Tom Maier
Assistant Scientist
Tom
Research focus
My role as an Assistant Scientist in the Baum lab is to serve as the
lab manager, providing technical support for the personnel and materials
for the ongoing research projects, including maintaining greenhouse cultures
of Heterodera glycines, the soybean cyst nematode, and Heterodera
schachtii, the sugar beet cyst nematode, as well as other plant
parasitic nematodes for teaching and research purposes. Other main
responsibilities include two ongoing research projects, and supervision
of the hourly staff.
Currently, I am involved in two research projects. The first focuses
on the development of a bioinformatics project to aid in the large-scale
identification of parasitism genes of the soybean cyst nematode. To this
end, we are using pre-exisitng bioinformatics tools, as well as attempting
to develope our own tools to fit our needs.
My other project currently involves the generation of soybean hairy root
constructs and testing them against soybean cyst nematode for altered susceptibility.
In addition, I am also in charge of creating and maintaining the Baum
Lab web site, so please let me know what you think of our little corner
of the web!
Education
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B.S.: |
Genetics, Iowa State University (1994) |
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Experience
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March 2000-Present: |
Assistant Scientist, Baum Lab, Plant Pathology
Department,
Iowa State Unviersity |
December 1995-March 2000: |
Research Associate, Baum Lab, Plant Pathology
Department,
Iowa State Unviersity |
May 1995-December 1995: |
Research Assistant, Pioneer Hi-Bred, Johnston, Iowa |
September 1992-May 1995: |
Undergraduate Research Assistant, Lab of Dr. Robert Thornburg,
Department of Biochemistry and Biophysics, Iowa State University. |
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Continuing Education
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January 1997: |
Nematode
Identification Course for Professional Consultants, Clemson
University, Clemson, South Carolina. |
Selected Publications
- Huang, G., B. Gao, T. Maier, R. Allen, E. L. Davis, T. J. Baum, and R.
S. Hussey 2003. A Profile of Putative Parasitism Genes Expressed in the
Esophageal Gland Cells of the Root-Knot Nematode Meloidogyne incognita.
Molecular Plant-Microbe Interactions:
In Press
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Boer, J. M., J. P. McDermott, X. Wang, T. Maier, F. Qiu, R. S. Hussey,
E. L. Davis, and T. J. Baum 2002. The use of DNA microarrays for
the developmental expression analysis of cDNAs from the oesophageal gland
cell region of Heterodera glycines. Molecular Plant Pathology
3: 262-270.
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Gao,
B., R. Allen, T. Maier, E. L. Davis, T. J. Baum, and R. S. Hussey 2002.
Identification of a new beta-1,4-endoglucanase expressed in the
subventral gland cells of Heterodera glycines. Journal of Nematology
34:12-15.
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Gao
B., R. Allen, T. Maier, J. P. McDermott, E. L. Davis, T. J. Baum, and R. S.
Hussey 2002. Characterisation and developmental expression of a chitinase
gene in Heterodera glycines. International Journal of Parasitology
32:1293-1300.
- Gao, B., R. Allen, T. Maier, E. L. Davis, T. J. Baum, and R. S. Hussey
2001.
Identification of putative parasitism genes expressed in the esophageal gland
cells of the soybean cyst nematode, Heterodera glycines. MPMI 14:
1247-1254.
- Gao, B., R. Allen, T. Maier, E. L. Davis, T. J. Baum, and R. S. Hussey
2001.
Molecular characterization and expression of two venom allergen-like protein
genes in Heterodera glycines. The International Journal of Parasitology
31: 1617-1625.
- Wang, X., R. Allen, X. Ding, T. R. Maier, J. M. de Boer, T. J. Baum,
R. S. Hussey, and E. L. Davis 2001. Secretion signal peptide selection
of cDNA cloned directly from the esophageal gland cells of Heterodera
glycines. Molecular Plant-Microbe Interactions 14: 536-544.
- T. Maier, L. Zhou and R.W. Thornburg, "Nucleotide
sequence of a cDNA encoding UMP synthase from Nicotiana tabacum (GenBank
U22260)," Plant Physiol. 108 1747 (1995).