Maloof Lab:Julin Maloof

Room 2115 Section of Plant Biology 1002 Life Sciences, One Shields Ave. University of California Davis Davis, CA 95616 Contact

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I am an associate professor in the Department of Plant Biology at the University of California, Davis. My Lab studies plant / environment interactions, with an emphasis on how plant development changes in response to the light environment.

Contact Info

Mailing Address
Julin N. Maloof
Section of Plant Biology, LS 1002
University of California, Davis
1 Shields Ave
Davis, CA 95616
Office
2131 Life Sciences
(530) 752-8077 (voice)
(530) 752-5410 (fax)
Lab
2115 Life Sciences
(530) 752-8086
email
jnmaloof at ucdavis.edu

Education

• 1998-2002 Postdoctoral Scholar, The Salk Institute for Biological Studies. Advisors: Joanne Chory and Detlef Weigel.
• 1998 Ph. D. University of California, San Francisco. Advisor: Cynthia Kenyon.
• 1989 B. A. Haverford College.

Other

One of the things that I enjoy about being in Davis is close proximity to the Sierra. For photos of some of some of my adventures there and elsewhere, please visit my simple photo gallery.

Publications

1. Jiménez-Gómez JM and Maloof JN. Plant research accelerates along the (bio)informatics superhighway: symposium on plant sensing, response and adaptation to the environment. EMBO Rep. 2009 Jun;10(6):568-72. DOI:10.1038/embor.2009.116 |
1. Jiménez-Gómez JM and Maloof JN. Sequence diversity in three tomato species: SNPs, markers, and molecular evolution. BMC Plant Biol. 2009 Jul 3;9:85. DOI:10.1186/1471-2229-9-85 |
2. Schwartz C, Balasubramanian S, Warthmann N, Michael TP, Lempe J, Sureshkumar S, Kobayashi Y, Maloof JN, Borevitz JO, Chory J, and Weigel D. Cis-regulatory changes at FLOWERING LOCUS T mediate natural variation in flowering responses of Arabidopsis thaliana. Genetics. 2009 Oct;183(2):723-32, 1SI-7SI. DOI:10.1534/genetics.109.104984 |
3. Balasubramanian S, Schwartz C, Singh A, Warthmann N, Kim MC, Maloof JN, Loudet O, Trainer GT, Dabi T, Borevitz JO, Chory J, and Weigel D. QTL mapping in new Arabidopsis thaliana advanced intercross-recombinant inbred lines. PLoS One. 2009;4(2):e4318. DOI:10.1371/journal.pone.0004318 |
4. Covington MF, Maloof JN, Straume M, Kay SA, and Harmer SL. Global transcriptome analysis reveals circadian regulation of key pathways in plant growth and development. Genome Biol. 2008;9(8):R130. DOI:10.1186/gb-2008-9-8-r130 |
5. Filiault DL, Wessinger CA, Dinneny JR, Lutes J, Borevitz JO, Weigel D, Chory J, and Maloof JN. Amino acid polymorphisms in Arabidopsis phytochrome B cause differential responses to light. Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2008 Feb 26;105(8):3157-62. DOI:10.1073/pnas.0712174105 |
6. Weinig C, Johnston JA, Willis CG, and Maloof JN. Antagonistic multilevel selection on size and architecture in variable density settings. Evolution. 2007 Jan;61(1):58-67. DOI:10.1111/j.1558-5646.2007.00005.x |
7. Nozue K, Covington MF, Duek PD, Lorrain S, Fankhauser C, Harmer SL, and Maloof JN. Rhythmic growth explained by coincidence between internal and external cues. Nature. 2007 Jul 19;448(7151):358-61. DOI:10.1038/nature05946 |
8. Nozue K and Maloof JN. Diurnal regulation of plant growth. Plant Cell Environ. 2006 Mar;29(3):396-408. DOI:10.1111/j.1365-3040.2005.01489.x |
9. Balasubramanian S, Sureshkumar S, Agrawal M, Michael TP, Wessinger C, Maloof JN, Clark R, Warthmann N, Chory J, and Weigel D. The PHYTOCHROME C photoreceptor gene mediates natural variation in flowering and growth responses of Arabidopsis thaliana. Nat Genet. 2006 Jun;38(6):711-5. DOI:10.1038/ng1818 |
10. Maloof JN. Small but not forgotten. Heredity (Edinb). 2006 Jan;96(1):1-2. DOI:10.1038/sj.hdy.6800708 |
