Biotechnology scientist experienced in applied and basic research in molecular biology, genomics, genetics, plant pathology, protein biochemistry and plant development. Strong skills in developing, managing and executing short and long term research strategies, plans, processes, and budgets; trouble shooting experimental design and hands-on challenges; working across technology teams within the organization and the industry to solve problems, brainstorm new concepts, recommend technologies, evaluate core project risk and value creation, develop IP strategies, and lead innovation for customer solutions. Also, proficient in programming languages and software development.
BIOINFORMATICS SOFTWARE DEVELOPMENT
Genome Viewer Manager (in progress): A web based system that implements javascript using Nodejs, MongoDB, jquery, and HTML5 canvas technologies. The viewer/Manager will store, display, identify loci, and compare genome sequences.
Plasmid Viewer & Manager: A web based system written in javascript using Nodejs, MongoDB, jquery, and HTML5 canvas technologies. The system manages plasmid storage, drawing, restriction mapping, virtual cloning, and NCBI blast. Site: plasmidtrek.com
XPath Viewer: A desktop utility system written in WPF and C# technologies. Retrieves and compares data from xml files.
Aralip- The Arabidopsis Acyl-Lipid Metabolism: This system is based on ruby on rails 2 and 3 frameworks and uses ruby language, MySQL database, jquery, and other javascript technologies. Click here to see the site.
MarkerManager: This web system uses SVG interface, JavaScript, ruby language, and ruby on rails framework to manage, retrieve, parse, format, and write to and from excel files. Info is managed based on 96 well-formatted blocks of data.
SeekBlast: An Ajax ASP.Net web system written in .Net languages. The site is used to perform local and external blastn, blastp, blastx, tblastx, and text queries; allows the development of proprietary databases for blasting; generates multiple alignments using clustalw algorithm; draws schematic representations of blast and clustalw results.
Teamweb: An ASP.Net web system written in .Net language and utilizes SQL2000/SQL2005, and Internet Information Services. The site simplifies interaction of teams across different locations. The site provides fast and reliable messaging, private teams and discussion boards, file sharing, and project tracking.
SeekClone: A database desktop system written in Visual Basics V6.0 language and utilizes Access 2000 and Crystal Reports. The system is used to maintain and organize DNA constructs, primers, clone maps, and sequences.
MarkAnalPro: A utility desktop system written in Visual Basics V6.0 language and uses Excel object model. The program manages and collects data based on 96 well formatted blocks.
μSatAssist: A utility desktop program written in Visual Basics V 6.0 language and utilizes Excel object model. It retrieves and identifies relevant microsatellites data generated by ABI instruments.
PlaExcel: A utility macro written in Excel Visual Basics for Application language. The program draws plasmids, displays restriction enzymes and open reading frames, can be used for cloning and sub-cloning, automates the drawing of constructs stored in GenBank, maintains color schemas between the drawing and the nucleotide sequence, and can blast sequence regions against Genbank. Program has many more features that are not listed here.
ProAssist: A utility desktop system written in Visual Basics V6.0 language and utilizes Crystal Reports. The system retrieves and formats information from ProCite database and prints on request forms.
PEER REVIEWED PUBLICATIONS
Plant FA db: a resource for exploring hundreds of plant fatty acid structures synthesized by thousands of plants and their phylogenetic relationships. (2018) John Ohlrogge, Nick Thrower, Vandana Mhaske, Sten Stymne, Melissa Baxter, Weili Yang, Jinjie Liu, Kathleen Shaw, Basil Shorrosh, Meng Zhang, Curtis Wilkerson, Bertrand Matthäus
An Annotated Database of Arabidopsis Mutants of Acyl Lipid Metabolism. (2015) Kathleen McGlew, Vincent Shaw, Meng Zhang, Ryeo Jin Kim, Weili Yang, Basil Shorrosh, Mi Chung Suh, John Ohlrogge. Plant Cell Reports 34,519-532
Li-Beisson Y, Shorrosh B, Beisson F, Andersson M, Arondel V, Bates P, Baud S, Bird D, DeBono A, Durrett T, Franke R, Graham I, Katayama K, Kelly A, Larson T, Markham J, Miquel M, Molina I, Nishida I, Rowland O, Samuels L, Schmid K, Wada H, Welti R, Xu C, Zallot R and Ohlrogge J. (2013) Acyl-Lipid Metabolism in The Arabidopsis Book, Rockville, MD: American Society of Plant Biologists.
