1. Name Assist.Prof. Charoensri Thonabulsombat, Ph.D. Education Degree B.Sc. M.Sc. Ph.D. Field of Study Nursing Anatomy Animal Science and Reproductive Biology Graduated from Institution Year Mahidol University 1984 Mahidol University 1989 Utah State University 1999 U.S.A. Department and Faculty/Institute/College Department of Anatomy, Faculty of Science, Mahidol University Research interest 1. Reproductive Biology Oocyte and Sperm Maturation, In Vitro Embryo Production and Embryo Transfer for Assisted Reproduction (IVF-ET, Sexing, and Cryopreservation) 2. Stem Cell &Transplantation, Tissue Engineering and Hearing Research Organotypic culture in neuroscience research, Embryonic Stem Cell Culture for Medical and Agricultural Researches especially genetic modified or gene transfer in vitro and in vivo, Hearing and Clinical Neuroscience Research -- Organotypic brain slice Culture, Immunohistochemistry, Histological Studies 3. Transgenic Research Transgenic Animals for Pharmaceutical proteins, Molecular biology, Gene Expression, gene transfer by using the neurotrophic factors construction Research papers/academic projects which were published in reliable academic journals in the last five year 1. Thonabulsombat C, Reed W.A, Morrey J.D, Bates K, Smart A. Ross, and White K.L. Transgenic mice carrying a gene for green fluorescent protein fused to lytic peptide Shiva 1 under the control of the bovine -casein regulatory region. Transgenics, 3(2-4). 2001. 2. Charoensri Thonabulsombat, Saga Malin Johansson, Petri N Olivius An Organotypic Slice Co-culture of Postnatal Rat Brainstem and Mouse Embryonic Dorsal Root Ganglion Neurons. ARO-meeting (2004) p. 911 3. Charoensri Thonabulsombat, Saga Johansson, Christian Sprenger, Mats Ulfendahla and Petri Olivius. Survival of Transplantation of Embryonic Dorsal Root Ganglion Neurons into The Postnatal Rat Brainstem Organotypic Slice Co-Cultures : Extension with Axonal Projections and Effect of Growth Factors. Scan Physio meeting 2004. 4. Charoensri Thonabulsombat, Mitalipov SM, Wolf DP, and Petri Olivius.. Survival and Integration of Monkey Neuronal Progenitor cells differentiated from Embryonic Stem Cell in Auditory Brain Stem Slice Cultures. ARO-meeting (2005) p. 451 5. Petri Olivius, , Charoensri Thonabulsombat, Mats Ulfendahl, and Josef M. Miller. CAN THE DAMAGED INNER EAR BE REPLACED? Nordisk Oto-laryng F๖ ren XXIX meeting (2005) 6. Aleksandra Glavaski-Joksimovic, Charoensri Thonabulsombat , Anna Jonsson, Mikael Eriksson , Bj๖ rn Palmgren, Malin Hไ gglund and Petri Olivius Survival and Integration of Sox-1GFP Mouse Embryonic Stem Cells in Auditory Brain Stem Slice Cultures Inner ear biology meeting (2005). 7. Charoensri Thonabulsombat, Aleksandra.glavaski , Shoukhrat Mitalipov, Don P Wolf , Yindee Kitiyanant, Kanok Pavasuthipaisit and Petri Olivius. Stem Cell and Hearing Research. Proceeding of the Second Asian Reproductive Biotechnology conference (2005). 8. Charoensri Thonabulsombat, Saga Johansson, Christian Sprenger, Mats Ulfendahla and Petri Olivius. Survival of Transplantation of Embryonic Dorsal Root Ganglion Neurons into The Postnatal Rat Brainstem Organotypic Slice Co-Cultures : Extension with Axonal Projections and Effect of Growth Factors. (Manuscript in preparation)