Ewa Urbanczyk-Wochniak Postdoctoral Fellow Plant biology division Phone: (580) 224-6151 Lab (580) 224-6712/6714 Fax: (580) 224-6692 Email: eurbanczyk@noble.org
Joined the Noble Foundation in 2005
Curriculum vitae
The central theme of my research interest is an in-depth understanding of regulatory mechanisms controlling metabolic networks in plants by using genomic approaches, mainly metabolomics and transcriptomics, as well as by computational data analyses.
Publications
18. Lemaitre T., Urbanczyk-Wochniak E., Bismuth E., Fernie A.R., and Hodges M. (2007) NAD-dependent isocitrate dehydrogenase mutants of Arabidopsis thaliana suggest the enzyme is not limiting for nitrogen assimilation Plant Physiol (in press).
17. Urbanczyk-Wochniak E., Sumner L.W. (2007) MedicCyc: a biochemical pathway database for Medicago truncatula. Bioinformatics 23: 1418-1423.
16. Carrari F., Baxter C., Usadel B., Urbanczyk-Wochniak E., Zanor M.I., Nunes-Nesi A., Nikiforova V., Centero D., Ratzka A., Pauly M., Sweetlove L., and Fernie A.R. (2006) Integrated Analysis of Metabolite and Transcript Levels Reveals the Metabolic Shifts that Underlie Tomato Fruit Development and Highlight Regulatory Aspects of Metabolic Network Behavior. Plant Physiol. 142:1380-1396.
15. Fait A., Angelovici R., Less H., Ohad I., Urbanczyk-Wochniak E., Fernie A.R., and Galili G. (2006) Arabidopsis Seed Development and Germination Is Associated with Temporally Distinct Metabolic Switch. Plant Physiol. 142: 839-854.
14. Urbanczyk-Wochniak E., Usadel B., Thimm O., Nunes-Nesi A., Carrari F., Davey M., Blaesing O., Kowalczyk M., Weicht D., Polinceusz A., Meyer S., Stitt M., and Fernie A.R. (2006) Conversion of MapMan to allow the analysis of transcript data from Solanaceous species: effects of genetic and environmental alterations in energy metabolism in the leaf. Plant Molecular Biology 60:773-792.
13. Clément B., Pollmann S., Weiler E., Urbanczyk-Wochniak E., Otten L. (2006) The Agrobacterium vitis T-6b oncoprotein induces auxin-independent cell expansion in tobacco. Plant J. 45: 1017-1027
12. Geigenberger P., Regierer B., Nunes-Nesi A., Leisse A., Urbanczyk-Wochniak E., Springer F., van Dongen J.T., Kossmann J., Fernie A.R. (2005) Inhibition of de novo pyrimidine synthesis in growing potato tubers leads to a compensatory stimulation of the pyrimidine salvage pathway and a subsequent increase in biosynthetic performance. Plant Cell 17: 2077-2088.
11. Davies H.V., Shepherd L.V.T., Burrell M.M., Carrari F., Urbanczyk-Wochniak E., Leisse A., Hancock R.D., Taylor M., Viola R., Ross H., McRae D., Willmitzer L., Fernie A.R. (2005) Modulation of fructokinase activity of potato (Solanum tuberosum) results in substantial shifts in tuber metabolism. Plant Cell Physiol. 46: 1103-1115.
10. Urbanczyk-Wochniak E., Baxter C., Kolbe A., Kopka J., Sweetlove L. J., Fernie A. R. (2005) Profiling of diurnal patterns of metabolite and transcript abundance in potato leaves reveals specific set of metabolic pathways are transcriptionally regulated, but suggests that the majority of the metabolic network is under post-transcriptional control. Planta 221: 891 - 903
9. Urbanczyk-Wochniak E., Fernie A. R. (2005) Metabolic profiling reveals altered nitrogen nutrient regimes have diverse effects on the metabolism of hydroponically-grown tomato (Lycopersicon esculentum) plants. J. Exp. Bot. 56: 309-321.
8. Urbanczyk-Wochniak E., Luedemann A., Kopka J., Selbig J., Roessner-Tunali U., Willmitzer L., Fernie A.R. (2003) Parallel analysis of transcript and metabolic profiles: a new approach in systems biology. EMBO Reports 4: 989-993.
