AMY M. CLORE
Currently an Assistant Professor of Biology at New College of Florida
I am interested in how extracellular signals are transduced into intracellular changes in biochemistry and gene expression. Specifically, I am investigating changes in MAP kinase activity and gene expression that occur in the maize pulvinus in response to gravistimulation, and the roles these changes may play in establishing differential growth. Also of interest are the study of ways the cytoskeleton may function in cell signaling and macromolecular trafficking in plant cells.
Teaching
Interests:
As part of the NCSORT outreach program, I have worked with
hundreds of students over a wide age-range (preschool-high school) from
several different area schools. I also was an instructor in the summer
Special Topics Course for science teachers, entitled "Plants, Gravity
and Space." I have developed such course components as "Plants
and What They Do" (for younger children), "Mechanotransduction",
"Reaction Wood" and "Crops in Space."
Selected Publications:
Clore, A.M., Turner, W. S., Morse, A.M., and Whetten, R. W. (in preparation). Changes in MAP kinase activity occur in the maize pulvinus in response to reorientation and appear to be important for the bending response.
Stankovic, B., Clore, A. M., Abe, S., Larkins, B., and Davies, E. (2000). Chapter 8: Actin in protein synthesis and protein body formation. In Actin: A Dynamic Framework for Multiple Cell Functions, C.J. Staiger, F. Baluska, D. Volkmann, and P. W. Barlow, eds. (Dordecht: Kluwer).
Clore,
A.M. and Larkins, B.A. (1998). Protein Quality and its potential relationship
to the cytoskeleton in maize endosperm. J. Plant Physiol. 152: 630-635.
Coleman, C.E., Clore, A.M., Ranch, J.P., Higgins, R., Lopes, M.A.,
and Larkins, B.A. (1997). Expression of a mutant zein creates the floury2
phenotype in transgenic maize. Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. 94: 7094-7097.
Sun, Y., Carneiro, N., Clore, A.M., Moro, G.L., Habben, J.H., and
Larkins, B.A. (1997). Characterization of maize elongation factor 1A and
its relationship to protein quality in the endosperm. Plant Physiol. 114:
1101-1107.
Clore, A.M., Dannenhoffer, J.D., and Larkins, B.A. (1996). EF-1a
is associated with a cytoskeletal network surrounding protein bodies in
maize endosperm cells. The Plant Cell 8: 2003-2014 (cover).
Education
&
Experience:
Ph.D - University
of Arizona, 1997
B.A. - Kenyon College, 1991
Contact
Details:
Amy Clore, Assistant Professor of Biology
Department of Natural Sciences
HNS 111
New College of Florida
5700 N. Tamiami Trail
Sarasota, FL 34243
Phone
941-355-8924
Email:
clore@ncf.edu
