March 2017
Welcome Dr. Xiao-Teng Cai!
Dr. Xiao-teng Cai joined the M. Chen lab as a postdoctoral fellow. Xiao-teng obtained his Ph.D. from University of Science and Technology of China, where he worked with Prof. Chengbin Xiang on stress responses in Arabidopsis. Xiao-teng will investigate the mechanism of subnuclear reorganization by light signaling. Welcome Xiao-teng!
February 2017
Andrew’s paper on the mechanism for dual-targeting HEMERA to plastids and the nucleus has been published in Plant Physiology.
Andrew Nevarez and Yongjian Qiu published their report in Plant Physiology on the mechanism of dual-targeting of HEMERA/pTAC12 to plastids and the nucleus. Their study suggests that the nuclear localization of HEMERA is mediated by a plastid-to-nucleus protein translocation mechanism - HEMERA is localized to plastids first before relocated to the nucleus. A similar mechanism was [...]