My research interests are in molecular evolution and plant population biology. Projects include:
1) Combining sequence population genetics and protein structural analysis to identify molecular targets of selection in pathogenesis related proteins (e.g. chitinase, endoglucanase, PGIP);
2) Using experimental and observational approaches to understand the causes of spatially structured trophic interactions, how nitrogen fixing plants and bacteria affect primary succession, and the interaction of ecosystem and community assembly at Mount St. Helens. Click here for information about Mount St. Helens.

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C. M. B. Damasceno, J. G. Bishop, Daniel R. Ripoll, Joe Win, Sophien Kamoun, and Jocelyn K. C. Rose. 2008. Structure of the glucanase inhibitor protein (GIP) family from Phytophthora species suggests coevolution with plant endo- beta -1,3-glucanases. Molecular Plant-Microbe Interactions 21: 820-830.

Windsor, A.J., M.E. Schranz, N. Formanová , S. Gebauer-Jung, J.G. Bishop, D. Schnabelrauch, J. Kroymann, T. Mitchell-Olds. 2006. Partial shotgun sequencing of the Boechera stricta genome reveals extensive microsynteny and promoter conservation with Arabidopsis thaliana. Plant Physiology 140: 1169-1182.

Bishop, J.G. 2005. Directed mutagenesis confirms the functional importance of positively selected sites in polygalacturonase inhibitor protein (PGIP). Molecular Biology and Evolution 22(7): 1531-1534.

Bishop, J.G., D.R. Ripoll, S. Bashir, C. M. B. Damasceno, J.D. Seeds*, and J.K.C. Rose. 2005. Selection on Glycine beta -1,3-endoglucanase genes differentially inhibited by a Phytophthora glucanase inhibitor protein. Genetics 169 (2): 1009-1019.

Bishop, J.G., A.M. Dean, and T. Mitchell-Olds.  2000.  Rapid evolution in plant chitinases: Molecular targets of selection in plant-pathogen coevolution. Proceedings of the National Academy of Science 97: 5322-5327.

Stotz, H. U., J.G. Bishop, C. Bergman, M. Koch, A. Darvill, P. Albersheim, J. Labavitch.  2000. Identification of target amino acids that affect interactions of fungal polygalacturonases and their plant inhibitors. Physiological and Molecular Plant Pathology 56: 117-130.

Stahl, E.A. and J.G. Bishop.  2000 Molecular evidence for plant-pathogen arms races. Current Opinion in Plant Biology 3 (4): 299-304.

Koch, M., J.G. Bishop & T. Mitchell-Olds.  1999.   Molecular systematics and evolution of  Arabidopsis and Arabis.  Plant Biology 1:529-537.

Chadchawan, S., J. Bishop, O.P. Thangstad, A.M. Bones, T. Mitchell-Olds, and D. Bradley. 1993. Arabidopsis cDNA sequence encoding myrosinase. Plant Physiology 103: 671-672.

Mount St. Helens & Primary Succession Recently featured in Science and Current Biology
If you're interested in Mount St. Helens biology, you should consider buying the book Ecological Responses to the 1980 eruption of Mount St. Helens.

J.G. Bishop, N.B. O'Hara**, J.H. Titus, J.L. Apple, R. A. Gill, L. Wynn**. In Review. Addition of phosphorus increases primary production and orthopteran abundance during primary succession at Mount St. Helens. Oecologia.

S. Yang*, J.G. Bishop, M.S. Webster. In Press. Colonization genetics of an animal-dispersed plant (Vaccinium membranaceum) at Mount St. Helens, Washington. Molecular Ecology.

Gill, R.A., J. A. Boie*, J.G. Bishop, L. Larsen**, J. L. Apple, R.D. Evans, R.D. 2006. Linking community and ecosystem development on Mount St. Helens: Interacations between nutrient availability plant tissue chemistry, and species composition. Oecologia: 148: 312-324.

Fagan, W.F., M. Lewis, M.G. Neubert, C. Aumann, J.L. Apple, and Bishop, J.G. 2005. When can herbivores reverse the spread of an invading plant? A test case from Mount St. Helens. American Naturalist 166: 669-685.

Bishop, J.G., W.F. Fagan, J.D. Schade and C.M. Crisafulli. 2005. Spatially structured insect herbivory and its effects on primary succession. In Dale, V.H., F. Swanson, and C.M. Crisafulli, eds. Mount St. Helens ecological research: Ecological recovery of Mount St. Helens after the 1980 eruption. Springer-Verlag. Buy the book.

Fagan, W. F., J. G. Bishop, J.M. Schade. 2004. Spatially structured herbivory and primary succession at Mount St Helens: field surveys and experimental growth studies suggest a role for nutrients. Ecological Entomology 29: 398-409.

Bishop, J.G. 2002. Early primary succession on Mount St. Helens: The demographic impact of insect herbivores on colonizing lupines. Ecology 83: 191-202.

Fagan, W.F. and J.G. Bishop. 2000.  Trophic interactions during primary succession: Herbivores slow the reinvasion of lupines on Mount St. Helens. American Naturalist 155: 238-251.

Bishop, J.G. and D.W. Schemske. 1998. Variation in flowering phenology and its consequences for lupines colonizing Mount St. Helens. Ecology 79: 534-546

Apple, J.L., M. Wink, and J.G. Bishop. Inverse density-dependent herbivory on Mount St. Helens is related to successional chanages in phosphorus stoichiometry. Upublished manuscript. In Revision.

Bishop, J.G. and R. Dyer**. The formation and loss of genetic structure among colonizing lupine populations at Mount St. Helens. Unpublished manuscript .

Seeds, J.D.* and J.G. Bishop. Low Frankia innoculation potential may limit alder invasion of primary successional sites at Mount St. Helens. Upublished manuscript. In Revision.