Aaron Schmitz

About

Experience

• Post Doctoral Research Associate at University of Nebraska-Lincoln
  Nov 2011 - Present · 14 yrs 8 mos

  Identification and molecular analysis of genes important for abiotic stress tolerance. Projects include flood survival in rice and maize and iron deficiency in soybean. •Schmitz AJ, Begcy K, Sarath G, Walia H. Rice Ovate Family Protein 2 (OFP2) alters hormonal homeostasis and vasculature development. Plant Sci (2015) 241:177-188 •Campbell MT, Proctor CA, Dou Y, Schmitz AJ, Phansak P, Kruger G, Zhang C, Walia H. Genetic and molecular characterization of submergence response identifies Subtol6 as a major submergence tolerance locus in maize. PLoS ONE (2015) 10(3):e0120385 •Schmitz AJ, Folsom JJ, Jikamaru Y, Ronald P, Walia H. SUB1A-mediated submergence tolerance response in rice involves differential regulation of the brassinosteroid pathway. New Phytol (2013) 198:1060-1070.

• Michigan State University (East Lansing, MI)
  • Post Doctoral Research Associate
    2011 - 2011 · Less than a year

  • Graduate Research Assistant
    2004 - 2011 · 7 yrs

    Research on plastid organelle biology. •Zhang M, Schmitz AJ, Kadirjan-Kalbach DK, TerBush AD, Osteryoung KW. Choroplast division protein ARC3 regulates chloroplast FtsZ-ring assembly and postitioning in arabidopsis through interaction with FtsZ2. Plant Cell (2013) 25:1787-1802. •Schmitz AJ, Glynn JM, Olson BJ, Stokes KD, Osteryoung KW. Arabidopsis chloroplast division proteins FtsZ2-1 and FtsZ2-2 are functionally redundant, but FtsZ proteins are not essential for chloroplast partitioning or plant growth and development. Mol Plant (2009) 2:1211-1222. •Glynn JM, Yang Y, Stanislav V, Schmitz AJ, Hemmes M, Miyagishima SY, Osteryoung KW. PARC6, a novel chloroplast division factor, influences FtsZ assembly and is required for recruitment of PDV1 during chloroplast division in Arabidopsis. Plant J (2009) 59:700-711. •Yang Y, Glynn JM, Olson BJ, Schmitz AJ, Osteryoung KW. Plastid division: across time and space. Current Opinion in Plant Biology (2008) 11:577-584

• Laboratory Technician at Donald Danforth Plant Science Center
  2002 - 2004 · 2 yrs

  Investigated the molecular components needed for polarized cell growth in plants. •Preuss ML, Schmitz AJ, Thole JM, Bonner HKS, Otegui MS, Nielsen E. A role for the RabA4b effector protein PI-4Kβ1 in polarized expansion of root hair cells in Arabidopsis thaliana. (2006) J. Cell Biol. 172:991-998

• Howard Hughes Undergraduate Research Fellow at University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
  2000 - 2002 · 2 yrs

  Examined plant sucrose transport activity in response to sugar-sensing.

• Intern - inorganics laboratory at US Environmental Protection Agency (EPA)
  Jun 2000 - Aug 2000 · 3 mos