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If you are motivated and interested in cell biology, molecular genetics or plant biology please contact Nick to inquire about research opportunities beginning Fall 2009.

A corpse comes to life

Check out the time lapse of a titan arum flowering that Nick made.

Bio119: Genomics and Systems Biology - Fall 2009

A new seminar exploring modern approaches to biology will be offered Fall 2009. See the the course description for more information.

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Nick Kaplinsky

Office: 106 Martin Hall
Lab: 111 Martin Hall
610.328.8039

BA Reed College, Portland OR

PhD UC Berkeley, Berkeley CA

Postdoc Carnegie Institution of Washington, Stanford CA

I teach plant biology, supervise research in the lab, and drink lots of coffee.

lab08

The lab in the spring of 2008. From left to right: Cathy Ng '10, Steen Hoyer '09, Ayanna Johnson '09, Evan Trager '08, Nick and Eden '28ish, Dahlia Perez '08, and Jennifer Spindel '10. These student work on a range of projects in the lab:
- Cathy works on the cell and organismal roles of AtHSBP1 which we hypothesize regulates multiple abiotic stress responses.
- Steen and Ayanna are using molecular and biochemichal approaches to demonstrate BOB's function in vitro.
- Evan works on cell wall biosynthesis using molecular genetics and cell biology.
- Dahlia is using immunocytochemistry to demonstrate exactly where BOB is in the cell, and
- Jennifer is recovering from a genetic screen and deciding what to do next.

People in the lab during the summer, 2007. From left to right: Nick, Jennifer Spindel '10, Ayanna Johnson '09, and Frances Taschuk '10.

Last summer (2006), the following students worked in the lab. They all continued their research projects in the lab during the 2006/2007 academic year. Dahlia and Evan will both be presenting posters at the ASPB meeting in Chicago this summer

Dahlia Perez '08

Dahlia worked on characterizing BOB transcriptional responses to heat stress and also characterized auxin response defects in bob mutants.







Evan Trager '08

Evan studied a new mutant called sawfish (sfs) which affects phyllotaxis in the infloresence. He used a GFP fusion to determine SFS's sub-cellular localization and also performed a detailed phenotypic analysis which suggests that SFS mediates auxin responses during development.



Nikos Svoronos '07

Nikos is using biochemical approaches to identify BOB protein interactors. After purifying interacting proteins he will identify them using mass spectrometry and then characterize the interacting genes by using reverse genetics to knock them out.




Zachary Moody '07

Zach looked at the genetic interactions between bob mutants and other mutants known to disrupt auxin transport and signalling. He also used a BOB::BOB:GFP line to characterize changes in BOB sub-cellular localization in response to heat shock using confocal microscopy.