7. Urbanczyk-Wochniak E., Leisse A., Roessner-Tunali U., Lytovchenko A., Reismeier J., Willmitzer L., Fernie A.R. (2003) Expression of a bacterial xylose isomerase in potato tubers results in an altered hexose composition and a consequent induction of metabolism. Plant and Cell Physiology 44: 1359-1367.
6. Roessner-Tunali U., Urbanczyk-Wochniak E., Czechowski T., Kolbe A., Willmitzer L., Fernie A.R. (2003) De novo amino acid biosynthesis in potato tubers is regulated by sucrose levels. Plant Physiology 133: 683-692
5. Przybecki Z., Kowalczyk M.E., Siedlecka E., Urbanczyk-Wochniak E., Malepszy S. (2003) The isolation of cDNA clones from cucumber (Cucumis sativus L.) floral buds coming from plants differing in sex. Cellular & Molecular Biology Letters 8: 421-438.
4. Witkowicz J., Urbanczyk-Wochniak E., Przybecki Z. (2003) AFLP marker polymorphism in cucumber (Cucumis sativus L.) near isogenic lines differing in sex expression. Cellular & Molecular Biology Letters 8: 857-857
3. Carrari F., Urbanczyk-Wochniak E., Willmitzer L., Fernie A.R. (2003) Engineering central metabolism in crop species: learning the system. Metabolic Engineering 5: 191-200
2. Urbanczyk-Wochniak E., Filipecki M., Przybecki Z. (2002) A useful protocol for in situ RT-PCR on plant tissues. Cellular & Molecular Biology Letters 7: 7-18
1. Urbanczyk-Wochniak E., Przybecki Z. (2001) The role of MADS-box genes in flower morphogenesis. Acta Physiologiae Plantarum 23: 241-253
Book Chapters
7. Sumner L.W., Urbanczyk-Wochniak E., Broeckling C.B. (2007) Metabolomics Data Analysis, Visualization, and Integration in Plant Bioinformatics: Methods in Molecular Biology (in press).
6. Fernie A.R., Urbanczyk-Wochniak E., Willmitzer L (2007) Parallel metabolite and transcript profiling: hypothesis generation for biotechnology in Metabolic profiling: its role in biomarker discovery and gene function analysis' (edited by G. G. Harrigan and R. Goodacre), (in press).
5. Sumner L.W., Huhman D.V., Urbanczyk-Wochniak E., Lie Z. (2007) Concepts, Methods, Applications, and Future Directions of Metabolic Profiling in Secondary Metabolism in In Plant Systems Biology (edited by A.R. Fernie and S. Baginsky) 97:195-212.
4. Urbanczyk-Wochniak E., Baxter C., Sweetlove L. J., Fernie A. R. (2007) Profiling diurnal changes in metabolite and transcript levels in potato leaves in Congress Proceedings book, (edited by B. Nikolau) pp. 183-192.
3. Przybecki Z., Siedlecka E., Filipecki M., Urbanczyk-Wochniak E. (2006) In Situ RT-PCR On Plant Tissues in Methods in Molecular Biology; PRINS and in situ PCR protocols (edited by F. Pellestor) Humana Press Inc, 334, 181-198.
2. Urbanczyk-Wochniak E, Willmitzer L, Fernie AR (2006) Integrating profiling data: using linear correlation to reveal co-regulation of transcript and metabolites in Methods in Molecular Biology; Metabolimics: methods and protocols, (edited by W. Weckwerth), 358, 77-86.
1. Urbanczyk-Wochniak E, Fernie AR, Willmitzer L (2004). The utility of transcriptomics and metabolomics in systems based analysis of plant metabolism in Understanding the Plant Genome (edited by J. Sadowski.). Institute of Plant Genetics, PAS, Poznan, Poland, pp. 47-58.
Patent
Urbanczyk-Wochniak E, Luedemann A, Kopka J, Selbig J, Roessner-Tunali U, Willmitzer L, Fernie AR. "Parallel analysis of transcript and metabolic profiles: a new approach in system biology" GI 3093, Ref. bei Vossius: G3258 EP S3.
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