PEER REVIEWED PUBLICATIONS
Plant FA db: a resource for exploring hundreds of plant fatty acid structures synthesized by thousands of plants and their phylogenetic relationships. (2018) John Ohlrogge, Nick Thrower, Vandana Mhaske, Sten Stymne, Melissa Baxter, Weili Yang, Jinjie Liu, Kathleen Shaw, Basil Shorrosh, Meng Zhang, Curtis Wilkerson, Bertrand Matthäus
Li-Beisson Y, Shorrosh B, Beisson F, Andersson M, Arondel V, Bates P, Baud S, Bird D, DeBono A, Durrett T, Franke R, Graham I, Katayama K, Kelly A, Larson T, Markham J, Miquel M, Molina I, Nishida I, Rowland O, Samuels L, Schmid K, Wada H, Welti R, Xu C, Zallot R and Ohlrogge J. (2013) Acyl-Lipid Metabolism in The Arabidopsis Book, Rockville, MD: American Society of Plant Biologists.
Li-Beisson Y, Shorrosh B, Beisson F, Andersson M, Arondel V, Bates P, Baud S, Bird D, DeBono A, Durrett T, Franke R, Graham I, Katayama K, Kelly A, Larson T, Markham J, Miquel M, Molina I, Nishida I, Rowland O, Samuels L, Schmid K, Wada H, Welti R, Xu C, Zallot R and Ohlrogge J. (2010) Acyl-Lipid Metabolism in The Arabidopsis Book, Rockville, MD: American Society of Plant Biologists.
Bao, X., Shorrosh B.S., and Ohlrogge, J.B. (l997) Isolation and characterization of an Arabidopsis biotin carboxylase gene and its promoter. Plant Molecular Biology 35, 539-550.
Shintani, D., Roesler, K., Shorrosh, B., Savage L., and Ohlrogge, J. (l997) Antisense Expression and overexpression of biotin carboxylase in tobacco leaves. Plant Physiology 114, 881-886.
Shorrosh, B.S., Savage, L.J., Soll, J., and Ohlrogge, J.B. (l996) The pea chloroplast protein IEP96 is a subunit of acetyl-CoA carboxylase. The Plant Journal 10, 261-268
Roesler, K.R., Savage, L.J., Shintani, D.K., Shorrosh B.S. and Ohlrogge, J.B. (l996) Co-purification, co-immunoprecipitation, and coordinate expression of acetyl-coenzyme A carboxylase activity, biotin carboxylase, and biotin carboxyl carrier protein of higher plants. Planta 198, 517-525.
Ohlrogge, J. Bao, Xiaoming, Cahoon, E., Dormann, P., Eccleston, V., Roesler, K., Shintani, D., and Shorrosh, B. (1996) Oils-Fats-Lipids, Proceedings of the 21st World Congress of the International Society for Fat Research: Progress Towards Engineering The Composition and Quantity of Plant Oils. P. J. Barnes & Associates, Bridgwater, UK, pp. 75-79.
Shorrosh, B.S., Roesler, K.R., Shintani, D., van de Loo, F., and Ohlrogge, J.B. (l995) Structural analysis, plastid localization, and expression of the biotin carboxylase subunit of acetyl-CoA carboxylase from tobacco. Plant Physiology 108, 805-812.
Fahrendorf, T., Weiting Ni, Shorrosh, B.S. and Dixon, R.A. (1995) Stress responses in alfalfa (Medicago sativa L.) XIX. Transcriptional activation of oxidative pentose phosphate pathway genes at the onset of the isoflavonoid phytoalexin response. Plant Molecular Biology 28, 885-900
Shorrosh, B.S. Dixon, R.A. and Ohlrogge, J.B. (1994) Molecular Cloning, characterization, and elicitation of acetyl-CoA carboxylase from alfalfa. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences USA 91, 4323-4327.
Roesler, K. Shorrosh, B.S. and Ohlrogge, J.B. (1994) Structure and expression of an Arabidopsis acetyl-coenzyme A carboxylase gene. Plant Physiology 105, 611-617.
