Biochemical and molecular evidence. Biological Control, 51:102-109.

Yoshida, K., Saitoh, H., Fujisawa, S., Kanzaki, H., Matsumura, H., Yoshida, K., Tosa, Y., Chuma, I., Takano, Y., Win, J., Kamoun, S., and Terauchi, R. 2009.

Association genetics reveals three novel avirulence genes from the rice blast fungal pathogen Magnaporthe oryzae. Plant Cell, 21:1573-1591.

Kawamura, Y., Hase, S., Takenaka, S., Kanayama, Y., Yoshioka, H., Kamoun, S., Takahashi, H. 2009.

INF1 elicitin activates jasmonic acid- and ethylene-mediated signalling pathways and induces resistance to bacterial wilt disease in tomato. Journal of Phytopathology, 157:287-297.

Kamoun, S. 2009.

The secretome of plant-associated fungi and oomycetes. In ‘Plant Relationships, 2nd Edition, The Mycota V’ H. Deising (Ed.), Springer-Verlag Berlin Heidelberg.

Birch, P.R.J., Armstrong, M., Bos, J., Boevink, P., Gilroy, E.M., Taylor, R.M., Wawra, S., Pritchard, L., Conti, L., Ewan, R., Whisson, S.C., van West, P., Sadanandom, A., and Kamoun, S. 2009.

Towards understanding the virulence functions of RXLR effectors of the oomycete plant pathogen Phytophthora infestans. Journal of Experimental Botany, 60:1133-1140.

Bos, J..I.B., Chaparro-Garcia, A., Quesada-Ocampo, L.M., McSpadden-Gardener, B.B., and Kamoun, S. 2009.

Distinct amino acids of the Phytophthora infestans effector AVR3a condition activation of R3a hypersensitivity and suppression of cell death. Molecular Plant-Microbe Interactions, 22:269-281.

Song, J., Win, J., Tian, M., Schornack, S., Kaschani, F., Ilyas, M., van der Hoorn, R.A.L., and Kamoun, S. 2009.

Two effectors secreted by unrelated eukaryotic plant pathogens target the tomato defense protease Rcr3. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences USA, 106:1654-1659.

Hogenhout, S.A., Van der Hoorn, R.A.L., Terauchi, R., and Kamoun, S. 2009.

Emerging concepts in effector biology of plant-associated organisms. Molecular Plant-Microbe Interactions, 22:115-122.

Bai, X., Correa, V.R., Toruno, T.Y., Ammar, E.-D., Kamoun, S., and Hogenhout, S.A. 2009.

AY-WB phytoplasma secretes a protein that targets plant cell nuclei. Molecular Plant-Microbe Interactions, 22:18-30.

Cheung, F., Win, J., Lang, J.M., Hamilton, J., Vuong, H., Leach, J.E., Kamoun, S., Levesque, C.A., Tisserat, N., and Buell, C.R. 2008.

Analysis of the Pythium ultimum transcriptome using Sanger and Pyrosequencing approaches. BMC Genomics, 9:542.

van der Hoorn, R.A.L. and Kamoun, S. 2008.

From guard to decoy: a new model for perception of plant pathogen effectors. Plant Cell, 20:2009-2017.

Kanzaki, H., Saitoh, H., Takahashi, Y., Berberich, T., Ito, A., Kamoun, S., Terauchi, R. 2008.

NbLRK1, a lectin-like receptor kinase protein of Nicotiana benthamiana, interacts with Phytophthora infestans INF1 elicitin and mediates INF1-induced cell death. Planta, 228:977-987.

Vleeshouwers, V.G.A.A., Rietman, H., Krenek, P., Champouret, N., Young, C., Oh, S.-K., Wang, M., Bouwmeester, K., Vosman, B., Visser, R.G.F., Jacobsen, E., Gover, F., Kamoun, S., and van der Vossen, E.A.G. 2008.

