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Parkin, Isobel, Ph.D.

Research Scientist

Contact Information:

107 Science Place
Saskatoon, Saskatchewan S7N 0X2
Telephone: 306-385-9434
Fax: 306-385-9482
Email: isobel.parkin@agr.gc.ca

Areas of Expertise:

  • Brassica genomics, comparative genome organisation, global gene expression analysis, abiotic stress responses

Current Projects:

  • Genomics, genetics and bioinformatics platforms
  • Functional genomics of stress resistance in plants

Affiliations:

  • Adjunct Professor, Department of Plant Sciences, University of Saskatchewan

Research publications

2016

2015

2014

2013

2012

2011

2010

2009

Other science related publications

2015

  • Chu, M.G., Yu, F.Q., Falk, K.C., Gossen, B.D., Parkin, I.A.P., Zhou, R., Vail, S.L., and Peng, G. (2015). "Using a genome-wide SNP array to facilitate the introgression of clubroot resistance from diploid Brassica rapa into amphidiploid B. napus canola.", 14th International Rapeseed Congress, Saskatoon, SK, Canada, July 5-9, 2015.
  • Fu, F., Rimmer, S.R., Lydiate, D.J., Hegedus, D.D., Parkin, I.A.P., Adam, J., Harrington, M., McGregor, L., and Buchwaldt, L. (2015). "Mapping of quantitative trait loci in Brassica napus lines from Pakistan and China providing resistance to the Sclerotinia sclerotiorum.", 14th International Rapeseed Congress, Saskatoon, SK, Canada, July 5-9, 2015. (Abstract)
  • Huang, Z., Chu, M.G., Falk, K.C., Gossen, B.D., Parkin, I.A.P., Peng, G., and Yu, F.Q. (2015). "Resynthesizing Brassica amphidiploids for resistance to clubroot.", International Rapeseed Congress, Saskatoon, Canada, July 2015.
  • Jain, P., Parkin, I.A.P., Soolanayakanahally, R.Y., and Schroeder, W.R. (2015). "Improvement of Seabuckthorn at AAFC in Canada.", International Seabuckthorn Association Meeting, New Delh, India, November 24-26, 2015.
  • Jain, P., Parkin, I.A.P., Soolanayakanahally, R.Y., and Schroeder, W.R. (2015). "RNA-Seq analysis of Seabuckthorn (Hippophae spp.): De novo transcriptome assembly, functional annotation and identification of molecular markers.", International Seabuckthorn Association Meeting, New Delhi, India, November 24-26, 2015.
  • Jain, P., Parkin, I.A.P., Soolanayakanahally, R.Y., and Schroeder, W.R. (2015). "Seabuckthorn transcriptome: Elucidating putative genes involved in carotenoid biosynthesis.", Plant Biology 2015, Minneapolis, USA, July 26-30, 2015.
  • Kagale, S., Nixon, J.H., Khedikar, Y.P., Pasha, A., Provart, N.J., Bollina, V., Clark, W.E., Hegedus, D.D., Sharpe, A.G., and Parkin, I.A.P. (2015). "High-resolution developmental transcriptome of the biofuel crop Camelina sativa: a valuable resource for functional genomics.", 14th International Rapeseed Congress, Saskatoon, SK, Canada, July 5-9, 2015.
  • Shunmugam, A.S.K., Soolanayakanahally, R.Y., Yang, L., Horner, K., Higgins, E.E., Lewis, M., Parkin, I.A.P., Vails, S., and Robinson, S. (2015). "Characterizing growth physiology, flowering phenology, yield components and seed quality attributes in founder lines of a spring Brassica napus nested association mapping population.", 14th International Rapeseed Congress, Saskatoon, SK, Canada, July 5-9, 2015.
  • Zhang, Y., Chu, M.G., Falk, K.C., Vail, S.L., Gossen, B.D., Parkin, I.A.P., Strelkov, S.E., Hwang, S.F., Peng, G., and Yu, F.Q. (2015). "Introgression of clubroot resistance gene Rcr1 from Brassica rapa into B. napus.", International Rapeseed Congress, Saskatoon, Canada, July 2015.

