Bishop John Bishop
Associate Professor
PhD, Botany,
University of Washington
Address:
Washington State University
Vancouver
Vancouver WA 98686-9600
Phone: 360- 546-9612
Fax: 360- 546-9064
Email: bishop@vancouver.wsu.edu
Home Page:
http//www.vancouver.wsu.edu/fac/bishop/home-long.html

 

Research Interests
Professor Bishop's research interests are in molecular evolution and plant population biology. Projects in molecular evolution combine comparative sequence analyses and with enzyme structural information to gain insight into plant-pathogen arms races at the molecular level. We have analyzed several cell-wall degrading enzymes deployed by invading pathogens (e.g. polyglacturonase) or as defenses by plants (chitinase, b-1,3-endoglucanase), along with corresponding inhibitors. Currently we are expanding these studies to other PR proteins, and investingating differentiation of chitinase and endolgucanase gene families. A second project examines primary successional processes at Mount St. Helens. We use experimental, observational, and modelling to document and spatially structured trophic interactions and their effect on lupine colonization, and disentangle the underlying top-down and bottom-up causes.

Representative Publications
 

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.

Gill, R.A., J. A. Boie*, B. D. Jessop*, J. L. Apple, L. Larsen**, and J.G. Bishop. In press. Linking community and ecosystem development on Mount St. Helens: Interacations between nutrient availability plant tissue chemistry, and species composition. Oecologia.

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.

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.

Courses
Introduction to Genetics (Biol 301)
Organic Evolution (Biol 405)
Conservation Genetics (Zool 520)
Special topics: Ecological Stoichiometry (ESRP 592)
Special topics: Evolution and Creationism (Zool 490)
Special topics: Natural History of Mount St. Helens (ESRP 490)