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


• 1993-1995, NIH Postdoctoral National Research Service Award


• 1997-2003, Career Award, National Science Foundation


• 2005-2009, Editorial Board, Biology of Reproduction


• 2009-present, NIH Integrative and Clinical Endocrinology and Reproduction Study Section


• 2010, Provost's Faculty Achievement Award


• 2011-present, Associate Editor, Frontiers in Endocrinology

Recent Publications

• Brooks LR, Chung WC, Tsai P-S. Abnormal hypothalamic oxytocin system in fibroblast growth factor 8-deficient mice. Endocrine 38: 174-180, 2010.


• Chung WC, Matthews TA, Tata BK, Tsai P-S. Compound deficiencies in multiple FGF signaling components differentially impact the murine GnRH system. Journal of Neuroendocrinology 22: 944-950, 2010.


• Chung WC, Tsai P-S. Role of fibroblast growth factor signaling in gonadotropin-releasing hormone neuronal system development. Frontiers of Hormone Research 39: 37-50, 2010.


• McCabe MF, Gaston-Massuet C, Tziaferi V, Gregory LC, Alatzoglou KS, Signore M, Puelles E, Gerrelli E, Farooqi IS, Raza J, Walker J, Kavanaugh SI, Tsai P-S, Pitteloud N, Martinez-Barbera JP, Dattani MT. Novel FGF8 mutations associated with recessive holoprosencephaly and hypothalamo-pituitary dysfunction. Journal of Clinical Endocrinology and Metabolism 96: E1709-1718, 2011.


• Sun B, Tsai P-S. A gonadotropin-releasing hormone-like molecule modulates the activity of diverse central neurons in a gastropod mollusk, Aplysia californica. Frontiers in Endocrinology 2: 36, 2011.


• Tsai P-S. Neuroendocrine control of reproduction in amphibians. In: Hormone and Reproduction of Vertebrates. Vol. 2: Amphibians. Eds. Norris DO, Lopez KH. London: Academic Press, pp. 21-38, 2011.


• Tsai P-S, Brooks LR, Rochester JR, Kavanaugh SI, Chung WCJ. Fibroblast growth factor signaling in the developing neuroendocrine hypothalamus. Frontiers in Neuroendocrinology 32: 95-107, 2011.


• Tsai P-S, Sun B, Rochester JR, Wayne NL. Gonadotropin-releasing hormone-like molecule is not an acute reproductive activator in the gastropod, Aplysia californica. General and Comparative Endocrinology 166: 280-288, 2010.