Karin van Dijk
Assistant Professor
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Courses Offered
- BIO 150 - Biotechnology and Society
- BIO 351 - Microbiology
- BIO 551 - Current Topics in Microbiology
Research Interests
Recent Publications
van Dijk K, Jeong B-r, Rohr JM, Ballenger S, Morris KA, Hesson J, Wewel J, and Cerutti van Dijk K, Marley KE, Jeong B-r, Xu J, Hesson J, Cerny RL, Waterborg JH, and Cerutti H. (2005). Monomethyl histone H3 lysine 4 as an epigenetic mark for silenced euchromatin in Chlamydomonas. Plant Cell. 17: 2439-2453
Petnicki-Ocwieja, T.*, van Dijk, K*, Alfano, JR. (2005) The hrpK operon of Pseudomonas syringae pv. tomato DC3000 encodes two proteins secreted by the type III (Hrp) protein secretion system: HopB1 and HrpK, a putative type III translocator. J. Bacteriol. 187: 649-663 (* These authors contributed equally to the manuscript )
van Dijk KV, Xu H, and Cerutti H. (2005). Epigenetic silencing of transposons in green alga Chlamydomonas reinhardtii. 159-178. In Small RNAs; Analysis and Regulatory Functions; Wolfgang Nellen and Chrisitian Hammann, eds.; Springer-Verlag: Heidelberg.
van Dijk K, and Cerutti H. (2004) RNA-mediated silencing. pp.1106-1109. In Encyclopedia of Plant & Crop Sciences. Robert M. Goodman ed. Marcel Dekker, Inc. New York, USA.
Nelson E, Kageyama K, van Dijk K, Windstam S. (2004). Biological control of soilborne disease: important concepts from a model system.pp. 115-130. In Acta Horticulturae (ISHS) 635. A. Vanachter ed. ISHS, Toronto, Canada.
van Dijk KV and Cerutti H. 2004. RNA-mediated silencing. In Encyclopedia of Plant and Crop Science; Robert M. Goodman, ed.; Marcel Dekker: New York; pp. 1242-1244. (DOI: 10.1081/E-EPCS 120010462)
van Dijk K, Tam VC, Records AR, Petnicki-Ocweija T, and Alfano JR. (2002) The ShcA protein is a molecular chaperone that assists in the secretion of the HopPsyA effector from the type III (Hrp) protein secretion system of Pseudomonas syringae. Mol. Micro. 44:1469-1481
Fouts DE, Abramovitch RB, Alfano JR, Baldo AM, Buell CR, Cartinhour S, Chatterjee AK, D'Ascenzo M, Gwinn ML, Lazarowitz SG, Lin NC, Martin GB, Rehm AH, Schneider DJ, van Dijk K, Tang X, Collmer A. (2002) Genomewide identification of Pseudomonas syringae pv. tomato DC3000 promoters controlled by the HrpL alternative sigma factor. Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. USA. 99(4): 2275-80
Collmer A, Charkowski AO, Deng W-L, Fouts DE, Ham JH, Rehm AH, van Dijk K, and Alfano JR. (2001) Bacterial Avr proteins: secreted agents of parasitism and elicitors of plant defense. pp. 36-45. In Delivery and Perception of Pathogen Signals in Plants. NT Keen, S Mayama, JE Leach, and S Tsuyumu, eds., APS Press, St. Paul.
Collmer A, Alfano JR, Anderson DM, Badel JL, Deng W–L, Fouts DE, Rehm AH, Rojas CM, Schneewind O, and van Dijk K. (2000) Hrp (type III) protein secretion and the virulence of Pseudomonas syringae and Erwinia chrysanthemi. pp. 65-70. In Biology of Plant-Microbe Interactions, Vol. 2, PJGM de Wit, T Bisseling, and W Stiekema eds., ISMPMI, St. Paul, Minnesota, USA.
van Dijk K and Nelson EB. (2000) Fatty acid competition as a mechanism by which Enterobacter cloacae suppresses Pythium ultimum sporangium germination and damping-off. Appl. Env. Microbiol . 66: 5340-5347
Collmer A, Badel JL, Charkowski AO, Deng W–L, Fouts DE, Ramos AR, Rehm AH, Anderson DM, Schneewind O, van Dijk K, and Alfano JR. (2000) Pseudomonas syringae Hrp type III secretion system and effector proteins. Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. USA. 97:8770-8777.
Alfano JR, Charkowski AO, Deng W-L, Petnicki T, van Dijk K, and Collmer A. (2000) The Pseudomonas syringae Hrp pathogenicity island has a tripartite mosaic structure comprised of a cluster of type III genes bounded by an exchangeable effector and conserved effector loci that contribute to parasitic fitness and pathogenicity in plants. Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. USA. 97: 4856-4861.
van Dijk K, Fouts DE, Rehm AH, Hill AR, Collmer A, and Alfano JR. (1999) The Avr (effector) proteins HrmA (HopPsyA) and AvrPto are secreted in culture from Pseudomonas syringae pathovars via the Hrp (type III) protein secretion system in a temperature and pH sensitive manner. J. Bacteriol. 181:4790-4797.
van Dijk K and Nelson EB. (1998) Inactivation of seed exudate stimulants of Pythium ultimum sporangium germination by biocontrol strains of Enterobacter cloacae and other seed-associated bacteria. Soil Biol. Biochem. 30: 183-192.
Hood MA, van Dijk K, and Nelson EB. (1998) Factors affecting attachment of Enterobacter cloacae to germinating cotton seed. Micro. Ecol. 36:101-110.
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