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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.
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