• Teaching Credential, Life Science , San Jose State University, 1998
• MS, Biology, San Jose State University, 1995
• BS, Environmental Biology, San Jose State University, 1993

• Life Science Teaching Credential, San Jose State University

• EAGER: SYNPLASOMES - SYNthetic PLAnt epiSOMES for plant genome editing and engineering, National Science Foundation, (2024 - Present)
• Determination of Master Regulatory Genes Controlling Senescence in Muscle, South Dakota Board of Regents Competitive Research Grant Program, Track I , (2019 - 2020)
• Crassulacean Acid Metabolism (CAM) Transcription Factor Based Genetic Engineering to Improve Drought Stress Response in C3 Plants, South Dakota Board of Regents Competitive Research Grant Program, Track I , (2017 - 2019)

Citations listed below are presented in a standardized, modified format for display purposes only. They do not necessarily reflect the preferred style and conventions of the faculty member or discipline.

• Izuegbunam, Chinenye, Wone, Beate, and Wone, Bernard. Functional and transcriptomic insights into plant response to arginine-functionalized nanohydroxyapatite treatment. Plant Nano biology, 2024. (DOI: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.plana.2024.100093)
• Ariyarathne, Madhavi, Wone, Beate, Wijewantha, Nisitha, and Wone, Bernard. Nanoparticle-mediated genetic transformation in a Selaginella species. Genes, 2024. (DOI: https://doi.org/10.3390/genes15081091)
• Malwattage, Naleeka, Wone, Beate, and Wone, Bernard. A CAM-Related NF-YB Transcription Factor Enhances Multiple Abiotic Stress Tolerance in Arabidopsis. International Journal of Molecular Science, 2024. (DOI: https://www.mdpi.com/1422-0067/25/13/7107)
• Izuegbunam, Chinenye L., Wijewantha, Nisitha, Wone, Beate, Ariyarathne , Madhavi, Sereda, Grigoriy, and Wone, Bernard. A nano-biomimetic transformation system enables in planta expression of a reporter gene in mature plants and seeds . Nanoscale Advances, 2021. (DOI: https://doi.org/10.1039/D1NA00107H)
• Amin, Atia B., Rathnayake, Kumudu N., Yim, Won C., Gracia, Travis M., Wone, Beate, Cushman, John C., and Wone, Bernard. Crassulacean Acid Metabolism Abiotic Stress-Responsive Transcription Factors: A Potential Genetic Engineering Approach for Improving Crop Tolerance to Abiotic Stress. Frontiers in Plant Science, section Plant Systems and Synthetic Biology, 2019. (DOI: 10.3389/fpls.2019.00129)
• Wone, Bernard, Kinchen, Jason M., Kaup, Elana R., and Wone, Beate. A procession of metabolic alterations accompanying muscle senescence in Manduca sexta . Scientific Reports, 2018. (DOI: 10.1038/s41598-018-19630-5)
• Wone, Bernard, and Wone, Beate. Movements, home range, and activity patterns of the horned lizard, Phrynosoma mcallii, 679-686. Vol. 37 J Herp, 2003.
• Wone, Beate, Wone, Bernard, Bros, S, and Kutilek, M. Habitat use of the flat-tailed horned lizard (Phrynosoma mcallii) in a disturbed environment, 210-216. Vol. 32 J Herp, 1998.
• Wone, Bernard, and Wone, Beate. Observations on the escape behavior of the horned lizard Phrynosoma mcallii, 132. Vol. 26 Herp Review, 1995.

• Nominated for Belbas-Larson Award for Excellence in Teaching University of South Dakota, 2022
• Favorite Professor , College of Arts & Sciences’ fundraising initiatives for Unite for USD, 2022
• Nominated for Belbas-Larson Award for Excellence in Teaching University of South Dakota, 2021
• Nominated for Belbas-Larson Award for Excellence in Teaching University of South Dakota, 2020
• Nominated for Belbas-Larson Award for Excellence in Teaching University of South Dakota , 2018
• Nominated for Belbas-Larson Award for Excellence in Teaching, University of South Dakota, 2017
• Nominated for Belbas-Larson Award for Excellence in Teaching, University of South Dakota, 2016
• Award for Teaching Excellence, Truckee Meadows Community College, 2007
• Teacher of the Year, Broadway High School, 2001

• Izuegbunam, Chinenye, Wijewantha, Nisitha, Wone, Beate, Ariyarathne , Madhavi, Sereda, Grigoriy, and Wone, Bernard, A Biocompatible Nanocarrier of Genes Enables Transient Expression of Reporter Genes in Mature Plants and Seeds. Presented at the Plant Biology 2022, Portland, OR. (July 2022)
• Del Grosso, Avery, Wone, Beate, and Wone, Bernard, Transcriptional Dynamics Underpinning Muscle Senescence in Manduca sexta. Presented at the Experimental Biology 2020 (April 2020)
• Amin, Atia B., Gracia, Travis M., Wone, Beate, Cushman, John C., and Wone, Bernard, Functional characterization of a Kalanchoe fedtschenkoi MYB transcription factor putatively involved in regulation of the crassulacean acid metabolism (CAM) . Presented at the Plant Biology 2018, Montreal, Canada. (July 2018)
• Wone, Beate, Kinchen, Jason M., Kaup, Elana R., and Wone, Bernard, Time course metabolic profiling of senescing flight muscles in the hawk moth, Manduca sexta. Presented at the Experimental Biology Annual Meeting (April 2017)
• Wone, Beate, Kinchen, Jason M., Kaup, Elana R., and Wone, Bernard, Metabolic changes underpinning aging flight muscles in the hawk moth, Manduca sexta. Presented at the American Physiological Society Intersociety Meeting: The Integrative Biology of Exercise, Phoenix, AZ. (November 2016)