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Research plan by visiting Ph.D. student (post on Nov. 13, 2008)
Mr. Gongda Yang, a Ph.D student from Environmental Research Institute, Scotland, will talk about his research plan for his dissertation on Dec. 14, 2008, Friday. Mr. Yang entered the Sperm Laboratory early November of 2008, he will study sperm quality examination techniques in this laboratory for about one month.  Language: English. Date: Nov. 14, 2008. Time: 18:30. Location: Room 250, Life Sciences Building,  ZJU.

Journal club and seminar  (post on Nov..13, 2008)
1. Mr. Da-Hui Wang presented at our regular journal club on Nov. 7, 2008, Friday. Paper title :"Importin- and the small guanosine triphosphatase Ran mediate chromosome loading of the human chromokinesin Kid" he interpreted was published on The Journal of Cell Biology, Vol. 180, No. 3, February 11, 2008 493–506;  2. Ms. Ying He gave us a seminar at our group meeting on Nov. 7, 2008, her topic is "Functions of a myosin-Va during spermatogenesis of Chinese mitten crab."  Language: English. Date: Nov. 7, 2008. Time: 18:30. Location: Room 250, Life Sciences Building,  ZJU.    

Journal club and seminar  (post on Oct..31, 2008)
1. Ms. Tian-Ting Zhang will present at our regular journal club on Oct. 31, 2008, Friday. Paper title :"Intramanchette transport during primate spermiogenesis: expression of dynein, myosin Va, motor recruiter myosin Va, VIIa-Rab27a/b interacting protein, and Rab27b in the manchette during human and monkey spermiogenesis", Asian J Androl 2008; 10 (4): 561–568, DOI: 10.1111/j.1745-7262.2008.00392.x . 2. Mr. Ke-Ming Yu will give us a seminar, his topic is "Functions of a C-terminal kinesin during spermatogenesis of Chinese mitten crab."  Language: English. Date: Oct. 31, 2008. Time: 18:30. Location: Room 250, Life Sciences Building,  ZJU.  

Seminar by Mr. Yu-Yang Jiang (post on Oct..22, 2008)
Mr. Yu-Yang Jiang presented at the seminar organized by the Sperm Laboratory on Oct. 22, 2008. Title: How cargoes are loaded and transported-an in vitro analysis of dimer or dual dimer in cells. Ms. Zhe Li, who collaborated with Mr. Yu-Yang Jiang co-presented at the smininar.  Language: English. Date: Oct. 22, 2008. Time: 18:30. Location: Room 250, Life Sciences Building,  ZJU.

Journal club and group meeting   (post on Oct..16, 2008)
Two undergraduate students presented in the journal club and one graduate student reported his data today. 1. Mr. Qi Wang interpreted a review "Sperm maturation in the epididymis: a new look at an old problem" which was written by Trevor G. Cooper,  Asian J Androl 2007; 9 (4): 533–539. DOI: 10.1111/j.1745-7262.2007.00285; 2. Ms. Xin Tan talked about a research paper "Cytoplasmic Dynein and LIS1 Are Required for Microtubule Advance during Growth Cone Remodeling and Fast Axonal Outgrowth", which was written by Peter W. Grabham, Garrett E. Seale, Malika Bennecib, Daniel J. Goldberg, and Richard B. Vallee. The Journal of Neuroscience, 2007, 27(21):5823–5834; 3. Mr. Da-Hui Wang reported his recent data about nucleus shaping during spermatogenesis of Chinese mitten crab.  Language: English. Date: Oct. 16, 2008. Time: 18:30. Location: Room 250, Life Sciences Building, ZJU.

The Sperm Laboratory lecture series (post on Oct..10, 2008)
Lecture series: Cytoskeleton, motor protein and spermatogenesis. Presented by Dr. Wan-Xi Yang, College of Life Sciences, Zhejiang University.  Language: English. Date: Oct. 10, 2008. Time: 18:30. Location: Room 250, Life Sciences Building, ZJU. Click here to see more...

How cargoes are transported in cell? (post on Sep.19, 2008)
Our journal club at this weekend (Sep. 26, 2008) will discuss basic questions such as "How cargoes are transported in cells?", and "How motor proteins interact with cytoskeleton?". Many research findings have been published in cargo transporting area. A mini-review by Jennifer L Ross, M Yusuf Ali and David M Warshaw was published on Current Opinion in Cell Biology in early 2008. Ying He, a graduate student at the Sperm Laboratory will interpret this review for us. Please click here to download the poster to find time and location of our journal club.

Journal club and group meeting (post on Sep.19, 2008)
Li-Ya Wang will present at our second open journal club. The paper  "The kinesin related motor protein, Eg5, is essential for maintenance of pre-implantation embryogenesis" was published on Biochemical and Biophysical Research Communications 357 (2007) 694–699 doi:10.1016/j.bbrc.2007.04.021. Journal club language: English. Date: Sep. 19, 2008. Time: 18:30. Location: Room 250, Life Sciences Building, ZJU. Click here to see more...

