Postdoctoral Achievements

• Grant - Juvenile Diabetes Research Foundation Postdoctoral Fellowship, 2009-2011
• Paper - Yang YP and Wright C. Chemicals turn human embryonic stem cells towards beta cells. Nat Chem Biol 2009 5(4): 195-196.
• Meeting - Oral presentation: 3rd Southeast Stem Cell Consortium Meeting, Nashville, TN, July 22-23, 2010.
• Grant - NIH/NIDDK Molecular Endocrinology Training Grant (T32), 2011-2013.
• Paper - Yang YP, Thorel F, Boyer DF, Herrera HL, and Wright CV. Context-specific alpha-to-beta-cell reprogramming by forced Pdx1 expression. Genes Dev 2011 25(16): 1680-1685.

• Paper - Du, Y, English, CA, Ohi, R The kinesin-8 Kif18A dampens microtubule plus-end dynamics. Curr Biol, 20(4), 374-80, 2010.
• Paper - Archuleta, TL, Du, Y, English, CA, Lory, S, Lesser, C, Ohi, MD, Ohi, R, Spiller, BW The Chlamydia effector, chlamydial outer protein N CopN), sequesters tubulin and prevents microtubule assembly. J Biol Chem, 2011.
• Paper - Stumpff, J, Du, Y, English, CA, Maliga, Z, Wagenbach, M, Asbury, CL, Wordeman, L, Ohi, R A Tethering Mechanism Controls the Processivity and Kinetochore-Microtubule Plus-End Enrichment of the Kinesin-8 Kif18A. Mol Cell, 43(5), 764-75, 2011.

Rieck, Sebastian

• Grant - NIH Kirschstein NRSA (T32) Postdoctoral Fellowship "Research Training in Diabetes and Endocrinology" 2011-2012

• Paper - N.S. Singh, N. Shao, J.R. McLean, M. Sevugan, L. Ren, T.G. Chew, A. Bimbo, R. Sharma, X. Tang, K.L. Gould, M..K. Balasubramanian. 2011 SIN-Inhibitory Phosphatase Complex (SIP) Promotes Cdc11p Dephosphorylation and Propagates SIN Asymmetry in Fission Yeast. Current Biology, accepted.
• Paper - M. Převorovský, S.R. Atkinson, M. Ptáčková, J.R. McLean, K.L. Gould, P Folk, F. Půta, J. Bähler. 2011 N-Termini of Fungal CSL Transcription Factors Are Disordered, Enriched in Regulatory Motifs and Inhibit DNA Binding in Fission Yeast. PLoS ONE 6(8): e23650. doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0023650
• Paper - V. Walia, Y. Yu, D. Cao, M. Sun, J.R. McLean, B.G. Hollier, J. Cheng, S.A. Mani, K. Rao, L. Premkumar, R.C. Elble. 2011 Loss of breast epithelial marker hCLCA2 promotes epithelial to mesenchymal transition and indicates higher risk of metastasis. Oncogene. Epub 2011 Sep 12. PMID: 21909135
• Paper - L. Ren, J.R. McLean, T.R. Hazbun, S. Fields, C. Vander Kooi, M.D. Ohi, K.L. Gould. Systematic Two-Hybrid and Comparative Proteomic Analyses Reveal Novel Yeast Pre-mRNA Splicing Factors Connected to Prp19. PLoS ONE. 2011 28;6(2):e16719. PMID: 21386897
• Paper - J.R. McLean, D. Chaix, M.D. Ohi, K.L. 2011 State of the APC/C: Organization, function, and structure. Crit Rev Biochem Mol Biol. 46(2):118-36. Epub 2011 Jan 24.PMID: 21261459
• Paper -  J.R. McLean, I. Kouranti, K.L. Gould. 2011 Survey of the Phosphorylation Status of the Schizosaccharomyces pombe Deubiquitinating Enzyme (DUB) Family. J Proteome Res. Mar 4;10(3):1208-15. Epub 2011 Feb 4. PMID: 21182284
• Paper -  I. Kouranti, J.R. McLean, A. Feoktistova, P. Liang, A.E. Johnson, R.H. Roberts-Galbraith, K.L. Gould. 2010 A global census of fission yeast deubiquitinating enzyme localization and interaction networks reveals distinct compartmentalization profiles and overlapping functions in endocytosis and polarity. PLoS Biol. Sep 7;8(9). pii: e1000471. PMID: 2083865
• Meeting - Poster presentation, Using XClickA-MS to Probe the Organization and Connectivity of the Anaphase-Promoting Complex/Cyclosome (APC/C), Structural Biology Keystone Symposium, January 2010, Breckenridge CO.
• Meeting - Poster presentation, Understanding the APC/C: Insights from EM, chemical cross-linking and MS, HHMI Science Meeting, September 2008, Chevy Chase MD.
• Meeting - Poster presentation, Investigation of the Structure and Connectivity of the Anaphase-Promoting Complex (APC), Protein Society Annual Meeting, July 2008, San Diego CA.

Wang, Xiaoxi

• Paper - Wang X., Wu Y. & Zhou B. (2009). Dietary zinc absorption is mediated by ZnT1 in Drosophila melanogaster. FASEB Journal, Aug; 23(8): 2650-61.
• Paper - Wang X. & Zhou B. (2010). Dietary zinc absorption: A play of ZnTs and Zips in the gut. IUBMB life, 2010 Mar; 62(3):176-82.
• Paper - Wang J., Wang X., Fang Y. & Zhou B. (2007). Genome-wide screening of yeast metal homeostasis genes involved in mitochondrial functions. Molecular Genetics and Genomics, Jun; 277(6): 673-83.

• Meeting - Oral presentation: 2011 NCDIR (National Center for Dynamic Interactome Research) Retreat, The Rockefeller University, April 11-13, 2011.
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