Curriculum vitae

Peter Knut Lundquist

Assistant Professor
Michigan State University, Department of Biochemistry & Molecular Biology
Email: pklundqu@msu.edu; Office Phone: 517-353-0441
Lab Website: www.lundquist-lab.net; ORCID: 0000-0001-8390-8089
Professional Positions
Aug 2018 - current

Assistant Professor

Department of Biochemistry & Molecular Biology
Michigan State University

Feb 2016 – Jul 2018

Post-doctoral Researcher

Jan 2013 – Jan 2016

Post-doctoral Researcher

May 2012 – Dec 2012

Post-doctoral Researcher

Dr. Wolf R. Scheible
Noble Research Institute
Dr. Andreas P. M. Weber
Heinrich Heine Universitaet Düsseldorf
Dr. Klaas J. van Wijk
Cornell University

Professional Training

Education
2012
2006
2006

Ph.D.
B.Sc.
B.Sc.

Plant Biology
Biochemistry
Agronomy

Cornell University
Kansas State University
Kansas State University

Extramural Funding
2021 – 2023
2021 – 2023
2020 - 2023

NSF-MCB ($589,299)“Molecular Mechanisms of Protein Association with Plastoglobule Lipid Droplets”
PI: Peter Lundquist
USDA-NIFA ($425,000)“Uncovering the Dynamic Functions of Plastoglobules for Enhanced Drought and Heat Tolerance”
PI: Peter Lundquist
Ag Spectrum Company ($589,200)“Adaptive biochemical and physiological responses of maize hybrid lines to managed variables underabiotic stress”
PI: Peter Lundquist, co-PIs: Addie Thompson and Erich Grotewold

Intramural Funding
2023
2022
2021 – 2023

MTRAC Starter Grant ($39,369)“Enhancement of Corn Drought Tolerance Through a Stress-responsive Gene Family”
PI: Peter Lundquist
MSU AgBioResearch ($147,000)“Equipment Grant - NightSHADE LB 985 IKFlu XT in vivo plant imaging system from Berthold”
Proposal Lead: Peter Lundquist
Project GREEEN & Bayer Corp. ($84,900)“Discovering the Site of Action of Indaziflam”
PI: Eric Patterson, co-PI: Peter Lundquist

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Peer-Reviewed Publications(* corresponding author; ‡ co-first-author)

