Zhaojie Zhang, Ph.D.

Director, Microscopy Core Facility

Department of Zoology and Physiology

University of Wyoming

EDUCATION

B.S., Shandong University, Jinan, China, 1981-1985

M.S., Shandong University, Jinan, China, 1985-1988

Ph.D., University of Oklahoma, Oklahoma, 1994-1999

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCES

1988-1994: Assistant professor, Shandong University

1994-1999: Research assistant, University of Oklahoma

1999-2001: Post-doc, Oklahoma Medical Research

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HONORS AND AWARDS

1997-Microscopy Society of America Award for best microscopic poster in the biological sciences at the annual meeting of the Microscopy Society of America, second prize

1997-Oklahoma Microscopy Society Award for best electron micrograph contest at the annual meeting of the Oklahoma Microscopy Society, first prize.
 

1998-Oklahoma Microscopy Society Timpano Award for best student presentation at the annual meeting of the Oklahoma Microscopy Society, second prize
 

1999-George Linn Cross Graduate Student Scholarship, University of Oklahoma                

PUBLICATIONS
 

Tian HQ, Z Zhang and SD Russell (2001) Sperm dimorphism in Nicotiana tabacum L. Sexual Plant Reproduction (accepted)
 

Zhang Z, HQ Tian and SD Russell (1999) Immunogold scanning electron microscopic localization of myosin on isolated sperm cells of tobacco (Nicotiana tabacum L.). Protoplasma 208:123-128

Zhang Z and SD Russell (1999) Sperm cell surface characteristics of Plumbago zeylanica in relation to transport in the embryo sac. Planta 208: 539-544
Okada T, Z Zhang, SD Russell, and K Toriyama (1999) Localization of the Ca2+ Binding protein, Bra r 1, in anthers and pollen tubes. Plant Cell Physiol. 40(2): 1243-1252

Zhang Z, H Xu, MB Singh and SD Russell (1998) Isolation and collection of two populations of viable sperm cells from the pollen of Plumbago zeylanica. Zygote 6: 295-298
 

Tian HQ, Z Zhang and SD Russell (1998) Isolation of the male germ unit (MGU): organization and function in tobacco (Nicotiana tabacum L.) Plant Cell Reports 18: 143-147
 

Zhang Z and S D Russell (1997) Immunofluorescent localization of myosin on the sperm cells of Plumbago zeylanica. Proceedings of the Microscopy Society of America, 183-184