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curriculum
vitae
R. Kelly Dawe
Address
| Department of Plant Biology
and Genetics |
| 1502 Plant Sciences |
| University of Georgia |
| Athens, GA 30602 |
| Home: 706-542-1658 |
| FAX: 706-542-1805 |
| e-mail: see plantbio home page |
Education
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1983 |
B.S. |
Colorado State
University (Landscape Horticulture) |
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1985 |
M.S. |
Univ. of California,
Riverside (Botany) |
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1989 |
Ph.D. |
Univ. of California,
Berkeley (Genetics) |
Positions
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9/85-12/89 |
Ph.D.
research, research group of Michael Freeling, Dept. of Plant
Biology, U. C. Berkeley. |
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1/90-12/90 |
Postdoctoral
Fellow, research group of Michael Freeling, Dept. of Plant Biology,
U. C. Berkeley. |
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1/91-12/94 |
NSF
Postdoctoral Fellow, research group of W. Z. Cande, Dept. of
Molecular and Cell Biology, U. C. Berkeley; co-advised by J.
W. Sedat and D. A. Agard, Dept. Biochemistry and Biophysics,
University of California, San Francisco. |
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1/95-
7/01 |
Assistant
Professor of Botany and Genetics, University of Georgia |
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8/01-7/05 |
Associate
Professor of Botany and Genetics, University of Georgia |
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8/05- |
Professor of Plant Biology and Genetics, University of Georgia |
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8/06- |
Georgia Research Alliance Lars G. Ljungdahl Distinguished Investigator, University of Georgia |
Honors and
Fellowships
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USDA National Needs Fellowship |
Univ. Calif. Berkeley |
1985 |
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NSF Postdoctoral Fellowship
in Plant Biology |
National Science Foundation |
1991 |
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Creative Research Medal |
University of Georgia |
2000 |
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Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science |
AAAS |
2007 |
Professional Service
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Maize Genetics Cooperative
Steering Committee |
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1997-2000 |
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USDA grant panel: Plant Genetic
Mechanisms |
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1999 |
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USDA grant panel: Plant Genetic
Mechanisms |
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2000 |
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NSF grant panel: Plant Genome
Research Program |
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2003 |
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USDA grant panel: Functional
Genomics of Agriculturally Important Organisms |
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2004 |
Publications
Dawe, R. K. and Freeling, M. 1990. Clonal analysis
of the cell lineages in the male flower of maize. Developmental
Biology 142:233-245
Dawe, R. K. and Freeling, M. 1991. Cell lineage
and its consequences in higher plants. Plant J. 1:3-8
Dawe, R. K. and Freeling, M. 1992. The role of
initial cells in maize anther morphogene-sis. Development 116:1077-1085
Dawe, R. K., Lachmansingh, A. R., and Freeling,
M. 1993. Transposon-mediated muta-tions in the untranslated leader
of maize Alcohol dehydrogenase-1 that increase and de-crease pollen
specific gene expression. Plant Cell 5:311-319
Dawe, R. K., Sedat, J. W., Agard, D. A., and Cande,
W. Z. 1994. Chromosome synapsis in maize is associated with a novel
chromatin organization. Cell 76:901-912 5 Dawe, R. K. and Cande,
W. Z. 1996. Induction of centromeric activity in maize by Suppressor
of meiotic drive 1. Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci (USA) 93, 8512-8517
Bailey-Serres, J., and Dawe, R. K. 1996. Both
5' and 3' sequences of maize adh1 mRNA enhance translation under
low oxygen conditions. Plant Physiol. 112, 685-695
Starr, D. A., Williams, B. C., Li, Z., Etemad-Moghadam,
B., Dawe, R. K., and Goldberg, M. L. 1997. Conservation of the centromere/kinetochore
protein ZW10. J. Cell Biol. 138, 1289-1301
Yu, H-G., Hiatt, E. N., Chan, A., Sweeney, M.,
and Dawe, R. K. 1997. Neocentromere-mediated chromosome movement
in maize. J. Cell Biol. 139, 831-840
Richards, E. J. and Dawe, R. K. 1998. Plant centromeres:
structure, function and control. Curr. Opin. Plant Biol. 1, 130-135
Dawe, R. K. 1998. Meiotic chromosome organization
and segregation in plants. Ann. Rev. Plant Phys. Plant Mol. Biol.
49, 371-395
Dawe, R. K., Reed, L. M., Yu, H.-G., Muszynski,
M.G., and Hiatt, E.N. 1999. A maize homolog of mammalian CENP-C
is a constitutive component of the inner kinetochore. Plant Cell
11, 1227-1238
Yu, H.-G., Muszynski, M. G., and Dawe, R. K. 1999.
