Education

Ph.D. in Microbiology, University of Basel, Switzerland, 1989

Current position

Research Scientist, Agriculture & Agri-Food Canada, Pacific Agri-Food Research Centre, Summerland, B.C., Canada http://www4.agr.gc.ca/AAFC-AAC/display-afficher.do?id=1180620561099&lang=e

Adjunct Professor, Department of Botany, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, B.C., Canada http://www.botany.ubc.ca/bakkeren/

Publications (as off Sept. 2013; last 6 years)

1. Lefebvre, F., Joly, D. L., Labbe, C., Teichmann, B., Linning, R., Belzile, F., Bakkeren, G. and Belanger, R. R. (2013). The transition from a phytopathogenic smut ancestor to an anamorphic biocontrol agent deciphered by comparative whole-genome analysis. Plant Cell 25(6): 1946-1959.
   
2. Wang, X., McCallum, B., Fetch, T., Bakkeren, G., Marais, G. and Saville, B. (2012). Comparative microscopic and molecular analysis of Thatcher near‐isogenic lines with wheat leaf rust resistance genes Lr2a, Lr3, LrB or Lr9 upon challenge with different Puccinia triticina races. Plant Pathology. 62, 698-707
   
3. Panwar, V., McCallum, B. and Bakkeren, G. (2013). Host-induced gene silencing of wheat leaf rust fungus Puccinia triticina pathogenicity genes mediated by the Barley stripe mosaic virus. Plant Mol Biol 81(6): 595-608.
   
4. Fellers, J. P., Soltani, B. M., Bruce, M., Linning, R., Cuomo, C. A., Szabo, L. J. and Bakkeren, G. (2013). Conserved loci of leaf and stem rust fungi of wheat share synteny interrupted by lineage-specific influx of repeat elements. BMC Genomics 14: 60.
   
5. Panwar, V., McCallum, B. and Bakkeren, G. (2013). Endogenous silencing of Puccinia triticina pathogenicity genes through in planta-expressed sequences leads to the suppression of rust diseases on wheat. Plant J 73(3): 521-532.
   
6. Laurie, J. D., Ali, S., Linning, R., Mannhaupt, G., Wong, P., Guldener, U., Munsterkotter, M., Moore, R., Kahmann, R., Bakkeren, G. and Schirawski, J. (2012). Genome comparison of barley and maize smut fungi reveals targeted loss of RNA silencing components and species-specific presence of transposable elements. Plant Cell 24(5): 1733-1745.
   
7. Xu, J., Linning, R., Fellers, J., Dickinson, M., Zhu, W., Antonov, I., Joly, D. L., Donaldson, M. E., Eilam, T., Anikster, Y., Banks, T., Munro, S., Mayo, M., Wynhoven, B., Ali, J., Moore, R., McCallum, B., Borodovsky, M., Saville, B. and Bakkeren, G. (2011). Gene discovery in EST sequences from the wheat leaf rust fungus Puccinia triticina sexual spores, asexual spores and haustoria, compared to other rust and corn smut fungi. BMC Genomics 12: 161.
   
8. Song, X., Rampitsch, C., Soltani, B., Mauthe, W., Linning, R., Banks, T., McCallum, B. and Bakkeren, G. (2011). Proteome analysis of wheat leaf rust fungus, Puccinia triticina, infection structures enriched for haustoria. Proteomics 11(5): 944-963.
   
9. Cervantes-Chavez, J. A., Ali, S. and Bakkeren, G. (2011). Response to environmental stresses, cell-wall integrity, and virulence are orchestrated through the calcineurin pathway in Ustilago hordei. Mol Plant Microbe Interact 24(2): 219-232.
   
10. Ali, S. and Bakkeren, G. (2011). Introduction of large DNA inserts into the barley pathogenic fungus, Ustilago hordei, via recombined binary BAC vectors and Agrobacterium-mediated transformation. Curr Genet 57(1): 63-73.
    
