Emily received a JBC/Herb Tabor Young Investigator Award at the 28th International Conference on Arabidopsis Research in St. Louis, MO (June 19-23, 2017). Emily gave a short talk on her Ph.D. work on identification of a novel light signaling component in controlling chloroplast biogenesis. The JBC/Herbert Tabor Young Investigator Awards are given annually to students, postdoctoral researchers, [...]
M. Chen lab will host another summer CEPCEB REU student - Ngoc (Iris) Tran. This is the second year that we participate in the NSF-funded summer undergraduate research program in the Center for Plant Cell Biology at UCR. Iris will work with Dr. Keunhwa Kim, a senior scientist, to characterize the mechanism of subcellular protein sorting in [...]
Chris Cheng was awarded a Research in Science & Engineering (RISE) fellowship to conduct undergraduate research in the M.Chen lab between June 26 and September 1, 2017. Chris will be working with Chan Yul to investigate the mechanism of light signaling in controlling chloroplast biogenesis. Congratulations, Chris!
Dr. Xiao-teng Cai joined the M. Chen lab as a postdoctoral fellow. Xiao-teng obtained his Ph.D. from University of Science and Technology of China, where he worked with Prof. Chengbin Xiang on stress responses in Arabidopsis. Xiao-teng will investigate the mechanism of subnuclear reorganization by light signaling. Welcome Xiao-teng!
Andrew Nevarez and Yongjian Qiu published their report in Plant Physiology on the mechanism of dual-targeting of HEMERA/pTAC12 to plastids and the nucleus. Their study suggests that the nuclear localization of HEMERA is mediated by a plastid-to-nucleus protein translocation mechanism - HEMERA is localized to plastids first before relocated to the nucleus. A similar mechanism was [...]
Andrew gave a beautiful dissertation talk on his Ph.D. project entitled “Mechanism of dual-targeting of HEMERA to the chloroplasts and nucleus”. He has also passed his Ph.D. defense. Congratulations Andrew on reaching this milestone in your life!