Thomas P. Brutnell
教育经历：
1989 年获 University of Connecticut 生
物学专业硕士学位；
1995 年获 Yale University 生物学专业
博士学位。
科研工作经历：
1995-1999，先后在 Yale University、
University of Oxford 做博士后研究；
1999-2005，在 Boyce Thompson Institute 任 Assistant Scientist
2006-2012，在 Boyce Thompson Institute 任 Associate Scientist
2000-2012，在 Cornell University 任 Adjunct Professor
研究方向为 C4
Photosynthesis Transposon
Tagging Transcriptomics
2012-至今，在 Donald Danforth Plant Science Center 任首席研究员，并担任 Enterprise
Institute 主任一职；研究方向为 C4 photosynthetic development Transcriptomics。
在 C4 光合发育及玉米遗传学方面均有建树，历任美国玉米遗传学会主席，美国玉米大会会
议主席，孟山都公司顾问，美国自然科学基金专家组成员等职务，并任 BMC Plant Biology，
Genetic 等杂志的主编。
Chair, Maize Genetics Executive Committee, 2010-present
iPlant Steering Committee (Geno2Pheno), 2009-present
Advisory Panel Member, NSF Plant Genome (PI-Grotewold), 2008-present
Member, Maize Genetics Executive Committee, 2007-present
Consultant, Monsanto Company, 2005-present
Advisory Panel Member, NSF Plant Genome (PI-Hake), 2001-present
Chair, ASPB Plenary Session: Harvesting Biodiversity, 2011
Section Editor, BMC Plant Biology, 2011
Associate Editor, Genetics, 2006-2010
Co-chair, ASPB Workshop on C4 Photosynthesis, 2009
Co-organizer, CSHL Plant Molecular Biology Course, 2007-2009
Chair, Maize Genetics Conference Steering Committee, 2008
Member, Maize Genetics Conference Steering Committee, 2005-2008
Site Panel Member, NSF Plant Genome, 2007
Panel Member, USDA-NRI, 2005-2007
Ad Hoc Reviewer for NSF, DOE and USDA
Ad Hoc Reviewer for Genetics, Molecular Genetics and Genomics, Nature Genetics,
Nature Reviews Genetics, Plant Cell, Plant Journal, PLoS Biology, PLoS Genetics,
Proceedings of the National Academy of Science of the United States of America,
Plant Physiology, Plant Molecular Biology
科研成果：
（近 5 年共发表 34 篇文章，以下是部分截选）
1. Bennetzen JL, Schmutz J, Wang H, Percifield R, Hawkins J, Pontaroli AC, Estep
M, Feng L, Vaughn JN, Grimwood J, Jenkins J, Barry K, Lindquist E, Hellsten U,
Deshpande S, Wang X, Wu X, Mitros T, Triplett J, Yang X, Ye CY,
Mauro-Herrera M, Wang L, Li P, Sharma M, Sharma R, Ronald PC, Panaud O,
Kellogg EA, Brutnell TP, Doust AN, Tuskan GA, Rokhsar D, Devos KM.
Reference genome sequence of the model plant Setaria. Nat Biotechnol. 2012
13;30(6):555-61
2. Weissmann, S. and Brutnell, T.P. (2012) Engineering C4 photosynthetic
regulatory networks. Curr Opin Biotech. 23(3):298-304.
3. Whipple, C.J., Kebrom, T.H., Weber, A.L., Yang, F., Hall, D., Meeley, R., Schmidt,
R., Doebley, J., Brutnell, T.P. and Jackson D.P. (2011) grassy tillers1 promotes
apical dominance in maize and responds to shade signals in the grasses. Proc
Natl Acad Sci USA 108(33):E506-12.
4. Wang, L., Si, Y., Dedow, L. K., Shao, Y., Liu, P., and Brutnell, T.P. (2011) A
low-cost library construction protocol and data analysis pipeline for
Illumina-based strand-specific multiplex RNA-seq. PLoS One 6(10):e26426.
5. Wang, L., Peterson, R. and Brutnell, T.P. (2011) Regulatory mechanisms
underlying C4 photosynthesis. New Phytol. doi:
10.1111/j.1469-8137.2011.03649.x.
6. Li, P., Ponnala, L., Gandotra, N., Wang, L., Si, Y., Tausta, S.L., Kebrom, T.,
Provart, N., Patel, R., Myers, C.R., Reidel, E., Turgeon, R., Liu, P., Sun, Q.,
Nelson, T., and Brutnell, T.P. (2010) The developmental dynamics of the maize
leaf transcriptome. Nat. Genet. 42:1060-1067.
7. Brutnell, T.P., Wang, L., Swartwood, K., Goldschmidt, A., Jackson, D., Zhu,
X.G., Kellogg, E., and Van Eck, J. (2010) Setaria viridis: a model for C4
photosynthesis. Plant Cell 22:2537-2544.
8. Vollbrecht, E., Duvick, J,, Schares, J., Ahern, K.R., Deewatthanawong, P., Xu, L.,
Conrad, L., Kikuchi, K., Kubinec, T., Hall, B.D., Weeks, R., Unger-Wallace, E.,
Muszynskim
M., Brendel, V.P., and
Brutnell, T.P.
(2010) Genome-wide
distribution of transposed Dissociation elements in maize. Plant Cell
22:1667-1685.
9. International Brachypodium Initiative (2010) Genome sequencing and analysis of
the model grass Brachypodium distachyon. Nature 463:763-768.
10. Schnable, P.S., Ware, D., Fulton, R.S., Stein, J.C., Wei, F., Pasternak, S., et al.
(2009) The B73 maize genome: complexity, diversity, and dynamics. Science
326:1112-1115.
11. Zelitch, I., Schultes, N.P., Peterson, R.B., Brown, P., and Brutnell, T.P. (2009)
High glycolate oxidase activity is required for survival of maize in normal air.
Plant Physiol. 149:195-204. 2009. doi: 10.1104/pp.108.128439.