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Jeff Maughan
Plant & Wildlife Sciences
Email: Jeff_Maughan@byu.edu

285 WIDB
Provo, UT 84602
(801) 422-8698

Associate Professor

Dr. Maughan graduated from BYU in 1991 earning a B.S. and an M.S. degree Agronomy. He received a Ph.D. in Molecular Genetics from Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University (Va Tech) in 1994. After receiving his doctorate, worked for two years as a postdoctoral scientist at the University of Illinois developing improved methods for genetically modifying soybean before accepting a position at Monsanto Company in 1997 where he managed a high-throughput genotyping facility in Ankeny, Iowa. In 2002 he accepted an appointment to the BYU faculty. Dr. Maughan grew up in the military, graduating from Seoul America High School. He served a full-time mission for The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints in San Diego, Ca. He is married to Dawn Shanklin (Baltimore, MD) and they have four children.

Genetics and Biotechnology Club
Plant Genetic Resources Lab
Plant Genetics - BYU

Education

PhD , Molecular Genetics , Virginia Polytechnic Institute , 1994
MS , Agronomy , Brigham Young University , 1991
BS , Agronomy , Brigham Young University , 1990

Research

As an Associate Professor in the Department of Plant and Animal Sciences at Brigham Young University I work with a team of five Plant Geneticists working to develop solutions to world food problems using cutting edge technologies in plant genomics and biotechnology. My laboratory is focused on development of molecular genetic techniques that aid conventional breeding of under-developed crops in third world countries. My laboratory has on-going projects developing and using genetic markers (SNPs, SSRs, and AFLPs) for marker assisted selection and Agrobacterium-mediated plant transformation for gene expression analysis.

Selected Publications

Articles

Maughan PJ*, Sisneros N, Luo M, Kudrna D, Ammiraju JSS, Wing RA. "Construction of an amaranth (Amaranthus hypochondriacus) bacterial artificial chromosome library and genomic sequencing of herbicide target genes." The Plant Genome. 48:S-85-94 (2008): 85-94.

Jarvis DE, Kopp OR , Jellen EN, Mallory MA, Pattee J, Bonifacio A, Coleman CE, Stevens MR, Fairbanks DJ, Maughan PJ. "Simple Sequence Repeat Development, Polymorphism and Genetic Mapping in Quinoa (Chenopodium quinoa Willd.)." J. Genetics. 87 (2008): 39-51.

Mallory MA, Pratt DB, Vivas R, Jellen EN, Maughan PJ. "Development and Characterization of Microsatellite Markers for the Grain Amaranths (Amaranthus spp. L.)." Crop Science. Mar. 2008.

Balzotti MRB, Thornton JN, Maughan PJ, McClellan DA, Stevens MR, Jellen EN, Fairbanks DJ, Coleman CE. "Expression and evolutionary relationships of the Chenopodium quinoa 11S seed storage protein gene." Int. J. Plant Sci. 169.2 (2008): 281291.

Fuentes FF, Martinez EA, Hinrichsen PV, Jellen EN, Maughan PJ. "Assessment of genetic diversity patterns in Chilean quinoa (Chenopodium quinoa Willd.) germplasm using multiplex fluorescent microsatellite markers." Conservation Genetics. DOI 10.1007/s10592-008-9604-3 (2008). <website>

Christensen, SA, Pratt DB, C. Pratt, P.T. Nelson, Stevens MR, Coleman CE, Fairbanks DJ, Jellen EN, Bonifacio A, Maughan PJ. "Assessment of genetic diversity in the USDA collections of quinoa (Chenopodium quinoa Willd.) using microsatellite markers." Plant Genetic Resources. 5 (2007): 82-95. <website>

Fairbanks DJ, Maughan PJ. "Evolution of the NANOG pseudogene family in the human and chimpanzee genomes." BMC Evolutionary Biology. 6.12 (2006): 1-9.

Stevens MR, Coleman CE, Parkinson SE, Maughan PJ, Zhang H-B, Balzotti MR, Kooyman DL, Arumuganathan K, Bonifacio A, Fairbanks DJ, Jellen EN, Stevens JJ. "Construction of a quinoa (Chenopodium quinoa Willd.) BAC library and its use in identifying genes encoding seed storage proteins." Theor Appl Genetics. Jan. 2006: 1593-1600.

Maughan PJ, Kolano BA, Maluszynska J, Coles ND, Bonifacio A, Rojas J, Coleman CE, Stevens MR, Fairbanks DJ, Parkinson SE, Jellen EN. "Molecular and Cytological Characterization of Ribosomal DNAs in Chenopodium quinoa and Chenopodium berlandieri." Genome. 49 (2006): 825-839.

Mason SL, Stevens MR, Jellen EN, Bonifacio A, Fairbanks DJ, McCarty RR, Rasmussen AG, MAUGHAN PJ. "Development and Use of Microsatellite Markers for Germplasm Characterization in Quinoa (Chenopodium quinoa Willd.)." Crop Science. 45.(4) (2005): 1203-1684.

Coles ND, Coleman CE, Christensen SA, Jellen EN, Stevens MR, Bonifacio A, Rojas-Beltran JA, Fairbanks DJ, Maughan PJ. "Development and Use of an Expressed Sequenced Tag Library in Quinoa (Chenopodium quinoa Willd.) for the Discovery of Single Nucleotide Polymorphisms." Plant Science. 168.(2) (2004): 439-447.

MAUGHAN PJ, Bonifacio A, Jellen EN, Stevens MR, Coleman CE, Ricks M, Mason SL, Jarvis DE, Gardunia BW, Fairbanks DJ. "A Genetic Linkage Map of Quinoa (Chenopodium quinoa) based on AFLP, RAPD and SSR markers." Theor Appl Genetics. 109 (2004): 1188-1195.

Jeong SC, Kristipati S, Hayes AJ, MAUGHAN PJ, Noffisinger SL, Grunduz I, Buss GR, Saghai Maroof MA. "Geneic and sequence analysis of markers tightly linked to the soybean mosaic virus resistance gene, Rsv3." Crop Science. 42 (2002): 265-270.

Coello P., Maughan P.J., Mendoza A., Philip, R., Bollinger, D., Veum T.L., Vodkin, L.O., Polacco, J.C. "Generation of low phytic acid Arabidopsis seeds expressing an E. coli phytase during embryo development." Seed Science Research. 11 (2001): 285-291.

Philip, R, Darnowski, D, Maughan, PJ, Vodkin, LO. "Processing and localization of bovine B-casein expressed in transgenic soybean seeds under control of a soybean lectin expression cassette." Plant Science. 161 (2001): 323-335.

Maughan, PJ, Saghai Maroof, MA, Buss, GR. "Identification of quantitative trait loci (QTL) affecting seed sucrose content in Soybean (Glycine max)." Molecular Breeding. 6 (2000): 105-111.

Maughan, PJ, Philip, R, Cho, M-J., Widholm, JM, Vodkin, LO. "Biolistic Transformation, Expression and inheritance of bovine ß-Casein in soybean (Glycine max)." Vitro Cell. Dev. Biol. 35 (1999): 344-349.

Books

Hittalmani S, Girish TN, Biradar H, Maughan PJ. "Development of mapping populations: Descriptions and implications." Principles and Practices of Plant Molecular Mapping and Breeding. Ed. C Kole. 1st ed. Berlin Heidelberg: Springer Verlag,, July 2008. Vol. 169.

Maughan PJ, Bonifacio A, Jellen EN, Coleman CE, Stevens MR, Fairbanks DJ. "Quinoa genomics. In: Genome Mapping and Molecular Breeding. Volume III. Pulse, Sugar and Starch Crops Ed C Kole." Genome Mapping and Molecular Breeding in Plants. Ed. C Kole. Heidelberg: Springer-Verlag, 2006. Vol. Volume 3: Pulses, Sugar and Tuber Crops.

Experience

General

Associate Professor , Brigham Young University , 2002-Present
Director, Genotyping Laboratory , Monsanto Company , 2001-2002
Project Lead, Technology Devl , Monsanto Company , 1998-2001
Post Doctoral Research Associate , University of Illinois , 1996-1997
Post Doctoral Research Associate , Virginia Polytechnic Institute , 1995-1996

Professional

Visiting Scientist , Arizona Genomics Institute , 2006-2006

Awards

John A. Widtsoe Fellowship , Brigham Young University , 2008
Awarded Continuing Status , Brigham Young University , 2008
Awarded Candidacy for Continuing Faculty Status (3rd year review) , Brigham Young University , 2005
Over and Beyond Award , Monsanto , 2001

Courses Taught

Biology 340 – Transmission Genetics

PAS/InBio 265 – Introductions to Genomics

PAS 485 – Plant Breeding and Biotechnology

PAS 580 – Plant Transformation

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