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Prof Graham Moore

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Curriculum Vitae

  • (to 1983) St Georges Medical School, London
  • (1985) Institut Pasteur, Paris, France
  • (1988) Imperial Cancer Research Fund, London
  • (1989) Plant Breeding Institute, Cambridge
  • (Present) John Innes Centre

Graham Moore

Programme Leader

Crop Genetics

Contact details

graham.moore@jic.ac.uk

Research interests

Wheat genetics and comparative genomics, cereal synteny, rice and Brachypodium genomics, meiosis, chromosome pairing, centromeres, Ph1 locus, cdk2, homoeologous gene expression, chromatin conformation, wheat meiotic proteomics, suppression of the Ph1 locus, Kr1, crossability, gametocidal factor

Selected Publications

Griffiths S., Sharp R., Foote T. N., Bertin I., Wanous M., Reader S., Colas I., Moore G. (2006)
Molecular characterization of Ph1 as a major chromosome pairing locus in polyploid locus in polyploid wheat
Nature 439 749-752
Prieto P., Shaw P., Moore G. (2004)
Homologue recognition during meisos is associated with a change in chromatin conformation.
Nature Cell Biology 6 906-908
Martinez-Perez E., Shaw P., Moore G. (2001)
The Ph1 locus is needed to ensure specific somatic and meiotic centromere association.
Nature 411 204-207
Moore G., Devos K. M., Wang Z., Gale M. D. (1995)
Cereal genome evolution. Grasses, line up and form a circle.
Current Biology 5 (7) 737-9

Recent Publications

Greer E., Martín A. C., Pendle A., Colas I., Jones A. M., Moore G., Shaw P. (2012)
The Ph1 locus suppresses Cdk2-type activity during premeiosis and meiosis in wheat
Plant Cell
DOI:10.1105/tpc.111.094771
Ciluentes M., Grandont L., Moore G., Chevre A. M., Jenczewski E. (2010)
Genetic regulation of meiosis in polyploid species:new insights into an old question
New Phytologist 186 29-36
Knight E., Greer E., Draeger T., Thole V., Reader S., Shaw P., Moore G. (2010)
Inducing chromosome pairing through premature condensation:analysis of wheat interspecific hybrids
Functional and Integrative Genomics
DOI:10.1007/s10142-010-0185-0
Yousafzai F., Al-Kaff N., Moore G. (2010)
Structural and functional relationship between the Ph1 locus protein 5B2 in wheat and CDK2 in mammals
Functional and Integrative Genomics 10 157-166
DOI:10.1007/s10142-010-0170-7
Yousafzai F., Al-Kaff N., Moore G. (2010)
The molecular features of chromosome pairing at meiosis:the polyploid challenge using wheat as a reference
Functional and Integrative Genomics 10 147-156
DOI:10.1007/s10142-010-0171-6