PEI-LAN TSOU
Graduate Student, NCSU-NSCORT, Department of Botany, N.C. State University
Using Calreticulin as a tool to manipulate cellular calcium in plants. My research focuses on the high-capacity, low-affinity calcium binding domain of calreticulin. By over expressing the C-domain of Calreticulin in Arabidopsis plants, we were able to increase bioavailable calcium stores within the plant cell.
Teaching
Interests:
Lab
instructor of BO421 Plant Physiology Lab, Sec 201, Fall, 1996 and Sec
203, Spring, 2000, an undergraduate course at NCSU for seniors major in
Botany, Plant Pathology Crop Science, and Horticulture.
Selected
Publications:
*Wyatt,
S.E., *Tsou, P-L, and Robertson, D., Expression of the high capacity
calcium-binding domain of calreticulin increases bioavailable calcium
stores. Transgenic Research (submitted)
*Authors contributed equally.
Scott, A. Wyatt, S.E., Tsou, P.-L., Robertson, D. and Allen, N.S. (1999) A model system for plant cell biology: GFP imaging in living onion epidermal cells. BioTechniques. 26,1127-1132 (cover).
Education
&
Experience:
Research
Assistant, NASA Specialized Center of Research and Training, 1996-present
Department of Botany, North Carolina State University, Raleigh,
NC Lab Intern, Department of Plant Molecular Physiology, July-Sept., 1994 University of Hawaii at Manoa, Honolulu, HA
Summer Student, Nutrition and Chemistry Analysis Lab, June-Sept., 1992 Asian Vegetable Research and Development Center, Shanhun, Tainan, Taiwan, R.O.C. Fellowship
Graduate Research Assistantship, by the North Carolina State University/NASA Specialized Center of Research and Training, Fall 1996-present
Travel Award
for Graduate Students, by the North Carolina Biotechnology Center Plant
Molecular Biology Consortium, Fall 1999
Education:
Ph.D. candidate,
Plant Physiology program, Department of Botany N.C.S.U.
NC
B.S.,
National Taiwan University, Taipei, Taiwan, 1995
Contact
Details:
Telephone: (919) 515 3544
Fax: (919) 515 9570
Email:ptsou@unity.ncsu.edu
