Julia Bailey-Serres

Julia Bailey-Serres is professor of genetics, director of the Center for Plant Cell Biology, and a member of the Institute for Integrative Genome Biology at the University of California, Riverside. Her accomplishments include the pioneering of methods for profiling the "translatomes" of discrete cell-types of plants and identification of a homeostatic sensor of oxygen deprivation in plants.[1]

Julia Bailey-Serres
OccupationUniversity teacher 

Education

Bailey-Serres received her bachelor of science degree from the University of Utah in 1981 and earned a Ph.D. in 'Mitochondrial genome rearrangements in sorghum'[2] from University of Edinburgh in 1986. She was a postdoctoral researcher at UC Berkeley under Michael Freeling.[1]

Career

Research

Bailey-Serres and her researchers are investigating the molecular and physiological processes that enable plants to tolerate or survive stresses such as flooding or drought. In general, her areas of research include:

  • Gene regulation [3][4]
  • Translational control [5]
  • Abiotic stress signaling/response [6]
  • Low oxygen sensing [7]
  • Flooding/submergence [8][9][10]
  • Genomic technologies [11]

In 2003, Bailey-Serres joined a team of geneticists including Pamela Ronald of the University of California, Davis and rice breeder David Mackill in the search for the Sub1A gene that allows rice to survive complete submergence under water. The gene is not present in all rice plants, but may be introduced through breeding.[12]

As a result of this research, scientists at the International Rice Research Institute (IRRI) created the flood-tolerant rice variety Swarna-Sub1. More than 10 million farmers are growing the rice in their flood-prone fields.[12]

Other activities

From 2005 to 2011, Bailey-Serres was the director of the National Science Foundation's Integrative Graduate Education and Research Trainee Program (IGERT). The program trained 23 Ph.D. students versed in cell biology, chemistry, computational sciences and engineering, in advanced chemical genomics.[13]

Awards and honors
  • 2016 National Academy of Sciences Member[14]
  • 2011 Elected Secretary of the American Society of Plant Biologists (2012)[15]
  • 2010 Fellow of American Society of Plant Biologists[16]
  • 2009 World Technology Award Finalist (Environment - Individual)[17]
  • 2008 USDA National Research Initiative Discovery Award[18]
  • 2008 F.C. Donders Chair, Utrecht University, The Netherlands[19]
  • 2005 American Association for the Advancement of Science Fellow (AAAS)[20]
  • 2002 Outstanding Faculty Mentor, Chancellor's Award for Excellence in Undergraduate Research[21]

