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1 Richard M. Amasino Department of Biochemistry, University of Wisconsin-Madison, Madison, WI (608) ; 1 Education: The Pennsylvania State University, University Park, PA, B.S. in Biology Indiana University, Bloomington, IN, Ph.D. Biology/Biochemistry Positions Held: 2007 Director, Education and Outreach, Great Lakes Bioenergy Research Center 1996 Professor, Department of Biochemistry, University of Wisconsin Associate Professor, University of Wisconsin-Madison Assistant Professor, University of Wisconsin-Madison Postdoc, Department of Biochemistry, University of Washington, Seattle, WA Professional Service (select examples): 2014 National Academy of Sciences/National Research Council, Project on A Science-Based Look at Genetically Engineered Crops 2012 Conference Evaluation Committee, Gordon Research Conferences Chair, Board of Trustees, American Society of Plant Biologists U.S. National Academy of Sciences, Nominating Committee National Academy of Sciences/National Research Council, Project on Developing Assessments for the Next Generation Science Standards 2011 Scientific Advisory Board, Institute of Plant and Microbial Biology Academia Sinica, Taiwan Chair, Plant, Soil, and Microbial Sciences Section, U.S. National Academy of Sciences 2006 President American Society of Plant Biologists Board of Directors, International Society for Plant Molecular Biology North American Arabidopsis Steering Committee (NAASC) Awards: 2011 Residence Hall Honored Instructor Teaching Award 2011 Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) 2009 Fellow of the American Society of Plant Biologists 2009 Underkofler Teaching Excellence Award, University of Wisconsin System 2008 Spitzer Excellence in Teaching Award, College of Agriculture 2008 Hilldale Professorship 2006 Elected to the U.S. National Academy of Sciences 2006 Howard Hughes Medical Institute (HHMI) Teaching Professor 2005 Kellett Award 2005 Hilldale Award in the Biological Sciences 1999 Alexander von Humboldt Foundation Award 1999 Vilas Associate Award 1998 Wisconsin Distinguished Professorship 1989 Presidential Young Investigator Award 1986 McKnight Foundation Individual Research Award in Plant Biology 1986 Shaw Scholar Award 1985 Steenbock Career Development Award Editorial Boards of Journals: present elife present PNAS Science, Board of Reviewing Editors The Plant Journal

2 Plant, Cell and Environment Plant Physiology 2 Select Research Publications (over 100 total) Lomax A, Woods DP, Dong Y, Bouché F, Rong Y, Mayer KS, Zhong X, Amasino RM. (2018) An ortholog of CURLY LEAF/ENHANCER OF ZESTE like-1 is required for proper flowering in Brachypodium distachyon. Plant J. 93: Woods DP, Ream TS, Bouché F, Lee J, Thrower N, Wilkerson C, Amasino RM (2017) Establishment of a vernalization requirement in Brachypodium distachyon requires REPRESSOR OF VERNALIZATION1. Proc Natl Acad Sci. 114(25): Woods DP, Mckeown M, Dong Y, Preston JC, Amasino RM (2016) Evolution of VRN2/GhD7- like genes in vernalization-mediated repression of grass flowering Plant Physiol. 170: Lee J, Yun JY, Zhao W, Shen WH, Amasino RM. (2015) A methyltransferase required for proper timing of the vernalization response in Arabidopsis. Proc Natl Acad Sci. 112(7): Woods DP, Ream TS, Amasino RM (2014) Memory of the vernalized state in plants including the model grass Brachypodium distachyon. Frontiers in Plant Science 5: 99 PMID: Woods, D.P., Ream, T.R., Minevich, G., Hobert, O., and Amasino, R. (2014). PHYTOCHROME C is an essential light receptor for photoperiodic flowering in the temperate grass, Brachypodium distachyon. Genetics 198: PMID: Ream, T., Woods, D.P., Schwartz, C., Sanabria, C. and Amasino, R Interaction of photoperiod and vernalization determines flowering time of Brachypodium distachyon. Plant Physiol. 