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Martin Wojciechowski

Martin Wojciechowski

Associate Dean and Associate Professor, School of Life Sciences, College of Liberal Arts and Sciences

Martin.Wojciechowski@asu.edu

480-727-7767

School of Life Sciences
Arizona State University
PO BOX 874501
Tempe, AZ 85287-4501

Titles

  • Senior Global Futures Scientist, Julie Ann Wrigley Global Futures Laboratory
  • Associate Dean and Associate Professor, School of Life Sciences, College of Liberal Arts and Sciences

Biography

Martin Wojciechowski is an evolutionary biologist interested in plants and microorganisms, specifically their evolutionary relationships, biogeographic and ecological distributions, chromosome evolution and genome structure, dates and rates of diversification, as deduced from the application of molecular data and phylogenetic methods.  His major focus is the systematics and evolutionary history of the legumes, a large and diverse family of flowering plants which includes peas, beans, alfalfa, clovers, locoweeds, acacias, mesquites, and paloverdes — many of which are agriculturally and/or ecologically important worldwide.  He is a founding member of the Legume Phylogeny Working Group, an international team of legume scientists, and serves as the legume family editor for The Jepson Manual Project (flora of vascular plants of California, UC Berkeley Press) and the soon-to-be published Legumes of Arizona, An Illustrated Flora and Reference.  Recently, his work has expanded into the genomics of cacti with an emphasis on the columnar species of North America such as the saguaro (Carnegiea gigantea).

Trained as a botanist and microbiologist, Wojciechowski has worked on topics as diverse as DNA structure and enzymology, transposable element evolution in Drosophila, cyanobacterial ecology and evolution, and the regulation of DNA recombination and repair systems in bacteria.  Before coming to ASU, he was a museum research scientist at the University of California, Berkeley, a visiting scholar at University of California, Davis, an adjunct Research Professor and NSF-sponsored Research Training Group coordinator at the University of Arizona, Tucson. He currently serves as the Associate Dean for Facilities in The College of Liberal Arts and Sciences at ASU.

Education

  • PhD, Biological Sciences, University of Colorado-Greeley, 1981
  • BS (magna cum laude), Botany, Northern Michigan University, 1975

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Journal Articles

2022

Breslin, P. B., M. F. Wojciechowski and L. C. Majure. 2022. Remarkably rapid, recent diversification of Cochemiea and Mammillaria (Cactaceae) in the Baja California, Mexico region. American Journal of Botany 109(9):1472-1487. DOI: 10.1002/ajb2.16048. (link )

Choi, I., D. Cardoso, L. P. de Queiroz, H. C. de Lima, C. Lee, T. A. Ruhlman, R. K. Jansen and M. F. Wojciechowski. 2022. Highly resolved papilionoid legume phylogeny based on plastid phylogenomics. Frontiers in Plant Science 13. DOI: 10.3389/fpls.2022.823190. (link )

Choi, I., M. F. Wojciechowski, K. Steele, S. G. Hunter, T. A. Ruhlman and R. K. Jansen. 2022. Born in the mitochondrion and raised in the nucleus: evolution of a novel tandem repeat family in Medicago polymorpha (Fabaceae). The Plant Journal 110(2):389-406. DOI: 10.1111/tpj.15676. (link )

Sanderson, M. J., A. Burquez, D. Copetti, M. McMahon, Y. Zeng and M. F. Wojciechowski. 2022. Origin and diversification of the saguaro cactus (Carhegiea gigantea): A within-species phylogenomic analysis. Systematic Biology 71(5):1178-1194. DOI: 10.1093/sysbio/syac017. (link )

Steier, J. E., T. Mandakova, M. F. Wojciechowski and K. Steele. 2022. Insights into species delimitation of selected species in the flowering plant genus Medicago section Buceras (Leguminosae). Systematic Botany 47(2):431-440. DOI: 10.1600/036364422X16512564801533. (link )

2021

Breslin, P., M. F. Wojciechowski and L. C. Majure. 2021. Molecular phylogeny of the Mammilloid clade (Cactaceae) resolves the monophyly of Mammillaria. Taxon 70(2):308-323. DOI: 10.1002/tax.12451. (link )