The maize homolog of the cell cycle checkpoint protein MAD2 reveals
kinetochore substructure and contrasting mitotic and meiotic localization
patterns. J. Cell Biol. 145, 425-435
Buckler IV, E.S., Phelps, T.L., Buckler, C.S.,
Dawe, R.K., Doebley, J.F. and Holtsford, T.P. 1999. Meiotic drive
of knobs reshaped the maize genome. Genetics 153, 415-426
Yu, H.-G., Hiatt, E. N., and Dawe. 2000. The plant
kinetochore. Trends Plant Sci. 5, 543-547
Yu, H.-G. and Dawe, R. K. 2000. Functional redundancy
in the maize meiotic kinetochore. J. Cell Biol. 151, 131-141
Lawrence, C.J, Morris, N.R., Meagher, R.B., and
Dawe, R.K. 2001. Dyneins have run their course in the plant lineage.
Traffic 2, 362-363
Lawrence, C.J., Malmberg, R.L., Muszynski, M.G.,
and Dawe, R.K. 2002. Maximum likelihood methods reveal conservation
of function among closely related kinesin families. J. Mol. Evol.
54, 42-53.
Hiatt, E.N., Kentner, E., and Dawe, R.K. 2002.
Independently regulated neocentromere activity of two classes of
satellite sequences in maize. Plant Cell, 14, 407-420
Zhong C.X., Marshall J.B., Topp, C. Mroczek R.J.
, Kato, C.R.A, Nagaki, K., Birchler, J.A., Jiang, J., and Dawe,
R.K. 2002. Centromeric retroelements and satellites interact with
maize kinetochore protein CENH3. Plant Cell, 14: 2825-2836
Dawe, R.K. 2003. RNAi, transposons, and the centromere.
Plant Cell 15, 297-301
Hiatt, E.N. and Dawe, R.K. 2003. The meiotic drive
system on maize abnormal chromosome 10 contains few essential genes.
Genetica 117, 67-76
Nagaki, K., Song, J., Stupar, R., Parokonny, A.S.,
Yuan Q., Ouyang S., Liu J., Dawe, R.K., Buell C.R., and Jiang, J.
2003. Molecular and cytological analyses of large tracks of centromeric
DNA reveal the structure and evolutionary dynamics of maize centromeres.
Genetics 163:759-770
Nagaki, K., Talbert, P.B., Zhong, C.X. , Dawe R.K.,
Henikoff. S., and Jiang. J. 2003. Chromatin immunoprecipitation
reveals that the 180-bp satellite repeat is the key functional DNA
element of Arabidopsis thaliana centromeres. Genetics, 163, 1221-1223
Birchler, J.A., Dawe, R. K., Doebley, J.F. 2003.
Marcus Rhoades, preferential segregation and meiotic drive. Genetics,
164, 835-841
Hiatt, E.N. and Dawe, R.K. 2003. Four loci on Abnormal
chromosome 10 contribute to meiotic drive in maize. Genetics, 164,
699-709
Mroczek, R.J. and Dawe, R.K. 2003. Distribution of retroelements in centromeres and neocentromeres of maize. Genetics, 165:809-819
Jiang, J., Birchler, J.A., Parrott, W.A. and Dawe,
R.K. 2003. A molecular view of plant centromeres. Trends Plant Sci.
8, 570-575
Jin. W., Melo, J.R., Nagaki, K., Talbert, P.B.,
Henikoff, S., Dawe, R.K., and Jiang, J. 2004. Maize centromeres:
fine structure and functional adaptation in the genetic background
of oat. Plant Cell 16, 571-581
Lawrence, C.J., Zmasek, C.M., Dawe, R.K., and Malmberg,
R.L. 2004. LumberJack: a heuristic tool for sequence alignment exploration
and phylogenetic inference. Bioinformatics 20, 1977-1979
Lawrence, C.J., Dawe, R.K., Christie, K.R., Cleveland,
D.W., Dawson, S.C., Endow, S.A., Goldstein, L.S.B., Goodson, H.V.,
Hirokawa, N., Howard, J., Malmberg, R.L., McIntosh, J.R., Miki,
H., Mitchison, T.J., Okada, Y., Reddy, A.S.N., Saxton, W.M., Schliwa,
M., Scholey, J.M., Vale, R.D., Walczak, C.E., & Wordeman, L. 2004.
A standardized kinesin nomenclature. J. Cell Biol. 167 J. Cell Biol.
167, 19-22
Dawe, R.K. and Hiatt, E.N. 2004. Plant neocentromeres:
fast, focused & driven. Chromosome Res. 12, 655-669
Topp, C.N., Zhong C.X., and Dawe, R.K. 2004. Centromere-encoded
RNAs are integral components of the maize kinetochore. Proc. Natl.
Acad. Sci. USA. 101, 15986-15991
Dawe, R.K. 2004. RNAi interference on chromosomes.
