Ph.D. (Plant Pathology), University of Hawaii at Manoa
M.S. (Plant Pathology), University of Wyoming
B.S. (Physics), Toyama University
My current research focuses are functional analysis of various cation
exchangers, such as Arabidopsis thaliana CAX1, CAX7, CHX28, and
yeast YNL321W. The information gained will be used to increase nutritional the
quality of crop plants. My hobbies include bioinformatic analysis of potentially
useful groups of genes from various organisms.
Ph.D. (Pharmacognocy), Peking Union Medical College, 1999
I got a B.S in Biology, and a M.S. in Plant Biology in China. I got my Ph.D. in Pharmacognocy from Peking Union of Medical College/ Chinese Academy of Medical Sciences in Beijing in 1999. I then worked as a JSPS postdoctoral fellow in Japan on plant secondary metabolism and in Kansas State University on Arabidopsis phospholipase D. I am very interested in molecular mechanisms of signal transduction in plants in response to phytohormones and various stresses. As a core factor of plant sensor systems, Ca2+ signaling is critical for plants. My current work is on calcium antiporters in Dr. Hirschi's lab to demonstrate CAX-mediated Ca2+ signaling and functions in Arabidopsis.
B.S. Biomedical Science, Texas A&M University 2007
Started Hirschi lab: June 2007
I recently graduated from Texas A&M University with a B.S. in Biomedical Science. I plan to work in the Hirschi lab for the next year and a half, and then I plan on attending one of the Texas medical schools in the fall of 2008.