Charboneau, J. L., R. C. Cronn, A. Liston, M. F. Wojciechowski and M. J. Sanderson. 2021. Plastome structural evolution and homoplastic inverstions in Neo-Astragalus (Fabaceae). Genome Biology and Evolution 13(10):evab215. DOI: 10.1093/gbe/evab215. (link )

Choi, I., M. F. Wojciechowski, T. A. Ruhlman and R. K. Jansen. 2021. In and out: Evolution of viral sequences in the mitochondrial genomes of legumes (Fabaceae). Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution 163(Oct):107236. DOI: 10.1016/j.ympev.2021.107236. (link )

Fontenele, R. S., A. M. Salywon, L. C. Majure, I. N. Cobb, A. Bhaskara, J. A. Avalos-Calleros, G. R. Arguello-Astorga, K. Schmidlin, A. Khalifeh, K. Smith, J. Schreck, M. C. Lund, M. Kohler, M. F. Wojciechowski, W. C. Hodgson, R. Puente-Martinez, K. Van Doorslaer, S. Kumari, K. A. Oyeniran, C. Verniere, D. Filloux, P. Roumagnac, P. Lefeuvre, S. G. Ribeiro, S. Kraberger, D. P. Martin and A. Varsani. 2021. New World Cactaceae plants harbor diverse geminiviruses. Viruses 13(4):694. DOI: 10.3390/v13040694. (link )

Lee, C., I. Choi, D. Cardoso, H. C. de Lima, L. P. de Queiroz, M. F. Wojciechowski, R. K. Jansen and T. A. Ruhlman. 2021. The chicken or the egg? Plastome evolution and an independent loss of the inverted repeat in papilionoid legumes. The Plant Journal 107(3):861-875. DOI: 10.1111/tpj.15351. (link )

2020

Breslin, P., M. F. Wojciechowski and F. Suzart de Albuquerque. 2020. Projected climate change threatens significant range contraction of Cochemiea halei (Cactaceae), an island endemic, serpentine-adapted plant species at risk of extinction. Ecology and Evolution 10(23):13211-13224. DOI: 10.1002/ece3.6914. (link )

Fontenele, R. S., P. Roumagnac, C. Richet, S. Kraberger, D. Stainton, M. Aleamotu'a, D. Filloux, P. Bernardo, G. W. Harkins, J. McCarthy, L. S. Charles, N. S. Lamas, E. F. Abreu, R. A. Abreu, G. B. Batiste, A. L. Lacerda, A. Salywon, M. F. Wojciechowski, L. C. Majure, D. P. Martin, S. G. Ribeiro, P. Lefeuvre and A. Varsani. 2020. Diverse genomoviruses representing twenty-nine species identified associated with plants. Archives of Virology 165:2891-2901. DOI: 10.1007/s00705-020-04801-5. (link )

Fontenele, R. S., A. Salywon, L. C. Majure, I. N. Cobb, A. Bhaskara, J. A. Avalos-Calleros, G. R. Arguello-Astorga, K. Schmidlin, A. Khalifeh, K. Smith, J. Schreck, M. C. Lund, M. Kohler, M. F. Wojciechowski, W. Hodgson, R. Puente-Martinez, K. Van Doorslaer, S. Kumari, C. Verniere, D. Filloux, P. Roumagnac, P. Lefeuvre, S. G. Ribeiro, S. Kraberger, D. P. Martin and A. Varsani. 2020. A novel divergent geminivirus identified in asymptomatic New World Cactaceae plants. Viruses 12(4):398. DOI: 10.3390/v12040398. (link )

2019

Azani, N., A. Bruneau, M. F. Wojciechowski and S. Zarre. 2019. Miocene climate change as a driving force for multiple origins of annual species in Astragalus (Fabaceae, Papilionoideae). Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution 137(Aug):210-221. DOI: 10.1016/j.ympev.2019.05.008. (link )

Garcia-Pichel, F., J. Lombard, T. Soule, S. Dunaj, S. H. Wu and M. F. Wojciechowski. 2019. Timing the evolutionary advent of cyanobacteria and the later great oxidation event using gene phylogenies of a sunscreen. mBio 10(3):e00561-19. DOI: 10.1128/mBio.00561-19. (link )

Wojciechowski, M. F. 2019. Tracing the history of chromosome evolution in legumes using genomics. New Phytologist 223(4):1693-1695. DOI: 10.1111/nph.15926. (link )

