Matthew Jones-Rhoades

Assistant Professor of Biology

Contact 309-341-7477 mjrhoade@knox.edu

Years at Knox: 2008 to present

Education
Ph.D., 2005, Massachusetts Institute of Technology.
B.A., 1999, Grinnell College.

Teaching Interests
Gene regulation in plants and amoeba, genomics, regulatory RNAs.

Selected Professional Accomplishments

Honors/Grants
Helen Hay Whitney Postdoctoral Fellow, in Daphne Preuss' lab at the University of Chicago, 2006-2008.

Publications
"Prediction of Plant miRNA Genes." Methods in Molecular Biology 592 (2010):19-30.

"Mechanistic insights from a quantitative analysis of pollen tube guidance." Stewman, S.F., Jones-Rhoades, M.W., Bhimalapuram, P., Tchernookov, M., Preuss, D., & Dinner, A.R. (2010). In submission.

"Genome-Wide Expression Profiling of the Arabidopsis Female Gametophyte Identifies Families of Small, Secreted Proteins." Jones-Rhoades, M.W., Borevitz, J.O., & Preuss, D. PLoS Genetics 3 (2007): 1848-1861.

"MicroRNAs and their regulatory roles in plants." Jones-Rhoades, M.W., Bartel D.P. and Bartel, B. Annual Review of Plant Biology 57 (2006):19-53.

"The genome of black cottonwood, Populus trichocarpa (Torr. & Gray)." Tuskan, G.A., Jones-Rhoades, M.W., Roksar, D. Science 313 (2006): 1596-604.

"Regulatory mutations of mir-48, a C. elegans let-7 family microRNA, cause developmental timing defects." Li, M., Jones-Rhoades, M.W., Lau, N.C., Bartel, D.P., and Rougvie, A. Developmental Cell 9 (2005): 415-422.

"Computational identification of plant microRNAs and their targets, including a stress-induced miRNA." Jones-Rhoades, M.W., & Bartel D.P. Molecular Cell 6 (2004): 787-99.

"MicroRNA control of PHABULOSA in leaf development: importance of pairing to the microRNA 5' region." Mallory A.C., Reinhart B.J., Jones-Rhoades M.W., Tang G., Zamore P.D., Barton M.K., and Bartel D.P. EMBO Journal 16 (2004): 3356-64.

"Prediction of mammalian microRNA targets." Lewis, B.P., Shih, I.H., Jones-Rhoades, M.W., Bartel, D.P., and Burge, C.B. Cell 115 (2003): 787-798.

"The microRNAs of Caenorhabditis elegans." Lim, L.P., Lau, N.C., Weinstein, E.G., Abdelhakim, A., Yekta, S., Rhoades, M.W., Burge, C.B., and Bartel, D.P. Genes & Development 17 (2003): 991-1008.

"Prediction of plant microRNA targets." Rhoades, M.W., Reinhart, B.J., Lim, L.P., Burge, C.B., Bartel, B., and Bartel, D.P. Cell 110 (2002): 513-520.

"MicroRNAs in plants." Reinhart, B.J., Weinstein, E.G., Rhoades, M.W., Bartel, B., and Bartel, D.P. Genes & Development 16 (2002): 1616-1626.

Presentations
"Genome-Wide Expression Profiling of the Arabidopsis Female Gametophyte Identifies Families of Small, Secreted Proteins." With Borevitz, J.O., & Preuss, D., Poster, Plant Biology & Botany Joint Congress, Chicago, Illlinois, 2007.

"Genome-Wide Expression Profiling of the Arabidopsis Female Gametophyte Identifies Families of Small, Secreted Proteins." With Borevitz, J.O., & Preuss., Poster, 18th International Conference on Arabidopsis Research, Beijing, China, 2007.

"Genomics of miRNA-mediated regulation in plants and animals." With Lewis B.P., Burge, C.B., & Bartel D.P., CSIRO Emerging Science: Small RNAs, Canberra, Australia, 2005.

"Computational identification of plant microRNAs and their mRNA targets." With Bartel D.P., Poster, Keystone Symposium on siRNAs and miRNAs, Keystone, Colorado, 2004.

"MicroRNAs and plant development." With Reinhart, B.J., Lim, L.P., Burge, C.B., Barton, M.K., Bartel, B., & Bartel D.P., 14th International Conference on Arabidopsis Research, Madison, Wisconsin, 2003.