T. Page Owen, Jr., Ph.D.

Department of Botany
Connecticut College
270 Mohegan Avenue
New London, Connecticut 06320
(860) 439-2147
E-mail: tpowe@conncoll.edu

 
 

EDUCATION

1990 Ph.D. in Botany, University of California, Riverside, California (WW. Thomson)
1985 B.A. in Biology, Oberlin College, Oberlin, Ohio

EXPERIENCE

1999 - ASSOCIATE PROFESSOR AND CHAIR, Department of Botany, Connecticut College.
1992 - 1999 ASSISTANT PROFESSOR. Department of Botany, Connecticut College.
1990 - 1992 POSTDOCTORAL RESEARCH ASSOCIATE. Department of Biological Sciences, Texas Tech University, C. H. Haigler
1985 - 1990 RESEARCH AND TEACHING ASSISTANT. Department of Botany & Plant Sciences, University of California, Riverside

COURSES TAUGHT

Connecticut College: Cell Biology (every year, with lab); Plant Structure and Growth (alternate years, with lab); Electron Microscopy (alternate years, with lab); General Botany (every year, team taught); Botany/Zoology Seminar.

GRANTS

National Science Foundation, Instrument and Laboratory Improvement at Undergraduate Institutions, "Scanning Electron Microscopy for Course Improvement in the Biological and Chemical Sciences," P.I. (S. Ching (Chemistry) and P. Siver (Botany), Co-P.I.s) $202,234. July 1995 - June 1997.

POSITIONS IN PROFESSIONAL SOCIETIES

Executive Committee, Northeast Section of the American Society of Plant Biologists, Elected 1998-present.

Education Committee -- Botanical Society of America, 1997- 2000.
Campus Representative - Project Kaleidoscope -- Faculty for the 21st Century, Appointed February, 1999.

Editor, Special Edition, Northeastern Naturalist 5(2), 1998; manuscript reviewer American Journal of Botany, Annals of Botany

SIGNIFICANT COLLEGE COMMITTEES

Faculty Steering and Conference Committee (1999 - 2001), Priorities, Planning and Budget Committee(1999 - 2001), Committee on Academic Standing (1997 - 1999), Academic and Administrative Procedures Committee (1993 - 1995), Dean's Grievance Committee (1998 - 1999), Pre-Health Advisory Committee (1996 - present), Chemical Safety Committee (1997 - present), Director, Keck Undergraduate Science Program (1993 - present).

AWARDS

Teacher of the Year Award, Student Government Association, 1999

"Hot Prof" Award, Hartford Currant, 1999.

Service Awards - Montville Connecticut Board of Education, for establishing an electron microscopy program for the UConn COOP Advanced Placement Biology Program at Montville High School. June 1994; 1996.

PEER-REVIEWED PUBLICATIONS

(* denotes Connecticut College undergraduate student co-author)
Kausch, A. P., T. P. Owen, Jr., S. J. Zachwieja, A. R. Flynn*, and J. Sheen. 2001. Mesophyll-specific, light and metabolic regulation of the C4 PPCZm1 promoter in transgenic maize. Plant Molecular Biology 45: 1-15.

Archer, E. K., T. P Owen, Jr., E. M. Palucki, and S. Allan. 2000. A plastid mutation in tobacco (Nicotiana tabacum L.) is associated with decreased respiration rates and enzyme levels in mitochondria. Journal of Plant Physiology 156: 289-294.

Owen, T. P., Jr., K. A. Lennon*, M. J. Santo*, and A. N. Anderson*. 1999. Pathways for nutrient transport in the pitchers of the carnivorous plant Nepenthes alata. Annals of Botany 84: 459-466.

Rojas, M.*, T. P. Owen, Jr. and K. Lindahl*. 1999. Brefeldin A inhibits secondary cell wall synthesis in developing tracheary elements of Zinnia elegans. International Journal of Plant Sciences 160: 683-690.

Kausch, A., T. P. Owen, Jr., S. Narayanswami and B. A. Bruce. 1999. Organelle isolation by magnetic immunoabsorption. Biotechniques 26: 336-343.

Owen, T. P., Jr. and K. A. Lennon.* 1999. Structure and development of the pitchers from the carnivorous plant Nepenthes alata (Nepenthaceae). American Journal of Botany 86: 1382-1390.

Taylor, J. G., T. P. Owen, Jr., L. T. Koonce, and C. H. Haigler. 1992. Dispersed lignin in tracheary elements treated with cellulose synthesis inhibitors provides evidence that molecules of the secondary cell wall mediate wall patterning. Plant Journal 2: 959-970.

Owen, T. P., Jr. and W. W. Thomson. 1991. Structure and function of a specialized cell wall in the trichomes of the carnivorous bromeliad Brocchinia reducta. Canadian Journal of Botany 69: 1700-1706.

Owen, T. P., Jr., K. A. Platt-Aloia, and W. W. Thomson. 1991. Ultrastructural localization of Lucifer Yellow and endocytosis in plant cells. Protoplasma 160: 115-120.

Owen, T. P., Jr. and W. W. Thomson. 1988. Sites of leucine, arginine, and glycine accumulation in the absorptive trichomes of a carnivorous bromeliad. Journal of Ultrastructure and Molecular Structure Research 101: 215-233.

Owen, T. P., Jr., D. H. Benzing, and W. W. Thomson. 1988. Apoplastic and ultrastructural characterizations of the trichomes of the carnivorous bromeliad Brocchinia reducta. Canadian Journal of Botany 66: 941-948.