11. Gaudet, D. A., Wang, Y., Penniket, C., Lu, Z. X., Bakkeren, G. and Laroche, A. (2010). Morphological and molecular analyses of host and nonhost interactions involving barley and wheat and the covered smut pathogen Ustilago hordei. Mol Plant Microbe Interact 23(12): 1619-1634.
    
12. Wang, X., Bakkeren, G. and McCallum, B. (2010). Virulence and molecular polymorphisms of the wheat leaf rust fungus Puccinia triticina in Canada from 1997 to 2007. Botany 88(6): 575-589.
    
13. Wang, X., Mulock, B., Guus, B. and McCallum, B. (2010). Development of EST-derived simple sequence repeat markers for wheat leaf rust fungus, Puccinia triticina Eriks. Can J Plant Pathol 32(1): 98-107.
    
14. Grewal, T., Rossnagel, B., Bakkeren, G. and Scoles, G. (2008). Identification of resistance genes to barley covered smut and mapping of the Ruh1 gene using Ustilago hordei strains with defined avirulence genes. Can J Plant Pathol 30(2): 277-284.
    
15. Laurie, J. D., Linning, R. and Bakkeren, G. (2008). Hallmarks of RNA silencing are found in the smut fungus Ustilago hordei but not in its close relative Ustilago maydis. Curr Genet 53(1): 49-58.
    
16. Hu, G., Linning, R., McCallum, B., Banks, T., Cloutier, S., Butterfield, Y., Liu, J., Kirkpatrick, R., Stott, J., Yang, G., Smailus, D., Jones, S., Marra, M., Schein, J. and Bakkeren, G. (2007). Generation of a wheat leaf rust, Puccinia triticina, EST database from stage-specific cDNA libraries. Mol Plant Pathol 8(4): 451-467.
    
17. Hu, G., Kamp, A., Linning, R., Naik, S. and Bakkeren, G. (2007). Complementation of Ustilago maydis MAPK mutants by a wheat leaf rust, Puccinia triticina homolog: potential for functional analyses of rust genes. Molecular plant-microbe interactions 20(6): 637-647.
    

Peer-reviewed reviews/book chapters

1. Laurie, J. D., Linning, R., Wong, P. and Bakkeren, G. (2013). Do TE activity and counteracting genome defenses, RNAi and methylation, shape the sex lives of smut fungi? Plant Signal Behav 8(4), e23853.
   
2. Bakkeren, G. Kruzel, E.K. and Hull, C.M. (2012). Sex and virulence in basidiomycete pathogens. In: Evolution of virulence in eukaryotic microbes. L. David Sibley, Barbara J. Howlett, and Joseph Heitman (eds). Wiley-Blackwell, Hoboken, New Jersey. ISBN 978-1-118-03818-5. pp. 437-460.
   
3. Ali, S. and Bakkeren, G. (2011). Fungal and oomycete effectors–strategies to subdue a host. Can J Plant Pathol 33(4): 425-446.
   
4. Bakkeren, G., Kamper, J. and Schirawski, J. (2008). Sex in smut fungi: Structure, function and evolution of mating-type complexes. Fungal Genet Biol 45 Suppl 1: S15-21.
   
5. Bakkeren, G. and Kronstad, J. W. (2007). Bipolar and tetrapolar mating systems in the Ustilaginales. Sex in fungi: molecular determination and evolutionary implications. J. Heitman, J. W. Kronstad, J. Taylor, L. Casselton (eds). American Society for Microbiology. pp. 389-404.
   

Chapters in conference proceedings

1. Bakkeren, G., Song, X., Panwar, V., Linning, R., Wang, X., Rampitsch, C., McCallum, B., Fellers, J., and Saville, B. (2012). Functional genomic approaches in cereal rusts. Can J Plant Pathol 34. 3-12. (Symposium “Contributions of Genomics to Plant Pathology” at the Joint Meeting of the Canadian Phytopathological Society and Pacific Division of the American Phytopathological Society, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, BC, June 20-23, 2010)