SELECTED PEER-REVIEWED PUBLICATIONS

(Undergraduate Student Co-author)

Madzima TF+, Stefania Vendramin S,  Lynn J, Lemert P, Lu KC and  McGinnis KM+. (2021) Direct and indirect transcriptional effects of abiotic stress in Zea mays plants defective in RNA-Directed DNA methylation. Frontiers in Plant Science  - Plant Abiotic Stress. https://doi.org/10.3389/fpls.2021.694289

Stefania Vendramin, Ji Huang, Peter A. Crisp, Thelma F. Madzima + and Karen M. McGinnis + (2020) Epigenetic Regulation of ABA-Induced Transcriptional Responses in Maize. In press G3: Genes, Genomes and Genetics (link)

Li Q , Gent JI, Zynda G, Song J, Makarevitch I, Hirsch CD, Hirsch CN, Dawe RK, Madzima TF, McGinnis KM, Lisch D, Schmitz RJ, Vaughn MW, Springer NM (2015). RNA-directed DNA methylation enforces boundaries between heterochromatin and euchromatin in the maize genome. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (PNAS) (link)

Li Q, Eichten SR, Hermanson PJ, Zaunbrecher V, Song J, Wendt J, Rosenbaum H, Madzima TF, Sloan AE, Huang J, Burgess D, Richmond T, Kaeppler SM, McGinnis KM, Meeley R, Danilevskaya O, Vaughn MW, Jeddeloh J, Springer NM (2014). Genetic perturbation of the maize methylome. The Plant Cell 26 (12): 4602-4616 (link)

 Gent JI, Madzima TF, Bader R, Kent MR, Zhang X, Stam M, McGinnis KM, and Dawe RK (2014). Accessible DNA and relative depletion of H3K9me2 at maize loci undergoing RNA-directed DNA methylation. The Plant Cell 26 (12): 4903-4917 (link)

Vera DL, Madzima TF*, Labonne JD*, Alam MP*, Hoffman GG, Girimurugan SB, Zhang J, McGinnis KM, Dennis JH, and Bass HW (2014).  Differential nuclease sensitivity profiling of chromatin reveals biochemical footprints coupled to gene expression and functional DNA elements in maize. (*Equal contribution). The Plant Cell 26 (10): 3883-3893 (link)

 Madzima TF, Huang J and McGinnis KM (2014). Chromatin structure and gene expression changes associated with loss of MOP1 activity in Zea mays. Epigenetics 9 (7): 1047-1059 (link)

Madzima TF, Mills ES#, Gardiner JM, McGinnis KM (2011). Identification of epigenetic regulators that activate a transcriptionally silenced transgene in maize. G3: Genes, Genomes, Genetics 1 (1): 75-83 (link)

BOOK CHAPTERS

Madzima T.F, Sloan A., Stroud L., McGinnis K.M. (2014) ‘Epigenomics’ in Genetics, Genomics and Breeding of Maize. R. Wusirika, M. Bohn, J. Lai, C. Kole Eds. CRC Press.