Deborah S. Katz-Downie

Present Position:

Research Associate

Address:

Department of Plant Biology
239 Morrill Hall
505 South Goodwin Avenue
School of Integrative Biology
University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Urbana, Illinois 61801 U.S.A.

PHONE 217-333-1275
FAX 217-244-7246
E-MAIL dkatzdow@life.uiuc.edu

Education:

• M. Sc., Systematic Biology, University of Ottawa, Ontario (1988)

• B. Sc. Ag., Biological Science (Honors Specialization in Botany) McGill University, Macdonald Campus, Ste. Anne de Bellevue, Quebec (1984)

Research Experience:

• January 1992 to present. Department of Plant Biology, University of Illinois, Urbana, Illinois. Research Associate of Dr. Stephen R. Downie.

• August 1989 to December 1991. Department of Biology, Indiana University, Bloomington, Indiana. Research Associate of Dr. J. D. Palmer.

• July 1988 to August 1989. Department of Biology, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, Michigan. Research Associate of Dr. J. D. Palmer.

• September 1986 to May 1988. Department of Biology, University of Ottawa, Ontario. Statistical consultant to undergraduate and graduate students.

• September to December 1984. Stauffer Chemical Company, Research and Development Laboratory, Los Altos, California. Research Technician of Dr. C. Spillner.

• August 1984. Michigan Nature Conservancy, Lake Superior, Michigan. Research Associate for Rare Plants Inventory at Pictured Rocks National Lakeshore.

• December 1983 to June 1984. Bailey Hortorium, Cornell University, Ithaca, New York. Herbarium Technician of Dr. P. Hippio, Bryophyte Division.

• December 1983 to June 1984. Department of Plant Pathology, Cornell University, Ithaca, New York. Herbarium Technician of Dr. R. P. Korf.

• August to December 1983. Department of Ecology and Systematics, Cornell University, Ithaca, New York. Field Assistant of Dr. B. Bedford.

Fellowships and Awards:

• Travel Award to attend the 23rd annual Canadian Botanical Association meeting in Montreal (1987)

• M.S. Entrance Scholarship, University of Ottawa (1985)

• University of Michigan Fellow (NETP), University of Michigan Biological Station (1984)

• Faculty Scholar Award, McGill University (1982-1983)

• Botanical Society of America Young Botanist Award, McGill University (1983)

• Dorothy E. Swales Prize, McGill University (1983)

Publications:

• McNeill, J., E.A. Odell, L.L. Consaul and D.S. Katz. 1987. American code and latter lectotypifications of Linnaean generic names dating from 1753: a case study of discrepencies. Taxon 36: 350-401.

• Pryer, K.M. and D.S. Katz. 1987. Polygonum erectum L. In K.M. Pryer and G.W. Argus eds., Atlas of the rare vascular plants of Ontario. Part IV. National Museum of Natural Sciences, Ottawa.

• Wolfe, K.H., D.S. Katz-Downie, C.W. Morden and J.D. Palmer. 1992. Evolution of the plastid ribosomal RNA operon in a nongreen parasitic plant: Accelerated sequence evolution, altered promoter structure, and tRNA pseudogenes. Plant Molecular Biology 18: 1037-1048.

• Downie, S.R., D.S. Katz-Downie, K.H. Wolfe, P.J. Calie, and J.D. Palmer. 1994. Structure and evolution of the largest chloroplast gene (ORF2280): internal plasticity and multiple gene loss during angiosperm evolution. Current Genetics 25: 367-378.

• Downie, S.R., E. Llanas, and D.S. Katz-Downie. 1996. Multiple independent losses of the rpoC1 intron in angiosperm chloroplast DNAs. Systematic Botany 21: 135-151.

• Downie, S.R. and D.S. Katz-Downie. 1996. A molecular phylogeny of Apiaceae subfamily Apioideae: evidence from nuclear ribosomal DNA internal transcribed spacer sequences. American Journal of Botany 83: 234-251.

