Pei-San Tsai Pei-San Tsai, Ph.D. Department of Integrative Physiology University of Colorado Boulder, CO 80309-0354 phone: 303-735-1877 fax: 303-492-0811 e-mail: pei-san.tsai@colorado.edu

Research Interests

• Reproductive endocrinology of vertebrates and invertebrates.


• Specific research foci include the development of a population of neuroendocrine neurons critical for vertebrate reproduction, functional and structural evolution of reproductive neurohormones, and how sex steroids regulate hypothalamic, pituitary, and gonadal functions.


• Reproductive Endocrinology.

Education

• 1983-1987, B.S., Zoology, Texas A&M Univeristy, College Station, TX


• 1987-1989, M.S., Zoology, University of California at Berkeley


• 1989-1993, Ph.D., Zoology, University of California at Berkeley


• 1993-1995, Postdoctoral Fellow, Department of OB/GYN and Reproductive Sciences, University of California at San Francisco.


• 1995-1996, Postdoctoral Fellow, Department of Physiology, University of California at Los Angeles

Professional Experience

• 1996-1999, Assistant Professor, Department of Physiology and Neurobiology, University of Connecticut, Storrs, CT


• 1999-2003, Assistant Professor, Department of EPO Biology, University of Colorado, Boulder, CO


• 2003-2006, Assistant Professor, Department of Integrative Physiology, University of Colorado, Boulder, CO


• 2006-present, Associate Professor, Department of Integrative Physiology, University of Colorado, Boulder, CO

Honors and Awards

• 1990-1991, Outstanding Graduate Student Instructor, University of California at Berkeley


• 1991, Best Student Paper Award, American Society of Zoologists


• 1997-2003, Career Award, National Science Foundation

Recent Publications

• Gill JC, Tsai P-S. Expression of a dominant negative FGF receptor in developing GnRH1 neurons disrupts axon outgrowth and targeting to the median eminence. Biology of Reproduction 74:463-472, 2006.


• Tsai P-S, Gill JC. Mechanisms of disease: insights into X-linked and autosomal-dominant Kallmann syndrome. Nature Clinical Practice: Endocrinology and Metabolism 2: 160-171, 2006.


• Tsai P-S. Gonadotropin-releasing hormone in invertebrates: Structure, function, and evolution. General and Comparative Endocrinology 148: 48-53, 2006.


• Zhang L, Kessler AE, Tsai P-S. Characterization of steroidal regulation of gonadtoropin beta subunits in the male leopard frog, Rana pipiens. General and Comparative Endocrinology 150: 66-74, 2007.


• Zhang L, Tello JA, Zhang W, Tsai P-S. Molecular cloning, expression pattern, and immunocytochemical localization of a gonadotropin-releasing hormone-like molecule in the gastropod mollusk, Aplysia californica. General and Comparative Endocrinology 156: 201-209, 2008.