Profile TabsProfileDr. Guo-Liang WangProfessor. Molecular Genetics, Host Resistancewang.620@osu.edu(614) 292-9280Office: 483B Kottman Hall, ColumbusProfessional InformationDegrees & Credentials: PhD Univ of the Philippines Los Baños and Intl Rice Research Institute (IRRI), PhilippinesMSc Fujian Agricultural University, Fuzhou, ChinaBSc Hunan Agricultural University, Changsha, ChinaBiography: View Publications under the "Works" tab. Lab websiteWang Lab for Plant Disease Resistance and Functional Genomics News 2019 > Wang Receives the Ohio State University's Distinguished Scholar Award 2016 > Wang is one of four Ohio State faculty in 2016 class of AAAS Fellows 2013 :> Wang Honored with OARDC Senior Faculty Research Award 2012 > Wang Named American Phytopathological Society Fellow Research Area Unraveling the molecular mechanisms of host resistance to pathogens using genetic and genomic approaches. The main focus of our laboratory is to understand the mechanisms of plant-pathogen interaction, and the signal transduction pathways leading to the induction of disease resistance responses. We are currently using rice as the model plant to clone disease resistance genes and genes involved in resistance responses to rice fungal and bacterial pathogens. Our long-term goal is to genetically engineer plants for disease resistance in such a way as to reduce reliance on the environmentally damaging pesticides. Teaching and Outreach Agricultural Genomics (PLNTPTH 7003.01); 2 credits; Spring semesters Professional Experience Professor, Department of Plant Pathology, Ohio State University, Columbus, Ohio, 7/2008-present Acting Associate Chair,Department of Plant Pathology, Ohio State University, Columbus, Ohio, 12/2015-1/2019 Associate Professor, Department of Plant Pathology, Ohio State University, Columbus, Ohio, 5/2004-7/2008 Assistant Professor, Department of Plant Pathology, Ohio State University, Columbus, 10/1999-7/2004 Senior Scientist and Principal Investigator, Institute of Molecular Agrobiology, The National University of Singapore, 8/1996-9/1999 Postdoctoral Research Associate, University of California at Davis, 8/1993-8/1996 Postdoctoral Research Associate, Texas A&M University, 6/1992-8/1993Selected Publications Awards and Honors Fellow, American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS), Oct., 2016 Distinguished Senior Faculty Research Award, OARDC, College of Food, Agric. & Env. Sci., Ohio State University; 2013 Fellow, American Phytopathological Society (aps), August, 2012 William E. Krauss Director's Award for Excellence in Graduate Research Mentorship from OARDC, OSU, 4/2009 Research Award of Merit, Gamma Sigma Delta, Honor Society of Agriculture/OSU, 4/2007 The Syngenta Award of the American Phytopathology Society, 8/2006 OARDC Distinguished Junior Faculty Research Award, 5/2005 DuPont Young Professor Award (8/2000) WorksPublications can be found on the following sites: Research Gate > www.researchgate.net/profile/Guo-Liang_Wang Google Scholar > scholar.google.com/citations?user=m7pBX58AAAAJ&hl=en Ten selected papers (175 peer-reviewed papers published since 1993, Google Scholar as of Jan. 2019: Citations: 17,122, h-index: 60 and i10-index: 140) Fan, J., Bai, P., Ning, Y., Wang, J., Shi, X., Xiong, Y., Zhang, K., He, F., Zhang, C., Wang, R., Meng, X., Zhou, J., Wang, M., Shirsekar, G., Park, C., Bellizzi, M., Liu, W., Jeon, J., Xia, Y., Shan, L., Wang, G.L*. 2018. The Monocot-Specific Receptor-like Kinase SDS2 Controls Cell Death and Immunity in Rice. Cell Host Microbe. 23(4):498-510.e5. doi: 10.1016/j. Wang GL*, Valent B. 2017. Durable resistance to rice blast. Science. 3;355(6328):906-907. doi: 10.1126/science.aam9517. Wang R, Ning Y, Shi X, He F, Zhang C, Fan J, Jiang N, Zhang Y, Zhang T, Hu Y, Bellizzi M, Wang GL*. 2016. Immunity to Rice Blast Disease by Suppression of Effector-Triggered Necrosis. Current Biology. 26:2399-2411. doi: 10.1016/j.cub.2016.06.072. Park CH, Shirsekar G, Bellizzi M, Chen S, Songkumarn P, Xie X, Ning Y, Zhou Z, Suttiviriya P, Umemura K, and Wang G.L*. 2016. The E3 ligase APIP10 connects the effector AvrPiz-t to the NLR receptor Piz-t in rice. PLOS Pathogens, 12(3): e1005529. doi:10.1371/journal.ppat.1005529. Liu J, Park CH, He F, Nagano M, Wang M, Bellizzi M, Zhang K, Zeng X, Liu W, Ning Y, Kawano Y, Wang GL*. 201 The RhoGAP SPIN6 associates with SPL11 and OsRac1 and negatively regulates programmed cell death and innate immunity in rice. PLOS Pathogens 11(2):e1004629. doi: 10.1371/journal.ppat.1004629. Liu, W. Liu, J. Triplett, L Leach, J. and Wang GL*. 2014. Novel insights into the rice innate immunity against bacterial and fungal pathogens. Annual Review of Phytopathology 52:213-41. Park, C.H., Chen, S., Shirsekar, G., Zhou, B., Khang, C.H., Songkumarn, P., Afzal, A.J., Ning, Y., Wang, R., Bellizzi, M., Valent, B. & Wang, G.L*. (2012). The Magnaporthe oryzae Effector AvrPiz-t Targets the RING E3 Ubiquitin Ligase APIP6 to Suppress Pathogen-Associated Molecular Pattern-Triggered Immunity in Rice. Plant Cell, 24: 4748–4762 Ding, B., Bellizzi Mdel, R., Ning, Y., Meyers, B.C. & Wang, G.L*. (2012). HDT701, a Histone H4 Deacetylase, Negatively Regulates Plant Innate Immunity by Modulating Histone H4 Acetylation of Defense-Related Genes in Rice. Plant Cell 24, 3783-94 Ning, Y., Jantasuriyarat, C., Zhao, Q., Zhang, H., Chen, S., Liu, J., Liu, L., Tang, S., Park, C.H., Wang, X., Liu, X., Dai, L., Xie, Q., and Wang, G.L*. (2011). The SINA E3 Ligase OsDIS1 Negatively Regulates Drought Response in Rice. Plant Physiology 157, 242-255. La, H., Ding, B., Mishra, G.P., Zhou, B., Yang, H., Bellizzi Mdel, R., Chen, S., Meyers, B.C., Peng, Z., Zhu, J.K., and Wang, G.L*. (2011). A 5-methylcytosine DNA glycosylase/lyase demethylates the retrotransposon Tos17 and promotes its transposition in rice. Proc Natl Acad Sci USA 108, 15498-15503. *Corresponding author
