John H. Willis
Professor of Biology
Education
Ph.D., The University of Chicago 1991
Leinonen, Päivi H., Matti J. Salmela, Kathleen Greenham, C Robertson McClung, and John H. Willis. “Populations Are Differentiated in Biological Rhythms without Explicit Elevational Clines in the Plant Mimulus laciniatus.” Journal of Biological Rhythms, July 6, 2020, 748730420936408. https://doi.org/10.1177/0748730420936408. Full Text
Coughlan, Jenn M., Maya Wilson Brown, and John H. Willis. “Patterns of Hybrid Seed Inviability in the Mimulus guttatus sp. Complex Reveal a Potential Role of Parental Conflict in Reproductive Isolation.” Current Biology : Cb 30, no. 1 (January 2020): 83-93.e5. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.cub.2019.11.023. Full Text
Flores-Vergara, Miguel A., Elen Oneal, Mario Costa, Gonzalo Villarino, Caitlyn Roberts, Maria Angels De Luis Balaguer, Sílvia Coimbra, John Willis, and Robert G. Franks. “Developmental Analysis of Mimulus Seed Transcriptomes Reveals Functional Gene Expression Clusters and Four Imprinted, Endosperm-Expressed Genes.” Frontiers in Plant Science 11 (January 2020): 132. https://doi.org/10.3389/fpls.2020.00132. Full Text
Lowry, D. B., J. M. Sobel, A. L. Angert, T. L. Ashman, R. L. Baker, B. K. Blackman, Y. Brandvain, et al. “The case for the continued use of the genus name Mimulus for all monkeyflowers.” Taxon 68, no. 4 (August 1, 2019): 617–23. https://doi.org/10.1002/tax.12122. Full Text
Coughlan, Jennifer M., and John H. Willis. “Dissecting the role of a large chromosomal inversion in life history divergence throughout the Mimulus guttatus species complex.” Molecular Ecology 28, no. 6 (March 2019): 1343–57. https://doi.org/10.1111/mec.14804. Full Text
Selby, Jessica P., and John H. Willis. “Major QTL controls adaptation to serpentine soils in Mimulus guttatus.” Molecular Ecology 27, no. 24 (December 18, 2018): 5073–87. https://doi.org/10.1111/mec.14922. Full Text
Toll, Katherine, and John H. Willis. “Hybrid inviability and differential submergence tolerance drive habitat segregation between two congeneric monkeyflowers.” Ecology 99, no. 12 (December 2018): 2776–86. https://doi.org/10.1002/ecy.2529. Full Text
Troth, Ashley, Joshua R. Puzey, Rebecca S. Kim, John H. Willis, and John K. Kelly. “Selective trade-offs maintain alleles underpinning complex trait variation in plants.” Science (New York, N.Y.) 361, no. 6401 (August 2018): 475–78. https://doi.org/10.1126/science.aat5760. Full Text
Ferris, Kathleen G., and John H. Willis. “Differential adaptation to a harsh granite outcrop habitat between sympatric Mimulus species.” Evolution; International Journal of Organic Evolution 72, no. 6 (June 2018): 1225–41. https://doi.org/10.1111/evo.13476. Full Text
Barnett, Laryssa L., Ashley Troth, and John H. Willis. “Plastic breeding system response to day length in the California wildflower Mimulus douglasii.” American Journal of Botany 105, no. 4 (April 25, 2018): 779–87. https://doi.org/10.1002/ajb2.1063. Full Text
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Selected Grants
R2 [Reciprocal Relationships]: Mentorships to Strengthen and Sustain STEM Teachers awarded by National Science Foundation (Co-Principal Investigator). 2020 to 2025
Genetic and Genomics Training Grant awarded by National Institutes of Health (Mentor). 2020 to 2025
Collaborative Research: RoL: Rapid Evolution of Reproductive Isolation via Hybrid Seed Lethality in Mimulus awarded by National Science Foundation (Principal Investigator). 2019 to 2023
Genetics Training Grant awarded by National Institutes of Health (Mentor). 1979 to 2020
Collaborative Research: Hybrid Seed Inviability and the Evolution of Endosperm Development in Mimulus awarded by National Science Foundation (Principal Investigator). 2016 to 2019
DISSERTATION RESEARCH: Understanding the Role of Chromosomal Inversions in Life History Divergence and Local Adaptation in Mimulus awarded by National Science Foundation (Principal Investigator). 2015 to 2018
Collaborative Proposal: The ecological genomic basis of parallel serpentine adaptation in Mimulus awarded by National Science Foundation (Principal Investigator). 2014 to 2018
DISSERTATION RESEARCH: Genetic Basis of Population Divergence in the Threshold of Environmental Induction of a Floral Popolyphenism in a Mimulus Species awarded by National Science Foundation (Principal Investigator). 2014 to 2018
DISSERTATION RESEARCH: Shedding Light on the Complex Relationship Between Circadian Clock Variation and the Trade-off Between Flowering Time and Flower Size awarded by National Science Foundation (Principal Investigator). 2015 to 2017
DISSERTATION RESEARCH: Genetic Basis and Adaptive Significance of Key Developmental Traits Underlying Ecological Differences Between Sympatric Sister Species awarded by National Science Foundation (Principal Investigator). 2014 to 2017