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Network Member Profile

Current Field of Study

• Epigenetics
• Gene silencing
• Vernalization and the initiation of flowering

Australian Collaborators

• Dr Liz Dennis, CSIRO, Plant Industry, Canberra, ACT
• Dr Candice Sheldon, CSIRO, Plant Industry, Canberra, ACT
• Dr Peter Waterhouse, CSIRO, Plant Industry, Canberra ACT
• Dr David Tremethick, JCSMR, Canberra, ACT
• Dr Bernie Carroll, University of Queensland, Brisbance, Qld

International Collaborators

• Dr Steve Triezenberg, Michigan State University, East Lansing, MI, USA
• Dr Paul Fransz, The Swammerdam Institute for Life Sciences, The Netherlands

Facilities

• Microarray facility
• Chromatin Immunoprecipitation
• Beowolf computing cluster

Recent Publications

Finnegan, E. J., Bagnall, D. Helliwell, C., Rouse, D., Sheldon, C. Tadege, M., Peacock, W. J. and Dennis, E. (2006) Vernalization Encyclopedia of Life Sciences

Margis, R., Fusaro, A. F., Smith, N. A., Curtin, S. J., Watson, J. M., Finnegan, E. J. and Waterhouse, P.M. (2006) The evolution and diversification of dicers in plants FEBS Letters 580: 2442-2450.

Sheldon, C.C, Finnegan, E. J., Dennis E. S. and Peacock W. J. (2006in press) Quantitative effects of vernalization on FLC and SOC1 expression Plant J. 45: 871-883.

Olsen, K. M., Daly, J. C., Finnegan, E. J. and Mahon, R. J. (2005) Changes in Cry1Ac Bt transgenic cotton in response to two environmental factors: Temperature and insect damage. J. Econ. Entomol. 98: 1382-1390.

Olsen K. M., Daly, J. C., Holt, H. and Finnegan E. J. (2005) Season-long variation in expression of the Cry1Ac gene and efficacy of Bt toxin in transgenic cotton against Helicoverpa armigera (Hübner) (Lepidoptera: Noctuidae). J. Econ. Entomol. 98: 1007 - 1017.

Howles, P., Lawrence, G., Finnegan, J., McFadden, H., Ayliffe, M., Dodds P. and Ellis, J. (2005) Auto-active alleles of the flax L6 rust resistance gene induce non race-specific rust resistance associated with the hypersensitive response. Molec. Plant Microbe Interact.18: 570-583.

Finnegan, E. J., Sheldon, C. C., Jardinaud, M.-F., Peacock, W. J. and Dennis, E.S. (2004) A cluster of Arabidopsis genes with a co-ordinate response to an environmental stimulus Current Biol.14: 911-916.

Finnegan E. J. and Jaligot, E. (2004) Epigenetic variation and phenotypic diversity. In Encyclopedia of Plant and Crop Science ; Goodman, R., Ed.; Marcel Dekker: New York. http://www.dekker.com/servlet/product/DOI/101081EEPCS120021675

Braz, A.S.K., Finnegan, J. Waterhouse, P., Margis, R. (2004) A plant orthologue of RNaseL Inhibitor (RLI) is induced in plants showing RNA interference J. Molec. Evol. 50 : 20-30.

Wang, M.-B., Finnegan E. J. and Waterhouse, P. M. (2004) PTGS0-Plant defence and counter-defensive strategy of viruses in Viruses and virus diseases of Poaceae (Gramineae).172-179 Eds Lapierre, H., and Signoret, P.-A. INRA editions

Frost, D., Way, H., Howles, P., Luck, J., Manners, J., Hardham, A., Finnegan, J. and Ellis, J (2004) Tobacco transgenic for the flax rust resistance gene L expresses allele-specific activation of defence responses. Molec. Plant Microbe, Interact. 17 : 224-232.

Finnegan, E. J. Margis, R., Waterhouse, P. M. (2003) Posttranscriptional gene silencing is not compromised in the Arabidopsis CARPEL FACTORY (DICER-LIKE1) mutant, a homolog of Dicer-1 from DrosophilaCurr. Biol. 13 : 236-240

Genger, R. K., Peacock, W. J., Dennis, E. S. and Finnegan E. J. (2003) Opposing effects of reduced DNA methylation on flowering time in Arabidopsis thalianaPLANTA 216 : 461-466

Finnegan, E. J. and Matzke, M. A. (2003) The small RNA world. J. Cell Science 116 4689-4693

Finnegan, E. J. (2002) Epialleles – a source of random variation in times of stress. Curr. Opin. Plant Biol.5: 101-106

Kishimoto, N., Sakai, H., Jackson, J., Jacobsen, S. E., Meyerowtiz, E. M., Dennis, E. S. and Finnegan, E. J. (2001) Site specificity of the METI DNA methyltransferase demonstrated through hypermethylation of the SUPERMAN locus. Plant Mol. Biol.46: 171-183

Wang, M.-B., Wesley, V., Finnegan, E. J. and Waterhouse, P. M (2001) Replicating satellite RNA induced sequence-specific DNA methylation and truncated transcripts in plants RNA7: 16-28

Finnegan E. J. (2001) Is plant gene expression regulated globally? Trends Genet17: 361-365

Waterhouse, P. M., Wang, M.-B. and Finnegan, E. J. (2001) The role of short RNAs in gene silencing

Finnegan, E. J., Wang, M.-B. and Waterhouse, P. M. (2001) Gene silencing: Fleshing out the bones. Current Biology11: R99-R102

Finnegan, E. J., Bagnall, D. Helliwell, C., Rouse, D., Sheldon, C. Tadege, M., Peacock, W. J. and Dennis, E. (2001) Vernalization Encyclopedia of Life Sciences

Sheldon, C. C., Rouse, D. T., Finnegan E. J., Peacock, W. J. and Dennis, E. S. (2000) The molecular basis of vernalization: the central role of FLOWERING LOCUSC (FLC). Proc. Natl.Acad. Sci USA97: 3753-3758.

Jacobsen S. E., Sakai H., Finnegan E. J., Cao X. and Meyerowitz, E. M. (2000) Ectopic methylation of flower-specific gene in Arabidopsis. CurrentBiology10: 179-186.

Sheldon, C. S., Finnegan, E. J., Rouse, D. T., Tadege, M., Bagnall., D. J., Helliwell, C. A., Peacock, W. J. and Dennis, E. S. (2000) The control of flowering by vernalization Curr Opin Plant Biol3: 418-422.

Finnegan E. J. and Kovac, K. A. (2000) "Plant DNA methyltransferases " Plant Mol Biol 43: 189-201.

Finnegan, E. J. Peacock, W. J. and Dennis, E. S. (2000) "DNA methylation, a key regulator of plant development and other processes" Curr. Opin. Gen. Devel.10: 217-223.