Educational Background
Ph.D. (University of Missouri - Columbia), Biological Sciences, 2008,
Columbia, Missouri, 65211, USSA.
B.A. (Western State College
of Colorado), Biology, 2002, Gunnison, CO, 81231, USSA.
Research Interests:
My research interests
are the molecular interactions between organisms. I did my Ph.D. work
examining molecular interactions between pollen and pistil in Nicotiana.
I am currently examining protein interactions between cyst nematodes
and the plants that they parasitize. Specifically, I am interested
in how secreted cyst nematode parasitism proteins affect, and interact
with the root cells they transform into feeding sites. The goal of
my work is to identify underlying processes that cyst nematodes utilize
and to find mechanisms that disrupt the parasitism process using molecular
and genetic techniques.
Publications:
Goldraij, A., Kondo, K.,
Lee, C.B., Hancock, C.N., Sivaguru, M., Vazquez-Santana,
S., Kim, S., Phillips, T.E., Cruz-Garcia, F., and B. McClure. 2006.
Compartmentalization of S-RNase and HT-B degradation in self-incompatible
Nicotiana. Nature. 439. 805-810.
De Graaf, B.H.J., Lee,
C., McClure, B.A., and N.V.E. Franklin-Tong. 2006. Cellular
mechanisms for pollen tube growth inhibition in gametophytic self-incompatibility.
The Pollen Tube. Plant Cell Monographs. Springer Berlin. Heidelberg.
Volume 3. 201-221.
Lee, C.B.,
Page, L.E., McClure, B.A., and Holtsford T.P. 2008. Post-pollination
hybridization barriers in Nicotiana section Alatae.
Sexual Plant Reproduction. 21. 183-195.
Lee, C.B.,
Swatek, K.N., and McClure, B.A. 2008. Pollen proteins bind to the
C-terminal domain of Nicotiana alata pistil arabinogalactan
proteins. The Journal of Biological Chemistry. 283. 26965-26973.
Lee, C.B.,
Kim, S., and McClure, B.A. 2009. A pollen protein, NaPCCP,
that binds pistil arabinogalactan proteins also binds phosphatidylinositol
3-phosphate and associates with the pollen tube endomembrane system.
Plant Physiology. In Press.
