Zhen-Ming Pei
Associate Professor of Biology
Education
Ph.D., Shanghai Institute of Plant Physiology (China) 1993
M.S., Fudan University (China) 1990
B.S., Lanzhou University (China) 1985
Zhang, Shu, Qian-Rong Wu, Lu-Lu Liu, Hui-Min Zhang, Jian-Wei Gao, and Zhen-Ming Pei. “Osmotic stress alters circadian cytosolic Ca2+ oscillations and OSCA1 is required in circadian gated stress adaptation.” Plant Signaling & Behavior 15, no. 12 (December 2020): 1836883. https://doi.org/10.1080/15592324.2020.1836883. Full Text
Crawford, B. M., H. N. Wang, P. Strobbia, R. Zentella, Z. M. Pei, T. P. Sun, and T. Vo-Dinh. “Plasmonic Nanobiosensing: From in situ plant monitoring to cancer diagnostics at the point of care.” Jphys Photonics 2, no. 3 (July 7, 2020). https://doi.org/10.1088/2515-7647/ab9714. Full Text
Wu, Feihua, Yuan Chi, Zhonghao Jiang, Yuanyuan Xu, Ling Xie, Feifei Huang, Di Wan, et al. “Hydrogen peroxide sensor HPCA1 is an LRR receptor kinase in Arabidopsis.” Nature 578, no. 7796 (February 2020): 577–81. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41586-020-2032-3. Full Text
Jiang, Zhonghao, Xiaoping Zhou, Ming Tao, Fang Yuan, Lulu Liu, Feihua Wu, Xiaomei Wu, et al. “Plant cell-surface GIPC sphingolipids sense salt to trigger Ca2+ influx.” Nature 572, no. 7769 (August 2019): 341–46. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41586-019-1449-z. Full Text
Crawford, Bridget M., Pietro Strobbia, Hsin-Neng Wang, Rodolfo Zentella, Maxim I. Boyanov, Zhen-Ming Pei, Tai-Ping Sun, Kenneth M. Kemner, and Tuan Vo-Dinh. “Plasmonic Nanoprobes for in Vivo Multimodal Sensing and Bioimaging of MicroRNA within Plants.” Acs Applied Materials & Interfaces 11, no. 8 (February 12, 2019): 7743–54. https://doi.org/10.1021/acsami.8b19977. Full Text
Zhu, Yi-Hua, and Zhen-Ming Pei. “GSK2193874 treatment at heatstroke onset reduced cell apoptosis in heatstroke mice.” Cellular and Molecular Biology (Noisy Le Grand, France) 64, no. 7 (May 30, 2018): 36–42.
Zhu, Yi-Hua, and Zhen-Ming Pei. “Sustenance of endothelial cell stability in septic mice through appropriate activation of transient receptor potential vanilloid-4.” Cellular and Molecular Biology (Noisy Le Grand, France) 64, no. 7 (May 30, 2018): 80–85.
Liu, Lulu, Zhonghao Jiang, Shu Zhang, Hongyan Zhao, Weiguang Yang, James N. Siedow, and Zhen-Ming Pei. “Both NaCl and H2O2 Long-Term Stresses Affect Basal Cytosolic Ca2+ Levels but Only NaCl Alters Cytosolic Ca2+ Signatures in Arabidopsis.” Frontiers in Plant Science 9 (January 2018): 1390. https://doi.org/10.3389/fpls.2018.01390. Full Text
Li, Q., Y. J. Wang, C. K. Liu, Z. M. Pei, and W. L. Shi. “The crosstalk between ABA, nitric oxide, hydrogen peroxide, and calcium in stomatal closing of Arabidopsis thaliana.” Biologia (Poland) 72, no. 10 (October 26, 2017): 1140–46. https://doi.org/10.1515/biolog-2017-0126. Full Text
A R Webb, Alex, Kazuyuki Kuchitsu, June Kwak, Zhen-Ming Pei, and Hidetoshi Iida. “Sensors Make Sense of Signaling.” Plant & Cell Physiology 58, no. 7 (July 2017): 1121–25. https://doi.org/10.1093/pcp/pcx085. Full Text
Pages
Strobbia, P., B. M. Crawford, H. N. Wang, R. Zentella, M. I. Boyanov, Z. M. Pei, T. P. Sun, K. M. Kemner, and T. Vo-Dinh. “Application of plasmonic nanoprobes for SERS sensing and imaging of biotargets in plant systems.” In Progress in Biomedical Optics and Imaging Proceedings of Spie, Vol. 10894, 2019. https://doi.org/10.1117/12.2512010. Full Text
Crawford, B. M., P. Strobbia, H. N. Wang, R. Zentella, M. I. Boyanov, R. Odion, Z. M. Pei, T. P. Sun, K. M. Kemner, and T. Vo-Dinh. “In vivo nucleic acid detection and imaging within whole plants using plasmonic nanosensors.” In Proceedings of Spie the International Society for Optical Engineering, Vol. 11007, 2019. https://doi.org/10.1117/12.2524840. Full Text
Crawford, B. M., P. Strobbia, H. N. Wang, R. Zentella, M. I. Boyanov, Z. M. Pei, T. P. Sun, K. M. Kemner, and T. Vo-Dinh. “In vivo detection of microRNA within plants using plasmonic nanosensors.” In Proceedings of Spie the International Society for Optical Engineering, Vol. 11082, 2019. https://doi.org/10.1117/12.2529818. Full Text
Selected Grants
Genetics Training Grant awarded by National Institutes of Health (Mentor). 1979 to 2020
Plant Osmosensors awarded by National Science Foundation (Principal Investigator). 2015 to 2019
Multi-functional Plasmonics Nanoprobes for Cellular Sensing and Imaging awarded by Department of Energy (Co Investigator). 2015 to 2019
Functional analysis of Arabidopsis NSC1/DMI1 Ca2+ permeable channels awarded by National Science Foundation (Principal Investigator). 2009 to 2013
Molecular Genetic Analysis of Ca2+Channel-Mediated Cold Sensing awarded by Department of Agriculture (Principal Investigator). 2006 to 2009
Nutrient Ca2 Sensed by CAS Regulates the Floral Transition in Arabidopsis and Rice awarded by Department of Agriculture (Principal Investigator). 2005 to 2009
External-calcium Signal Transduction in Arabidopsis Guard Cells awarded by National Science Foundation (Principal Investigator). 2005 to 2008
Calcium Channel Regulation in Arabidopsis Guard Cells awarded by National Science Foundation (Principal Investigator). 2002 to 2005