THE BRUNKARD LAB
RESEARCH PROJECTS
CELL & MOLECULAR BIOLOGY
PLANT FUNCTIONAL GENOMICS
METABOLIC SIGNALING NETWORKS
Current Lab Members:
Dr. María Regina Scarpin (post-doc)
Dr. Yun Hu (post-doc)
Michael Busche (Ph.D. candidate)
Snigdha Chatterjee (Ph.D. candidate)
Nanticha Lutt (Ph.D. candidate)
Wilson Horner (Ph.D. student)
Emily Chau (undergraduate researcher)
Cindy Chau (undergraduate researcher)
Hannah Riedy (undergraduate researcher)
China Lunde (lab manager)
Recent Lab Alumni:
María Jazmín Abraham-Juárez (post-doc, 2017)
Wassim Hage (Ph.D. rotation, 2017)
Marshall Godsil (undergraduate researcher, 2018-2019)
Neecki Zand (undergraduate researcher, 2019)
Lien Kim Pham (undergraduate researcher, 2019)
Shaeera Ahmed (undergraduate researcher, 2018-2019)
Kendall Schmidt (undergraduate researcher, 2018)
Clair Travis (undergraduate researcher, 2016-2017)
JAKE BRUNKARD
Principal Investigator
Jake went to Swarthmore College for his B.A. in Biology and History, and then studied with Pat Zambryski (UC Berkeley) for his Ph.D. in Plant Biology. After a short stint as a post-doc in Sarah Hake's lab investigating maize development (USDA ARS: PGEC), Jake started his independent group investigating TOR signaling in plants with the NIH Early Independence Award.
PUBLISHED WORK
Anderson AA, St. Aubin B, Abraham-Juárez MJ, Leiboff S, Shen Z, Briggs S, Brunkard JO, Hake S, (2019) The second site modifier, Sympathy for the ligule, encodes a homolog of Arabidopsis ENHANCED DISEASE RESISTANCE4 and rescues the liguleless narrow maize mutant. The Plant Cell 31(8):1829-44.
Brunkard JO*, Baker B, (2018) A two-headed monster to avert disaster: HBS1/SKI7 is alternatively spliced to build eukaryotic RNA surveillance complexes. Frontiers Plant Sci 9:1333.
Brunkard JO*, Burch-Smith TM, (2018) Ties that bind: the integration of plastid signaling pathways in plant cell metabolism. Essays Biochem 62(1):95-107.
Brunkard JO, Zambryski PC (2017) Plasmodesmata enable multicellularity: new insights into their evolution, biogenesis, and functions in development and immunity. Curr Opin Plant Biol 35:76-83.
Brunkard JO, Runkel AM, Zambryski PC (2016) Visualizing stromule frequency with fluorescence microscopy. J Vis Exp 117.
Brunkard JO, Runkel AM, Zambryski PC (2015) Chloroplasts extend stromules independently and in response to internal redox signals. Proc Nat Acad Sci USA 112(32):10044-9.
Brunkard JO, Runkel AM, Zambryski PC (2015) The cytosol must flow: intercellular transport through plasmodesmata. Curr Opin Cell Biol 35:13-20.
Brunkard JO, Runkel AM, Zambryski PC (2015) Comment on “A promiscuous intermediate underlies the evolution of LEAFY DNA binding specificity.” Science 347(6222):621.
Brunkard JO, Burch-Smith TM, Runkel AM, Zambryski P (2015) Investigating plasmodesmata genetics with virus-induced gene silencing and an Agrobacterium-mediated GFP movement assay. Meth Mol Biol 1217:185-198.
Brunkard JO, Runkel AM, Zambryski P (2014) Cell-cell signalling in plants—cross-talk among chloroplasts, mitochondria and plasmodesmata. The Biochemist 36(5):11-16.
Brunkard JO, Runkel AM, Zambryski PC (2013) Plasmodesmata dynamics are coordinated by intracellular signaling pathways. Curr Opin Plant Biol 16(5):614-20.
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Li F, Pignatta D, Bendix C, Brunkard JO, Cohn MM, Tung J, Sun H, Kumar P, Baker B (2012) MicroRNA regulation of plant innate immune receptors. Proc Nat Acad Sci USA 109(5):1790-5.
Stonebloom S, Brunkard JO, Cheung AC, Jiang K, Feldman L, Zambryski PC (2012) Redox states of plastids and mitochondria differentially regulate intercellular transport via plasmodesmata. Plant Physiology 158(1):190-9.
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Burch-Smith TM, Brunkard JO, Choi YG, Zambryski PC (2011) Organelle-nucleus cross-talk regulates plant intercellular transport via plasmodesmata. Proc Nat Acad Sci USA 108(51):E1451-60.
Brunkard JO*, Zambryski PC, (2019) Plant cell-cell transport via plasmodesmata is regulated by light and the circadian clock. Plant Physiol doi:10.1104/pp.19.00460.
NEWS & EVENTS
FAREWELL, ANNIS!
September 2019
We got together with the Hake Lab to wish Annis Richardson well as she heads off to start her own group at the University of Edinburgh. Congrats, Annis!
