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Ann E. Stapleton

a. Education and Professional Preparation

University of Michigan-Ann Arbor, B.S. (Biology) 1983

University of Chicago, Ph.D. (Genetics) 1990

Postdoctoral Research: UNC-Chapel Hill Maize Pollen Biology 1990-91

Postdoctoral Research: Stanford University Maize Ultraviolet Radiation Responses 1991-1996

b. Appointments

8/01-present Assistant then Associate Professor, Department of Biology and Marine Biology,

University of North Carolina at Wilmington, Wilmington, NC

10/98 and 10/00 International Visiting Professor, taught graduate course on "Plant Molecular

Responses to Ultraviolet Radiation", University of Buenos Aires, Buenos Aires, Argentina

8/96-7/01 Assistant Professor, Department of Biological and Environmental Sciences, University of

Tennessee at Chattanooga, Chattanooga, TN

c. Publications since 2007 (student co-authors bold type), see full list at

http://www.uncw.edu/bio/faculty_stapleton.html.

Manching, Heather C., Peter J. Balint-Kurti, and Ann E. Stapleton. "Southern leaf blight disease

severity is correlated with decreased maize leaf epiphytic bacterial species richness and the

phyllosphere bacterial diversity decline is enhanced by nitrogen fertilization." Frontiers in plant

science Plant-Microbe Interactions 5 (2014).

Landers, Dustin A., and Ann E. Stapleton. "Genetic interactions matter more in less-optimal

environments: a Focused Review for “Phenotype uniformity in combined-stress environments has a

different genetic architecture than in single-stress treatments”(Makumburage and Stapleton, 2011)."

Frontiers in plant science Plant Genetics and Genomics 5 (2014).

Stapleton, A. E. (2014) A biologist, a statistician and a bioinformatician walk into a conference

room... and walk out with a great metagenomics project plan. Opinion review. Frontiers in Plant

Science Plant-Microbe Interactions 5 (2014): 250.

Yishi Wang, Susan J. Simmons, Latasha L. Smith and Ann E. Stapleton (2104) A novel metric

distance on registered curves with application to a Fourier transform-infrared spectroscopy analysis

of maize. Journal of the Indian Society of Agricultural Statistics, in press. (peer-reviewed

international journal, not ISI-listed, ISSN 0019-6363)

Makumburage, GB, Kandianis, CB, Michenfelder, AS, Simmons, SJ, Grusak, MA and

Stapleton, AE (2013) Abiotic stress growth conditions induce different responses in kernel iron

concentration across genotypically distinct maize inbred varieties. Frontiers in Plant Science

Genetics and Genomics, 4: 488 doi: 10.3389/fpls.2013.00488.

Makumburage, G. B., Richbourg, H. L., LaTorre, K. D., Capps, A., Chen, C., and Stapleton, A.

E. (2013). Genotype to phenotype maps: multiple input abiotic signals combine to produce growth

effects via attenuating signaling interactions in maize. G3 Genes Genomes Genetics 3, 2195–2204.