Kansas State University

Gerald Reeck, Ph.D., Professor
Advisor

Contact information Office: 203 Burt Hall Phone: 785-532-6117 Fax: 785-532-7278 E-mail: reeck@ksu.edu Education B.A. 1967, Seattle Pacific College Ph.D. 1971, University of Washington

Areas of specialty

• Biochemistry and molecular biology of insect enzymes and proteins
• Structure and function of proteinases and proteinase inhibitors

Selected publications

Carolan, J. C., Caragea, D., Reardon, K. T., Mutti, N. S., Dittmer, N., Pappan, K., Cui, F., Castaneto, M., Poulain, J., Dossat, C., Tagu, D., Reese, J. C., Reeck, G. R., Wilkinson, T. L., and Edwards, O. R. (2011) Predicted effector molecules in the salivary secretome of the pea aphid (Acyrthosiphon pisum): a dual transcriptomic/proteomic approach. J. Proteome Res. 10:1505-18.

International Aphid Genomics Consortium (2010) Genome sequence of the pea aphid Acyrthosiphon pisum. PLoS Biol.23;8(2):e1000313.

Mutti, N. S., Louis, J., Pappan, L. K., Pappan, K., Begum, K., Chen, M. S., Park, Y., Dittmer, N., Marshall, J., Reese, J. C., Reeck, G. R. (2008) A protein from the salivary glands of the pea aphid, Acyrthosiphon pisum, is essential in feeding on a host plant. Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. U. S. A. 105:9965-9.

Mutti, N. S., Park, Y., Reese, J. C., Reeck, G. R. (2006) RNAi knockdown of a salivary transcript leading to lethality in the pea aphid, Acyrthosiphon pisum. J. Insect. Sci. 6:1-7.

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