Lab News

The 4^th Anniversary of the Sperm Laboratory Website. (Post on July 3, 2008)
Tomorrow, July 4th, is the 4^th Anniversary of the Sperm Laboratory Website. The homepage firstly appeared on World Wide Web on July 4, 2004. After four year's efforts, this website is growing faster and faster. We recruit two to three graduate and undergraduate students respectively per year since the year 2006. Right now, the size of this laboratory is quite stable, about 15 students are  working at the same time. We also accept visiting scholars and postdoc whenever certain funds are available. Funding of the Sperm Laboratory mainly come from National Nature Science Fundation of China. Our main interests focus on actin and microtubule and their related motors during spermatogenesis. We are trying to publish more and more papers in this area.

Journal club and group meeting (post on June 27 , 2008)
1. Ms. Ying He: Journal presentation, "Myosin-Va Mediates RNA Distribution in Primary Fibroblasts From Multiple Organs" , by Veronica P. Salerno, Aldo Calliari, D. William Provance Jr., Jose´ R. Sotelo-Silveira, Jose´ R. Sotelo, and John A. Mercer, published on Cell Motility and the Cytoskeleton 65: 422–433 (2008); 2. Mr. Yuyang Jiang talked about KIFC1 sequence analyzing which originates from different animals. After journal club, Dr. Wan-Xi Yang gave  a summary talk on research work in this laboratory.  Journal club Language: English. Date: June 27, 2008. Time: 18:30. Location: Room 248, Life Sciences Building.

Three graduate students presented at the second YHY Club  (post on May 27, 2008)
The second YHY club had its activity on June 26, 2008. Three graduate students presented at the club. (1) Da-Hui Wang, who is from the Sperm Laboratory, presented a latest paper for the club. "Regulating cytoskeleton-based vesicle motility", by Heidi Hehnly and Mark Stamnes, FEBS Letters 581 (2007) 2112–2118; (2) Wei Wang form Dr. Yan's lab, presented his research proposal which is about medicine screen by yeast system; (3) Yi Lu presented her research proposal about DMART5 functions in Xenopus embryo development. Date: June 26, 2008. Time: 9:00. Location: Room 248, Life Sciences

Journal club (post on June 20, 2008)
1. Mr. He-Ming Yu: "Sperm nucleomorphogenesis in the cephalopod Sepia officinalis " Authors: F. Mart´ınez-Soler, K. Kurtz, M. Chiva. Published on Tissue and Cell 39 (2007) 99–108, doi:10.1016/j.tice.2007.01.005; 2. Mr. Yuyang Jiang: "Cloning and developmental expression of kinesin superfamily7 (kif7) in the brackish medaka (Oryzias melastigma), a close relative of the Japanese medaka (Oryzias latipes)." Authors: Nga Yu Ho, Vincent Wai Tsun Li, Wing Lin Poon, Shuk Han Cheng. Marine Pollution Bulletin, doi:10.1016/j.marpolbul.2008.02.044.  Journal club Language: English. Date: June 20, 2008. Time: 18:30. Location: Room 250, Life Sciences Building. All members are required to attend.

Hong-Shan Dong passed his thesis defense for Master Degree (post on June 19, 2008)
Mr. Hong-Shan Dong, 2005 graduate student at the Sperm Laboratory, passed his thesis defense for Master's Degree of Science today. Committee contains three professors, they are Prof. Jian-Zhong SHAO, Prof. Fan JIN, and Prof. Qing-Feng YAN. This committee is chaired by Prof. Jian-Zhong Shao. Mr. Hong-Shan Dong's thesis, "MIS mediating sperm survival ability through YWK- II receptor", was supervised by Prof.  Hsiao Chang Chan at Chinese University of Hong Kong and Dr. Wan-Xi Yang at the Sperm Laboratory of Zhejiang University.
　

Prof. Jian-Zhong SHAO, Prof. Fan JIN, and Prof. Qing-Feng YAN were listening to Mr. Hong-Shan Dong's defense on June 19, 2008.

Prof. Fan JIN was posing questions for Mr. Hong-Shan Dong at the defense on June 19, 2008. Mr. Dong answered questions fluently and satisfied the committee.