Research Interests:

I am interested in the manner by which cells perceive, communicate and integrate environmental signals. I focus primarily on Ca²⁺- and calmodulin-mediated signal transduction in plant cells, and use molecular, biochemical and high-resolution imaging technology to address these questions.

Teaching Interests:

• Active participant in NSCORT community outreach
  
• Wrote and instructed the Molecular Biology component of "Plants, Gravity & Space"
  
• Lectures on Biotechnology for N.C. teacher accreditation
• Supervised undergraduate and graduate students in the laboratory
• Supervisor for Jane Roche's Masters thesis (France), summer 2000

• Undergraduate lectures ("The Origins of Life")

Selected Publications:

Love J., Allen, G.C., Gatz, C, and Thompson, W.F. (2000) Top10 promoter switching by tetracycline analogues in plant cells. Nucleic Acids Research (Submitted).

Persson, S.H.,* Wyatt, S.E.,* Love, J.* Thompson, W.F., Robertson, D., and Boss, W.F. (2000) Regulation of ER Ca²⁺ by overexpression in tobacco tissue culture cells. Plant Physiol. Submitted.
*Authors contributed equally in presented work.

Love, J., Scott, A.C., and Thompson, W.F., (2000) Stringent control of transgene expression in Arabidopsis thaliana using the Top10 promoter system. Plant J. 21: 579-588.

Moutinho, A., Love, J., Trewavas, A.J., and Malhó, R. (1998) Distribution of calmodulin protein and mRNA in growing pollen tubes. Sex. Plant Reprod. 11: 131-139.

Love, J., Brownlee, C., and Trewavas, A.J. (1997) Ca²⁺ and calmodulin dynamics during photopolarization in Fucus serratus zygotes. Plant Physiol. 115: 249-261.

Education & Experience:

Ph.D., The University of Edinburgh, Scotland, 1995
B.Sc. (Hons) -The University of St. Andrews, Scotland, 1990

Contact Details:

Telephone: (919) 515 7166
Fax: (919) 515 3436
Email: jlove@unity.ncsu.edu