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Justin N Vaughn


Computational Biologist, USDA-ARS | Adjunct Faculty, UGA Crop & Soil Sciences

Institute of Plant Breeding, Genetics and Genomics (IPBGG)

Justin Vaughn
Justin Vaughn
Areas of expertiseEducationScholarly works

Areas of expertise

GeneticsMicrobiologyPlant BiologyCrop and Pasture Production

Education

Doctor of Philosophy, Biochemistry and Molecular Biology.

University of Tennessee, TN, United States (2011)

Bachelor of Science, Biology/Biological Sciences, General

Samford University, AL, United States (2003)

Scholarly Works

  • Reference genome sequence of the model plant Setaria, NATURE BIOTECHNOLOGY, (2012).
    Bennetzen JL, Schmutz J, Wang H, Percifield R, Hawkins J … 29 more
  • Regulation of plant translation by upstream open reading frames, PLANT SCIENCE, (2014).
    von Arnim AG, Jia Q, Vaughn JN
  • Genetic basis and detection of unintended effects in genetically modified crop plants, TRANSGENIC RESEARCH, (2015).
    Ladics GS, Bartholomaeus A, Bregitzer P, Doerrer NG, Gray A … 14 more
  • Genome-wide SNP Genotyping Resolves Signatures of Selection and Tetrasomic Recombination in Peanut, MOLECULAR PLANT, (2017).
    Clevenger J, Chu Y, Chavarro C, Agarwal G, Bertioli DJ … 14 more
  • The Genetic Architecture of Seed Composition in Soybean Is Refined by Genome-Wide Association Scans Across Multiple Populations, G3-GENES GENOMES GENETICS, (2014).
    Vaughn JN, Nelson RL, Song Q, Cregan PB, Li Z

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Contact

justin.vaughn@usda.gov 706-546-3185

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