Kentaro Inoue Lab

Department of Plant Sciences

 

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We are located at:

131/222 Asmundson Hall

Department of Plant Sciences

University of California, One Shields Avenue, Davis, CA 95616

Tel: (530) 754-4177 (lab); (530) 752-7931 (office)

 

Established in September, 2002, we have been interested in addressing various biological questions using biochemical, molecular biological, genetic, and cytological tools.  More specifically, we study "plastids", the cellular compartments (organelles) essential and specific to all photosynthetic eukaryotes (higher plants and various algae), and some non-photosynthetic eukaryotes (those belonging to Apicomplexa, a group of protists including malaria parasite).  Addressing a question often leads us to formulate new questions that allow us to better understand what "nature is trying to tell us".  Find more detailed descriptions of our research program. Development and evolution of our research questions will also be posted soon.

 
News in 2009

June

• Joanna joined the lab as our new lab organizer.

• Sherry, Patricia, and Chi graduated.

• Rebecca graduated.

 

April

• Joshua joined the lab as a graduate student researcher.

Joshua is a Plant Biology Graduate Group student, and has done rotations in several laboratories in Fall and Winter quarters. He will be working on the DOE-funded project about Plsp1.

 

March

Rebecca's paper on suborganellar localization of Plsp1 was published.

Our previous genetic study showed that plastidic type I signal peptidase 1 (Plsp1) is involved in protein maturation in two distinct locations, i.e., the envelope and thylakoids of Arabidopsis thaliana chloroplasts. Rebecca's work provides biochemical and cytological evidence to indicate the interesting suborganellar-localization pattern of Plsp1 and its biological relevance.

 

January

• Rebecca received The Beverley Green Award at 18th Western Photosynthesis Conference.

• Nick joined the lab as a postdoctoral researcher.

Nick received PhD from Indiana University. He will be working on the DOE-funded project about the biological relevance of gene duplications.

 

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Last updated on June 25th, 2009