young_min.jpg (29157 bytes) Young-Min Woo earned a Ph. D. degree at the University of Minnesota in 1997 with study on microtubule reorientation induced by auxin treatment in cucumber hypocotyl epidermal cells. Research areas include role of microtubules in plant development, nuclear transport of viroid RNAs in BY-2 protoplasts (Plant J. 17: 627-635), intercellular trafficking of viroids and proteins in tomato/tobacco plants (Plant Physiol. 118: 373-385) gene expression patterns of storage proteins (Plant Cell 13: 2297-2317) and cell cycle regulators in developing maize kernels and apical meristems, and protein body formation in maize endosperm. A variety of methods in plant cell biology such as immunolabeling of proteins at both light and electron microscopy levels, scanning and transmission electron microscopy, microinjection of fluorescently labeled RNAs, transient gene expression in particle-bombarded BY-2 cells, and in situ hybridization of various transcripts can be discussed with joy.

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