Ph.D. Plant Molecular Biology and Genetics; University of Missouri, 1999
A.B. Biology; Wabash College, 1993
Courses Taught
Genetics
Molecular Biology
Plant Physiology
General Biology
Readings in Molecular Biology
Immunology Lab
Biology Seminar
Academic Interests
Natural genetic variation and its influence upon Zea mays flowering time and plant height
Regulation of gene expression related to photosynthesis
Scholarly Activity
McMullen, M.D., Kresovich, S., Villeda, H. S., Bradbury, P., Li, H., Sun, Q., Flint-Garcia, S., Thornsberry, J., Acharya, C. B., Bottoms, C., Brown, P., Browne, C., Eller, M., Guill, K., Harjes, C., Kroon, D., Lepak, N., Mitchell, S. E., Peterson, B., Pressoir, G., Romero, S., Rosas, M. O., Salvo, S., Yates, H., Hanson. M., Jones, E., Smith,S., Glaubitz, J. C., Goodman, M., Ware, D., Holland, J. B., Buckler, E. S. (2009). Genetic Properties of the Maize Nested Association Mapping Population. Science, 325, 737-740.
Jiao, S, JM Thornsberry, TE Elthon, and KJ Newton. (2005) Biochemical and molecular characterization of photosystem I deficiency in the NCS6 mitochondrial mutant of maize. Plant Molecular Biology, 57, 303-313
Flint-Garcia, SA, JM Thornsberry and ES Buckler (2003). Structure of Linkage Disequilibrium in Plants. Annual Review of Plant Biology 54, 357-374.
Buckler, ES, and JM Thornsberry (2002). Plant molecular diversity and applications to genomics. Current Opinion in Plant Biology, 5, 107-111.
Buckler, ES, JM Thornsberry, S Kresovich (2001). Molecular diversity, structure and domestication of grasses. Genetical Research 77, 213-218.
Remington, DL, JM Thornsberry, Y Matsuoka, LM Wilson, SR Whitt, J Doebley, S Kresovich, MM Goodman, and ES Buckler (2001). Structure of linkage disequilibrium and phenotypic association in the maize genome. Proceedings of the National Academy of Science, 98, 11479-11484.
Thornsberry, JM, MM Goodman, J Doebley, S Kresovich, D Nielsen, and ES Buckler (2001). Dwarf8 polymorphisms associate with variation in flowering time. Nature Genetics, 28, 286-289.