Education

Ph.D., University of Wisconsin-Madison, U.S.A., 2016

Current position

Postdoctoral Fellow, School of Biological Sciences, Nanyang Technological University, Singapore

Publications

1. Tancos, M. A., Lowe-Power, T. M., Peritore-Galve, F. C., Tran, T. M., Allen, C. and Smart, C. D. (2018). Plant-like bacterial expansins play contrasting roles in two tomato vascular pathogens. Mol Plant Pathol 19(5): 1210-1221. 

2. Khokhani, D., Lowe-Power, T. M., Tran, T. M. and Allen, C. (2017). A Single Regulator Mediates Strategic Switching between Attachment/Spread and Growth/Virulence in the Plant Pathogen Ralstonia solanacearum. mBio 8(5). 

3. Weibel, J., Tran, T. M., Bocsanczy, A. M., Daughtrey, M., Norman, D. J., Mejia, L. and Allen, C. (2016). A Ralstonia solanacearum Strain from Guatemala Infects Diverse Flower Crops, Including New Asymptomatic Hosts Vinca and Sutera, and Causes Symptoms in Geranium, Mandevilla Vine, and New Host African Daisy (Osteospermum ecklonis). Plant Health Progress 17(2): 114-121. 

4. Tran, T. M., MacIntyre, A., Hawes, M. and Allen, C. (2016). Escaping Underground Nets: Extracellular DNases Degrade Plant Extracellular Traps and Contribute to Virulence of the Plant Pathogenic Bacterium Ralstonia solanacearum. PLoS Pathog 12(6): e1005686. 

5. Minh Tran, T., MacIntyre, A., Khokhani, D., Hawes, M. and Allen, C. (2016). Extracellular DNases of Ralstonia solanacearum modulate biofilms and facilitate bacterial wilt virulence. Environ Microbiol 18(11): 4103-4117. 

6. Hawes, M., Allen, C., Turgeon, B. G., Curlango-Rivera, G., Minh Tran, T., Huskey, D. A. and Xiong, Z. (2016). Root Border Cells and Their Role in Plant Defense. Annu Rev Phytopathol 54: 143-161. 

7. Tran, T. M., Jacobs, J. M., Huerta, A., Milling, A., Weibel, J. and Allen, C. (2015). Sensitive, Secure Detection of Race 3 Biovar 2 and Native U.S. Strains of Ralstonia solanacearum. Plant Disease 100(3): 630-639.