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Integrated Microscopy Facility |









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R. Howard Berg
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Telephone: 314-587-1261 Fax: 314-587-1361
rhberg@danforthcenter.org |
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| Director, Integrated Microscopy Facility |
Donald Danforth Plant Science Center |
| Associate Member |
975 North Warson Road |
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St. Louis, MO 63132 |
| Education |
| B.S., Agriculture, University of Florida, 1972 |
| M.S., Agriculture, University of Florida, 1975 |
| Ph.D., Agronomy, University of Florida, 1977 |
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| Professional Experience |
| 2000-Present: |
Director, Integrated Microscopy Facility, Associate
Member Donald Danforth Plant Science Center |
| 1991-2000: |
Associate Professor, University of Memphis |
| 1989-2000: |
Graduate Faculty, University of Memphis |
| 1988: |
Associate Graduate Faculty, University of Memphis |
| 1987-1991: |
Assistant Professor, University of Memphis |
| 1980-1987: |
Staff Electron Microscopist, University of
Florida |
| 1979-1980: |
Postdoctoral Associate, Oregon State University |
| 1977-1979: |
Postdoctoral Fellow, University of Florida |
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| Teaching |
Undergraduate
- Freshman biology
- Cell biology
- Plant anatomy
- Botany
Graduate
- Plant-microbe interactions
- Light microscopy and image processing
- Cell ultrastructure
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| Publications (last five years) |
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Huifen Zhu, Guo-Jing Li, Lei Ding, Xiangqin Cui, Howard
Berg, Sarah M.
Assmann, Yiji Xia. Arabidopsis Extra Large G Protein 2 (XLG2) interacts
with the G beta
subunit of heterotrimeric G protein and functions in disease resistance.
Molecular Plant,
2: 513-525. |
| Manjula Govindarajulu, Sung-Yong Kim, Marc Libault, R.
Howard Berg, Kiwamu Tanaka, Gary
Stacey, Christopher G. Taylor. (2009) GS52 ecto-apyrase plays a critical role
during soybean
nodulation. Plant Physiology, 149: 994-1004. |
| Berg, R. Howard, Thomas Fester, and
Christopher G. Taylor. (2009) Development of the root-knot nematode
feeding cell. In: R.H. Berg and C.G. Taylor (eds.), Cell biology of
plant nematode parasitism, Springer, pp 115-152. |
| Silvester, W.B., R.H. Berg, C.R. Schwintzer, J.D.
Tjepkema. (2008) Oxygen responses,
hemoglobin and the structure and function of vesicles. In: K. Pawlowski
and W.H. Newton
(eds.), Actinorhizal symbioses, Springer, pp 105-146. |
| Berg, R. Howard and C.G. Taylor (editors). (2008) Cell
biology of plant nematode parasitism.
Plant Cell Monographs, Volume 15, December, 2008, approximately 270
pages, Springer. |
| Fester, T., R.H. Berg, and C. G. Taylor. An easy method
using glutaraldehyde-introduced
fluorescence for the microscopic analysis of plant biotrophic
interactions. Journal of
Microscopy, 231: 342-348. |
| Dietrich, C.R., H. Gongshe, M. Chen, H. Berg, T.M. Dunn,
and E. B. Cahoon. (2008) Loss-of-Function Mutations and Inducible RNAi Suppression of Arabidopsis
LCB2
Genes Reveal the
Critical Role of Sphingolipids in Gametophytic and Sporophytic Cell
Viability. Plant Journal,
54: 284-298. |
| Berg, R. Howard, Roger N. Beachy. (2008) Fluorescent
protein applications in plants. In:
Kevin Sullivan (ed.), Fluorescent Proteins, 2nd edition, Methods in Cell
Biology, Volume 85,
Elsevier Inc.. pp. 153-177. |
| Asurmendi, S., R.H. Berg, T.J. Smith, M. Bendhamane,
R.N. Beachy. (2007) Aggregation of
TMV CP plays a role in CP functions and in coat protein-mediated
resistance. Virology, 366:
98-106. |
| Jez, Joseph M., Daniel P. Schachtman, R. Howard Berg,
Christopher G. Taylor, Sixue Chen,
Leslie M. Hicks, Jan G. Jaworski, Thomas J. Smith, Erik Nielsen, Craig
S. Pikaard. (2007)
Developing a New Interdisciplinary Lab Course for Undergraduate and
Graduate Students:
Plant Cells and Proteins. Biochemistry and Molecular Biology Education,
35: 410-415. |
| Liberton, Michelle, R. Howard Berg, John Heuser, Robin
Roth, and Himadri B. Pakrasi. (2006)
Ultrastructure of the membrane systems in the unicellular cyanobacterium
Synechocystis sp.
PCC 6803. Protoplasma, 227: 129-138. |
| Ulrich Z. Hammes, Daniel P. Schachtman, R. Howard Berg,
Erik Nielsen, Wolfgang Koch,
Lauren M. McIntyre, and Christopher G. Taylor. (2005) Nematode induced
changes of
transporter gene expression in Arabidopsis roots. MPMI, 18: 1247-1257. |
| Shin, Ryoung, R. Howard Berg, Daniel P. Schachtman.
(2005) Reactive oxygen species and
root hairs in Arabidopsis root response to nitrogen, phosphorus and
potassium deficiency.
Plant and Cell Physiology, 46: 1350-1357. |
| Xiaochun Ge, Charles Dietrich, Michiyo Matsuno, Guojing
Li, Howard Berg, and Yiji Xia. (2005)
An Arabidopsis aspartic protease functions as an anti-cell-death
component in reproduction
and embryogenesis. EMBO Reports, 6: 282-288. |
| Berg, R. Howard (2004) Evaluation of Spectral Imaging
for Plant Cell Analysis. Journal of
Microscopy, 214: 174-181. |
| Asurmendi, S., H. Berg, J. Koo and R.N. Beachy. (2004)
Coat protein regulates formation of
replication complexes during TMV infection. Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. USA,
101: 1415-1420 |
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