Plant Endocytosis

Jozef Samaj studied at the Comenius University in Bratislava, Slovakia. After PhD promotion he did three post-docs supported by Eurosilva, Alexander von Humboldt Foundation and EU Marie Curie Programme in well recognized laboratories in Toulouse, Bonn and Vienna. He worked on the cell biology of lignification enzymes, arabinogalactan proteins, cytoskelatal and signalling proteins, especially on mitogen-activated-protein kinases. He is now a lecturer and associate researcher at the Institute of Cellular and Molecular Botany in Bonn, Germany. His main research interest is focused on the role of stress-induced MAP-Kinase cascades in relation to the vesicular trafficking and cytoskeleton during root hair development and root adaptation to stresses in two plant model species Arabidopsis thaliana and Medicago truncatula. He co-edited one monograph: Samaj J, Bobák M, Ovecka M, Blehová B, Pretová A (1997) Structural features of plant morphogenesis in vitro. Veda, Bratislava, Slovakia, pp. 122 (ISBN 80-224-0505-1)

Methods and Molecular Tools for Studying Endocytosis in Plants - an Overview.- Endocytic Uptake of Nutrients, Cell Wall Molecules and Fluidized Cell Wall Portions into Heterotrophic Plant Cells.-Plant Prevacuolar Compartments and Endocytosis.-Plant Vacuoles: from Biogenesis to Function.-Molecular Dissection of the Clathrin-Endocytosis Machinery in Plants.-Receptor-Mediated Endocytosis in Plants.-Sterol Endocytosis and Trafficking in Plant Cells.-Auxin Transport and Recycling of PIN Proteins in Plants.-MDR/PGP Auxin Transport Proteins and Endocytic Cycling.-Rab GTPases in Plant Endocytosis.-SNAREs in Plant Endocytosis and the Post-Golgi Traffic.-Dynamin-Related Proteins in Plant Endocytosis.-Endocytosis and Actomyosin Cytoskeleton.-Endocytosis and Endosymbiosis.-Endocytosis in Guard Cells.-Endocytosis and Membrane Recycling in Pollen Tubes.-Tip Growth and Endocytosis in Fungi