Effector genomics accelerates discovery and functional profiling of potato disease resistance and Phytophthora infestans avirulence genes. PLoS ONE, 3:e2875.

Grant, M., and Kamoun, S. 2008.

Common threads amid diversity. Current Opinion in Plant Biology, 11:357-359.

Shabab, M., Shindo, T., Gu, C., Kaschani, F., Pansuriya, T., Chintha, R., Harzen, A., Colby, T., Kamoun, S., and van der Hoorn, R.A.L. 2008.

Fungal effector protein AVR2 targets diversifying defense-related Cys proteases of tomato. Plant Cell, 20:1169-1183.

Damasceno, C.M.B., Bishop, J.G., Ripoll, R.D., Win, J., Kamoun, S., and Rose, J.K.C. 2008.

Structure of the glucanase inhibitor protein (GIP) family from Phytophthora species suggests coevolution with plant endo-beta-1,3-glucanases. Molecular Plant-Microbe Interactions, 21:820-830.

Judelson, H.S., Ah-Fong, A.M., Aux, G., Avrova, A.O., Bruce, C., Cakir, C., da Cunha, L., Grenville-Briggs, L., Latijnhouwers, M., Ligterink, W., Meijer, H.J., Roberts, S., Thurber, C.S., Whisson, S.C., Birch, P.R., Govers, F., Kamoun, S., van West, P., Windass, J. 2008.

Gene expression profiling during asexual development of the late blight pathogen Phytophthora infestans reveals a highly dynamic transcriptome. Molecular Plant-Microbe Interactions, 21:433-447.

Oh, S.-K., Baek, K.-H., Park, J.M., Yi, S.Y., Yu, S.H., Kamoun, S., and Choi, D. 2008.

Capsicum annuum WRKY protein CaWRKY1 is a negative regulator of pathogen defense. New Phytologist, 177:977-989.

Morgan, W., Bos, J., Bruce, C., Lee, M., Liu, H.-Y., Oh, S.-K., Song, J., Win, J., Young, C., and Kamoun, S. 2008

Structure and function of RXLR effectors of plant pathogenic oomycetes. In “Genomics of Disease”, J.P. Gustafson, ed. Springer.

Tian, M.Y., Win, J., Song, J., van der Hoorn, R., van der Knaap, E., and Kamoun, S. (2007).

A Phytophthora infestans cystatin-like protein targets a novel tomato papain-like apoplastic protease. Plant Physiology 143, 364-377.

Win J, Morgan W, Bos J, Krasileva KV, Cano LM, Chaparro-Garcia A, Ammar R, Staskawicz BJ, Kamoun S (2007)

Adaptive evolution has targeted the C-terminal domain of the RXLR effectors of plant pathogenic oomycetes. Plant Cell 19, 2349-2369.

Win, J., Kanneganti, T.D., Torto-Alalibo, T., and Kamoun, S. (2006).

Computational and comparative analyses of 150 full-length cDNA sequences from the oomycete plant pathogen Phytophthora infestans. Fungal Genetics and Biology 43, 20-33.

Job History

2012 – present Professor of Biology, University of East Anglia, UK.

2007 – present Group Leader, The Sainsbury Laboratory, Norwich, UK.

2009 – 2014 Head of The Sainsbury Laboratory, Norwich, UK.

2009 – 2012 Honorary Professor, University of East Anglia, UK.

2006 – 2007 Professor, Dept. Plant Pathology, Ohio State University, USA.

2002 – 2006 Associate Professor, Dept. Plant Pathology, Ohio State University, USA.

1998 – 2002 Assistant Professor, Dept. Plant Pathology, Ohio State University, USA.

1994 – 1997 Senior Research Scientist, Dept. Phytopathology, Wageningen University, Netherlands.

1991 – 1994 Postdoctoral Scientist, NSF Ctr for Engineering Plants for Resistance Against Pathogens (CEPRAP), UC Davis.