We have a long-standing collaboration with Dr. Jorge Muschietti, INGEBI, Univ. Buenos Aires (prometeo@dna.uba.ar). Jorge’s graduate student, Mr. Diego Wengier, worked in the McCormick lab for 6 months in 2004, and again for 3 months in 2007.

We have a collaboration with Dr. Weihua Tang, Plant-Fungal Interaction & Plant Reproduction Group, Shanghai Institute for Biological Sciences (whtang@sippe.ac.cn).

Under the auspices of the SIBS-UC Berkeley Center of Molecular Life Sciences,

http://www.sibs-ucberkeley.ac.cn/emain.htm, we are co-supervising two graduate students, Ms. Caiping Gui and Mr. Weijie Huang.

We have a collaboration with Dr. Shaul Yalovsky, Tel Aviv University (shauly@tauex.tau.ac.il). We have a joint BARD grant "Elucidating the mechanisms that connect activation of ROP GTPases, membrane dynamics and signaling in cell growth and stress responses".