Judith K Brown

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Judith K Brown

Professor, Plant Science
Regents Professor, Plant Sciences
Research Associate Professor, Entomology
Professor, Entomology / Insect Science - GIDP
Professor, BIO5 Institute
Member of the General Faculty
Member of the Graduate Faculty
Primary Department
School of Plant Sciences
Department Affiliations
School of Plant Sciences
BIO5 Institute
Contact
(520) 621-1402
jbrown@ag.arizona.edu

Work Summary

Unravel the phylodynamics and transmission-specific determinants of emerging plant virus/fastidious bacteria-insect vector complexes, and translate new knowledge to abate pathogen spread in food systems.

Research Interest

Judith Brown, PhD, and her research interests include the molecular epidemiology of whitefly-transmitted geminiviruses (Begomoviruses, Family: Geminiviridae), the basis for virus-vector specificity and the transmission pathway, and the biotic and genetic variation between populations of the whitefly vector, B. tabaci, that influence the molecular epidemiology and evolution of begomoviruses. Keywords: Plant viral genomics, emergent virus phylodynamics, functional genomics of insect-pathogen interactions

Publications

Brown, J. K. (2017). Genome sequencing of the sweetpotato whitefly Bemsia tabaci MED/Q. GigaScience Database, 6(5), 1-7. doi:10.1093/gigascience/gix018
Brown, J. K. (2017). Molecular diagnostic development for two begomovirus-betasatellite complexes undergoing diversification: A case study. Virus Research, 241, 29-41. doi:http://doi.org/10.1016/j.virusres.2017.04.014.

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