2014

  • Buchwaldt, L., Hegedus, D.D., Parkin, I.A.P., Vail, S.L., Fu, F., Garg, H., Gyawali, S., and Puri, K.D. (2014). "Dissecting quantitative resistance to sclerotinia in Brassica napus.", Applying Genomics to Canola Improvement Workshop, Saskatoon, SK, Canada, December 4, 2014, Invited oral presentation. (Abstract)
  • Gnanesh, B.N., McCartney, C.A., Lin, Y., Beattie, A.D., Chong, J., Mitchell Fetch, J.W., Kutcher, H.R., Eckstein, P.E., Jackson, E.W., Menzies, J.G., and Parkin, I.A.P. (2014). "A major QTL for Adult Plant Crown Rust Resistance in Oat.", XXII Plant & Animal Genome Conference, Town & Country Convention Center, San Diego, CA, USA, January 10-15, 2014. (Poster)

2013

  • Buchwaldt, L., Fu, F., Gyawali, S., Hegedus, D.D., and Parkin, I.A.P. (2013). "Towards identification of quantitative loci for sclerotinia resistance in Brassica napus germplasm and the underlying defense genes.", GCIRC Technical Meeting, Geneva, Switzerland, April 28- May 1, 2013. (Abstract)
  • Buchwaldt, L., Hegedus, D.D., Lydiate, D.J., Parkin, I.A.P., Fu, F., Garg, H., Gyawali, S., and Rimmer, S.R. (2013). "Dissecting quantitative resistance to Sclerotinia sclerotiorum in Asian Brassica napus germplasm.", National Sclerotinia Initiative 9th Annual Meeting, Minneapolis, MN, USA, January 23-25, 2013.
  • Mayerhofer, R., Wilde, K., Mayerhofer, M., Lydiate, D.J., Bansal, V.K., Good, A.G., and Parkin, I.A.P. (2013). "Complexities of chromosome landing in a highly duplicated genome: Toward map-based cloning of a gene controlling blackleg resistance in Brassica napus.", Plant & Animal Genome XXI Conference, Town & Country Convention Center, San Diego, CA, USA, January 12-16, 2013. (Presentation)
  • McCartney, C.A., Lin, Y., Gnanesh, B.N., Beattie, A.D., Chong, J., Mitchell Fetch, J.W., Kutcher, H.R., Eckstein, P.E., Jackson, E.W., Menzies, J.G., and Parkin, I.A.P. (2013). "Mapping Adult Plant Crown Rust Resistance in Oat.", Canadian Phytopathological Society Annual Meeting, Edmonton, AB, Canada, June 16-19, 2013. (Poster)
  • Parkin, I.A.P. (2013). "Sequencing U's Triangle: Update and Insights From The B and C Genomes.", Plant & Animal Genome XXI Conference, Town & Country Convention Center, San Diego, CA, USA, January 12-16, 2013. (Presentation)

2012

  • Buchwaldt, L., Hegedus, D.D., and Parkin, I.A.P. (2012). "A genomics approach to sclerotinia resistance in Brassica napus. SaskCanola 20th Anniversary Research Summary."
  • Buchwaldt, L., Hegedus, D.D., and Parkin, I.A.P. (2012). "Characterization of S. sclerotiorum clones in western Canada for pathogenicity and genomic relatedness.", Canola Cluster update, Saskatoon, SK, Canada, March 21, 2012.
  • Clarke, W.E., Navarre, C., Gajardo, H.A., Gerhardt, D.J., Sharpe, A.G., Parkin, I.A.P., Federico, M.L., and Iniguez-Luy, F.L. (2012). "High throughput SNP genotyping in Brassica napus L.: SNP detection in genomic areas associated to traits of agronomical and nutritional importance.", Plant & Animal Genome XX Conference, Town & Country Convention Center, San Diego, CA, USA, January 14-18, 2012.
  • Hegedus, D.D., Buchwaldt, L., and Parkin, I.A.P. (2012). "Development of sclerotinia resistant Brassica napus lines and molecular markers for marker-assisted breeding.", Canola Cluster update, Saskatoon, SK, Canada, March 21, 2012.
  • Kagale, S., Koh, C., Bollina, V., Clarke, C., Sharpe, A.G., and Parkin, I.A.P. (2012). "Genome Sequencing and Analysis of the Emerging Oilseed Crop Camelina sativa.", 6th International Symposium on Brassica and 18th Crucifer Genetics Workshop, Catania, Sicily, Italy, November 12-16, 2012.
  • Lahlali, R.L., Peng, G., McGregor, L., Yu, F.Q., Zhang, W., Parkin, I.A.P., McDonald, M.R., and Gossen, B.D. (2012). "Transcriptomic analysis of canola responses to endophytic fungus Heteroconium chaetospira B1HB2, a biocontrol agent against clubroot.", Joint Meeting of CPS Saskatchewan Group and Plant Pathological Society of Alberta, Canada, November, 2012. (Poster)
  • Parkin, I.A.P. (2012). "Uncovering the Ancestral Blocks Reveals the Hexaploid Genome of the Emerging Biofuel Crop, Camelina sativa.", Plant & Animal Genome XX Conference, Brassica workshop, Town & Country Convention Center, San Diego, CA, USA, January 14-18, 2012. (Presentation)
  • Parkin, I.A.P., Kagale, S., and Robinson, S.J. (2012). "Capturing the Leaf Transcriptome of Isatis tinctoria L.", 6th International Symposium on Brassica and 18th Crucifer Genetics Workshop, Catania, Sicily, Italy, November 12-16, 2012.
  • Parkin, I.A.P., Koh, C., Clarke, C., Navabi, Z.-K., and Sharpe, A.G. (2012). "Exploring the Brassica B Genome at the Whole Genome Sequence Level.", 6th International Symposium on Brassica and 18th Crucifer Genetics Workshop, Catania, Sicily, Italy, November 12-16, 2012.

