Name:
Mostafa Rahnama
Mostafa Rahnama
Name:
Mostafa Rahnama
Title:
Assistant Professor
Department:
Biology
Email Address:
Phone:
(931) 372-3648
Office:
Laboratory Science Commons (LSC) 2101
About
The Rahnama Lab is interested in understanding the molecular mechanisms involved in fungal adaptation to various environments, especially during interactions with different hosts (plants, insects, and animals). To achieve this, we combine advanced genomics techniques, such as CRISPR, DNA-seq (Illumina and Nanopore technologies), RNA-seq, and ChIP-seq, with computational and quantitative approaches.
- Rahnama M., Condon B., Ascari J.P., Dupuis J.R., Del Ponte E., Pedley K.F., Martinez
S., Valent B., Farman M.L. 2022. Recombination of standing variation in a multi-hybrid
swarm drove adaptive radiation in a fungal pathogen and gave rise to two pandemic
plant diseases. Nature Ecology & Evolution 7, 2055–2066.
- Rahnama M., Novikova O., Starnes J., Chen L., Zhang S., Farman M.L. 2020. Transposon-mediated
telomere destabilization: a driver of genome evolution in the blast fungus. Nucleic
Acids Research 48(13):7197–7217.
- Rahnama M., Wang B., Dostart J., Novikova O., Farman M.L. 2021. Telomere roles in
fungal genome evolution and adaptation. Frontiers in Genetics 12: 676751.
- Rahnama, M., Maclean, P., Fleetwood, D. J., Johnson, R. D. 2023. Comparative Transcriptomics
profiling of perennial ryegrass infected with wild type or a ΔvelA Epichloë festucae
mutant reveals host processes underlying mutualistic versus antagonistic interactions.
Journal of Fungi, 9(2), 190.
- Rahnama M., Fleetwood D.J., Johnson R.D. 2021. Histological methods to detect early-stage
plant defense responses during artificial inoculation of Lolium perenne with Epichloë
festucae. Bio-Protocol, 11(9): e4013.
- Ascari, J.P., Cazón, L.I., Rahnama, M., Lamour, K., Fernandes, J.M., Farman, M.
and Del Ponte, E. 2023. Pyricularia are Mostly Host-Specialized with Limited Reciprocal
Cross-Infection Between Wheat and Endemic Grasses in Minas Gerais, Brazil. Phytopathology.
- Rahnama M., Szarka D., Li H., Dixon E., Castlebury L., *Gauthier N.A. 2021. Reemergence
of Septoria leaf spot caused by Septoria cannabis on hemp in the Kentucky. Plant Disease
11(9): e4013.
- Rahnama M., Phillips T.D., *Farman M.L. 2020. First report of blast disease on Eragrostis
tef in the United States. Plant Disease 104:12, 3266.
- Szarka, D., Smith, H.S., Dixon, E., Munir, M., Rahnama, M. and Gauthier, N.W., 2023.
Fusarium species recovered from postharvest hemp materials from Kentucky fields. Plant
Health Progress.
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