Meetings attended and Presentations given

1991-1997 Midwest Cytochrome P450 Symposium. Purdue University, West Lafayette, IN. (poster and talk)

1995 World Cytochrome P450 International Symposium. Woods Hole Oceanographic
Research Institute, Woods Hole, MA. (poster)

1995 American Society of Plant Physiologists national meeting. Charlotte, NC. (poster and talk)

1996 American Society of Plant Physiologists national meeting. San Antonio, TX. (poster and talk)

1991-1997 Biochemistry Research Symposium. University of Illinois, Urbana, IL. (poster and talk)

1991-1997 Cell and Structural Biology Research Symposium. University of Illinois, Urbana, IL. (poster and talk)

1999 American Society of Plant Physiologists national meeting. Baltimore, MD.
(poster)

2000 American Society of Plant Physiologists national meeting. San Diego, CA.
(poster)

2001 American Society of Plant Biologists national meeting. Providence, RI.
(poster and talk)

Awards

1991 John Wiley Jones Distinguished Undergraduate Student Award. Rochester
Institute of Technology.

1991-1994 National Institutes of Health Cell and Molecular Biology Research Fellowship.
University of Illinois.

1996-1997 Dissertation Completion Fellowship. University of Illinois.

Professional Societies

1995-2000 American Society of Plant Physiologists

2000-2002 American Society of Plant Biologists

2000-2001 Alpha Chi Sigma national chemistry fraternity

Patents:

Metabolism of Herbicides In Maize by CYP71C3v2. Persans M.W. and Schuler M.A. (pending 2002)

Publications

1. Persans M.W. and Schuler M.A. (1995). Differential Induction of Cytochrome P450-mediated Triasulfuron Metabolism by Naphthalic Anhydride and Triasulfuron. Plant Physiology. v109, pp1483-1490.

2. Persans M.W., Yan X., Smith R., and Salt D.E. (1998). Cloning of Two cDNAs from the Ni Hyperaccumulator Thlaspi goesingense: Histidinol Dehydrogenase (Accession No. AF023141) and Imidazolglycerol-Phosphate Dehydratase (Accession No. AF023140), Two Enzymes in the Histidine Biosynthetic Pathway. Plant Physiology, Plant Gene Register v117, pp332.

3. Persans M.W., Yan X., Patnoe J-MML, Kramer U., and Salt D.E. (1999). Molecular Dissection of the Role of Histidine in Nickel Hyperaccumulation in Thlaspi goesingense (Halacsy) Plant Physiology. v121, pp1117-1126.

4. Persans M.W., and Salt D.E. (2000). Possible Molecular Mechanisms Involved in Nickel, Zinc, and Selenium Hyperaccumulation in Plants. Biotechnology and Genetic Engineering Reviews v17, pp 385-409.

5. Persans M.W., Wang J., and Schuler M.A. (2001). Characterization of Maize Cytochrome P450 Monooxygenases Induced in Response to Safeners and Bacterial Pathogens. Plant Physiology v125, pp 1126-1138.

6. Persans M.W., Nieman K., and Salt D.E (2001) Functional Activity and Role of Cation-Efflux Family members in Ni Hyperaccumulation in Thlaspi goesingense. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences v98, pp 9995-10000.

7. Maser P., Thomine S., Schroeder J.I., Ward J.M., Hirschi K., Sze H., Talke I.N., Amtmann A.,Maathuis F.J.M., Sanders D., Harper J.H., Tchieu J., Gribskov M., Persans M.W., Salt D.E., Kim S.A., Guerinot M.L. (2001) Phylogenetic Relationships Within Cation-Transporter families of Arabidopsis thaliana. Plant Physiology v126, pp 1646-1667.

8. Pickering I.J., Wright C., Bubner B., Ellis., Persans M.W., Yu E. Y., George G.N., Prince R.C., and Salt D.E. (2003) Chemical Form and Distribution of Selenium and Sulfur in the Selenium Hyperaccumulator Astragalus bisulcatus. Plant Physiology v131, pp1460-1467