2011

  • Buchwaldt, L., Hegedus, D.D., and Parkin, I.A.P. (2011). "Sclerotinia resistance in B. napus – an update.", Cargill, Aberdeen, SK, Canada, November 23, 2011. (Presentation)
  • Clarke, W.E., Sidebottom, C., Parkin, I.A.P., and Sharpe, A.G. (2011). "SaskPrimer - An automated pipeline for design of intron-spanning PCR primers in non-model organisms.", IEEE International Conference on Bioinformatics and Biomedicine Workshops, Georgia World Congress Center, Atlanta, GA, USA, November 12-15, 2011, pp. 173-177.
  • Eynck, C., Clarke, W.E., Séguin-Swartz, G.T., and Parkin, I.A.P. (2011). "Stopping the enemy in its tracks – towards understanding the role of monolignol biosynthesis in resistance of Camelina sativa to Sclerotinia sclerotiorum.", Canadian Journal of Plant Pathology, 33(2), pp. 275. (Abstract)
  • Eynck, C., Clarke, W.E., Sidebottom, C., Séguin-Swartz, G.T., Sharpe, A.G., and Parkin, I.A.P. (2011). "A new crop threatened by a long-known pathogen: studies on resistance of Camelina sativa to Sclerotinia sclerotiorum.", Camelina Project (Genome Atlantic) Annual General Meeting, Truro, NS, Canada, June 2011.
  • Eynck, C., Clarke, W.E., Sidebottom, C., Sharpe, A.G., Séguin-Swartz, G.T., and Parkin, I.A.P. (2011). "Molecular analysis of resistance to Sclerotinia sclerotiorum in Camelina sativa.", 13th International Rapeseed Congress, Prague, Czech Republic, June 5-9, 2011.
  • Fu, F., Harrington, M., Hegedus, D.D., Bekkaoui, D.R., Parkin, I.A.P., and Buchwaldt, L. (2011). "Co-location of defence genes from expression studies with QTLs conferring sclerotinia resitance in Brassica napus.", 8th Canadian Plant Genomics Workshop, Niagara Falls, ON, Canada, August 22-25, 2011. (Workshop)
  • Gruber, M.Y., Li, X., Gao, P., Cui, D., Yu, M., Nayidu, N., Nayidu, N.K., Alahakoon, U.I., Wei, S., Yu, B., Holowachuk, J., Bonham-Smith, P.C., Regan, S., Hannoufa, A., Hossein, Z., and Parkin, I.A.P. (2011). "Unravelling Mysteries in the Regulation of Plant Secondary Metabolites and Non-glandular Trichomes: New Mechanisms and Crop Applications.", 50th Anniversary Meeting of the Phytochemical Society of North America, Fairmont Orchid Hotel and HILO Conference Centre, Kohala Coast, Big Island, HI, USA, December 10-15, 2011. (Presentation)
  • Gyawali, S., Buchwaldt, L., Harrington, M., Parkin, I.A.P., Bekkaoui, D.R., Horner, K., Higgins, E.E., and Hegedus, D.D. (2011). "Association mapping of stem rot resistance in a world collection of Brassica napus.", American Phytopathological Society (APS) 2011 Joint Annual Meeting & International Association for the Plant Protection Sciences (IPPC), Honolulu, HI, USA, August 6-10, 2011.
  • Hannoufa, A., Wei, S., Gruber, M.Y., Khachatourians, G.G., Wang, Y., Hegedus, D.D., and Parkin, I.A.P. (2011). "MicroRNA156: A new player in regulating carotenoid accumulation in plants.", Canadian Society of Plant Physiologists Eastern Regional Meeting & Plant Development Workshop / Congrès de la Société Canadienne de Physiologie Végétale & Congrès de Développement Végétale (Congrès Régional de l’Est), Carleton University, Ottawa, ON, Canada, December 2-3, 2011, SB-1, pp. 17.
  • Hannoufa, A., Wei, S., Gruber, M.Y., Yu, B., Khachatourians, G.G., Hegedus, D.D., and Parkin, I.A.P. (2011). "MiR156b alters plant morphology and seed carotenoid content in Arabidopsis thaliana and Brassica napus through the SPL gene regulatory network.", 7th International Symposium on Biocatalysis and Agricultural Biotechnology, Kyoto, Japan.
  • Hegedus, D.D., Buchwaldt, L., and Parkin, I.A.P. (2011). A genomics approach to sclerotinia resistance in Brassica napus. SaskCanola 20th Anniversary Research Summary., Agriculture and Agri-Food Canada (AAFC)/Agriculture et Agroalimentaire Canada (AAC). (Report)
  • Kutcher, H.R., Dokken-Bouchard, F.L., Turkington, T.K., Fernando, W.G.D., Boyetchko, S.M., Buchwaldt, L., Hegedus, D.D., and Parkin, I.A.P. (2011). "Managing sclerotinia stem rot in canola.", Canola Research Summit meeting, Winnipeg, MB, Canada, April 12-13, 2011.

