Michael Cooley

Produce Safety and Microbiology Phone 510-559-5986

Western Regional Research Center FAX 510-559-6162

Agricultural Research Service email mcooley@pw.usda.gov

US Department of Agriculture

800 Buchanan St.

Albany, CA 94710

# Education

Ph.D. in Genetics, University of California, Davis, June 1991

BS in Biochemistry and Cellular Biology, University of California, San
Diego, June 1983

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# Publications

Timberlake WE, Boylan MT, Cooley MB, Mirabito PM, O\'Hara EB and Willett
CE, (1985) Rapid identification of mutation-complementing restriction
fragments from *Aspergillus nidulans* cosmids. Experimental Mycology
9:351-355.(35)

Kamoun S, Cooley MB, Rogowsky PM and Kado CI (1989) Two chromosomal loci
involved in production of exopolysaccaride in *Agrobacterium
tumefaciens*. J. Bacteriol. 171, 1755-1759.(22)

Cooley MB, D\'Souza MR and Kado CI (1991) *virC* and *virD* operons of
the Agrobacterium Ti plasmid are regulated by the *ros* chromosomal
gene: analysis of the cloned *ros* gene. J.Bacteriol. 173:2608-2616.
(50)

Cooley MB and Kado CI (1991) Mapping of the *ros* virulence regulatory
gene of *A. tumefaciens*. Mol. Gen. Genet. 230:24-27.(4)

D\'Souza-Ault MR, Cooley MB and Kado CI (1993) Analysis of the Ros
repressor of Agrobacterium *virC* and *virD* operons: molecular
intercommunication between plasmid and chromosomal genes. J. Bacteriol.
175:3486-3490. (19)

Yang H, Cooley MB, Dahal P, Downie B, Mella RA, Bradford KJ (1996)
Isolation and characterization of GA-induced germination-specific genes
in tomato seeds by differential display PLANT PHYSIOLOGY 111 (2):
121-121 Suppl. S JUN 1996

Cooley MB, Goldsbrough A, Still DW and Yoder Jl. (1996) Site-selected
insertional mutagenesis of tomato with maize *Ac* and *Ds* elements.
Mol. Gen. Genet. 252:184-194. (7)

Cooley MB and Yoder JI (1998) Insertional inactivation of the tomato
polygalacturonase gene. Plant Mol. Biol. 38:521-530. (2)

Cooley MB, Yang H, Dahal P, Mella, A, Downie B and Bradford KJ (1999)
Vacuolar H+ -ATPase is expressed in response to gibberellin during
tomato seed germination. Plant Physiol. 121:1339-1347.(9)

Cooley MB, Pathirana S, Wu H-J, Kachroo P, and Klessig DF (2000) Members
of the Arabidopsis *HRT/RPP8* family of resistance genes confer
resistance to both viral and oomycete pathogens. Plant Cell 12: 663-676.
(25)

Bradford KJ, Chen F, Cooley MB, Dahal P, Downie B, Fukunaga KK, Gee OH,
Gurusinghe S, Mella RA, Nonogaki H, Wu C-T, Yang H, Yim K-O (2000) Gene
expression prior to radicle emergence in imbibed tomato seeds. In M
Black, KJ Bradford, J Vazquez-Ramos, eds, Seed Biology: Advances and
Applications. CAB International, Wallingford, UK, pp 231-251

Kachroo, P.; Cooley, M.; Wu, H.; Pathirana, S.; Yoshioka, K.; Klessig,
D. (2001) Resistance to Turnip crinkle virus: Understanding defense
signaling against a viral pathogen of Arabidopsis. Phytopathology 91 (6
Supplement): S159 June 2001

Cooley, MB; Miller, WG; Mandrell, RE (2003) Colonization of *Arabidopsis
thaliana* with *Salmonella enterica* and enterohemorrhagic *Escherichia
coli* O157:H7 and competition by *Enterobacter* *asburiae.* Appl.
Environ. Microbiol. 69:4915-4926

Cooley MB, Chao DF, Mandrell RE (2006) Escherichia coli O157:H7 survival
and growth on lettuce is altered by the presence of epiphytic bacteria.
J. Food Protection 69:2329-2335.

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