Jan Dvorak
Professor
jdvorak@ucdavis.edu

Plant Science

Office
263 Hunt Hall
752-6549



 
Degrees:
1972 PhD University of Saskatchewan
Awards:
Distinguished Graduate in Agriculture Award, University of Saskatchewan
Fellow, the American Association for the Advancement of Science
Department and Center Affiliations:
UC Davis/USDA Wheat Genomics Center
Professional Societies:
American Association for the Advancement of Science
CBS Graduate Group Affiliations:
Genetics  
Publications:
  • Luo, M.C., C. Thomas, F. M. You, J. Hsiao, S. Ouyang, C. R. Buell, M. Malandro, P. E. McGuire, O. D. Anderson, and J. Dvorak. (2003) High-throughput fingerprinting of bacterial artificial chromosomes using the SNaPshotTM labeling kit and sizing of restriction fragments by capillary electrophoresis. Genomics 82:378-389.
  • Akhunov, E. D., J.A. Goodyear, S. Geng, L.L. Qi, B. Echalier, B.S. Gill, B. S. Miftahudin, J.P. Gustafson, G. Lazo, S. Chao, O.D. Anderson, A.M. Linkiewicz, J. Dubcovsky, M. La Rota, M. E. Sorrells, D. Zhang, D. H.T. Nguyen, V. Kalavacharla, K. Hossain, S.F. Kianian, J. Peng, N. L.V. Lapitan, J.L.Gonzalez-Hernandez, J. A. Anderson, D.W. Choi, T.J. Close, M. Dilbirligi, K.S. Gill, M.K. Walker-Simmons, C. Steber, P.E. McGuire, C.O. Qualset, and J. Dvorak. (2003) The organization and rate of evolution of the wheat genomes are correlated with recombination rates along chromosome arms. Genome Research 13:1-11
  • E. D. Akhunov, A. R. Akhunov, A. M. Linkiewicz, J. Dubcovsky, D. Hummel, G. Lazo, S. Chao, O. D. Anderson, J. David , L-L. Qi, B. Echalier, B. S. Gill, Miftahudin, J. P. Gustafson, M. La Rota, M. E. Sorrells, D. Zhang, H. T. Nguyen, V. Kalavacharla, K. Hossain, S. F. Kianian, J. Peng, N. L.V. Lapitan, E. J. Wennerlind, V. Nduati, J. A. Anderson, D. Sidhu, K. S. Gill, P. E. McGuire, C. O. Qualset, and J. Dvorak. (2003) Synteny perturbations between wheat homoeologous chromosomes caused by locus duplications and deletions correlate with recombination rates. Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. USA. 100: 10836-10841.
  • Dvorak J., Akhunov E.D. (2005) Tempos of deletions and duplications of gene loci in relation to recombination rate during diploid and polyploid evolution in the Aegilops-Triticum alliance. Genetics 171: 323-332
  • Dubcovsky J. and Dvorak J. (2007) Genome plasticity a key factor in the success of polyploid wheat under domestication. Science 316:1862-1866.
  • Akhunov E.D., Akhunova, A.R. and Dvorak J. (2007) Mechanisms and rates of birth and death of dispersed duplicated genes during the evolution of a multigene family in diploid einkorn wheat. Mol. Biol Evol. 24:539-550.
  • Luo M.C., Young, Z.L., Kawahara, T., You, F., Dvorak, J. (2007) The structure of wild and domesticated emmer wheat populations, gene flow between them, and the site of emmer domestication, Theor. Appl. Genet. 114:947-959
Laboratory Personnel:
262 Hunt hall

Ming-Cheng Luo, Yaqin Ma, Karin R. Deal, Kenong Xu, Frank You

Teaching Interests:
Undergraduate Genetics
Courses:
MCB 101 Genes and Gene Expression