Skip to:

Email
zenaida@igbb.msstate.edu

Office
Dorman 425

Phone
(662) 325-2455

PO Box 9555
Mississippi State, MS 39762


Zenaida V. Magbanua  

Email
zenaida@igbb.msstate.edu

Office
Dorman 425

Phone
(662) 325-2455

PO Box 9555
Mississippi State, MS 39762
Biography
▪ Doctor of Philosophy, Biochemistry and Molecular Biology
Mississippi State University (Mississippi State, MS)
▪ Master of Science, Crop and Soil Sciences
University of Georgia (Athens, GA)
▪ Bachelor of Science, Chemical Engineering
University of the Philippines (Quezon City, Philippines)
Research Interest
• Genomics and functional genomics
• Metagenomics and metatranscriptomics
• Genome annotation
• High-throughput gene search and discovery
• Genome evolution
• Plant-pathogen and plant-pest interaction
• Plant molecular biology and genetics
• Biology of repetitive elements
• Biotechnology and development of transgenic plants
Selected Publications Total Publications:  19 
Magbanua, Z. V., Arick, M., II, Buza, T., Hsu, C. Y., Showmaker, K. C., Chouvarine, P., Deng, P., Peterson, D. G., & Lu, S. (2014). Transcriptomic Dissection of the Rice - Burkholderia glumae Interaction. BMC Genomics. 15, 755. DOI:10.1186/1471-2164-15-755. [Abstract]

Sanders, W. S., Ganji, S., Arnold, J. P., Arick, M., II, Showmaker, K. C., Bartlett, B. D., Cooksey, A., Watts, J., Knudstrup, S., Magbanua, Z. V., Peterson, D. G., & Wubben, M. J. (2014). Assembly, Annotation, and Proteogenomic Mapping of Rotylenchulus reniformis. Plant and Animal Genome XXII. San Diego, CA. [Abstract] [Document] [Document Site]

Ganji, S., Sanders, W. S., Stokes, J. V., Showmaker, K. C., Bartlett, B., Wang, H, Wubben, M., McCarthy, F.M., Magbanua, Z. V., & Peterson, D. G. (2013). The Genome of Reniform Nematode, Rotylenchulus reniformis. MCBIOS 2013. University of Missouri, Columbia, MO. [Abstract] [Document] [Document Site]

Showmaker, K. C., Ganji, S., Arick, M., II, Sanders, W. S., Magbanua, Z. V., Wubben, M. J., & Peterson, D. G. (2013). De Novo Transcriptome Assembly of the Plant-Parasitic Nematode Rotylenchulus reniformis. MCBIOS 2013. University of Missouri, Columbia, MO. [Abstract] [Document Site]

Sanders, W. S., Showmaker, K. C., Bartlett, B. D., Wang, H, Ganji, S., Wubben, M., McCarthy, F.M., Magbanua, Z. V., & Peterson, D. G. (2012). Assembling and Annotating the Genome of a Plant Parasitic Nematode, Rotylenchulus reniformis, with Sequences Obtained Using 2Nd Generation Sequencing Technologies. MCBIOS 2012. University of Mississippi. [Abstract]