Plant Biology Graduate Program
PublicationsHandakumbura, P.P., Hazen, S.P. (2012) Transcriptional regulation of grass secondary cell wall biosynthesis: playing catch-up with Arabidopsis thaliana. Frontiers in Plant Science. 3: 74. Lee, S.J., Warnick, T.A., Leschine, S.B., Hazen, S.P. (2012) A high-throughput biological conversion assay for determining lignocellulosic quality. In J Normanly, ed, Methods in Molecular Biology: High Throughput Phenotyping in Plants. Springer. Lee, S.J., Warnick, T.A., Pattathil, S., Alvelo-Maurosa, J.G., Serapiglia, M.J., McCormick, H., Brown, V., Young, N.F., Schnell, D.J., Smart, L.B., Hahn, M.G., Pedersen, J.F., Leschine, S.B., Hazen, S.P. (2012) Biological conversion assay using Clostridium phytofermentans to estimate plant feedstock quality. Biotechnology for Biofuels 5: 5. Brkljacic, J., Grotewold, E., Scholl, R., Mockler, T., Garvin, D.F., Vain, P., Brutnell, T., Sibout, R., Bevan, M., Budak, H., Caicedo, A.L., Gao, C., Gu, Y., Hazen, S.P., Holt, III B.F., Hong, S.-Y., Jordan, M., Manzaneda, A.J., Mitchell-Olds, T., Mochida, K., Mur, L.A.J., Park, C.-M., Sedbrook, J., Watt, M., Zheng, S.J., Vogel, J.P. (2011) Brachypodium as a model for the grasses: Today and the future. Plant Physiology, 157: 3-13. The International Brachypodium Initiative (2010) Genome sequencing and analysis of the model grass Brachypodium distachyon. Nature, 463: 763-768. Hazen, S.P., Naef, F., Quisel, T., Gendron, J.M., Chen, H., Ecker, J.R., Borevitz, J.O., Kay, S.A. (2009) Exploring the transcriptional landscape of plant circadian rhythms using genome tiling arrays. Genome Biology, 10: R17. Michael, T.P., Breton, G., Hazen, S.P., Priest, H.D., Mockler, T.C., Kay, S.A., Chory, J.A. (2008) Morning-specific phytohormone gene expression program underlying rhythmic plant growth. PLoS Biology, 6(9): e225. Garvin, D.F., Gu, Y., Hasterok, R., Hazen, S.P., Jenkins, G., Mockler, T.P., Mur, L., Vogel, JP. (2008) Development of genetic and genomic resources for Brachypodium distachyon, a new model system for grass crop research. Plant Genome, 8: S-69-S-84. Michael, T.P., Mockler, T.C., Breton, G., McEntee, C., Byer, A., Trout, J.D., Hazen, S.P., Priest, H.D., Sullivan, C.M., Shen, R., Givan, S.A., Yanovsky, M., Hong, F., Kay, S.A., Chory, J.A. (2008) Network discovery pipeline elucidates conserved time of day specific cis-regulatory modules. PLoS Genetics, 4(2): e14. Borevitz, J.O., Hazen, S.P., Michael, T.P., Morris, G.P., Baxter, I., Hu, T.T., Chen, H., Werner, J, Salt D, Kay SA, Chory J, Weigel, D., Nordborg, M., Jones, J.D.G., Ecker, J.R. (2007) Genome wide patterns of single feature polymorphism diversity in Arabidopsis thaliana. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, USA, 29: 12057-12062. Singer, T.S., Fan, Y., Chang, H-S., Zhu, T., Hazen, S.P., Briggs, S.P. (2006) A high-resolution map of arabidopsis recombinant inbred lines by whole-genome array hybridization, PLoS Genetics, 2: e144. Rensink, W.A., Hazen, S.P. (2006) Statistical issues in microarray data analysis. In J Salinas, JJ Sanchez-Serrano, eds, Methods in Molecular Biology, vol. 323: Arabidopsis Protocols, Second Edition Humana Press Inc., Totowa, NJ. pp 359-366. Hazen, S.P., Schultz, T.F., Pruneda-Paz, J.L., Borevitz, J.O., Ecker JR, Kay SA (2005) LUX ARRHYTHMO encodes a Myb transcription factor essential for circadian rhythms. