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Dr. Dean serves as Director of the Center for Integrated Fungal
Research, is a William Neal Reynolds Distinguished Professor
in the Department
of Plant Pathology at NCSU, and serves as Director of the Fungal
Genomics Lab. Dr. Dean holds an Adjunct Faculty position in the
Department of Genetics at NCSU and at the Clemson University Genomics
Institute.
Dr. Dean is a Fellow of the American Phytopathological Society, a recipient of the Secretary's Award of Honor from the USDA, and the Huxley Memorial Medal from Imperial College, London. He holds two U.S. patents; "PCR-Based method for identifying a fusarium wilt-resistant genotype in plants" and "Method of diagnosing gummy stem blight in plants using a polymerase chain reaction assay".
Dr. Dean's research program is primarily focused on understanding the mechanisms regulating host
infection by rice blast fungus Magnaporthe oryzae, the most destructive disease of rice world-wide.
Following the completion of the genome sequence, his lab currently focuses on:
1. Understanding the molecular basis of infection through comparative genome analyses of members of the Magnaporthaceae.
2. Characterization of the transcription circuitry regulating infection.
3. Interrogation of post-translational protein modifications (phosphorylation and ubiquitination) during infection.
4. Identification and characterization of effector proteins.
Dr. Dean has over 90 peer-reviewed publications, nine book chapters and review articles, and over 300 published abstracts. Dr. Dean has served as an editor for several international journals and is currently a board member for the British Society of Plant Pathology.
Dr. Dean is a regular member of National Science Foundation and U.S. Department of Agriculture genetics and genomics grant proposal review panels.
Dr. Dean acts as Chair of the International Rice Blast Genome Consortium, and is a member of the International Phytophthora Genome Consortium, the International Rice Blast Genome Policy Committee, and the Bioinformatics and Functional Genomics Graduate Program at North Carolina State University.
Research projects in Dr. Dean's labs have resulted in major breakthroughs, which have been published in notable scientific journals including Science and Nature. More information on Dr. Dean's research can be found at www.fungalgenomics.ncsu.edu
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