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2018
2018/4/1
2018/2/1
2018/1/23-24
Thanks to Drs. Hsuan-Yi Chen, Keng-Hui Lin and Chen-Hui Chen for the invitation and hospitality!
2018/1/10
This paper describes a novel microtubule structure that exerts pushing forces to scaffold the apical membrane surface prior to morphogenesis
and becomes coopted to shorten the cell height of the initiating cells via coupling to basal shifts of polarity to initiate dorsal fold formation
during gastrulation. These results provide a mechanistic explanation for how cell shape changes are initiated following
polarity shifts during dorsal fold formation and usher in polarity-based microtubule forces for epithelial folding
processes that are not dominated by myosin contractility.
2017
2017/12/3
Thanks to Drs. Matthew Tyska and Danelle Devenport for the opportunity to present our work.
2017/9/1 - 2
Anthony attended the RIKEN Summer School as a defending
poster award winner and brought back his second poster award at these events! Congrats!
2017/7/12
2017/6/20
This paper showed that a flat sheet of epithelium can fold via mechanical
modulation on either the apical, lateral, or basal side, using a vertex modeling approach. The theory
showed that modulation of each side of the cells results in distinct geometrical features, which in principle
could be used to predict and infer mechanical changes in experimental systems by measuring the changes of cell
shape. Congratulations to Fu-Lai and Shibata san. The collaboration has been scientifically enriching and rewarding.
Let's keep it going!
2017/5/1
2016
2016/9/11
Yu-Chiun gave a talk at the Japanese fly meeting, JDRC 12
, held at Rikkyo University in Tokyo.
2016/9/9 - 10
Anthony attended the RIKEN Summer School and brought
back a poster award. Congrats!
2016/8/23 - 9/1
Yu-Chiun stayed at the Kavli Center for Theoretical Physics at UC Santa Barbara as a visitor for
the From Genes to Growth and Form program
and gave a talk there.
It was an intellectually stimulating week. Time spent at this seaside college town was well worth it and
conversations had with people there were highly inspirational on how we think about the microtubule forces.
Thanks so much to Drs. Madhav Mani and Boris Shraiman for the invitation.
2016/2/1
The Wang lab had Niraj's going away party.
It's sad to see you go. Best luck on your future endeavors. You will be sorely missed.
2015
2015/9/8
Thanks to Drs. Satoru Okuda and Daiki Umetsu for organizing the meeting and for the invitation!
2015/8/31
Percival Sangel departed from the lab.
Good luck on your future endeavors!
2015/3/24
Yu-Chiun was awarded the Young Investigator grant together with his collaborators Drs. Steffen Lemke and Zia Khan from Human Frontier Science Program.
The project aims at understanding the mechanism underlying the formation of a folded epithelial structure called the cephalic furrow that forms during the gastrulation of Drosophila embryonic development.
Given that this structure is transitory, does not form a permanent organ and is evolutionarily novel, existing only in an advanced lineage of the dipteran flies, the team will seek to reveal its developmental function and evolutionary history.
The announcement of the award was featured in a CDB news story.
2015/3/7
During the same trip, he made a homecoming visit to his graduate Alma Mater, the University of Chicago, where he gave an informal seminar in the Department of Molecular, Genetics and Cell Biology. It was great to see friends and formal colleagues on the UofC campus and make a brief return to the US fly community after leaving it a year and half ago. Thanks to Drs. Chip Ferguson and Urs Schmidt-Ott for arranging the visit!
2015/4/1
Anthony starts his PhD study at Kobe university with Dr. Shigeo Hayashi as his official advisor.
He will be conducting his thesis research in our lab. Anthony is supported by the IPA program. Congratulations, Anthony!
2015/2/1
2014
2014/11/17
The whole Wang lab attended the meeting and thoroughly enjoyed it as a great educational opportunity as
the topic of the meeting is highly relevant to us. Thanks to Dr. Naoto Ueno for the invitation!
2014/10/21
Yu-Chiun gave a talk at the IGDB-KAIST-CDB joint symposium, Beijing, China.
Thanks to Dr. Shigeo Hayashi for organizing the event!
2014/9/1
Percival Sangel joins the lab!
2014/8/28
2014/8/16
Yu-Chiun gave a talk at the annual retreat of Taiwanese Society of Developmental Biology in Keelung, Taiwan...
... as a keynote speaker and gave another talk at his undergraduate Alma Mater, National Taiwan University in the Department of Life
Sciences two days later. Thanks to Drs. Bon-Chu Chung and Shyh-Jye Jeff Lee for the invitation!
2014/6/12
Thanks to Dr. Erina Kuranaga for the invitation!
2014/5/30
Thanks to Dr. Shinji Ihara for the invitation!
2013
2013/12/1
Niraj Nirala joins the lab!
2013/11/25
Thanks Dr. Miki Ebisuya for the invitation!
2013/10/1
The Wang lab began operation at the CDB!
Yuko Fujiyama,
Mustafa Sami
and Michiko Takeda are the founding members of the lab.
