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 […]
Yuu has published a review article on the role of APC/C in cellular differentiation in Trends in Cell Biology. Here is the link: https://www.cell.com/trends/cell-biology/fulltext/S0962-8924(19)30044-3 For those who do not have a subscription of the journal, you can download an accepted version of the manuscript below:
Dr Fumiaki Obata’s visit Dr Fumiaki Obata, Lecturer at the University of Tokyo and a friend who I got to know in the UK (Dr Obata was a postdoc at Alex Gould’s lab at tha time), visited our lab at ShanghaiTech University. Dr Obata is an expert in the study of the influences of diet […]
We are recruiting a new member and students to our lab at ShanghaiTech University. We are looking for a postdoctoral researcher who has a strong background in Drosophila and PhD students who are interested in working with us to investigate the molecular mechanism integrating the cell cycle to the developmental and homeostatic processes of multicellular organisms. More detail […]