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 […]
The Kimata Lab is moving from Cambridge to set out on a new journey in Shanghai in China. We are currently recruiting a postdoctoral scientist and a research assistant, who want to join us on the new journey in the rapidly growing research in China. If you are interested, please see the detail here: Research Associate, Postdoctoral Researcher. All nationalities are […]
The time has finally come. The first PhD student in our lab and our long-term colleague, Francesco Mechini, are finally leaving our lab to pursue his research career in the pharmaceutical industry. He is taking up a senior research position at one of the giants, AstraZeneca. It is sad to miss him in our lab but it is […]
Today our new paper with Torcato as the first author has been published back to back with a paper from the Mlodzik lab in Developmental Cell. In this paper, we report a novel function of the APC/C in the regulation of the Wingless/Wnt signalling pathway in the Drosophila eye. We found that the APC/C targets […]