Eric Stockinger
Associate Professor
Department of Horticulture and Crop Science

209 Williams Hall 1680 Madison Ave. Wooster, OH 44691 Phone: 330-263-3876 Fax: 330-263-3887

Email: stockinger.4@osu.edu

WEBSITE at oardc.osu.edu/stockingerlab/
at OSU since 2001

EDUCATION

University of California, Riverside CA Plant Science B.S. 1985
University of California, Riverside CA Botany (Plant Genetics) Ph.D. 1993
Michigan State University, East Lansing MI Plant Genetics Postdoc 1993-1994
Michigan State University, East Lansing MI Gene Regulation Postdoc 1994-2000

PROFESSIONAL POSITIONS

2006-present Associate Professor, Dept of Horticulture and Crop Science, The Ohio State University/OARDC, Wooster OH 44691

2000-2006 Assistant Professor, Dept of Horticulture and Crop Science, The Ohio State University/OARDC, Wooster OH 44691

1994-2000 Postdoctoral Research Assistant, Dept of Crop & Soil Sciences, Michigan State University, East Lansing MI; Research Advisor: Michael F. Thomashow

1993-1994 Postdoctoral Research Assistant, Dept of Horticulture, Michigan State University, East Lansing MI; Research Advisor: Amy F. Iezzoni

1986-1993 Research Assistant, Dept of Botany & Plant Sciences, University of California Riverside CA; Research Advisor: Linda L. Walling

1990 Teaching Assistant (Molecular Biology), Dept of Biology, University of California, Riverside CA

1986 Teaching Assistant (Genetics), Dept of Biology, University of California, Riverside CA

1986 California Nurseryman, Cherry Valley Nursery, Cherry Valley CA.

1984-1985 Undergraduate Research Assistant, Dept of Botany & Plant Sciences, University of California, Riverside CA; Research Advisor: J. Giles Waines

1979-1984 Nurseryman/Retail Sales, Landscape Growers Inc., Monterey Park CA.

1978 Firefighter, USDA Forest Service, Glendora CA.


RESEARCH

What is the genetic basis accounting for differences plants exhibit in their capacity to cold acclimate and increase in freezing tolerance? This is the underlying biological question that drives the research in my lab. To address this question we are using molecular genetic and comparative genomic approaches with particular emphasis on the C-repeat Binding Factor (CBF) cold response pathway. Our investigations are focused on a number of key plants within the Solanaceae (tomato and potato), the Fabaceae (alfalfa, barrel medic and soybean), the Poaceae (wheat, barley, rye and the model cereal plant Brachypodium distachyon) and also include Arabidopsis thaliana. Each offers a unique set of questions that we can pose. The major questions we are asking include:

To what extent are the cis/trans components of the Arabidopsis CBF cold response pathway conserved across plant taxa?

What role does the CBF cold response pathway play in plant low temperature tolerance?

What are the factors that control and regulate CBF expression in different plants?

What are the molecular mechanisms the CBF transcription factors use to activate expression of their target genes?

What partner proteins are required for CBF mediated transcriptional activation?


PUBLICATIONS ON COLD ACCLIMATION

Zhang, X., Fowler, S.G., Cheng, H., Lou, Y., Rhee, S.Y., Stockinger, E.J. and Thomashow, M.F. (2004) Freezing sensitive tomato has a functional CBF cold response pathway, but a CBF regulon that differs from that of freezing tolerant Arabidopsis. Plant J. 39: 905-919.

Stockinger, E.J., Mao, Y., Regier, M., Triezenberg, S.J. and Thomashow, M.F. (2001) Transcriptional adaptor and histone acetyltransferase proteins in Arabidopsis and their interactions with CBF1, a transcriptional activator involved in cold-regulated gene expression. Nucleic Acids Res. 29: 1524-1533.

Thomashow, M.F., Gilmour, S.J., Stockinger, E.J., Jaglo-Ottosen, K.R., Zarka, D.G. (2001) Role of the Arabidopsis CBF transcriptional activators in cold acclimation. Physiol. Plantaraum. 112: 171-175.

Gilmour, S.J., Zarka, D.G., Stockinger, E.J., Salazar, M.P., Houghton, J.M., and Thomashow, M.F. (1998) Low temperature regulation of the Arabidopsis CBF family of AP2 transcriptional activators as an early step in cold-induced COR gene expression. Plant J. 16: 433-442.

Thomashow, M.F., Stockinger, E.J., Jaglo-Ottosen, K.R., Gilmour, S.J. and Zarka, D.G. (1997) Function and regulation of Arabidopsis thaliana COR (cold-regulated) genes. ACTA Physiol. Plant. 19: 497-504.

Stockinger, E.J., Gilmour, S.J. and Thomashow, M.F. (1997) Arabidopsis thaliana CBF1 encodes an AP2 domain-containing transcriptional activator that binds to the C-repeat/DRE, a cis-acting DNA regulatory element that stimulates transcription in response to low temperature and water deficit. Proc. Natl Acad Sci U.S.A. 94: 1035-1040.

ADDITIONAL RECENT PUBLICATIONS

Coaker, G.L., Willard, B., Kinter, M., Stockinger, E.J., and Francis, D.M. (2004) Proteomic analysis of resistance mediated by Rcm 2.0 and Rcm 5.1, two loci controlling resistance to bacterial canker of tomato. Mol. Plant Microbe Interact. 17: 1019-1028.

Garvin, D.F., Federici, C.V., Stockinger, E.J., and Waines, J.G. (1997) Genetic marker transmission in early generation common x tepary bean hybrids. J. Hered. 88: 537-540.

Stockinger, E.J., Mulinix, C.A., Long, C.M., Brettin, T.S. and Iezzoni, A.F. (1996) A linkage map of sweet cherry based on RAPD analysis of a microspore-derived callus culture population. J. Hered. 87: 214-218.

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