Christopher Harper

Program: Plant and Microbial Biosciences

Current advisor: Joshua Blodgett, PhD

Undergraduate university: University of Missouri-St. Louis, 2016

Enrollment year: 2019

Research summary

Graduate publications
Djami-Tchatchou AT, Harrison GA, Harper CP, Wang R, Prigge M, Estelle M, Kunkel BN. 2020 Dual Role of Auxin in Regulating Plant Defense and Bacterial Virulence Gene Expression During Pseudomonas syringae PtoDC3000 Pathogenesis. Mol Plant Microbe Interact, 33(8):1059-71. PMCID:

Kunkel BN, Harper CP. 2018 The roles of auxin during interactions between bacterial plant pathogens and their hosts. J Exp Bot, 69(2):245-54