It is speculated that transposable elements have been contributed

							 BIOGRAPHICAL SKETCH: Thomas Peterson, Iowa State University

 a. Professional Preparation:
 University of California, Davis            Zoology                                   B.Sc., 1976
 University of California, Santa Barbara    Biochemistry and Molecular Biology        Ph.D., 1984
 Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory, NY          Plant Molecular Biology Course            1984
 CSIRO-Plant Industry, Australia            NSF Postdoctoral Fellow                   10/84 to 10/87
                                             Maize Genetics

 b. Appointments:
 7/03 to present: Professor, Department of Genetics, Development and Cell Biology, and Department
                  of Agronomy, Iowa State University, Ames, Iowa
 7/93 to 6/03:    Associate Professor, Department of Zoology and Genetics, and Department of
                  Agronomy, Iowa State University, Ames, Iowa
 9/91 to 6/93:    Genetics Program Member, State University of New York, Stonybrook, NY
 10/87 to 6/93:   Senior Staff Investigator, Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory, New York.

 c. Publications:

 5 publications most closely related to the proposed project
 Athma, P. and Peterson, T. 1991. Ac induces homologous recombination at the maize P locus. Genetics
     128: 163-173.
 Xiao, Y., Li, X., and T. Peterson. 2000. Ac insertion site affects the frequency of transposon-induced
        homologous recombination at the maize P locus. Genetics 156: 2007 – 2017.
 Xiao, Y-L and Peterson, T. 2000. Intrachromosomal homologous recombination in Arabidopsis induced
     by a maize transposon. Mol Gen Genet 263: 22-29.
 Zhang, J. and T. Peterson. 2004. Transposition of Reversed Ac Element Ends Generates Chromosome
        Rearrangements in Maize. Genetics 167: 1929-1937.
 Zhang, J. and T. Peterson. 2005. A Segmental Deletion Series Generated by Sister Chromatid
     Transposition of Ac Transposable Elements in Maize. Genetics 2005: 171: 333-344.

 5 other significant publications
 Chopra, S., Cocciolone, S., Bushman, S., Sangar, V., McMullen, M., and Peterson, T. 2003. The maize
        Unstable Factor for Orange1 is a dominant epigenetic modifier of a tissue specifically silent allele
        of pericarp color1. Genetics 163: 1135 – 1146.
   Jiang, C., Gu, J., Gu, X., and, Chopra, S. and T. Peterson. 2004. Ordered origin of the typical two- and
          three-repeat Myb genes. Gene, 326: 13 – 22.
   Jiang, C., Gu, X. and T. Peterson 2004. Identification of conserved gene structures and carboxy-
          terminal motifs in the Myb gene family of Arabidopsis and Oryza sativa L. ssp. indica. Genome
          Biol. 5: R46.
   Cocciolone, S.M., Nettleton, D., Snook, M.E., and T. Peterson. 2005. Transformation of maize with the
          p1 transcription factor directs production of silk maysin, a corn earworm resistance factor, in
          concordance with a hierarchy of floral organ pigmentation. Plant Biotechnology Journal 3: 225-
          235.
Zhang, F. and T. Peterson. 2005. Comparisons of maize pericarp color 1 alleles reveal paralogous gene
       recombination and an organ-specific enhancer region. The Plant Cell 17: 903 – 914.

 d. Synergistic Activities:
 Chair of Organizing Committee for ISU Plant Sciences Institute Symposium “Transposition,
    Recombination and Application to Plant Genomics”; June 5 – 8 2003.



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Invited lecturer, “Biology of Plant Transposons”, Arabidopsis Molecular Genetics Course, Cold
    Spring Harbor Laboratory, July 2000.
USDA-Plant Genetic Mechanisms Proposal Review Panel 1998
Committee Chair “Directions of ISU Plant Sciences” http://www.ag.iastate.edu/plantsci/plant.html ,1997
DOE-Energy Biosciences Proposal Review Panel, 1989

e. Collaborators & Other Affiliations
(i) Collaborators:
Avramova, Zoya        Purdue University
Bowen, Ben            Lynx Therapeutics, Hayward CA
Brendel, Volker       Iowa State University
Britt, Anne           University of California-Davis
Bruce, Wesley         Pioneer Hi-Bred International, Inc.
Cande, Zacheus        University of California-Berkeley
Chandler, Vicki       University of Arizona
Dixon, Philip         Iowa State University
Harper, Lisa          University of California-Berkeley
Lee, Michael          Iowa State University
Ma, Hong              Pennsylvania State University
Maddock, Sheila       Pioneer Hi-Bred International, Inc.
McMullen, Mike        University of Missouri-Columbia
Nicholson, Ralph      Purdue University
Peterson, Peter       Iowa State University
Tagliani, Laura       Pioneer Hi-Bred International, Inc.
Wang, Kan             Iowa State University
Weber, David F.       Illinois State University
Weil, Cliff           Purdue University

(ii) Graduate and Postdoctoral Advisors
Reed, Steven I. (Graduate Advisor)           Scripps Institute, La Jolla, CA
Peacock, W. J. (Postdoctoral Advisor)        CSIRO-Plant Industry, Canberra, Australia

(iii) Thesis Advisor and Postgraduate-Scholar Sponsor
Graduate Students Advised (total 8)
Jiang, Cizhong           Ph.D., 2004
Kuang, Xianyan           current
Krishnaswamy, Ln         current
Li, Zhuying              current
Wang, Yibin              M.Sc., 2003
Zhang, Feng              Ph.D., 2005
Xiao, Yong-Li            Ph.D, 1999
Yu, Chuanhe              current
Zhang, Jianbo            Ph.D., 1999
Zhang, Peifen            Ph.D., 1999
Postgraduate-scholars sponsored (total 6)
Athma, Prasanna          Institute for Genetic Analysis, NY
Chopra, Surinder         Pennsylvania State University
Cocciolone, Suzy         BASF, Inc.
Grotewold, Erich         Ohio State University
Li, Xianggan             Novartis Biotechnology Research, NC
Sidorenko, Lyudmila      University of Arizona, Tucson


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