164: doi: /pp Epub 2013 Dec 19. PMID: Ream TS, Woods DP, Amasino RM The Molecular Basis of Vernalization in Different Plant Groups. Cold Spring Harb Symp Quant Biol. 77: doi: /sqb PMID: Wollenberg AC, Amasino RM Natural variation in the temperature range permissive for vernalization in accessions of Arabidopsis thaliana. Plant Cell Environ. 35: doi: /j x. PMID: Yun, J-Y, Y Tamada, Y-E Kang, and R M. Amasino ARABIDOPSIS TRITHORAX- RELATED3/SET DOMAIN GROUP2 is Required for the Winter-Annual Habit of Arabidopsis thaliana. Plant and Cell Physiology online February 28, doi: /pcp/pcs021 Cho J-N, J-Y Ryu, Y-M Jeong, J Park, J-J Song, R M Amasino, B Noh, and Y-S Noh Control of Seed Germination by Light-Induced Histone Arginine Demethylation Activity. Developmental Cell 22, Schwartz, C., M. Doyle and R. M. Amasino Natural variation of flowering time and vernalization responsiveness in Brachypodium distachyon. BioEnergy Research 3: Tamada, Y., J-Y. Yun, S. Woo and R. M. Amasino ARABIDOPSIS TRITHORAX- RELATED 7 is required for methylation of lysine 4 of histone H3 and for transcriptional activation of FLOWERING LOCUS C. Plant Cell: 21: Doyle, M. R., and R. M. Amasino A single amino-acid change in the Enhancer of Zeste ortholog CURLY LEAF results in vernalization-independent, rapid flowering in Arabidopsis. Plant Physiology: 151: Schmitz RJ, Tamada, Y, Doyle MR, Zhang, X, and R. M. Amasino Histone H2B Deubiquitination Is Required for Transcriptional Activation of FLC and for Proper Control of Flowering in Arabidopsis. Plant Physiology: 149: Wollenberg, AC, Strasser, B, Cerdán PD, and R. M. Amasino Acceleration of Flowering during Shade Avoidance in Arabidopsis Alters the Balance between FLOWERING

3 LOCUS C-Mediated Repression and Photoperiodic Induction of Flowering. Plant Physiol. 148: Schmitz R. J., Sung, S., and R. M. Amasino Histone arginine methylation is required for vernalization-induced epigenetic silencing of FLC in winter-annual Arabidopsis thaliana. Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. USA 105: Schmitz RJ, Hong L, Fitzpatrick KE, and Amasino RM DICER-LIKE 1 and DICER-LIKE 3 Redundantly Act to Promote Flowering Via Repression of FLOWERING LOCUS C in Arabidopsis thaliana. Genetics 176, Jiang D, Yang W, He Y, Amasino RM Arabidopsis Relatives of the Human Lysine- Specific Demethylase1 Repress the Expression of FWA and FLOWERING LOCUS C and Thus Promote the Floral Transition. Plant Cell 19: Epub 2007 Oct 5. Sung, S., Y., R. J. Schmitz and R. M. Amasino A PHD finger protein involved in both the vernalization and photoperiod pathways in Arabidopsis. Genes and Development 20: Sung, S., Y. He, T. W. Eshoo, Y. Tamada, D. Shultis, L. Johnson., A. M. Lindroth, K. Nakahigashi, K. Goto, S. Khorasanizadeh, S. E. Jacobsen and R. M. Amasino Epigenetic maintenance of the vernalized state in Arabidopsis requires like heterochromatin protein 1. Nature Genet. 38: Schmitz, R. J., L. Hong, S. Michaels, and R. M. Amasino FRIGIDA-ESSENTIAL 1 interacts genetically with FRIGIDA and FRIGIDA-LIKE 1 to promote the winter-annual habit of Arabidopsis thaliana. Development 32: Kim, S. Y., Y. He, Y. Jacob, Y. S. Noh, S. Michaels and R. Amasino Establishment of the vernalization-responsive, winter-annual habit in Arabidopsis requires a histone H3 methyl transferase. Plant Cell 17: Doyle, M. R., C. M. Bizzell, M. R. Keller, S. D. Michaels, J. Song, Y.