Talia Karasov
Assistant Professor
Graduate Program Membership:
Office/Building: ASB 480B
Phone: 801-585-0484
Email: t.karasov@utah.edu
Karasov Lab: https://www.tkarasovlab.org/home
Research Statement
I study how bacterial pathogens evolve and spread in plant host populations, and how hosts in turn evolve resistance. My current work aims to elucidate the genetic and population-level mechanisms that prevent the emergence of epidemics. My research touches upon several disciplines within the Biological Sciences including population genetics, microbial and plant genomics and classical microbiology.
Research Interests
General Interests
Specific Interests
- Host-parasite evolution
- Microbial genetics
- Microbial ecology
- Plant Evolutionary Genetics
Selected Publications
- 1. Karasov TL, Almario J, Friedemann C, Ding W, Giolai M, Heavens D, Kersten S, Lundberg DS, Neumann M, Regalado J, et al.: Arabidopsis thaliana and Pseudomonas Pathogens Exhibit Stable Associations over Evolutionary Timescales. Cell Host Microbe 2018, 24:168–179.e4.
- 2. Karasov TL, Chae E, Herman JJ, Bergelson J: Mechanisms to Mitigate the Trade-Off between Growth and Defense. Plant Cell 2017, 29:666–680.
- 3. Karasov TL, Kniskern JM, Gao L, DeYoung BJ, Ding J, Dubiella U, Lastra RO, Nallu S, Roux F, Innes RW, et al.: The long-term maintenance of a resistance polymorphism through diffuse interactions. Nature 2014, 512:436–440.
- 4. Regalado J, Lundberg DS, Deusch O, Kersten S, Karasov T, Poersch K, Shirsekar G, Weigel D: Combining whole-genome shotgun sequencing and rRNA gene amplicon analyses to improve detection of microbe--microbe interaction networks in plant leaves. ISME J 2020, 1-15