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Happy Duanwu Festival (post on May 27, 2008)
May 27, 2009 (May 5th of the lunar calendar) is our Chinese Duanwu Festival again. The Sperm Laboratory will celebrate the so called Dragon Boat Festival and Double Fifth Day by eating Zong Zi tomorrow. Let us meet together and enjoy our Chinese traditional food on Double Fifth Day!

Seminar: Kinesin and nuclear condensation (post on Mar. 30, 2009)
    Topic: Kinesin and nuclear condensation
    Speaker: Mr. Da-Hui Wang, Ph.D. student
    Language: English
    Time and place: April 10, 2009, at Room 250, Life Science Building, ZJU

Journal club (Mar. 30, 2009)
    Topic: Oct4-Induced Pluripotency in Adult Neural Stem Cells. By Jeong Beom Kim et al., Cell, 2009, 136, 411–419
    Speaker: Ms. Xiao SUN, graduate student
    Language: English
    Time and place: Apr. 2, 2009, at Room 250, Life Science Building, ZJU

The Sperm Laboratory 2nd Plenary Meeting (post on Mar. 26, 2009)
    A plenary meeting of the Sperm Laboratory was hold on Mar. 27, 2009. Dr. Wan-Xi Yang had an important talk about scientific ethics and the sperm laboratory regulations on research activities.

Journal club (Mar. 19, 2009)
    Topic: Microtubule nucleation at the cis-side of the Golgi apparatus requires AKAP450 and GM130. Published on The EMBO Journal, 2009, 1–13, by Sabrina Rivero, Jesus Cardenas, Michel Bornens, Rosa M Rios.
    Speaker: Mr. Wei Wang, graduate student
    Language: English
    Time and place: Mar. 20, 2009, at Room 250, Life Science Building, ZJU

Blood-Testis Barrier During Spermatogenesis-Journal Club topic of this week. (post on Mar. 12, 2009)
    In our journal club of this week, we will continue to talk about a topic about blood-testis barrier during spermatogenesis. A paper published on J. Reprod. Dev. will be presented by Mr. Yu-Yang Jiang on Friday's group meeting. Paper title: "Continual Maintenance of the Blood-Testis Barrier During Spermatogenesis: The Intermediate Compartment Theory Revisited. ", by Futoshi Yazama, J. Reprod. Dev. 54: 299–305, 2008.
    Journal club Language: English. Date: Mar. 13, 2009. Time: 18:30. Location: Room 250, Life Sciences Building,  ZJU. 

Journal club and group meeting (post on Mar. 5, 2009)
    1. Journal club: "PTP1B dephosphorylates NSF and elicits SNARE complex disassembly during human sperm exocytosis.", written by Zarelli VEP, Ruete, MC, Roggero CM, Mayorga LS, and Tomes CN. This is a JBC Paper in Press, published on February 10, 2009 as Manuscript M807614200. Ms. Zhe LI will present this latest paper on Mar. 6, 2009, Friday. 2. Group meeting: After journal club, research progress of each student will be discussed.  
    Journal club Language: English. Date: Mar. 6, 2009. Time: 18:30. Location: Room 250, Life Sciences Building,  ZJU. 

Claudin-11 and spermatogenesis: The new topic of our journal club (post on Feb. 24, 2009)
    At the coming journal club, Ms. Xiao-Rui Yang will talk about Claudin-11 expression and function during spermatogenesis. Her presentation is based on a paper which was published on Endocrinology 146(3):1532–1540, the title is "Androgens and Postmeiotic Germ Cells Regulate Claudin-11 Expression in Rat Sertoli Cells", the authors are: Anne Florin, Magali Maire, Aline Bozec, Ali Hellani, Sonia Chater, Remi Bars, Franck Chuzel, and Mohamed Benahmed.  
    Journal club Language: English. Date: Feb. 27, 2009. Time: 18:30. Location: Room 250, Life Sciences Building,  ZJU. 
    Welcome to our open journal club!

Journal club and group meeting (post on Feb. 19, 2009, 00:00)
    1. Journal club: "Expression of histone 1 (H1) and testis-specific histone 1 (H1t) genes during stallion spermatogenesis", written by M.C.O. Cavalcanti, M. Rizgalla, J. Geyer, K. Failing, L.-F. Litzke, M. Bergmann will be presented by Da-Hui Wang on Feb. 20, 2009, Friday. This paper was published on Animal Reproduction Science 111 (2009) 220–234.  2. Group meeting: After journal club, Dr. Wan-Xi Yang will have a brief talk about research plan in this lab in the coming six months. 
    Journal club Language: English. Date: Feb. 20, 2009. Time: 18:30. Location: Room 250, Life Sciences Building,  ZJU. 

The Sperm Laboratory hopes you have a "Happy Valentine's Day" (post on Feb. 14, 2009, 00:00)

Graduate student meeting (post on Feb. 13, 2009)
    The Sperm Laboratory will hold a graduate student on Feb. 13, 2009. Research plans will be discussed for the new semester. Time: 19:00. Location: Room 304E, Life Sciences Building,  ZJU. 

The Sperm Laboratory Plenary Meeting (post on Feb. 13, 2009)
    A plenary meeting of the Sperm Laboratory was hold on Jan. 9, 2009. All lab members, including graduate students, undergraduate students attended that meeting. This meeting was hold right before the beginning of Winter Holiday. Dr. Yang hoped everybody has a Happy Chinese New Year.

