Tyler D. Bechtel

Viral infection drives cell-intrinsic re-localization of the C. elegans immune-repressive STAT transcription factor STA-1

This study shows that C. elegans STA-1, a STAT-like protein, relocalizes from nuclei to cytoplasm during viral infection, acting cell-intrinsically to repress anti-viral defense.

A High-Throughput Sampling Method for Detection of Meloidogyne enterolobii and Other Root-Knot Nematodes in Sweetpotato Storage Roots

This paper develops a high-throughput method to detect Meloidogyne enterolobii and other root-knot nematodes in sweetpotato storage roots using DNA extraction and species-specific PCR assays.