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Zhen-Ming Pei is an Associate Professor in the field of Biology at Duke University. His research focuses on the early signaling events that allow plants to sense and respond to environmental signals. His laboratory investigates how perception of external signals, through cell surface receptors, triggers changes in cytosolic free calcium concentrations, mediated by ion channels. The long-term goals of his research are to identify the key receptors and ion channels involved in these processes, isolate their interacting components, and assign molecular functions to them. Currently, Pei employs multidisciplinary approaches from biophysics, biochemistry, cell biology, molecular genetics, and functional genomics to dissect the signaling cascades that involve external calcium and nitric oxide, particularly in the model plant Arabidopsis. He teaches courses such as BIOLOGY 412S: Sensory Signal Transduction and BIOLOGY 213D: Cell Signaling Diseases.
Department of Biomedical Engineering (MS program)