Matt Rutter
Professor, Academic Director, Stono Preserve
Education
Ph.D. - Duke UniversityA.B. - Harvard University
Research Interests
My interests are at the interface of evolution, genomics and ecology. I use plants as my study organisms, primarily the model genetic plant Arabidopsis thaliana. Much of my recent research investigates the contribution of mutation to evolutionary processes in a variety of ecological contexts. I am also part of the unPAK project (undergraduates Phenotyping Arabidopsis knockouts) which is building a database of phenotypes of single-knockout mutants in A. thaliana.
Courses Taught
BIOL 211: Biodiversity, Ecology and Conservation BiologyBIOL 305: Genetics
BIOL 350: Evolution
EVSS 610: Environmental Biology
Honors & Awards
William V. Moore Distinguished Teacher-Scholar Award, 2022Gordon E. Jones Distinguished Achievement Award, 2022
Michael J. Auerbach Award for Excellence in Student Research Mentorship, 2020
Selected Publications
Monroe, J.G., Srikant, T., Carbonell-Bejerano, P., Becker, C., Lensink, M., Exposito-Alonso, M., Klein, M., Hildebrandt, J., Neumann, M., Kliebenstein, D. and Weng, M.L., 2022. Mutation bias reflects natural selection in Arabidopsis thaliana. Nature, 602(7895), pp.101-105. https://www.nature.com/articles/s41586-021-04269-6
Weng, M.L., Ågren, J., Imbert, E., Nottebrock, H., Rutter, M.T. and Fenster, C.B., 2021. Fitness effects of mutation in natural populations of Arabidopsis thaliana reveal a complex influence of local adaptation. Evolution, 75(2), pp.330-348. https://doi.org/10.1111/evo.14152
Jensen-Ryan, D., Murren, C.J., Bisner, A., Rutter, M.T. and Strand, A., 2021. Engaging undergraduates in research experiences at a distance: Insights and recommendations for remote UREs. Journal of microbiology & biology education, 22(1), pp.10-1128. https://journals.asm.org/doi/abs/10.1128/jmbe.v22i1.2375Rutter, M.T., Bisner, A.M., Kohler, C., Morgan, K., Musselman, O., Pickel, J., Tan, J., Yamasaki, Y., Willson, J., Callahan, H.S. and Strand, A.E., 2020. Disrupting the disruptors: the consequences of mutations in mobile elements for ecologically important life history traits. Evolutionary Ecology, 34, pp.363-377.
https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s10682-020-10038-0
Rutter, M.T., Murren, C.J., Callahan, H.S., Bisner, A.M., Leebens‐Mack, J., Wolyniak, M.J. and Strand, A.E., 2019. Distributed phenomics with the un PAK project reveals the effects of mutations. The Plant Journal, 100(1), pp.199-211. https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.1111/tpj.14427
Weng, M.L., Becker, C., Hildebrandt, J., Neumann, M., Rutter, M.T., Shaw, R.G., Weigel, D. and Fenster, C.B., 2019. Fine-grained analysis of spontaneous mutation spectrum and frequency in Arabidopsis thaliana. Genetics, 211(2), pp.703-714. https://academic.oup.com/genetics/article/211/2/703/5931174
Rutter, M.T., Wieckowski, Y.M., Murren, C.J. and Strand, A.E., 2017. Fitness effects of mutation: testing genetic redundancy in Arabidopsis thaliana. Journal of Evolutionary Biology, 30(6), pp.1124-1135.
https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.1111/jeb.13081
Henson, T.M., Cory, W. and Rutter, M.T., 2013. Extensive variation in cadmium tolerance and accumulation among populations of Chamaecrista fasciculata. PloS one, 8(5), p.e63200.
https://journals.plos.org/plosone/article?id=10.1371/journal.pone.0063200
Rutter, M.T., Cross, K.V. and Van Woert, P.A., 2012. Birth, death and subfunctionalization in the Arabidopsis genome. Trends in plant science, 17(4), pp.204-212. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.tplants.2012.01.006
Valentine ME, Wolyniak MJ, Rutter MT. 2012. Extensive Phenotypic Variation among Allelic T-DNA Inserts in Arabidopsis thaliana. PLoS ONE 7(9): e44981. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0044981
https://journals.plos.org/plosone/article?id=10.1371/journal.pone.0044981