Department of Botany
University of Texas at Austin
Austin, TX 78713
tel. (512) 471-3364
e-mail: krystyna@mail.utexas.edu
Education:
M. Sc. (Biochemistry)
University of M. Curie-Sklodowska, Lublin, Poland
Thesis: Isolation and purification of antityrosinal antibodies by affinity
chromatography
Ph.D. (Natural Science)
University of M. Curie-Sklodowska, Lublin, Poland
Dissertation: Megasporogenesis and embryo sac development in Stellaria
media (Caryophyllaceae)
Positions Held:
Research Assistant, Department of Plant Anatomy and Cytology, University
of M. Curie Sklodowska, Lublin, Poland
Job description: assist in plant embryological studies
Teaching Assistant in Botany, University of M. Curie-Sklodowska, Lublin,
Poland
Job description: assist teaching microscopy and plant embryology for
majors in botany
Visiting Fellow, Department of Botany, Catholic University. Nijmegen,
the Netherlands
Job description: cell wall regeneration in plasmolysed pollen tubes
Postdoctoral Research Associate, Department of Plant Anatomy and Cytology,
University of M. Curie-Sklodowska, Lublin, Poland
Job description: megasporogenesis and embryo sac development, microsporogenesis
and pollen grains development
Department of Botany, University of Texas at Austin, Austin, Texas
Job description: microbial cellulose biosynthesis
Lecturer in Botany, University of M. Curie-Sklodowska, Lublin, Poland
Job description: teaching plant anatomy and plant embryology
Research Associate, Department of Botany, University of Texas at Austin,
Austin, Texas
Job description: evaluation of micro gravity on cellulose biosynthesis,
in vitro cellulose synthesis
Job Related Experience:
Bacterial culture
Tissue culture (marine
algae, cotton ovules)
Light microscopy
and related methods
Electron microscopy
and related techniques (negative staining, fixation, embedding, sectioning,
immunocytochemistry, autoradiography, freeze-etching, electron diffraction,
digital image processing), photography
Enzymes isolation
and purification
Synthesis of azido-UDP-glucose
and photolabeling
In vitro cellulose
synthesis
Membership in Professional Societies:
Polish Botanical
Society
International Morphological
Society
American Society
for Gravitational and Space Biology
American Society
of Plant Physiologists
List of publications
Rodkiewicz B, Kudlicka K, Kuras M. (1978) Ultrastructure of the meiocyte in ovules of Orchis and Epipactis. Bull. Acad. Polon. Sci. XXVI, 12: 833-837
Kuras M, Kudlicka K, Rodkiewicz B. (1979) Ultrastructure of the Epipactis moiocyte. Acta Med. Polon. 20:415-416
Kudlicka K. Kuras M. (1980) Ultrastructura rozwijajacego sie gametofitu zenskiego u Stellaria media. Biul. Lodz. Tow. Naukowego XXXIV
Kudlicka K, Kuras M, Rodkiewicz B. (1980) Ultrastructure of nucellus and gametophyte in developing ovules of Stellaria media. Acta Med. Polon. 21:363-364
Kudlicka K, Kroh M, Sassen MMA. (1981) Cell wall regeneration in plasmolysed pollen tubes of Lily and Tobacco. Acta Bot. Neerl. 30:316-317
Kudlicka K, Kuras M, Rodkiewicz B. (1981) Embryo sac development in Stellaria media. Acta Bot. Pol. 1-2:143-146
Rodkiewicz B, Kudlicka K, Kuras M. (1982) Callose and osmiophilic material deposition into cell walls of the developing megagametophyte in Stellaria. Acta Soc. Bot. Pol. 3-4:353-359
Kroh M, Knuiman B, Kudlicka K. (1983) Effects of reduced turgor pressure on Tobacco pollen tubes. Fertilization and Embryology in Ovulated Plants. VEDA (Czechoslovakia):121-124
Rodkiewicz B, Bednara J, Kudlicka K. (1983) Egg apparatus, walls and vacuoles in Stellaria media. Fertilization and Embryology in Ovulated Plants. VEDA (Czechoslovakia):211-213
Rodkiewicz B, Kudlicka K, Stobiecka H. (1984) Patterns of amyloplast localization during microsporogenesis in Tradescantia, Impatiens and Larix. Acta Soc. Bot. Pol. 53:437-441
Kudlicka K, Wardrop A, Itoh T, Brown RMJr. (1987) Further evidence from sectioned material in support of the existance of a linear terminal coplex in cellulose synthesis. Protoplasma 136: 96-103
Rodkiewicz B, Duda E, Kudlicka K. (1988) Organelle aggregations during microsporogenesis in Stangeria, Nymphaea and Malva. In: Sexual Reproduction in Higher Plants. (Cresti M, Cori P, Pacini E. eds.):175-180
Sniezko R, Kudlicka K, Duda E. (1988) Jak wygladaja zarodniki i gametofity roslin okrytonasiennych. Wszechswiat 89:250-253
Kudlicka K, Rodkiewicz B. (1990) Organelle coatings of meiotic nuclei during microsporogenesis in Malvaceae. Phytomorphology 40:33-41
Brown RM Jr, Kudlicka K, Cousins SK, Nagy R. (1992) Gravity effects on cellulose assembly. American Journal of Botany 79:1242-1258
Okuda K, Li L, Kudlicka K, Kuga S, Brown RMJr. (1993). á-glucan synthesis in the cotton fiber. I. Identification of á-1,4- and á-1,3-glucans synthesized in vitro. Plant Physiology 101:1131-1142
Brown RMJr, Li L, Okuda K, Kuga S, Kudlicka K, Drake, Santos R, Clement S. (1994) In vitro cellulose synthesis in plants. Plant Physiology105:1-2
Saxena IM, Kudlica K, Okuda K, Brown RMJr. (1994) Characterization of genes in the cellulose-synthesizing operon (acs operon) of Acetobacter xylinum: Implications for cellulose crystallization. J. Bact. 176:5735-5752
Kudlicka K, Brown RMJr, Li L, Lee JH, Shin S, Kuga S. (1995) á-glucan synthesis in the cotton fiber. IV. In vitro assembly of cellulose I allomorph. Plant Physiology 107: 111-123
Kudlicka K, Lee JH, Brown RMJr. (1995) A comparative analysis of in vitro cellulose synthesis from cell-free extracts of mung bean (Vigna radiata) and cotton (Gossypium hirsutum). American Journal of Botany in press.
October 30, 1997