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Research and Administrative Associate
Department of Plant, Soil & Insect Sciences
204C Fernald Hall
University of Massachusetts
Amherst, MA 01003
Tel. (413) 545-2364
Fax (413) 545-2115
berman@psis.umass.edu
1979 - 1981:
1969 - 1973: |
M. S. in Microbiology, University of Massachusetts at Amherst
B. S. in Public Health, University of Massachusetts at Amherst |
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Employment at The University of Massachusetts at Amherst:
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| 7/00 - Present: |
Research & Administrative Associate with the Department of Plant, Soil & Insect Sciences (with Department of Plant & Soil Sciences from July 2000 until merger with Department of Entomology in July 2004).
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| 7/96 - 7/00: |
Research & Administrative Associate with the Department of Microbiology (merged with The Department of Plant Pathology in July 1996).
All employment prior to July 1996 was with Dr. M. S. Mount, former Department Head of Plant Pathology, and listed as follows: |
| 6/81 - 7/96: |
Research Associate; Genetics and physiology of phytopathogenic bacteria and fungi, and biological control of plant diseases. Administrative Assistant to the Department Head as well. |
| 6/79 - 6/81: |
Senior Technical Assistant; The genetics and physiology of Erwinia carotovora cell wall degrading enzymes.
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| 6/76 - 6/79: |
Research Assistant; The role of cyclic nucleotides in the regulation and synthesis of Erwinia carotovora pectic enzymes.
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| 6/73 - 6/76: |
Laboratory Technician; RNA polymerases of Agrobacterium tumefaciens and their role in crown gall disease. |
Awarded a Chancellor's Citation as an outstanding UMass employee on May 17, 2002
Recognized as an Outstanding Laboratory Safety Coordinator at UMass on June 1, 2000
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Tattar, T. A., P. M. Berman, E. Y. Gonzalez, M. S. Mount, and A. L. Dolloff. 1996. Biocontrol of the Chestnut Blight Fungus Cryphonectria parasitica. Aboricultural Journal 20:449-469.
Gonzalez, E. Y., M. S. Mount, P. M. Berman, and T. A. Tattar. 1995. Evaluation of a Trichoderma sp. as a Potential Biological Control Agent for Chestnut Blight. Phytopathology 85:1191 (Abstr.).
Mount, M. S., and P. M. Berman. 1994. Genetic Manipulation of Plants to Improve Postharvest Disease Resistance. Hortscience 29:762-768.
Lee, J. K., T. A. Tattar, P. M. Berman, and M. S. Mount. 1992. A Rapid Method for Testing the Virulence of Cryphonectria parasitica Using Excised Bark and Wood of American Chestnut. Phytopathology 82:1454-1456.
Lee, J. K., T.A. Tattar, P. M. Berman, and M. S. Mount. 1992. Curing Effect of Glucose and Cyclic Nucleotides on Hypovirulent Strains of The Chestnut Blight Fungus, Cryphonectria parasitica (Murr.) Barr. Asian Mycological Symposium, Seoul, Korea (Abst.).
Lee, J. K., T. A. Tattar, P. M. Berman, and M. S. Mount. 1992. A Rapid Method for Evaluating the Virulence of Cryphonectria parasitica strains. The International Chestnut Conference, Morgantown, West Virginia (Abstr.).
Lee, J. K., T. A. Tattar, P. M. Berman, and M. S. Mount. 1991. Comparison of Cryphonectria parasitica Strains from Massachusetts in Cultural Characteristics, Pathogenicity, and Phenol Oxidase Activity. Phytopathology 81:1206-1207 (Abstr.).
Lee, J. K., T. A. Tattar, P. M. Berman, and M. S. Mount. 1991. Vegetative Compatibility and Hypovirulence Conversion of Cryphonectria parasitica on American Chestnut Trees in Massachusetts. Phytopathology 81:1206 (Abstr.).
George, H. L., M. S. Mount and P. M. Berman. 1991. Cellular Localization and Characterization of Pectic Enzymes of Erwinia carotovora subsp. atroseptica. Phytopathology 81:134-139.
Mount, M. S. and P. M. Berman. 1988. Biotechnology and Disease Control: Helping Nature to Help Itself. Innovations in Pest Management, pg 39-43. Conference March 1988. Proceedings published by the Massachusetts Department of Food and Agriculture.
Smith, F. D., P. M. Berman and M. S. Mount. 1987. Characteristics of an Extracellular Protease from Erwinia carotovora subsp. carotovora Strain ECl4. Phytopathology 77:122 (Abstr.).
George, H. L., M. S. Mount, and P. M. Berman. 1987. Isolation and Characterization of Pectolytic Enzymes from Erwinia carotovora subsp. atroseptica. Phytopathology 77:119 (Abstr.).
