Curriculum Vitae

Education

• Ph.D. Plant and Microbial Biology, University of California-Berkely, IN PROGRESS.
  (Advisor: Michael Freeling)
• B.A. Biology with focuses in Plant Biology and Genetics and Development, Cornell University, 2008.

Peer Reviewed Publications

• Schnable JC, Freeling M, Lyons E. (2012) "Genome-wide analysis of syntenic gene deletion in the grasses" Genome Biology and Evolution DOI: 10.1093/gbe/evs009
• Zhang W, Wu Y, Schnable JC, Zeng Z, Freeling M, Crawford GE, and Jiang J. (2011) "High-resolution mapping of open chromatin in the rice genome." Genome Research DOI: 10.1101/gr.131342.111
• Eichten SR,* Swanson-Wagner RA,* Schnable JC, Waters AJ, Hermanson PJ, Liu S, Yeh C, Jia Y, Gendler K, Freeling M, Schnable PS, Vaughn MW, Springer NM. 2011. "Heritable epigenetic variation among maize inbreds." PLoS Genetics DOI: 10.1371/journal.pgen.1002372
• Schnable JC, Lyons E. 2011. "Comparative genomics with maize and other grasses: from genes to genomes" Maydica (Link is directly to PDF)
• Tang H, Lyons E, Pedersen B, Schnable JC, Paterson AH, Freeling M. 2011. "Screening synteny blocks in pairwise genome comparisons through integer programming." BMC Bioinformatics DOI: 10.1186/1471-2105-12-102
• Schnable JC, Pedersen BS, Subramaniam S, Freeling M. 2011. "Dose-sensitivity, conserved noncoding sequences and duplicate gene retention through multiple tetraploidies in the grasses." Frontiers in Plant Science DOI: 10.3389/fpls.2011.00002
  (Commentary on this article by Birchler and Veitia, also published in Frontiers in Plant Science)
• Schnable JC, Freeling M. 2011. "Genes identifed by visible mutant phenotypes show increased bias towards one of two maize subgenomes." PLoS One DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0017855
• Schnable JC, Springer NM, Freeling M. 2011. "Differentiation of the maize subgenomes by genome dominance and both ancient and ongoing gene loss." PNAS DOI: 10.1073/pnas.1101368108
  (Selected as an Editor's Choice by MaizeGDB May 2011)
• Woodhouse MR,* Schnable JC,* Pedersen BS, Lyons E, Lisch D, Subramaniam S, Freeling M. 2010. "Following tetraploidy in maize, a short deletion mechanism removed genes preferentially from one of the two homeologs." PLoS Biology DOI:10.1371/journal.pbio.1000409
  (Selected as an Editor's Choice by MaizeGDB August 2010; an image related to this manuscript was used for the journal cover; "recommended" by Faculty of 1000)
• The International Brachypodium Initiative. 2010. "Genome sequencing and analysis of the model grass Brachypodium distachyon." Nature DOI: 10.1038/nature08747

*Authors Contributed Equally

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Teaching

• PMB 013 - Genetic Revolutions (Graduate Student Instructor)
• PMB 040 - The Secret Life of Plants (Graduate Student Instructor)

Mentored Students

• Vincent Li (High school intern with Project SEED)
  Project: Characterization of unannotated syntenically conserved gene fragments in the grasses

Talks

• "Studying the function and regulation of grass genes through comparative genomics" - January 2012
  CSSA Translational Genomics Session 20th Plant and Animal Genome Conference, San Diego, California
• "Differences between the subgenomes of ancient polyploids" - January 2012
  Polyploidy Session 20th Plant and Animal Genome Conference, San Diego, California
• "Tetraploidy and grass genome evolution" - September 2011
  Plant Sciences Seminar, University of Arizona
• "The two different genomes within maize" - March 2011
  53rd Annual Maize Genetics Conference, Pheasant Run, Illinois
• "The mechanism of fractionating gene loss following whole genome duplications in plants." - March 2010.
  PMB Intradepartmental Seminar Series

Poster Presentations

• Schnable JC, Freeling M, Lyons E. "Fractionation of a tetraploidy preceding the diversification of the grasses."
  19th Plant and Animal Genome Conference. January 2011. San Diego, CA Poster Abstract
• Schnable JC, Woodhouse MR, Pedersen BS, Lyons E, Lisch D, Subramaniam S, Freeling M. "Following tetraploidy in maize, a short deletion mechanism removed genes preferentially from one of the two homeologs."
  52nd Annual Maize Genetics Conference. March 2010. Riva del Garda, Italy Poster Abstract (via MaizeGDB)
• Schnable JC, Pedersen BS, Freeling M, Lyons E. "The pan-grass synteny project."
  52nd Annual Maize Genetics Conference. March 2010. Riva del Garda, Italy Poster Abstract (via MaizeGDB)

Honors and Awards

• Chang-Lin Tien Graduate Fellowship in the Environmental Sciences and Biodiversity
  2010 and 2011

Other Information

Assorted other places to check if this page seems out of date

• Official Department of Plant and Microbial Biology webpage
• CoGePedia User Page