16) Ying, S., Scheible, W.-R., Lundquist, P.K.* (2023) A stress-inducible protein regulates drought tolerance andflowering time in Brachypodium and Arabidopsis. Plant Physiology. 191(1) p. 643-659
https://doi.org/10.1093/plphys/kiac486
15) Shivaiah, K.-K., Susanto, F.A., Devadasu, E., Lundquist, P.K.* (2022) Plastoglobule lipid droplet isolation fromplant leaf tissue and cyanobacteria. Journal of Visualized Experiments. 2022. 18 e64515
https://dx.doi.org/10.3791/64515
14) Wang, Q., Sun, L., Lundquist, P.K.* (2022). Large-scale top-down proteomics of the Arabidopsis thaliana leaf
and chloroplast proteomes. Proteomics. 2022. e2100377
https://doi.org/10.1002/pmic.202100377
13) Bibik, J. D., Weraduwage, S.M., Banerjee, A., Robertson, K., Espinoza-Corral, R. Sharkey, T., Lundquist,
P.K., Hamberger, B. (2022). Pathway Engineering, Re-targeting, and Synthetic Scaffolding Improve theProduction of Squalene in Plants. ACS Synthetic Biology. 2022. 11(6) p. 2121-2133
https://pubs.acs.org/doi/abs/10.1021/acssynbio.2c00051
12) Espinoza-Corral, R.; Lundquist, P.K.* (2022) The plastoglobule-localized protein AtABC1K6 is a Mn2+dependent kinase necessary for timely transition to reproductive growth. Journal of Biological Chemistry,2022. 298(4) p. 101762
https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jbc.2022.101762(Web of Science citations: 1)11) Espinoza-Corral, R.; Herrera-Tequia, A; Lundquist, P.K.* (2021) Insights into topology and membraneinteraction characteristics of plastoglobule-localized AtFBN1a and AtLOX2. Plant, Signaling, and Behavior,
2021. 16(10), 1945213
https://doi.org/10.1080/15592324.2021.1945213(Web of Science citations: 1)10) Espinoza-Corral, R.; Schwenkert, S.; Lundquist, P.K.* (2021) Molecular changes of Arabidopsis thaliana
plastoglobules facilitate thylakoid membrane remodeling under high light stress. The Plant Journal, 2021.
106(6) p. 1571-1587
https://doi.org/10.1111/tpj.15253(Web of Science citations: 9)9) Lundquist, P.K.*; Shivaiah, K.-K.; Espinoza-Corral, R. (2020) Lipid droplets throughout the evolutionary tree.
Progress in Lipid Research, 78, 101029
https://doi.org/10.1016/j.plipres.2020.101029(Web of Science citations: 27)
8) Boschiero, C.; Dai, X.; Lundquist, P.K.; Roy, S.; de Bang, T.; Scheible, W.R.; Zhao, P.X. (2020) MtSSPdb: The
Medicago truncatula Small Secreted Peptide Database. Plant Physiology, 2020. 183(1) p. 399-413
https://doi.org/10.1104/pp.19.01088(Web of Science citations: 18)
7) Roy, S; Lundquist, P.K.‡; Udvardi, M.K.; Scheible, W.R. (2018) Small & mighty: Peptide hormones in plantbiology. The Plant Cell. Teaching Tools in Plant Biology, TTP38.
https://doi.org/10.1105/tpc.118.tt0718
6) de Bang, T. C.; Lundquist, P.K.*,‡; Dai, X.; Boschiero, C.; Zhuang, Z.; Pant, P.; Torres-Jerez, I.; Roy, S.; Nogales,
J; Veerappan, V; Dickstein, R.; Udvardi, M.K.; Zhao, P.X.; Scheible, W.R.* (2017) Genome-wide Identificationof Medicago Peptides Involved in Macronutrient Responses and Nodulation. Plant Physiology, 2017. 175(4)p. 1669-1689
https://doi.org/10.1104/pp.17.01096(Web of Science citations: 60)
5) Lundquist, P.K.*; Mantegazza, O.; Stefanski, A.; Stuehler, K.; Weber, A.P.M.* (2017) Surveying the OligomericState of Arabidopsis thaliana Chloroplasts. Molecular Plant, 2017. 10(1) p. 197-211
https://doi.org/10.1016/j.molp.2016.10.011(Web of Science citations: 14)
4) Lundquist, P.K.; Rosar, C.; Braütigam, A.; Weber, A.P.M. (2014) Plastid Signals and the Bundle Sheath:
Mesophyll Development in Reticulate Mutants. Molecular Plant, 2014. 7(1): p. 14-29

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https://doi.org/10.1093/mp/sst133(Web of Science citations: 41)

3) Lundquist, P.K.; Poliakov, A.; Giacomelli, L.; Friso, G.; Appel, M.; McQuinn, R.P.; Krasnoff, S.B.; Rowland, E.;
Ponnala, L.; Sun, Q.; van Wijk, K.J. (2013) Loss of Plastoglobule Kinases ABC1K1 and ABC1K3 Causes
Conditional Degreening, Modified Prenyl-Lipids and Recruitment of the Jasmonic Acid Pathway. The Plant
Cell, 2012. 25(5): p. 1818-1839
https://doi.org/10.1105/tpc.113.111120 (Web of Science citations: 66)
2) Lundquist, P.K., Davis, J.I., van Wijk, K.J. (2012) ABC1K atypical kinases in plants; filling the organellar kinase
void. Trends in Plant Science, 2012. 17(9): p. 546-555
https://doi.org/10.1016/j.tplants.2012.05.010(Web of Science citations: 46)
1) Lundquist, P.K.; Poliakov, A.; Bhuiyan N.H.; Zybailov, B.; Sun, Q.; van Wijk, K.J. (2012) The Functional Networkof the Arabidopsis thaliana Plastoglobule Proteome Based on Quantitative Proteomics and Genome-Wide
Coexpression Analysis. Plant Physiology, 2012. 158(3): p. 1172-1192
https://doi.org/10.1104/pp.111.193144 (Web of Science citations: 144; “Highly Cited Paper”)
Non-Peer Reviewed Scientific Publications(* corresponding author)