Graduate student meeting (post on Feb. 13, 2009)
    The Sperm Laboratory held a graduate student on Jan. 2, 2009. Dr. Wan-Xi Yang  reviewed the progresses of research work in this laboratory in 2008, plans for 2009 were scheduled at that meeting. Suggestions by graduate students were also  proposed before the end of that meeting. 

Journal club (post on Feb. 13, 2009)
    1. Journal Club: "The kinesin I family member KIF5C is a novel substrate for protein kinase CK2". Authors: Barbara Schäfer, Claudia Götz, Mathias Montenarh. Biochemical and Biophysical Research Communications 375 (2008) 179–183. Presented by Mr. Yuyang Jiang. 2. Journal Club: "The nucleoporin Nup358 associates with and regulates interphase microtubules". Authors: Jomon Joseph, Mary Dasso. FEBS Letters 582 (2008) 190–196. Presented by Mr. Wei Wang.  3. Journal Club: "Expression and localization of the spermatogenesis-related gene, Znf230, in mouse testis and spermatozoa during postnatal development". Authors: Hongxia Song, Dan Su, Pan Lu, Jiyun Yang, Wei Zhang, Yuan Yang, Yunqiang Liu & Sizhong Zhang. BMB reports, 2008: 664-669. Presented by Mr. Qi Wang.  
    Journal club Language: English. Date: Dec. 26, 2008. Time: 18:30. Location: Room 250, Life Sciences Building,  ZJU. 

Postdoc position available immediately (post on Dec.19, 2008)
    A postdoc position is available immediately at Dr. Xiao Huang's laboratory. Click here to see details...

Journal club (post on Dec.19, 2008)
    1. Journal Club: Mitosis: New Roles for Myosin-X and Actin at the Spindle. Martin Wu hr, Timothy J. Mitchison and Christine M. Field. Current Biology Vol 18 No 19. DOI: 10.1016/j.cub.2008.08.043. Presented by Ms. Xiao Sun. 2. Journal Club: Cooperation between Mitotic Kinesins Controls the Late Stages of Cytokinesis. By Rudiger Neef, Ulf R. Klein, Robert Kopajtich,and Francis A. Barr. Current Biology 16, 301–307, February 7, 2006. DOI 10.1016/j.cub.2005.12.030. Presented by Mr. Dahui Wang. 
    Journal club Language: English. Date: Dec. 19, 2008. Time: 18:30. Location: Room 250, Life Sciences Building,  ZJU. 

Group meeting and journal club (post on Dec.19, 2008)
    1.Data report: Expression and localization of C-terminal motor KIFC1 during early mouse embryogenesis. Presented by Ms. Li-Ya Wang. 2. Journal club: Cell polarization during monopolar cytokinesis. The Journal of Cell Biology, Vol. 181, No. 2, April 21, 2008 195–202. Presented by Ms. Tian-Ting Zhang.
    Language: English. Date: Dec. 12, 2008. Time: 18:30. Location: Room 250, Life Sciences Building,  ZJU. 

Seminar (post on Dec.19, 2008)
    Dr. Hans-Uwe Dahms and Dr. Mei-Fang Cho visited the Sperm Laboratory from Dec. 4 until Dec. 7, 2008. Both of them presented a seminar for our laboratory. Two seminars on Dec. 5, 2008: (1) UV effects on marine invertebrates with emphasis on polar regions. Presented by Dr. Hans-Uwe Dahms, National Taiwan Ocean University, 2-Pei Ning Road, Keelung 202, Taiwan. (2) Professional Competencies of Teachers Instructing Science to Young Children. Presented by Dr. Mei-Fang Cho, Southern Taiwan University of Technology, Department of Child Care, Tainan, Taiwan.
    Language: English (HUD) and Chinese (MFC). Date: Dec. 5, 2008. Time: 18:30. Location: Room 248, Life Sciences Building,  ZJU.  

Group meeting and seminar (post on Dec. 2, 2008)
    1. Seminar: Intersexuality in E. marinus, presented by Mr. Gongda Yang, who is a visiting Ph.D. student came from  Environmental Research Institute, Scotland; 2. Journal club by Mr. Ke-Ming Yu, the paper was published on Science, 2007, 317: 1087-1090, paper title is "CHD1 Motor Protein Is Required for Deposition of Histone Variant H3.3 into Chromatin in Vivo", DOI: 10.1126/science.1145339; 3. Data report by Ms. Xin Tan. 
    Language: English. Date: Nov. 27, 2008. Time: 18:30. Location: Room 250, Life Sciences Building,  ZJU. 

The Spermlab Sports news  (post on Nov..21, 2008)
    The Spermlab members attended the Tug-of-War match organized by College of Life Sciences, Zhejiang University on Nov. 21, 2008. The team our members joined wan silver medal finally. Congratulations! Click here to see news picture...

Journal club and seminar  (post on Nov..21, 2008)
    1. Mr. Zhe Li presented at our regular journal club on Nov. 21, 2008, Friday. Paper titled "Drosophila melanogaster kl-3 and kl-5 Y-loops harbor triple-stranded nucleic acids" she interpreted was published on Journal of Cell Science 121 (10):1605-1612;  2. Mr. He-Ming Yu gave us a seminar at our group meeting on Nov. 21, 2008, his topic is "Functions of a C-terminal kinesin during spermatogenesis of Octopus." 
    Language: English. Date: Nov. 21, 2008. Time: 18:30. Location: Room 250, Life Sciences Building,  ZJU.  

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. The paper titled "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.

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