Dr. Jianxiu Yao

Department of Plant Pathology

Kansas State University, USA

Email:jianxiuy@ksu.edu

Qualifications

2011 Ph. D., Kansas State University, Entomology

2001 M.S., Northwest A&F University, Entomology

1997 B.S., Northwest A&F University, Plant Protection

Publications

1. Jianxiu Yao, Alireza  Afsharifar, Karen Barandoc-Alviar, Dorith Rotenberg, Anna E. Whitfield. (oral presentation). RNA interference of two V-ATPase subunits (B and D) inPeregrinus maidisby dsRNA injection. Presented by Yao J at 2012 ESA annual meeting. Knoxville, TN. Nov 10-14, 2012.
2. Khajuria C.,Yao J., Buschman L. L. & Zhu K. Y. Transcriptome analysis revealed midgut-specific genes involved in Bt toxicity and larval development in the European corn borer. Presented by KYZ at the Second International Symposium on Insect Midgut Biology, Guangzhou, China. Oct. 24-28, 2012.
3. Jianxiu Yao, Chitvan Khajuria, Nanyan Lu, Lawrent L Buschman, Brenda Oppert, Ming-Shun Chen, Kan Yan Zhu. (oral presentation). Changes in gene expression in European corn borer larvae (Ostrinia nubilalis) in response to Bacillus thuringiensis Cry1Ab protoxin exposure. An paper presented by JY at ESA annual meeting, San Diego, CA. Dec 11-15, 2010.
4. Jianxiu Yao, Chitvan Khajuria, Nanyan Lu, Lawrent L Buschman, Brenda Oppert, Ming-Shun Chen, Kan Yan Zhu. (oral presentation). Changes in gene expression in European corn borer larvae (Ostrinia nubilalis) in response to transgenic corn expressing Cry1Ab toxin exposure. Presented by Yao J at 2011 ESA-NCB annual meeting, Minneapolis, MN, Mar 14-17, 2011.
5. Jianxiu Yao, Chitvan Khajuria, Nanyan Lu, Lawrent L Buschman, Brenda Oppert, Ming-Shun Chen, Kan Yan Zhu. (Poster presentation). Changes in gene expression in European corn borer larvae (Ostrinia nubilalis) in response to Bacillus thuringiensis Cry1Ab protoxin exposure. A poster presented by JY at the 4th annual Arthropod Genomics Symposium in Kansas City. MO. Jun, 11-15, 2010.
6. Jianxiu Yao, Chitvan Khajuria, Nanyan Lu, Lawrent L Buschman, Brenda Oppert, Ming-Shun Chen, Kan Yan Zhu. (Poster presentation). Changes in gene expression in European corn borer larvae (Ostrinia nubilalis) in response to Bacillus thuringiensis Cry1Ab protoxin exposure. A poster presented by JY at ESA-NCB annual meeting, Louisville, KY. Mar 14-17, 2010.
7. Jianxiu Yao, Chitvan Khajuria, Lawrent L. Buschman, Ming-Shun Chen, and Kun Yan Zhu. (Poster presentation). Characterization of Trypsin- and Chymotrypsin-like cDNAs from the Gut of European Corn Borer (Ostrinia nubilalis). A poster presented by JY at the Annual Meeting of the ESA, Indianapolis, IN. Dec. 13-16, 2009.
8. Jianxiu Yao, Chitvan Khajuria, Lawrent L. Buschman, Ming-Shun Chen, and Kun Yan Zhu. (Poster presentation). Characterization of trypsin- and chymotrypsin-like cDNAs from the gut of European corn borer               (Ostrinia nubilalis).  A poster presented by JY at the K-State 3rd Annual Arthropod Genomics Symposium in Kansas City, MO. June 11-14, 2009.
9. Khajuria C., Zhu Y. C., Chen M.-S., Buschman L. L., Higgins R. A.,Yao J., Cresop A. L. B., Siegfried B. D., Muthukrishnan S. & Zhu K. Y.  2009. Expressed sequence tags from larval gut of the European corn borer (Ostrinia nubilalis):  Exploring candidate genes potentially involved inBacillus thuringiensistoxicityand resistance. BMC Genomics 10: 286 (1-14).
10. Cho S., Zwick, A., Regier, J.C, Mitter, C., Cummings, M.P.,Yao, J., Du, Z., Zhao, H., Kawahara, A.Y., Weller, S., Davis, D.R., Baixeras, J., Brown, J.W., Parr, S. 2011. Can deliberately incomplete gene sample augmentation improve a phylogeny estimate for the advanced moths and butterflies (Hexapoda: Lepidoptera)? Systematic Biology 60(6):782–796.
11. Yao J., Buschman L. L., Oppert B.,  Khajuria C., Zhu K. Y. 2012. Characterization of cDNAs encoding serine proteases and their transcriptional responses to Cry1Ab protoxin in the gut ofOstrinia nubilalislarvae.  PlosOne, e44090.
12. Lu Y., Pang Y-P., Park Y., Gao X.,Yao J., Zhang X., Zhu K. Y. 2012. Genome organization, phylogenies, expression patterns and three-dimensional models of deduced proteins of two acetylcholinesterase genes from the red flour beetle,Tribolium castaneum. PlosOne, e32288
13. Lu Y., Park Y., Gao X., Zhang X.,Yao J., Pang Y-P., Jiang H., Zhu K Y. 2012. Cholinergic and non-cholinergic functions of two acetylcholinesterase genes revealed by gene-silencing inTribolium castaneum. Scientific report. 2:288
14. Yao J., Rotenberg D., Afsharifar A., Barandoc-Alviar K., Whitfield AE. RNA interference of two V-ATPase subunits (B and D) inPeregrinus maidisby dsRNA injection. (Submitted to PlosOne)