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Jeffrey Lynn Bennetzen
Education :
Ph.D. in Biochemistry at the University of Washington (1980).
Research and Teaching Positions :
Graduate Student, Departments of Biochemistry and Genetics, University of Washington (1974-1980).Postdoctoral Fellow, Washington University, Stanford University, and University of California, Berkeley (1980-1981).
Research Scientist, Plant Pathology Group, International Plant Research Institute, San Carlos, California (1981-1983).
Assistant Professor, Department of Biological Sciences, Purdue University, West Lafayette, Indiana (1983-1987).
Associate Professor, Department of Biological Sciences, Purdue University, West Lafayette, Indiana (1987-1991).
Visiting Scholar, Sainsbury Laboratory, John Innes Centre, Norwich, England (1990-1991).
Professor, Department of Biological Sciences, Purdue University, West Lafayette, Indiana (1991-2003).
Co-Director, Purdue Genetics Program (1997-1999).
Visiting Professor, Section of Plant Biology, University of California at Davis (1998).
H. Edwin Umbarger Distinguished Professor of Genetics (1999-2003).
Professor of Genetics, Department of Genetics, University of Georgia, Athens, Georgia (2003).
Norman Giles Eminent Scholar Chair in Molecular Biology and Functional Genomics, Department of Genetics, University of Georgia, Athens, Georgia (2003-present).
Awards :
Elected Fellow, American Association for the Advancement of Science, 2005
Elected member, US National Academy of Sciences 2004
Pandit Jawaharlal Nehru Centenary Professorship, University of Hyderabad, 2002
Umbarger Endowed Professorship in Genetics, 1999
Sigma Xi Faculty Research Award, 1995
Fulbright Award, 1990.
Presidential Young Investigator Award, National Science Foundation, 1986.
McKnight Foundation Award in Plant Biology, 1986.
B.A., Biology, with Highest Honors, University of California, San Diego, 1974.
Some Recent Publications :
Nagy ED, Lee TC, Ramakrishna W, Xu Z, Klein PE, SanMiguel P, Cheng CP, Li J, Devos KM, Schertz K, Dunkle L, Bennetzen JL. (2007) Fine mapping of the Pc locus of Sorghum bicolor, a gene controlling the reaction to a fungal pathogen and its host-selective toxin. Theor Appl Genet. 114(6):961-70. Pub Med Link
Bennetzen JL. (2007) Patterns in grass genome evolution. Curr Opin Plant Biol. 10(2):176-81. Pub Med Link
Ma J, Wing RA, Bennetzen JL, Jackson SA. (2007) Plant centromere organization: a dynamic structure with conserved functions. Trends Genet. 23(3):134-9. Pub Med Link (2007)
Gorantla M, Babu PR, Lachagari VB, Reddy AM, Wusirika R, Bennetzen JL, Reddy AR. (2007) Identification of stress-responsive genes in an indica rice (Oryza sativa L.) using ESTs generated from drought-stressed seedlings. J. Exp. Bot. 58(2):253-65 Pub Med Link
Dida MM, Srinivasachary, Ramakrishnan S, Bennetzen JL, Gale MD, Devos KM. (2007) The genetic map of finger millet, Eleusine coracana. Theor Appl Genet. Pub Med Link
Corby-Harris V, Pontaroli AC, Shimkets LJ, Bennetzen JL, Habel KE, Promislow DE. (2007) The geographical distribution and diversity of bacteria associated with natural populations of Drosophila melanogaster. Appl Environ Microbiol. [epub ahead of print] Pub Med Link
Liu R, Vitte C, Ma J, Mahama AA, Dhliwayo T, Lee M, Bennetzen JL. (2007) A GeneTrek analysis of the maize genome. Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 104: 11844-11849 Pub Med Link
Ma J., Bennetzen J.L. (2006) Recombination, rearrangement, reshuffling, and divergence in a centromeric region of rice. Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 103(2):383-8. Pub Med Link
Rabinowicz PD, Bennetzen JL (2006) The maize genome as a model for efficient sequence analysis of large plant genomes. Curr Opin Plant Biol. 9(2):149-56. Pub Med Link
Chu Z, Fu B, Yang H, Xu C, Li Z, Sanchez A, Park YJ, Bennetzen JL, Zhang Q, Wang S (2006) Targeting xa13, a recessive gene for bacterial blight resistance in rice. Theor Appl Genet. 112(3):455-61. Pub Med Link
Bruggmann R, Bharti AK, Gundlach H, Lai J, Young S, Pontaroli AC, Wei F, Haberer G, Fuks G, Du C, Raymond C, Estep MC, Liu R, Bennetzen JL, Chan AP, Rabinowicz PD, Quackenbush J, Barbazuk WB, Wing RA, Birren B, Nusbaum C, Rounsley S, Mayer KF, Messing J. (2006) Uneven chromosome contraction and expansion in the maize genome. Genome Research. 16(10):1241-51. Pub Med Link
