Gregory Copenhaver 
 Professor, Biology 
 Biology, CB#3280 
 (919) 962-4457 
 gcopenhaver@bio.unc.edu 
 http://labs.bio.unc.edu/Copenhaver/
Appointed Year: | 2001
Tenured: | Yes
Education: | • PHD Biology and Biomedical Sciences, Washington University in St. Louis 1996
World Area of Focus: | • Asia 10%-24%
Specialization: | Genetics

Relevant Experience:

• 2016 Professor, Dept. of Biology, UNC Chapel Hill, North Carolina
• 2016 Professor, UNC Integrative Program for Biological & Genome Sciences (joint appointment)
• 2014 Distinguished Adjunct Professor, School of Life Sciences, Fudan University, Shanghai China. 
• 2012 Faculty Associate, UNC Center for Bioethics
• 2008-2013 Associate Professor, UNC, Chapel Hill, North Carolina, Dept. of Biology
• 2008-2013 Director of Graduate Studies, Chapel Hill, North Carolina, Dept. of Biology
• 2008 Entrepreneur in Residence, The Shuford Program in Entrepreneurship at UNC Chapel Hill
• 2004 Associate Member, Lineberger Comprehensive Cancer Center
• 2003 Member, UNC Chapel Hill Curriculum in Genetics
• 2001-2007 Assistant Professor, UNC, Chapel Hill, North Carolina, Dept. of Biology
• 2001-2016 Joint Appointee, Carolina Center for Genome Sciences (program ended 2016)
• 2001-2008 Member, UNC Chapel Hill Interdisciplinary Program in Biomedical Sciences

Distinctions:

• 2017-ongoing Inducted into Frank Porter Graham Honor Society for excellence in graduate education
• 2014-2014 Elected Chair of 2014 Meiosis Gordon Conference
• 1997-1998 USDA Postdoctoral Fellow
• 1995-1996 Monsanto Pre-doctoral Fellow
• 1994-1994 Outreach Teaching Recognition Award from Beaumont High School, MO 
• 1990-1990 James and Adelaine Wallace Annual Prize for Botany 
• 1990-1990 Botanical Society of America Young Botanist Award
• 1989-1990 Bernarr J. Hall Scholarship 
• 1989-1989 Southern California Strawberry Growers Scholarship Award 
• 1989-1989 Academic Program Service Award, U.C. Riverside

Dissertations and Theses Supervised in Past 5 Years: | 1

Relevant Courses Taught:

• BIOL 425 Human Genetics
• BIOL 621 Principles of Genetic Analysis I 
• BIOL 625 Seminar in Genetics: Sex, Meiosis & Recombination

Recent Publications:

• 2017 Modliszewski JL and Copenhaver GP (2017) Meiotic Recombination Gets Stressed Out: CO Frequency is Plastic Under Pressure.  Current Opinion in Plant Biology 36: 95–102.  http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.pbi.2016.11.019
• 2017 Su H, Cheng Z, Huang J, Lin J, Copenhaver GP, Ma H, Wang Y (2017) Arabidopsis RAD51, RAD51C and XRCC3 proteins form a complex and facilitate RAD51 localization on chromosomes for meiotic recombination.  PLOS Genetics 13(5): e1006827. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pgen.1006827
• 2016 Choi K, Reinhard C, Serra H, Ziolkowski PA, Underwood C, Zhao X, Hardcastle TJ, Yelina NE, Griffin C, Jackson M, Mézard C, McVean G, Copenhaver GP, and Henderson IR (2016) Recombination rate heterogeneity within Arabidopsis disease resistance genes.  PLOS Genetics 12(7): e1006179. doi: 10.1371/journal.pgen.1006179. 
• 2016 Huang J, Copenhaver GP, Hong M, Wang Y (2016) New Insights into the role of DNA synthesis in meiotic recombination.  Science Bulletin 61(16): 1260-1269.  doi: 10.1007/s11434-016-1126-7
• 2015 Huang J, Cheng Z, Wang C, Hong Y, Su H, Wang J, Copenhaver GP, Ma H, Wang Y (2015) Formation of interference-sensitive meiotic crossovers requires sufficient DNA leading strand elongation.  Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. USA 112(40):12534-9. doi: 10.1073/pnas.1507165112
• 2015 Niu B, Wang L, Zhang L, Ren D, Ren R, Copenhaver GP, Ma H, Wang Y (2015) The Arabidopsis CDC20.1 Gene is Required for Normal Meiotic Spindle Assembly and Chromosome Segregation.  The Plant Cell 27(12): 3367-3382. doi: http://dx.doi.org/10.1105/tpc.15.00834
• 2013 Yelina NE, Ziolkowski PA, MillerN, Zhao X, Kelly KA, Muñnoz DF, Mann DJ, Copenhaver GP and Henderson IR (2013) High-throughput analysis of meiotic crossover frequency and interference via flow cytometry of fluorescent pollen in Arabidopsis thaliana.  Nature Protocols. 8(11):2119-34. doi: 10.1038/nprot.2013.131
• 2013 Choi K, Zhao X, Kelly KA, Venn O, Higgins J, Yelina N, Hardcastle T, Ziolkowski P, Copenhaver GP, Franklin C, McVean G, and Henderson IR (2013) Arabidopsis meiotic crossover hot spots overlap with H2A.Z nucleosomes at gene promoters. Nature Genetics. 45(11):1327-36. doi: 10.1038/ng.2766
• 2012 Sun Y, Ambrose JH, Haughey BS, Webster TD, Pierrie SN, Muñoz DF, Wellman EC, Cherian S, Lewis SM, Berchowitz LE and Copenhaver GP (2012) Deep Genome-wide measurement of meiotic gene conversion using tetrad analysis in Arabidopsis thaliana.  PLoS Genetics 8(10): e1002968. doi:10.1371/journal.pgen.1002968
• 2012 Wang Y, Cheng Z, Huang J, Shi Q, Hong Y, Copenhaver GP, Gong Z, Ma H (2012) The DNA Replication Factor RFC1 is Required for Interference-Sensitive Meiotic Crossovers in Arabidopsis thaliana. PLoS Genetics 8(11): e1003039. doi:10.1371/journal.pgen.1003039