Shorrosh, B.S. Subramanian, J., Schubert, K., and Dixon, R.A. (1993) Expression and localization of plant protein disulfide isomerase. Plant Physiology 103, 719-726.
Shorrosh, B.S. and Dixon, R.A. (l992) Molecular characterization and expression of an isocitrate dehydrogenase from alfalfa (Medicago sativa L.). Plant Molecular Biology 20, 801-807.
Shorrosh, B.S. and Dixon, R.A. (1992) Sequence analysis and expression of an alfalfa protein similar to mammalian ERp72, a glucose-regulated endoplasmic reticulum protein containing active site sequences of protein disulfide isomerase. The Plant Journal 2, 51-58.
Shorrosh, B.S., Wen, L., Zen, K.-C., Hung, J.-K., Pan, S.-J., Hermodson, M.A., Tanaka, K., Muthukrishnan, S., and Reeck, G.R. (1992) A novel cereal storage protein: Molecular genetics of the 19 kDa globulin of rice. Plant Molecular Biology 18, 151-154.
Shorrosh, B.S. and Dixon, R.A. (1992) Sequence analysis and developmental expression of an alfalfa protein disulfide isomerase. Plant Molecular Biology 19, 319-321.
Shorrosh, B.S. and Dixon, R.A. (1992) Sequence analysis of an alfalfa 25S rRNA. Plant Molecular Biology 18, 1189-1190.
Shorrosh, B.S. and Dixon, R.A. (l991) Molecular cloning of a plant putative endomembrane protein resembling vertebrate protein disulfide isomerase and a phosphoinositide specific phospholipase C. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, USA 88, 10941-10945
Feng, G., Wen, L., Hung, J. -K., Shorrosh, B.S., Muthukrishnan, S., and Reeck, G.R. (1990) Nucleotide sequence of a cloned rice genomic DNA fragment that encodes a 10 kDa prolamin polypeptide. Nucleic Acid Res. 18, 683
PATENTS PUBLICATIONS
Filed 37 invention disclosures in canola oil engineering with Cargill legal department since April 2007.
Shorrosh, Basil S. “Plant Acyltransferases.” CA2372632 (2011-02-15); US6995301 (2006-02-07)
Shorrosh, Basil S. and Debonte, Lorin R. “Plants Containing a Cytosolic Acetyl CoA-Carboxylase Nucleic Acid.”CA2406232 (2011-06-07); US6723895 (2004-04-20)
Shorrosh, Basil S., Jenkin, Matthew, and Dang, Benyuan “Novel Nucleic Acids From Sesame.” US20100251419 (2010-09-30); US20060160217 (2006-07-20); EP1649010 (2006-04-26)
DeBonte, Lorin R. and Shorrosh, Basil S. “Fatty acid desaturases and mutant sequences thereof.” US7541519 (2009-06-02); US6342658 (2002-01-29)
Shorrosh, Basil S. and Hallier, Sonia “Methods of Making Plants That Exhibit Enhanced Disease Resistance.” EP1633867 (2006-03-15)
Shorrosh, Basil S. “Plant Fatty Acid Desaturase Promoters.” US6537750 (2003-03-25)
Shorrosh, Basil S. “The characterization and cloning of the alfalfa MF-ACCase promoters.” Doc # 60047901 (2001)
Ohlrogge John, Shorrosh Basil, Roesler Keith, Shintani David, Somerville Chris “Structure and expression of the biotin carboxylase subunit of heteromeric acetyl-CoA carboxylase” US6218600 (2001-04-17)
DeBonte, Lorin R., Zhegong Fan, Loh Willie H-T, Shorrosh, Basil S. “Fatty Acid Desaturases and Mutant Sequences Thereof.” EP0987936 (2000-03-29)
Ohlrogge John B, Roesler Keith R, Shorrosh Basil S. “Structure and Expression of an Arabidopsis Acetyl-Coenzyme A Carboxylase Gene.” US5962767 (1999-10-05)
Ohlrogge John B, Roesler Keith R, Shorrosh Basil S. “Methods of Increasing Oil Content of Seeds.” US5925805 (1999-07-20)
Ohlrogge, John, B., Shorrosh, Basil, S. “Structure and Expression of the Alpha-Carboxyltransferase Subunit of Heteromeric-Acetyl-CoA Carboxylase.” WO9805758 (February 12, 1998)