2010

  • Buchwaldt, L., Hegedus, D.D., and Parkin, I.A.P. (2010). "Sclerotinia research at AAFC, Saskatoon.", Canola Industry Meeting, Garden Inn Hotel, Saskatoon, SK, Canada, December 8, 2010. (Presentation)
  • Eynck, C., Clarke, W.E., Sidebottom, C., Sharpe, A.G., Séguin-Swartz, G.T., and Parkin, I.A.P. (2010). "Sclerotinia stem rot resistance in Camelina sativa.", Canadian Phytopathological Society (CPS-SK) Saskatchewan Regional 2010 Meeting, Saskatoon, SK, Canada, December 9, 2010.
  • Eynck, C., Sidebottom, C., Clarke, W.E., Sharpe, A.G., Séguin-Swartz, G.T., and Parkin, I.A.P. (2010). "SNP discovery in Camelina sativa – towards identifying molecular markers for resistance to Sclerotinia sclerotiorum.", 17th Crucifer Genetics Workshop Brassica, Saskatoon, SK, Canada, September 5-8, 2010.
  • Eynck, C., Singh, R., Higgins, E.E., Gugel, R.K., Huebert, T., and Parkin, I.A.P. (2010). "Development of genomic resources for Camelina sativa.", 17th Crucifer Genetics Workshop Brassica, Saskatoon, SK, Canada, September 5-8, 2010.
  • Singh, R., Higgins, E.E., Gugel, R.K., Huebert, T., and Parkin, I.A.P. (2010). "Development of genomic resources for Camelina sativa.", 17th Crucifer Genetics Workshop Brassica, Saskatoon, SK, Canada, September 5-8, 2010.

2009

  • Drury, C.F., Parkin, I.A.P., Reynolds, W.D., Saso, J.K., Lauzon, J.D., Zhang, T.Q., Tan, C.S., Yang, J.Y., Yang, X.M., Welacky, T.W., and Reid, K. (2009). "Refining the N index to determine the risk of nitrate contamination of surface and groundwater for Ontario soils.", Nutrient Management Joint Research Forum, Delta Guelph Hotel and Conference Centre, Guelph, ON, Canada, March 3, 2009. (Presentation)
  • Robinson, S.J. and Parkin, I.A.P. (2009). "Bridging the Gene-to-Function Knowledge Gap Through Functional Genomics.", in Gustafson, J.P., Langridge, P., and Somers, D.J. (eds.) - Plant Genomics: Methods and Protocols. Series: Methods in Molecular Biology. Vol. 513, Humana Press Inc, USA, pp. 153-173.
  • Wei, S., Gruber, M.Y., Khachatourians, G.G., Hegedus, D.D., Parkin, I.A.P., and Hannoufa, A. (2009). "Characterization of an Arabidopsis MiR156b activation tagged mutant reveals SPL15 diverse roles.", American Society Plant Pathology Annual Meeting, Honolulu, Hawaii, USA.
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