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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.

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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