11. Lu L, Lee YR, Pan R, Maloof JN, and Liu B. An internal motor kinesin is associated with the Golgi apparatus and plays a role in trichome morphogenesis in Arabidopsis. Mol Biol Cell. 2005 Feb;16(2):811-23. DOI:10.1091/mbc.e04-05-0400 |
12. Maloof JN. Plant development: slowing root growth naturally. Curr Biol. 2004 May 25;14(10):R395-6. DOI:10.1016/j.cub.2004.05.016 |
13. Maloof JN. Genomic approaches to analyzing natural variation in Arabidopsis thaliana. Curr Opin Genet Dev. 2003 Dec;13(6):576-82. DOI:10.1016/j.gde.2003.10.003 |
14. Nemhauser JL, Maloof JN, and Chory J. Building integrated models of plant growth and development. Plant Physiol. 2003 Jun;132(2):436-9. DOI:10.1104/pp.102.017061 |
15. Maloof JN. QTL for plant growth and morphology. Curr Opin Plant Biol. 2003 Feb;6(1):85-90. DOI:10.1016/s1369526602000080 |
16. Friedrichsen DM, Nemhauser J, Muramitsu T, Maloof JN, Alonso J, Ecker JR, Furuya M, and Chory J. Three redundant brassinosteroid early response genes encode putative bHLH transcription factors required for normal growth. Genetics. 2002 Nov;162(3):1445-56. DOI:10.1093/genetics/162.3.1445 |
17. Borevitz JO, Maloof JN, Lutes J, Dabi T, Redfern JL, Trainer GT, Werner JD, Asami T, Berry CC, Weigel D, and Chory J. Quantitative trait loci controlling light and hormone response in two accessions of Arabidopsis thaliana. Genetics. 2002 Feb;160(2):683-96. DOI:10.1093/genetics/160.2.683 |
18. Nordborg M, Borevitz JO, Bergelson J, Berry CC, Chory J, Hagenblad J, Kreitman M, Maloof JN, Noyes T, Oefner PJ, Stahl EA, and Weigel D. The extent of linkage disequilibrium in Arabidopsis thaliana. Nat Genet. 2002 Feb;30(2):190-3. DOI:10.1038/ng813 |
19. Maloof JN, Borevitz JO, Dabi T, Lutes J, Nehring RB, Redfern JL, Trainer GT, Wilson JM, Asami T, Berry CC, Weigel D, and Chory J. Natural variation in light sensitivity of Arabidopsis. Nat Genet. 2001 Dec;29(4):441-6. DOI:10.1038/ng777 |
20. Maloof JN, Borevitz JO, Weigel D, and Chory J. Natural variation in phytochrome signaling. Semin Cell Dev Biol. 2000 Dec;11(6):523-30. DOI:10.1006/scdb.2000.0198 |
21. Schlesinger A, Shelton CA, Maloof JN, Meneghini M, and Bowerman B. Wnt pathway components orient a mitotic spindle in the early Caenorhabditis elegans embryo without requiring gene transcription in the responding cell. Genes Dev. 1999 Aug 1;13(15):2028-38. DOI:10.1101/gad.13.15.2028 |
22. Hunter CP, Harris JM, Maloof JN, and Kenyon C. Hox gene expression in a single Caenorhabditis elegans cell is regulated by a caudal homolog and intercellular signals that inhibit wnt signaling. Development. 1999 Feb;126(4):805-14. DOI:10.1242/dev.126.4.805 |
23. Maloof JN, Whangbo J, Harris JM, Jongeward GD, and Kenyon C. A Wnt signaling pathway controls hox gene expression and neuroblast migration in C. elegans. Development. 1999 Jan;126(1):37-49. DOI:10.1242/dev.126.1.37 |
24. Eisenmann DM, Maloof JN, Simske JS, Kenyon C, and Kim SK. The beta-catenin homolog BAR-1 and LET-60 Ras coordinately regulate the Hox gene lin-39 during Caenorhabditis elegans vulval development. Development. 1998 Sep;125(18):3667-80. DOI:10.1242/dev.125.18.3667 |
25. Maloof JN and Kenyon C. The Hox gene lin-39 is required during C. elegans vulval induction to select the outcome of Ras signaling. Development. 1998 Jan;125(2):181-90. DOI:10.1242/dev.125.2.181 |
26. Kenyon CJ, Austin J, Costa M, Cowing DW, Harris JM, Honigberg L, Hunter CP, Maloof JN, Muller-Immerglück MM, Salser SJ, Waring DA, Wang BB, and Wrischnik LA. The dance of the Hox genes: patterning the anteroposterior body axis of Caenorhabditis elegans. Cold Spring Harb Symp Quant Biol. 1997;62:293-305.
27. Chavez RA, Maloof J, Beeson D, Newsom-Davis J, and Hall ZW. Subunit folding and alpha delta heterodimer formation in the assembly of the nicotinic acetylcholine receptor. Comparison of the mouse and human alpha subunits. J Biol Chem. 1992 Nov 15;267(32):23028-34.