-S. Noh and R. M. Amasino HUA2 is required for the expression of floral repressors in Arabidopsis thaliana. Plant J. 41(3): Michaels, S. D., E. Himelblau, S. Y. Kim, F. M. Schomburg and R. M. Amasino Integration of flowering signals in winter-annual Arabidopsis. Plant Physiol. 137(1): Sung, S. and R. M. Amasino Vernalization in Arabidopsis thaliana is mediated by the PHD finger protein VIN3. Nature 427: He, Y., M. R. Doyle and R. M. Amasino PAF1 complex-mediated histone methylation of FLOWERING LOCUS C chromatin is required for the vernalization-responsive, winterannual habit in Arabidopsis. Genes Dev. 18: Liu, J.,Y. He, R. M. Amasino and X. Chen sirnas targeting an intronic transposon in the regulation of natural flowering behavior in Arabidopsis. Genes Dev. 18: Bezerra, I. C., S. D. Michaels and R. M. Amasino Lesions in the mrna cap-binding protein ABA Hypersensitive 1 suppress FRIGIDA-mediated delayed flowering in Arabidopsis. Plant J. 40: Noh, Y.-S., C. M. Bizzell, B. Noh, F. M. Schomburg and R. M. Amasino EARLY FLOWERING 5 acts as a floral repressor in Arabidopsis. Plant J. 38: Michaels, S. D., I. C. Bezerra and R. M. Amasino FRIGIDA-related genes are required for the winter-annual habit in Arabidopsis. Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. USA 101: He, Y., S. D. Michaels and R. M. Amasino Regulation of flowering time by histone acetylation in Arabidopsis. Science 302: Noh, Y. S. and R. M. Amasino PIE1, an ISWI family gene, is required for FLC activation and floral repression in Arabidopsis. Plant Cell 15: Michaels, S., Y. He, K. Scortecci and R. M. Amasino Attenuation of FLOWERING LOCUS C activity as a mechanism for the evolution of summer-annual flowering behavior in Arabidopsis. Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. USA 100: Scortecci, K., S. Michaels and R. M. Amasino Genetic interactions between FLM and other flowering-time genes in Arabidopsis thaliana. Plant Molecular Biology. 52:

4 Michaels, S., G. Ditta, C. Gustafson-Brown, P. Soraya, M. Yanofsky and R. M. Amasino AGL24 acts as a promoter of flowering in Arabidopsis and is positively regulated by vernalization. Plant J. 33: Schomburg, F., C. Bizzell, J. D. Lee, J. A. D. Zeevaart and R. Amasino Overexpression of a novel class of gibberellin 2-oxidases decreases gibberellin levels and creates dwarf plants. Plant Cell 15: Doyle, M. R., S. J. Davis, R. M. Bastow, H. G. McWatters, L. Kozma-Bognár, F. Nagy, A. J. Millar and R. M. Amasino The ELF4 gene controls circadian rhythms and flowering time in Arabidopsis thaliana. Nature 419: Schomburg, F., D. A. Patton, D. W. Meinke and R. M. Amasino FPA, a gene involved in floral induction in Arabidopsis thaliana encodes a protein containing RNA-recognition motifs. Plant Cell 13: Scortecci, K., S. Michaels and R. Amasino Identification of a MADS-box gene, flowering locus M, that represses flowering. Plant J. 26: Meier, C., T. Bouquin, M. E. Nielsen, D. Raventos, O. Mattsson, A. Rocher, F. Schomburg, R. M. Amasino and J. Mundy Gibberellin response mutants identified by luciferase imaging. Plant J. 25: Michaels, S. and R. Amasino Loss of FLOWERING LOCUS C activity eliminates the late-flowering phenotype of FRIGIDA and autonomous-pathway mutations, but not responsiveness to vernalization. Plant Cell 13: Himelblau, E. and R. M. Amasino Nutrients mobilized from leaves of Arabidopsis thaliana during leaf senescence. J. Plant Physiol. 158: Weaver, L. M. and R. Amasino Senescence is induced in individually darkened Arabidopsis leaves, but inhibited in whole darkened plants. Plant Physiol. 127(3): Quirino, B. F., W.