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Peterson,Kylee
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Ph.D. Candidate
kmpete@u.washington.edu
206-221-5756 (office)
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HCK 544

Publications

Peterson, KM, Shyu C, Burr CA, Horst RJ, Kanaoka MM, Omae M, Sato Y, Torii KU.  2013.  Arabidopsis homeodomain-leucine zipper IV proteins promote stomatal development and ectopically induce stomata beyond the epidermis. Development (Cambridge, England). Abstract
Peterson, KM, Torii KU.  2012.  Long-term, High-resolution Confocal Time Lapse Imaging of Arabidopsis Cotyledon Epidermis during Germination. The Journal of Visualized Experiments. (70)
Pillitteri, LJ*, Peterson KM *, Horst RJ *, Torii KU.  2011.  Molecular Profiling of Stomatal Meristemoids Reveals New Component of Asymmetric Cell Division and Commonalities among Stem Cell Populations in Arabidopsis. The Plant Cell. 23(9) Abstract
Rychel, AL, Peterson KM, Torii KU.  2010.  Plant Twitter: ligands under 140 amino acids enforcing stomatal patterning. Journal of Plant Research. 123(3) Abstract
Peterson, KM, Rychel AL, Torii KU.  2010.  Out of the Mouths of Plants: The Molecular Basis of the Evolution and Diversity of Stomatal Development. Plant Cell. 22(2) Abstract
Guseman, JM, Lee JS, Bogenschutz NL, Peterson KM, Virata RE, Xie B, Kanaoka MM, Hong Z, Torii KU.  2010.  Dysregulation of cell-to-cell connectivity and stomatal patterning by loss-of-function mutation in Arabidopsis chorus (glucan synthase-like 8). Development (Cambridge, England). 137(10):1731-41. Abstract
Zhou, W, Peterson KM, Lindsley D, Hall B.  2009.  A genetic comparison of eight Rhododendron macrophyllum populations in British Columbia, Washington and Oregon. Rhododendron Species. 4
Hara, K, Yokoo T, Kajita R, Onishi T, Yahata S, Peterson KM, Torii KU, Kakimoto T.  2009.  Epidermal Cell Density is Autoregulated via a Secretory Peptide, EPIDERMAL PATTERNING FACTOR 2, in Arabidopsis Leaves. Plant & Cell Physiology. 50(6) Abstract

Research Interests

Stomatal development.  Genes expressed in the stomatal precursor stem-cell-like state.  Live time-lapse confocal imaging of early Arabidopsis epidermis.  Shooting cells with lasers.


Biography

Kylee studies stomatal development in the model plant Arabidopsis with the Torii lab and maintains a primary relationship with their confocal microscopes. She was awarded the National Science Foundation's three-year Graduate Research Fellowship in 2008.

Thanks to the WRF-Hall Fellowship, Kylee spent fall quarter 2012 studying real-time embryo imaging with the ERATO Higashiyama Live-Holonics group at Nagoya University in Japan.

Through serving as a senator in the Graduate and Professional Student Senate for three years, she saw a need for an active social organization focusing on LGBTQ graduate students and worked with a task force to start RainbowGrads, serving as RG administrative chair for 2011-12. She has also participated in the department IT committee and runs the graduate student blog, Science Positive.

Data from our microarray paper have been incorporated into the Arabidopsis eFP Browser under "Data Source: Guard Cell." Check out the expression information for Torii lab favorite MUTE and the recently published HDG2.