Welcome to the Arif Lab
About Us
The population of the world will increase by 2.4 billion people in next three decades. New approaches are needed to sustainably increase global crop productivity to feed the growing world’s population. Sustainable disease management is critical to continue stable production of a safe food supply with high yield. Our group is using ‘omics’ technologies to understand the disease epidemiology. We are working on plant microbiome, population genetics, interactions and comparative genomics. Also, we develop novel isothermal and lab based protocols for applications in routine diagnostics, biosecurity and microbial forensics.
Lab Director
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Dr. Mohammad Arif is a Principal Investigator and Assistant Professor at the Department of Plant and Environmental Protection Sciences, CTAHR.
Dr. Arif is an associated faculty of C-Maiki Institute (Center for Microbiome Analysis through Island Knowledge and Investigation). Currently, Dr. Arif is an Editor and a Senior Editor for the Nature Publishing Group Journal “Scientific Reports” and American Phytopathological Society’s Journal “Plant Health Progress”, respectively. Dr. Arif is also editing a Special Issue on "Genome-wide analyses of Pectobacterium and Dickeya species" for the journal of "Frontiers in Plant Sciences". |
LAB NEWS
Editor of "Scientific Reports"
Dr. Arif has accepted the invitation to join the Editorial Board of Nature Publishing Group Journal “Scientific Reports”. Scientific Reports is an online, open access journal and publish robust, scientifically-valid, original research from all areas of the natural and clinical sciences, led by the same principles of editorial rigour as other Nature Research journals.
1st Graduate from Phytobacteriology lab
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Adriana's presentation
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Adrian Larrea-Sarmiento started in Spring 2017 and graduated (MS) in December 2018. She worked on comparative genomics, molecular interactions and diagnostics. She was outstanding and generated data for 6 peer-reviewed publications (3 as senior author and other 3 as 2nd author). She won two awards.
Meet The New Faces Of Our Team
Spring 2018: Dr. Shefali Dobhal from India started as Junior Researcher.
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Fall 2018: Sujan Paudel from Nepal started as graduate student
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Fall 2018: Samudra Gunarathne from Sri Lanka started as graduate student
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New Graduate Student
Fall 2017: Gamze Boluk from Turkey started as graduate student
Adriana WON PEPS Best MS Poster Award in CTAHR Student Research Symposium 2017
April 2017: Adriana Larrea won PEPS Best MS Poster Award in CTAHR Student Research Symposium 2017. The title of her Research Poster was "Core- and Pan-Genome Analyses of Xanthomonas campestris pv. campestris: Black Rot Pathogen of Crucifers"
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Plant Biosecurity in Theory and Practices
May 2017: Arif and Adriana participated in a one week long course of Plant Biosecurity in Theory and Practice at Biosecurity Research Institute, Kansas State University, Manhattan, Kansas. Arif was an invited speaker and delivered a talk on "The Select Agent Rathayibacter toxicus: High Consequence Bacteria of Biosecurity Concern". He was also an instructor for hands on training inside the containment facility.
First student in our program!
Spring 2017: Adriana Larrea from Ecuador started in January 2017 as a first student in our program. She will be working on Xanthomonas axonopodis and Clavibacter michiganensis subsp. michiganensis.
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