Congratulations to Jason, Chris and Claudio for their collaborative study with Kevin Corbett's group in uncovering a new mechanism on the regulation of ribosomal gene silencing by protein sumoylation, a tour de force study indeed.
Great News
Our shared instrument grant has been awarded by NIH, allowing us to acquire the latest Fusion-LUMOS mass spectrometer, which is expected to be 10x faster with greatly improved sensitivity and accuracy than our current MS systems.
We plan to install it in the near future and work with our colleagues to explore its applications.
Congratulations to Jason's PhD defense!
Jason has recently defended his PhD degree, of course, with a spectacular success. Job well done but more papers to be published.
How to make cloning easier?
I spent much of my day, away from my computer, to play with genetics and cloning. It has come to my attention that yeast is a wonderful and master "cloner". With proper designs of PCR fragments, you can make just about anything, as yeast will do it all for you, not to mention the awesome power of yeast genetics has provided considerable new insights into genome instability and cancer!