Masayuki Onishi

Ayuzah Shah worked with David Su and Samuel Chen, studying the localization and function of chloroplast-division positioning regulators.

Summer lab outing to Durham Bulls game

July 3, 2026August 3, 2026Masayuki Onishi

With new postdoc Noor Singh

Samed Delic defended his thesis

June 19, 2026August 3, 2026Masayuki Onishi

The Onishi lab produced its first PhD. Congratulations Dr. Samed Delic! You can read some of his thesis work here: pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/38994454/ pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/41959007/

David Su graduated with a Biology Faculty Award

May 11, 2026August 3, 2026Masayuki Onishi

Congratulations David!

He will be spending the gap year as a Research Associate in the Onishi lab, conducting a proteomic analysis of the chloroplast-division machinery.

High-school students Eleena Chacko and Trinity Bai completed their Summer Internships

August 19, 2025Masayuki Onishi

Eleena helped David and Samuel develop an electroporation method for chloroplast transformation. Trinity worked with Yaning on three projects, including the generation of an important mutant Chlamydomonas strain by CRISPR.

New paper: Rossie Clark-Cotton and Samuel Chen, together with four high school interns, published a paper in Molecular BIology of the Cell

May 19, 2025August 19, 2025Masayuki Onishi

Clark-Cotton, M. R., Chen, S. A., Gomez, A., Mulabagal, A. J., Perry, A., Malhotra, V., & Onishi, M. (2025).
Imaging-based screen identifies novel natural compounds that perturb cell and chloroplast division in Chlamydomonas reinhardtii. Molecular Biology of the Cell, 36(4), br14.
https://doi.org/10.1091/mbc.E24-09-0425