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Dr. Eunsook Park is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Molecular Biology at the University of Wyoming, affiliated with the College of Agriculture, Life Sciences and Natural Resources. Her research focuses on understanding organelle dynamics and their roles in plant immunity, particularly chloroplast-nucleus communication during stress responses and autophagy modulation in fungal pathogens. She investigates how pathogens disrupt host organelle function and employs high-throughput screening to develop novel antifungal agents.
Her research interests are divided into two main areas: 1) Exploring chloroplast-nucleus communication mechanisms during plant immune responses to microbial infections, and 2) Developing autophagy-modulating compounds to combat fungal diseases. Recent work includes studies on RXLR effector proteins disrupting vesicle trafficking and BRET-based screens for antifungal lead compounds.
Key achievements include establishing a non-integrative viral delivery system for CRISPR-Cas9 genome editing in plants and characterizing the role of NLR immune receptors in programmed cell death. Her work is supported by grants such as an international NIH-funded project in Korea.
While no formal advisees are listed, her lab focuses on plant-microbe interactions, organelle biology, and translational research for agricultural applications. No scientific awards are explicitly mentioned in the provided texts.
