Aline H. Valster

CURRICULUM VITAE

Education:

M.Sc., Plant Breeding, Wageningen Agricultural University, The Netherlands, 1994 ("Ingenieur" in Agricultural and Environmental Sciences).

Ph.D., Plant Biology, University of Massachusetts, Amherst, USA, 2000.

Employment:

Teaching assistant, University of Massachusetts, Amherst, 1995-1999.

Graduate research assistant, University of Massachusetts, Amherst, 1994-1999.

Student assistant, Wageningen Agricultural University, 1994. Assisted with International M.Sc. program in Plant Breeding.Student assistant, Wageningen Agricultural University, 1992-1993. Assisted with two pratical courses for first year graduate students in Plant Cell Biology.

Localization of profilin during the cell cycle in living Tradescantia stamen hair cells. Poster presented during Plant and Fungal Cytoskeleton Gordon Conference, Andover, New Hampshire (August 1998).

Probing the plant actin cytoskeleton at cytokinesis and interphase by profilin microinjection. Award Winning Poster presented during Current Topics in Plant Biochemistry, Physiology and Molecular Biology Symposium, University of Missouri, Columbia (April 1997).

Paper presented during Plant Signal Transduction Meeting, University of Connecticut (January 1994).The effect of caffeine on microtubules and actin filaments during inhibition of cytokinesis in Tradescantia stamen hair cells.

Poster and paper presented during Plant and Fungal Cytoskeleton Gordon Conference, Andover, New Hampshire (July 1995).

Invited lectures: Long Island University, Biology Department (April 1998 and October 2000).

Constantine Gilgut Postdoctoral Fellowship (2000), Plant Biology Program, University of Massachusetts, Amherst.

Davis/Delisle Scholarship recipient (1999), Biology Dept., University of Massachusetts, Amherst.

Phi Kappa Phi (1999).American Society of Cell Biology.

Woods Hole Scholarship recipient (1997), Biology Dept., University of Massachusetts, Amherst.

Physiology Course Scholarship (1997), Marine Biological Laboratory.

Post-Course Scholarship, Anita Zorzoli Memorial Fund (1997), Marine Biological Laboratory.

Valster, A.H., Chernoff, J. and Hepler, P.K. (in preparation). The effects of small G-protein toxins on cytokinesis in plant cells.

Molchan, T.M., Valster, A.H., and Hepler, P.K. (in preparation). Actomyosin promotes cell plate alignment and lateral expansion in Tradescantia stamen hair cells.

Valster, A.H., Vidali, L. and Hepler, P.K. (submitted). Localization of profilin during the cell cylce in living Tradescantia stamen hair cells. Cell Motility and the Cytoskeleton.

Valster, A.H., Hepler, P.K., and Chernoff, J. (2000). Plant GTPases: the Rhos in bloom. Trends in Cell Biology 10(4):141-146. Vos, J.W., Valster, A.H., and Hepler, P.K. (1999). Methods for studying cell division in higher plants. In: Structure, Composition and Function of the Mitotic and Meiotic Spindle, Methods in Cell Biology 61:413-437.

Valster, A.H., Pierson, E.S., Valenta, R., Hepler, P.K., and Emons, A.M.C. (1997). Probing the plant actin cytoskeleton during cytokinesis and interphase by profilin microinjection. The Plant Cell 9 (10):1815-1824.

Valster, A.H., and Hepler, P.K. (1997). Caffeine inhibition of cytokinesis: effect on the phragmoplast cytoskeleton in living Tradescantia stamen hair cells. Protoplasma 196:155-166.