Krystyna Kudlicka

 
 

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

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