1st Open journal club (Post on Sep. 10, 2008)
To enhance exchange and communication between our laboratory and other related laboratories in Zhejiang University, our future journal club and seminars which use English as language will be open to all colleagues and students. Our 1st open journal club will be presented by Mr. Da-Hui Wang, a 2007 graduate student who majors in Cell Biology. The paper he will interpret is from Dr. Ann O. Sperry's laboratory, which was published recently on BMC Cell Biology, 2008, 9:9 doi:10.1186/1471-2121-9-9, by Rong Wang and Ann O Sperry. The title of this paper is "Identification of a novel Leucine-rich repeat protein and candidate PP1 regulatory subunit expressed in developing spermatids". If you want to join our journal club, please download the poster here.
  
Paper preparation report (Post on Sep. 6, 2008)
Two graduate students reported their paper preparation at the spermlab group meeting on September 5, 2008. Mr. Ke-Ming Yu reported his work on kinesin functions during acrosome biogenesis in Chinese mitten crab Eriocheir sinensis, and Mr. He-Ming Yu reported his progress in acrosome formation in Octopus tankahkeei. The group meeting was hold at  Room 250, Life Sciences Building. Time: 20:00-21:30.

The most memorable trip to USA. (Post on Aug. 30, 2008)
Ms. Zhe Li and Mr. Yuyang Jiang talked about their visit to Dr. Kristen J. Verhey's lab(in the Department of Cell and Developmental Biology at the University of Michigan) at the spermlab's group meeting on 29 Aug., 2008. The two undergraduate students were accepted and invited for a short-term visit to Dr. Verhey's lab on 12 May, 2008. They started their visit on July 12, 2008, and ended on Aug. 20, 2008.

Ms. Zhe Li's picture before Biomedical Science Research Building (BSRB).

Mr. Yuyang Jiang was doing experiment in the microscopy room at Dr. Verhey's lab.

New graduate student joined the Sperm Laboratory (Post on Aug. 30, 2008)
Ms. Xiao SUN registered as a new graduate student of Zhejiang University  on Aug. 27, 2008. She will finish her graduate study at the Sperm Laboratory in the next three years.

Summer Holiday activity of the Sperm Laboratory (Post on Aug. 11, 2008)
The Sperm Laboratory had an exciting trip to Anji County, Zhejiang Province, China in this Summer. Five graduate students, visiting scholar and Dr. Wan-Xi Yang, including their family members, had a two-day's vacation in Anji during Aug. 9-10, 2008. Anji is famous for its bamboo, beautiful mountain, great waterfall in Changbai Mountain, and the Origin of Huangpu Jiang River. We visited Dragon King Mountain and Thousands Mu Land on the top of Dragon King Mountain on August 9, 2008. After one-night staying in Nongjia Le Hotel, which is located in deep mountain, we made a drift on the Origin of Huangpu Jiang River and visited Hundred Water Fall in Changbai Mountain next day (August 10, 2008).(Click here to see more...)

How to prepare manuscripts for reproductive biology journals (Post on July 28, 2008)
Dr. Wan-Xi Yang will talk about how to prepare manuscripts for reproductive biology journals at 18:30, July 28, 2008. This presentation is part of the Writing Workshop of the Sperm Laboratory. Location: Room 250, Life Sciences Building. All members are required to attend.

Writing Workshop of the Sperm Laboratory  (Post on July 26, 2008)
The Writing Workshop of the Sperm Laboratory will begin from July 28, 2008 until August 29, 2009. We will focus on the following topics: (1)How to choose an ideal title for a scientific paper? (2)How to arrange the structure of a paper?(3) How to write "Introduction"  section? (4) How to show and interpret  data? and finally, (5) How to discuss. We will not forget how to cite references in text. Dr. Wan-Xi Yang will talk first at the workshop, three graduate students will also join the workshop. Please click here to see the detailed schedule for our writing workshop...

Two undergraduate students visit University of Michigan. (Post on July 14, 2008)
Ms. Zhe Li and Mr. Yu-Yang Jiang, two undergraduate students from the Sperm Laboratoy, will start their official visit to Dr. Kristen J. Verhey's Laboratory at Medical School, University of Michigan on 14 July, 2008. They will stay at Dr. Verhey's lab for more than one month, and will come back to Zhejiang University late August, 2008. They will learn a wide variety of techniques, such as how to detect motor expression and how to investigate motor functions in that laboratory. The two students applied Summer visiting position at Dr. Verhey's lab, and Dr.Verhey accepted them as exchanging students on May 12, 2008. 

Dr. Wan-Xi Yang back from Pu Tuo Island (Post on July 14, 2008)
Dr. Wan-Xi Yang came back from Pu Tuo Island after 7-day's field work in Zhoushan Islands. Forty five students did field work under guidance of Dr. Wan-Xi Yang and his group members. Mr. Da-Hui Wang is in Dr. Yang's group. Pu Tuo Island is one of the four Holy Lands of Buddhism in China, millions of people go to that island every year. On 9 July, 2008, all the forty five students, together with Dr. Yang and his group members, visited the Holy Island.

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