• Downie, S.R., D.S. Katz-Downie, and K.-J. Cho. 1996. Phylogenetic analysis of Apiaceae subfamily Apioideae using nucleotide sequences from the chloroplast rpoC1 intron. Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution 6: 1-18.

• Downie, S.R., S. Ramanath, D.S. Katz-Downie, and E. Llanas. 1998. Molecular systematics of Apiaceae subfamily Apioideae: phylogenetic analyses of nuclear ribosomal DNA internal transcribed spacer and plastid rpoC1 intron sequences. American Journal of Botany 85: 563-591.

• Downie, S.R., D.S. Katz-Downie, and K.-J. Cho. 1997. Relationships in the Caryophyllales as suggested by phylogenetic analyses of partial chloroplast DNA ORF2280 homolog sequences. American Journal of Botany 84: 253-273.

• Downie, S.R., D.S. Katz-Downie, E.J. Rogers, H.L. Zujewski, and E. Small. 1998. Multiple independent losses of the plastid rpoC1 intron in Medicago (Fabaceae) as inferred from phylogenetic analyses of nuclear ribosomal DNA internal transcribed spacer sequences. Canadian Journal of Botany 76: 791-803.

• Valiejo-Roman, K.M., M.G. Pimenov, E.I. Terentieva, S.R. Downie, D.S. Katz-Downie, and A.V. Troitsky. 1998. Molecular systematics of the Umbelliferae: using nuclear rDNA internal transcribed spacer sequences to resolve issues of evolutionary relationships. Botanicheskii Zhurnal 83: 1-22. (In English.)

• Katz-Downie, D.S., K.M. Valiejo-Roman, E.I. Terentieva, A.V. Troitsky, M.G. Pimenov, B.-Y. Lee, and S.R. Downie. 1999. Towards a molecular phylogeny of Apiaceae subfamily Apioideae: additional information from nuclear ribosomal DNA ITS sequences. Plant Systematics and Evolution 216: 167-195.

• Downie, S.R., and D.S. Katz-Downie. 1999. Phylogenetic analysis of chloroplast rps16 intron sequences reveals relationships within the woody southern African Apiaceae subfamily Apioideae. Canadian Journal of Botany 77: 1120-1135.

• Downie, S.R., D.S. Katz-Downie, and K. Spalik. 2000. A phylogeny of Apiaceae tribe Scandiceae: evidence from nuclear ribosomal DNA internal transcribed spacer sequences. American Journal of Botany 87: 76-95.

• Downie, S.R., D.S. Katz-Downie, and M.F. Watson. 2000. A phylogeny of the flowering plant family Apiaceae based on chloroplast DNA rpl16 and rpoC1 intron sequences: towards a suprageneric classification of subfamily Apioideae. American Journal of Botany 87: 273-292.

• Downie, S.R., M.F. Watson, K. Spalik, and D.S. Katz-Downie. 2000. Molecular systematics of Old World Apioideae (Apiaceae): relationships among some members of tribe Peucedaneae sensu lato, the placement of several island-endemic species, and resolution within the apioid superclade. Canadian Journal of Botany 78: 506-528.

• Downie, S.R., G.M. Plunkett, M.F. Watson, K. Spalik, D.S. Katz-Downie, K.M. Valiejo-Roman, E.I. Terentieva, M.G. Pimenov, A.V. Troitsky, B.-Y. Lee, J. Lahham, and A. El-Oqlah. 2001. Tribes and clades within Apiaceae subfamily Apioideae: the contribution of molecular data. Edinburgh Journal of Botany 58: 301-330.

Abstracts:

• Downie, S.R., D.S. Katz-Downie and K.-J. Cho. 1995. Structural and sequence variation in the highly conserved cpDNA inverted repeat region: implications for higher-level taxonomic studies. American Journal of Botany 82 (6): 126.

