Sarzana Hossain

E-mail: sarzana.hossain@ubc.ca

I’m interested in studying plant-microbe interactions from a molecular ecology and evolutions lens. Particularly, I want to explore the ecological and evolutionary dynamics of microbial communities under different host background as selection environments, and understand how they affect individual or microbial community adaptation. I am co-advised by Cara Haney.

Publications

Wang, N.R., Melnyk, R.A., Wiesmann, C.L., Hossain, S.S , Chi, M., Martens, K., Haney, C.H. 2022. Commensal Pseudomonas fluorescens protect Arabidopsis from closely related Pseudomonas pathogens in a colonization-dependent manner. mBio e02892-21.

Liu, Z.X., Hossain, S. S., Moreira, Z. P. M., Haney, C. H. 2021. Putrescine and its metabolic precursor arginine directly promote biofilm and c-di-GMP synthesis in Pseudomonas aeruginosa. Journal of Bacteriology 204.

Melnyk, R. A., Hossain, S. S., Haney, C. H. 2019. Convergent gain and loss of genomic islands drive lifestyle changes in plant-associated bacteria. ISME. 13: 1575–1588.

Liu, Z. X., Beskrovnaya, P., Melnyk, R. A., Hossain, S. S., Khorasani, S., O’Sullivan, L.R., Wiesmann, C. L., Bush, J, Richard, J. D., and Haney, C. H. 2018. A genome-wide screen identifies genes in rhizosphere-associated Pseudomonas required to evade plant defences. mBio. 9:e00433-18

Education

2021 M.Sc. University of Toronto

2018 B.Sc. University of British Columbia

Awards

2023 NSERC Post-graduate Scholarship

2022 4YF Award