EDUCATION

Post-doctoral Fellow:  Crop Protection and Pest Control Research, Dept. of Agronomy, Purdue Univeristy, IN.  Feb. 1998 to June 1998.  Set up the yeast two-hybrid system for examining the interaction between barley yellow-dwarf virus and wheat plants.

Post-doctoral Fellow: Max Planck Institute for Plant Breeding, Dept. of Biochemistry, Cologne, Germany.  Oct. 1995 to Oct. 1997.  Study the early events in plant defense response: intracellular calcium fluxes and role of phosphorylation.

Graduate Student:  Dept. of Biochemistry & Biophysics, Washington State University (WSU), Pullman, WA.  Aug. 1989 to May 1995.  Investigate the mechanism of action of the chaperone SecB during protein export in Escherichia coli.

Organic Chemistry Teaching Assistant:  Department of Chemistry, WSU.  Aug. 1989 to Dec. 1990; Jan. 1985 to Dec. 1985.  Teach the laboratory portion of the course.

Oncology Technician:  Bixby Oncology Laboratory, Long Beach Community Hospital, Long Beach, CA.  Aug. 1988 to July 1989.  Assess sensitivity to patients’ biopsied tissues to various antineoplastic drugs in order to aid the primary physician in prescribing a chemotherapeutic regimen most beneficial to the patient.

Research Technician:  Veterans Administration Medical Center, Long Beach, CA  90822.  June 1987 to July 1988.  Develop separation technique using aqueous two-phase counter-current distribution for cells in the bloodstream.

Undergraduate Research Project:  Department of Veterinary Micropathology, WSU.  Jan. 1986 to May 1986.  Develop a diagnostic kit for foot-and-mouth disease virus based on an enzyme-linked immunosorbent assay that would be rapid, economical, sensitive and could be used under field conditions.

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