Daniel B Szymanski

Botany and Plant Pathology

Professor

Phone

765.494.8092

Fax

765.494.0363

Office

WSLR, Room 226

Email

szymandb@purdue.edu

Curriculum Vitae

Dan Szymanski’s lab in collaboration with labs in biological and mechanical engineering combines experimental and computational biology to discover how plant cells dynamically reorganize the cytoskeleton and the cell wall during cell morphogenesis. Iterative cycles of multivariate live cell imaging, finite element computational modeling is leading to realistic and predictive models of plant cell growth control that are enabling crop plant engineering. Another major project in the lab is to develop a proteomics pipeline that can be used to discover and analyze endogenous protein complexes and how they change in response to environmental and developmental conditions.

Editorial Board Member

Plant Physiology

Frontiers in Plant Cell Biology

Grant Panelist

NSF, NASA

Awards & Honors

(2017) Fellow of the American Society of Plant Biology. American Society of Plant Biology.

(2012) Purdue Millionaire Club Competitive Grant Award 2010, 2011, 2012.

(2009) College of Agriculture Reseach Award. Purdue University.

(2006) Dan Szymanski. Purdue Study in a Second Discipline.

Patents

Aryal, U., & Szymanski, D. B. Proteomic Technology to Discover Protein Complexes that are Associated with Optimal Growth Conditions.. U.S. Patent No. US20160230180 A1. Washington, D.C.: U.S. Patent and Trademark Office.

Selected Publications

Belteton, S. A., Sawchuk, M. G., Donohoe, B. S., Scarpella, E., & Szymanski, D. B. (2018). Reassessing the roles of pin proteins and anticlinal microtubules during pavement cell morphogenesis. Plant Physiology, 176(1), 432-449. doi:10.1104/pp.17.01554

Szymanski, D., & Staiger, C. J. (2018). The actin cytoskeleton: Functional arrays for cytoplasmic organization and cell shape control. 176(1), 106-118. doi:10.1104/pp.17.01519

McBride, Z., Chen, D., Reick, C., Xie, J., & Szymanski, D. B. (2017). Global analysis of membrane-associated protein oligomerization using protein correlation profiling. Molecular and Cellular Proteomics, 16(11), 1972-1989. doi:10.1074/mcp.RA117.000276

Aryal, U. K., McBride, Z., Chen, D., Xie, J., & Szymanski, D. B. (2017). Analysis of protein complexes in Arabidopsis leaves using size exclusion chromatography and label-free protein correlation profiling. Journal of Proteomics, 166, 8-18. doi:10.1016/j.jprot.2017.06.004

Wu, T., Belteton, S. A., Lunsford, J., Szymanski, D. B., & Umulis, D. M. (2016). Quantitative image analysis of pavement cell morphogenesis with LobeFinder. Plant Physiology, 171, 32-2342.

Yanagisawa, M., Desyatova, A. S., Belteton, S., Mallery, E. M., Turner, J. A., & Szymanski, D. B. (2015). Patterning mechanisms of cytoskeletal and cell wall systems during leaf trichome morphogenesis. Nature Plant, 1, 15014.

Aryal, U., Xiong, Y., McBride, Z., Kihara, D., Xie, J., Hall, M., & Szymanski, D. (2014). A proteomic strategy for global analysis of plant protein complexes. Plant Cell, 26, 3867-3882.

Cai, C., Henty-Ridilla, J., Szymanski, D., & Staiger, C. (2014). Arabidopsis myosin XI: a motor rules the tracks. Plant Phys, 166, 1359-1370.

Yanagisawa, M., Zhang, C., & Szymanski, D. B. (2013). ARP2/3-dependent growth in the plant kingdom: SCARs for life. Frontiers Media SA, 4. doi:10.3389/fpls.2013.00166

Zhang, C., Mallery, E., Reagan, S., Boyko, V., Kotchoni, S., & Szymanski, D. (2013). The endoplasmic reticulum is a reservoir for WAVE/SCAR regulatory complex signaling in the Arabidopsis leaf. Plant Physiol, 162, 689-706.