Curriculum Vitae
Parin Chaivisuthangkura

Graduate student
Dept. Molecular and Cell Biology
University of Connecticut
75 North Eagleville Rd., BOX-U44
Storrs, CT 06279

 

Home Address:
      380 Daleville Rd., Apt # 88,
      Willington,CT 06279

Phone:
      (860) 429-5334 (home),
      (860) 486-1887(lab),
      (860) 486-3686 (office)

Fax:
      (860) 486-1784

E-mail:
     Chaivisu@uconnvm.uconn.edu,

Personal:
     Born December 21, 1966 in Bangkok, Thailand

 

Education

1992-present Enrolled in Ph.D. program in Plant Cell and Molecular Biology Program at the University of Connecticut

M.S. 1991 Microbiolgy, Mahidol University

Thesis title:
     Determination of protective antibodies after rabies vaccination:
     comparison of different cell culture vaccine.

B.S. 1988 Medical Technology, Chulalongkorn University

 

Experiences

1992-present   Graduate student in the laboratory of Prof. Dr. J.P. Gogarten, University of Connecticut.

1991-1992      Research scientist in the laboratory of Dr. Chantapong Wasi , Dept. of Microbiology, Faculty of Medicine Siriraj Hospital, Mahidol University, WHO collaborating on AIDS, Bangkok, Thailand

 

Current research: Characterization of the role of cell wall bound acid invertase in transgenic Arabidopsis plants using antisense technology as a tool.

 

Scientific Meeting Attended:

Selected participant in Plant Biochemistry 1994, Michigan State University, June 27-July 16, 1994

Oral Presentation:

Title: Antisense stimulation of apoplastic invertase in transgenic Arabidopsis thaliana.
     UCONN-UMASS plant biology meeting, January, 1998, Storrs, CT

Title: The role of cell wall bound acid invertase in photosynthate partitioning
     UCONN-UMASS plant biology meeting, January, 1994, Storrs, CT

 

Poster Presentations:

Title: Antisense stimulation of apoplastic invertase in transgenic Arabidopsis thaliana.
will be presented in Annual meeting of the American Society of Plant Physiologist, June 27 - July 1, 1998, Monona Terrace Convention Center, Madison, WI USA

9th Annual Retreat of Dept. of Molecular and Cell Biology, Univ. of Connecticut, Sept. 20, 1997 Tolland, CT.

 

Title : The role of cell wall bound acid invertase in photosynthate partitioning

Joint campus biotechnology research seminar , June 27, 1996, University of Connecticut, Storrs, CT

Annual meeting of the Northeast section of the American Society of Plant Physiologist, April 28-29, 1995, University of Rhode Island, Kingston, Rhode Island.

Annual meeting of the American Society of Plant Physiologist, July 30- August 3, 1994, Portland, Oregon

Annual meeting of the Northeast section of the American Society of Plant Physiologist, May 7-8, 1993, Connecticut College, New London, CT

Annual Retreat of Dept. of Molecular and Cell Biology, Univ. of Connecticut, 1993-1996, CT.

 

Publications:

Chaivisuthangkura, P., Mercier, R.W., Gogarten, J.P. (1994) The role of cell wall bound acid invertase in photosynthate partitioning, Abstracts of the Annual National Meeting of the American Society of Plant Physiologists,Portland, Oregon, USA, Supplement to Plant Physiology 105, 639.

Mercier,R.W., Chaivisuthangkura, P., Gogarten, J.P. (1993) The Role of Apoplastic Invertase in Photosynthate Partitioning, Abstracts of the Annual National Meeting of the American Society of Plant Physiologists, Minneapolis, Minnesota, USA, Supplement to Plant Physiology 102, 220.

Mercier, R.W., Chaivisuthangkura, P., Gogarten, J.P. (1993) Letter to the editor on b-fructosidase homologues. Plant Mol.Biol. 23, 229-230.

 

Fellowship Awards:

1997 University of Connecticut Research Foundation Doctoral Dissertation Fellowship

1992-present Royal Thai Government Scholarship

1989 and 1990 Recipient of graduate student fellowship, Mahidol University