JC Jang
Associate Professor
Department of Horticulture and Crop Science

013 Rightmire Hall, Plant Biotechnology Center 1060 Carmack Columbus, OH 43210 Phone: 614-292-8496 Fax: 614-292-5379

Email: jang.40@osu.edu

WEBSITE at www.ag.ohio-state.edu/~jcjang/
at OSU since 1997

EDUCATION:

1991-1997 Postdoc, Harvard Medical School
1990-1991 Postdoc, Washington State University
1989 Ph.D., Clemson University

TEACHING:

830 Signal Transduction of Plant Growth Substances
604.03 Research Methods: Molecular Biology
604.02 Research Methods: Cell Biology (participating instructor)
703 Agricultural Genomics (participating instructor)

RESEARCH INTERESTS:

1) Reveal sugar regulatory network using transcriptome, bioinformatics, and mutant analyses.
2) Understand molecular and genetic mechanisms underlying crosstalk between sugar and hormone.
3) Define the signaling role of sugar in sink-to-source transitioning, a developmental process important for crop productivity.

SELECTED PUBLICATIONS:

Xiao, W.-Y., Sheen, J, and Jang, J.-C. (2000) The role of hexokinase in plant sugar signal transduction and growth and development. Plant Mol. Biol. 44:451-461.

Jang, J.-C., Fujioka, S. Tasaka, M., Seto, H., Takatsuto, S., Ishii, A., Aida, M., Yoshida, S., and Sheen, J. (2000) A critical role of sterols in embryonic patterning and meristem programming revealed by the fackel mutants of Arabidopsis thaliana. Genes Dev. 14: 1485-1497.

Xiao, W.-Y., and Jang, J.-C. (2000) The F-box proteins in Arabidopsis thaliana. Trends Plant Sci. 5:454-457.

He, J. X., Fujioka, S., Li, T.-C., Kang, S. G., Seto, H., Takatsuto, S., Yoshida, S., and Jang, J.-C. (2003) Sterols regulate development and gene expression in Arabidopsis thaliana. Plant Physiol. 131:1258-1269.

Price, J., Li, T. C., Kang, S. G., Na, J. K., and Jang, J.-C. (2003). Mechanisms of glucose signaling during seed germination of Arabidopsis thaliana. Plant Physiol. 132: 1424-1438.

Price, J., Laxmi, A., St. Martin, S. K., and Jang, J.-C. (2004) Global transcription profiling reveals multiple sugar signal transduction mechanisms in Arabidopsis. Plant Cell 16:2128-2150.

Shao, M., Zheng, H., Hu, Y., Liu D., Jang, J-C., Ma, H., and Huang, H. (2004) The GAOLAOZHUANGREN1 gene encodes a putative glycosyltransferase that is required for normal development and affects sink-source transition in Arabidopsis. Plant Cell Physiol. 45:1453-1460.

RECENT PRESENTATIONS

Sugar signaling in Arabidopsis thaliana. 2004, Purdue University, West Lafayette, IN.

Sugar regulatory networks in plants. 2004, City University of New York, Lehman College, NY.

Global gene expression profiling reveals intricacies in sugar signaling in Arabidopsis thaliana. 2004, Clemson University, SC.

Sugar signaling in plants. 2004, NC 1142 Meeting, Greenville, SC.

The regulatory role of sterols in plant development and gene expression. 2003, 6th International Symposium on isoprenoids and terpenes. Lexington, KY.

Last modified: 5/14/2008