Dr. Blake Meyers
Professor
Department of Plant Science
Donald Danforth Plant Science Center
United States of America
Biography
Blake Meyers received his undergraduate degree in biology from the University of Chicago, M.S. and Ph.D. in genetics at University of California-Davis and received postdoctoral training at DuPont Crop Genetics and UC Davis. He has served through the professor ranks at the University of Delaware since 2002, and also as chair of the Department of Plant & Soil Sciences.
Research Interest
" Blake's work focuses on genome-scale studies of RNA and components of RNA silencing pathways, with a recent emphasis on plant reproductive biology and the evolution of plant small RNAs. Blake has been involved with next-generation DNA sequencing since its earliest days, and he has developed a number of applications of this technology, including computational methods, that have had a deep impact on plant genomics."
Publications
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Shen KA, Meyers BC, Islam-Faridi MN, Chin DB, Stelly DM, Michelmore RW. Resistance gene candidates identified by PCR with degenerate oligonucleotide primers map to clusters of resistance genes in lettuce. Molecular Plant-Microbe Interactions. 1998 Aug;11(8):815-23.
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Okubara PA, Arroyo-Garcia R, Shen KA, Mazier M, Meyers BC, Ochoa OE, Kim S, Yang CH, Michelmore RW. A transgenic mutant of Lactuca sativa (lettuce) with a T-DNA tightly linked to loss of downy mildew resistance. Molecular plant-microbe interactions. 1997 Nov;10(8):970-7.
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Anderson PA, Okubara PA, Arroyo-Garcia R, Meyers BC, Michelmore RW. Molecular analysis of irradiation-induced and spontaneous deletion mutants at a disease resistance locus inLactuca sativa. Molecular and General Genetics MGG. 1996 Jun 10;251(3):316-25.