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, USA, 120: 10387-10392. Hazen, S.P., Borevitz, J.O., Harmon, F.G., Pruneda-Paz, J.L., Schultz, T.F., Yanovsky, M.J., Liljegren, S.J., Ecker, J.R., Kay, S.A. (2005) Rapid array mapping of circadian clock and developmental mutations in Arabidopsis. Plant Physiology, 138: 990-997. Baxter, I.R., Young, J.C., Armstrong, G., Foster, N., Bogenschutz, N., Cordova, T., Peer, W.A., Hazen, S.P., Murphy, A.S., Harper, J.F. (2005) A plasma membrane H+-ATPase is required for the formation of proanthocyanidins in the seed coat endothelium of Arabidopsis thaliana. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, USA, 102: 2649-2654. Hazen, S.P., Pathan, M.S., Sanchez, A.C., Baxter, I., Dunn, M., Estes, B., Chang, H-S., Zhu, T., Kreps, J.A., Nguyen, H.T. (2005) Expression profiling of rice segregating for drought tolerance QTLs using a rice genome array. Functional and Integrative Genomics, 5: 104-116. Hazen, S.P., Kay, S.A. (2003) Gene arrays aren’t just for measuring gene expression. Trends in Plant Science, 8: 413-416. Hazen, S.P., Wu, Y., Kreps, J.A. (2003) Gene expression profiling of plant response to abiotic stress. Functional and Integrative Genomics, 3: Hazen, S.P., Hawley, R.M., Davis, G.L., Henrissat, B., Walton, J.D. (2003) Quantitative trait loci and comparative genomics of cereal cell wall composition. Plant Physiology, 132: 263-271. Hazen, S.P., Scott-Craig, J.S., Walton, J.D. (2002) Cellulose synthase-like (CSL) genes of rice. Plant Physiology, 128: 336-340. Hazen, S.P., Leroy, P., Ward, R.W. (2002) AFLP in Triticum aestivum L.: patterns of genetic diversity and genome distribution. Euphytica, 125: 89-102. Hazen, S.P., Zhu, L., Kim, H.S., Tang, G., Ward, R.W. (2002) Genetic similarity of winter wheat in Shaanxi province, China and other common wheat germplasm pools. Genetic Resources and Crop Evolution, 49: 439-448. Hazen, S.P., Ng, P.K.W., Ward, R.W. (1997) Variation in grain functional quality for soft winter wheat. Crop Science, 37: 1086-1093. Hazen, S.P., Ward, R.W. (1997) Variation in soft winter wheat characteristics measured by the single kernel characterization system. Crop Science, 37: 1079-1086. |
NewsBudding scientist Rachel Dannay has received an ASPB Summer Undergraduate Research Fellowship and graduate student Pubudu Handakumbura a travel grant to attend the Plant Biology 2013 Annual Meeting. The Hazen Lab is set to move into the Life Science Laboratories in May 2013. Check out some of our new space. The Hazen Lab is set to move into the Life Science Laboratories in May 2013. Check out some of our new space. The 2012 Best Talk Award at the Life Sciences Graduate Student Symposium goes to Pubudu Handakumbura, who presented a talk titled, "BdMYB48 directly controls the accumulation of biomass in the model grass Brachypodium distachyon." Pubudu Handakumbura has received the 2012-2013 Gilgut Fellowship. See our review of grass wall regulation in Frontiers. Undergraduate Brachypodium researcher Mike Veling wins prestigious Goldwater Scholarship Award. Undergrads Mike Veling and Scotty Barish present at the Northeast Undergraduate Research and Development Symposium. |