Resume

• 1980

  Doctor of Philosophy (Ph.D.)

  Here is studied yeast genetics and molecular biology in Dr. David Ogrydziak's lab in the Department of Food Science & Technology

  Genetics

  I was a DJ at KDVS in the cow town of Davis

  University of California

  Davis

• 1977

  Bachelor's degree

  Biochemistry

• Can a Rice Revolution Really Feed 9 Billion People?

  This content is brought to you by the AXA Research Fund. Dr. Rod A. Wing

  AXA Chair on Genome Biology and Evolutionary Genomics

  leads unprecedented research on how the key to solving world hunger could lie in a smarter grain of rice.

  by Sponsor Content This content is brought to you by the AXA Research Fund. Dr. Rod A. Wing

  AXA Chair on Genome Biology and Evolutionary Genomics

  leads unprecedented research on how the key to solving world hunger could lie in a smarter grain of rice.

  Plant Biology

  Genome Sequencing

  Evolutionary Biology

  Comparative Genomics

  Bioinformatics

  Plant Genetics

  Genome Analysis

  Molecular Biology

  RiTE database: a resource database for genus-wide rice genomics and evolutionary biology

  et al

  Carlos E. Maldonado L.

  Angelina Angelova

  Rosa M. Cossu

  Elena Barghini

  Jun Wang

  Dongying Gao

  Moaine El Baidouri

  Jianwei Zhang

  Dario Copetti

  BMC Genomics

  RiTE database: a resource database for genus-wide rice genomics and evolutionary biology

  Harvesting rice’s dispensable genome

  et al

  Martin Swain

  Charlotte Jones

  Odd A. Rognli

  Åshild Ergon

  Jose L. Goicoechea

  Dave Kudrna

  Matthew Hegarty

  Sarah Ayling

  Jose J. De Vega

  Sci. Rep.

  Scientific Reports

  Red clover (Trifolium pratense L.) draft genome provides a platform for trait improvement

  et al

  Andris Kleinhofs

  Tao Jiang

  Steve Wanamaker

  Matthew J. Moscou

  Jan T. Svensson

  Kavitha Madishetty

  MingCheng Luo

  Stefano Lonardi

  María Muñoz-Amatriaín

  The Plant Journal

  Plant J

  Sequencing of 15 622 gene-bearing BACs clarifies the gene-dense regions of the barley genome

  Mingsheng Chen

  Klaus Mayer

  Luis F. Rivera

  Liana C. Liu

  Yeisoo Yu

  Dean D. Billheimer

  Georg Haberer

  Jetty S.S. Ammiraju

  Julie Jacquemin

  Molecular Plant

  Fifteen Million Years of Evolution in the Oryza Genus Shows Extensive Gene Family Expansion

  et al

  Jing Cai

  Xin Li

  Yue Song

  Min Xie

  Lijuan Li

  Binying Fu

  Hui Liu

  Shilai Zhang

  Yesheng Zhang

  Molecular Plant

  Genome and Comparative Transcriptomics of African Wild Rice Oryza longistaminata Provide Insights into Molecular Mechanism of Rhizomatousness and Self-Incompatibility

  Yang Lei

  Jose Luis Goicoechea

  Yeisoo Yu

  Dario Copetti

  Weiming Li

  Ting Mu

  Dave Kudrna

  Jianwei Zhang

  Bioinformatics

  Genome puzzle master (GPM): an integrated pipeline for building and editing pseudomolecules from fragmented sequences

  et al

  J. Lee

  H. O. Lee

  S. Kumar

  L. E. Eguiarte

  J. L. M. Charboneau

  E. Bustamante

  A. Burquez

  D. Copetti

  M. J. Sanderson

  American Journal of Botany

  Exceptional reduction of the plastid genome of saguaro cactus (Carnegiea gigantea): Loss of the ndh gene suite and inverted repeat

  et al

  Jia-Ming Song

  Weiming Li

  Ting Mu

  Dario Copetti

  Wen Yao

  David A. Kudrna

  Feng Xing

  Ling-Ling Chen

  Jianwei Zhang

  Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences

  Proc Natl Acad Sci USA

  Extensive sequence divergence between the reference genomes of two elite indica rice varieties Zhenshan 97 and Minghui 63

  Mingsheng Chen

  Song Ge

  Rong Liu

  Meijiao Wang

  Yi Liao

  Jinfeng Chen

  Zetao Bai

  BMC Genomics

  The impact and origin of copy number variations in the Oryza species

  Scott A. Jackson

  Jiming Jiang

  Ning Jiang

  Dongying Gao

  Frontiers in Plant Science

  Front. Plant Sci.

