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Adjunct Faculty, Virginia Bioinformatics Institute
Adjunct Professor, Department of Biological Sciences, Virginia Tech
Adjunct Professor, Department of Crop and Soil Environmental Sciences,
Virginia Tech
Phone: (540) 231-3784
Email: pereiraa@vbi.vt.edu
Fax: 540-231-2606
Administrative Specialist: Kimberly Clifton
Phone: (540) 231-9882
Email: kimvt05@vbi.vt.edu
Fax:540-231-2606
Pereira Research Group |
Publications
Professional Preparation
- Iowa State University, Ph.D., 1986
- Max-Planck Institute fur Zuchtungsforschung, Cologne, Germany, Zuchtungsforschung, Ph.D., 1985
- Postdoctoral training, Max-Planck Institute fur Zuchtungsforschung, Cologne, Germany, 1986 1988
Research Interests - Plant responses to external stress including drought, salinity and disease
- Development of genetic tools in plants to isolate genes and identify their functions
- Development of transposon tagging in maize, Arabidopsis, potato and rice
- Analysis of genetic networks underlying the pathways involved in abiotic stress using various - omics tools
Biography Andy Pereira is a professor at the Virginia Bioinformatics Institute. He received his Ph.D. in 1986 from Iowa State University, where he completed research work in collaboration with the Max-Planck Institute (MPI) fur Zuchtungsforschung in Cologne, Germany. This research led to the molecular isolation of the maize transposon Enhancer (Suppressor-Mutator); the molecular characterization and development of this transposon to be used in the isolation of many maize genes. Following post-doctoral work at MPI, he served as a staff scientist with the Dutch Ministry for Agriculture and Fisheries at Wageningen in The Netherlands, working on the development of maize transposons as tools for tagging genes in heterologous plants like Arabidopsis, potato and rice. He worked at Wageningen for 17 years as a group leader in various positions and institutes, serving most recently at the Plant Research International within the Wageningen University and Research Centre. During his research career he has obtained a number of awards including the 'Otto Hahn Medal' from the Max-Planck Society for Excellent Young Scientist and an 'Excellent Scientist' Award from the Dutch Ministry of Agriculture for the period 1999-2005. He has coordinated a number of international projects on the functional genomics of rice and Arabidopsis, which were funded by the European Union and the Generation Challenge program.
Selected Publications
Karaba A, Dixit S, Greco R, et al. Improvement of water use efficiency in rice by expression of HARDY, an Arabidopsis drought and salt tolerance gene. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. 2007;104:15270–15275.
Krishnan A, Guiderdoni E, An G, et al. Mutant Resources in Rice for Functional Genomics of the Grasses. Plant Physiol.. 2009;149:165–170.
Krishnan A, Ambavaram MMR, Harb A, Batlang U, Wittich PE, Pereira A. Genetic networks underlying plant abiotic stress responses. In: Jenks MA, Wood AJ, eds. Genes For Plant Abiotic Stress. Aimes, IA: John wiley & Sons, Inc.; 2009:In press.
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