4) Lundquist, P.K.* (2022) Chromoplast differentiation: a central role for plastoglobule lipid droplets comes into
focus. New Phytologist, 2023. 237(5)https://doi.org/10.1111/nph.18700
3) Lundquist, P.K.* (2022) Tracking sub-plastidic localization of carotenoid metabolic enzymes. Methods in
Enzymology - Carotenoid and apocarotenoid biosynthesis, metabolic engineering and synthetic biology. (bookchapter)
https://doi.org/10.1016/bs.mie.2022.01.011
2) Lundquist, P.K.*; Susanto, F. (2021) Biogenesis of Lipid Droplets. Encyclopedia of Biological Chemistry 3rd Ed.
(book chapter)
https://doi.org/10.1016/B978-0-12-819460-7.00120-1
1) Boschiero, C.; Lundquist, P.K.; Roy, S.; Dai, X.; Zhao, P.X.; Scheible, W.R. (2019) Identification and functional
investigation of genome-encoded, small, secreted peptides in plants. Current Protocols in Plant Biology, 2019.
4(3) e20098
https://doi.org/10.1002/cppb.20098
Intellectual Property
Lundquist, P.K., Ying, S., Scheible, W.-R. “Conferring Drought Tolerance and Biomass Accumulation Through the Plantspecific RFS Gene Family”, Docket #: 3000.211PRV. Provisional filing date: 12 September 2022.
Professional Societies
Mar 2012 – present
Jan 2013 – present
Aug 2018 – present
Jan 2022 – present

MemberMemberMemberMemberAmerican Society of Plant Biologists (ASPB)
American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS)
American Society for Biochemistry & Molecular Biology (ASBMB)
Phytochemical Society of North America

Service and Professional Responsibilities••••

Chair of BMB Department Retreat Planning Committee (2022-2023)
Co-advisor of undergraduate student MSU Biochemistry Club (2022 – current)
Ad hoc reviewer for National Science Foundation – Directorate of Biological Sciences grant proposal (October2022)
Ad hoc reviewer for Department of Energy – Basic Energy Sciences grant proposal (February 2022)

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Faculty Advisory Committee (FAC) committee member (Jan 2022 – current)
Chair of ASBMB Annual Meeting Spotlight Session – New Insights into Fatty Acid Biology (2020 July 2)
Faculty search committee, Plant Biology Dept. (2019 – 2020)
Seminar committee, Biochemistry & Molecular Biology Dept. (2019 – 2021)
Planning committee for local Fascination of Plants Day event (2019 – current)
Manuscript Peer-Reviewer for:o Proceedings of the National Academy ofo Plant Cell Reports
Sciences (PNAS)o Plant, Cell, and Environmento The Plant Cello Plantao Journal of Experimental Botany
o Physiologia Plantarumo Scientific Reportso Vegetos
o Trends in Plant Scienceo Progress in Lipid Researcho Plant Scienceo New Phytologist

Oral Presentations and Posters at Research Meetings
2022

Phytochemical Society of North America Annual Meeting (Blacksburg, VA)“The Responsive to Flowering and Stress Protein Family - Interplay between lipid metabolism,
flowering and drought” (virtual)

2022

NextPLANT Symposium – MSU/Uni Duesseldorf (East Lansing, MI)“Atypical ABC1 Protein Kinases of Plastoglobule Lipid Droplets” (oral)

2022

ASBMB Annual Meeting Spotlight Session – Atypical Signaling Mechanisms (Philadelphia, PA)“The plastoglobule-localized AtABC1K6 is a Mn2+-dependent protein kinase necessary for timelytransition to reproductive growth” (oral)

2021

AgSpectrum Maximum Farming Club Conference (Palm Coast, FL)“Promoting Stress Tolerance Through Agricultural Inputs” (oral)

2021

AgSpectrum National Dealer Seminar (Palm Coast, FL)“The Physiology of Crop Stress and Adaptation” (oral)

2020

ASBMB Annual Meeting Spotlight Session – New Insights into Fatty Acid Biology (virtual)“The Dynamic Proteome and Lipidome of Plastoglobule Lipid Droplets of Plant Plastids” (oral)

2019

Gordon Research Conference – Plant Lipids: Structure, Function and Metabolism (Galveston, TX)“Plastoglobules: New Horizons in Plastid Lipid Research” (oral)

2017

Plant Peptides & Receptors Workshop (Helsingor, Denmark)“Identification and Screening of SSPs with Nodule-and Nutrient-Responsive Expression in Medicago
truncatula” (poster)

2017

Plant & Animal Genome Conference (San Diego, CA)“Re-Annotation of the Medicago truncatula Genome for the Identification of Small Secreted Peptides
Involved in Nodulation & Nutrient-Deficiency” (poster)

2016

Plant Peptides & Receptors Workshop (Bischoffsheim, France)“Identification of Small Signaling Peptides with Nodule- & Nutrient-Responsive Expression in
Medicago truncatula” (oral presentation & poster)