  Transposons play an important role in the evolution and diversification of centromeres among closely related species

  Ingo Schubert

  Thomas Wicker

  The Plant Journal

  Plant J

  Recurrent sequence exchange between homeologous grass chromosomes

  et al

  Qijian Song

  Shengqiang Shu

  Jerry Jenkins

  Jane Grimwood

  Steven B Cannon

  G Albert Wu

  Sujan Mamidi

  Phillip E McClean

  Jeremy Schmutz

  Nature Genetics

  Nat Genet

  A reference genome for common bean and genome-wide analysis of dual domestications

  Meingsheng Chen

  Onkar N. Singh

  Mahender Anumalla

  Lambodar Behera

  Sanghamitra Samantaray

  Jawahar L. Katara

  Umakanta Ngangkham

  Joshitha Ray

  Lotan K. Bose

  Soham Ray

  Molecular Genetics and Genomics

  Mol Genet Genomics

  Development and validation of cross-transferable and polymorphic DNA markers for detecting alien genome introgression in Oryza sativa from Oryza brachyantha

  et al

  Silvia Vezzulli

  Simone Scalabrin

  Alistair R. McTaggart

  Matthias Zytnicki

  Derrick J. Zwickl

  Nathalie Choisne

  Dario Copetti

  Florian Maumus

  Andrew D. W. Geering

  Nature Communications

  Nat Comms

  Endogenous florendoviruses are major components of plant genomes and hallmarks of virus evolution

  Blake C. Meyers

  Scott A. Jackson

  Jonathan F. Wendel

  Genome Biol

  Genome Biology

  Evolution of plant genome architecture

  Chuanzhu Fan

  Seunghee Lee

  Jayson Talag

  Dave Kudrna

  Dario Copetti

  Jianwei Zhang

  Feng Tao

  Yeisoo Yu

  Jun Wang

  Genome Biol

  Genome Biology

  DNA methylation changes facilitated evolution of genes derived from Mutator-like transposable elements

  et al

  Dave Kudrna

  Xiang Song

  Andrea Zuccolo

  Jose Luis Goicoechea

  Chuanzhu Fan

  Pradeep Reddy Marri

  Georg Haberer

  Yeisoo Yu

  Muhua Wang

  Nature Genetics

  Nat Genet

  The genome sequence of African rice (Oryza glaberrima) and evidence for independent domestication

  M. J. Sanderson

  D. Ware

  J. C. Stein

  D. J. Zwickl

  Systematic Biology

  Disentangling Methodological and Biological Sources of Gene Tree Discordance on Oryza (Poaceae) Chromosome 3

  et al

  Hong-Il Choi

  Nomar Espinosa Waminal

  Hee-Jong Koh

  Beom-Soon Choi

  Kiwoung Yang

  Yeisoo Yu

  Junki Lee

  Sang-Choon Lee

  Kyunghee Kim

  Sci. Rep.

  Scientific Reports

  Complete chloroplast and ribosomal sequences for 30 accessions elucidate evolution of Oryza AA genome species

  Rod

  Wing

  Texas A&M University

  Clemson University

  The University of Arizona

  Cornell University

  USDA-ARS/UC Berkeley Plant Gene Expression Center

  Clemson

  SC

  First Holder of the Coker Endowed Chair of Plant Molecular Genetics

  Associate/Full Professor

  Clemson University

  Albany

  CA

  Here is studied male sterility in Tomato in Dr. Sheila McCormick's lab.

  Postdoctoral Research Fellow

  USDA-ARS/UC Berkeley Plant Gene Expression Center

  Bud Antle Endowed Chair of Excellence in Agriculture & Life Sciences - 2005-present

  Professor

  Tucson

  Arizona Area

  The University of Arizona

  Assisitant/Associate Professor

  Bryan/College Station

  Texas Area

  Texas A&M University

  Here I contributed to the tomato RFLP map

  and developed mapping populations to clone the jointless genes of tomato.

  Postdoctoral Research Associate

  Ithaca

  New York Area

  Cornell University

  English

  AXA Chair in Genome Biology & Evolutionary Genomics

  International Rice Research Institute

  Los Baños

  Philippines/University of Arizona \n(3 month appointment/year for 5 years)\n

  AXA Research Fund

  Award for Research Excellence

  Arizona BioIndustry Association

  Shennong Professor

  Honorary Faculty position at HAZU - 2006-present

  Huazhong Agricultural University

  Wuhan

  China

  USDA Secretary's Honor Award

  Awarded the USDA Secretary's Honor Award as Team Leader of the USA Rice Genome Sequencing Project

  United States Department of Agriculture

  Extraordinary Faculty Award

  University of Arizona Alumni Association & College of Agriculture and Life Sciences

  Fellow of the American Association of the Advancement of Science

  Elected Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science

  AAAS

  Alexander von Humboldt Research Award

  A 1-year award to perform sabbatical research at the Department of Molecular Biology

  \nMax Planck Institute for Developmental Biology

  Tübingen

  Deutschland (D. Weigel's lab)

  Alexander von Humboldt Foundation

  International DBN (Beijing Da Bei Nong Technology Group) Science & Technology Award

  Awarded the International DBN (Beijing Da Bei Nong Technology Group) Science & Technology Award

  by the 9th DBN Science & Technology Awards Program

  Beijing

  China. (Nominated by Professor Q. Zhang (Award amount = $10

  000)

  9th DBN Science & Technology Awards Program