Ailing Tong

Education & Research

Apr. 2004--- present: lab technician in professor Colin Nichols’s lab, Department of Cell Biology and Physiology, School of Medicine, Washington University in St. Louis, MO.
Jan. 2001---Sept. 2003: Master student of Department of Horticulture Science, Faculty of Agricultural Sciences, Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Israel. Supervisor: Dr. Efrat Monsonego-Ornan and Prof. David Sklan
Oct. 1999---Dec. 2000: visiting scientist in Department of Postharvest Sciences, Volcani Center. Israel. Supervisor: Prof. Dov Prusky
Aug. 1986---Sept. 1999: faculty of Taian Agricultural School, Shandong, China
Sept. 1982---July 1986: BSc. in Department of Horticulture, Shandong Agricultural University, China. Supervisor: Xian Mingjiang

Selected Publications:

Tong A., Reich A., Genin O., Pines M. and Monsonego-Ornan E. 2003. Expression of Chicken 75-kDa Gelatinase B-like Enzyme in Perivascular Chondrocytes Suggests its Role in Vascularization of the Growth Plate. Journal of Bone and Mineral Research. (JBMI) 18:1443-1452
Eshel D., miyara I., Tong A., Dinoor A. and Prusky D. 2002. pH Regulates Endoglucanase Expression and Virulence of Alternaria alternate in Persimmon Fruit. Molecular Plant-Microbe Interaction (MPMI). 15:774-779
S. Weizmann, A. Tong, A. Reich, O. Genina, A. Yayon, E. Monsonego-Ornan. 2005.
FGF upregulates osteopontin in epiphyseal growth plate chondrocytes: Implications for endochondral ossification. Matrix Biology 24: 520 – 529
A. Reich, N. Jaffe, A. Tong, I. Lavelin, O. Genina, M. Pines, D. Sklan, A. Nussinovitch, and
E. Monsonego-Ornan. 2005. Weight loading young chicks inhibits bone elongation and promotes growth plate ossification and vascularization. J Appl Physiol 98: 2381-2389
Tong A., Reich A., Genina O., Sklan D., Pines M. and Monsonego-Ornan E. Cloning and expression activity of the turkey gelatinases in growth plate chondrocytes. (In preparation)

Abstracts

Tong A., Genin O., Pines M and Monsonego-Ornan E. (2002) The expression pattern of chicken 75-kda gelatinase B-like enzyme in the growth-plate and in cultured chondrocytes. The 9th Workshop on Cell Biology of Bone and Cartilage in Health and Disease. (Davos, Switzerland)
Tong A., Reich A., Genin O., Pines M and Monsonego-Ornan E. (2002) Differential expression pattern of chicken Gelatinase A and B in the growth-plate and in cultured chondrocytes. The 39th annual meeting of the WPSA-Israel branch (Ashkelon, Israel)
Monsonego Ornan E., Tong A., Reich A., Weizman S., Genin O., Alexejev R., Pines M. (2002). Tibial dyschondroplasia in chicken new thoughts about an old problem. The 39th annual meeting of the WPSA-Israel branch (Ashkelon, Israel)
Rich A., Tong A., Genina O., Alexejev R., Sklan D., Pines M. and Monsonego-Ornan E. (2003). The effect of weight loading on bone elongation of young chicken. The 40th annual meeting of the WPSA-Israel branch (Ashkelon, Israel)
Tong A., Reich A., Sklan D., Pines M and Monsonego-Ornan E. (2004) The expression of the avian gelatinases in the growth plate (Review). WPC 2004 XXII World's Poultry Congress (Istanbul, Turkey)
Reich A., Tong A., Genina O., Sklan D., Pines M. and Monsonego-Ornan E. (2004). The effect of mechanical load on young chicks growth plate ossification (Review). WPC 2004 XXII World's poultry congress (Istanbul, Turkey)