{"id":135,"date":"2019-11-03T10:01:35","date_gmt":"2019-11-03T15:01:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/site.caes.uga.edu\/mitchumlab\/?page_id=135"},"modified":"2025-11-03T13:39:29","modified_gmt":"2025-11-03T18:39:29","slug":"vinavi-lakshman-ph-d-student","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/site.caes.uga.edu\/mitchumlab\/vinavi-lakshman-ph-d-student\/","title":{"rendered":"Vinavi Gamage, Postdoctoral Research Associate"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"112\" height=\"145\" src=\"https:\/\/site.caes.uga.edu\/mitchumlab\/files\/2025\/11\/Vinavi-Gamage-01-3.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-1754\" srcset=\"https:\/\/site.caes.uga.edu\/mitchumlab\/files\/2025\/11\/Vinavi-Gamage-01-3.jpg 112w, https:\/\/site.caes.uga.edu\/mitchumlab\/files\/2025\/11\/Vinavi-Gamage-01-3-50x65.jpg 50w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 112px) 100vw, 112px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Academic Background<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Ph.D. Plant Breeding, Genetics and Genomics, University of Georgia, USA, 2025<br>M.S. Biology, concentration Plant Biology and Transcriptomics, New Mexico State University, USA, 2018.<br>B.S. Plant Sciences, University of Colombo, Sri Lanka, 2013.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Research Interest and Current Efforts<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Vinavi Gamage, a Postdoctoral Research Associate in the Department of Plant Pathology and Institute of Plant Breeding, Genetics and Genomics, is studying soybean resistance mechanisms to the soybean cyst nematode (SCN). Her research specifically focuses on the identification and functional characterization of SCN resistance genes.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Publications<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Gamage VA<\/strong>, Strickland LW, Mitchum MG. A <em>Rhizobium rhizogenes<\/em>-mediated transformation method coupling CRISPR\/Cas9-gene editing in soybean with high-throughput soybean cyst nematode greenhouse assays. <em>BMC Methods<\/em> 2025<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><sup>*<\/sup>Usovsky M, <strong><sup>*<\/sup>Gamage VA<\/strong>, Meinhardt CG, Dietz N, Triller M, Basnet P, Gillman JD, Bilyeu KD, Song Q, Dhital B, Nguyen A, <strong><sup>\u2020<\/sup><\/strong>Mitchum MG, <sup>\u2020<\/sup>Scaboo A. Loss-of-function of an <em>\u03b1-SNAP<\/em> gene confers resistance to soybean cyst nematode. <em>Nat Comm, collection Molecular Basis of Plant-Pathogen Interactions <\/em>2023: 14(1):7629. <sup>*<\/sup>co-first authors; <sup>\u2020<\/sup>co-corresponding authors <a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/doi.org\/10.1038\/s41467-023-43295-y\">https:\/\/doi.org\/10.1038\/s41467-023-43295-y<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Academic Background Ph.D. Plant Breeding, Genetics and Genomics, University of Georgia, USA, 2025M.S. Biology, concentration Plant Biology and Transcriptomics, New Mexico State University, USA, 2018.B.S. Plant Sciences, University of Colombo, Sri Lanka, 2013. Research Interest and Current Efforts Vinavi Gamage, a Postdoctoral Research Associate in the Department of Plant Pathology and Institute of Plant Breeding, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":650,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"page-with-sidebar","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-135","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/site.caes.uga.edu\/mitchumlab\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/135","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/site.caes.uga.edu\/mitchumlab\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/site.caes.uga.edu\/mitchumlab\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/site.caes.uga.edu\/mitchumlab\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/650"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/site.caes.uga.edu\/mitchumlab\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=135"}],"version-history":[{"count":10,"href":"https:\/\/site.caes.uga.edu\/mitchumlab\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/135\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1786,"href":"https:\/\/site.caes.uga.edu\/mitchumlab\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/135\/revisions\/1786"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/site.caes.uga.edu\/mitchumlab\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=135"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}