Jeffry L. Shultz, Ph.D.
709 Center Street
Ruston, LA 71270
jlshultz@latech.edu
(318) 254-1416 (home)
(318) 257-2753 (work)
Education: Ph.D. in Plant Biology from Southern Illinois University in Carbondale, Illinois
Bachelors Degree’s in Biology and Foreign Language and Literature (Russian) from Washington State University, Pullman, WA
Experience:
5/05 – 8/07 United States Department of Agriculture – Research Molecular Geneticist
Crop Genetics and Production Research Unit – Mid-South Area, Stoneville, MS
Collected Asian Soybean Rust samples in Florida in preparation for screening of North American isolates for diversity with molecular. Developed novel SNP discovery technique. Developed 2 molecular marker maps of Soybean. Developed and mapped purine metabolism markers.
7/99 – 4/05 Southern Illinois University - Research Technician/Graduate Student
Carbondale, IL
Fingerprinted Ustilago maydis and Fusarium solani BAC libraries, including subsequent contig construction and analysis. Edited and merged the soybean integrated genetic and physical map presented at http://soybeangenome.siu.edu Developed 853 Soybean SSR markers from BAC-end Sequences. Created an Arabidopsis thaliana-based soybean EST and BAC-end sequence map
1/99 – 5/99 ICRISAT/WSU – Visiting Research Technician
International Crops Research Institute for the Semi-Arid Tropics (India)
Provided training to ICRISAT staff in PCR setup efficiency, Mapmaker and Qgene program use. Developed an initial qualitative/quantitative chickpea map in an recombinant inbred line (RIL) population
9/95 – 12/98 USDA/ARS Laboratory – Graduate Student/Technical Assistant
Washington State University, Pullman, WA
Overview of Major Projects
Tested a recombinant inbred line population of pea for resistance to fusarium near wilt and created a genetic linkage map
Mapped molecular markers in a recombinant inbred line population of chickpea
Extensive operations involving the physical map of soybean, which included error detection, marker integration, minimum tiling path selection and physical map analysis
Created physical maps of Ustilago maydis and Fusarium virguliforme
Created an association-based map of soybean sequences vs arabidopsis genomic DNA
Created an association-based map of Fusarium virguliforme sequences vs Fusarium graminearum genomic scaffold DNA
Mapped molecular markers and performed QTL analysis in three recombinant inbred line populations of soybean (Essex x Forrest; Hartwig x Flyer; Jackson x KS-4895)
Mapped genic markers in the purine metabolism pathway and created a genetic map in an F2soybean population
Created a novel protein analysis technique
Peer Reviewed Publications (by year, then author order)
Shultz, J.L., Muehlbauer, F.J., and Coyne, C.J. (Accepted – Euphytica) A Marker for the Gene Conferring Resistance to Fusarium Wilt race 2 in Pea
Jeffry L. Shultz, Sikander Ali, Linda Ballard and David A Lightfoot. (Accepted 2007 – BMC Genomics). Development of a physical map of the soybean pathogen Fusarium virguliforme based on synteny with Fusarium graminearum genomic DNA
Shultz, J.L, Ray, J.D., Smith, J.R. (Accepted 2007 – J DNA Seq) Mapping two genes in the Purine Metabolism Pathway of Soybean
Shultz, J., Kazi, S., Bashir, R., Lightfoot, D.A. 2007. The Development of BAC-end Sequence-based Microsatellite Markers and Placement in the Physical and Genetic maps of Soybean. Theor Appl Genet. Epub February 2007
Shultz, J.L., Ray, J.D. and Lightfoot, D.A. 2007. A sequence based synteny map between soybean and Arabidopsis thaliana. BMC Genomics 8:8
Shultz JL, Ray JD, Smith JR, and Mengistu A. 2007. A soybean mapping population specific to the Early Soybean Production System. DNA Seq. 18:104-111
Sikander Ali, Jeff Shultz and Ikram-ul-Haq. (Accepted 2007 – BMC Biotechnology) High performance microbiological transformation of L-tyrosine to L-dopa by Yarrowia lipolytica NRRL-143
C.J. Coyne, M.T. McClendon, J.G. Walling, G.M. Timmerman-Vaughan, S. Murray, K. Meksem, D.A Lightfoot, J. Shultz, K.E. Keller, R.R Martin, D.A. Inglis, P.N. Rajesh, K.E. McPhee, N.F. Weeden, M.A. Grusak, E.W. Storlie. (Accepted 2007 – Genome) Construction and characterization of two bacterial artificial chromosome libraries of pea (Pisum sativum L.) for the isolation of economically important genes
Shultz, JL, Kurunam D, Shopinski K, Iqbal MJ, Kazi S, Zobrist K, Bashir R, Yaegashi S, Lavu N, Afzal AJ, Yesudas CR, Kassem MA, Wu C, Zhang HB, Town CD, Meksem K, Lightfoot DA. 2006. The Soybean Genome Database (SoyGD): a browser for display of duplicated, polyploid, regions and sequence tagged sites on the integrated physical and genetic maps of Glycine max. Nucleic Acids Res. 1:34 (Database issue):D758-65
