Lindsey Price Burbank

The paper characterizes genome organization and sex-biased gene expression in the vine mealybug, revealing female-skewed, spatially clustered expression patterns and lineage-specific secreted proteins.

This study modifies plant pathogenic bacteria with chromoproteins to enable visible tracking during infection, showing success in some species and mixed results in others.

This study uses transposon sequencing to identify virulence genes in Xylella fastidiosa, finding that some genes are essential for plant infection but not for in vitro growth.

This study investigates the role of Csp1 in Xylella fastidiosa, showing it affects pili formation, stress response, and gene expression, and introduces a bioinformatics protocol for analyzing long-read RNA-Seq data.