2018

Afkhami, M. E., D. L. Mahler, J. H. Burns, M. G. Weber, M. F. Wojciechowski, J. Sprent and S. Y. Strauss. 2018. Symbioses with nitrogen-fixing bacteria: Nodulation and phylogenetic data across legume genera. Ecology 99(2):502. DOI: 10.1002/ecy.2110. (link )

Farruggia, F., M. Lavin and M. F. Wojciechowski. 2018. Phylogenetic systematics and biogeography of the Pantropical genus Sesbania (Leguminosae). Systematic Botany 43(2):414-429. DOI: 10.1600/036364418X697175. (link )

Lavin, M., R. T. Pennington, C. E. Hughes, G. P. Lewis, A. Delgardo-Salinas, R. Duna de Stefano, L. P. de Queiroz, D. Cardoso and M. F. Wojciechowski. 2018. DNA sequence variation among conspecific accessions of the legume Coursetia caribaea reveals geographically localized clades here ranked as species. Systematic Botany 43(3):664-675. DOI: 10.1600/036364418X697382. (link )

2017

Azani, N., M. Babineau, C. D. Bailey, H. Banks, A. R. Barbosa, R. Barbosa Pinto, J. S. Boatwright, L. M. Borges, G. K. Brown, A. Bruneau, E. Candido, D. Cardoso, K. Chung, R. Clark, A. de S. Conceicao, M. Crisp, P. Cubas, A. Delgado-Salinas, K. G. Dexter, J. J. Doyle, J. Duminil, A. N. Egan, M. de la Estrella, M. J. Falcao, D. A. Filatov, A. P. Fortuna-Perez, R. H. Fortunato, E. Gagnon, P. Gasson, J. Gastaldello Rando, A. M. Goulart de Azevedo Tozzi, B. Gunn, D. Harris, E. Haston, J. A. Hawkins, P. S. Herendeen, C. E. Hughes, J. R. Iganci, F. Javadi, S. A. Kanu, S. Kazempour-Osaloo, G. C. Kite, B. B. Klitgaard, F. J. Kochanovski, E. J. Koenen, L. Kovar, M. Lavin, M. le Roux, G. P. Lewis, H. C. de Lima, M. C. Lopez-Roberts, B. Mackinder, V. H. Maia, V. Malecot, V. F. Mansano, B. Marazzi, S. Mattapha, J. T. Miller, C. Mitsuyuki, T. Moura, D. J. Murphy, M. Nageswara-Rao, B. Nevado, D. M. Neves, D. I. Ojeda, R. T. Pennington, D. E. Prado, G. Prenner, L. Paganucci de Queira, G. Ramos, F. L. Ranzato Filardi, P. G. Ribeiro, M. de Lourdes Rico-Arce, M. J. Sanderson, J. Santos-Silva, W. R. Sao-Mateus, M. J. Silva, M. F. Simon, C. Sinou, C. Snak, E. R. de Souza, J. Sprent, K. P. Steele, J. E. Steier, R. Steeves, C. H. Stirton, S. Tagane, B. M. Torke, H. Toyama, D. Trabuco da Cruz, M. Vatanparast, J. J. Wieringa, M. Wink, M. F. Wojciechowski, T. Yahara, T. Yi and E. Zimmerman. 2017. A new subfamily classification of the Leguminosae based on a taxonomically comprehensive phylogeny: The Legume Phylogeny Working Group (LPWG). Taxon 66(1):44-77. DOI: 10.12705/661.3. (link )

Azani, N., A. Bruneau, M. F. Wojciechowski and S. Zarre. 2017. Molecular phylogenetics of annual Astragalus (Fabaceae) and its systematic implications. Botanical Journal of the Linnean Society 184(3):347-265. DOI: 10.1093/botlinnean/box032. (link )

Copetti, D., A. Burquez, E. Bustamante, J. L. Charboneau, K. L. Childs, L. E. Eguiarte, S. Lee, T. Liu, M. McMahon, N. K. Whiteman, R. A. Wing, M. F. Wojciechowski and M. J. Sanderson. 2017. Extensive gene tree discordance and hemiplasy shaped the genomes of North American columnar cacti. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences 114(45):12003-12008. DOI: 10.1073/pnas.1706367114. (link )

