Education

Ph.D. Plant Patholog, University of Wisconsin-Madison, 1991

Areas of Research

Genome Evolution, Centromeres, Bioinformatics, Genomics

Teaching

BIOL 406 Cellular Biology (3 credits)
Cell structure and function. Structure, chemistry and functions of organelles and macromolecules. Pre: BIOL 275, CHEM 273; or consent.

MBBE 610 Molecular Biology and Biotechnolgy Seminar (1 Credit)
Study and discussion of significant topics and problems in plant physiology, biochemistry, molecular biology and biotechnology.

Recent Publications

Sharma A, Presting G. 2008. Centromeric retrotransposon lineages predate the maize/rice divergence and differ in abundance and activity. Mol Gen Genomics, 279:133–147.

Ming R, Hou S, Feng Y, Yu Q, Dionne-Laporte A, Saw JH, Senin P, Wang W, Ly BV, Lewis KLT, Salzberg SL, Feng L, Jones MR, Skelton RL, Murray JE, Chen C, Qian W, Shen J, Du P, Eustice M, Tong E, Tang H, Lyons E, Paull RE, Michael TP, Wall K, Rice D, Albert H, Wang M, Zhu YJ, Schatz M, Nagarajan N, Agbayani R, Guan P, Blas A, Wai CM, Ackerman CM, Ren Y, Liu C, Wang J, Wang J, Na J, Shakirov EV, Haas B, Thimmapuram J, Nelson D, Wang X, Bowers JE, Gschwend AR, Delcher AL, Singh R, Suzuki JY, Tripathi S, Neupane K, Wei H, Irikura B, Paidi M, Jiang N, Zhang W, Presting G, Windsor A, Pérez RN, Torres MJ, Feltus FA, Porter B, Li Y, Burroughs AM, Luo M, Liu L, Christopher DA, Mount SM, Moore PH, Sugimura T, Jiang J, Schuler MA, Friedman V, Mitchell-Olds T, Shippen D, dePamphilis CW, Palmer JD, Freeling M, Paterson AH, Gonsalves D, Wang L, Alam M. 2008. Genome of the transgenic tropical fruit tree papaya (Carica papaya L.). Nature, 452:991-996.

Sherwood A, Chan YL and Presting G. 2007. Application of universally amplifying plastid primers to environmental sampling of a stream periphyton community. Mol Ecol Notes, accepted.

Umylny B, Presting G and Ward WS. 2007. Evidence of Alu expression in dbEST. Archives of Andrology, 53:207-18.

Eustice M, Yu Q, Lai CWJ, Moore PH, Presting G and Ming R. 2007. Development and use of microsatellite markers for genetic analysis in papaya. Tree Genetics and Genomes, DOI 10.1007/s11295-007-0112-2.

Sherwood AR, Vis ML, Entwisle TJ, Necchi O and Presting G. 2007. Contrasting intra- versus inter-specific sequence variation for representatives of the Batrachospermales (Rhodophyta): a comparison of two markers. submitted.

Umylny B, Presting G, Efird J and Ward WS. 2007. Near full-length Alu and B1 repeat sequences within protein coding regions and other expressed transcripts. Journal of Cellular Biochemistry, DOI: 10.1002/jcb.21278.

Sherwood AR, Presting G. 2007. Universal primers amplify a potential DNA barcode region for eukaryotic algae. Journal of
Phycology, 43:605-608.

Presting G. 2006. Identification of conserved regions in the plastid genome – implications for DNA barcoding and biological
function. Canadian Journal of Botany, 84:1434-1443.

Luce A, Sharma A, Mollere O, Wolfgruber TK, Nagaki K, Jiang J, Presting G, Dawe RK. 2006. Precise centromere mapping using a combination of repeat junction markers and chromatin immunoprecipitation-PCR. Genetics 174:1057-61.

Jenkins DM, Chami B, Kreuzer M, Presting G, Alvarez A, Liaw BY. 2006. Hybridization probe for femtomolar quantification of selected nucleic acid sequences on a disposable electrode. Anal Chem. 78:2314-8.

Lai CW, Yu Q, Hou S, Skelton RL, Jones MR, Kanako LTJ, Murray J, Eustice M, Agbayani R, Guan P, Moore P, Ming R, Presting G. 2006. Analysis of papaya BAC end sequences reveals first insights into the organization of a fruit tree genome. Mol. Gen. Genomics 276:1-12.

Gabriel DW, Allen C, Schell M, Denny T, Greenberg JT, Duan YP, Flores-Cruz Z, Huang Q, Clifford JM, Presting G, González ET, Reddy J, Elphinstone J, Swanson J, Yao J, Mulholand V, Liu L, Farmerie W, Patnaikuni M, Balogh B, Norman D, Alvarez A, Castillo JA, Jones J, Saddler G, Walunas T, Zhukov A, Mikhailova N. 2005.  Identification of open reading frames unique to a select agent:  Ralstonia solanacearum race 3 biovar 2.  Mol Plant Microbe 19(1):69-79. [Supplemental Data]

Lange BM, Presting G.  2004. Genomic survey of metabolic pathways in rice, In Recent Advances in Phytochemistry, Romeo, T., ed., Elsevier Science, Amsterdam, pp. 111-137.

