Magdalen Lindeberg
Assistant Director, School of Integrative Plant Science

As Assistant Director for the School of Integrative Plant Science, I assist the Director in leadership and administration of the School, and provide oversight for marketing and communication with a focus on the School's website, promotional information, and communication of activities within the School
Recent Research
Since assuming a greater administrative role in the School of Integrative Science in 2020, I am no longer conducting research. However I maintain an active interest in the area of bacterial diseases of plants and the molecular mechanisms of their interactions.
Selected Journal Publications
Google Scholar profile and publications.
- Mazo-Molina, C., S. Mainiero, S.R. Hind, C. M. Kraus, M. Vachev, F. Maviane-Macia, M. Lindeberg, S. Saha, S. Strickler, A. Feder, J. Giovannoni, C. Smart, N. Peeters, and G. Martin. 2019. The Ptr1 locus of Solanum lycopersicoides confers resistance to race 1 strains of Pseudomonas syringae pv. tomato and to Ralstonia pseudosolanacearum by recognizing the type III effectors AvrRpt2/RipBN. Molecular Plant-Microbe Interactions 32:949-6
- Eckshtain-Levi, N., Lindeberg, M., Vallad, G.E., and Martin, G.B. 2019. The tomato Pto gene confers resistance to Pseudomonas floridensis, an emergent plant pathogen with just nine type III effectors. Plant Pathology 68:977-84.
- Jones, L. A., Saha, S., Collmer, A., Smart, C. D., & Lindeberg, M. (2015). Genome-assisted development of a diagnostic protocol for distinguishing high virulence in Pseudomonas syringae pv tomato strains. Plant Disease. 99:527-534.
- Saha, S., & Lindeberg, M. (2013). Bound to succeed: Transcription factor binding site prediction and its contribution to understanding virulence and environmental adaptation in bacterial plant pathogens. Molecular Plant-Microbe Interactions. 26:1123-1130.
- Saha, S., Hunter, W. B., Reese, J., Morgan, J. K., Marutani-Hert, M., Huang, H., & Lindeberg, M. (2012). Survey of Endosymbionts in the Diaphorina citri Metagenome and Assembly of a Wolbachia wDi Draft Genome. PLOS One. 7:e50067.
- Lindeberg, M. (2012). Genome-enabled perspectives on the composition, evolution, and expression of virulence determinants in bacterial plant pathogens. Annual Review of Phytopathology. 50:11-132.
- Lindeberg, M., Cunnac, S., & Collmer, A. (2012). Pseudomonas syringae type III effector repertoires: last words in endless arguments. Trends in Microbiology. 20:199-208.
- Lindeberg, M. (2011). Information Management of Genome Enabled Data Streams for Pseudomonas syringae on the Pseudomonas-Plant Interaction (PPI) Website. Genes. 2:841-852.
- Cai, R., Lewis, J., Yan, S., Clarke, C., Campanile, F., Almeida, N., Studholme, D., Lindeberg, M., Schneider, D. J., Zaccardelli, M., Setubal, J., Morales-Lizcano, N., Bernal, A., Coaker, G., Baker, C., Bender, C., Leman, S., & Vinatzer, B. (2011). The plant pathogen Pseudomonas syringae pv. tomato is genetically monomorphic and under strong selection to evade tomato immunity. PLoS Pathogens. 7:e1002130.
- Torto-Alalibo, T., Collmer, C. W., Gwinn-Giglio, M., Lindeberg, M., Meng, S., Chibucos, M. C., Tseng, T. T., Lomax, J., Biehl, B., Ireland, A., Bird, D., Dean, R. A., Glasner, J. D., Perna, N., Setubal, J. C., Collmer, A., & Tyler, B. M. (2010). Unifying Themes in Microbial Associations with Animal and Plant Hosts Described Using the Gene Ontology. Microbiology and Molecular Biology Reviews. 74:479 - 503.
- Filiatrault, M. J., Stodghill, P. V., Bronstein, P. A., Moll, S., Lindeberg, M., Grills, G., Schweitzer, P., Want, W., Schroth, G. P., Luo, S., Khrebtukova, I., Yang, Y., Thannhouser, T., Butcher, B. G., Cartinhour, S., & Schneider, D. J. (2010). Transcriptome analysis of Pseudomonas syringae identifies new genes, ncRNAs, and antisense activity. Journal of Bacteriology. 192:2359.
- Buell, C. R., Joardar, V., Lindeberg, M., Selengu, T. J., Paulsen, I. T., Gwinn, M. L., Dodson, R. J., Debov, R. T., Durkim, A. S., Kolonay, J. F., Madupu, R., Daugherty, S., Brinkac, L., Beanan, M. J., Haft, D. H., Nelson, W. C., Davidsen, T., Liu, J., Yuan, Q., Khouri, H., Fedorova, N., Tran, B., Russell, D., Berry, K., Utterback, T., Vanaken, S. E., Feldblyum, T. V., D'Ascenzo, M., Deng, W., Ramos, A. R., Alfano, J., Cartinhour, S., Chatterjee, A. K., Delaney, T. P., Lazarowitz, S. G., Martin, G. B., Schneider, D. J., Tang, X., Bender, C. L., White, O., Fraser, C. M., & Collmer, A. (2003). The complete sequence of the Arabidopsis and tomato pathogen Pseudomonas syringae pv tomato DC3000. PNAS: Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America. 100:10181-10186.
Awards & Honors
- 1988 Bachelor of Arts with Distinction, Phi Beta Kappa, Swarthmore College
- 1989-1992 USDA-ARS National Needs Graduate Fellowship, Cornell University
- 1991 CALS Distinguished Teaching Assistant
- 1992-1994 Cornell University Plant Science Center Graduate Fellowship
- 1994-1995 Cornell Biotechnology Program Graduate Fellowship
- 1996-1997 NIH Postdoctoral Fellowship
Contact Information
135 Plant Science Building
Ithaca, NY 14853
ml16 [at] cornell.edu
Education
- Ph.D.
Cornell University
1995
- B.A./B.S.
Swarthmore College
1988
- Ph.D.
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Cornell hosted the annual APS Northeastern Division meeting for the first time in 20 years