Nat. Genet. 36, 1141-1142
Dawe, R.K., Richardson, E.A, and Zhang, X. The
simple ultrastructure of the maize kinetochore fits a two-domain
model. Cytogenet. Genome Res. (in press)
Zhang, X., Li, X., Marshall, J.B., Zhong, C.X.,
and Dawe, R.K. Phospho-serines on maize CENH3 and histone H3 define
the centromere and pericentromere during chromosome segregation.
17, 572-583
Jin, W., Lamb, J.C., Vega, J.M., Dawe, R.K., Birchler, J.A., and Jiang, J. 2005. Molecular and functional dissection of the maize B chromosome centromere. Plant Cell 17, 1412-1423
Dawe, R.K. 2005. Centromere renewal and replacement in the plant kingdom. Proc. Nat. Acad. Sci. USA 102, 11573-1157
Shi, J. and Dawe, R.K. 2006. Partioning the maize epigenome by the number of methyl groups on histone H3 lysines 9 and 27. Genetics 173, 1571-1583
Mroczek, R.J., Melo, J.R., Luce, A.C., Hiatt, E. N. and Dawe, R.K. 2006. The maize Ab10 mieotic drive system maps to supernumerary sequences in a lage comple haplotype. Genetics 174, 145-154
Luce, A., Sharma, A., Mollere, O.S.B., Wolfgruber, T.K., Nagaki, K., Jiang, J., Presting, G.G., and Dawe R.K. 2006. Precise centromere mapping using a combination of repeat junction markers and ChIP-PCR. Genetics 174, 1057-1061
Phan, B.H., Jin, W., Topp, C.N., Zhong, C.X., Jiang, J., Dawe, R.K., and Parrott, W.A. 2006. Insertion of >100 kb centromeric repeat arrays into the rice genome by biolostic DNA transfer. Transgenic Res. Nov. issue.
Dawe, R.K. and Henikoff, S. 2006. Centromeres put epigenetics in the drivers seat. Trends Biochem. Sci. 31, 662-669
Topp, C.N. and Dawe, R.K. 2006. Reinterpreting pericentromeric heterochromatin. Curr. Opin. Plant Biol. 9, 647-653
Invited
Presentations
AAAS meeting, Davis CA, June 20, 1990. "Developmental
genetics of maize leaves and anthers."
Dept. Botany and Plant Sciences, U.C. Riverside,
Oct. 8, 1990. "Maize anther development."
Gordon Research Conference on Meiosis, Plymouth
State College NH, July 17, 1992. "Three dimensional chromosome structure
in maize"
ASCB Meeting, minisymposium on Chromosome Structure
and Movement, Denver CO, Nov. 19, 1992, "Three dimensional analysis
of maize meiotic chromosome structure"
Institute of Molecular Biology, University of Oregon,
April 20, 1994. "Chromosome pairing in maize"
Keystone Symposium "Frontiers in Plant Morphogenesis",
Hilton Head Island SC, Mar 29, 1995. "The role of chromosomes
in maize meiotic spindle morphogenesis"
Department of Biology, University of Pennsylvania,
May 2, 1996. Student invited. "Facultative centromeric activity
and meiotic drive in maize"
Department of Plant Science, University of Arizona,
Nov. 3, 1997. "Meiotic drive and facultative centromeric activity
in maize"
40th Annual Maize Genetics Conference, Grand Geneva
WI, Mar. 21, 1998. "In situ techniques for maize chromosomes"
Department of Zoology & Genetics, Iowa State University,
Ames, IA, April 31, 1999. "Maize kinetochore structure and
function"
Carnegie Institute of Washington, 23rd Annual Minisymposium
on Meiosis, Baltimore, MD, March 14, 2000. "Neocentromeres and
Meiotic Drive in Maize" Student and postdoc invited
Gordon Research Conference on Meiosis, Colby-Sawyer
College NH, June 22, 2000. "Involvement of maize meiotic kinetochores
in the spindle checkpoint"
Cold Spring Harbor Laboratories, Summer Course
in Arabidopsis Molecular Genetics, July 7, 2000. "Meiosis in
plants"
Gordon Research Conference on Plant and Fungal
Cytoskeleton, Proctor Academy, NH, Aug. 16, 2000. "Kinetochore
function in maize"
International EMBO Workshop on Centromeres, Kinetochores
and Spindle interactions. EMBL, Heidelberg, Oct. 14-18, 2000. "The
maize centromere/kinetochore complex"
Department of Genetics, North Carolina State University,
Raleigh, NC, Nov. 13, 2000. "Meiotic drive in maize"
Genetics Area Program, University of Missouri,
Columbia, MO, Jan. 19, 2001. Student invited. "The genetics and
cell biology of meiotic drive in maize"
43rd Annual Maize Genetics Conference, March 15,
2001. Plenary lecture. "Abnormal chromosomal segregation: meiotic
drive and neocentromeres"
Department of Biology, University of Iowa, Iowa
City, IA, Feb. 1, 2002. "Towards the identification of functional
centromeric DNA in maize"
Department of Cellular Biology, University of Georgia,
Athens GA, Feb. 12 2002. "Towards the identification of functional
centromeric DNA in maize"
American Society for Plant Biologists Annual Meeting,
Denver CO, Aug. 7, 2002. Major Symposium Speaker. "Centromeric
DNA and chromosome movement"
Department of Plant and Microbial Biology, University
of California Berkeley. Tsujimoto Endowed Lecture, student invited.
