Amgad A. Saleh

Department of Plant Pathology, Kansas State University

4024 Throckmorton Hall, Manhattan, KS 66506

asa7976@ksu.edu

785-532-1347

Education:

 

Ph.D.        Plant Pathology       2004       Kansas State University, USA

M.Sc.       Microbiology           1997       Cairo University, Egypt

B.Sc.        Botany                     1988       Alexandria University, Egypt

 

Employment:

 

Postdoctoral Research Associate  Plant Pathology, KSU                   5/23/2004 to present

Graduate Research Assistant        Plant Pathology, KSU                   1/3/999 to 5/22/2004

Assistant Researcher                     AGERI, ARC, Egypt                     8/1/1997 to 1/1/1999

Research Assistant                        AGERI, ARC, Egypt                     2/1/1990 to 7/31/1997

 

Professional Memberships and Awards:

 

IIE/USAID Scholarship                 January, 1999-December, 2002

Don C. Warren Scholarship          Fall/Spring 2002/2003

Research Assistantship                 Plant Pathology, KSU, 2003-2004

Travel Grant Award                      American Society of Genetics, 2003

Member in American Phytopathological Society (APS) since 1993

 

Publications:

 

Schmale III, D. G., Leslie, J. F., Zeller, K. A., Saleh, A. A., Shields, E. J., and Bergstrom, G. C. 2006. Genetic Structure of Atmospheric Populations of Gibberella zeae. Phytopathology (Accepted).

 

Garrett, K. A., Travers, S. E., Milliken, G. A., Bai, J., Hulbert, S.,  Leach, J. E., Schnable, P. S., Saleh A. A., Roe, J. L., Fay, P. A. , Knapp, A. K. , Tang, Z., and Smith, M. D. 2006. Deviant expression of genes in the wild: Analyzing genome-wide expression in field experiments with natural populations. Journal of Ecology (Submitted).

 

Leslie, J. F., Saleh, A. A., Bowden, R. L, Marasas, W. F. O., Lee, Y-W, Summerell, B A., and Zeller, K. A. 2005. Comments on New Species Related to Gibberella zeae/Fusarium graminearum.  Fungal Genetics and Biology (Submitted).

 

Schmale III, D. G., Leslie, J. F., Saleh, A. A., Shields, E. J., and Bergstrom, G. C. 2006. Temporal scales of genetic diversity within New York atmospheric populations of Gibberella zeae. Applied and Environmental Microbiology (Submitted).

 

Saleh, A. A., Mansour, I., El-Assuity, E., and Leslie, J. F. 2006. Biological species in the Gibberella fujikuroi species Complex (Fusarium section Liseola) recovered from maize and sorghum in Egypt. Internal revision.

 

Saleh, A.A. and Leslie, J.F. 2004. Cephalosporium maydis is a distinct species in the Gaeumannomyces-Harpophora species complex. Mycologia 96:1294-1305.

 

Saleh, A.A., Zeller, K.A., Ismael, A.M., Fahmy, Z.M., El-Assuity, E., and Leslie, J.F. 2003.

Amplified fragment length polymorphism (AFLP) diversity in Cephalosporium maydis from Egypt. Phytopathology 93:853-859.

 

Suleman, P., Tohamy, A. M., Saleh, A. A., Madkour, M. A., and Straney, D. C. 1996. Variation in sensitivity to tomatine and rishitin among isolates of Fusarium oxysporum f.sp. lycopersici, and strains not pathogenic on tomato. Physiological and Molecular Plant Pathology 48:131-144.

 

Abstracts:

 

Saleh et al., 2005. Naturally occurring hybrids of Fusarium graminearum.

Saleh and Leslie, 2003. Fungal Genetics Newsletters 50(suppl.)142.

Saleh and Leslie, 2003. Fungal Genetics Newsletters 50(suppl.)142.

Saleh et al., 2000. Phytopathology 60:s68.

Saleh et al., 2001.Fungal Genetics Newsletters 48(suppl.)148.

Tohamy et al., 1997. Phytopathology 87:s97.

 

Posters:

 

Naturally occurring hybrids of Fusarium graminearum. Poster, 2005. 23rd Fungal Genetics Conference, Pacific grove, CA.

Cephalosporium maydis is a distinct species in the Gaeumannomyces-Harpophora species complex. Poster, 2003. 22nd Fungal Genetics Conference, Pacific grove, CA.

AFLP diversity of Cephalosporium maydis. Poster, 2001. 21th Fungal Genetics Conference, Pacific grove, CA.

AFLP diversity of Cephalosporium maydis. Poster, 2000. Phytopathology, APS Annual Meeting, New Orleans, LA.