Caroline Simon from the Gautam Dey and Niccolo Banterle’s labs at EMBL Heidelberg visited us to teach Ultrastructural Expansion Microscopy (U-ExM). We had extremely productive three weeks!
Author: Masayuki Onishi
Masayuki Onishi Reveived the NSF CAREER Award!
Rossie Clark-Cotton co-writes a primer on Chlamydomonas for Current Biology
Postdoc Manuella R. (Rossie) Clark-Cotton co-authored “Quick Guide: Chlamydomonas” with our collaborator Frej Tulin at Carnegie Plant Biology.
https://www.cell.com/current-biology/fulltext/S0960-9822(24)00682-1
New paper by Samed Delic: The evolutionary origins and ancestral features of septins. in Frontiers in Cell Dev Biol
https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/38994454/
Graduate Student Samed Delic published his paper on a pan-eukaryote search for septins and their ancestral features. This is a collaboration paper with co-first author Brent Shuman in Michelle Momany’s lab at UGA, as well as with Shoken Lee and Shirin Bahmayer at Yale.
Building upon this paper, Samed is now studying the role of septin proteins in Chlamydomonas and other photosynthetic organisms. Stay tuned!
New collaboration paper (Yaning Yuan): Alternative proteoforms and proteoform-dependent assemblies in humans and plants. in Mol Syst Biol
https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/38918600/
See also: https://www.oeaw.ac.at/gmi/news-events/news-press/tracing-the-origin-of-truncated-protein-variants
Graduate Student Yaning Yuan took part in a collaboration with Claire McWhite (Princeton) and Silvia Ramundo (GMI Vienna) in the study that identified a large number of proteins showing alternative proteoforms. One of such proteins, fibrocystin/PKHD1 shows the same pattern of cleavage-dependent processing as in humans. Yaning is now studying the potential role of PKHD1 in cell division in both Chlamydomonas and humans. Stay tuned!
Verenyam Malhotra, Davis Su, and Samuel Chen received the best poster award at the Triangle Cytoskeleton Meeting
Left to right:
Masa Onishi
Samuel Chen (Graduate Student, Biology)
Varenyam Malhotra (Enloe High School/NCSSM)
David Su (Undergraduate Student, Biology)
Yaning Yuan received the Bass Connections Mentorship Award!
Congarats Yaning, Ze-Yi, and Dan!Samed Delic received a Poster Award
Samed’s poster on Chlamydomonas septin and the evolution of this family of proteins in eukaryotes received a poster award at the Triangle Cytoskeleton Meeting. Congrats Samed!
https://www.trianglecytoskeleton.com
Yaning Yuan joined the lab
Yaning arrived at Duke to attend the Biology Program. Welcome Yaning!
Rossie Clark-Cotton joined the lab
Rossie graduated from the Department of Cell Biology at Duke, where she studied the mechanism of cell-cell fusion and chemotropism using budding yeast. She joins the lab as a visiting postdoc from Stanford University. Welcome Rossie!