2015

CEPLAS Young Researchers Retreat (Bad Honnef, Germany)“DEL Proteins of the Chloroplast Envelope Membrane” (oral presentation & poster)

2015

CEPLAS Symposium (Köln, Germany)“A Mass-Western Approach to BN-PAGE-Resolved Chloroplasts” (poster)2014

Gordon Research Conference – Mitochondria and Chloroplasts (Barga, Toscana, Italy)

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Curriculum vitae“Plastid Envelope Remodeling During Plant Development” (poster)
2014

CEPLAS Symposium (Düsseldorf, Germany)“Plastid Envelope Remodeling by DEL1” (poster)

2013

Botanikertagung – Meeting of the German Botanical Society (Tübingen, Germany)“Plastid Envelope Remodeling During Plant Development” (poster)

2012

American Society of Plant Biologists annual meeting (Austin, Texas)“Plastid-localized kinases of the ABC1K family are necessary for light-stress adaptation” (poster)

2011

Gordon Research Conference and Gordon Research Seminar – Plant Metabolic Engineering(Waterville Valley, NH) “Functional Analysis of Arabidopsis thaliana Plastoglobules in the Light StressResponse” (poster)

2010

American Society of Plant Biologists annual meeting (Montreal, Quebec, Canada)“Plastoglobule-localized ABC1K2 and ABC1K3 are Putative Kinases Necessary for Light Stress
Adaptation and Prenyl-lipid Metabolism” (poster)2010

Third Pan-American Plant Membrane Biology Workshop (Puebla, Mexico)“Thylakoid-associated lipoprotein particles involved in metabolite flux and recycling” (oralpresentation)

University-Level Teaching & Mentoring Responsibilities at Michigan State University
 Courses Taught• Biochemistry & Molecular Biology 856, Plant Molecular and Omic Biology
o Graduate level Spring 2021, 15 students, 2 lectures, 2 hours
 Fall 2019, 20 students, 1 lecture, 2 hours• Biological Sciences 161, Cells and Moleculeso Undergraduate, introductory cell/molecular biology course Spring 2021, 237 students, 12 lectures, 18 hours
 Spring 2020, 218 students, 6 lectures, 9 hours• Biochemistry & Molecular Biology 960, Selected Topics in Molecular Plant Scienceso Graduate-level journal club style course Spring 2020, 12 students, 12 classes, 12 hours
 Mentoring, Advising, and Supervision• Post-Docso Dr. Kiran-Kumar Shivaiah April 2019 – current
o Dr. Sheng Ying April 2021 - current
o Dr. Elsinraju Devadasu
 May 2021 - current
o Dr. Roberto Espinoza-Corral April 2019 – August 2021
• PhD Studentso Major Advisor
 Qianjie Wang (dual BMB & Chemistry programs)• January 2019 - current• Co-mentoring with Dr. Liangliang Sun (Chemistry Dept., MSU)
 Febri Susanto (BMB program)

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Curriculum vitae• January 2020 – current
PhD committees
 Diego Granados-Villanueva (BMB program)• Committee Member, August 2021 – current• Major advisor: Dr. Kelly Kim
 Brandon Webster (Plant Breeding and Genetics – Plant Biology program)• Committee Member, August 2021 - current• Major advisor: Dr. Addie Thompson
 Bianca Serda (BMB program)• Committee Member, November 2019 - current• Major advisor: Dr. Tom Sharkey
 Stephanie Rett (Horticulture program)• Committee Member, November 2019 - current• Major advisor: Dr. Rebecca Grumet
 Ron Cook (BMB program)• Reader, September 2019
• Major advisor: Dr. Christoph Benning Philip Engelgau• Reader, June 2020
• Major Advisor: Dr. Randolph Beaudry
Masters Studentso Major Advisor Mohit Mahey (Crop and Soil Science program)• August 2021 - current• Co-mentoring with Dr. Eric Patterson (Plant, Soil and Microbial Sciences Dept., MSU)
Undergraduate Researchers
 Earl Givens (May 2022 – July 2022) Summer REU student
 Katarina Jarmoluk (February 2022 – current) Alec Fowler (February 2022 – current) Joel Landa (May 2021 – May 2022) Summer REU student Elizabeth Dubuque (January 2021 – May 2022)
 John Kim (August 2019 – current) Najah Lazim (April 2019 – March 2020)
 Fadhlin Kuahmadpuzi (April 2019 – August 2019) Amanda Lafay (November 2018 – May 2019)o••University-Level Teaching and Mentoring Responsibilities at Previous Institutions
 Courses Taught••