-D. Reiter and R. M. Amasino One of two tandem Arabidopsis genes homologous to monosaccharide transporters is senescence associated. Plant Mol. Biol. 46: vannocker, S., M. Muszynski, K. Briggs and R. Amasino Characterization of a gene from Zea mays related to the Arabidopsis flowering-time gene Luminidependens. Plant Mol. Biol. 44: 107. Jordi, W., A. H. C. M. Schapendonk, E. Davelaar, G. M. Stoopen, C. S. Pot, R. de Visser, J. A. van Rhijn, S. Gan and R. M. Amasino Increased cytokinin levels in transgenic P SAG12-IPT tobacco plants have large direct and indirect effects on leaf senescence, photosynthesis and N partitioning. Plant Cell Environ. 23: Noh, Y.-S. and R. M. Amasino Identification of a promoter region responsible for the senescence-specific expression of SAG12. Plant Mol. Biol. 41(2): Noh, Y.-S. and R. M. Amasino Regulation of developmental senescence is conserved between Arabidopsis and Brassica napus. Plant Mol. Biol. 41(2): Michaels, S. D. and R. M. Amasino FLOWERING LOCUS C encodes a novel MADSdomain protein that acts as a repressor of flowering. Plant Cell 11: Aukerman, M. J., I. Lee, D. Weigel and R. M. Amasino The Arabidopsis flowering-time gene LUMINIDEPENDENS is expressed primarily in regions of cell proliferation and encodes a nuclear protein that regulates LEAFY expression. Plant J. 18: Quirino, B., J. Normanly and R. M. Amasino Diverse range of gene activity during Arabidopsis thaliana leaf senescence includes pathogen-independent induction of defense-related genes. Plant Mol. Biol. 40: Weaver, L. M., J. E. Froelich and R. M. Amasino The chloroplast-targeted ERD1 protein declines during senescence while its mrna increases. Plant Physiol. 119: Michaels, S. D. and R. M. Amasino The gibberellic acid biosynthesis mutant ga1-3 of Arabidopsis thaliana is responsive to vernalization. Dev. Genet. 25(3): Michaels, S. D. and R. M. Amasino A robust method for detecting single-nucleotide changes as polymorphic markers by PCR. Plant J. 14(3):

5 Himelblau, E., H. Mira, S. Lin, V. Cizewski Culotta, L. Peñarrubia and R. M. Amasino Identification of a functional homolog of the yeast copper homeostasis gene ATX1 from Arabidopsis thaliana. Plant Physiol. 117: Weaver, L. M., S. Gan, B. Quirino and R. M. Amasino A comparison of the expression patterns of several senescence-associated genes in response to stress and hormone treatments. Plant Mol. Biol. 37: Aukerman, M. J., T. Clack, L. M. Weaver, R. M. Amasino and R. Sharrock A deletion in the PHY D gene of the Arabidopsis WS ecotype defines a role for phytochrome D in red/far-red light sensing. Plant Cell 9: Sanda, S. L., M. C. John and R. M. Amasino Analysis of flowering time in ecotypes of Arabidopsis thaliana. J. Hered. 88: Sanda, S. L., and R. M. Amasino Interaction of FLC and late-flowering mutations in Arabidopsis thaliana. Mol. Gen. Genet. 251: Sanda, S. L. and R. M. Amasino Ecotype-specific expression of a flowering mutant phenotype in Arabidopsis thaliana. Plant Physiol. 111: Gan, S. and R. M. Amasino Inhibition of leaf senescence by autoregulated production of cytokinin. Science 270: Lee, I. and R. M. Amasino Effect of vernalization, photoperiod and light quality on the flowering phenotype of the FRIGIDA gene in Arabidopsis. Plant Physiol. 108: Sanda, S. L., and R. M. Amasino Genetic and physiological analysis of flowering time in the C24 line of Arabidopsis thaliana. Weeds World 2(3):

Epigenetics and Flowering Any potentially stable and heritable change in gene expression that occurs without a change in DNA sequence

Epigenetics and Flowering Any potentially stable and heritable change in gene expression that occurs without a change in DNA sequence www.plantcell.org/cgi/doi/10.1105/tpc.110.tt0110 Epigenetics Usually