Shultz, J. L., Yesudas, C., Yaegashi, S., Afzal, A. J., Kazi, S., Lightfoot, D. A. 2006. Three Minimum Tile Paths From Bacterial Artificial Chromosome Libraries of the Soybean (Glycine max cv. ‘Forrest’): Tools for Structural and Functional Genomics. Plant Meth. 2:9
Kassem MA, Shultz J, Meksem K, Cho Y, Wood AJ, Iqbal MJ, Lightfoot DA. 2006. An updated 'Essex' by 'Forrest' linkage map and first composite interval map of QTL underlying six soybean traits.Theor Appl Genet. 113:1015-1026
Kay L Shopinski, Muhammad J Iqbal, Jeffry L Shultz, Dheepak Jayakumaraman and David A Lightfoot. 2006. Development of a pooled probe method for locating small gene families in a physical map of soybean using stress related paralogues and a BAC minimum tile path. Plant Methods 2:20
Khalid Meksem, Jeffry Shultz, Faiza Tebbji, Aziz Jamai, Jürgen Henrich, Harald Kranz, Monika Arenz, Thomas Schlueter, Hirofumi Ishihara, Lavu N. Jyothi, Hong-Bin Zhang, and David A. Lightfoot. 2005. A bacterial artificial chromosome based physical map of the Ustilago maydis genome. Genome 48:207-216
Jeffry L. Shultz, Chet Langin, Dennis G. Watson and David Lightfoot. 2004. Protein Fingerprinting: A Domain-Free Approach to Protein Analysis. Jrnl of Genome Science and Technology. 3:41–47
Jeffry Shultz, Khalid Meksem, David Lightfoot 2003 Evaluating Physical Maps by Clone Location Comparisons. Genome Letters 2:99-107
Cho, S., Kumar, J., Shultz, J.L,. Anupama, K., Tefera, F., Muehlbauer, F.J. 2002 Mapping genes for double podding and other morphological traits in chickpea. Euphytica 128:285-292
Non Peer-Reviewed Publications and Sequence Releases (by year, then author order)
David A. Lightfoot, Jeffry Shultz and Navinder Saini. 2007. Reannotation of the Physical Map of Glycine Max for Ploidy by BAC End Sequence Driven Whole Genome Shotgun Read Assembly. Refereed. International Conference on Bioinformatics and Computational Biology (June 25-28, 2007) Las Vegas, Nevada. USA
Shultz, J., Yesudas, C., Yaegashi, S., Shetty, J., Town, C.D., Koo, H., Afzal, A.J., Kazi, S., Shopinski, K., Iqbal, M.J., Zobrist, K., Kurunama, D., Lavu, N., Kassem, M.A., Wu, C., Zhang, H.B., Meksem, K. and Lightfoot, D.A. (2006) Sequencing of BAC Ends Associated with an Updated Minimum Tile Path of Soybean (Glycine max) Genbank. DX406713 to DX414412 (7,700 sequences)
Shultz, J., K. Meksem, J. Shetty, C.D. Town, H. Koo, J. Potter, K. Wakefield, H. Zhang, C. Wu, and D.A. Lightfoot. 2003. End sequencing of BACs comprising a provisional tiling pathfrom a fingerprint physical map of soybean (Glycine max) cultivar Forrest. Genbank. CG812653 to CG826126 (13,473 sequences)
Meksem, K., Ishihara, H., Koo, H., Shultz, J., Ali, S., Iqbal, J., Lightfoot, D.A. 2003. End Sequencing of BACs from a fingerprint physical map of the causative agent of soybean sudden death syndrome, Fusarium virguliforme (ex Fusarium solani f.sp glycines). Genbank CG812652-CG808501. (4,157 sequences)
Shultz, J., Lightfoot, D.A. 2001. Users Guide to the Soybean Physical Map at the Website http://hbz.tamu.edu. Soyb genet newsl. v.28 p. N/A
Shultz, J., LaMontagne, C., Zobrist, K., Meksem, K., Wu, C., Tao, Q., Nimmakayala, P., Santos, F., Zhang, H., Lightfoot, D.A. 2001. Integrated physical mapping of the soybean genome: a tool for rapid identification of economically important genes. Soyb genet newsl. v.28
Abstracts (Misc)
Shultz, J. L., C. J. Coyne and F. J. Muehlbauer. 1998. A DNA marker linked to the Fusarium wilt race 2 resistance in pea, identified using bulk segregant analysis of recombinant inbred lines. Agronomy Abstracts pp. 79
Jeffry Shultz, Chester Langin, Nagajothi Lavu, M Javed Iqbal, Kay Shopinski, Jawad Afzal, Samreen Kazi, Rabia Bashir, Chenchag Wu, Chris Town, Hongbin Zhang and David Lightfoot. Genome Evolution-Framework Genome Comparisons Among Medicago truncatula, Arabidopsis thaliana and Glycine max Shows Separate Paleopolyploid Genome Structures has Provided Aneuplorosis in Disease Resistance and Other Trait Loci. 2005 Model legume Congress, PacificGrove, California, June 5-9, 2005, pg:153
I. C. Burke, J. Shultz, J. Ray, C. T. Bryson, K. N. Reddy. Genomic Variation and Genetic Relationships Among Pitted Morningglory (Ipomoea lacunosa L.) Accessions. 2007 WSSA
Samreen Kazi, Javed Iqbal, Jeff Shultz, A. J. Afzal, Prakash Arelli, Jason Bond, D A. Lightfoot. Minimum tile Derived Microsatellite-markers improve the physical map of the Soybean genome and the “Flyer and “Hartwig” Genetic map. SIU 11th Annual Molecular and Cellular Biology Symposium (2005), Conference Center, Grafton, IL. Pg:31
Coyne, C.J., K. Meksem, K. McPhee, D. Inglis, D.A Lightfoot, M. McClendon, J. Shultz, and F.J. Muehlbauer. 2001. Positional cloning of fusarium wilt resistance genes in pea. Proceedings of the 4th European Grain Legume Conference (Warsaw, Poland) pp 16-17
