Dr. Steve Rounsley
Associate Professor
BIO5 Institute & School of Plant Sciences

Keating Bioresearch Building
1657 E. Helen St
Tucson, AZ 85719
Phone: (520) 626-1895
Email: rounsley@email.arizona.edu



 

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Background and Interests
 

Steve Rounsley received his Ph.D. in Biology from the University of California, San Diego in 1995. He also has a Bachelors in Biological Sciences from the University of East Anglia in the United Kingdom. Prior to joining UA in 2006, he held research positions at several biotech companies and genome centers including The Institute for Genomic Research (TIGR), Monsanto, and The Broad Institute of MIT and Harvard. His research interests include the study of genome structure and organization, and how genomes have evolved over relatively short periods of time, through the study of closely related organisms. Although crop plant genomes, including rice, maize and cassava, are his major focus, he also works on the genomes of several non-plants including the causative agents for Valley Fever - Coccicioides immitis and Coccidioides posadasii which are of particular importance to Arizonans.

 
Publications
 

Sharpton TJ, Stajich JE, Rounsley SD, Gardner MJ, Wortman JR, Jordar VS, Maiti R, Kodira CD, Neafsey DE, Zeng Q, Hung CY, McMahan C, Muszewska A, Grynberg M, Mandel MA, Kellner EM, Barker BM, Galgiani. Aug 2009. Comparative genomic analyses of the human fungal pathogens Coccidioides and their relatives. Genome Res,2009 Aug 28;

Coleman JJ, Rounsley SD, Rodriguez-Carres M, Kuo A, Wasmann CC, Grimwood J, Schmutz J, Taga M, White GJ, Zhou S, Schwartz DC, Freitag M, Ma LJ, Danchin EG, Henrissat B, Coutinho PM, Nelson DR, Straney. Aug 2009. The genome of Nectria haematococca: contribution of supernumerary chromosomes to gene expansion. PLoS Genet, 5:e1000618

Rounsley, S, Marri, PR, Yu, Y, He, R, Sisneros, N, Goicoechea, JL, Lee, SJ, Angelova, A, Kudrna, D, Luo, M, Affourtit, J, Desany, B, Knight, J, Niazi, F, Egholm, F and Wing, RA. Mar 2009. de novo Next Generation Sequencing of Plant Genomes. Rice, 2(1):35-43

Fan, C. Zhang, Y. Yu, Y., Rounsley, S. Long, M. and Wing, R.A.. Sep 2008. The Subtelomere of Oryza sativa Chromosome 3 Short Arm as a Hot Bed of New Gene Origination in Rice. Molecular Plant, 1:839-850

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. Oct 2006. Uneven chromosome contraction and expansion in the maize genome. Genome Res, 16:1241-51

Jackson S Rounsley S Purugganan M. May 2006. Comparative sequencing of plant genomes: choices to make. Plant Cell, 18:1100-4

Zody MC Garber M Sharpe T Young SK Rowen L O'Neill K Whittaker CA Kamal M Chang JL Cuomo CA Dewar K FitzGerald MG Kodira CD Madan A Qin S Yang X Abbasi N Abouelleil A Arachchi HM Baradarani L Birditt. Mar 2006. Analysis of the DNA sequence and duplication history of human chromosome 15. Nature, 440:671-5

Haberer G Young S Bharti AK Gundlach H Raymond C Fuks G Butler E Wing RA Rounsley S Birren B Nusbaum C Mayer KF Messing J. Dec 2005. Structure and architecture of the maize genome. Plant Physiol, 139:1612-24

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