Hector Sanchez Villeda  Co-PI  SanchezvilledaH@missouri.edu  (573) 884-3439

Technical Director for The Maize Mapping Project, NSF,  210 Curtis Hall Department of Agronomy University of Missouri -- Columbia Columbia, MO 65211-7020

Education: MSc., Computer Science, Fundacion Arturo Rosenblueth, Mexico; B.S., Civil Engineering, National Autonomous University of Mexico
Experience: 1999-date Technical Director for Maize Mapping Project, University of Missouri-Columbia.; 1989-1999 Project Leader, CIMMYT (International Maize and Wheat Improvement Center), Mexico.; 1985-1988 Systems Production Manager, General Foods of Mexico; 1984-1985 Programmer Analyst, Dina Cummings, S.A.; 1983-1984 Programmer Analyst, Secretaria de Gobernacion, Mexico.
Program Goals: develop quality software that allows the Maize Mapping Project reserchers complete the wet lab activities to produce the integrated map for the intermated B73/Mo17 population as well as provide software tools that allow the community take advantage of them to be used in their labs.
 

Héctor Sánchez Villeda has over 25 years of experience in all aspects of systems development but prefers to emphasize his technical skills in systems development using Yourdon and UML methodoligies. While some of his experience has been in large mainframe environments, he has also acquired considerable skills in developing systems for microcomputers, client-server systems and web applications for combined environments.

In terms of application development and support, Héctor has a wide range of experience which includes financial applications (general ledger, customer account management, accounts payable and receivable banking conciliation); administrative applications (human resources, payroll, statistical sales); manufacturing requirements planning (costing, purchasing inventory and bill of materials); scientific applications (seed inventory, data management, statistical data analysis, laboratory information management). He has also fulfilled roles as system production manager, in charge of all of the critical applications systems running in the company, as well as computing requirements, hardware, backups, personnel management, and data entry processes working with Information Technology Infraestructure Library (ITIL) methodology to ensure the quality of the daily basis oprerations.

His main interests are Bioinformatics, software development methodologies and techniques, and database interoperability.

Publications

• DNAAlignEditor: DNA Alignment editor tool. Hector Sanchez-Villeda, Steven Schroeder, Sherry Flint-Garcia, Kstherine E Guill, Masanori Yamasaki, and Michael D McMullen 2008.  BMC Bioinformatics 2008, 9:154 doi:10.1186/1471-9-154 ISSN 1471-2105.

• Development of an Integrated Laboratory Information Management System for the Maize Mapping Project. Sanchez-Villeda H, Schroeder S, Polacco M, McMullen M, Havermann S, Davis G, Vroh-Bi I, Cone K, Sharopova N, Yim Y, Schultz L, Duru N, Musket T, Houchins K, Fang Z, Gardiner J, Coe E 2003. Bioinformatics 19:2022-2030.

• Physical and Genetic Structure of the Maize Genome Reflects Its Complex Evolutionary History Fusheng Wei, Ed Coe, William Nelson, Arvind K Bharti, Fred Engler, Ed Butler, HyeRan Kim, Jose Luis Goicoechea, Mingsheng Chen, Seunghee Lee, Galina Fuks, Hector Sanchez-Villeda, Steven Schroeder, Zhiwei Fang, Michael McMullen, Georgia Davis, John E Bowers, Andrew H Paterson, Mary Schaeffer, Jack Gardiner, Karen Cone, Joachim Messing, Carol Soderlund, and Rod A Wing 2007. PLoS Genet 3(7): e123. doi:10.1371/journal.pgen.0030123

• A Bac pooling strategy combined with PCR-based screenings in a large, highly repetitive genome enables integration of the maize genetic and physical maps. Young-Sun Yim, Patricia Moak, Hector Sanchez-Villeda, Teresa A Musket, Pamela Close, Patricia E Klein, John E Mullet, Michael D McMullen, Zheiwei Fang, Mary L Schaeffer, Jack M Gardiner, Edward H Coe Jr, Georgia L Davis 2007. BMC Genomics 1471-2164/8/47.

