Terena L. Holdaway-Clarke

Curriculum Vitae

Nationality: Australian

Education

Ph.D. University of Sydney, Awarded 31st May 1996.
Thesis title: Higher Plant Plasmodesmata: An Electrophysiological Study of their Regulation BSc. (Hons 1st class.) University of Sydney, Awarded 1991
Thesis title: Electrical Properties of Corn Suspension Culture Cells.

Academic Awards
1997 Jabez King Heydon Prize for best Ph.D. thesis completed in the School of Biological Sciences, at the University of Sydney in 1995.1991-1994 Australian Postgraduate Research Award (stipend for 3.5 years)1992 Joyce Vickery Reseach Assistance Prize1989 E. N. (Ted) O’Reilly Memorial Prize in Biology (Plant Physiology)
G. D. Caird Scholarship for Biology (Botany)

Career History

Oct. 1995 - present: Postdoctoral Research Associate, University of Massachusetts, Amherst. Advisor: Prof P. K. Hepler.1991-1995: Postgraduate Research Student in the School of Biological Sciences, University of Sydney. Advisors: Assoc. Prof. R. L. Overall and Professor N.A. WalkerNovember. 1990 - January. 1991: Research assistant to Professor N.A. Walker, School of Biological Sciences, The University of Sydney.

Publications

Refereed papers

8. Holdaway-Clarke T. L., Walker, N. A., Reid, R. J., Hepler, P. K. and Overall R. L. (2001) Cytoplasmic acidification with butyric acid does not alter the ionic conductivity of plasmodesmata. (in press, Protoplasma).

7. Feijó, J. A., Sainhas, J. Holdaway-Clarke, T. L., Cordeiro, M. S., Kunkel, J. G., Hepler, P. K. (2001) Cellular oscillations and the regulation of growth: the pollen tube paradigm. Bioessays 23: (1) 86-94.

6. Cardenás L, Holdaway-Clarke T., Sanchez, F., Quinto, C., Feijó JA, Kunkel JG, Hepler PK, (2000) Update on Signaling: Ion changes in legume root hairs responding to nod factors. Plant Physiology 123:443-451.

5. Holdaway-Clarke, T. L., Walker, N. A. Hepler, P. K., Overall, R. L. (2000) Physiological elevations in cytoplasmic free calcium by cold or ion injection result in transient closure of higher plant plasmodesmata. Planta 210: 329-335.

4. Roy*, S. J., Holdaway-Clarke*, T. L., Hackett, G. R., Kunkel, J. G. Lord, E. M., Hepler, P. K. (1999) Effects of Yariv phenylglycoside on cell wall assembly in the lily pollen tube. Plant Journal 19: 379-386. [* equal contributors to the study]

3. Cardenás L, Feijó JA, Kunkel JG, Sanchez F, Holdaway-Clarke T, Hepler PK, Quinto C. (1999) Rhizobium Nod Factors induce Increases in Intracellular Free Calcium and Extracellular Calcium Influxes in Bean Root Hairs. Plant Journal 19: 347-352.

2. Holdaway-Clarke, T. L., Feijó, J. A.,. Hackett, G. R., Kunkel, J. G. and Hepler, P. K. (1997) Pollen tube growth and the intracellular cytosolic calcium gradient oscillate in phase while extracellular calcium influx is delayed. Plant Cell 9:1999-2010.

1. Holdaway-Clarke, T. L., Walker, N. A., Overall, R. L. (1996) Measurement of the electrical resistance of plasmodesmata and membranes of corn suspension-culture cells. Planta 199:537-544.

 

Book Chapters

Vidali, L., Holdaway-Clarke, T. L., Hepler, P. K. (2001) The calcium/cytoskeleton connection in pollen tube growth. In Cell Biology of Plant and Fungal Tip Growth. Eds A. Geitmann, Cresti, M., Heath, I. B. IOS Press, Amsterdam p 27-36.

Lord, E. M., Holdaway-Clarke, T. L., Roy, S. J., Jauh, G. Y., Hepler, P. K. (2000) AGPs in pollen tube growth. In Cell andDevelopmental Biology of Arabinogalactan -Proteins.Eds E Nothnagel, E., Clarke, A., and Bacic, A. Kluwer academic/Plenum Publishers, NY.p 153-167.

 

Invited seminars

Cornell University, Ithaca, N.Y. (Feb 1999)

Long Island University, Brooklyn N.Y. (November 1997)
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