Presting G.  2003.  Mapping multiple co-sequenced T-DNA integration sites within the Arabidopsis genome.  BioInformatics 19(5):579-586.

Sessions A, Burke E, Presting G, Aux G, McElver J, Patton D, Dietrich B, Ho P, Bacwaden J, Ko C, Clarke JD, Cotton D, Bullis D, Snell J, Miguel T, Hutchison D, Kimmerly B, Mitzel T, Katagiri F, Glazebrook J, Law M, Goff SA.  2002.  A high-throughput Arabidopsis reverse genetics system.  Plant Cell 14(12):2985-94.

Goff SA, Ricke D, Lan T, Presting G, Wang R, Dunn M, Glazebrook J, Sessions A, Oeller P, Varma H, et al.  2002.  A Draft Sequence of the Rice Genome (Oryza sativa L. ssp. japonica).  Science 296: 92-100.

Chen Ma, Presting Ga, Barbazuk WBa, Goicoechea JL, Blackmon B, Fang G, Kim H, Frisch D, Yu Y, Sun S et al.  2002.  An integrated physical and genetic map of the rice genome.  Plant Cell 14:1-10.  acontributed equally to this work

Wechter WP, Begum D, Presting G, Kim JJ, Wing RA, Kluepfel DA.  2002.  Physical mapping, BAC-end sequence analysis, and marker tagging of the soilborne nematicidal bacterium, Pseudomonas synxantha  BG33R.  OMICS – A Journal of Integrative Biology 6:11-21.

Presting G, Budiman MA, Wood T, Yu Y, Kim HR, Goicoechea JL, Fang E, Blackman B, Jiang J, Woo SS, Dean RA, Frisch D, Wing RA.  A framework for sequencing the rice genome. Novartis Found Symp. 2001;236:13-24; discussion 24-7.

Hudakova S, Michalek W, Presting G, ten Hoopen R, dos Santos K, Jasencakova Z, Schubert I.  2001.  Sequence organization of barley centromeres.  Nucleic Acids Research 29:5029-5035.

Cheng Z, Presting G, Buell CR, Wing RA, Jiang J.  2001.  High-resolution pachytene chromosome mapping of bacterial artificial chromosomes anchored by genetic markers reveals the centromere location and the distribution of genetic recombination along chromosome 10 of rice.  Genetics 157:1749-57.

Draye X, Lin YR, Qian XY, Bowers JE, Burow GB, Morrell PL, Peterson DG, Presting G, Ren SX, Wing RA and Paterson AH.  2001.  Toward integration of comparative genetic, physical, diversity, and cytomolecular maps for grasses and grains, using the sorghum genome as a foundation.  Plant Physiol. 125:1325-41.

Mao L, Wood T, Yu Y, Budiman MA, Woo S, Sasinowski M, Presting G, Frisch D, Goff S, Dean R and Wing R.  2000.  Rice transposable elements: a survey of 73,000 sequence-tagged connectors.  Genome Res. 7:982-90.

Houben A, Wako T, Furushima-Shimogawara R, Presting G, Kunzel G, Schubert I and Fukui K.  1999.  The cell cycle dependent phosphorylation of histone H3 is correlated with the condensation of plant mitotic chromosomes.  Plant Journal 18:675-679.

Presting G, Malysheva L, Fuchs J and Schubert I.  1998.  A Ty3/GYPSY retrotransposon-like sequence localizes to the centromeric region of cereal chromosomes.  Plant Journal 16:721-728.

Presting G, Frary A, Pillen KP and Tanksley SD.  1996.  Telomere-homologous sequences occur near the centromeres of many tomato chromosomes.  Mol. Gen. Genet. 251:526-531.

Frary A, Presting G and Tanksley SD.  1995.  Molecular mapping of the centromeres of tomato chromosomes 7 and 9.  Mol. Gen. Genet. 250:295-304.

Ori N, Eshed Y, Paran I, Presting G, Aviv D, Tanksley SD, Zamir D and Fluhr R.  1997.  The I2C family from the wilt disease resistance locus I2 belongs to the nucleotide binding, leucine-rich repeat family of plant resistance genes.  Plant Cell 9:521-532.

Presting G, Smith OPS and Brown CR.  1995.  Resistance to potato leafroll virus in potato plants transformed with the coat protein gene or with vector control constructs.  Phytopathology 85:436-442.

Presting G and Helgeson JPH.  1994.  Media and protocols for the isolation of independent mutants and transformants from Nicotiana plumbaginifolia protoplasts.  Plant Science 99:211-221.