Miao’s first GRC talk

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During the week of Feb 17th, Miao was invited to give a talk titled “Cilia diversity from ultrastructure” at 2025 GRC Cilia, Mucus and Mucociliary Interactions in Pomona, California. It’s really great to meet old friends and make new friends. Interestingly, although I have been in touch with many of them, this is the first … Read more

Lab retreat

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On September 30th, our lab went for a BOWLING afternoon (as well as other wonderful entertainments) to welcome the beautiful autumn and to celebrate the National Day.

Miao was awarded MIT TR35 China

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On July 11th, Miao went to Shanghai to attend the ceremony of MIT TR35 China and gave a speech. Surprisely, Qian Wang, a close friend also won this prize and I did not know until I saw Lihong in the ceremony lol. https://mp.weixin.qq.com/s/oDZa9i7YT3g1JucgPoSyCg https://tr35.mittrchina.com/annual-winner?title=2023 https://mp.weixin.qq.com/s/Wq0AvgZa-JGTxrEYBmqv5A

New collaborative papers are out.

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The Science paper is a collaboration with Pleasantine Mill in which we contributed to confirm the tubulin isotopes in cilia by high-resolution cryo-EM and to map the mutations in the structure. doi: 10.1126/science.adf5489 The other work is a collaboration with Jianping Wu (the second time) that was published in Nat Struct Mol Biol. doi: 10.1038/s41594-024-01287-6

West Lake hiking

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On May 14th, our lab went for a 10KM hiking around the West Lake before the summer. Look at the smiling faces!

Delicious yakiniku

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To celebrate the upcoming Chinese New Year, the Gui lab went out for a dinner on Jan 30th. The barbecue was amazing! Thank everyone for the hard work in 2023 and we can’t wait to see what we will achieve in 2024, the year of Dragon.

Welcome Qi and Yuqi

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Two postdocs Qi Liu and Yuqi Liu have joined Gui lab. Looking forward to the uncoming great science! Huang has left our lab. Best wishes to him.

Winter hiking

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Today, the Gui lab went hiking with the Xie/Zhou lab at Yunxizhujing (云栖竹径), which is known for the beautiful bamboos and green tea trees. Shout out to the warriors as today is -5℃, probably the coldest day of the year.

Alexey’s visit

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On Nov 1st, Dr. Alexey Amunts from Stockholm University in Sweden visited our lab and gave a wonderful talk “how genes become machines in mitochondria”. Alexey shared his work on mitochondrial ribosome which he started back to 2013 (together with Miao’s postdoc supervisor Alan Brown) when he was a postdoc in the lab of Nobel … Read more