• Single nucleotide polymorphisms and insertion-deletions for genetic markers and anchoring the maize fingerprint contig physical map. Vroh Bi, I, McMullen, M.D., Sanchez-Villeda, H. Schoreder, S., Gardiner, J., Polacco, M., Soderlund, C., Wing, R., Fang, Z., Coe, E.H. Jr. 2006. Crop science v. 46, no. 1 p.12-21.

• A Large-Scale Screen for Artificial Selection in Maize Identifies Candidate Agronomic Loci for Domestication and Crop Improvement. Massanori Yamasaki, Maud I. Tenaillon, Irie Vroh Bi, Steve G. Schroeder, Hector Sanchez-Villeda, John F. Doebley, Brandon S. Gaut, and Michael D. McMullen 2005. Plant Cell 17:2859-2872.

• Anchoring 9371 Maize EST Unigenes to the Bac Contig Map by Two-Dimensional Overgo Hibridization. Gardiner, J., Schroeder, S., Polacco, M.L., Sanchez-Villeda, H., Morgante, M., Tingey, S., Chou, H., Brinner, S., Wing, R., Core Jr, E.H. 2004. Plant Physiology. 134:1317-1326.

• iMap a database-driven utility to integrate and access the genetic and physical maps of maize. Fang Z, Cone K, Sanchez-Villeda H, Polacco M, McMullen M, Schroeder S, Gardiner J, Davis G, Havermann S, Yim Y, Vroh Bi I, Coe E 2003. Bioinformatics 19 2105-11.

• cMap the comparative genetic, map viewer. Z. Fang, M. Polacco, S. Chen, S. Schroeder, D. Hancock, H. Sanchez, and E. Coe 2003. Bioinformatics Application Note 19 416-417.

• Genetic, physical and informatics resources for maize: On the road to an integrated map. Cone K, McMullen M, Irie B. Vroh, Davis G, Young-Sun Yim, Gardiner J, Polacco M, Sanchez-Villeda H, Zhiwei Fang, Steven Schroeder, Seth Havermann, John E. Bowers, Paterson A, Soderlund C, Fred Engler, Wing R and Coe E. 2002. Special Issue on Grasses.

• Development and mapping of SSR markers for maize. Sharopova N, McMullen MD, Schultz L, Schroeder S, Sanchez-Villeda H, Gardiner J, Bergstrom D, Houchins K, Melia-Hancock S, Musket T, Duru N, Polacco M, Edwards K, Ruff T, Register JC, Brouwer C, Thompson R, Velasco R, Chin E, Lee M, Woodman-Clikeman W, Long MJ, Liscum E, Cone K, Davis G, Coe E. 2002. Plant Mol Biol 48:463-481.

• Access to the maize genome: An integrated physical and genetic map. Coe E, Cone K, McMullen M, Chen S, Davis G, Gardiner J, Liscum E, Polacco M, Paterson A, Sanchez-Villeda H, Soderlund C and Wing R. 2002. Plant Physiol 128:9-12.

• MaizeDB - a functional genomics perspective. Polacco, M, Coe, E, Fang, Z, Hancock, D, Sanchez-Villeda, H, Schroeder, S. 2002. Comparative and Functional Genomics 3:128-131.

• Fox, P.N., R.I. Magana, C. Lopez, H. Sanchez, R. Herrera, V. Vicarte, J.W. White, B. Skovmand, and M.C. Mackay. 1997. International Wheat Information System (IWIS), Version 2. CIMMYT, Mexico, D.F. CD-ROM publication.

• Mackay, M.C., Skovmand, B, Martynov, S.P., Fox, P.N. and Sanchez, H. 1996. Genetic Resources Information Package (GRIP I) for Wheat. Mexico,D.F.: CIMMYT.

• Fox, P.N., C. Lopez, B. Skovmand, H. Sanchez, R. Herrera, J.W. White, E. Duveiller and M. van Ginkel. 1996. International Wheat Information System (IWIS), Version 1. CIMMYT, Mexico, D.F. CD-ROM publication.