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E-mail:
imara_perera@ncsu.edu
Position:
Research Assistant Professor
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Degrees:
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Ph.D. (1991) Plant Biology, University of Illinois, Urbana,
IL
- M.S.
(1988) Plant Biology, University of Illinois, Urbana, IL
- M.S.
(1984) Biochemistry, University of ColomBO, Sri Lanka
- B.S.
(1982) Biological Science, University of ColomBO, Sri Lanka
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Projects:
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Other
Research Experience:
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Postdoctoral Research Associate, NSCORT program, Dr. Wendy
F. BOss laBOratory, Department of Plant Biology, North Carolina
State University (May 1996 – present) | The role of
phosphoinositide-mediated signaling in plant gravity perception
and response
- Postdoctoral
Research Associate with Dr. Wendy F. BOss, Department of
Plant Biology, North Carolina State University (May 1994 –
April 1994) | Regulation of PI-4 kinase by PIK-A49 (an isoform
of EF-1): Determination of phosphorylation sites and site-directed
mutagenesis studies
- Postdoctoral
Research Associate with Dr. Heven Sze, Department of Plant Biology,
University of Maryland (November 1991 – December 1993)
| Structure, expression, and regulation of genes encoding
the 16kDa subunit of the Vacuolar ATPase from Arabidopsis
- Graduate
Research Assistant with Dr. Raymond E. Zielinski, Department
of Plant Biology, University of Illinois (August 1986 –
October 1991) | Isolation, characterization, and expression
of Calmodulin genes from carrot and Arabidopsis
- Graduate
Research Assistant, Department of Biochemistry, College
of Medicine, University of Cincinnati, Cincinnati, Ohio
(September 1985 – July 1986)
- Graduate
Research Assistant, Department of Biochemistry, University
of ColomBO, Sri Lanka (October 1982 – October 1984)
| Characterization of proteins from the Malarial parasite
Plasmodium vivax
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Publications:
- Heilmann
I, Perera IY, Gross W, BOss WF (2001) Plasma membrane
phosphatidylinositol 4,5-bisphosphate levels decrease with
time in culture. Plant Physiol (in press)
- Perera
IY, Heilmann I, Chang SC, BOss WF, Kaufman BO (2001)
A role for inositol 1,4,5-trisphosphate in gravitropic signaling
and the retention of cold-perceived gravistimulation of
oat shoot pulvini. Plant Physiol 125: 1499-1507
- Heilmann
I, Stevenson-Paulik J, Perera IY (2000) Plant PtdIns
3-kinase goes nuclear. Plant Cell 12: 1511-1512
- Stevenson
JM, Perera IY, Heilmann I, Persson S, BOss WF (2000)
Inositol signaling and plant growth. Trends Plant Sci 5:
252-258
- Heilmann
I, Perera IY, Stevenson JM, BOss WF (2000) Sense
and sensibility: inositol phospholipids as mediators of
abiotic stress responses. In Plant tolerance to abiotic
stresses in agriculture: role of genetic engineering
(Cherry JH, Locy RD, Rychter A, Eds.) pp 289-296
- Heilmann
I, Perera IY, Gross W, BOss WF (1999) Changes in
phosphoinositide metaBOlism with days in culture affect
signal transduction pathways in Galdieria sulphuraria.
Plant Physiol 119: 1331-1339
- Perera
IY, Heilmann I, BOss WF (1999) Transient and sustained
increases in inositol-1,4,5-trisphosphate precede the differential
growth response in gravistimulated maize pulvini. Proc Natl
Acad Sci USA 96: 5838-5843
- Stevenson
JM, Perera IY, BOss WF (1998) A phosphatidylinositol
4-kinase pleckstrin homology domain that binds phosphatidylinositol
4-momophosphate. J Biol Chem 273: 22761-22767
- Heilmann
I, Perera IY, Stevenson JM, Ransom WD, Gross W, WF
BOss (1998) Inositol lipid signaling: What can we learn
from plants? In Advances in Plant Lipid Research (Sanchez
J, Cerda-Olmedo E, Martinez-Force E, Eds.) pp 394-397
- Perera
IY, BOss WF (1996) Signal transduction pathways: a plant
perspective of inositol metaBOlism and growth. In Regulation
of plant growth and development by light development.
Current Topics in Plant Physiology 17: 114-126
- Perera
IY, Li X, Sze H (1995) Several distinct genes encode
nearly identical 16kD proteolipids of the vacuolar H+-ATPase
from Arabidopsis thaliana. 29: 227-244
- Gawienowski
MC, Szymanski D, Perera I, Zielinski R (1993) Calmodulin
isoforms in Arabidopsis encoded by multiple divergent mRNAs.
Plant Mol Bio 22: 215-225
- Sze
H, Ward JM, Lai S, Perera I (1992) Vacuolar-type
H+-translocating ATPases in plant endomembranes: subunit
organization and multigene families. J Exp Bio 172: 123-135
- Perera
I, Zielinski R (1992) Expression of calmodulin in suspension
cultured carrot cells. Plant Physiol 100: 812-819
- Perera
I, Zielinski R (1992) Structure and expression of the
Arabidopsis CAM-3 calmodulin gene. Plant Mol Bio 19: 649-664
- Ling
V, Perera I, Zielinski R (1991) Primary structure
of Arabidopsis calmodulin isoforms deduced from the sequences
of cDNA clones. Plant Physiol 96: 1196-1202
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