Rodrigo Almeida

Assistant Professor
Ph.D.  University of California, Berkeley, 2002
B.S.  , 1997

203 Wellman
Berkeley, California 94720-3114
rodrigo at nature.berkeley.edu
office: 510-642-1603   lab: 510-642-1603   fax:  510-643-5438

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We are interested in two broad research areas: ecology of emerging insect-borne plant pathogens and insect-microbe interactions. Research questions are addressed using a range of approaches and tools, from ecological field work to molecular interactions studies.

Please visit our website (link above) for more information.

Almeida, R.P.P. 2008. Ecology of emerging vector-borne plant diseases. p70-77. In: Instititute of Medicine Forum on Vector-borne diseases: Understanding the environmental, human health, and ecological connections. The National Academies Press, Washington, D.C. 350p.

Chatterjee, S., Almeida, R.P.P. and Lindow, S.E. 2008. Living in two worlds: the plant and insect lifestyles of Xylella fastidiosa. Annual Review of Phytopathology 46: 243-271.

Almeida, R.P.P., Nascimento, F.E., Chau, J., Prado, S.S., Tsai, C.W., Lopes, S.A. and Lopes, J.R.S. 2008. Genetic structure and biology of Xylella fastidiosa causing disease in citrus and coffee in Brazil. Applied and Environmental Microbiology 74: 3690-3701.

Tsai, C.W., Chau, J., Fernandez, L., Bosco, D., Daane, K.M., and Almeida, R.P.P. 2008. Transmission of Grapevine leafroll-associated virus 3 by the vine mealybug (Planococcus ficus). Phytopathology 98: 1093-1098.

Almeida, R.P.P., Bennett, G.M., Anhalt, M.D., Tsai, C.W. and O'Grady, P. 2009. Spread of an introduced vector-borne banana virus in Hawaii. Molecular Ecology 18: 136-146.

Kiliny, N. and Almeida, R.P.P. 2009. Xylella fastidiosa afimbrial adhesins mediate cell transmission to plants by leafhopper vectors. Applied and Environmental Microbiology 75: 521-528.