Berman, P. M., M. S. Mount, and G. H. Lacy. 1987. Electrotransformation of Erwinia carotovora sups. carotovora. In: On the Genus Erwinia (Ed. C. Kado). Fallen Leaf Lake, Univ. of Calif. at Davis, p22 (Abst.).
George, H. L., M.S. Mount, and P. M. Berman. 1987. Characterization of Pectic Enzymes from Erwinia carotovora subs. atroseptica. In: On the Genus Erwinia (Ed. C. Kado). Fallen Leaf Lake, Univ. of California at Davis, p23 (Abst.).
Roberts, D. P., P. M. Berman, G. H. Lacy, and M. S. Mount. 1987. Molecular cloning of Two Erwinia carotovora subsp. carotovora DNA Fragments Which Mediate the Production of Similar Pectate Lyases. In: Plant Pathogenic Bacteria (Eds. E. L. Civerolo, A. Collmer, R. E. Davis, and A. Gillaspie). Martinus Nijhoff Publishers, Boston, MA., p249.
Roberts, D. P., P. M. Berman, C. Allen, G. H. Lacy, and M. S. Mount. 1986. Two or More Erwinia carotovora subsp. carotovora Pectolytic Gene Products are Required for Maceration of Potato Tuber Tissue by Escherichia coli. J. Bacteriol. l67:279-284.
Roberts, D. P., P. M. Berman, C. Allen, V. K. Stromberg, G. H. Lacy and M. S. Mount. l986. Organization of Pathogenic Determinants on the Erwinia carotovora Genome: A 3.4 Kilobase DNA Fragment Mediating Production of Endo-pectate Lyase. Can. J. Plant Pathol. 5:l7-27.
Smith, F. D., P. M. Berman, M. S. Mount, and T. M. Masuck. l986. Expression of Cloned Erwinia carotovora pv. carotovora Pectolytic Enzyme Genes in Escherichia coli and Erwinia herbicola. Phytopathology 76:659 (Abstr.).
Roberts, D. P., P. M. Berman, G. H. Lacy, and M. S. Mount. l985. Molecular Cloning of Two Erwinia carotovora subsp. carotovora DNA Fragments which Mediate the Production of Similar Pectate Lyases. Proc. 6th Int. Conf. Plant Pathol. Bact., College Park, MD, 2-7 June l985.
Mount, M. S., P. M. Berman, D. P. Roberts, C. Allen, V. K. Stromberg, G. H. Lacy, and L. C. Duby. l984. Pectolytic Activity of Escherichia coli Clones Harboring Hybrid pBR322 Plasmids with Erwinia carotovora subsp. carotovora Chromosomal DNA Inserts. Proc. EMBO Workshop on Soft Rot Erwiniae, Marseille, Luminy, France. 23-27 July (Abstr.).
Allen, C., D. P. Roberts, M. Ford, V. K. Stromberg, P. M. Berman, G. H. Lacy, and M. S. Mount. l984. Lack of Pathogenicity by Escherichia coli Containing Plasmids with Genes Mediating Pectolytic Enzyme Production Cloned from Erwinia carotovora subsp. carotovora Strain ECl4. Phytopathology 74:8l6 (Abstr.).
Roberts, D. P., P. M. Berman, G. H. Lacy, M. S. Mount, and C. Allen. l984. Erwinia carotovora subsp. carotovora DNA Encoding Pectate Lyases Cloned into Plasmid pBR322. Phytopathology 74:797 (Abstr.).
Berman, P. M., M. S. Mount, and G. H. Lacy. l983. Insertion of Antibiotic-resistant Plasmids into Erwinia carotovora. Phytopathology 73:l342 (Abstr.).
Collmer, A., P. M. Berman, and M. S. Mount. l982. Pectate Lyase Regulation and Bacterial Soft-rot Pathogenesis, Ch. l6, pp. 395-422. In Phytopathogenic Prokaryotes, Vol. I. M. S. Mount and G. H. Lacy, ed., Academic Press, N. Y..
Stack, J. P., M. S. Mount, P. M. Berman, and J. P. Hubbard. l980. Pectic Enzyme Complex from Erwinia carotovora; A Model for Degradation and Assimilation of Host Pectic Fractions. Phytopathology 70:267-272.
Mount, M. S., P. M. Berman, R. P. Mortlock, and J. P. Hubbard. l979. Regulation of Endopolygalacturonate Transeliminase in an Adenosine 3',5'-Cyclic Monophosphate-deficient Mutant of Erwinia carotovora. Phytopathology 69:117-120. |
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The International Society for Plant-Microbe Interactions |
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