Sarah Refi Hind
ASSISTANT PROFESSOR
Crop sciences
University of Illinois at urbana champaign
United States of America
Biography
Currently she is a postdoctoral associate at the Boyce Thompson Institute for Plant Research in Ithaca, NY, working in the laboratory of Dr. Gregory Martin. My post-doctoral research in the Martin lab has focused on the identification of plant proteins involved in the perception of bacterial pathogens in tomato. Previously, her research in the lab of Dr. Johannes Stratmann in the Department of Biological Sciences at the University of South Carolina focused on the elucidation of signaling components involved in plant responses to herbivorous insects.
Research Interest
Her future research interests will combine my expertise in plant-insect and plant-microbe interactions with technical skills developed in my postdoctoral research in order to elucidate the molecular mechanisms of plant perception to herbivore feeding. Specifically, I will identify new molecular players involved in plant perception of herbivore-related signals, which includes molecules derived from the insect, the plant, or from microbes located in the insect gut.
Publications
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Dombrowski JE, Hind SR, Martin RC, and Stratmann JW. (2011) Wounding systemically activates a mitogen-activated protein kinase in forage and turf grasses. Plant Science 180(5):686-693.
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Hind SR, Pulliam S, Veronese P, Shantharaj D, Nazir A, Jacobs N, and Stratmann JW. (2011) The COP9 signalosome controls jasmonic acid synthesis and plant responses to herbivory and pathogens. The Plant Journal 65(3):480-491.
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Clarke CR, Chinchilla D, Hind SR, Taguchi F, Miki R, Ichinose Y, Martin GB, Leman S, Felix G and Vinatzer BA. (2013) Allelic variation in two distinct Pseudomonas syringae flagellin epitopes modulates the strength of plant immune responses but not bacterial motility. New Phytologist 200(3): 847-860.
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Veluchamy S, Hind SR, Dunham DM, Martin GB and Panthee DR. (2014) Natural variation for responsiveness to flg22, flgII-28, and csp22 and Pseudomonas syringae pv. tomato in heirloom tomatoes. PLoS One 9(9): e106119.
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Boyle PC, Schwizer S, Hind SR, Kraus CM, De la Torre Diaz S, He B and Martin GB. (2016) Detecting N-myristoylation and S-acylation of host and pathogen proteins in plants using click chemistry. Plant Methods 12:38.
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Hind SR, Hoki JS, Baccile JA, Boyle PC, Schroeder FC, and Martin GB. (2017) Detecting the interaction of peptide ligands with plant membrane receptors. Current Protocols in Plant Biology, 2, 1–30.