Paganucci de Queira, L., W. R. Sao-Mateus, A. Delgado-Salinas, B. M. Torke, G. P. Lewis, O. Dorado, J. K. Ardley, M. F. Wojciechowski and D. Cardoso. 2017. A molecular phylogeny reveals the Cuban enigmatic genus Behaimia as a new piece in the Brongniartieae puzzle of papilionoid legumes. Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution 109(April):191-202. DOI: 10.1016/j.ympev.2017.01.001. (link )

Zimmers, J. C., M. A. Thomas, L. Yang, A. Bombarely, M. M. Mancuso, M. F. Wojciechowski and J. F. Smith. 2017. Species boundaries in the Astragalus cusickii complex delimited using molecular phylogenetic techniques. Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution 114(Sept):93-110. DOI: 10.1016/j.ympev.2017.06.004. (link )

2016

Kropp, H., K. Ogle and M. F. Wojciechowski. 2016. A framework for partitioning plant rooting profiles from neighbours using multiple data types. Journal of Vegetation Science 27(3):587-595. DOI: 10.1111/jvs.12377. (link )

2015

Hoffmann, D., J. Maldonado, M. F. Wojciechowski and F. Garcia-Pichel. 2015. Hydrogen export from intertidal cyanobacterial mats: Sources, fluxes and the influence of community composition. Environmental Microbiology 17(10):3738-3753. DOI: 10.1111/1462-2920.12769. (link )

Sanderson, M. J., D. Copetti, A. Burquez, E. Bustamante, J. L. Charboneau, L. E. Eguiarte, S. Kumar, H. Lee, J. Lee, M. McMahon, K. Steele, R. A. Wing, T. Yang, D. Zwickl and M. F. Wojciechowski. 2015. Exceptional reduction of the plastid genome of saguaro cactus (Carnegiea gigantea, Cactaceae): loss of the ndh gene suite and inverted repeat. Botany 102(7):1115-1127. DOI: 10.3732/ajb.1500184. (link )

Swanepoel, W., M. M. le Roux, M. F. Wojciechowski and A. E. Van Wyk. 2015. Oberholzeria (Fabaceae subfam. Faboideae), a new monotypic legume genus from Namibia. PLOS One 10(3):e0122080. DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0122080. (link )

2013

Borges, L. M., A. Bruneau, D. Cardoso, M. Crisp, A. Delgado-Salinas, J. J. Doyle, A. Egan, P. S. Herendeen, C. E. Hughes, G. J. Kenicer, B. B. Klitgaard, E. J. Koenen, M. Lavin, G. P. Lewis, M. A. Luckow, B. Mackinder, V. Malecot, J. T. Miller, R. T. Pennington, L. P. de Queiroz, B. D. Schrire, M. F. Simon, K. Steele, B. M. Torke, J. J. Wieringa and M. F. Wojciechowski. 2013. Towards a new classification system for legumes: Progress report from the 6th International Legume Conference. South African Journal of Botany 89(Nov):3-9. DOI: 10.1016/j.sajb.2013.07.022. (link )

Cardoso, D., R. T. Pennington, L. P. de Queiroz, J. S. Boatwright, B. Van Wyk, M. F. Wojciechowski and M. Lavin. 2013. Reconstructing the deep-branching relationships of the papilionoid legumes. South African Journal of Botany 89(Nov):58-75. DOI: 10.1016/j.sajb.2013.05.001. (link )

Legume Phylogeny Working Group, , A. Bruneau, J. J. Doyle, P. S. Herendeen, C. E. Hughes, G. J. Kenicer, G. P. Lewis, B. Mackinder, R. T. Pennington, M. J. Sanderson, M. F. Wojciechowski, S. Boatwright, G. K. Brown, D. Cardoso, M. Crisp, A. N. Egan, R. H. Fortunato, J. A. Hawkins, T. Kajita, B. B. Klitgaard, E. J. Koenen, M. Lavin, M. A. Luckow, B. Marazzi, M. McMahon, J. T. Miller, D. J. Murphy, H. Ohashi, L. P. de Queiroz, L. Rico, T. Sarkinen, B. D. Schrire, M. F. Simon, E. R. de Souza, K. Steele, B. M. Torke, J. J. Wieringa and B. Van Wyk. 2013. Legume phylogeny and classification in the 21st century: Progress, prospects and lessons for other species–rich clades. Taxon 62(2):217-248. DOI: 10.12705/622.8. (link )

