Raul Zavaliev

Brookhaven National Laboratory

Biology Department
Bldg. 463B, Room B-211
P.O. Box 5000
Upton, NY 11973-5000

(631) 344-6292
rzavaliev@bnl.gov

Education | Publications

Education

• 1998-2001 – B.Sc. in Biology, Tel Aviv University, Israel.
• 2004-2007 – M.Sc. in Plant Molecular Biology, Tel Aviv University, Israel.
• 2009-2014 – Ph.D. in Plant Molecular and Cell Biology, Tel Aviv University, Israel.

Selected Publications

• Zavaliev R, Dong X (2024) NPR1, a key immune regulator for plant survival under biotic and abiotic stresses. Molecular Cell 84:131–141. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.molcel.2023.11.018
• Powers J, Zhang X, Reyes AV, et al (2024) Next-generation mapping of the salicylic acid signaling hub and transcriptional cascade. BioRxiv. https://doi.org/10.1101/2024.01.03.574047
• Zhou P, Zavaliev R, Xiang Y, Dong X (2023) Seeing is believing: Understanding functions of NPR1 and its paralogs in plant immunity through cellular and structural analyses. Current Opinion in Plant Biology 73:102352. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.pbi.2023.102352
• Kumar S, Zavaliev R, Wu Q, et al (2022) Structural basis of NPR1 in activating plant immunity. Nature 605:561–566. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41586-022-04699-w
• Zavaliev R, Mohan R, Chen T, Dong X (2020) Formation of NPR1 Condensates Promotes Cell Survival during the Plant Immune Response. Cell 182:1093-1108.e18. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.cell.2020.07.016
• Gu Y, Zavaliev R, Dong X (2017) Membrane Trafficking in Plant Immunity. Molecular Plant 10:1026–1034. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.molp.2017.07.001
• Zavaliev R, Dong X, Epel BL (2016) Glycosylphosphatidylinositol (GPI) modification serves as a primary plasmodesmal targeting signal. Plant Physiology 172: 1061-1073. https://doi.org/10.1104/pp.16.01026
• Saleh A, Withers J, Mohan R, et al (2015) Posttranslational Modifications of the Master Transcriptional Regulator NPR1 Enable Dynamic but Tight Control of Plant Immune Responses. Cell Host & Microbe 18:169–182. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.chom.2015.07.005
• Zavaliev R, Epel BL (2015) Imaging Callose at Plasmodesmata Using Aniline Blue: Quantitative Confocal Microscopy. In "Plasmodesmata – methods and protocols" (M. Heinlein, ed.). Methods in Molecular Biology 1217, 105-119. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4939-1523-1_7
• Zavaliev R, Levy A, Gera A, Epel BL (2013) Subcellular Dynamics and Role of Arabidopsis β-1,3-Glucanases in Cell-to-Cell Movement of Tobamoviruses. Molecular Plant-Microbe Interactions 26:1016–1030. https://doi.org/10.1094/mpmi-03-13-0062-r
• Zavaliev R, Ueki S, Epel BL, Citovsky V (2010) Biology of callose (β-1,3-glucan) turnover at plasmodesmata. Protoplasma 248:117–130. https://doi.org/10.1007/s00709-010-0247-0
• Zavaliev R, Sagi G, Gera A, Epel BL (2009) The constitutive expression of Arabidopsis plasmodesmal-associated class 1 reversibly glycosylated polypeptide impairs plant development and virus spread. Journal of Experimental Botany 61:131–142. https://doi.org/10.1093/jxb/erp301