报告题目👩🏼‍🌾：POLLEN-PISTIL INTERACTION: A LONG AND WINDING ROAD

报告人：Dr. Alice Y. Cheung, professor in the University of Massachusetts, Amherst and associate editor of Plant Physiology

主持人：李超 研究员

报告时间👷🏿‍♀️🪧：2017年5月4日 13:30-14:30

报告地点：闵行生科院534报告厅

主办单位：天美娱乐，科技处

 

报告人简介：Dr. Alice Y. Cheung, professor in the University of Massachusetts, Amherst and associate editor of Plant Physiology, has been awarded her Ph. D. from Biology Department of Yale University in 1982, and got her postdoc training in Harvard University from 1982 to 1986. She then initiated and focused her research interest on the plant reproduction field in the Biology Department in Yale University as Assistant professor and Associate professor, where she made significant contribution on the male-female interaction and pollen tube growth. Since 1997, Dr. Cheung has been a professor in the Department of Molecular Biology and Biochemistry in University of Massachusetts, Amherst. Dr. Cheung has been respected by her significant contributions on the study of the reproduction processes as well as her tremendous effort on the development of the plant reproduction community.

 

报告摘要➖：Our laboratory has a long-standing interest in understanding the mechanisms of pollen-pistil interaction that underlie a series of processes starting from pollination to delivery of sperm to the female gametophyte for fertilization. In my talk, I will highlight the key steps that we have been involved in to elucidate the mystery of these processes, including the characteristics of key female molecules and their functions and the cell biology of pollen tube growth in response to these female factors. I will also discuss our recent work based on FERONIA and LORELEI, two key regulators of female fertility and how they underlie pollen-ovule interaction and ensure fertilization success. Results from FERONIA related receptor kinases expressed in the pistil and pollen might also be discussed.