As postdoc in UC Davis I'm interested in elucidating the molecular mechanisms of sunflower's growth coordination by external (light and temperature) and internal (hormonal signaling) stimuli that ultimately results in the famous heliotropic response (sun tracking behavior).

My future long term interest is to design and work on a project that integrates my experience in plant-pest interaction, plant developmental biology and bioinformatics to fulfill my purpose of contributing to the worldwide research aiming at"INCREASING PLANT YIELD FOR BETTER FUTURE". 

Please check my LinkedIn page for more details.

1.     Atamian HS, Chaudhary R, Dal Cin V,Girke T, and Kaloshian I (2013) In planta expressionor delivery of potato aphid Macrosiphumeuphorbiae effectors Me10 and Me23 enhances aphid fecundity. Molecular Plant-Microbe Interactions 26: 67-74.

2.     Atamian HS, Roberts, PA and Kaloshian I (2012) High and lowthroughput screens with root-knot nematodes Meloidogyne spp. Journal of Visualized Experiments issue 61: pii: 3629.

3.     Atamian HS, Eulgem T and Kaloshian I (2012) SlWRKY70 is required for Mi-1-mediatedresistance to aphids and nematodes in tomato. Planta 235: 299-309.

4.     Bhattarai KK, Atamian HS, Kaloshian I and Eulgem T (2010) WRKY72-type transcription factors contribute tobasal immunity in tomato and Arabidopsis as well as gene-for-gene resistance mediated by the tomato R gene Mi-1. The Plant Journal 63: 229–240.

5.      Gerardo NM, Altincicek B, Anselme C, Atamian HS, Barribeau SM, de Vos M, Duncan E,Evans JD, Gabaldon T, Ghanim M, Heddi A, Kaloshian I, Latorre A and  Moya A et al. (2010) Immunity and other defenses in pea aphids, Acyrthosiphonpisum. Genome Biology 11: R21.

6.      The International Aphid Genomics Consortium (2010) Genome sequence of the pea aphid Acyrthosiphon pisum. PLOS Biology 8: e1000313.

7.    Atamian HS, Dagher R,Gerges E, Sobh H, Talhouk R, El Mohtar C and Abou-Jawdah Y (2009) Breeding for a Lebanese type of tomato with combined resistance to tomato yellow leaf curl virus, Fusarium and Verticillium wilts using marker assisted selection tools. Acta Horticulture(ISHS) 808:151-156.

8.     Abou-Jawdah Y, Atamian HS, Nemer G, Kfoury L, Choukrallah N, Hanna L and Nemer N (2008) Efficacy and molecular studies of a Lebanese isolate of Beauveria for control of Thaumetopoea wilkinsoni (Lepidoptera : Thaumetopoeidae). Biocontrol Science &Technology18: 581-589. 

9.     El Mohtar C, Atamian HS, DagherR and Abou-Jawdah Y (2007) Marker assisted selection of tomato genotypes with the I2 gene of resistance to Fusarium oxysporum f. sp. lycopersici.Plant Disease 91:758-762.