Wojciechowski, M. F. 2013. The origin and phylogenetic relationships of the Californian chaparral ‘paleoendemic’ Pickeringia (Leguminosae). Systematic Botany 38(1):132-142. DOI: 10.1600/036364413X662024. (link )

Wojciechowski, M. F. 2013. Towards a new classification of Leguminosae: Naming clades using non-Linnaean phylogenetic nomenclature. South African Journal of Botany 89(Nov):85-93. DOI: 10.1016/j.sajb.2013.06.017. (link )

Zhang, Y., M. Ferandez-Aparicio, E. K. Wafula, M. Das, Y. Jiao, N. J. Wickett, L. A. Honaas, P. E. Ralph, M. F. Wojciechowski, M. P. Timko, J. I. Yoder, J. H. Westwood and C. W. dePamphilis. 2013. Evolution of a horizontally acquired legume gene, albumin 1, in the parasitic plant Phelipanche aegyptiaca and related species. BMC Evolutionary Biology 13:Art. 48. DOI: 10.1186/1471-2148-13-48. (link )

2012

Cardoso, D., L. P. de Queiroz, R. T. Pennington, H. C. de Lima, E. Fonty, M. F. Wojciechowski and M. Lavin. 2012. Revisiting the phylogeny of papilionoid legumes: New insights from comprehensively sampled early-branching lineages. American Journal of Botany 99(12):1991-2013. DOI: 10.3732/ajb.1200380. (link )

Geeta, R., L. M. Davalos, A. Levy, L. Bohs, M. Lavin, K. Mummenhoff, N. Sinha and M. F. Wojciechowski. 2012. Keeping it simple: Flowering plants tend to retain, and revert to, simple leaves. New Phytologist 193(2):481-493. DOI: 10.1111/j.1469-8137.2011.03951.x. (link )

2011

Riahi, M., S. Zarre, A. Aasghar Maassoumi, S. Kazempour-Osaloo and M. F. Wojciechowski. 2011. Towards a phylogeny for Astragalus section Caprini (Fabaceae) and its allies based on nuclear and plastid DNA sequences. Plant Systematics and Evolution 293:119-133. DOI: 10.1007/s00606-011-0417-3. (link )

Snow, N., J. McFadden, T. M. Evans, A. Salywon, M. F. Wojciechowski and P. G. Wilson. 2011. Morphological and molecular evidence of polyphyly in Rhodomyrtus (Myrtacease: Myrteae). Systematic Botany 36(2):390-404. DOI: 10.1600/036364411X569570. (link )

2007

Dugan, L. E., M. F. Wojciechowski and L. R. Landrum. 2007. A large-scale plant survey: Efficient vouchering with identification through morphology and DNA analysis. Taxon 56(4):1238-1244. (link )

Posters

2006

Dugan, L., L. R. Landrum, C. Gries, M. F. Wojciechowski and D. Hope. 2006. A system for creating, storing, and identifying plant voucher specimens from a large sampling area. Poster presented at the 19 January 2006 CAP LTER 8th Annual Poster Symposium, Global Institute of Sustainability, Arizona State University, Tempe, AZ. (link )

Dugan, L., J. S. Walker, C. Gries, M. F. Wojciechowski and L. R. Landrum. 2006. The effects of urbanization on plant species richness in and around a rapidly growing desert city. Poster presented at the 6-11 August 2006 91st Annual Meeting of the Ecological Society of America, Memphis, TN.

Presentations

2010

Hanlon, M. R., S. J. Mock, P. Nuthulapati, M. B. Gonzales, P. S. Soltis, D. E. Soltis, L. C. Majure, A. Payton, B. Mishler, S. Tremblay, T. Madsen, R. Olmstead, R. McCourt, M. F. Wojciechowski and N. Merchant. 2010. My-Plant.org: A phylogenetically structured social network Publisher: IEEE Cite This PDF. Presentation at the 010 Gateway Computing Environments Workshop (GCE, New Orleans, LA. (link )