• Ramanath, S., D.S. Katz-Downie and S.R. Downie. 1995. A molecular phylogeny of Apiaceae subfamily Apioideae: evidence from nuclear ribosomal DNA. American Journal of Botany 82 (6): 157.

• Downie, S.R., S. Ramanath and D.S. Katz-Downie. 1994. A molecular phylogeny of Apiaceae subfamily Apioideae: Evidence from nuclear ribosomal DNA internal transcribed spacer sequences and chloroplast DNA restriction site polymorphisms. American Journal of Botany 81 (6): 153.

• Downie, S.R., D.S. Katz-Downie and J.D. Palmer. 1993. Internal plasticity and multiple gene loss of the largest chloroplast gene during angiosperm evolution. American Journal of Botany 80 (6): 146-147.

• Katz-Downie, D.S., P.J. Calie, C.R. Cartwright and J.D. Palmer. 1989. Extensive fragmentation of three chloroplast genes: rpoA, rps11 and ORF2300 in Pelargonium hortorum (Geraniaceae). American Journal of Botany 76 (6): 150.

• Katz, D.S. and J. McNeill. 1987. The origin and present distribution of Polygonum achoreum Blake and P. erectum L. (Section Polygonum). In W. Greuter, B. Zimmer and H.D. Behnke (comps. & eds.). The XIV International Botanical Congress Berlin (West), Germany. 24 July - 1 August, 1987.

• Katz, D S. and J. McNeill. 1987. The origin and present distribution of Polygonum achoreum Blake (Section Polygonum). 23rd Annual Meeting of the Canadian Botanical Association (CBA). June 14-18, 1987. University of Montreal, Montreal, Quebec.

• Katz, D.S. and J. McNeill. 1987. The origin and present distribution of Polygonum achoreum Blake (Section Polygonum). American Journal of Botany 74 (5): 738.

• Katz, D.S. and J. McNeill. 1987. The origin and present distribution of Polygonum achoreum Blake (Section Polygonum). Ontario Ecology and Ethology Colloquium (OEEC), April 20-22, 1987. University of Ottawa, Ontario.

• Katz, D.S. and J. McNeill. 1986. The application of numerical methods to the Carex aurea Fern. complex (Section Bicolores) in the Upper Great Lakes Region, Michigan. 20th Annual International Conference on Numerical Taxonomy, October 24-26, 1986. State University of New York at Stony Brook.

• Katz, D.S. and J. McNeill. 1986. The biosystematics of Polygonum achoreum Blake and P. erectum L. (Section Polygonum). American Journal of Botany 73 (5): 770.

• Katz, D.S. and J. McNeill. 1986. The biosystematics of Polygonum achoreum Blake and P. erectum L. 22nd Annual Meeting of the CBA, June 22-25, 1986. Laurentian University, Sudbury, Ontario.

• Katz, D.S., E.G. Voss and J. McNeill. 1986. A taxonomic investigation of Carex aurea Nutt. and C. garberi Fern. (Section Bicolores) in Emmet and Chippewa Counties, Michigan. American Journal of Botany 73 (5): 770.

Theses titles:

• Katz, D.S. 1988. The Biosystematics of Polygonum achoreum and P. erectum (Section Polygonum). M. Sc. thesis, University of Ottawa, Ontario.

• Katz, D.S. 1983. The distribution of Centaurea maculosa Lam. in eastern Canada. B.Sc. honors thesis, McGill University, Macdonald Campus, Ste. Anne de Bellevue, QuŽbec.

Research Support:

• The distribution of Centaurea maculosa Lam. in eastern Canada. Royal Canadian Geographical Society (QuŽbec). $1,500. (1982).

• Teaching Assistant Experience at the Department of Biology, University of Ottawa, Ontario.
  • Forme et fonction des plantes (BIO1904) 1985-1988.
  • Taxonomy of Vascular Plants (BIO3110) 1986.
  • Modern Systematics: Principles and Practices (BIO3111) 1986-1987.