2021 Luke lab intro Today labs in our school gave lab introductions to newly enrolled graduate students for them to get to know about the research in each lab. In our turn, the master student Luke gave an amazingly provocative talk and inspired the students. It certainly got an attention of the students, but whether […]
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 […]
We published a new paper titled “The careful control of Polo kinase byAPC/C-Ube2C ensures the intercellulartransport of germline centrosomes during Drosophila oogenesis” on the journal, Open Biology. It took us a while to publish this paper, partly due to the lab relocation, as well as Covid-19. However, we finally managed to publish it. We are […]
Our lab’s first undergraduate member, Burty, has finished his study at ShanghaiTech and today he attended a graduation ceremony. Yuu attended the ceremony to celebrate his graduation and later we took photos in our lab, with Amanda, who mainly supervised him in his daily lab work in his final project. From this September Burty is […]
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 […]
Yuu were invited to give an online lecture at Hiroshima Research Center for Healthy Aging (HiHA) at Hiroshima University. It was the first time for me to give a seminar in Japanese for the last 10 or more years. But at the end it went well and was a great fun. Thank the host, Prof. […]
Our collaborator, Dr Takashi Ochi (University of Leeds), published a new article on CCDC61/VFL3, a component of the centriole and the primary cilium, in the journal of Structure. Through computation analyses of 3D protein structures, Dr Ochi previously identified a new protein superfamily consisting of the DNA damage repair proteins XRCC4, XLF and PAXX and […]
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 […]
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, […]
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 […]