Chu Z, Yuan M, Yao J, Ge X, Yuan B, Xu C, Li X, Fu B, Li Z, Bennetzen JL, Zhang Q, Wang S. (2006) Promoter mutations of an essential gene for pollen development result in disease resistance in rice. Genes and Dev. 20(10):1250-5 Pub Med Link
Vitte C, Bennetzen JL. (2006) Analysis of retrotransposon structural diversity uncovers properties and propensities in angiosperm genome evolution. Proc Natl Acad Sci USA 103(47):17638-4. Pub Med Link
Bennetzen, J.L., J. Ma and K. M. Devos (2005) Mechanisms of recent genome size variation in flowering plants. Ann. Bot. 95(1):127-32. Pub Med link
Swigonova, Z., J.L. Bennetzen, J. Messing (2005) Structure and evolution of the r/b chromosomal regions in rice, maize, and sorghum. Genetics 169(2):891-906. Pub Med link
Devos KM, Ma J, Pontaroli AC, Pratt LH, Bennetzen JL (2005) Analysis and mapping of randomly chosen bacterial artificial chromosome clones from hexaploid bread wheat. Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 102(52):19243-8. Pub Med link
Bennetzen JL (2005) Transposable elements, gene creation and genome rearrangement in flowering plants. Curr Opin Genet Dev. 15(6):621-7. Pub Med link
Emberton J, Ma J, Yuan Y, SanMiguel P, Bennetzen JL (2005) Gene enrichment in maize with hypomethylated partial restriction (HMPR) libraries. Genome Res. 15(10):1441-6. Pub Med link
Ma J, SanMiguel P, Lai J, Messing J, Bennetzen JL (2005) DNA rearrangement in orthologous orp regions of the maize, rice and sorghum genomes. Genetics. 170(3):1209-20. Pub Med Link
Editorial Responsibilities :
Editorial Boards for Biotechnology for Biofuels, Comparative and Functional Genomics, Current Opinion in Plant Biology and Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (USA). Coeditor, The Plant Cell (1996-2003). Reviewer for Biochimica et Biophysica Acta, BMC Genomics, BMC Plant Biology, Cytogenetics and Genome Research, EMBO Journal, Evolutionary Ecology, FEBS Letters, Functional and Integrative Genomics, Genetics, Genome, Genome Biology, Genome Research, Genomics, Heredity, Journal of Biology, Journal of Heredity, Journal of Molecular Evolution, Maydica, Molecular and Cellular Biology, Molecular Biology and Evolution, Molecular Plant Microbe Interactions, Nature, Nature Genetics, New Phytologist, Phytopathology, Planta, The Plant Cell, The Plant Journal, Plant Molecular Biology, Plant Physiology, Plant Science, Public Library of Science Biology, Science, Theoretical and Applied Genetics, Trends in Genetics, Tropical Plant Biology.
External Service Responsibilities:
USDA-SBIR Grants panel member (1988); USDA-CRGO Plant Genetic Mechanisms and Molecular Biology panel member (1989); DOE Biological Energy Resources Grants panel member (1991); NSF BIR Panel member (1993); USDA Plant Genome panel member (1998); USDA Plant Genome panel director (1999). Reviewer of DOE, NIH, NSF, USDA, AFRC (UK), NERC (UK) competitive grant proposals. Organizer of Cereal Genome Integration Workshop at Plant Genome II Conference (1994), organizer of First Midwestern Genomics Conference (Purdue, 1995), co-organizer of Grass Genome Integration Workshop at Plant (and Animal) Genome III-XII Conferences (1995-2004), co-organizer and chair of the Banbury Conference on the International Grass Genome Initiative (1994), co-organizer of the CIMMYT Cereal Genomes Initiative Planning Meeting (2001), co-organizer and chair of the NSF Maize Genome Sequencing Workshop (2001). Member, Steering Committee for Maize Genetics Annual Meeting (1994-1997) and for Unifying Plant Genomes Meeting (1994). Founder and Director, International Grass Genome Initiative (1994-present). Member, TAIR (The Arabidopsis Information Resource) Advisory Board (1999-present), Gramene Advisory Board (2001-2003) and IGROW Advisory Board (2003-present). Elected Founding Chairman of the Maize Genetics Executive Committee (MGEC) (2000). Re-elected to MGEC (five year term) and as Chair of the MGEC (2001).
Research Interests:
Plant genome structure and evolution, especially the nature of rearrangements and the contributions of transposable elements.
The relationship between genome structure/evolution and gene function, particularly the identification of changes in regulatory genes that significantly differentiate species.
Genetic diversity and its use in under-utilized crops of the developing world.
The rapid evolution of complex disease resistance loci in plants.
Fine structure recombinational analysis, particularly within tandem gene families.
The coevolution of plant/microbe and plant/parasite interactions, primarily in the soil.