Wendy F. BOss

EDUCATION:

B.S.        Chemistry                    1968    Wake Forest University, Winston-Salem, NC
M.S.        Organic Chemistry     1970    University of Washington, Seattle, WA
Ph.D.      Plant Physiology         1977    Indiana University, Bloomington, IN   

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE:

1993-Present        Professor, Department of Plant Biology, North Carolina State Univ., Raleigh, NC.

Jan.-June 1997     Sabbatical with Dr. Lina Obeid, Department of Medicine, Duke University, Durham, NC,
                                to study sphingolipids and programmed cell death

1986-1993             Associate Professor, North Carolina State University, Raleigh, NC.

June-Dec. 1986    Sabbatical leave with Dr. A. J. Trewavas, Department of  Plant Biology, Edinburgh Univ.,
                                Edinburgh, Scotland to study calcium regulation of protein phosphorylation.

Summer 1983       Worked with Dr. Nina S. Allen, Woods Hole Marine Biology Lab, to learn light and
                                fluorescent microscopy.

1979-1986             Assistant Professor, Department of Plant Biology, North Carolina State University,
                                Raleigh, NC.

June-July 1979      On leave for continuing studies of ESR and virus membranes with Dr. Frank
                                Landsberger, Virology Department, The Rockefeller University, New York, NY.

1977-1979             Postdoctoral Research Assoc. for Dr. Ralph Mott, Dept. of Plant Biology, NCSU.

1975-1977             Molecular & Cellular Biology Trainee, Plant Sciences, Indiana University,
                                Bloomington, IN.

1974-1975             Teaching Assistant, Department of Plant Sciences, Indiana Univ., Bloomington,
                                Indiana.

June-Dec. 1973    Part-time Chemist for Dr. Frank Landsberger, Dept. of Chemistry, Indiana
                                University, Bloomington, IN.

1970-1973             Research Technician for Dr. J. W. Zemp, Dept. of Biochemistry, Medical
                                University of South Carolina, Charleston, SC.

1968-1970             Research and Teaching Assistant with Dr. B. Weinstein, Dept. of Chemistry,
                                University of Washington, Seattle, Washington.

PROFESSIONAL INTERESTS:

Signal transduction, lipid-mediated signaling, inositol metabolism, membrane structure and biogensis, osmotic and nutrient stress and gravitational biology

PROFESSIONAL SERVICE:

Board of Trustees:  America Society of Plant Physiologists, 2000-2003

Associate Editor: Plant Physiology, 1991-1992.

Editorial Board: Plant Physiology, 1988-1991 & Protoplasma, 1989 to 1994.

Initiated the Plant Signal Transduction News Bulletin - a biyearly bulletin to encourage & facilitate communication among plant scientists interested in signal transduction. (1991-1995).