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ISPP Committee on the Taxonomy of Plant Pathogenic Bacteria – new Members

Following the recent retirement of esteemed colleague Solke de Boer and the up-coming retirements of two additional committee members, the ISPP – CTPPB has selected two new members. They are Professor T A Coutinho and Dr Sean Li as set out below. Please join the ISPP and the Committee in welcoming them.

 

Professor T A Coutinho

Teresa Coutinho is a Professor in the Department of Microbiology and Plant Pathology and the Forestry and Agricultural Biotechnology Institute (FABI), University of Pretoria, South Africa. She was awarded her PhD in plant pathology from the University of Natal in 1991. Her research interests include forest pathology, specifically bacterial tree pathogens. 

 

She has been involved in the training of 15 PhD and 29 MSc students of which 13 PhD and 24 MSc students have completed their degrees. During this period she authored or co-authored 103 publications in peer-reviewed, ISI-rated journals. She led the group that recently published several proposals for new species. These publications included genera that are unusual for bacterial plant pathogens (Tatumella, Gibbsiella) as well as more well known plant pathogenic bacterial genera (Pantoea, Pectobacterium). She has written a number of chapters in books including “Bacterial diseases of plants in South Africa” published in 2009.  She was also the senior editor in this case.

 

She sequenced the genome of the first plant pathogen in Africa and is an authority on Pantoea taxonomy and pathogenicity. She is involved in several professional bodies, notably as an editorial board member of the Southern Forests, chairperson of the organizing committee of the 2nd International “Erwinia” workshop held in Reunion in 2010, and past convener of the NRF Assessment panel for Microbiology and Plant Pathology.  She is currently president of the Southern African Society for Plant Pathology (2011-2014).

 

Her contact details are: Teresa A Coutinho, Department of Microbiology and Plant Pathology, Forestry and Agricultural Biotechnology Institute (FABI), University of Pretoria, Pretoria 0002, South Africa, at email.

 

Dr Sean Li

(Sean) Xiang Li is a research scientist at the Canadian Food Inspection Agency, working on classification and diagnoses of plant pathogenic bacteria. His current research focuses on developing novel diagnostic platforms for potato brown rot, blackleg, zebrachip and phytoplasma diseases based on genomic and barcoding techniques.

 

He earned his PhD in 1993 under A C Hayward in Australia with earlier contributions to the phylogenetic classification of Ralstonia and Bulkholderia. He was postdoctoral research in Dr. Solke De Boer’s lab in Vancouver from 1993-1995, where he developed molecular detection and classification techniques on Clavibacter spp.. Subsequently, his research led him to the Department of Microbiology and Immunology of UBC and then to a pharmaceutical company where his research concentrated on soil microbial diversity and Streptomyces genetics. He has also been a professor for Chinese Academy of Sciences researching metagenomics of oceanic microbes. He authored or co-authored more than 60 scientific publications in peer-reviewed journals and 5 chapter books, and filed 5 patent applications with authorization. He has served as the Chairperson of a Technical Advisory Group on Ralstonia for the NAPPO Potato Panel, and is an editorial board member of ACTA Microbiological Sinica since 2007.

His contact details are: (Sean) Xiang Li, Canadian Food Inspection Agency, Charlottetown Laboratory, 93 Mount Edward Road, Charlottetown, PE C1A 5T1, Canada, at email.


PUBLICATIONS:

Hot off the Presses!
The ISPP-CTPPB has just published the 2012 version of the L
ist of New Names of Plant Pathogenic Bacteria
Bull, C. T., S.H. De Boer, T.P. Denny, G. Firrao, M. Fischer-Le Saux, G.S. Saddler, M. Scortichini, D.E. Stead, Y. Takikawa. 2012. List of New Names of Plant Pathogenic Bacteria (2008-2010). Journal of Plant Pathology 94 (1), 21-27. doi: 10.4454/jpp.fa.2011.003.  
http://sipav.org/main/jpp/index.php/jpp/article/view/2437
Please contact the convener (Carolee.Bull@ars.usda.gov) for any questions or comments about this list or previous lists.
  
Previous Publications include:
Bull, C. T., S.H. De Boer, T.P. Denny, G. Firrao, M. Fischer-Le Saux,   G.S. Saddler, M. Scortichini, D.E. Stead, Y. Takikawa, 2010.    COMPREHENSIVE LIST OF NAMES OF PLANT PATHOGENIC BACTERIA, 1980-2007.    Journal of Plant Pathology 92:551-592.
Download PDF <http://www.isppweb.org/SMC_Files/Bull%20et%20al.%202010%20JPP%20List.pdf>  
  
Bull, C. T., S.H. De Boer, T.P. Denny, G. Firrao, M. Fischer-Le Saux,   G.S. Saddler, M. Scortichini, D.E. Stead, Y. Takikawa,. 2008.     Demystifying Nomenclature of Bacterial Plant Pathogens Journal of Plant   Pathology 90:403-417. 
Download PDF <http://www.isppweb.org/SMC_Files/Bull%20et%20al%202008%20InvitedReview_403.pdf>    

  

Taxonomy of Plant Pathogenic Bacteria - Committee members:

C.T. Bull (Convener), US Department of Agriculture, 1636 E Alisal Street, Salinas, CA 93905, USA  e-mail:  

T.A. Coutinho, Department of Microbiology and Plant Pathology Forestry and Agricultural Biotechnology Institute (FABI), University of Pretoria, Pretoria 0002, South Africa  email

T.P. Denny, University of Georgia, Plant Pathology Department, Plant Science Building, Athens, GA 30602-7274, USA  e-mail: 

G. Firrao, Dipartimento di Biologia Applicata alla Difesa delle Piante, Universita, via Scienze 208, 33100 Udine, Italy  e-mail: 

M. Fischer-Le Saux, UMR de Pathologie Vegetale, INRA, BP 60057, 49071 Beaucouze Cedex, France  e-mail: 

X. Li, Canadian Food Inspection Agency, Charlottetown Laboratory, 93 Mount Edward Road, Charlottetown, PE C1A 5T1, Canada  email

G.S. Saddler, Scottish Agricultural Science Agency, 1 Roddinglaw Road, Edinburgh, EH12 9FJ, Scotland, United Kingdom  e-mail: 

M. Scortichini, C.R.A. - Istituto Sperimentale per la Frutticoltura, Via di Fioranello, 52, 00134  Roma, Italy  e-mail: 

D.E. Stead, Central Science Laboratory, Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, Sand Hutton, York, YO41 1LZ, United Kingdom  e-mail:  

Y. Takikawa, Faculty of Agriculture, Shizuoka University, 836 Ohya, Shizuoka 422-8529, Japan  e-mail: