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Joshua A Udall

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Joshua A Udall
Plant & Wildlife Sciences
Email: jaudall@byu.edu

295 WIDB
Provo, UT 84602
(801) 422-9307

Assistant Professor

Genetics @ BYU

 Education
  • Ph. D. , Plant Genetics and Plant Breeding , University of Wisconsin , 2003
  • MS , Plant Science , University of Idaho , 1997
  • BS , Plant Biotechnology , Brigham Young University , 1995
 Research

Assessment of genome duplication on gene expression in cotton. Genome responses to abiotic stress in both cotton and quinoa.

 Selected Publications

Articles

Ran Hovav, Joshua A. Udall, Bhupendra Chaudhary, Einat Hovav, Lex Flagel, Guanjing Hu, Jonathan F. Wendel.  "The evolution of spinable cotton fiber entailed natural selection for prolonged development and a novel metabolism."  PLOS Genetics.  Jan. 2008.  <website>

Ran Hovav, Joshua A. Udall, Bhupendra Chaudhary, Ryan Rapp, Lex Flagel, Jonathan F. Wendel.  "Paritioned expression of duplicated genes during development and evolution of a single cell in a polyploid plant."  PNAS.  Accepted (2008). 

Lex Flagel, Joshua Udall, Dan Nettleton, and Jonathan Wendel.  "Duplicate gene expression in allopolyploid Gossypium reveals two temporally distinct phases of expression evolution."  BMC Biology.  6 (2008): 16.  <website>

Bhupendra Chaudhary, Ran Hovav, Ryan Rapp, Neetu Verma, Joshua A. Udall, and Jonathan F. Wendel.  "Global analysis of gene expression in cotton fibers from wild and domesticated Gossypium barbadense."  Evolution and Development.  10.5 (2008): 567-582.  <website>

Udall, Joshua A. ,, Lex E. Flagel, Foo Cheung, Andrew W. Woodward, Ran Hovav, Ryan A. Rapp, Jordan M. Swanson, Jinsuk J. Lee, Alan R. Gingle, Dan Nettleton, Christopher D. Town, Z. Jeffrey Chen, Jonathan F. Wendel.  "Spotted cotton oligonucleotide microarrays for gene expression analysis."  BMC Genomics.  8 (2007): 81.  <website>

I.J. Maureira Butler, J.A. Udall, and T.C. Osborn.  "Analyses of a multi-parent population derived from two diverse alfalfa germplasms: Testcross evaluations and phenotype-DNA associations."  Theoretical and Applied Genetics.  Online First (2007).  <website>

Ran Hovav , Joshua A. Udall, Einat Hovav, Ryan Rapp, Lex Flagel and Jonathan F. Wendel.  "A majority of cotton genes are expressed in single-celled fiber."  Planta.  227.2 (2007): 319-329.  <website>

Udall, Joshua A. and Jonathan F. Wendel.  "Polyploidy and Crop Improvement."  The Plant Genome.  1.1 (2006): 1-12.  <website>

Udall, Joshua A., Swanson, Jordan M., Nettleton, Dan, Percifield, Ryan J., Wendel, Jonathan F.  "A novel approach for characterizing expression levels of genes duplicated by polyploidy."  Genetics.  173.3 (2006): 1823-1827. 

Udall, Joshua A., Swanson, Jordan M., Haller, Karl, Rapp, Ryan A., Sparks, Michael E., Hatfield, Jamie, Yu, Yeisoo, Wu, Yingru, Dowd, Caitriona, Arpat, Aladdin B., Sickler, Brad A., Wilkins, Thea A., Guo, Jin Ying, Chen, Xiao Ya, Scheffler, Jodi, Talierci.  "A global assembly of cotton ESTs."  Genome Research.  16.3 (2006): 441-450.  <website>

 Experience

Teaching

  • Assistant Professor , Brigham Young University , 2006-Present

Professional

  • Research Associate , Iowa State University , 2003-2006

 Awards
  • Graduate Mentoring in Research , ORCA , 2008
 Courses Taught
MMBIO 399R : Academic Internship
BIO 265 : Genomics
PWS 265 : Genomics
PWS 488 : Readings in Biotechnology
MMBIO 265 : Genomics
PWS 494R : Mentored Learning Experience
PWS 310 : Mentored Lab Techniques
PWS 699R : Master's Thesis
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