Introductory Biology (BIOG109)
o B.Sc. students; 4 classes of 13-14 students each at Cornell Universityo 1 semester course (4 months), taught once (Fall 2007)
o Taught laboratory classes, including introductory lectures, student supervision and led separate
weekly discussion sectionso Prepared and graded exams and quizzes, prepared and guided discussions with lead-in questions
Introductory Biology (BIOG110)
o B.Sc. students; 4 classes of 13-14 students each at Cornell Universityo 1 semester course (4 months), taught once (Spring 2008)o Taught laboratory classes, including introductory lectures, student supervision and led separate
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o Prepared and graded exams and quizzes, prepared and guided discussions with lead-in questions
Introductory Plant Biodiversity and Evolution (PLBIO 2410)
o B.Sc. students; 2 classes of 17-18 students each at Cornell Universityo 1 semester course (4 months), taught once (Fall 2010)
o Taught laboratory classes, including introductory lectures and student supervisiono Prepared and graded exams and quizzes, prepared and guided discussions with lead-in questions andheld weekly office hours for one-on-one teaching
Laboratory Investigations of Plant Function and Growth (PLBIO2421)
o B.Sc. students; 3 classes of 15 students each at Cornell Universityo 1 semester course (4 months), taught once (Spring 2012)o Taught laboratory classes, including introductory lectures and student supervisiono Prepared and graded exams and quizzes and held weekly office hours for one-on-one teaching
Molecular physiology and biochemistry of primary carbon metabolism (V430)
o B.Sc. students; 3 classes of 15 students each at University of Duesseldorf
o 2-week intensive course, taught once (Fall 2014)o Guided students in their experimentso Graded quizzes and student presentations

 Research Supervision•

Bachelor’s Theses
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Mason Appel Supervised his research project resulting in his Bachelor’s Research Thesis from Cornell
University
 Developed and phenotyped plastoglobule genetic mutants including lipid metabolite
profiling Taught relevant concepts and lab techniques
 2 years; April 2009 – May 2011
Inga Mohr Supervised her research project resulting in her Bachelor’s Research Thesis from Universityof Duesseldorf
 Developed tools for protein-protein interaction analyses via Yeast-2 Hybrid, Bimolecular
Fluorescence Complementation, and protein pull-down assays.
 Taught relevant concepts and lab techniques 6 months; March 2013 – August 2013
Philipp Yuen Supervised his research project resulting in his Bachelor’s Research Thesis from Universityof Duesseldorf
 Investigated the membrane topology of an chloroplast envelope integral membrane protein
 Taught relevant concepts and lab techniques 6 months; March 2014 – August 2014
Nhi Nguyen
 Supervised her research project resulting in her Bachelor’s Research Thesis from Universityof Duesseldorf
 Developed Arabidopsis over-expression lines of tagged chloroplast proteins for protein pull
down assays
 Taught relevant concepts and lab techniques 6 months; March 2015 – August 2015

Undergraduate Summer Research ScholarsoKevin Murphy
 Supervised his research project at Cornell University

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 Taught relevant concepts and lab techniques
 Supported by a National Science Foundation Grant for Undergraduate Research Experience 10 weeks; May 2010 – August 2010
Christina Chiu
 Supervised her research project at Noble Research Institute Taught relevant concepts and lab techniques
 Supported by National Science Foundation funding 10 weeks; May 2016 – August 2016
Sarah Dysinger
 Supervised her research project Taught relevant concepts and lab techniques
 Supported by National Science Foundation funding 10 weeks; June 2017 – August 2017
Kaylynn Ashby
 Supervised her summer research project at Noble Research Institute Taught relevant concepts and lab techniques
 Supported by National Science Foundation funding 6 weeks; May 2018 – July 2018•

Undergraduate Research Internships•

Zheng Ser Supervised his research project at Cornell University
 Taught relevant concepts and lab techniques 15 months; September 2011 – December 2012
o Aurelian Fiszl
 Supervised his research at University of Duesseldorf
 Taught relevant concepts and lab techniques 6 weeks; April 2014 – May 2014
High School StudentsoooCody Burton
 Taught relevant concepts and lab techniques
 Supervised his research project at Noble Research Institute 6 months; February 2018 – July 2018
Sierra Long Taught relevant concepts and lab techniques
 Supervised her research project at Noble Research Institute 4 months; February 2017 – May 2017

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