References
  1. "Symposium 77 - Julia Bailey-Serres". Archived from the original on 2014-07-23. Retrieved 2014-07-16.
  2. Bailey-Serres, Julia (1986). "Mitochondrial genome rearrangements in sorghum". University of Edinburgh. hdl:1842/10700. Cite journal requires |journal= (help)
  3. Lee, TA; Bailey-Serres, J (18 January 2020). "Conserved and nuanced hierarchy of gene regulatory response to hypoxia". The New Phytologist. 229 (1): 71–78. doi:10.1111/nph.16437. PMID 31953954.
  4. van Veen, H; Vashisht, D; Akman, M; Girke, T; Mustroph, A; Reinen, E; Hartman, S; Kooiker, M; van Tienderen, P; Schranz, ME; Bailey-Serres, J; Voesenek, LA; Sasidharan, R (October 2016). "Transcriptomes of Eight Arabidopsis thaliana Accessions Reveal Core Conserved, Genotype- and Organ-Specific Responses to Flooding Stress". Plant Physiology. 172 (2): 668–689. doi:10.1104/pp.16.00472. PMC 5047075. PMID 27208254.
  5. Reynoso, MA; Kajala, K; Bajic, M; West, DA; Pauluzzi, G; Yao, AI; Hatch, K; Zumstein, K; Woodhouse, M; Rodriguez-Medina, J; Sinha, N; Brady, SM; Deal, RB; Bailey-Serres, J (20 September 2019). "Evolutionary flexibility in flooding response circuitry in angiosperms". Science. 365 (6459): 1291–1295. Bibcode:2019Sci...365.1291R. doi:10.1126/science.aax8862. PMC 7710369. PMID 31604238. S2CID 202699007.
  6. Fukao, T; Yeung, E; Bailey-Serres, J (January 2011). "The submergence tolerance regulator SUB1A mediates crosstalk between submergence and drought tolerance in rice". The Plant Cell. 23 (1): 412–27. doi:10.1105/tpc.110.080325. PMC 3051255. PMID 21239643.
  7. Gibbs, DJ; Lee, SC; Isa, NM; Gramuglia, S; Fukao, T; Bassel, GW; Correia, CS; Corbineau, F; Theodoulou, FL; Bailey-Serres, J; Holdsworth, MJ (23 October 2011). "Homeostatic response to hypoxia is regulated by the N-end rule pathway in plants". Nature. 479 (7373): 415–8. Bibcode:2011Natur.479..415G. doi:10.1038/nature10534. PMC 3223408. PMID 22020279.
  8. Hartman, S; Liu, Z; van Veen, H; Vicente, J; Reinen, E; Martopawiro, S; Zhang, H; van Dongen, N; Bosman, F; Bassel, GW; Visser, EJW; Bailey-Serres, J; Theodoulou, FL; Hebelstrup, KH; Gibbs, DJ; Holdsworth, MJ; Sasidharan, R; Voesenek, LACJ (5 September 2019). "Ethylene-mediated nitric oxide depletion pre-adapts plants to hypoxia stress". Nature Communications. 10 (1): 4020. Bibcode:2019NatCo..10.4020H. doi:10.1038/s41467-019-12045-4. PMC 6728379. PMID 31488841.
  9. Xu, K; Xu, X; Fukao, T; Canlas, P; Maghirang-Rodriguez, R; Heuer, S; Ismail, AM; Bailey-Serres, J; Ronald, PC; Mackill, DJ (10 August 2006). "Sub1A is an ethylene-response-factor-like gene that confers submergence tolerance to rice". Nature. 442 (7103): 705–8. Bibcode:2006Natur.442..705X. doi:10.1038/nature04920. PMID 16900200. S2CID 4404518.
  10. Yeung, E; van Veen, H; Vashisht, D; Sobral Paiva, AL; Hummel, M; Rankenberg, T; Steffens, B; Steffen-Heins, A; Sauter, M; de Vries, M; Schuurink, RC; Bazin, J; Bailey-Serres, J; Voesenek, LACJ; Sasidharan, R (26 June 2018). "A stress recovery signaling network for enhanced flooding tolerance in Arabidopsis thaliana". Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America. 115 (26): E6085–E6094. doi:10.1073/pnas.1803841115. PMC 6042063. PMID 29891679.
  11. Bailey-Serres, J; Parker, JE; Ainsworth, EA; Oldroyd, GED; Schroeder, JI (November 2019). "Genetic strategies for improving crop yields". Nature. 575 (7781): 109–118. Bibcode:2019Natur.575..109B. doi:10.1038/s41586-019-1679-0. PMC 7024682. PMID 31695205.
  12. "UC Riverside Research Reaps Benefits for Rice Farmers Worldwide". 2014-06-14. Retrieved 2014-07-16.
  13. "The ChemGen IGERT Program". Retrieved 2014-07-16.
  14. "National Academy of Sciences Members and Foreign Associates Elected". Archived from the original on 2016-05-06. Retrieved 2016-05-05.
  15. "ASPB Announces 2011 Election Results". Archived from the original on 2014-07-27. Retrieved 2014-07-16.
  16. "Awards and Funding - Fellows 2010". Retrieved 2014-07-16.
  17. "THE 2009 WORLD TECHNOLOGY AWARD WINNERS AND FINALISTS". Archived from the original on 2011-05-24. Retrieved 2014-07-16.
  18. "UC Riverside rice geneticist receives high honor from US Department of Agriculture". Retrieved 2014-07-16.
  19. "Inaugural lecture by Bailey-Serres". Retrieved 2014-07-16.
  20. "Eight UCR Faculty Members Named 2005 AAAS Fellows". 2005-11-09. Retrieved 2014-07-16.
  21. "Public Lecture to Explore Solutions to the Food Challenge". 2010-05-25. Retrieved 2014-07-16.
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