Randy Wayne (biologist)

From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
This article is about the plant biologist. For the actor with the same name, see Randy Wayne.
Randy Wayne
Born (1955-05-08) May 8, 1955
Boston, MA USA
Residence Ithaca, NY, USA
Nationality American
Fields Biophysical Plant Cell
Institutions Cornell[1]
Alma mater U. Mass. BA 1977
UCLA Masters 1979[2]
U. Mass. PhD 1985[2]
Doctoral advisor Peter K. Hepler
Website
Faculty biography at Cornell

Randy O. Wayne is a plant cell biologist[3] at Cornell University[4][5][6] notable for his work on plant development.[7] In particular, along with his colleague P. K. Hepler, Wayne established the powerful role of calcium in regulating plant growth;[8][9] accordingly, his 1985 article Calcium and plant development was cited by at least 405 subsequent articles to earn the coveted "Citation Classic" award from Current Contents magazine[10] and has been cited by hundreds more since 1993. He is an acknowledged authority on how plant cells sense gravity through pressure,[7][11][12] on the water permeability of plant membranes,[13] light microscopy,[14] as well as the effects of calcium on plant development.[10] He wrote two textbooks including Plant Cell Biology: From Astronomy to Zoology[15][16] and Light and Video Microscopy.[17] Wayne discovered a lost poem written by Louis Ginsberg, father of beat poet Allen Ginsberg, entitled, Microscope.[18] In 2010, he proposed a theory of light which contradicts relativity.[19][20][21][22]

Selected works

  • Plant Cell Biology: From Astronomy to Zoology, 2009, Elsevier/Academic Press. (ISBN 9780123742339)
  • Light and Video Microscopy, 2009, Elsevier/Academic Press. (ISBN 9780080921280)
  • Light and Video Microscopy, Second Edition, 2014, Elsevier/Academic Press. (ISBN 9780124114845)

References

  1. ↑ Sean T. Hammond and Karl J. Niklas (10 January 2012). "Computer simulations support a core prediction of a contentious plant model". American Journal of Botany. Retrieved 2012-06-28. 
  2. ↑ 2.0 2.1 "Randy O Wayne (faculty biography)". Cornell University Department of Plant Biology. 2012-06-28. Retrieved 2012-06-28. "Bachelor's Degree Univ Massachusetts 1977 Master's Degree U Cal Los Angeles 1979 Doctorate Univ Massachusetts 1985" 
  3. ↑ "Editorial Board". BioOne. 2012-06-28. Retrieved 2012-06-28. "...Cell Biology: Randy Wayne, Cornell University ..." 
  4. ↑ "Where is the Freedom to Question?". American Institute for Technology and Science Education. 2012. Retrieved 2012-06-28. 
  5. ↑ Donial Dastgir (February 14, 2008). "U.A. Decries Skorton’s Response to Proposal". The Cornell Daily Sun. Retrieved 2012-06-28. 
  6. ↑ Donial Dastgir (February 21, 2008). "Skorton and U.A. Attempt To Reconcile Differences". The Cornell Daily Sun. Retrieved 2012-06-28. 
  7. ↑ 7.0 7.1 "SCIENCE WATCH; Telling Up From Down". The New York Times. 1992. Retrieved 2012-06-28. 
  8. ↑ V. Raghavan (1989). "Developmental Biology of Fern Gametophytes". Cambridge University Press. ISBN 978-0-521-33022-0. Retrieved 2012-06-28. "Direct demonstration of an increased Ca2+ influx in the spore following exposure to a saturating dose of red light has been possible by atomic absorption spectroscopy (Wayne and Hepler, 1985a)." 
  9. ↑ "A Basic Distinction (in the Breakthroughs Section)". Discover Magazine. November 1992. "Volume 13, Number 11" 
  10. ↑ 10.0 10.1 "This Week's Citation Classic". Current Contents. July 26, 1993. Retrieved 2012-06-28. "The SCI® indicates that this paper has been cited in more than 405 publications -- Hepler P K & Wayne R O. Calcium and plant development. Annu. Rev. Plant Physiol. 36:397-439. 1985. -- Department of Botany, University of Massachusetts. Amherst. MA" 
  11. ↑ Boyce Rensberger (July 13, 1992). "Getting to the Root Of Plant Growth; How Seeds Sprout in the Proper Direction". Washington Post. 
  12. ↑ Elison B. Blancaflor and Patrick H. Masson (December 2003). "Update on Tropisms: Plant Gravitropism. Unraveling the Ups and Downs of a Complex Process". Plant Physiology. pp. 1677–1690. Retrieved 2012-06-28. "Vol. 133 Citing this article: Staves MP, Wayne R, Leopold AC (1997) The effect of external medium on the gravitropic curvature of rice (Oryza sativa, Poaceae) roots. Am J Bot 84:1522–1529" 
  13. ↑ Christophe Maurel (June 1997). "AQUAPORINS AND WATER PERMEABILITY OF PLANT MEMBRANES". Annual Review of Plant Physiology and Plant Molecular Biology. Retrieved 2012-06-28. "Vol. 48: 399-429; DOI: 10.1146/annurev.arplant.48.1.399" 
  14. ↑ Randy Wayne (August 2008). "Light and Video Microscopy". Academic Press. ISBN 978-0-12-374234-6. Retrieved 2012-06-28. 
  15. ↑ Nigel Chaffey (reviewer of Wayne's book) (August 4, 2010). "Plant cell biology. From astronomy to zoology". Annals of Botany. Retrieved 2012-06-28. 
  16. ↑ Tajwar Mazhar (Nov 4, 2009). "Prof’s Book Blurs Boundaries Between Sciences". Cornell Daily Sun. Retrieved 2012-06-28. 
  17. ↑ Carol Bayles (April 2010). "Let There be Light (review of Randy Wayne's book Light and Video Microscopy)". BioScience. Retrieved 2012-06-28. "Volume 60 No. 4 BioScience ...excellent undergraduate level text on optical microscopy for biologists... also valuable to anyone using a light microscope ... An ability to elucidate difficult concepts is not the only thing that makes Wayne an excellent teacher. He is also a historian of science and has thoroughly researched the topic in order to bring historical information to the reader." 
  18. ↑ Laughlin, Gary J. (2013). "Editorial: Microscopical Verse". The Microscope 61: ii. Retrieved 5 August 2013. 
  19. ↑ Dan Veaner (October 15, 2010). "Cornell Scientist Challenges Einstein". Lansing Star. Retrieved 2012-06-28. 
  20. ↑ "Electrons can't exceed the speed of light -- thanks to light itself, says biologist". Chronicle Online. Nov 18, 2010. Retrieved 2012-06-28. 
  21. ↑ Cornell University (November 19, 2010). "New look at relativity: Electrons can't exceed the speed of light -- thanks to light itself, says biologist: When resolving why electrons can never beat the speed limit set by light, it might be best to forget about time. Thanks to insight from studying movement inside a biological cell, it seems that light itself -- not the relativity of time -- may be the traffic cop, according to a Cornell University biologist.". Phys.org. Retrieved 2012-06-28. 
  22. ↑ Jing Jin (Feb 8, 2012). "Plant Biologist Challenges Einstein's Theory of Relativity". The Cornell Daily Sun. Retrieved 2012-06-28. 
This article is issued from Wikipedia. The text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution/Share Alike; additional terms may apply for the media files.