Sept. 23, 2002. "Centromeric DNA and chromosome motility in
maize"
International Symposium on the Structure and Function
of Plant Centromeres: A challenge to the Orthodoxy. Kurashiki-city,
Okayama-ken, Japan, November 14, 2002. "Interaction of satellites
and retrotransposons with centromeric histone H3 in maize"
Department of Molecular Biology & Genetics, Cornell
University, Ithaca, NY, Feb. 7, 2003. "Whats in the maize centromere/kinetochore
complex"
Department of Botany, University of Tennessee,
Knoxville, TN, April 17, 2003. "Whats in the maize centromere/kinetochore
complex"
"Plant Genetics" meeting sponsored by
American Society for Plant Biologists, Snowbird, Utah, October 24,
2003. "Centromeric chromatin"
Department of Plant Sciences, University of Arizona,
Feb. 2, 2004. "Plant centromeric chromatin"
Genetics & Molecular Biology Seminar Series, Emory
University, May 27, 2004. "Plant centromeric chromatin"
Gordon Research Conference on Chromosome Dynamics, Colby-Sawyer College NH, August 3, 2005. "Centromere and centromere associated proteins in maize"
Plant Breeding & Plant Genetics group, University of Wisconsin, Madison. Oct. 18, 2005. "Maize immunocytogenetics: a chromosomal view of histones and histone modification"
American Society of Microbiology Conference on Mobile DNA, Banff, Canada. February 24, 2006. "Centromere-specific retroelements and their roles on the maize 'centrochromatin' environment"
School of Biological Sciences, University of Edinburgh, Scotland. March 27, 2006. "Centromere-specific retroelements and their roles on the maize 'centrochromatin' environment"
International Biochemical Society/Genetics Society meeting (Warwick, England) on Meiosis and the Causes and Consequences of Recombination. March 30, 2006. "The maize abnormal chromosome 10 meiotic drive system"
Deparment of Plant Biology, Cornell University. November 10, 2006. "Defining maize centromeres"
Graduate
Students and Postdocs
Evelyn Hiatt (Ph.D. Genetics 2000), Now an
Assistant Professor at Kentucky Wesleyan College, Owensboro, Kentucky
Hong Guo Yu (Ph.D. Botany 2000), Now an Assistant Professor at Florida State University
Joshua Marshall (M.S. Botany 2001), Now a nuclear pharmacist
Carolyn Lawrence (Ph.D. Botany 2003, Co-advisor
with Russell Malmberg), Now a research group leader at USDA (Ames Iowa).
Rebecca Mroczek (Ph.D. Botany 2003), Now an
Assistant Professor at University of Arkansas, Fort Smith
Xiaolan Zhang (Ph.D. Plant Biology 2007) Currently postdoc with Elliot Meyerowitz
Christopher Topp (Ph.D. Plant Biology) current
Yaqing Du (Ph.D. Plant Biology) current
Xuexian Li (Ph.D. Plant Biology) current
Jinghua Shi (Ph.D. Plant Biology) current
Han Zhang (Ph.D. Genetics) current
Yun Li (M.S. Plant Biology) current
Sarah Rushing (M.S. Plant Biology) current
Lisa Kanizay (Ph.D. Plant Biology) current
Brunilis Burgos (Ph.D. Genetics) current
Cathy X. Zhong (Postdoc) 2000-2003, Currently,
Research Scientist at Dupont, Wilmington, Delaware.
Grants
"Functional Genomics of Maize Centromeres"
(Dawe, PI, and four Co-PIs: J. Jiang, J. Birchler, W. Parrott, and
G. Presting). 9/1/04-8/31/09. Total $5,602,925; $1,704,433 to Dawe
lab.
"Functional Genomics of maize chromatin"
(Karen Cone, PI and 7 Co-PIs including Dawe). 9/1/04-8/31/08. Total
$6,644,642; $425,035 to Dawe lab
"Maize Transposable Elements: Discovery, Description and functional characterization" (Susan Wessler, PI and 4 co-PIs) 9/1/06-8/30/11 Total 4,107,621; $526,606 to Dawe lab
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