We celebrated for our first NSFC grant!

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We were gladly informed that we will be awarded a Mianshang (面上)grant from the National Natural Science Foundation of China (国家自然科学基金委员会,NSFC). This is our first national grant after we moved to China. Yuu, in particular, was very happy obtaining his first NSFC grant. We went to the buffet restaurant in the hotel nearby for our […]

Luke inspired many new graduate students with his lab introduction speech

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Yesterday, our senior lab member, Luke (Rusong Ding, 3rd year M.Phil) took Yuu’s position to give an introduction of our research to newly enrolled graduate students in the laboratory introduction session. Luke gave an amazing presentation, passionate and inspiring, which caught the hearts of many newly arrived students. Thanks to his presentation, the highest number […]

Qian successfully passed her PhD entrance exam.

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Yesterday, our student Qian (Zhang Qian/张倩) successfully passed her PhD entrance examination at our school. Qian joined the lab in February 2019 after she had spent one year working in another lab. Trying to make up the delay compared to other students (due to her transfer), she has been working very hard (REALLY hard). Her […]

Our new review on non-canonical functions of cell cycle proteins was published in the special issues of FEBS Letters

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We (Yuu, Maïté and our collaborator, Rajaguru Aradhya) published a new review titled, “Emerging roles of metazoan cell cycle regulators as coordinators of the cell cycle and differentiation” on the special issue on cell cycle control of the FEBS Letter. https://febs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.1002/1873-3468.13805 Cell proliferation and differentiation are two paramount issues in the development of multicellular organisms, […]

Our collaboration paper is out in Developmental Cell

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In collaboration with Renata Basto’s lab (Curie Institute, France) and Gregory Rogers’ lab (University of Arizona, USA), we have published a new paper in Developmental Cell. In this study, we showed how the centrosome components, Plk4 and Spd2, direct the orientation of mitotic spindle by asymmetrically regulating the two centrosomes during the asymmetric cell division […]