Position: Postdoc
E-mail: yuzon[a]evolbio.mpg.de
Current Project
My research focuses on the plant pathogen Pyrenophora teres and its two subspecies P. teres f. teres (PTT) and P. teres f. maculata (PTM). PTT and PTM both infect barley but hybridization is rarely observed in the field indicating incipient speciation. Using genetic crosses and population genomics, I will test the genetic and phenotypic basis of speciation.
Short CV
2014 - 2019: PhD Plant Pathology, University of California, Davis
2011 - 2013: MSc Environmental Biology, Universiteit Utrecht
2007 - 2011: BSc Microbiology, University of California, San Diego
Publications
Yuzon JD, Travadon R, Malar C M, Tripathy S, Rank N, Mehl HK, Rizzo DM, Cobb R, Small C, Tang T, McCown HE, Garbelotto M, Kasuga T. 2020. Asexual Evolution and Forest Conditions Drive Genetic Parallelism in Phytophthora ramorum. Microorganisms 8: 940.
Malar C M, Yuzon JD, Panda A, Kasuga T, Tripathy S. 2019. Updated assembly resource of Phytophthora ramorum Pr102 isolate incorporating long reads from PacBio sequencing. Molecular Plant-Microbe Interactions.
Malar C M, Yuzon JD, Das S, Das A, Panda A, Ghosh S, Tyler BM, Kasuga T, Tripathy S. 2019. Haplotype-phased genome assembly of virulent Phythophthora ramorum isolate ND886 facilitated by long-read sequencing reveals effector polymorphisms and copy number variation. Molecular Plant-Microbe Interactions 32: 1047–1060.
Elliott M, Yuzon J, Malar C M, Tripathy S, Bui M, Chastagner GA, Coats K, Rizzo DM, Garbelotto M, and Kasuga T. 2018. Characterization of phenotypic variation and genome aberrations observed among Phytophthora ramorum isolates from diverse hosts. BMC Genomics 19.
Rytioja J, Hildén K, Yuzon J, Hatakka A, de Vries RP, and Mäkelä MR. 2014. Plant-Polysaccharide-Degrading Enzymes from Basidiomycetes. Microbiol. Mol. Biol. Rev. 78: 614-649.
Yuzon J, Roux C, Lendemer JC, and Gueidan C. 2014. Molecular phylogeny and taxonomy of the endolithic lichen genus Bagliettoa (Ascomycota: Verrucariaceae). Taxon 63: 1177-1192.