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curriculum vitae

R. Kelly Dawe

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Department of Plant Biology and Genetics
1502 Plant Sciences
University of Georgia
Athens, GA 30602
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Education

1983 B.S. Colorado State University (Landscape Horticulture)
1985 M.S. Univ. of California, Riverside (Botany)
1989 Ph.D. Univ. of California, Berkeley (Genetics)

Positions

9/85-12/89 Ph.D. research, research group of Michael Freeling, Dept. of Plant Biology, U. C. Berkeley.
1/90-12/90 Postdoctoral Fellow, research group of Michael Freeling, Dept. of Plant Biology, U. C. Berkeley.
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.
1/95- 7/01 Assistant Professor of Botany and Genetics, University of Georgia
8/01-7/05 Associate Professor of Botany and Genetics, University of Georgia
  8/05- Professor of Plant Biology and Genetics, University of Georgia
  8/06- Georgia Research Alliance Lars G. Ljungdahl Distinguished Investigator, University of Georgia

Honors and Fellowships

USDA National Needs Fellowship Univ. Calif. Berkeley 1985
  NSF Postdoctoral Fellowship in Plant Biology National Science Foundation 1991
  Creative Research Medal University of Georgia 2000
  Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science AAAS 2007

Professional Service

Maize Genetics Cooperative Steering Committee 1997-2000
  USDA grant panel: Plant Genetic Mechanisms 1999
  USDA grant panel: Plant Genetic Mechanisms 2000
  NSF grant panel: Plant Genome Research Program 2003
  USDA grant panel: Functional Genomics of Agriculturally Important Organisms 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