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John Edward Carlson

Associate Professor, tenured Office: (814) 863-7561 The Pennsylvania State University, Lab: (814) 863-2513 College of Agricultural Sciences Department: (814) 863-7093 School of Forest Resources Fax: (814) 863-1357 or 865-3725 113 Ferguson Building E-mail Address: jec16@psu.edu University Park, PA 16802

Education: B.Sc., Biochemistry, Honors, 1974, University of Pittsburgh M.Sc., Agronomy, 1978, University of Illinois, Urbana ñ Champaign Ph.D., Genetics, 1983, University of Illinois, Urbana - Champaign

Positions Held: Kansas State University, Postdoctoral Research Associate, 1982-1983 Allelix, Inc., Mississauga, Ontario, Research Fellow, 1983-1985 Allelix, Inc., Mississauga, Ontario, Research Scientist, 1985-1988 University of British Columbia, Assistant Professor, 1988 - 1994 University of British Columbia, Associate Professor, 1994 - 1997 University of British Columbia, Chair, Genetics Graduate Program, 1995 ñ 1997 Pennsylvania State University, Associate Professor, 1997 - present

Teaching: Graduate instruction - Laboratory course on Plant Genetic Engineering, Graduate Seminar in Forestry; and lectures courses IN Forest Biotechnology, Advances in Tree Genetics. Also, Research Supervisor for 7 Ph.D. students, 6 M.Sc. students, and 9 post-doctoral fellows. Undergraduate instruction - Directed Studies research projects for 13 Honors Biology majors, Forest Genetics lecture course, tree improvement section of Silviculture course, and an Honors section of Conservation Genetics.

Areas of Research Interest: Genome Mapping in Trees- Genetic linkage mapping, DNA fingerprinting and chromosome mapping by in situ hybridization. Genetic Engineering in Trees - Gene transfer for lignin modification and phytoremediation. Genetic Diversity - Estimation of variability in forest species using DNA markers. Gene Expression - Characterizing genes differentially expressed in woody plants during development, stress or lignin synthesis.

Grants Held: Genetic linkage mapping and marker assisted selection for tree improvementî Forest Renewal B. C., $302,000 per year, 1996 to 1999. "Insect resistance in Fraser fir." PA Dept. of Agriculture, $70,000. 1999 - 2001

B. RECENT REFEREED PUBLICATIONS: Pang, S.W.Y, Ritland, C., Carlson, J.E., and Cheng, K.M. 1999. Japanese quail microsatellite DNA loci amplified by chicken-specific primers. Animal Genetics, In Press. Dharmawardhana, D.P., Ellis, B.E. and Carlson, J.E. 1999. Coniferin ß-glucosidase: cDNA cloning, heterologous expression and association with lignification. Plant Molecular Biology. In Press. Gray-Mitsumune, M, Molitor, EK, Cukovic, D, Carlson, JE, and Douglas, CJ. 1999. Developmentally regulated patterns of expression directed by poplar PAL promoters in transgenic tobacco and poplar. Plant Molecular Biology.In Press. Amarasinghe, V. and Carlson, J. 1998. Physical mapping and characterization of 5S rRNA genes in Douglas-fir. Journal of Heredity 89(6): 495-500. Brown, G.B., Newton, C.H. and Carlson, J.E. 1998. Organization and distribution of a Sau3A tandem repeated sequence in Picea species. Genome 41: 560-565. Fu, Y-B, Namkoong, G., and Carlson, J. 1998. Comparison of breeding strategies for purging inbreeding depression via simulation. Conservation Biology, Accepted August, 1997. In press. Amarasinghe, V. and Carlson, J. 1998. Physical mapping and characterization of 5S rRNA genes in Douglas-fir. Journal of Heredity, Accepted. In press for July-August 1998 issue. Brown, G.R and Carlson, J. 1997. Molecular cytogenetics of the genes encoding 18S- 5,8S-26S rRNA and 5S rRNA genes in two species of spruce (Picea). Theor Appl Genet 95:1-9. Amarasinghe, V. and Carlson, J.E. 1996. Polyamine biosynthesis during somatic embryogenesis in interior spruce. Plant Cell Reports 15: 495-499. Dharmawardhana, D.P., Ellis, B.E. and Carlson, J.E. 1995. A SYMBOL 98 f "Symbol" -glucosidase from lodgepole pine xylem specific for the lignin precursor coniferin. Plant Physiology 107: 331-400.

C: OTHER COLLABORATORS Heidi Appel; Jean Bosquet; Carl Douglas; Craig Echt; Yousry A. El-Kassaby; Brian E. Ellis; James J. Hamrick; Mark Hunter; John King; Gyula Kiss; Antoine Kremer; John McLean; Robert Marquis; Webb Miller; Tom Mitchell-Olds; Gene Namkoong; Craig H. Newton; Kermit Ritland; Jack Schultz; Kim Steiner; Michael Stoehr; Ben Sutton; B.J. van der Kamp; Joe Webber; Jack Woods; Alvin Yanchuk; Jim Zaczek.

D: GRADUATE STUDENTS AND POSTDOCTORAL FELLOWS Ann Eastman Ph. D.; Garth Brown, Ph.D.; Palitha Dharmawardhana, Ph.D.; Jeff Glaubitz, Ph.D.; Madoka Gray-Mitsumune, Ph.D.; Liwen Jiang, M.Sc.; Kornelia Lewis, M.Sc.; Ivonne Marquez-Garcia, M.Sc.; Bundit Ponoy, Ph.D.; Stacey Sakakibara, M.Sc.; Monica Schmidt, Ph.D. ; LiJuan Sun, M.Sc.; Hesham Agrema; Vindhya Amarasinghe; Garth Brown; Robin Davidson, (deceased); Yong-Bi Fu; Jeff Glaubitz; Yong-Pyo Hong; Peng Li; Lomas Tulsieram.

E. ADVISORS J.M. Widlhom, Advisor for M.Sc. in Agronomy, University of Illinois at Urbana- Champaign J.R. Laughan, Advisor for Ph.D. in Genetics, University of Illinois at Urbana- Champaign R.J. Kemble, Advisor for Postdoctoral Research, Kansas State University (now at Pioneer Hi-Bred International, Inc.