Patricia Walker

Program: Plant and Microbial Biosciences

Current advisor: Himadri B. Pakrasi, PhD

Undergraduate university: Southern Illinois University-Carbondale, 2016

Enrollment year: 2016

Research summary
Investigating the light tolerance role of a putative protein phosphatase in cyanobacteria

Graduate publications
Wendt KE, Walker P, Sengupta A, Ungerer J, Pakrasi HB. 2022 Engineering Natural Competence into the Fast-Growing Cyanobacterium Synechococcus elongatus Strain UTEX 2973. Appl Environ Microbiol, ():.

A Ubiquitously Conserved Cyanobacterial Protein Phosphatase Essential for High Light Tolerance in a Fast-Growing Cyanobacterium.
Walker PL, Pakrasi HB.. 2022 A Ubiquitously Conserved Cyanobacterial Protein Phosphatase Essential for High Light Tolerance in a Fast-Growing Cyanobacterium. Microbiol Spectr, ():e0100822.

Zhang K, Lee JS, Liu R, Chan ZT, Dawson TJ, De Togni ES, Edwards CT, Eng IK, Gao AR, Goicouria LA, Hall EM, Hu KA, Huang K, Kizhner A, Kodama KC, Lin AZ, Liu JY, Lu AY, Peng OW, Ryu EP, Shi S, Sorkin ML, Walker PL, Wang GJ, Xu MC, Yang RS, Cascella B, Cruz W, Holland CK, McClerkin SA, Kunkel BN, Lee SG, Jez JM. 2020 Investigating the reaction and substrate preference of indole-3-acetaldehyde dehydrogenase from the plant pathogen Pseudomonas syringae PtoDC3000. Biosci Rep, 40(12):BSR2020295.